Paula & Peter's Love Story

The Couple

Tell us a little about how you met & talk us through the proposal

We meet in London at a house party in 1989.

We have 3 children; 2 girls aged 33 & 31 and our son aged 24. We have moved between London and the North East of England and then settling in Northern Ireland where Peter, my new husband, was born.

We actually can’t remember who’s house party it was, 35 years is a long time to think that far back! I had basically given up hope that we would marry. 2 years ago, we went to a friends of ours wedding in Rhodes, Greece and we were going out to Rhodes town. The men split up from the woman and then we all met up again in a couple of hours, anyway, that evening all the wedding guests met up in the hotel for a drink and to watch the evening entertainment then Peter got down on one knee infront of our friends and proposed to me! I was in total shock, I actually thought he was going to say can you go to the bar and get a round of drink. I actually said to him, "What are you doing? Get up!", as that same day he went to buy the ring with all our friends. I knew nothing about this proposal - shock wasn’t the word for this day!

We married at Galgorm 7/9/24 finally after 35 years together and it was truly worth the wait. Our day was perfect from start to finish, I wish we could relive the whole experience over again.

The Setting

Ceremony

The Phantom House

Reception

The Four Seasons Suite

Why Galgorm?

After visiting Galgorm, which I have to say living in Northern Ireland for 15 years I’ve never actually been prior to the wedding and after looking at the venue, the grounds, it was an instant yes from the minute we went there! Nothing else would live up to this stunning venue. We wanted something special after waiting to get married after 35 years and this venue ticked all the boxes.

Tell us the most memorable part of your day

The ceremony/evening - the staff were amazing. The Four Seasons was ample enough for our guests and size of our party. Everything was perfect from start to finish. Jenny, our wedding planner, was brilliant from the day we met her and Donna from Four Seasons was with us the entire day from the ceremony through to the whole evening. I really couldn’t fault anything about my day!