Fourth time lucky

for wedding couple

A COUPLE who have been planning their wedding for more than three years will finally get hitched at Hemyock, next week, writes Barry Knott.

Emma Wiltshire, 45, and her fiancee Justin Ward, 49, who moved from Wellington to Hemyock last year, have had to postpone their wedding three times because of Covid-19 restrictions.

The couple became engaged in December, 2018, and Emma said: “It’s been dreadful and very disappointing. After calling off the wedding twice, we decided to go ahead with it in May of this year but to cancel the reception and to hold a party later in the year.

“It has not just been us who have been affected - it has had a knock-on effect.”

Now the wedding will go ahead at St Mary’s Church, Hemyock, next Thursday, October 14 (12.30pm), with the reception as previously planned at the Hartnoll Hotel, Bolham, in Devon.

Emma added: “I’m just beginning to get excited. It has been such a long time but, hopefully, we’re almost there.”