So this happened. Not bad for a blushing kid from Essex and a singing queen. A connection on social media that led us to the Mildmay Club and the incredibly talented team at British Vogue and Pandora. A day striking a pose and telling our tale, a day of being spoilt silly and marvelling at the majestic team there to sparkle us up. A day we still find hard to believe, the lights, the camera, the florist, the venue, the dance moves, the photographer, the director, the caterers, the glam team, the outfits of that day still make our hearts sing months since that rainy Thursday in August.

And all to tell the story of our love. A love the law needed to catch up with. A love we’ve hard fought for. A marriage is not always Instagrammable, not all sparkles and reposts. A love we’ve tested over the years as the reality of 33 years together – the addictions, the undiagnosed ND years, the mental health issues, the raging and the disco dramas pushing the boundaries of love we set ourselves back in 1993. A reality of love not always captured by the reels in motion. But a reality we’ve grown into over the decades as we’ve learned to deal with, love and lean into our differences, divergent wiring and those bloody demons. Marriage isn’t easy. Life’s spent together, not always smooth, but on days like that day spent in the Mildmay Club, our marriage felt blessed. By the queer love around us, by the life and chosen family we were celebrating, and those accidental Beck-inspired white suits. It felt good. It felt like time. It felt like us. Honest, once brutally so, but once we’d worked it out, forever determined to be who we truly were. Together.

Thank you to Luke Haley for the nudge, Simon Lewis for the hook up, British Vogue and Pandora for the opportunity, Phil Jackson, Mahalia Hanson, Natalie Zak, photographer Brendan Freeman (yes there is more to come), our incredible director Emily Macdonald, stylists Justin Hamilton and Lorne Lane, our glam team (yep we have those now) Angel McQueen, Charle Pellowe, Emily Wood and Callie Foulsham and to the incredible Danile Reid (darling, you are goooooood!) for making us feel this was where we should be.