We married for £100 with 99 other couples and wouldn't change a thing

Love was successful the aerial this week arsenic 1 of the UK's astir iconic wedding venues joined 100 couples, for £100 each, to observe 100 years of hosting marriages.

The Old Marylebone Town Hall has held marriages of philharmonic legends, footballers and Hollywood stars and usually costs betwixt £621 and £1,230 per ceremony.

I'm fortunate capable to person joined that glitzy database aft I tied the knot astatine the lawsuit connected Tuesday.

The superstition of not seeing the bride earlier walking down the aisle was virtually blown retired of my caput arsenic my wife-to-be Paige blasted her hairsbreadth dryer astatine 04:30 connected Tuesday.

By 10:20 Paige and I were officially hubby and woman - arsenic speedy arsenic that.

We astir felt similar celebrities - my BBC colleagues and paper reporters interviewed america portion photographers asked america to airs alongside the 99 different couples here, tying the knot, renewing their vows oregon forming a civilian partnership.

I caught up with immoderate of the different couples I shared this surreal time with.

When Chris Jamieson-Green was offered a midday spot to get joined astatine The Old Marylebone Town Hall, unit had to treble cheque if helium was sure. Only due to the fact that helium had not yet projected to his then-girlfriend.

He popped the question during a travel to the Yorkshire Moors and aft Sam Jamieson-Green said yes, Chris blurted retired that helium had already booked the venue - luckily Samantha, 35, was on-board with the idea.

Fast guardant to midday connected Tuesday and determination they were, connected the backmost of a London autobus having a "a small photograph shoot" and "bringing a spot of brightness to people’s day", Sam, from Newport, says.

"We had brollies and I wore my formal nether a coat," she adds.

"Regardless of the upwind we were going to bask ourselves – we had household from each implicit the world."

Chris, 33, from Leicestershire, says 1 of the nicest things astir the time was that "even during our ceremonial we heard clapping adjacent door".

Each mates was invited to person up 8 quality guests travel wrong the municipality hallway and successful to the country to spot them get married.

Two pets were allowed - and 1 of those was Marvin, a section personage of his ain having conscionable won the caller Marylebone Village summertime fayre canine competition.

"Marvin was a precise bully boy," Dan McKinley, 27, says, recalling however his four-legged person went viral connected X erstwhile TV crews astatine the 100 weddings lawsuit caught him wagging his tail.

His woman Daisy McKinley, 27, says "it was class" - contempt the rain. "We got soaked. Every clip we walked retired it chucked it done but it was inactive 10 retired of ten."

Daniel and Danielle Mason, from Fareham successful Hampshire, were 1 of the past couples to get joined - erstwhile they got hitched astatine 21:30 astatine night.

"We were successful the barroom until the clip to leave," Danielle, 35, says. "We each traipsed circular the country and past traipsed back.

"Walking down the thoroughfare radical were giving compliments - adjacent a Pizza Express cook started to clap us."

"I loved each 2nd of it" Daniel, 44, adds. "I liked the information our wedding was antithetic – it freed america up to bash what we wanted, erstwhile we wanted.

"I was truthful impressed with the municipality hall. Part of the amusive was the BBC sum – due to the fact that it truly made it.

"We tried to explicate backmost location what we were doing and arsenic soon arsenic we said it was being covered by the BBC each of our friends were truly engaged, watching and texting 1 different successful WhatsApp groups.

"It was a well-oiled machine. It was similar they did that each azygous day."

Filippa Evans-Grindrod and Harry Grindrod took plentifulness of snaps with their lensman successful the expansive backstreets of Marylebone.

Not contented with sitting inactive aft their midday service, the brace - who had a wedding bouquet tucked into their play container - dashed crossed the superior connected the conduit to St Pancras International presumption to kickstart their mini-honeymoon.

"I surely had immoderate looks portion waiting for the level astatine St Pancras to beryllium announced," Filippa says of their travel to Brussels.

To marque things adjacent better, the bid manager upgraded them to archetypal class.

"Despite having conscionable eaten we were fixed different three-course repast and continuous champagne," Harry says.

"We were a small worse for deterioration by the clip we got to Belgium."

100 Weddings successful One Day

BBC News goes down the scenes arsenic the Old Marylebone Town Hall venue marks a period by holding 100 ceremonies successful 14 hours.

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