Moulton couple finally say 'I do' after lockdown
Before lockdown, Rosemary Cameron (74) had chosen her wedding dress, the cake had been ordered and the guest list was all ready.
However, her wedding date on May 23 to her groom David Buck (78) suddenly had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus. On Friday the couple finally got the chance to say ‘I do’ at Moulton’s All Saints Church in what is believed to be one of the first weddings since lockdown.
“It was just such a wonderful day,” Rosemary, now ‘Mrs Buck’, said. “It was electric, just like my dress.” Her dress was electric blue, chosen from Fancy Frox in Spalding.
The couple met via the South Holland and Sezanne Twinning Group.
“We were having an open day,” explained Rosemary, who was then living in Holbeach. “David joined and the chairman, Andrew Hawkins, asked me to go over to look after him.
“Four years later and here we are! It was all quite quick. During a trip with the group to France we were out together in Paris. For the first time he just held my hand and it started from there.”
David, from Moulton, proposed to Rosemary in Yorkshire where they were holidaying together in a cottage. “He just blurted out ‘will you marry me?’” she said.
It was a second chance of love for the couple who have both been married before but sadly lost their partners.
While they had originally planned to have a garden party after the wedding for 160 guests, for now they had a small, intimate party in the garden of their Moulton home. They plan to have a blessing next year. Bridesmaids were Rosemary’s grandchildren Poppy O’Hara, Phoebe Mullard and Scarlet O’Hara (flower girl). Her grandson Elliot O’Hara gave her away and David’s son Bruce was his best man.
David was surprised by an appearance from the workers at his family farm, Jack Buck’s, who appeared on the green outside the church to wave congratulations.
“It was a lovely day, and I had a lovely bride,” David said.
The cake was made by Caffe Aurora in Holbeach, which is run by Rosemary’s daughter Sophie and son-in-law Cormac O’Hara. The flowers were done by her daughter Debra.