Strictly Come Dancing skilled Amy Dowden has spoken about marrying her companion Ben Jones in a star-studded ceremony in South Wales, as the primary footage have been launched from the ceremony.
Caerphilly-born Amy, 31, joined the BBC dance competitors present in 2017, and had 4 of her previous movie star companions in attendance for the large day, in addition to loads of different Strictly household.
Talking about marrying fellow skilled dancer Ben, she advised Hey! journal: ‘It was a day I’d dreamt of since I used to be just a little woman and, properly, it was much more than that.’
Ben added: ‘Amy appeared stunning… and having a member of McFly singing at our wedding ceremony was clearly a spotlight.’
The event featured a efficiency by Amy’s former Strictly dance companion and member of boyband McFly, Tom Fletcher.
Explaining the thought course of behind 36-year-old Tom performing traditional McFly hit All About You through the ceremony, she shared: ‘I initially requested Tom to sing as I walked up the aisle, however he advised me he all the time cries at weddings, so I needed to let him benefit from the ceremony.’
She added: ‘I talked a lot wedding ceremony speak with him final yr, so it’s good that he’s a part of this particular second.’
Additionally in attendance have been an array of Strictly stars together with fellow skilled Dianne Buswell, who served as bridesmaid.
Former Strictly dancers Janette Manrara and Aljaž Škorjanec, 2021 contestant Sara Davies, Strictly skilled Katya Jones, and choose Craig Revel Horwood joined Amy’s different previous movie star companions on the star-studded visitor record: JJ Chalmers, Colin Jackson and Brian Conley.
Couple Amy and Ben grew to become engaged on New Yr’s Eve in 2017 after he proposed whereas the pair have been performing the rumba to a crowd throughout an occasion on the dance academy they run collectively.
Thet have been then pressured to postpone their wedding ceremony twice resulting from Covid, having initially deliberate on getting married in summer season 2020.
Regardless of commonly performing in entrance of enormous audiences, Amy revealed she was significantly ‘nervous’ about strolling down the aisle, however on the day she ‘felt like a Disney princess’.
A gushing Ben added: ‘Amy all the time appears to be like beautiful so it was no totally different to regular.’
The couple felt no strain when it got here to performing their first dance although, with Ben saying it ‘felt simple’ and Amy declaring that it ‘would turn out to be work’.
‘Think about a chef cooking on her wedding ceremony day!’ she exclaimed.
She additionally confirmed that though she's going to formally turn out to be Mrs Dowden-Jones, she plans to maintain Dowden as her stage identify on Strictly.
The total interview with Amy Dowden is accessible on this week’s Hey! journal, on newsstands now.
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