Adele and Bobby Benson had always known each other, but it was when they started talking in a pub in 2016 that their love started to blossom.

The Silloth couple got married on July 27, 2019 at Broughton Craggs, Cockermouth.

Adele, 23, a teaching assistant, said: “We’ve always known each other but we started talking in the local pub back in 2016.

“A few months later I made myself a bottom drawer at Bobby’s and then once my toothbrush stayed over the night, that was it, he had my company to put up with.

“On July 24, 2017, Bobby took me to a surprise night away to Windermere Boutique Hotel. When we got there, there were rose petals on the bed spelling ‘will you marry me’ and lots of thought had gone into the whole surprise. It was amazing.”

Bobby, 30, a boiler operator and fireman, went to Benidorm for for his stag do where he was joined by 25 others.

He also had a second stag do in Newcastle.

Adele had three hen dos. “For my hen do my bridesmaids planned a night away to Newcastle where we went to watch Dream Boys, which was amazing. My second hen do was a pub crawl around the local pubs where family and friends joined. I also had a third hen do with my work ladies at one of their farms. They all dressed up as cowboys and I, of course, was in a big inflatable horse.”

The couple did not have a theme for their special day, but Adele decided to follow the mantra ‘less is more’.

She said: “I didn’t really have a theme as such but I wanted it to be very modern. I went with plain and simple.

“My dress was from Te Amo Bridal inWorkington and the make up was Pronovias, which is from Barcelona. My dress was very detailed with different layers of lace and had a sweetheart top half. My dress didn’t have any sparkle on it, it was just very lacey. The train on my dress was very long which is what I loved most about it. I also got my veil from Te Amo Bridal and that was very plain with some lace on the edges. It was longer than my train on my dress and it was just amazing.

“Bobby chose a very traditional three-piece suit from the wedding range in Debenhams. His suit was a navy blue colour with his ushers all matching. Bobby wore a pink tie and pocket square and his best man, ushers, father and father-in-law wore grey ties and pocket squares.”

Best man was Andy Hinde, a very close friend of Bobby’s, and ushers were friends Paul Lowery, Ryan Morris, Joe Kirkup and Aaron Adams, as well as his brother-in-law Simon Thorp.

Adele’s sister Sarah Wood was maid of honour and friends Emily Pattinson, Kirsty Bell, Tabitha Graham and sister-in-law Stephanie Thorp were bridesmaids.

The couple’s son, Harper Benson, who was one at the time, was a page boy, along with their nephew Charlie Thorp, who was also one. Their niece Eleanor Thorp, who was five, was a flower girl.

Adele chose a white gold ring, set with a band of sparkling diamonds. A contemporary cross over design, so that it fitted well with her engagement ring which is a big diamond. Bobby chose something suitable for work which was a titanium band crafted with a matt and polished double groove.

The bride’s bouquet was mixed with ivory coloured flowers, pink roses and lots of greenery. The bridesmaids bouquets were made up of pink roses and lots of gypsophila. Adele said: “I chose the pink so it worked well with the grey dresses my bridesmaids wore.”

The couple had 102 guests through the day, with a further 50 in the evening.

Adele and Bobby’s first dance was to Al Green’s Lets Stay Together.

Adele said: “Once the night guests arrived we had Luke Matear who is an acoustic guitar singer and he was amazing. Prior to the wedding we got to choose what songs we wanted him to sing. Once Luke had finished his set we had the manager of Broughton Craggs do our disco which went on till late.”

The cake was a three-tier cake made up of sponge, chocolate sponge and fruit cake on the bottom, which Adele’s dad made. One of Adele’s work colleagues made the other two tiers and decorated them with white icing and pink flowers.

Adele said: “For our favours we made our own gin shots. We got some little cork-headed jars and filled them with three different flavour gins. With hessian string around them in a bow we had a tag on them saying ‘let the celebrations beGIN’ with our wedding date on.

“For the children we made up an activity pack which included a personalised colouring book, sweets, toys, balloons, drink, pencils and lots of fun things to occupy the children.”

The wedding day was captured by photographer Stephen Rowell.

Adele said: “Before the wedding he met with us and we gave him all the ideas we wanted for our photography. On the day he was super and went above and beyond for us both.”

Instead of a honeymoon the couple and their son spent a week in Menorca.

Adele said: “The favourite moment of our day was just seeing everyone laughing and smiling.

“We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day.”