Our families have shared in this journey with us, and now all that’s left is to gather the people we love most and celebrate together.
We are having one celebration and one only: a traditional wedding, on a Saturday afternoon, surrounded by the people who raised us. This site holds everything you need. Please RSVP so we know to set a place for you.
Saturday 31 October 2026.
It begins at 15:00.
The bridal team enters at 15:30.
Eastwood Community Centre.
Western Approaches, Southend-on-Sea SS2 6XY.
Directions and parking on the Travel page.
Traditional attire, warmly encouraged.
Black and white.
Bring a coat: dark by five.
We have known each other since around the year 2000, back in Woodville. Kudala, as they say. Long before any of this, and long before either of us had any idea where it was going.
Twelve years later, in 2012, we started dating. Nothing about it felt sudden. What had always been familiar simply became something else.
Twenty-six years of knowing each other. Fourteen years of growing together. Now we would like you here for the part that comes next.
Read Our StoryUmuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.Nguni Proverb
A person is a person through other people.
Woven fans and grasses, warm clay, beadwork and gold, and a table worth sitting at.



Having you with us is the part we have been looking forward to most. That is what the whole day is for.
And if you would like to mark it with a gift towards our new chapter, we would love that. The details are on the Gifts page.
Gift DetailsEvery seat, every plate and every place is counted by hand. Please let us know either way so nothing is left empty.