REMEMBERING THEIR VERY SPECIAL WEDDING DAY DICK AND ANGEL STRAWBRIDGE HOW THE CHATEAU COUPLE’S JOIE DE VIVRE HELPED THEM ACHIEVE THEIR DREAM
‘We saw it as an adventure and why not? We wanted to create a new life for ourselves’ Angel
On the day of her wedding, Angel Strawbridge sat down and wept. Not from sadness, she’s keen to point out, but fatigue.
For most of the previous year, she and her husband Dick had been working day and night renovating and restoring a dilapidated French chateau that had stood neglected and empty for 40 years, featuring 45 rooms, 12 acres, a moat, orangery and countless outhouses. It was a mad, last-minute rush to get it wedding-ready.
“We were engulfed with exhaustion, it was the first time I’d had a bath and I had a little sob,” Angel tells on the eve of
