Woman's Own

WHEN HOLIDAY ROMANCESWORK

‘My friends and family didn’t think it would last’

Kirsty Firat, 28, is a support worker and lives in Edinburgh with her husband Ismail, 28, who works in hospitality.

Dancing in my husband’s arms at our wedding, I felt so proud of us both. Against the odds, our holiday romance had blossomed into a marriage.

It was on the last night of my stay in Marmaris, Turkey, in April 2018, with my mum, that I first laid eyes on Ismail.

STRONG FEELINGS

He was a waiter in a restaurant we were dining in, and we kept looking at one another and smiling. I thought he was handsome, but because

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