Hearing a huge cheer from outside, while touching up the last of my makeup, I knew exactly what that reaction meant.
He was here – and I knew that he was nervous.
For even though my mum Susan, 60, had organised a celebration in her backyard in Texas, US, this wasn’t just a party – I was just minutes from walking down the aisle to tie the knot with the love of my life, Jake, in March 2018.
After pining after one another for 10 long years, originally meeting on Myspace in what must have been 2007, with a shared love for music and tattoos, we couldn’t stay away from one another – even from across the globe.
Living in Dallas, with Jake across the pond in Somerset, we’d originally formed a long-distance relationship, splitting up in 2010 – with it being a case of the right person, wrong time at that point.
‘You do know that he’s single again now?’ my friends said in October 2017, finding out Jake’s relationship had ended –
