BOGOF brides!

Our wedding went from ‘I do’ to ‘me too’ Andrea Walker, 31, Tamworth

- FIONA KINLOCH, KATIE PEARSON

Flicking through a magazine, I folded down the corner of another page.

Exactly what I want, I grinned to myself. It was 2017 and I was sifting through wedding mags again.

Mesmerised by pictures of beautiful brides in their princess gowns, I was envious.

Me and my partner Matthew, then 26, had been together for three years.

And I was desperate for him to ask me that question. Hint after hint, yet he still hadn’t proposed.

I was getting impatient. Told myself if I didn’t get engaged by 30, I didn’t want to get married at all.

I was 29, and time was ticking.

But truth was, I understood why Matthew hadn’t asked. ‘£30,000!’

I’d gasped when we’d speculated about the figures for our dream wedding.

Still, maybe one day..?

So, closing the mag, I placed it on the coffee table as one final hint.

A few days later, my brother Christopher, then 26, popped over for a catch-up.

As kids, we were inseparable. And even now, we were super close.

Making us a cuppa, I found Christopher in the living room flicking through my magazine.

‘Hands off!’ I teased. ‘That’s for Matthew to find.’

He chuckled.