We fell in love after I downed a pint on First Dates – now we’re married but there’s a tragic twist
thesun.co.ukTHE moment Zoe Welch downed a pint of lager in front of her stunned match will go down in First Dates history. But it helped her win the heart of Mike Sumner, 38, and now, two years after meeting on the Channel 4 show in March 2020, the couple have tied the knot.
While the intimate wedding - surrounded by close family and friends in a relative's garden in Bradford, West Yorkshire - was the happiest of their lives, it was tinged with sadness.
Mike has Motor Neurone Disease (MND), where the nerve cells in the brain gradually stop working, and has been given just five years left to live.
When his health began to deteriorate, they brought their big day forward, planning it in just three months. Zoe, 31, tells The Sun: "We don’t know how much time we have so we wanted to do it sooner rather than later.
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