The London Wedding between Rebecca & Martin

Apart from the weather, when it comes to getting ­married, the only thing you can’t plan for is falling ill. ­Rebecca Stuart, 30, a production manager, had a heavy cold the week before her big day, but managed to recover in time. “I really was lucky,” she says. “Because I fell ill again the day after the wedding!”

She wasn’t the only one feeling poorly. Her aunt was meant to perform a reading but was too sick to make it to the wedding and the order of service had to be changed.

“The printers messed up and forgot to reprint the cover page so the names didn’t match. In the end, with the help of nice paper, Martin’s work stapler and a printer, we re-did 90 pages and re-stapled it,” she says.

Rebecca and Martin, 33, a management consultant, met in Cambodia while travelling in December 2006. ­Rebecca cycled across Vietnam for Oxfam and met a mutual friend of Martin’s along the way. Martin, who was on a separate travelling trip, met up with the pair in Angkor Wat. After chatting and ­seeing each other a few times over the year, the pair, who live in Finsbury Park, finally got together the following ­August. “Our first date was amazing,” says Rebecca. “But the second date was equally great – I was in Glasgow for a work trip and he flew up to meet me for dinner.”

Six months later, Martin popped the question while on a short break in Edinburgh. She says: “We’d talked about getting married ­already, but I expected him to ask me in a year or so, not the next month.”

Getting married in Rebecca’s home church, St Michael and All Angels in Uffington, was always on the cards. They invited 99 to the church ceremony and 30 guests to the evening at Burleigh House nearby. Although the day was perfect, Rebecca ­suffered more problems in the week before the ceremony. Her sister’s bridesmaid dress turned up in the wrong colour.

At 11.30am, the ceremony began, and afterwards a horse-drawn carriage was meant to take the couple to Burleigh House. Except it went missing. Martin says: “No one could find it and in the end the best man drove around and found it.”

After a champagne and canapé reception, guests were taken on a tour of the home before sitting down to a ­wedding breakfast of Lincolnshire pork and an selection of four mini desserts. Cake and outdoor games of giant Jenga and Connect 4 followed.

Rebecca says: “Everything wrapped up around 11.30pm, and although things didn’t go to plan in the weeks before, everything went perfectly on the day. Our guests got on really well and we just had the best time.”

Wedding Essentials

FIRST DATE: Bluebird Cafe in Chelsea

GET THE LOOK: Rebecca wore a dress by Ian Stuart; Martin wore a suit from Hugh Harris

FLOWERS: White roses and emerald green and dark purple blooms

SWEET TREAT: Four-tier dark chocolate cake

FIRST DANCE: Moon River

MUSIC: The Jazz Canons

HONEYMOON: Travelling for six months from Canada to Patagonia