A couple who became the first to marry after meeting on Blind Date have renewed their wedding vows on their anniversary - 33 years on.
Alex and Sue Tatham tied the knot in 1991 in front of millions of viewers after meeting on the classic dating programme hosted by Cilla Black in 1988.
The pair say they are still as happy as ever more than three decades later as they
renewed their wedding vows back where it all began.
Family and friends gathered for the service at St Michael & All Angels Church in Pelsall, Walsall, West Mids., yesterday (Sun).
Reminiscing about the magical day when he and Sue became "Britain’s first reality TV star couple" Alex, 59, described his wife was "as beautiful as ever."
Admitting he was very nervous on his big day, he added: "But there was someone who was just as nervous as the groom, Father David Morson, the vicar here, whose upcoming work was not only going to be judged by God, my mother, my mother in law, but by 17 million viewers!
Alex and Sue Tatham tied the knot in 1991 in front of millions of viewers after meeting on the classic dating programme hosted by Cilla Black in 1988.
The pair say they are still as happy as ever more than three decades later as they
renewed their wedding vows back where it all began.
Family and friends gathered for the service at St Michael & All Angels Church in Pelsall, Walsall, West Mids., yesterday (Sun).
Reminiscing about the magical day when he and Sue became "Britain’s first reality TV star couple" Alex, 59, described his wife was "as beautiful as ever."
Admitting he was very nervous on his big day, he added: "But there was someone who was just as nervous as the groom, Father David Morson, the vicar here, whose upcoming work was not only going to be judged by God, my mother, my mother in law, but by 17 million viewers!
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00:00We're going to go in and look at it.
00:01We're going to look at the top of the head.
00:03It's a beautiful piece of wood, isn't it?
00:09Fantastic.
00:12It's a packed church, only 17.5 million people watching this.
00:17That's exciting.
00:1933 years ago.
00:21What a thing.
00:25What a thing.
00:26I'm now going to meet Alex and Sue
00:28to make their vows
00:30again in the presence of God
00:32and his congregation here.
00:38I, Alex,
00:40take you, Sue,
00:42to be my wife
00:44to have and to hold
00:48from this day forward
00:50for better, for worse
00:52for richer, for poorer
00:54in sickness and in health
00:57and in love and to cherish
00:59till death us do part
01:01according to God's holy law
01:05and in the presence of God
01:07I make this vow.
01:11I, Sue,
01:13take you, Alex, to be my husband
01:15to have and to hold
01:17from this day forward
01:19for better, for worse
01:21for richer, for poorer
01:23in sickness and in health
01:25in love and to cherish
01:27till death us do part
01:29according to God's holy law
01:31in the presence of God
01:33I make this vow.
01:37Thank you very much.
01:44It's such a lovely thing to do
01:46and what better place to do it
01:48than in this lovely church
01:50where we did it first time round.
01:52It's amazing, is that of course
01:55it's the 180th anniversary of this fantastic
01:57church where we got married
01:59but we got married 33 years ago
02:01practically to this very day
02:03it was our wedding anniversary yesterday
02:05so actually to be able to do
02:07and renew our vows
02:09at an extraordinary time
02:11in the presence of a lot of people
02:13and God himself is a wonderful thing to do.
02:15So special.
02:25I'd say confidence a bit
02:27it was tough to go on
02:29it wasn't tough to go on
02:31but you had to have a bit of savvy to go on
02:33it's given us
02:35we're very proud of Pelsall
02:37very proud of the Midlands
02:39it's changed my life completely
02:41and I didn't expect to come on
02:43finding a husband
02:45but it was an added bonus big time.
02:47Well I think it gave us each other
02:49most importantly.
02:51That is the most important thing.
02:53And of course what it has done
02:55all the way through our lives
02:57it's found a sort of foundation
02:59rock on which we built our marriage
03:01together. Whether it's
03:03our lovely daughter
03:05who describes herself as a blind date baby
03:07or our son
03:09who's been vicariously embarrassed
03:11by his parents for so very long
03:13all of it
03:15is really resolved around that extraordinary moment
03:17when we laid eyes on each other for the very first time
03:19when the screen went back
03:21and that led to this extraordinary church service.
03:23And I don't think it would have happened
03:25any other way through blind dates.