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Councillor Lulu Mitchell and David White on their wedding day |
Worth the white! Married after 35 years
THEY’VE known each other 35 years, she made him wait 25 years to get a date with her, but then said “yes” to the big question after just three months.
Gospel Oak ward councillor Lulu Mitchell, 48, finally tied the knot on Saturday after a courtship which, if it could not quite be described as whirlwind, was definitely romantic.
“We’ve known each other 35 years,” said Cllr Mitchell. “He was after me for 25 years and I wasn’t really the marrying kind.”
But after just a few short months of dating David White, a family friend from Chalk Farm, Cllr Mitchell had a change of heart
“I got to 48 and I just decided ‘why not?’,” she said of the moment David proposed to her after a meal.
Keeping the occasion close to home, the Conservative councillor, who lives on the Wendling estate in Mansfield Road, naturally chose to hold the big day at St Dominic’s Priory in Southampton Road.
She also kept the organising simple: as a greengrocer and florist, she did all the flower arranging herself, and held the wedding reception at her councillor colleague Rebecca Hossack’s gallery in Fitzrovia.
“It was a wonderful day, absolutely perfect,” said Cllr Mitchell.
The happy couple are heading off for their honeymoon in Spain this weekend – a wedding present from Cllr Mitchell’s sister.
And will she keep her name? “As a councillor it would be a bit difficult to change it,” she said, but added that while her new husband wasn’t particularly political, he understood why she wanted to keep Mitchell.
Another well-known face in the political pond, former Camden councillor Ken Livingstone, got hitched to his long-term partner Emma Beal just a few postcodes away at London Zoo. He chose to hold his nuptials by the reptile enclosure.
More than 25 couples a year marry at the Regent’s Park attraction, according to a zoo spokeswoman. |
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