Charley Webb and Matthew Wolfenden have got married.
The ‘Emmerdale’ stars – who are known for playing Debbie Dingle and David Metcalfe in the long-running soap – tied the knot in a secret ceremony on February 10 at Ripley Castle near Harrogate in North Yorkshire surrounded by 100 of their friends and family.
The pair had told their guests to meet them at the idyllic location for Charley’s 30th birthday party before announcing that the celebration was actually their wedding day.
Speaking to OK! magazine, Charley said: "That moment when we announced what we were doing and seeing everybody’s reaction is the best moment of my life.
"This way we got to do it totally the way we wanted – it wasn’t traditional, we didn’t have a sit-down meal and there weren’t loads of speeches.
"Someone once told me their friend had a surprise wedding and it stuck in my mind."
Matthew added: "We couldn’t have had a better response. People just screamed for about ten minutes! It’s funny to think that our guests thought they were coming to Charley’s 30th party – then we told them it was our wedding!’ It wasn’t the most traditional wedding, but we wanted it to be different."
Charley then invited her bridesmaids – Lucy Pargeter, Roxy Shahidi, Zoe Henry, Charlotte Bellamy, Sammy Winward, Emma Atkins, Kate Oates and her sister Cassie – and her on-screen dad Jeff Hordley to accompany her down the aisle.
She explained: "I couldn’t not have Jeff as part of my day as he’s my best male friend, so I wanted to make him my brides-man."
She also asked her brother Jamie Lomas to give her away.
Jamie said: "When they were calling the names out I was thinking to myself, maybe I’m not going to get a job as I wasn’t asked to be an usher and then Charley asked me to walk her down the aisle – it was an honour."
The couple – who have two children Buster, seven, and Bowie, two, together – are planning to go away on honeymoon later this year as they’re too busy at the moment.
Matthew, 37, said: "We’re going to wait until July and go away for two weeks. There’s no way in a million years we’d go away that long without the kids, so they’ll come with us and we’re hoping to go to Walt Disney World in Florida."
Charley Webb and Matthew Wolfenden get married
