Table Of ContentLOUISA LYTTON
MARRIES BEN BHANVRA IN A
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ISSUE 1348 ● 18 JULY 2022 ● £3 WEEKLY
WEDDING EXCLUSIVE
‘IT WAS A MAGICAL
DAY, SO FULL OF LOVE’
‘WE STOOD AT THE
ALTAR WITH TEARS
IN OUR EYES’
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SOAP-STAR GUESTS ZARAAH ABRAHAMS,
LACEY TURNER, JAMES BYE AND MO GEORGE;
SPECTACULAR THREE-DAY CELEBRATIONS;
AND DAUGHTER AURA’S FLOWER-GIRL DUTIES
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fairy-tale ending
‘after having
aura, it was
the best day
of my life’
after postponing their big day three
times, EASTENDERS star louisa lytton
and partner ben bHanVRa finally tied
the knot in a lavish ceremony
in tuscany
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Louisa Lytton and Ben Bhanvra aptly chosen acoustic version of CeCe
were starting to think their Peniston’s Finally played.
wedding day would never happen. But when Louisa, 33, made it to the
After getting engaged in 2019, altar, she and Ben started laughing as
the couple had organised their big day the stress and disappointment of the
three times, before the pandemic put past three years melted away.
paid to their plans. “I just felt relieved,” she says. “I felt
But finally, three years after Ben like we had finally done it. It’s the same
popped the question during a romantic for any Covid bride. And I think we’re
holiday in the Maldives, the couple, who just so relieved. I remember us giggling
have a 10-month-old daughter, Aura, at the altar, just thinking about how long
tied the knot in a stunning ceremony in it took to get us there.”
Siena, Tuscany, in front of their family “Yeah, we had tears in our eyes but
and close friends. we couldn’t stop giggling,” Ben adds.
When Ben, 32, first caught a glimpse Louisa says she couldn’t stop crying
of his beautiful bride walking down the throughout the whole day as she
aisle, he had tears in his eyes. Louisa did discovered the lengths her friends
too, as she made her way towards him, and family had gone to see them
accompanied by her dad Alan, while an get married. And at one point, there
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were fears her close friend and EastEnders co-star
Lacey Turner wouldn’t make it when her flight
was cancelled.
“I didn’t stop crying, because it had taken people
so much to get there,” she says. “I was waiting
by my phone from the Friday for people to tell me
that they had landed. And then they were saying,
‘Our train has been cancelled, so now we’re on
the coach.’ We couldn’t believe how much effort
people made to get out there for our special day,
so I cried a lot when I saw people I wasn’t sure
were going to make it. Obviously, I cried walking
down the aisle with my dad. It was so emotional.
My dad and I are such emotional people anyway,
so we couldn’t stop.”
And it wasn’t just the bride and groom who were
swept up in the emotion of the day. Ben explains,
“All of my friends were crying, everyone was just
so happy and relieved. I was nervous when I knew
Louisa was walking down, and when she had just
got to the end of the aisle, yeah, that’s when
I turned around and tried to hold it in, otherwise
I knew I’d be in trouble.”
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With her co-stars Zaraah
Abrahams, Lacey Turner,
James Bye and Mo George
Louisa says for her the “highest high” says she barely slept as she was up so
was when she was standing with Ben at often with little Aura.
the top of the aisle. “I was so nervous, “I slept for two and a half hours before
but the moment I got there and I saw the wedding – I was in a room with the
Ben, my whole body relaxed, it was really baby. She was up most of the night,
weird. I had been so tense since I landed I was up most of the night,” she says.
in Italy,” she explains. “The moment I got “I just couldn’t sleep. I literally checked
there and saw him, I felt relaxed and I my phone every hour. I’ve never had
remember thinking, ‘I could go to sleep that much adrenaline. At six o’clock
right now!’” in the morning, I took Aura downstairs
Ben agrees, adding, “I was there for breakfast and then I took her for
30 minutes before, and at that point, a dip in the swimming pool because
I’m wearing a three-piece suit in 39 I knew nobody would be up, which
degrees, and the nerves were just building was lovely.”
and building. It didn’t even feel real.” Later that morning, Louisa, her
Louisa adds, “After having Aura, it was mum, and her bridesmaids Robyn, Alex,
the best day of my life.” Marianna, Cartier and Sophie, had a drink
The three-day wedding began in by the pool before starting to get ready
Siena on Friday with a pizza party at the from noon. “One of my best friends,
villa where all 90 guests stayed for the Natasha Klipp, flew over to do my hair and
weekend. Louisa reveals she always had make-up. It was all us girls getting ready
her heart set on marrying Ben in Italy as together and playing music.”
her mum Jane is half Italian. While Ben was already feeling jittery
“I’ve always said I wanted to get about the ceremony, his nerves went into
married there, so it means so much that overdrive when he decided to change his
it could happen,” she adds. wedding vows at 5am on the big day.
The couple stayed in separate rooms “I woke up in a sweat and I decided to
the night before their nuptials, but Louisa change my vows. My groomsmen told me
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