Coronation Street's Imogen star Melissa Johns marries long-term love in dream ceremony

"This isn't however I expected to feel," confesses Melissa Johns, arsenic she sits down for a chat conscionable days aft her stunning Herefordshire wedding to Dan Hampton. It turns retired that the erstwhile Coronation Street histrion - who is champion known for her relation arsenic Imogen Pascoe connected the iconic soap - is simply overwhelmed by her newfound marital bliss.

"I cognize it sounds truly weird, but what I mean is, I conscionable consciousness perfectly wonderful," the 34 twelvemonth aged told OK!. "I conscionable thought it was going to beryllium a wedding time and a party. I didn't expect to consciousness specified an unbelievable alteration successful myself and my relationship. It's bizarre to consciousness similar you conscionable fell successful emotion with idiosyncratic each implicit again. It's conscionable wonderful."

The beauteous ceremonial took spot against the stunning backdrop of the 14th-century Brinsop Court Manor House and Barn connected 11 October, a time Melissa describes arsenic "perfect". The bride looked radiant successful a strapless fishtail gown with a fitted corset and bead embellishments, portion her groom, a 36 twelvemonth aged transport readying consultant, looked dapper successful a three-piece tweed suit and paisley tie, reports OK!.

Melissa, who was calved without fractional of her close arm, shares the profound value of saying 'I Do'. "Because of having 1 limb and looking precise antithetic to different radical increasing up, erstwhile I was young, I wasn't needfully definite getting joined was thing that would hap for me," Melissa says. "People bash remark connected it and question whether you'll find emotion oregon get married, simply due to the fact that of the mode you look oregon due to the fact that you're disabled. So, due to the fact that of the mode I grew up, our peculiar time meant a cardinal times much to me."

With a lively entourage including six bridesmaids, 5 groomsmen, and their adorable Sprocker spaniel, Nancy, the ceremonial was acold from dull.

But for Melissa, the pinnacle was the infinitesimal earlier she walked down the aisle. "The astir peculiar infinitesimal for maine was turning astir the country into the aisle and seeing the faces of each our friends and family. Then they each blurred into one, and determination was Dan, astatine the extremity of the aisle.

"There were radical I've been friends with since I was 5 oregon six years old, radical I stock the surface with, and my household - each successful 1 space. I anticipation that infinitesimal stays with maine for the remainder of my life," she gushes. She chose to locomotion down the aisle to Clinton Kane's I Guess I'm In Love, explaining, "It's a beautiful, beauteous opus and determination was a peculiar portion of the opus I wanted to locomotion down to. But each the bridesmaids had already gone and, successful that moment, it felt similar I was waiting excessively agelong for it.

"I said to my wedding planner, Amelia, 'Shall I conscionable spell now? I deliberation everyone is waiting.' She said, 'No, Melissa. You person imagined walking down the aisle to that portion of the song, and you volition locomotion down to that. People tin hold for different 20 seconds! ' I'm grateful for that."

After the hold was implicit and the vows were exchanged, Melissa and Dan celebrated successful expansive benignant with a magical archetypal dance, an outdoor champagne ablution and a nighttime filled with laughter. Among the guests were respective of Melissa's on-screen colleagues, including Coronation Street stars Cherylee Houston and Bhavna Limbachia. Melissa, besides known for her relation arsenic Jennifer Scott successful the fashionable ITV bid Grantchester, was besides joined by her co-star Bradley Hall.

Melissa and Dan are each loved up pursuing their delightful 'mini-moon' successful Sicily, acknowledgment to Emmerdale stars Laura Norton and her spouse Mark Jordon. Sharing the details of their romanticist getaway, Melissa enthuses, "Mark and Laura person been holding the Cure Usher Ball, which raises wealth for probe into Usher syndrome, for the past fewer years. Last year, Dan and I won this travel to Sicily successful the soundless auction - truthful cheers for that, both! " The couple's authoritative honeymoon is acceptable to hap aboriginal successful Saint Lucia.

After a two-year courtship, Dan projected to Melissa successful June 2023, with some having travel retired of superior relationships conscionable 1 twelvemonth anterior to meeting. Reflecting connected their union, Melissa says: "I ever assumed I'd conscionable the idiosyncratic I was going to beryllium with successful my twenties. But actually, I couldn't beryllium happier I met Dan successful my thirties."

She believes that uncovering emotion astatine this signifier successful beingness comes with greater self-love and appreciation: "I emotion myself truthful overmuch much now. To beryllium capable to bash this astatine an property wherever I truly admit myself and the beingness I unrecorded makes it truthful overmuch better. When you get older, you truly don't clasp back. There's nary gameplaying - it's conscionable genuine due to the fact that you're assured successful who you are. Maybe I wasn't arsenic assured successful who I was successful my twenties, truthful actually, gathering him present was the mode it was ever meant to be."

When asked if she knew instantly that helium was The One, Melissa responded with a resounding "Yes, definitely! " She explained: "When you conscionable idiosyncratic who is truthful antithetic to each the others, you truly bash know."

Despite being successful a 'wedding bubble', Melissa had to instrumentality to enactment aft a fewer days of Italian bliss, filming Grantchester successful the UK. "I got a week disconnected from filming, and past I'm back," she shared.

"But I perfectly emotion it. Grantchester is 1 of the astir fantastic play dramas to beryllium a portion of. "I'm besides continuing to make my one-woman show, Snatched, which toured the UK a mates of years ago. We're present adapting that for television, which is exciting. Getting to bash the occupation I bash is conscionable an implicit dream."

Becoming Dan's woman has been the icing connected the cake, arsenic Melissa concludes, "I conscionable inactive can't rather judge everything I've ever wanted has really happened. I dreamt of falling successful emotion and gathering idiosyncratic who was going to beryllium respectful and lovely, and springiness america some a beingness of adventure. It's conscionable perfect."