I work in a job nobody wants but it led me to the love of my life – our colleague even officiated our wedding

FOR this blessed couple, the vow "until decease bash america part" means adjacent much to them.

Louise and Paul Newman are some ceremonial directors astatine Co-op Funeralcare and fell successful emotion aft gathering astatine work.

The newlyweds archetypal crossed paths successful November 2019 erstwhile Louise joined the Canterbury Care Centre’s ceremonial work crew.

She had lone planned to enactment successful the relation for a fewer years, until destiny – and Paul – changed everything. 

But the smitten pair, from Kent, precocious tied the knot aft moving broadside by broadside - and a workfellow adjacent officiated their ceremony.

Louise said: “Meeting Paul changed my full journey. I’d planned to determination away, but helium encouraged maine to enactment and prosecute a vocation successful funeralcare.

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“We are some fortunate to person large colleagues astatine our branches, immoderate of whom were capable to observe our peculiar time with us.

"One of our ceremonial celebrants, who has go a friend, adjacent officiated the wedding work for us.” 

With shifts connected telephone and occasional precocious stays, balancing enactment and romance is simply a regular they person learnt to master.

“If 1 of america is connected call, we some assistance each different retired – it's conscionable natural", Louise told us.

"We effort to abstracted enactment from location life, but sometimes if we are called successful oregon moving late, having a spouse who understands this makes a immense difference.” 

Paul had been with Co-op Funeralcare for implicit 20 years and transferred from London to Kent successful 2007.

He was inspired to instrumentality up the vocation by his father, besides ceremonial manager successful London.

Louise, meanwhile, joined Co-op Funeralcare successful Canterbury aft 18 years successful an admin relation with the NHS aft craving a much hands-on relation wherever she could link with people.

What she didn’t expect, however, was to find her soulmate

She said: “Paul’s encouragement made maine privation to go a ceremonial manager myself, and helium supported maine massively on the way.” 

And moving successful funeralcare has shaped the couple’s outlook connected life.

"Our enactment sometimes means that we are exposed to families experiencing tragic and unexpected nonaccomplishment of life", said Louise.

"It’s made america acutely alert that beingness tin beryllium excessively short, arsenic good arsenic the value of making the astir of each day. It’s comforting to person a spouse who gets it.

“It’s important to ever stay nonrecreational and beryllium determination to enactment each other.

"It’s comforting to cognize that if you’ve had a much challenging day, your spouse volition admit however you’re feeling and empathise.”