EXCLUSIVE: After almost 50 years together, singer Denise Nolan and her long-term fiancé Tom Anderson said their emotional vows in front of their nearest and dearest
Newlyweds Denise Nolan and Tom Anderson waited almost half a century to officially become husband and wife.
The couple, who married on Monday 17 June, first met when Denise, now 72, was singing with The Nolans and Tom, 77, was the resident drummer at the London Rooms, above London’s New London Theatre in the West End. “When we told Linda, she said, ‘You have to tell the family,’ and reminded me how upset I was when Coleen ran away and got married , so I realised I needed to tell them. Then it went from being the four of us to being about 55 of us!”
The bigger-than-first-planned guest list included all Denise’s sisters and their partners, including Coleen and her boyfriend Michael Jones, as well as a special gang of friends from her and Tom’s “Thursday Club” , who surprised them with a wedding cake. As well as not enjoying being the centre of attention – “unless I’m on stage,” Denise says – she is also a no-nonsense woman when it comes to organising. She tells us, laughing, that Tom’s dashing light blue three-piece suit and her own wedding outfit – a yellow sequin maxi dress and navy blue sequin blazer with matching fascinator – were all bought online, because she didn’t want to spend hours trawling Blackpool’s shops.
“When our late sister Bernie got married, the whole family got up and sang Frank Sinatra’s You, My Love mixed with a song from West Side Story called One Hand, One Heart. It was really lovely, with beautiful harmonies. I videoed it from the back of the room and my friend was able to get a good quality sound recording, so we played it on our big day.”
After the ceremony and photos, the group went to the nearby Park House Hotel for the speeches and dancing. Denise shared a reading that summed up her love for Tom. Called To My Man, it included the lines, “Whenever you feel overwhelmed, remember whose king you are and straighten your crown. The day I met you, I found my missing piece. Meeting you was fate, becoming your partner was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.
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