Photographs ( 4 ) - Wedding of Alison Hicks and Simon Matthews, c1998

Alison Hicks of Lower Hook Farm, Lydiard Tregoze and Simon Matthews of Wootton Basset tied the knot at St. Mary's Church in 1988. The ceremony was followed by a reception for 140 family and friends, including many local farming families, in a marquee at Alison's parents farm.

A newspaper article records that Alison's pearl and diamante tiara had been worn by her mother, Valerie, at her own wedding in 1963.

In the photograph taken inside the marquee either before or after the wedding celebrations, you can see:

Left to Right

Peter Matthews (father of the groom)

John Hicks (father of the bride)

Rodney Gray

Valerie Hicks (mother of the bride)

Douglas and Olga Harris

Jane and James Woolford (of Hook Farm)