On that same Saturday in November 2021 Andrew Hillhouse was running late for a wedding. With five minutes to spare, he pulled up at the venue he’d been told to go to, hurried in, and took his seat.
His partner David was to be among the bridal party, and Andrew was relieved to be there on time.
It was when the bridal party began walking down the aisle that a sinking feeling crept in.
“I assumed David was in another room with the bride so the music starts up, everyone turns around to look at the bride and the second I see her I’m like ‘oh no, that’s not Michaela, what’s going on here?’,” he says.
“But I was committed at that point, because you can’t walk out of a wedding in progress so I thought I better double down. I’m 6ft 2in and I’m taller than everyone else, so I was trying to hunch down a bit and get out the way.
“I was just sitting there thinking ‘please, let this be over with’.”