Dick and Angel Strawbridge talk about married life at the Chateau and their new book

Virgin Radio

3 Nov 2020, 17:11

Do you dream of packing it all in and moving abroad to the countryside somewhere? That's exactly what Dick and Angel Strawbridge did, and you might recognise them from their TV show

As well as restoring their incredible home, the couple found the time to get married, and have also written a book. A 12-month reflection of their continental life, is on all good bookshelves now.

The creative duo joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky this morning to talk about the book, written from their two different perspectives.

While the events within are similar, it appears that they can't agree on certain things.... like their wedding. The couple married in November 2015 at their family home Chateau de la Motte Husson.

Chris started by asking if the pair were surprised by how different their recollections were.

Angel laughs: "We were not only surprised, but actually still by the end of the book we didn't agree on certain things, like our wedding, you know, quite a big thing. Dick still believes to this day that I didn't tell him that we were having a massive wedding for 200 people!"

Dick interjects good-naturedly: "Can I just say, we were going to elope. That doesn’t sound like 200 people in a chateau does it?!"

Angel explains: "At the start of the book, and our lives, we were going to elope but then we found the Chateau. I work in events so I said let's go to Las Vegas and have a really cheesy wedding. Then the Chateau came,  we had the little talk, and then invites started going out..."

You might be imagining your typical paper invites, perhaps with a bit of flair to represent their style.

Angel had other ideas, says Dick: "I think it's fair to say, Angel printed the invites on old vintage linens. When I was given a pile to iron of about 150 linens for invites, I knew how many people were coming. that was the first time I really had a clue!"

Fortunately, it all worked out well in the end.