Woo Hoo!

My brother-in-law and future sister-in-law sent this link to me today. We heard about this a week or so ago, and we were very excited then, but I was even more trilled now, as it is in the paper! You can see the article here, but I am posting the full text and their photo below. Congratulations Alex and Wendy! We will be there, and can't wait!

LAS VEGAS WEDDING DREAMS COME TRUE

BY KIRSTY PUGH K.PUGH

10:40 - 22 June 2007

A couple from Speedwell will be able to fulfil their dream of getting married in Las Vegas after winning a competition in the Evening Post.

Alex Leggate and his fiance Wendy Bristow won a trip to the gambling capital of America to see the hit musical Mamma Mia! before it comes to Bristol later this year.

The show is set around the wedding preparations of a young woman who is searching for her father.

And Alex and Wendy, who got engaged on Wendy's birthday last year, decided that their VIP trip would be the perfect opportunity to get married themselves.

Alex, 35, who works for Bristol City Council, said: "We were planning on getting married this year but when we saw this competition we thought it was the perfect opportunity.

"We also really wanted to go and see the show, and to see it in Vegas is just going to be incredible. I could not believe it when I found out that we had won. It is beyond our wildest dreams.

"While we are there we want to be able to see the sights, as the atmosphere of Las Vegas really appeals to us. There is nowhere else like it on earth. We do not want our wedding to be too fancy or over the top, we just want to get married in a nice little chapel."

Alex and Wendy will jet out to Las Vegas in November and spend two nights in the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

As well seeing Mamma Mia! the couple will receive passes to the hotel's spa and VIP admission to the House of Blues Music Hall.

Wendy, 30, who met Alex three years ago at a friend's wedding, said: "I still cannot take it all in. It is completely unbelievable and I am so excited.

"It was Alex's idea to enter the competition but we never thought for one minute that we might actually win it.

"We have both always wanted to go to Las Vegas and we were going to save up our pennies to try and go there and get married next year. It is going to be something we will remember for the rest of our lives."

Mamma Mia! features the songs of supergroup Abba and has broken box office records since it opened in London seven years ago.

The musical is set to come to the Bristol Hippodrome in November for a nine-week run.

The original London production opened in 1999 and has grossed more than £155 million at the UK box office and more than £1 billion worldwide.

Shot at 2007-06-24