Surprise guard of honour for lifeboat newlywed

Thursday 23 July 2020

A lifeboat crew member's scaled-back wedding was made extra special thanks to a surprise guard of honour organised by the RNLI's St. Helier crew over the weekend.

RNLI member Katie Holloway (née De La Haye), and her husband Andy, had their initial wedding plans cut short as a result of the covid lockdown.

Pictured: Newlyweds, Katie and Andy Holloway, walk through their lifeboat guard of honour.

Instead of the big wedding they had planned, they were forced to scale back and were only able to invite a handful of close family and friends to the ceremony which was held in St. Brelade last Saturday. 

Pictured:  Katie's colleagues came together to give her and Andy a special day.

However, Katie’s RNLI colleagues were on hand to give Katie the big day she had initially planned, organising a surprise guard of honour for her and Andy to walk through after the ceremony had finished.

Katie, who is currently on her on-island honeymoon, said of the day: “I still don’t know how they organised the guard of honour! Everyone else seemed to know: the photographer, the vicar, the guests - but we had no inkling that anything was up."

Pictured: Katie and Andy Holloway, who are currently on an 'on-island' honeymoon following their wedding.

"It was the perfect surprise!” she added.

Pictured top and throughout: The happy couple enjoying their guard of honour captured on camera by Natalie Mayer Photography.