Newlyweds get wedding photos taken in supermarket aisle where they met

By Filipa Gaspar via SWNS

A couple met in the crisp aisle of the supermarket where they worked - and then had their wedding photos there.

Jessica, 27, and Jaxom Weston-Brown, 28, met at their local branch in Eastbourne in East Sussex in 2017.

Jessica, then 20, had just started as a store assistant and was asked to train Jaxom how to put crisps on the shelf.

Loved bloomed and then on their wedding day this year the lovebirds went back to the Waitrose for wedding photos.

Jessica said: "It started as a joke a few years ago - one of our friends posted in our group chat an Instagram reel of someone who had gone back to the place they met on their wedding day.

“All my friends are in couples that have met on a dating app and said that they would never be able to do this kind of thing.

“Then me and Jax were like ‘oh my gosh’ we could go back to the crisp aisle of Waitrose.

“It just became a bit of a joke that we were going to do it on our wedding day and then as the wedding day approached we were like ‘Let’s actually do it’.

“We bought the black peppercorn Kettle chips.

''We hadn’t even thought about what crisps we were going to buy so we randomly picked them - they had to be something classy on your wedding day.

“We haven’t eaten them yet - we are saving them for our first anniversary."

Jessica revealed that at first Jaxon was 'not her type' and that she didn't want to get involved with a work colleague.

She said: ''We didn’t really talk that much for a while because I went on holiday and then a group of us from work we all went to a Halloween party.

"Me and Jack got talking there and chatted the whole night and then we exchanged numbers and it went from there."

They then started dating and worked together until December 2017.

She said: “We quite instantly realized that we were well matched.

"He ended up moving to Cambridge for a bit so we were long-distance for a while and then I transferred stores and went to the Cambridge store for a bit.

"Then we moved back to Eastbourne and got married."

They got married at St Andrews church in Jevington and on the way to the reception they stopped at Waitrose for pictures - and to buy a pack of crisps.

She said that shoppers were all 'a bit confused' but stopped to take photos of the couple.

They were also presented with a bouquet of red roses by their former colleagues.

Jessica said: "We were walking down on our wedding attire having photos taken and then there was just random people shopping and taking stuff out of the shelves - which is quite funny.

"It was really nice to go back there and back where we met - it was really sweet."

In a post on Facebook after their visit, Waitrose passed on its 'huge congratulations to the happy couple'.

Jessica now works as a history teacher and Jaxom as a supply chain manager and live together in Polegate.

She said that 'marriage life is good' but is still waiting to have her lifetime supply of crisps.

"I was waiting for Waitrose to give us our lifetime supply of crisps but it has not happened," concluded Jessica.