The bride is Rachel Elizabeth Warner Mansfield, 28 years old. Rachel works for E.ON but her passion lies with her work as a member of Manushi Dance Company. She has been studying Indian classical dance for 3 years and regularly performs across the country with Manushi.

The groom is Sanjay Jerath, 30, a Crown Prosecutor for the CPS. The commute to Coventry means long hours but Sanj still finds time to play and follow the cricket, and is a member of the Robin Hood Cricket Club.

We met in Nottingham when Sanj was studying law, and have now been together for 5 years. We bought our first house in 2005 where we are settled with the other member of our family, our cat Toffee.

Sanjay organised a surprise trip to Rome in May 2006 to pop the question. The photo on this page was taken on the day we got engaged in the Piazza Navona.