Jermain Defoe and his bride Donna invite OK! inside their three-day long wedding extravaganza, complete with fire-eaters, football a-listers and super-posh chicken kiev.
Surrounded by 360 friends and family and with her proud father, Charlie, by her side, Donna looked stunning in a bespoke lace-sleeved regal gown that was eight-months in the making. The three-day celebrations at the 376-acre Berkshire hotel estate on the Thames – where Meghan Markle stayed the night before she married Prince Harry – began with a barbecue for 150 friends and family. It was the first time the couple’s families had met. “Everyone just got up and mixed like they’d known each other for years,” smiles the former England player.
The couple exchanged traditional vows and custom-made rings – which produced some last-minute drama. “My jeweller came over to see us before the wedding to make sure the rings fit – it wouldn’t go over my knuckles,” says Jermain. “He came back the next day and it fit perfectly.” His ring is of white gold and platinum with two diamonds, while Donna’s is an emerald-cut band that matches her engagement ring.
“It was the best feeling ever. Taking a penalty and scoring a goal, that feeling is hard to describe because when you’re celebrating for 30 seconds you feel so powerful, but standing with Donna, it was more than football. Everyone knows I’m football crazy, but this is my future, this is forever, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.”
The couple’s first dance was to Luther Vandross’s Always And Forever. “It was just a little two-step. We danced until halfway through the song then I asked everyone to join us,” says Jermain. While he might have shied away from dancing, the striker went all-in for his speech, which didn’t leave a dry eye in the house.
“When you grow up you become a certain way, and I think that’s from your upbringing and your parents. I was lucky with my mum and Andre and I said in my speech how amazing it was that he took me and my sister, Chonte, in when I was seven and she was one. I’ve always wanted to grow up to be like him.”
“Everyone was like, ‘What time did you go to bed?’ And it was 6am, 7am… It was crazy,” says Jermain. “We didn’t have hangovers, luckily, and the adrenaline kept us going. Donna’s mum, Margaret, was just walking around with her camera. Then the coach came to take Donna’s family back to Glasgow.”
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