A MOTHER pulled out all the stops to ensure her son’s wedding could go ahead as planned when construction work outside the church threatened to throw a spanner in the works.

Christine Eatwell sprang into action when it looked like her son David and his new wife Hazel’s wedding, which they’d been planning for over a year, may have to be halted as the entrance to the Cirencester St John Baptist Church was “blocked by barriers and part of the pavement had been dug up outside the door.”

Christine said the couple, from Cirencester, found out just two weeks before the wedding, which took place on Saturday, May 14, that there might be a problem due to the construction work on Gosditch Street, obstructing where the bride would enter the church with her father and then leave with her new husband.

She said: “I was given the task of seeing what could be done, if anything.”

She contacted Milbrooke Construction, who put her in touch with the site manager before she also spoke to Cirencester Town Council (CTC).

“Together they pulled out all the stops and managed to turn the area in Gosditch Street around, enabling us to have the wedding we had planned for.”

“It was all sorted out quite last minute, on Friday 13 funnily enough,” Christine said. “They moved the barriers, tidied the area and put a temporary surface down – as the surface had been removed leaving rubble. It all looked a lot nicer.”

Christine feels that “sometimes we are all too quick to criticise and dismiss councils and large corporations for being apathetic and unapproachable.”

She said: “This most certainly was not my experience when dealing with Milbrooke, CTC and St. John Baptist Church, they all could not have done more to help.

“My heartfelt thanks goes to everyone mentioned for taking the time to make this day perfect,” she added.