A chicken shop brawl led to romance for an emergency services couple who tied the knot after meeting at the scene.
London Ambulance Service Paramedic Paige Wilkins and new husband Rob, who's a Met PC, found love on a call out to a bloody fight at the Chicken Valley takeaway in Maida Vale, London.
Rob even bought Paige a bracelet with the coordinates of the chicken shop where they met.
Recalling their very first meeting, Rob said: "Our meeting was quite cinematic in a way.
“Our first encounter was in a London chicken shop, there had been a fight and my team got there first.
“We were very happy to see our colleagues in green turn up to lend a hand, and I was even happier when I saw how pretty the paramedic was as she walked in.
“Our eyes met briefly as we both tended to a patient."
Rob was covered in blood as a result of the fight and Paige attended to him but as they were speaking for the first time Rob’s radio went off and he was called to the next incident.
“There obviously wasn’t the chance to have a chat during the incident but once things had calmed down, I gave Rob a cleaning wipe to get the blood off,” added Paige.
“He took his body armour off and I checked he hadn’t got blood anywhere else. There was a definite energy in the air and I was quite expecting him to ask for my number, or at least hoping he would.”
Paige was not willing to let Rob just disappear out of her life that easily and a social media search the next day with her flatmates helped trace down her future fiancé.
The medic explained: “When Rob raced off to another emergency, it definitely cut our chance encounter short with an abrupt end.
"Luckily I’d read his name badge and the social media stalk began the next day when I told the girls who I lived with at the time."
Rob said when he saw the message from Paige the next day he couldn't believe his luck.
He added: “I suggested we go for a drink in Leicester Square and Soho - Paige hadn’t explored much around there so I got to show her some of my favourite places.
“By the end of the date, my face was hurting from how much we’d laughed.”
Within a few months the pair were inseparable and after a year they were living together.
Pictures of the couple from their wedding show Paige with her dress flowing behind her as she holds hands with her new husband among lush greenery.
Another snap from their big day showed figurines of a policeman and his bride atop a wedding cake.
On Valentine's Day the pair revealed they planned to get married in Regent's Park, a mile away from where they first met, My London reports.
And their prayers were answered when a wedding venue offered the key worker couple £20,000 after they had to scrap their nuptials due to the pandemic.
