A couple who got together while pulling pints at Wetherspoons are both still working at the pub are now celebrating their first wedding anniversary with a breakfast from their beloved pub.
Caitlin Ashworth, 27, met husband George, 29, while working at The Brun Lea Wetherspoons pub, in Burnley, Lancashire. The pair sparked a friendship after they were introduced while George was working in the kitchen and Caitlin behind bar.
After their friendship grew into a romance they couple moved in together. Now, George is working as a manager at the Wallace Hartley Wetherspoons, Colne, Lancashire proposed to Caitlin after a year of dating.
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Now Caitlin and George are celebrating their first year as husband and wife – with a Spoons breakfast. Caitlin, a bartender, from Colne, Lancashire, said: “We were really good friends first. We’d always go for drinks together.
“Then we hit it off. He worked in the kitchen, I was at the bar.
“I don’t think George will ever leave Spoons. He loves it. For our anniversary we’re going to stay in a castle and we’ll probably visit a Spoons.
“We’ll go for a Spoons breakfast.” After working at the same pub in March 2016, the pair started dating in September.
They had to wait to tie the knot after falling pregnantdue to Covid-19 restriction. Caitlin said: “We booked and I then found out we were pregnant.
“I would have been nine months along.” They visited one of the budget pubs the night before the wedding and got hitched at the Grand Hotel, in Llandudno, North Wales, in August 2022.
Caitlin - who is also studying for a psychology degree - still works part-time as a bar tender at George’s pub and loves bringing their youngest, Albert, in on a Friday morning.
She said: “He helps bring the plates. No doubt they’ll be working there when they are older.”
Now, the couple are celebrating their first year of marriage early and are using a wedding gift of a stay in a Welsh castle to mark it. They plan to visit some of their beloved pubs while they're there.
George said: "It [Spoons] will always hold a special place in our hearts. You don't see it anymore - people meeting at work. It's mental."
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