Two dads came together for the sweetest moment during their daughter’s wedding.
Bride Amy Walkinshaw, 31, knew as soon as she got engaged that she wanted both of her father figures to be involved in giving her away.
Amy was raised by both dad, Andy Collins, 58, a train driver, and her step-dad, Jeff Bennett, 64, a project manager – who has been in her life for the past two decades.
So, she asked Andy to go and surprise Jeff by grabbing him from the audience so they could walk her down the aisle together.
Amy, a student studying psychodynamic practice at University of Essex, said: ‘Jeff has been in my life for 20 years, he is basically a second dad to me.
‘I always imagined if I got married I’d ask him to walk me down the aisle as well as my dad.
‘Jeff didn’t know it was coming either – you can tell in the video the shock on Jeff’s face, I knew how much it meant to him.
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‘The main thing that’s come out of it is showing there doesn’t have to be animosity.
‘You can ask a step-parent without upsetting your biological dad too.’
Jeff and Andy don’t know each other that well, as they live far from each other – but that didn’t stop Andy from agreeing to Amy’s request.
Andy ‘agreed straight away’, and the moment had people in their feelings – including Amy’s younger half-sister, Macenzie Collins, 23.
Macenzie, a meetings and events assistant, said: ‘Me and my sister have lived 150 miles from each other since I was born so we don’t see each other a lot.
‘So, it was really nice to share that moment with each other.
‘I don’t know Jeff that well either, but that just made more special that we all got to be there together as a blended family.’
Amy added: ‘I asked my dad to walk me down the aisle straight away, because he’s my dad.
‘But Jeff is such a big part of my life too and I couldn’t imagine not doing it with him.’
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