When Chrissie Ruker and her husband Nick Wheeler, owner and founder Nick Wheeler, owner and founder of Charle Tyrwhitt menswear, first stepped into the house that was to become their family home, ‘the hall was yellow, the drawing room was turquise with gold leaf and the guest bedroom was dark red’. As the poster girl for all thing white, you’d have though Chrissie would have turned and fled, but no: ‘We both fell instantly in love’ – with the house, if not the colour scheme.
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I text David to tell him I’m so nervous about moving and marrying him that I wake at 4am every day, stomach churning. Even the dogs are still snoring. I’ve never been vulnerable like this with him before. I have always put on a brave face, leaving him to read about my insecurities later. But he surprises me by being incredibly supportive.