100 weddings in a day: Old Marylebone Town Hall hosts £100 ceremonies for its centenary

‘I hadn’t even proposed when I booked the venue’published at 07:09 British Summer Time07:09 BSTImage source, Sam JamiesonImage caption, Chris proposed to Sam last yearWhen staff at Old Marylebone Town Hall called Chris Jamieson-Green to offer him a space today, he hadn’t even proposed to his girlfriend Sam Jamieson.“It wasn’t really on the cards and I thought that it would be nice one day,” Chris told me. “I thought ‘there is never going to be an opportunity to afford to be there and to make a bit of history’.”Sam, 35, and Chris, 33, got engaged in November after he proposed on the Yorkshire Moors – where they’d had their first holiday together.“I proposed, she was getting excited and then I blurted out that I’d booked everything – and luckily she loved the idea.”Speaking ahead of their ceremony at midday, Sam says: “I think it is going to be a day full of love and I like the idea of that. To have so many happy people being around – I am really looking forward to it.”