It was the biggest day of my life when my husband Joe and I were married.
As we exchanged our wedding vows, I felt like my heart would burst with pride. He told me how beautiful I looked in my specially made gown. Everything was perfect, a real fairytale wedding.
Which is how some people think of us, as if we aren’t real because of our height.
our 40 guests were a mix of little people and average-height people. Both Joe and I are around 1.2m tall. My dad Ron is also little, although my mum Debbie and both of Joe’s parents are of average height.
Joe and I have been together since our teens and have always had people looking at us, wondering if we got together only because of our height. But I didn’t marry Joe because of that, no matter what his height, I’d be proud to be his wife.
I love him with all my heart. I feel so lucky to have Joe, because it’s not easy to find a relationship that works.
A lot of little people decide they only want to be with a dwarf or only with an average-height person, but I hadn’t even thought about that. I liked Joe for who he was, not for his height and I think it’s a shame that some people don’t get that.
The most important thing for us at our wedding was having all our family there to share our special day.
I met Joe at a little people’s conference when we were teenagers and we were friends for a long time before we dated. We got used to strangers staring at us when we walked hand-in-hand down the street together.
But we have a very normal life: I work in a call centre, while Joe is a supermarket storeman. It took Joe a while to pluck up the courage to propose. We had been together for nearly five years when he did.
Then two years ago, at Christmas, I thought he had forgotten to get me a present. But he pulled out a velvet box with the ring in it and asked me to marry him. I said, “Yes!” Then we laughed and laughed because I really thought Joe had just been disorganised.
As for the future, we have talked about kids and we do want to have a family one day. There is a 75% chance any children we have will have Dwarfism but we don’t care, if they are happy and healthy that’s all that matters.
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