Cricket fanatic to marry at Lord's in first stadium wedding

Neil Nicholson and Kelli Fish booked the venue after the world famous ground was granted a marriage licence.

They will get ready in the dressing rooms, exchange vows in the Writing Room, have a champagne reception on the pavilion roof and their wedding breakfast in the Long Room.

The couple had intended to book a registry office for their civil ceremony.

But when Miss Fish heard that Lord’s had applied for a licence, she knew it would be her fiance’s dream venue.

“Neil is a huge cricket fan,” she said. “I’d have been happy with getting married on a beach but I’m really excited by this because he is excited.”

Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord’s, has increasingly opened up its facilities for public functions but theirs will be the first wedding.

Mr Nicholson admitted that he had toyed with the idea of wearing his cricket whites but would probably just wear an MCC tie with his suit.

“Our only fear, like most times I come to Lord’s, is that it will start raining,” he told the Times.

Costs range from £1,000 for a ceremony in the 60-seat Writing Room with a reception to £4,000 for a ceremony in the Long Room, which can hold 230 guests, without a reception.

The wedding breakfast will set you back £145 a head and a tour of Lord’s £9.16 a head.

Fittingly, the bride and groom are also offered complimentary tickets for a Test match.

MCC members will be entitled to a 50 per cent discount on room hire and a 10 per cent discount on the wedding package.

The only exceptions are when the ground is hosting the event for which it is rather more famous – a cricket match.

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