About Us

Welcome to Bride-Buddy.

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My name is Cherry Newman and I am the founder of Bride Buddy.

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I have been very lucky to have had the opportunity to live in Greece and France. Two very different places, but both with beauty and culture, friendly locals and great food!

With a long career as a registrar of births, deaths and marriages in the UK, my husband and I moved to Greece where I created Bride Buddy  offering a full wedding planning service to couples looking for a destination wedding.

 

After many successful years in Greece, my husband and I moved to France to be nearer to family, leaving my trusted team in Kefalonia to cary on the good work there, helping so many couples have their dream wedding or vow renewal on such a beautiful island. 

 

In France, wedding planners and celebrants are independent of each other but work together, so the opportunity arose for me to concentrate solely on my favourite part of the wedding business - ceremonies. Professional but good fun too, I love working with you and getting to know you both. Making sure that your wedding or renewal of vows contains all the elements that you want, written exclusively for you both, and conducted with warmth, fun and friendliness.

 

Being a registrar was the best job ever and I regard myself as extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity and privilege to meet so many lovely couples and families.  I feel honoured and proud to be a part of what essentially, are some of the most important days in peoples lives, be it a wedding, a baby, or saying the final goodbye to a loved one.  

 

It made sense from Greece to France to carry on 'in the business' and continue doing the job I love and feel so passionate about. My family have been very supportive. I have two beautiful grown up daughters in London and  I really miss being with them, but we visit each other often and I am very lucky to have the best husband anyone could ask for......he actually proposed to me by starlight, in Kefalonia!

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My other great love is Popi. Our Greek rescue dog. It is lovely going for long walks with her through the French countryside, but, bless her, I am still talking to her in Greek as she doesn't seem to understand French yet!

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At work and home, I have been through life's up's and down's and supported, helped and laughed together with couples getting married, having babies and bereaved families. 

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Focused, and proud of what I do, and how I offer it to you. You could call me a 'seasoned professional' but I am good fun too and genuinely enjoy meeting and getting to know my couples and families.