Michael Ball surprise appearance at Dave and Dawn Lloyd wedding, Digi Mart USA News (Stafford, England): Singer and broadcaster Michael Ball gave a surprise wedding gift to a couple whose radio proposal captured hearts across the country, appearing unannounced to perform at their ceremony on Sunday.
Dawn Lloyd was shocked when her partner of more than 25 years, Dave, proposed on BBC Radio 2’s Love Letters programme in the summer. She was stunned again when Ball appeared at the couple’s wedding at Weston Hall in Stafford.
“I had no inkling whatsoever that this was going to happen,” she said. “I was blown away.
I just can’t believe Dave has surprised me like this a second time. I was fooled the first time and now he has got me again.”
Ball appeared without warning during the ceremony and performed Love Changes Everything, leaving Dawn and the wedding guests stunned. Dawn said the day had been “perfect.”
Dave said he was “grateful for what Michael has done for us as a couple and for all of the family and friends to enjoy it as well.”
Dave and Dawn, from Cannock, won over listeners when Dave secretly teamed up with Ball to stage the proposal. Believing she was taking part in a BBC tour, Dawn was welcomed into the studio by Ball, who pretended he was recording voiceovers.
Dave then read out a love letter and proposed to the woman he had been with for 31 years.
During the broadcast, Dave revealed he had already booked the wedding at Weston Hall, choosing a date close to 11 November, the anniversary of the day they first got together. Ball later said the proposal was “so moving” that “we thought we have to follow this through.”
Weston Hall holds special significance for the couple, as it was where Dave first proposed in the late 1990s. Dawn, who was 19 at the time, was so overwhelmed that she laughed, and the engagement ring was later lost, meaning the engagement never officially stuck.
More than 25 years later, the couple, who now have three children, finally made it down the aisle at the venue where their story began.
