Georgina's St Paul's wedding
11:45am Sunday 5th October 2008
TEAM GB rower Georgina Menheneott walked up the aisle at St Paul's Cathedral when she got married last week - and almost got mistaken for royalty.
Miss Menheneott, 29, whose family home is in North Bradley, married her Canadian fiance Matt Phillips in the OBE chapel, as her father was appointed an OBE for his work in the Royal Navy.
The children of OBE recipients can get married at a special chapel inside the famous London cathedral.
Mrs Phillips, as she is now known, said: "It is such a spectacular setting. I never imagined I would get married somewhere like that."
Wearing a dress from Perfect Day in Bradford on Avon, the former Dauntsey's School pupil arrived at the cathedral on Saturday September 27 in a black London cab, before crossing the famous aisle which Princess Diana walked up and descending into the crypt where the OBE chapel is located.
Afterwards the couple walked through a guard of honour made with rowing oars held by colleagues from the Mortlake, Anglian and Alpha Boat Club.
Mother Patricia Menheneott said: "There were hundreds of tourists about and they were all saying Is it royalty?'. The photographer had a real job to encourage them all not to be in the photos."
The 110-strong congregation then proceeded to cross the Millennium Bridge and lined the edge of the bridge before a boat cruise up the Thames to Putney aboard the Golden Star.
The couple are now enjoying a two-week honeymoon in Paris, an island off Mozambique and a safari in Africa.