\n Ally Todd, 40, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset and her now-husband, Paul, 37, were matched by the experts and due to appear on the reality TV show in March 2020 – but their nuptials were cancelled due to the lockdown in the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n Paul, a train driver, was determined to meet the woman he had been paired with and, having only known her first name, he begged the producers for her details.\n<\/p>\n
\n He then reached out to Ally, a medical insurance manager, and the pair quickly hit it off.\n<\/p>\n
\n They got engaged in June 2021 and welcomed their daughter, Penelope, now four, in July 2021.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pair finally wed in June 2024 – four years after their cancelled TV wedding.\n<\/p>\n
\n They had Married at First Sight experts Paul C Brunson and Gen Gresset in attendance and Penelope as their flower girl.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ally said: \u201cI was secretly relieved when our series got cancelled – I\u2019m glad we found our genuine love, as we were never interested in just being on TV.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Paul [MAFS expert] said we were the most organic and genuine match that they have put together.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Paul and I were made for each other.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ally and Paul were due to appear on the popular TV show Married at First Sight but had their wedding cancelled three days before it was due to take place – due to a strict lockdown coming into force in the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n Paul pressed the producers to let him know who Ally was and the couple met and fell for each other instantly after connecting over Skype.\n<\/p>\n
\n They met up in person when restrictions eased and went from strength to strength – revealing they were pregnant in February 2021.\n<\/p>\n
\n Paul popped the question by getting down one knee at a picnic at the beach in June 2021.\n<\/p>\n
\n The couple welcomed little Penelope a month later on July 3, 2021, weighing 8lbs 1oz at St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ally said: “It’s all been a bit of a whirlwind – meeting, falling in love, getting engaged and falling pregnant – but we are just so happy.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Having our little girl, Penelope, has just been the icing on the cake.”\n<\/p>\n
\n After settling into family life they started planning their wedding, and tied the knot on June 8, 2024 at the Brighton Pavilion.\n<\/p>\n
\n Paul said: “It was a small, intimate one.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Now the pair have celebrated their first wedding anniversary, Ally says they\u2019re renovating their \u00a3280,000 \u201cforever home\u201d in Weston-super-Mare and are trying for baby number two.\n<\/p>\n
\n Looking back at her MAFS experience, she says she felt \u201cimmediate relief\u201d when her series was cancelled.\n<\/p>\n
\n She says she and Paul wanted a genuine match and got it – but worries some participants only sign up to find fame.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMe and Paul went into it to find our \u2018forever\u2019 relationship – something long-lasting and right for us,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI just hope people aren\u2019t going in for the fame.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ally Todd, 40, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset and her now-husband, Paul, 37, were matched by the experts and due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-153628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}