The couple are now returning to carnival with their two children
A woman married "The Carnival Man" after a chance meeting at Notting Hill when he wouldn't even tell her his name. Bernadine Brocker Wieder met her now husband, Theo, at Carnival in 2011 through a "wonderful circumstance".
The chance encounter led to Bernadine skipping a rave she was meant to attend with a friend later in the evening as her and Theo ended up “chatting all night”. Theo, 37, initially intending to leave earlier, but the smell of the Caribbean food lured him in and led to him meeting his future wife. For her hen do, Bernadine took 15 friends, cousins, bridesmaids and her mother Jorien Brocker Streur, 69. She said: My mum thought it was funny but colourful that I met my husband at the Carnival,” she said.
She said: “There’s always going to be something surprising and that year when I was the bachelorette, I feel like the funny outfit my friends made me wear made me the thing that people didn’t expect to see there."
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