ROYAL wedding fever grabbed more than a few of our readers last week, with many finding ways to celebrate the union between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Coleford St John’s nursery held its very own royal wedding celebration last week.

Complete with a friendship ceremony and the cutting of a cake, the children spent weeks preparing and practising for the event.

Pupils and staff made the wedding invites and the order of service.

Daisy Lou Morse married Joshua Heal in a friendship ceremony performed by Vicar Riley Meek after walking to the altar on a red carpet accompanied by a maid of honour, page boys and bridesmaids who dropped petals in front of the bride.

After exchanging friendship vows, the pair cut the cake donated by Lozzie’s Cakes in Coleford and shuffled to their first dance – The Carpenters’ We’ve Only Just Begun.

Watching the performance were parents and carers, who also wore dresses suitable for a royal wedding and there was not a dry eye in the room.

And the event concluded with a fantastic wedding breakfast for all.

Meanwhile, a five-year-old from Chepstow has put the writing on the wall for royal wedding dress designers with her own take on Meghan Markle’s gown.

Ruby Cairns, who goes to the town’s Dell Primary School, used copies of her mum, Liz Hollis’, favourite newspaper to make the dress. The pair worked on the dress, using old copies of the Review, on Friday before Ruby watched the royal nuptials from beginning to end on Saturday.

Liz said: “Ruby absolutely loved the wedding and thought the dress was beautiful.”

At Priory Nursing and Residential Care Home in Llandogo, everyone enjoyed the Royal Wedding according to activities coordinator Jayne Wilks.

She said: “We served traditional British food and had jugs of Pimms and cloudy lemonade. Staff joined in with residents to watch Prince Charles walk Meghan down the aisle.

“We were surprised by one of our residents shouting out ‘don’t do it!’ which made everyone laugh.

“From early morning we had residents keen to watch to see people arriving and to find out what their wedding outfits were like.

“We were all keen to see the dress that Meghan was wearing and we did like it.

“We all found it a very moving service,” she added.