FORMER Upton High School teacher Janice Mitchell married her university sweetheart, John Fryett, at the Grosvenor Pulford – almost 35 years after they met and fell in love at Manchester University.
The pair had gone their separate ways and met up again in 2008 when a mutual friend put them in touch.
Widower John, and Janice, divorced, have six children between them, five of them grown up, and Janice’s youngest daughter attends Upton High School.
A former headteacher in high schools in Bradford and Rochdale, John now works for a schools partnership in Leeds and Janice works for Sing Up, the government’s national singing programme.
The wedding was attended by more than 100 guests, including several old university friends who had expected John and Janice to wed more than 30 years ago.
The bride’s two sons gave her away and the groom’s two sons served as joint best man.
In the evening the guests were treated to a performance by A Handbag of Harmonies, including Hit Me Baby One More Time! and their musical director, Matt Baker, led the choir and guests in a rousing rendition of The Wonder of You. Jazz singer, Debby Tyndall, one of Janice’s Sing Up colleagues, sang They Can’t Take That Away from Me and Where or When accompanied on the piano by Celeste Canty. The happy couple’s first dance was done to Frank Sinatra crooning You Make Me Feel So Young.
