Big
match ... Melanie and Theo Walcott
Theo Walcott married his childhood sweetheart at a
castle in Florence.
Several Arsenal team-mates saw him
tie the knot with stunning Melanie Slade in the capital of the Italian region
of Tuscany.
They included Kieran Gibbs, Laurent
Koscielny, Aaron Ramsey and Thomas Vermaelen, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
flying in on easyJet.
England winger Theo, 24, and Mel,
23, requested no gifts from
guests at the fairytale ceremony at Castello Di Vincigliata.
They asked instead for donations to
the Willow Foundation, set up by Arsenal legend Bob Wilson to help seriously
ill 16 to 40-year-olds, and Macmillan Cancer Support after Melanie’s sister
Sarah was diagnosed with kidney cancer at 16.
Fairytale
... castle in Tuscany where couple married
Theo and Melanie are seen as one of
football’s most solid couples.
Even on his Las Vegas stag do, he
chose to get an early night.
The pair met in 2004 at WestQuay
shopping centre in Southampton, where his career began.
A friend said: “They fell in love
before all the fame, and that has laid a strong foundation.”
The wedding rights were sold to a
magazine.
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