A couple who met pulling pints at Wetherspoons are both still working at the pub – and celebrating their first wedding anniversary with a Spoons breakfast. Caitlin Ashworth, 27, met her husband George, 29, while working at a Wetherspoons pub.
The pair struck up a friendship when they were introduced - while George was working in the kitchen and Caitlin behind the bar. After their friendship blossomed into a romance, the couple quickly moved in together and George - who now works as a Wetherspoon manager - proposed to Caitlin after a year of dating.
The Spoons fans now have sons Theodore, five, and Albert, two, together and finally tied the knot in August 2022 – after postponing the wedding twice due to Covid-19. Now Caitlin and George are celebrating their first year as husband and wife – with a Spoons breakfast.
Caitlin, a bartender said: “We were really good friends first. We’d always go for drinks together. Then we hit it off.
“He worked in the kitchen, I was at the bar. I don’t think George will ever leave Spoons. He loves it. For our anniversary we’re going to stay in a castle and we’ll probably visit a Spoons.
“We’ll go for a Spoons breakfast.”
Caitlin started working at the same pub as George in March 2016 and the pair started dating that September. The couple fell pregnant with their first, Theodore, and George proposed in September 2017 – while they were on holiday in Wales.
But they had to wait to tie the knot after falling pregnant with Albert and due to Covid-19 restrictions. Caitlin said: “We booked and I then found out we were pregnant.
“I would have been nine months along.”
The couple say their big day was worth the wait and even had lot of Wetherspoons staff as guests. They visited one of the budget pubs the night before the wedding and got hitched at the Grand Hotel, in Llandudno, North Wales, in August 2022.
Caitlin - who is also studying for a psychology degree - still works part-time as a bar tender at George’s pub and loves bringing their youngest, Albert, in on a Friday morning. She said: “He helps bring the plates.
“No doubt they’ll be working there when they are older.”
Caitlin and George are celebrating their first year of marriage early - to get ahead of the summer holidays - and are using a wedding gift of a stay in a Welsh castle to mark it.
They plan to visit a Spoons or two while they are there. George said: "It [Spoons] will always hold a special place in our hearts.
"You don't see it anymore - people meeting at work. It's mental."
