Experience: I sang at Madonna’s wedding

Lucy Winkett: ‘As a teenager in the 1980s, I danced to Madonna’s music. I never imagined that one day, I’d be at her wedding.’ Photograph: Mark Chilvers/The Guardian

I knew it wasn’t a normal phone call. A man was asking if I could sing at a wedding he was organising. It was in 2000. Only a few years before, I’d become one of the first female priests ordained in the Church of England. There had been a lot of press coverage – positive and negative. For a time, it seemed I was the public face of the controversy around female priests and I didn’t like it.

What piqued my interest was that the man I was speaking to wouldn’t tell me who was getting married, just that it was very high-profile. I was intrigued, but it was the run-up to Christmas and I knew I’d be busy, so I said no.