14 Jul, 2009 @ 00:00
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Non-Catholic first for Brits

A BRITISH couple are the first non-Catholics to have a religious wedding on the Spanish mainland.

Childhood sweethearts Paul Larkin and Toni Mason were married at Carranque, near Coin, in the first Church of England wedding to be held in mainland Spain.

While many British non-Catholics have married in Spain in recent years, the ceremonies have only been civil ones, until now.

The marriage was conducted by David Sutch, chaplain of the Costa del Sol (east) region and archdeacon of Gibraltar.

Rev Sutch – who has recently attained a license to conduct non-Catholic weddings in Spain – held the service in the chapel of 18th century manor house Cortijo Carranque.

The majority of the 100 guests stayed at the recently completed venue.

Bride Toni Mason told the Olive Press: “I fell in love with the tranquil old stonework of the chapel, and the arched cloisters where the reception was held.”

Wedding photographs taken by Lorraine Kingham, for more information email l.kingham@btinternet.com

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

5 Comments

  1. Who cares, good luck Paul and Toni and congratulations on both your wedding and on making history.

    People like Peter the brit should shut the f**k up and get a life instead of doing the Bored Brit’s Gossip thing. SHUT UP PETER AND FIND SOMETHING TO OCCUPY YOUR MIND

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