Maxine’s dressed for peak success to climb Snowdon in wedding dress
It is certainly not your usual hiking gear – but this wedding dress will be put to good use by Maxine Beech from Whitchurch as she climbs Snowdon for charity.
Next Sunday, she will be joined by about 30 other walkers, some wearing their own wedding dresses and others in hen party outfits, to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
Maxine, of Grindley Brook, organised the charity hike up Snowdon in memory of her father, George Hinks, who died suddenly aged 59.
She said: “Eight years ago my dad died on Christmas Eve due to complications caused by heart disease.
“My boyfriend and I were on our way over to my parents’ house to spend Christmas with them for the first time when we got the news.
“What I didn’t know at the time was my boyfriend, now my husband, had been planning for months to ask my dad’s permission to propose to me on Christmas Day.
"We got married in 2011 and I walked down the aisle alone at the age of 25.”
Maxine now works as a humanist wedding celebrant, working with couples to design, write and deliver bespoke ceremonies.
She added: “I’m hoping that in May the weather will be on my side but the ground will still be steep and rocky, and a wedding dress is really no attire to be scaling mountains in, which makes it all the better for raising money.”
“Many of my brides and grooms have also lost loved ones to the disease, and I felt it was high time I did something to raise money for the BHF.
“I’m actually taking some of the brides I’ve married, or will be marrying, with me.”
Her fundraising target is £1,000 and so far she has reached more than £300.
To donate go to justgiving.com/fundraising/Maxine-Beech-Ceremonies
