JLS' Aston Merrygold 'feared being jilted' when bride was hour late for wedding

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JLS singer Aston Merrygold was left feeling the nerves after his bride Sarah Louise Richards was an almost an hour late to their wedding.

The couple tied the knot in a stunning ceremony at the Palm House in Liverpool’s Sefton Park, but the traffic caused by a Premier League match between Everton and West Ham hugely delayed their big day.

Speaking exclusively to OK! after becoming Mr and Mrs Merrygold, dancer Sarah told us: “I’m always late. Rochelle [Humes] said to me the night before: ‘It’s a tradition for the bride to be 20 minutes late,’ so I was like: ‘Brilliant, I’ll take that,’ but then there was so much traffic. “It was making me so nervous as we didn’t seem to be getting anywhere.

I just wanted to be next to Aston and I hated the thought of him standing there waiting. "My maid of honour had my phone and I was like: ‘You need to text Ast and tell him I’m coming!’” Aston steadied any nerves with a swig of rum from a hip flask handed to him by his bandmate JB Gill, who also officiated the wedding. “It proved to be very handy with Sarah being late,” Aston laughs.