Dave and Gillian Jeffries hold two things very close to their hearts: the month of August and Northumberlandia, the iconic landform sculpture in Cramlington.

The loved up couple had their first date at Northumberlandia in August 2014, with Dave proposing at the top of the sculpture on 11^th August 2016, and the couple holding the very first wedding ceremony on the site, two years later, on 11^th August 2018.

This year, five years after their first ceremony, Dave and Gillian who live in Killingworth, returned to Northumberlandia, on 11^th August in all their wedding finery, to celebrate their Wood Anniversary and relive the wonderful day - all under the watchful eye of The Lady of the North, who has to have been the greenest bridesmaid in the world.

Dave and Gillian are now planning on renewing their vows in five years’ time and it will come as no surprise that when they do it will be on 11^th August at Northumberlandia.

The site was chosen as it has been pivotal in all their significant moments together; they visited it every week during their courtship and engagement to watch it being built and felt that, as it linked both their mining pasts - Dave hails from Prudhoe and Gillian from Killingworth -  it was the perfect place for them to create their future together.

In the years since their first date, Dave and Gillian have seen the Blagdon Lane site evolve, the sculpture mature, the reeds and flowers grow and for it to have become one of the region’s best known land marks welcoming over 100,000 visitors each year.

Made of 1.5 million tonnes of rock, clay and soil, Northumberlandia is 100 feet high and a quarter of a mile long. Built by the Banks Group, on land donated by Blagdon Estates, Northumberland Wildlife Trust is the managing agent, working on behalf of the Land Trust.