Denise Galloway, TV commercials producer, 50, and Scott Galloway, clinical psychologist, 51, were married on August 7

They were only just down the hall from each other, but it took a mutual friend to get Denise and Scott to meet. “I worked on the same corridor as my friend, who is an osteopath, and Denise was one of her clients,” says Scott.

Scott, who is from Zimbabwe, had recently got divorced. “But when Denise appeared I thought, ‘Wow’.” They started talking and he soon realised he was in trouble. “She gave me this lovely, warm ‘Hi’ and I was head over heels in love.” It wasn’t long before the dates began. “I did the classic male thing of trying to impress her with where I took her,” says Scott. “I took her, for a surprise, to a gliding club. We pitched up at the airfield, without me having told her a thing about what we would be doing, and when she found out, she didn’t have to be asked twice to get into a glider. As soon as she had done it once, she wanted to do it again.”

Denise hadn’t been married before. “I had been single for so long, my mum had given up on me.” But when she met Scott, she knew he was the one because of his “very kind, calm” personality and sense of “correctness about how people should be treated”.

They took time to get to know each other and a few years later Scott decided to propose. “I hadn’t spoken to anyone about it,” he says. “Being a psychologist, I’m paranoid about confidentiality. I know that if you tell someone, it’s easy to let something slip.” So, after surreptitious visits to Hatton Garden, he set a date.

By the time the day came around for him to propose, the tension was unbearable and he was in “absolute agony” knowing what was coming up yet “trying to appear normal. And I had to hide the damned ring all day while we played golf!”

Denise hadn’t a clue what was about to happen, but says that “the waiter arrived at our table and I said I would like a gin and tonic, but Scott told him we would have two glasses of prosecco in a really odd way,” she says. He had been determined to choose the drink beforehand. “We have huge connections to Italy, and the prosecco was from the region we love to visit.”

It wasn’t just Scott who displayed some out of character behaviour that night. “I had been planning this night for weeks,” says Scott, “and I couldn’t get her to stop talking.” But at the right moment, he produced the engagement ring and proposed. “It was exactly the kind of ring I would have picked for myself,” says Denise.

“For me, never having been married before, being engaged was an incredible feeling,” she says, but it wouldn’t stay like that for long. For months Scott had been scheming. “I had been given a fabulous offer of a holiday in South Africa. It looked like it could be our honeymoon.”

For Denise’s 50th birthday in April, a month after the proposal, he gave her a series of envelopes with pictures inside. Each one showed a stretch of the holiday, starting in Port Elizabeth, whale watching, the wine regions, game viewing and golf, ending in Cape Town. Denise didn’t realise that they revealed where they would be going on their honeymoon until she read the back of the final picture, on which Scott had written: “It would be great if we could go as man and wife.”

“We both love each other so much, we didn’t see the point in waiting to get married after we got engaged,” he says. So with just four months before their honeymoon, they searched for a wedding venue, which was a tall order, but they took it in their stride. “It was a lot easier than setting up a film shoot,” Denise admits.

They visited venues across London, but the Royal Institute of British Architects won them over, especially when they realised RIBA had just obtained a wedding licence and they would be the first couple to be married there.

On August 7 they were married in front of 80 guests in the spectacular building. “Our friends have told us we have set the benchmark for cool weddings,” they say.