LIFE took a few unexpected turns after Nicola Morgan and James Sobucinski met as teenagers eight years ago.

The couple were just 17 and 19 when they met through a friend on a night out in Salisbury. They are now 25 and 27 and live in Bemerton Heath with their two children, Mollie, six, and Jake, one.

Nicola said: “When we met, I didn’t really think it was going to go anywhere at first but I thought we’d go on a couple of dates and see how it goes.We’d only been together eight months when I got pregnant with Mollie.

I was still at college and I didn’t know how that was going to turn out. She was born ten weeks early and had to spend one-and-a-half months in hospital, that was a hard time for us.”

James proposed to Nicola after Mollie was born and she was Nicola’s motivation for entering the Journal’s Win Your Wedding competition. “She asked me why I didn’t have the same surname as her, Jake and daddy and it was quite hard to explain.

“We’ve always wanted to get married, but it was just money and things got in the way, the highs and lows of life. We’ve moved house four times and we’ve been through so much.

We always say we’ll do it next year, but I just think it’s about time we got married now.

“We’ve got a lot of family and friends who all want to see us get married, and he’s my soulmate.”

To vote for James and Nicola call 09011 511 102 or text WEDDING 102 to 80360.