Bride gets married in a dress almost identical to one her friend predicted she would wear over two decades ago – The Sun

A BRIDE has walked down the aisle in a wedding dress almost identical to one her friend sketched out and predicted she would wear over two decades ago.

Gemma Lynch and her friends had buried a time capsule 22 years ago, with notes predicting future careers, diary entries and even wedding dress styles.

But the 37-year-old never imagined that her future dress would match the one sketched out by school pal Gemma Albiston back in 1997.

Earlier this year, the group of women dug up the steel cylinder which had been buried for 22 years at Helsby Hill in Cheshire.

And the friends were stunned when they found that Gemma A's drawing was remarkably accurate.

"Most of the sketches we did were of big puffy princess dresses with no straps which were popular at the time," explained bride Gemma.

"But then mine was different to all the others. For some reason, my sketch was not like that. It was more of a fitted dress which went straight down.

"I was amazed as it was really similar to the type of dress that I had already ordered for my wedding the next month.

"I just can't believe as a 15-year-old girl Gemma A predicted that's the type of dress I would end up going to wear 22 years later."

Gemma walked down the aisle in a stunning, fitted lace dress as she married her partner Daniel Astbury at the Cala D'or Yacht Club in Majorca.

Their daughter, 18-month-old Isla was a flower girl on the big day.

The pair also celebrated back home with a separate reception at the DoubleTree Hilton in Chester for those who couldn't attend their abroad wedding.

"Gemma Albiston didn't come to the one in Majorca but she came to the one in Chester on Saturday night," said Gemma.

"We still get together. We still go to important events like christenings, birthdays and weddings.

"I think we're supposed to be doing something soon. I think Emma, who originally organised the time capsule, is going to try and get us all together again.

"She said we shouldn't leave it another 22 years getting all six of us together, so it's in the pipeline for us to have another catch up soon."

The group of friends explained they were "screaming with joy" after they unearthed the cylinder, armed with shovels and metal detectors as they searched for the memory box.

Pal Emma had originally come up with the idea after watching Blue Peter in 1997.

"We knew roughly where it was as it was the spot were we would drink, it was around these massive six-foot rocks," said Gemma.

"About half a meter into the ground we hit it with our spades and we all started screaming because we couldn't believe we found it.

"After carrying it down the hill, we took it to Sian's parents house as they lived close by.

"We used tools to get it open and eventually we got inside, we then cracked a bottle of fizz open, had some nibbles and reminisced all afternoon.

"We put a lot of things in there, we had photos, predictions of our futures, our favourite snacks and friendship bracelets.

"We put Twiglets, Wrigleys Extra chewing gum and coins in case they changed over the years.

"Inside was books that we sprayed with our favourite perfumes, one was called Fuzzy Peach and the other was called Dewbury, I used to wear those perfumes in 1997.

"There was a couple of magazines we would've read at the time, like Just Seventeen and posters of boys we fancied like Peter Andre."

Speaking about her incredible prediction, Gemma A said: "When Gemma opened the letter after we found the time capsule, she immediately said 'wow, this is very very similar to my dress.'

"When we were at a wedding reception on Saturday, we saw that it was pretty much the same dress, which was a surprise. It was uncanny.

"We clearly must have known each other very well back then and what good friends we were. Quite a lot of it was very accurate.

"It was nice for us all to be together. We've decided we are all going to go out again soon and have drinks together. It was so nice to see everyone again at the same time."

In other wedding news, we told you how wedding shamers mocked bride’s heirloom engagement ring saying the stone looks like a ‘squirt of mayonnaise’.

We also revealed one bride-to-be slammed for expecting guests to help pay off her £50K student debt as a wedding gift.

And we showed you how one bride mocked her cousin’s bodycon dress and offered to pay someone to ‘edit her boobs and make her stomach smoother’ in the wedding pics.

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