Couple win TV dancing lessons for wedding

Your first dance is one of the most romantic and all-important moments of your wedding day and bride-to-be Cordell Lane will be in perfect step with her beau when they tie the knot - after winning professional dancing lessons on TV.

Cordell and husband-to-be Edward O'Neill really will be showing their wedding guests some fancy footwork after being taught to dance on ITV's This Morning.

The 37-year-old Walsall Council officer wrote to the programme's producers after presenters Fern Britten and Philip Schofield appealed for viewers who wanted the first dance at their wedding to be unforgettable.

Unbeknown to 32-year-old Edward, who plays second row for Aldridge Rugby Club, Cordell emailed the show and was amazed, a few weeks later, when she received a phone call to say they had been chosen. Cordell, a recruitment and retention officer, said: "When they told me we'd been chosen I went into shock - my head was just buzzing.

"It's stressful enough planning a wedding without adding the extra pressure of going on TV to be taught to dance but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

The couple, who get married at All Saints Parish Church in Streetly on August 23, will feature on the show every Friday until their wedding and a TV crew will attend their reception at Aston Wood Golf Club in Four Oaks to see them have that all-important first dance.

They are being taught by Fame Academy dance teacher Kevin Adams and his assistant Nicki Wilkes.

Cordell said the couple were treated like royalty when they went to London to do their first lot of filming last Friday. "The producers wanted to know what type of dress I'll be wearing at the wedding so they can be sure I can do all my new moves in it. We are dancing to Hungry Eyes and Do You Love Me from Dirty Dancing."

Edward, who proposed on a trip to Prague in 2006, said a film crew had visited the couple at their Sutton Coldfield home and filmed them dancing in the kitchen.