Cupid must be patting himself on the back for getting Emily Hamilton and Tristan Gemmill to the altar.
Emily, Senior House Officer Saskia Walker in A&E, and Tristan, firefighter Frank Mooney in London's Burning, first met four years ago on the set of the ITV wartime drama Nancherrow.
Emily was instantly attracted to the handsome actor, but he was dating someone else.
"I thought he was completely dreamy," the 28-year-old actress remembers. "He had the most beautiful eyes. He made me laugh, he was so lovely, so bright, everything you could dream of."
Tristan, meanwhile, took an almost fatherly interest in Emily's love life. "She was dressed as a schoolgirl for her role, and I thought I was twice her age," the 35-year-old actor recalls. "I'd say, 'How come you haven't got yourself a nice young chap?' And she'd say, 'The right one doesn't seem to come along.'"
On the last day of filming they sipped celebration champagne and wondered what the future held before going their separate ways. They might have parted for good, but fate was about to intervene.
Weeks later Tristan was cast in a TV advert for a Dutch lighting company to be shot in Amsterdam. He knew the script involved an actress, and wondered who it was.
"I thought, 'Wouldn't it be strange if it was Emily?'" he says. "When I got on the plane, there was this empty seat next to me. Then I heard this bustle and when I turned round I saw this familiar face, and Emily sat next to me. It was a bit freaky. We just looked at each other..."
"We thought fate was telling us something," Emily chips in.
"I was going out with someone, so couldn't do anything about it, but there was a clash of cymbals and a big drum going off in the background," says Tristan. "Coincidences don't happen like that without reason. We stayed in touch after that."
Emily, who'd split from her previous boyfriend four months before filming Nancherrow, found it impossible to muster interest in anyone else. "I was convinced I'd met the person I was meant to be with," she says. "But I'd never consider getting involved with someone in a relationship. What good can come out of someone else's pain? I just thought that his girlfriend was very lucky."
When Tristan's relationship came to an end the following year, she felt compelled to come clean. "About six months later, I thought, 'I'm going to have to tell him.' It was about to burst out of me, so I made large hints, and things started to change. He said he didn't think I'd be interested in him, but how could anyone not be interested in him?"
Just four months later, Tristan proposed on holiday on and island off the coast of Sicily, "We hired mopeds and stopped at this place on the jetty," he remembers. "I could feel it building inside me. I didn't feel as if I had much control over it. We were sitting looking out to sea, and the storm clouds were gathering. It was very atmospheric..."
"We weren't talking," Emily says. "Then he just said, 'Will you marry me?' At that moment it scared me - it was almost too good to be true."
They married a year later, last September, at a church in Oswestry in Shropshire, where Emily's mother lives, and had a reception for 60 close friends and family.
After their honeymoon in Ireland, Tristan moved into Emily's flat in Notting Hill, West London. "We didn't live to gether before the wedding because we'd both lived with previous partners," explains Emily, "and we didn't want to feel we were going down the same path."
Emily then won the part in A&E, filmed in Manchester, while Tristan began work on London's Burning.
Work commitments have meant they're rarely at home together but, that aside, the doting pair couldn't be happier. "Well, Emily leaves the lid off the toothpaste sometimes," Tristan jokes. "No, there haven't been any surprises - none that we can talk about in a family magazine.
"It's not all milk and honey, we have arguments, but never a big pistols-at-dawn type row. It's always about little things, like map reading."
"We do look at each other and say how lucky we are," adds Emily. "You get used to being independent, then suddenly there's someone to share your life with. It's a joy.
