It started out with a crisp! Couple who first met in a supermarket snack aisle return to the store to celebrate their wedding day

A couple who met in the produce aisle at their local Waitrose have gotten married.

Jessica Weston-Brown met her future husband Jaxom when they were both working as shop assistants at a branch of the supermarket chain in Eastbourne, West Sussex.

On their wedding day last month, the newlyweds visited the store after tying the knot in a nearby church.

In a world where it’s becoming increasingly normal to meet your significant other on a dating app rather than in real life, the meeting between Mr. and Mrs. Weston-Brown has all the hallmarks of a classic love story.

The couple was introduced in September 2017, when Jessica, then 20, was asked by her manager to show Jaxom how to stack chips on the shelf.

A Waitrose supermarket (stock image). Jessica Weston-Brown met her future husband Jaxom when they were both working as shop assistants at a branch of the supermarket chain in Eastbourne, West Sussex

She then invited the newbie to join her and other employees for a Halloween party. Jessica said the BBC that the two hit it off and that they ‘talked all night.’

Jessica and Jaxom quickly struck up a relationship, and their relationship even survived a long-distance period when Jaxom went to work at a branch of the store in Cambridge.

After tying the knot at a local church in Eastbourne, they joked that they would be heading back to Waitrose, where their romance began.

Dressed in their full wedding attire, the bride and groom bought a bag of chips and were given a bouquet of red roses as a gift by their former colleagues.

Jessica said, “It was actually really funny. I thought I was going to be so embarrassed.”

Waitrose wished the couple well on social media.

In a Facebook post that was liked nearly 8,000 times, the supermarket wrote:

‘From Waitrose Partners to Lifelong Partners. Waitrose Eastbourne received a surprise visit from newlyweds Jess and Jax, who first met in the fresh produce aisle while working at Waitrose in 2017.

In a Facebook post that has garnered almost 8,000 likes, the supermarket wrote: ‘From Waitrose Partners to lifelong partners, Waitrose Eastbourne received a surprise visit from newlyweds Jess and Jax, who first met in the fresh produce aisle when they worked at Waitrose in 2017.’

In a Facebook post that was liked nearly 8,000 times, the supermarket wrote:

‘From Waitrose Partners to Lifelong Partners. Waitrose Eastbourne received a surprise visit from newlyweds Jess and Jax, who first met in the fresh produce aisle while working at Waitrose in 2017.

Jess says: “We met in September 2017 in the crisp aisle. When Jax started, I was asked to train him in stocking the shelves. We started dating in November, but Jax left in December to work in Cambridge, so we were long distance until I transferred to Cambridge in October 2019. And now, here we are in 2024… married!”

‘Congratulations to the happy couple.’

MailOnline has asked Waitrose for comment.