Couple celebrate their anniversary with a meal where they first met… Spar

A hudband treated his wife to a nice date for their anniversary: a posh meal in the shop where they first met.

Or a Spar day, as he calls it.

Teaching assistant Dyfed Ellis Pritchard, 43, first met his wife Bethan 18 years ago, when they both worked at their local Spar convenience store.

The couple have now been married for 15 years and have three teenage children together.

Dyfed wanted to do something special to mark their crystal anniversary.

With the help of store owner Conrad Davies, Dyfed secretly organised a romantic three-course dinner in the Spar store in Pwllheli, north-west Wales,

Conrad helped by rolling out a red carpet for the couple and a special table and chairs were set up under the magazine counter.

Recalling the day he asked Bethan out almost two decades ago, Dyfed said: ‘One day, Bethan was a bit down when we were in the shop together.

‘So I bought her a Kinder Egg to cheer her up and plucked up the courage to asked her out. Ever since, I have bought her a Kinder Egg on every anniversary.

’18 years later, I thought I would take her back to the place we first met.’

Dyfed enlisted the help of the couple’s three children, Sophie, 16, Cai, 14, and Noah, 13, for the secret meal, all of whom acted as waiters during the evening.

And, as is the couple’s tradition, the starter of their meal comprised of a Kinder Egg.

This was followed by a store-made pizza as the main course, and cakes for dessert made by 2016 winner of The Apprentice, Alana Spencer.

Dyfed met up with his wife, 39, in the local Wetherspoons across the road, and somehow managed to convince Bethan to put on a blindfold and follow him to the store.