When florist Christie Leigh Corbally met Soho House’s global head of music, Dom Chung, she knew he was The One because of his drink of choice. “I remember he had a glass of chilled red wine, and I thought, ‘he just gets it,’” she laughs. “Dom had slid into my DMs during Covid and we went on our first date in May 2021 as restrictions were lifting.
He planned an amazing date with cocktails at Sage and Wild and dinner at Brat. We lived at different ends of London Fields, so it was quite funny we’d not met before, as we went to the same coffee shops and did the same walks.” They had been together for just over two years when Dom proposed during a holiday to Marseille.
“We spent a few nights in Arles in Provence while the town was hosting its annual photo exhibitions,” she remembers. “Dom booked us a stay at L’Hotel Particular, took me for dinner and when we came back to the hotel there was a bottle of Champagne in the room, and he asked the question.” Serendipitously, the date of their engagement, 31 August, became the date of their wedding too, though neither of them realised it until much later.
“We’re doers,” explains Christie. “We didn’t want to wait around for years. Everything in London was booked up for years, so we started to look at Hampshire, where Dom grew up.
We decided to ask the local church, as we’d walked past it hundreds of times and Dom used to play football nearby, and settled on the first date that they could do.” The co.