We love a soap wedding, and in Coronation Street the wedding of Dev Alahan (Jimmi Harkishin) and Bernie Winter (Jane Hazlegrove) is the setting for another proposal – meaning another wedding will soon be on the way.
Dev and Bernie’s big day has been a bit of a rush job. Bernie insisted on bringing the wedding forward from Christmas, as was planned, to this week. This was so that she could use the wedding fund gifted to Dev by his aunt to help pay off the debts Aadi (Adam Hussain) had racked up while looking after the shop.
So the wedding plans have been fairly hurried, but when the day itself arrives, there’s a series of setbacks for Bernie. First of all her grandchildren, Gemma (Dolly-Rose Campbell) and Chesney (Sam Aston)’s quads, all fall ill so they have to watch the wedding on live stream.
Then Bernie forgets her locket, which contains a picture of her late son Paul (Peter Ash). Desperate to have Paul with her in some form on her wedding day, she heads home – just in time to disturb a burglar.
Meanwhile the wedding guests have assembled in the bistro and are awaiting the bride’s arrival. As Bernie gets later and later and the guests begin to get restless, Debbie Webster (Sue Devaney) steps up, entertaining the crowd with a rendition of the old Grease classic Hopelessly Devoted To You.
And, for an encore, she proposes to Ronnie (Vinta Morgan), much to the delight of the other guests.
Ronnie and Debbie recently got back together again after he discovered that the reason she’d been pushing him away over the previous weeks was because she was trying to hide a diagnosis of dementia.
She persuaded herself that it wasn’t fair to Ronnie to expect him to cope with her illness and he’d be better off with someone else.
Once Ronnie knew the truth he told her that he wanted to be by her side every step of the way. Debbie realised that he was sincere, and that he was prepared for whatever the future might bring.
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Sue Devaney has said that Debbie’s story will continue well into 2027, so there’s plenty of time for the fan-favourite couple to tie the knot, as Coronation Street seeks to portray the reality of a person diagnosed with dementia at a relatively young age and their journey with the illness.
Meanwhile, for Bernie and Dev there’s a further twist in store as Bernie makes it to the wedding ceremony and walks down the aisle with her son Kit (Jacob Roberts), only to dramatically collapse and have to be rushed to hospital.
It wouldn’t be a soap wedding without the drama, after all. Will Bernie pull through?
