What happened to your favourite Don’t Tell The Bride couples? How one pair are set to celebrate their 10-year anniversary – while another split up after their big day was CANCELLED for the first time in the show’s history

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It’s been on our screens for the last 16 years – entertaining us with seemingly useless grooms who never nail the dream wedding their bride has been wishing for since she was a little girl.

But what happened to the couples who dared to feature on Don’t Tell The Bride? Do they all walk off into the sunset to live happily ever after?

While many fans of the British reality TV series may not believe it, some pairs did indeed succeed in making their relationships last after their once-in-a-lifetime wedding days, where the groom is in charge of planning it without any interaction from the bride.

For instance, in March, Jade Stone, 32, and her beau Levi Stone, 33, who appeared on the popular Channel 4 programme in 2013, celebrated their 10-year anniversary. 

However, other couples failed to make it past a couple of months before going their separate ways after appearing on the show. 

In March, Jade Stone, 32, and her beau Levi Stone, 33, who appeared on the popular Channel 4 programme in 2013, celebrated their 10-year anniversary 

Indeed, Yanis Wilkinson Teece, 23, and Shanise Frame, 19, from Birmingham, whose wedding was cancelled on the programme, split up just a few months after filming, according to reports.

The couple were told by producers that their big day was off, after they discovered the bride had secretly gone through her fiancé’s emails to find out the wedding plans.

Here, FEMAIL reveals what happened to some of the couples who appeared on Don’t Tell The Bride… 

Jade and Levi Stone

In March, Jade Stone, 32, and her beau Levi Stone, 33, who appeared on the popular Channel 4 programme in 2013, celebrated their 10-year anniversary. 

The pair wed in front of thousands of fans at a Stoke City football match, because Levi was in charge and is a ‘diehard Potter’.  

Jade and Levi are one of Don’t Tell The Bride’s success stories as they celebrate a decade together this year. 

They also have two sons, Frankie, eight, and Donnie, four, who are also loyal Stoke City fans. 

Now, 10 years on, Jade has opened up about the couple’ experience on the show, revealing the reality behind the drama-filled wedding plans.  

Jade and Levi Stone took part in Don’t Tell The Bride in 2013. The pair were wed in front of near 30,000 people during match day at Stoke City Football Stadium

She said: ‘Since [we got married], we’ve had two wonderful children aged eight and four so we’ve been busy making our family, we’ve both progressed job wise and we bought our dream home.

‘It’s come around so fast its now 10 years and I’ve never been back to Stoke City.’

Jade revealed how she contemplated surprising Levi for their 10-year anniversary with a trip back to the football ground.   

She continued: ‘I would never change it, I love it now the boys are a bit older. Every now and again we go and find it on iPlayer and the boys can’t believe it’s us.

‘The biggest transformation is my husband he looks totally different. The long hair is gone and now he’s a fitness fanatic and is in the gym every day.’

Jade and Levi first met when they were 14 when their schools combined for an education day, and the pair say it was love at first sight.

However, they fell out of touch until they reconnected on social media at 18 and a few years later decided to give a relationship a go. 

10 years on, Jade opened up about the couple’s experience on the show, revealing the reality behind the drama-filled wedding plans

Jade explained how she never suspected that Levi would choose the football stadium to be their wedding venue 

They had been a together for less than a year when they decided to appear on the reality TV show, with Jade putting her trust in Levi to plan her perfect wedding day.  

Neither had proposed to the other before applying for the show, but Jade dropped hints and Levi filled in the application.

When they were accepted the couple quickly got engaged with Jade oblivious to the fact that Levi would opt for them to get married at Stoke City football stadium, let alone in front of thousands of fans on match day.  

She explained that they had their phones taken off them for the duration of filming to make sure they couldn’t ruin the surprise.

However, Jade explained that she had made only one request before they were separated, that Levi got a ring that was to her tastes. 

Yanis Wilkinson Teece and Shanise Frame

Shanise Frame, 19, and  Yanis Wilkinson Teece, 23, split months after their wedding was cancelled when they broke the rules on Don’t Tell The Bride 

Yanis Wilkinson Teece, 23, and Shanise Frame, 19, from Birmingham , whose wedding was cancelled on the programme, split up just a few months after filming, according to reports.

The couple were told by producers that their big day was off, after they discovered the bride had secretly gone through her fiancé’s emails to find out the wedding plans.

The couple appeared on the E4 show in 2019, when they were told their £12,000 nuptials had been called off. 

But despite planning to spend the rest of their lives together when the show filmed, the couple split months after, according to Birmingham Live. 

While a spokesperson for the show confirmed they had split up, Yanis told the publication ‘no comment’ when addressing the rumours.

Revealing the experience had left him ‘stronger and wiser’, he said: ‘It’s been a bizarre time, I’ve had a mixture of emotions in the aftermath of the programme.’

The 23-year-old had been with Shanise for two-and-a-half years before he proposed, and they went on Don’t Tell the Bride to plan their wedding. 

Yanis planned to wed his bride in Paris before flying back to Birmingham for the reception – with their budget only stretching to pay for 13 guests to travel to the ceremony.

The couple were told by producers that their big day was off, after they discovered the bride (pictured) had secretly gone through her fiancé’s emails to find out the wedding plans 

The groom decided that Shanise’s ten-year-old brother Chris wasn’t a priority guest, and would only attend the reception. 

However, Yanis appeared to have a very sudden change of heart – leading the producers to initially become suspicious. 

Then, when bridesmaid Melissa was told that she no longer would be attending, she let slip that the flights were booked to Paris.

The bridal party knew they would be travelling abroad, but they were supposed to have no idea where they were going – leading the producers to conclude Yanis and Shanise had been communicating via email. 

The bridesmaids later visited Yanis’ house for what they thought was their dress fitting, however, they were stopped by producers mid-way through their chat. 

Producers were forced to confront the groom and told him they’d have to cancel the entire wedding for the first time in the show’s history – as their ‘secret was out.’ 

After asking Yanis how the pair were communicating, he confessed: ‘Shanise got access to my iPad with my emails in there. So technically the bride wasn’t told, she found out through email.’  

From the outset of the show, Shanise admitted she was controlling, telling the camera: ‘I do wear the trousers in the house. I give him what he can cope with, then I do the rest.’ 

Bianca John and Adam Ledner 

Bianca John, from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, married Adam Ledner on the reality show in April 2016 before giving birth to their son Brock just two months later 

Bianca John, from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, married Adam Ledner on the reality show in April 2016 before giving birth to their son Brock just two months later. 

But in 2018 she revealed she had uncovered he had been embroiled in a five-month affair behind her back.

In September 2017, Adam, a support worker for children in care, was rushed, unconscious, to hospital. He had barely been admitted to intensive care when Bianca inadvertently stumbled on evidence on his phone that he’d been having an affair. 

Recalling the moment in 2022, she said: ‘I wanted him to be well – I wouldn’t wish ill-health on anyone, especially my son’s dad – but I was upset, and I wanted him to explain himself.

‘I never had any desire for vengeance, but I also knew he was never coming back into my life.’

Bianca, who is now divorced from Adam, was just 21 when she met her former husband on the dating app, Tinder in 2014. She had already planned to go travelling in Australia and south east Asia for 10 months and Adam joined her en route a couple of months into her trip.

Swept up in excitement of their extended holiday, life seemed blissful: he proposed in Thailand, picking out the words, ‘Marry me?’ in rose petals. 

Adam designed a wedding day which was centred around a warehouse filled with sand – but they divorced after Bianca discovered his affair 

She was four months pregnant when they returned to the UK and, four months later, they signed up for Don’t Tell the Bride, intrigued by the opportunity to do something they’d never forget. 

Adam designed a wedding day which was centred around a warehouse filled with sand – but they divorced after Bianca discovered his affair.

Of course time moves on and although they now lead entirely separate lives Bianca and Adam remain friends for their son’s sake.

Adam said in 2022: ‘About a year into my marriage to Bianca I had an affair which lasted four or five months. I make no excuses for it.

‘It had stopped, by pure coincidence, just before Bianca found out about it and after that, I never saw the woman again.

‘I’ll always love Bianca – she’s the mother of my son – but lessons have been learnt. I was very immature when I married her and I wouldn’t behave like that again.

‘But am I glad we got together? Of course. I couldn’t regret it because we have our wonderful son.’

Sofia and Craig

In a series first, one couple who appeared on the wedding-based reality show didn’t even get married legally in 2018

Sofia (pictured left) and Craig, from Luton, who had been together for eight years, made the decision not to make their nuptials legal following their wedding on the E4 show

In a series first, one couple who appeared on the wedding-based reality show didn’t even get married legally in 2018.

Sofia and Craig, from Luton, who had been together for eight years, made the decision not to make their nuptials legal following their wedding on the E4 show.

Sofia was so furious with her fiancé’s choice of an Oktoberfest themed wedding that she refused to register their marriage – a legal process all couples who appear on the programme must go through after filming to make their nuptials official. 

But instead of the usual happy ending, viewers at the time were astonished to see a statement flash up at the end of the couple’s episode to say the pair were ‘working together on their relationship’.  

Craig planned a hen do in a pub for his partner – and their big day in a brewery – despite the fact his bride does not like beer. 

Viewers watched as an angry Sofia fumed over her wedding dress, the chosen venue inside a brewery, and her ‘c****y’  hen do which had been held at a pub – even though she doesn’t drink beer.

When Sofia arrived at the venue she had to be persuaded to go inside, and decided to ditch the white gown Craig had picked in favour of a floral dress.

She seethed: ‘I don’t want to marry someone that nasty. There’s no point in letting him make a fool of me. I’m done, I don’t think there’s any chance of salvaging it. I’ve given him so many chances.’ 

Craig had to spend an hour talking Sofia into saying her vows, after she insisted he had made her look stupid.

Craig, who apologised profusely to his bride and her family, said: ‘I don’t know why she thought it was a good idea giving me control. This was a bad idea, a very bad idea.’ 

At the end of the show, E4 stated: ‘At the time of making this programme Craig and Sofia had decided not to make their wedding legal and were working together on their relationship.’

It’s unclear if the couple are still in a relationship with one another.

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