“I THINK he loves darts more than me” are not the words you want to hear your fiancé say just days before your wedding.

But that’s exactly what Chelsey Goddard thought after her partner Liam Deavall revealed his theme for their big day when the Andover couple appeared on Channel 4’s Don’t Tell the Bride.

The programme, which sees the groom given sole responsibility for planning and organising the entire wedding in just three weeks without any input from the bride, saw 23-year-old Liam spend their £14,000 budget on a darts themed celebration, held at Lakeside Country Club – home of British darts.

It was a far cry away from Chelsey’s dream of walking down the aisle in St Mary’s Church, in Andover, where her mum also got married.

But Chelsey, also 23, didn’t seem to be on Liam’s mind at all when he organised a stag do in Prague, while his fiancé’s hens ended up playing rugby, drawing a naked dancing man and eating at a Chinese buffet.

With some of the party ending up in tears and Chelsey describing the day as “an absolute shambles”, Liam had a lot to make up for on their big day.

Thankfully, Chelsey liked the dress Liam chose for her, however the bridesmaids dartboard themed outfits didn’t go down so well.

For Liam, his dream came true when retired professional darts player Bobby George agreed to conduct the marriage ceremony after Liam visited his home.

But Chelsey was left rather unimpressed by the whole event, saying: “I would definitely not do this for my wedding.”

Speaking to the Andover Advertiser after the show aired last month, Liam said: “You are going to look back and think I could have done this or that but it’s such a short time to plan a wedding and I had to make decisions on the spot. It was a really good day in the end. I saw it as a challenge.”

To get her own back for the disastrous hen do, Chelsey asked Liam’s friend who organised the rugby to come to their home and make him do a burpees challenge in the garden.

“I haven’t lived it down,” admitted Liam.

The couple, who have a one-year-old son called Harry, decided to apply for the programme one evening.

But when administrator Chelsey agreed, she didn’t really think it would end up happening, and said: “As soon as I realised we were actually going to do it I started panicking. It was tough at that point. It was stressful. When they say you don’t know anything, you literally don’t know anything. I found out I was getting married the day before and I didn’t try on my dress until about 16 hours before.”

She said the programme portrays Liam in a bad light, and didn’t show the parts where he had considered her, including choosing a dress with pockets which he knew she would love and wedding Converse shoes.

She added: “The actual wedding day went really well and it was very good. For a darts themed wedding it was as good as you are going to get.