A COUPLE who have faced six years of fertility treatment are overjoyed to be expecting their first baby - who is due on their wedding anniversary.

Natalie and Gareth Down are expecting their 'miracle' son Reece on the day they celebrate their sixth year as a married couple.

And little Reece is not the only one of the family who knows how to make an entrance. Natalie turned up to her wedding at the Marsham Court Hotel in 2010 in a breakdown truck, as reported in the Dorset Echo. The couple met when Gareth, 29, rescued Natalie, 31, from her broken down car at the side of the road.

The hotel they where they tied the knot has invited them to open their new bridal suite.

In 2014 the couple were chosen as one of five couples to win a romantic wedding renewal ceremony at the Marsham Court, after Natalie revealed their heart breaking struggle to conceive.

Natalie, a veterinary nurse at Vets for Pets in Weymouth, said: "We tried to conceive naturally for two years before being referred to a specialist and then we had six years of fertility treatments - seven intrauterine inseminations and three IVF attempts.

"We lost three babies (one single child and then twins early on) before conceiving our son Reece on our last attempt at IVF. We were about to give up, so he really is a miracle baby and in an extra twist he is due on our sixth wedding anniversary."

Gareth, who is now the workshop manager at CW Motorcycles in Dorchester, said: "When Rosie and her team at the Marsham Court contacted us to say they wanted us to officially open their new bridal suite we felt really honoured.

"The hotel has many happy memories for us and we had a lovely meal in the restaurant before sleeping in their gorgeous suite, which we made the most of as we have many sleepless nights ahead of us!"

Rosie Wallace, Director of the Marsham Court Hotel, said: "We were over the moon when we learned Natalie and Gareth are to become parents and when we found out the baby is due on their anniversary it seemed only right that they should be the ones to officially open our new bridal suite."

"It's a real privilege to have hosted some of their most important milestones as a couple and we are now looking forward to meeting baby Reece."