IT WAS a moment that left film buffs sobbing into their popcorn.

As the audience settled into their cinema seats for the new Bridget Jones movie, they couldn't have known they were about to witness something straight out of a romantic comedy.

Seconds before the film's opening titles rolled, a message was flashed up on the big screen - in front of 500 people.

"Kelly, I love you," it said. "I can't wait to tie the knot this weekend."

It was the first time bosses at Southampton's Odeon cinema at Leisure World have met such a romantic request - and it left bride-to-be Kelly Lowry-Fields, 26, stunned.

She was settling down to watch the film with fiance Fred Longman, 34, when the message flashed up, surrounded by words from their wedding vows.

"It was such a sweet thing to do. I really didn't have any clue at all he was going to do something like that. I was a bit embarrassed, but everyone in the cinema clapped and congratulated us. It was lovely," she said.

Bathroom and kitchen fitter Fred added: "Kelly was after a quiet wedding and not making a fuss. We were going to see the film and that was as far as it went, but I thought I'd do something a bit different.

"People say I'm a bit of a romantic, but I don't really think I am."

The couple who live in Appletree Close with their one-year-old son Joshua, were married at St Anne's Church, in Calmore, on Saturday

They were due to jet off today to honeymoon in Lanzarote - a trip secretly organised by Fred who only told Kelly about the week-long break during the wedding reception, at Beaulieu Hotel, near Lyndhurst.

Karen Griffiths, from Odeon cinemas, told the Daily Echo: "We've never had a request like this before, but it was lovely to be able to help. It took a lot of organising and in the end it was to a packed cinema of 500 people."