Parents of a 16-year-old girl said seeing her set off for her prom was a day they thought they would never see.
Zoe and Stephen Tucker had been told they wouldn’t be able to have any children and after years of trying and months of fertility drugs they had given up hope.
But then the couple proved the medical professionals wrong when Zoe fell pregnant.
That was more than 16 years ago – and on Wednesday night Zoe and Stephen, of Pennygate, were perhaps the proudest parents of all when their daughter Katie set off with her boyfriend Stuart Fuller to the joint Spalding secondary schools end of year prom.
The teenager was all glammed up in a pretty pale pink Bo Peep-style prom dress and as a special surprise her grandparents had laid on a vintage Rolls Royce to take the young couple to the ball.
Zoe said: “Katie looked so beautiful and we were so proud of her.
“This is honestly a day we thought we would never see.
“As well as being told we couldn’t have children Katie was born two months early, weighing just 3lb 11oz.
“She spent the first few weeks of her life in the special care baby unit and she had quite a few health problems in that first year.
“But now she is fit and healthy and it was really nice to see her go off to her prom.
“We had been winding her up that her transport for the night was a portable loo on the back of trailer and I think she was even beginning to wonder if it was true, so the Rolls Royce was a lovely surprise for her.
“She had a lovely night.”