"I met my first and second husbands within a couple of weeks of each other. Mark, husband number 2, was actually in a brass ensemble that played at my first wedding. After the wedding reception when we were all preparing to leave, we ended up in a clinch, and I'm not sure how it happened. It was quite surreal. It occurred and then there was never a mention of it again."
On the day of her wedding, it was obvious that the marriage was not going to be a success. Denise remembers "The vicar came to me and said, 'Look, this is wrong. Go and get in the car and I'll tell everybody you've changed your mind.'" And after two years, Denise' marriage failed.
When things had begun to go wrong with her first husband, Denise remembered the kiss with Mark , "I justified it by thinking I'd drunk a lot and so had he. I clung to it somewhat - I don't think I felt guilty about it. I thought I'm married now, it can't do any damage, which is silly, because of course it can."
Denise and Mark, both musicians, moved in the same circle of friends and six months after the break up of her marriage, they found themselves in a clinch again. Eleven months later, a baby girl was born.
On Denise and Mark's wedding day, their friends told Mark to keep an eye on his wife "Whoever she gets into a clinch with tonight, is husband number 3." Denise remembers, "Mark did follow me round and watch me like a hawk the night we were married."
