A fairytale wedding is a fitting end to a love story for a couple that bureaucracy threatened to keep apart. Derek Perry, a project co-ordinator for Tavistock Community Church, and his Rwandan bride-to be, Immaculee, will finally tie the knot in Tavistock this Saturday after entry visas were granted to her and her seven-year-old daughter, Stella. Visas had been refused on two previous occasions, but the decision was overturned at a Home Office appeal at Bath County Court in July. The wedding will take place at Tavistock register office followed by a blessing at Tavistock Community Church. The blessing will be a blending of the English and African cultures, performed by Pastor Colin Bond and Bishop Sadiki of the Church of Revelation in Kigali. Derek said: ?The reaction we have had from the people of Tavistock has been wonderful. People?s support has been fantastic, especially that of John Burnett MP and his wife, Billie, who wrote letters of support to the Foreign Office. ?Throughout everything, they told us that if we had a problem and they could help they would help.? Immaculee added: ?I am very happy to be here, to be with Derek and to be marrying him. But I am not just here because of a man, I am here because of God.? Immaculee and Stella arrived in the UK on October 26. ? It was a beautiful sunny day but the next day it rained ? typical English weather! Immaculee asked me if it was always this cold and I told her it gets much worse,? said Derek. But there were some home comforts back at the family?s house in Moorwell as, for the first time in her life, Stella slept in a bed. ? She?s always slept on the floor because they couldn?t afford a bed. She looked in her bedroom and said ?What?s that??? ?It?s been a wonderful experience for Stella. She had never even seen a rabbit before and now she?s got two of her own. She can?t wait to go to school and has made lots of friends already.? Derek, 46, and Immaculee, 29, first spoke on the telephone four years ago when Derek called Immaculee?s mother, Chantelle Kantarama, who works for Bishop Sadiki in Rwanda ? where Tavistock Community Church helped set up a hospital, clinics and schools for the locals. The couple started organising penfriends for youngsters at King?s in Pixon Lane and in Kigali, but after six months of communicating Derek proposed. The couple finally met in Rwanda after two years of e-mails and phone calls and Derek asked for permission from Chantelle to marry her daughter. ?As soon as I saw her face I knew she was the one that I was going to be with forever. I had trust in God that if we were to be together we would know straight away,? said Derek. At the wedding, some of the 100 guests will be in African costume but the bride will wear traditional white with cream roses. The couple have been given one special gift already: the loan of a cottage for four days for their honeymoon. Immaculee is now working alongside Derek as a volunteer project coordinator for GLAM ? Great Lakes Africa Mission ? set up by Tavistock Community Church.