A fake film screening at the Watershed on Friday turned out to be a marriage proposal for one shocked but loved-up bride to be.

Johnny Wingfield had made a short animated film to propose to his girlfriend Lavinia Down.

To ensure everything ran without a hitch until the wedding day, the Watershed printed fake tickets, with staff posing as audience members in cinema three.

After the two-minute animation told the story of the Taunton couple’s time together, Johnny turned around and popped the question, with Lavinia thankfully saying yes.

“Proposing in front of 40-odd strangers was nerve-racking at first but it all went so smoothly,” Johnny said.

“I couldn’t have wished for a better reception!”

(This isn’t the first secret wedding proposal at the Watershed. In 2009, Pete Simson proposed to his girlfriend Hannah McDonagh after screening a film of him miming wearing just his pants to the Daniel Bedingfield classic If You’re Not The One.)