'Making someone redundant is heartbreaking' — Jeweller Chupi Sweetman on owning failure and the supports that keep her going
Chupi Sweetman’s husband Brian Durney knew almost immediately after they first met that this was the woman he would marry. He waited two weeks to tell her this, three to say “I love you”, she laughs now, explaining that he didn’t want to scare her. They were 16, “babies”, and had met at a confirmation ceremony where they were set up by his cousin. This week, Sweetman turns 40, appropriately — for one whose eponymous jewellery business revolves around love — on Valentine’s Day.