Rev helps couple with their wedding ploughs
IT was a nice day for a white wedding – once guests ploughed away snow blocking the church.
Daniel Hodgson and Rebecca McKenzie, both 25, were determined to hold their wedding on the 10th anniversary of the day they first met.
But snow drifts made roads leading to St Cuthbert’s near Shotley Bridge, Co Durham, impassable.
Miraculously, an appeal by Reverend Martin Jackson raised a 30-strong army with shovels, mini snow plough and tractor to clear the way. Rev Jackson, who led the service, said: “Some of the guests came to the church to clear the snow first, then went home to get changed.”
Rebecca arrived in a 4x4 from Beamish Hall Hotel, near Stanley, where the reception was held.
The couple tied the knot shortly after noon on Wednesday, as a blizzard swept in. Wedding photographer Sarah Thew said: “About half the guests made the evening do. The bride and groom wanted to thank everyone for helping so much.”
But bride-to-be Emma O’Kane, 32, wasn’t so lucky.
Her wedding to Chris Butler, of Lurgan, Co Armagh, was cancelled yesterday after Storm Emma swept in. The couple were to wed at Darver Castle in Dundalk, Co Louth, in front of 127 guests. “When I woke up this morning it was like Siberia,” she said.
A newlywed couple have begun their honeymoon in Glasgow Airport after snow closed it.
Chris and Vicky Robinson, of Stranraer, were due to fly to the Maldives on Wednesday but were yesterday facing a second night sleeping in the terminal.
Mrs Robinson, 27, said she had shed a few tears, but added: “We had the perfect wedding so you can’t ask for everything.”