It’s a runaway bride as couple marry hours after completing marathon

A couple have celebrated their shared love of running by getting married hours after completing a marathon.

Sarah-louise Grigor, 47, and Chris Cull, 49, exchanged their wedding vows in a hotel overlooking the last mile of the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon course which they ran yesterday.

They decided to hold the ceremony after the race to mark her 100th marathon.

The event also holds special memories for the bride, who is a personal trainer, as it was where she did her first marathon in 2003, sparking 0 Sarah-louise and Chris kissed on the finish line her love of distance running. Her daughter Bethany,18, and fiance Chris took part in the event for the first time.

Thousands of runners took part in the marathon and accompanying 10km, 10km Corporate Challenge, 5km and Wee Nessie events, some of them guests at the wedding.

Mr Cull, an engineer, said: “When Sarah told me she was aiming to make the 2017 race the one that would take her into the 100 Marathon Club, I wanted to do something that would make it even more memorable and special for her.

“That’s when I suggested that we have the wedding afterwards.”

The couple, who live in Lossiemouth, Moray, got to know each other through the local running circuit, and he proposed on a camping trip in the Highlands in 2015.