How deep is your love? Couple married in a mine
Updated: 2007-07-06 09:43
Radiant Kerry wore a traditional white wedding dress and Wayne donned the usual smart morning suit but they had to add hard hats and wellington boots.
The couple spent ￡560 hiring a cave deep within the Llechwedd mine in North Wales to get hitched.
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Bride and groom Kerry Bevan and Wayne Davies got married 500ft below ground in an old slate mine They invited just 15 guests, including sons Connor, 10 and eight-year-old Brendan, to witness the unusual ceremony. Their first descent into the abyss started with an 800 metre ride through tunnels and caverns on the old Miners Tramway, a train hauled by a battery-electric locomotive. The tiny railway is Britain's steepest with a gradient of 1 in 1.8 Once there, they squeezed through a tight space through to the "wedding chamber" where they were greeted by registrar Olwen Jones. Assembled guests stood in silence for the thirty minute service and broke into a round of applause when they were finally pronounced husband and wife. |
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