Hired Lamborghini wedding car crashed by groom driving to ceremony

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A groom in Australia had plenty of explaining to do when he arrived at his own wedding on foot, despite having forked out thousands of dollars to hire a Lamborghini as his wedding car.

The unlucky groom was left red faced after the white sports car, intended for use as his wedding car on his special day, ended up bonnet-first in a fence after the groom slipped on a wet patch while driving to the wedding ceremony causing him to lose control of the Lamborghini.

Little is known about the identity of the groom, only that he is believed to hail from Sydney in Australia and is reported to have paid $15,000 for the insurance as part of the deal to hire the Lamborghini as his wedding car; $15,000 he has subsequently lost as a result of crashing the luxury super car.

The groom and his best man were reportedly travelling in the hired Lamborghini when the sports car left the road. The wedding party were understood to be running late for the wedding, which may explain how the wedding car ended up in a fence.

The groom is believed to have called the rental company to notify them of the incident and also the location of the vehicle before rushing off to the ceremony on foot. Luckily, neither the groom nor the best man were injured as a result of the accident. The pair managed to get to the church on time too and the wedding was able to go ahead.

While the wedding car didn’t make it to the ceremony, it’s thought the damage caused to the Lambo is repairable.

Forklift truck wedding car has special meaning for couple in China

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A bride and groom in China travelled to their wedding in the front basket of a forklift truck earlier this month as the couple wanted to commemorate the vehicle which brought them together.

Forklift truck driver, Kong Qing Yang met his now wife, Shen Likun, when he went to buy a forklift truck from her at the company where she worked as a salesperson. After the initial meeting at the forklift truck company, love blossomed between the pair and they decided to tie the knot.

Not wanting to forget the reason they got together in the first place, the groom left his home in the Hebei Province in North China at 8am onboard a specially decorated forklift truck. Kong collected his bride en route to the church, and the couple travelled through the village of Beiwangduan in their forklift truck, throwing lollies at the locals who lined the street to see them pass by.

The wedding motorcade comprised of eight forklift trucks in total, all of which were travelling at a top speed of just 8mph. Unsurprisingly, the wedding parade took several hours to arrive at ceremony venue, with the bride and groom finally exchanging vows just after 11:30am, some three and a half hours after the groom set off from his house.

Smallest wedding car transports couple on their big day in Hereford

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A couple from Hereford arrived at their wedding reception in what was surely, one of the smallest wedding cars ever seen.

It took the newlyweds, Nicky Davies and Ben Williams, almost 15 minutes to squeeze into the diminutive Peel car, with the bride’s train on her wedding dress taking the most time to contain within the miniature car.

The mini wedding car was provided by friend of the groom, Faizal Khan, who owns Peel Engineering which makes electric powered replicas of the tiny Peel car.

Bows and decorations were kept to a minimum on the wedding car as there simply wasn’t any room to hang anything on it as the vehicle only measures 57 inches in length, and 41 inches in width. However the couple managed to secure a single white ribbon to the red wedding car, and also traditional tin cans from the boot.

With a top speed of just 10mph, it was lucky that the newlyweds only had a short 5 mile trip to make from their ceremony to their wedding reception venue in Hereford.

The 3-wheel eco-friendly wedding car came as a complete surprise to the wedding guests as the newlyweds managed to keep it a secret until they rolled up in it after the ceremony.

The eye-catching wedding car certainly caused a stir on the big day, but with just room for two onboard, the bride and groom had to dispense with a chauffeur and drive themselves.

Wedding car procession made up of diggers

One budget savvy groom from China had the brain wave of swapping an elegant procession of luxury wedding cars, for a fleet of decorated diggers to help save money on transport for his big day.

The groom, Zhang Zongqiang, works for a heavy machinery company so getting his hands on a procession of JCB diggers wasn’t a problem. The 35-year-old hoped the idea would save him and his wife-to-be money, and also ensure their wedding stood out from the crowd.

However the blushing bride, Ye Yuzi, wasn’t so convinced. With her heart set on a classy and sophisticated wedding car, Zhang’s digger idea was a million miles away from her dream wedding day transport.

Despite her reservations, her soon-to-be husband talked her round by promising their wedding would be especially memorable with the inclusion of the digger wedding procession.

The groom’s plan to create a show-stopping spectacle certainly worked, as the streets came to a standstill as the wedding procession of decorated diggers passed through. People stopped what they were doing to catch a glimpse of the happy couple as they passed by standing hand in hand in the bucket of the digger at the head of the procession.

Bride ye admitted she was “freezing” during her ride in the digger before adding, “it was all worth it.”

The newlyweds even handed out sweets to police officers along the wedding procession route to make amends for causing traffic build up with their unusual wedding day transportation.

Bride ditches the wedding car and arrives onboard a yak

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Yesterday was one of the biggest days of the year for weddings with thousands of couples across the world queuing up to get married on the special date of 10/10/10.

China saw more weddings on this date than any other part of the world as the number 10 is especially lucky in Chinese culture as it’s symbolic of completion and perfection.

One Chinese couple were determined to have a wedding to end all weddings on the lucky date and pulled out all the stops to create a big day to remember.

Instead of arriving at her wedding ceremony in the back of a luxurious chauffeur driven limo, the bride arrived on her special day in the Sichuan Province of China riding on the back of a white yak.

The extravagant wedding was thought to have cost 1.6 million Yuan, which works out as approximately £150,000, with the Yak being one of the most expensive items of the day as the animal had to be transported from a far off province of China especially for the ceremony.

It’s been reported that the couple paid 100,000 Yuan, about £9,500, to have the white long-haired bovine beast transported from Yunnan Province to the wedding venue in another part of the country.

The wedding yak certainly had the desired effect as the streets came to standstill as the bride made her way through the city to her wedding ceremony riding on top of the white wedding yak.

Despite the success of the wedding yak, the newlyweds also had a black Aston Martin on standby to make their getaway following the ceremony.

Wedding limo replaced by wedding bus by footie mad couple from Sunderland

Couple from Sunderland wanted something different on their wedding day so hired a wedding bus

Couple from Sunderland wanted something different on their wedding day so hired a wedding bus

A couple from Herrington who are both die-hard fans of their local football team, Sunderland FC, decided to incorporate their love of the club into their wedding day.

David Murphy and Victoria Anderson chose to have a wedding with a red, white and black colour scheme to chime in with the colours of Sunderland FC. In homage to the occasion in 1973 when Sunderland won the FA cup in Wembley and afterwards paraded the streets on a red double-decker bus, the pair decided they would swap their wedding car for a wedding bus just like the one the team rode on.

The bride-to-be along with her bridesmaids took a ride on the decorated wedding bus all the way to the church. Some members of family also came along for the trip, not wanting to miss out on the action.

The new Mrs Murphy wanted her wedding day transport to be unique as she said:  ”Everybody else uses limousines and other wedding cars, but I just wanted something a little bit different. I had seen that when Sunderland played at Wembley they used a red double-decker bus, so I thought that would be good.”

The newlyweds have been together for 13 years and have 4 children together. The pair hadn’t got round to marrying before, but after Victoria’s grandfather fell ill, they decided to hurry up and tie the knot. They organised the entire wedding in just 4 months.

Ipswich groom swaps wedding limo for articulated lorry

The groom poses with his alternative wedding car
The groom poses with his alternative wedding car

The groom poses with his alternative wedding car

For trucker Robert White, there was only one way to arrive at his wedding. The 32 year old did away with the traditional wedding limo in favour of something a little more familiar.

Not only did Mr White roll up to the church in a massive lorry, he also convinced his bride to ditch the limo and do likewise. The bride was driven by the best man in the huge lorry decorated by delicate flowers and ribbons. Luckily for Mr White, his new wife is very understanding about the other love in his life and was happy to indulge him on their big day. 27 year old Kathleen said of her new husband, “He absolutely loves lorries” adding, “His world revolves around them. We even had the song Convoy to leave the church with.”

It was fitting for this couple to have a lorry theme as part of their nuptials as the vehicles have featured in their relationship from the start. The pair met as teenagers when both of their fathers worked as lorry drivers for the same company. However it wasn’t until the couple met two years ago that they fell for each other and have been together ever since.

The whole family turned out to see the happy couple tie the knot including Mrs White’s two children from a previous relationship and Mr White’s one child. The lorries certainly turned a few heads as they made their way to the church and helped to make these newlywed’s day extra special.

Wedding limo slapped with parking fine whilst waiting for the bride and groom

Chauffeur of the wedding limo shown with the offending parking fine
Chauffeur of the wedding limo shown with the offending parking fine

Chauffeur of the wedding limo shown with the offending parking fine

A white wedding limousine was issued with a parking fine whilst waiting outside Birmingham Registry office. Despite the fact the luxury limo was decorated in ribbons and flowers especially for the wedding and had a suited chauffeur sitting inside, the overzealous traffic warden went ahead and dispensed the fine.

According to the chauffeur of the limo, the canny traffic warden wrote the ticket out from a distance whilst he was sat inside the vehicle. The warden then approached the limo, informed the driver he was parked in a restricted zone, and slapped the pre-written ticket on the windscreen without any hesitation.

The limousine company which owns the vehicle, Home James Limousines, said that in 8 years of operating in the Birmingham area, this was the first time they’d ever encountered this problem. The owner of the company, Ron Parsons, said “I was half laughing and half crying when the driver called us up. It’s not like we were out shopping.” He added “I think it’s pretty petty. We were in the lay-by, which is directly outside the office.”

Staff from the Registry Office jumped to the defense of the driver and attempted to argue his case, but to no avail. The official line from Birmingham County Council is that “A maximum stay of 15 minutes is allowed so long as a permit is displayed. The Register Office holds these permits and issues them when required to wedding cars.”

The limousine company intends to fight the £30 fine and will be making a formal, written appeal against the penalty.