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UK couple hold wedding ceremony on top of planes!

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Associated Press

Posted: Aug 06, 2008 at 1143 hrs IST

London, August 6: No one wants rain on their wedding day. Particularly not when the bride, groom and reverend are being flown through the air strapped to the top of separate airplanes.

Katie Hodgson, 23, took to the skies of England on Tuesday in a full bridal gown on the top wing of a red-and-white biplane operated by Team Guinot, a group of stunt pilots.

Groom Darren McWalters, 24, flew by her side on an identical plane, while Rev George Bringham - flying ahead of the couple - married them over an airborne communications system.

Sky News television footage of the ceremony showed the bride's dressed fluttering wildly in bad weather as the three shouted to make themselves heard over the din of the aircraft.

"I ask you therefore, will you love her, honour and keep her and be faithful to her so long as you both shall live?" Bringham yelled.

"I will!" McWalters yelled back.

The airplanes sent out trails of white smoke as the couple belted out their vows about 1,000 feet above the ground.

Special microphones relayed the ceremony to Rendcomb Airfield near the English city of Cirencester - 145 km west of London - where the wedding guests were waiting.

Strong winds and rain eventually cut the flight short, but the couple said they had a blast.

Hodgson said as a girl she never would have imagined she would wed on the wing of an airplane.

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