Funeral car takes bride to wedding

Here comes the bride - complete with funeral car, gothic mistresses and children in Halloween costumes.
There was no white frock and vintage Rolls for Kelly Robinson and her fiance Charles Rickaby when they tied the knot – goth style.

Instead the couple and the rest of the wedding party dressed in black for the nuptials at Leyland's Civic Centre.

Kelly, 30, was in a custom-made wedding dress from America, a tiara complete with bats, and four-inch stilettos in black patent leather.

Kelly, who grew up on Fossdale Moss, Leyland, and was a student at Worden High School, said: "I've been a goth since I was 15 and I thought it's not me to wear a white wedding dress.

"I did want to sit in the front of a hearse but when my dad rang up they said they are only insured for dead people."

Following the wedding, Kelly and 38-year-old Charles, an archaeologist from Newcastle, were due to head off t
o Whitby Goth Weekend for their honeymoon – the place where they met two years ago.

Kelly's sister Amy entertained the guests with her rock band Crimzon on a stage made up to look like a graveyard.

View a slideshow of the wedding here

Amy, 25, said: "I'm not a goth, but I am a bit of a rock chick. Because I shared a bedroom with Kelly when I was growing up, I had to listen to all her music.

"It was certainly a wedding with a difference and one Leyland won't forget in a hurry."


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