Mark
Shed wanted a bride with the right pedigree. So he married a dog saying, 'She
is a bitch, but I love her. People marry people they love and l love my dog.”
Mark, 21, wore top hat and tails. His dog, Hexe,
looked lovely in her white veil. After the ceremony attended by sixty
guests, the happy groom stroked his new wife and
said, ” I love you forever." Turning to the guests he said, ”I'm deadly
serious. i am devoted to Hexe as much as any man to his wife."
The wedding was held in a park in Mark's home town
of Wickford, Essex. His
mum Irene, 43, was there in her old wedding dress. Mark's sisters Leah, 12, and
Sharma, 9, were bridesmaids and seven year old brother Jodie was pageboy.
Hexe-the name in German for bitch-was not the only
one in a dog collar. Mark's pal David Crawford, 21, wore one to conduct the
service after local clergymen refused to have anything to do with the marriage.
David asked the bride, “Do you take this man as
your husband?" Hexe pawed the ground in reply. Then the guests sang-
"All things bright and beautiful...all
creatures great and small."
At the reception, Hexe opened her wedding
presents-a rubber bone and a new food bowl .
David said,’ 'Mark is a student of art and design.
He and Hexe got engaged at Christmas and are now living happily together."
The Rector of Wickford, the Rev. David Lowman said
it was blasphemous to use words from the marriage service at the bizarre
ceremony.
The newlyweds were blissfully unaware of the
objections as they honeymooned at an undisclosed destination-possibly Barking.
People were wondering what sort of children this
odd couple would produce
or whether they would produce any children at all!
I was at the wedding. It was a very funny day. The best part was the after party, where Mark's band the Cakey Daddies performed in his back garden. There was a dress code, which was shedware. This was mandatory, and was due to Mark changing his last name to Shed from Lewis.
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