Best friends Gary Campbell and John Collins resolved to marry their fiancées in a dreamy double wedding ceremony at a luxury resort on the island of Jamaica.

The two Scottish grooms forked out almost £14,000 in order to fly family and friends to the Caribbean for a fortnight in October, wherethey planned to wed their gorgeous brides on a beautiful beach, in complete highland dress.

But the dreams of the two couples soon turned to nightmares after airline Virgin Atlantic told them that John’s entire luggage had vanished on the way to Jamaica.

33 year old John from Kilmarnock lost his kilt and wedding rings for his own big day and was forced to dress in a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt when he was best man at Gary’s ceremony.

Fortunately he was able to reschedule his own wedding ceremony until the last day of the holiday, whilst he arranged to have another kilt flown in from his naïve Scotland.

The kilt arrived in Jamaica safely and John was able to marry in full highland dress, but incredibly, Virgins bungling baggage handlers managed to lose the 2nd kilt when the wedding party flew back to the UK.

He said:-

“It was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was - but for all the wrong reasons.

Virgin are useless. We’ve been back a month, the bags have still not turned up and I’ll have to pay the kilt hire shop.”

Virgin told me: “We have located one bag and are making every effort to find the other one. We apologise for any inconvenience.”

I owe the kilt hire shop £1000 and I’m down about £3000 for the rings, the laptop and the rest of my clothes. We were promised an upgrade on the way back but didn’t get it. We ended up 40 rows apart.

I’ll never fly with Virgin again.”

An elderly couple from Devon are believed to be the oldest newly weds in the UK to date.

Earlier this year, Penny Cooper who is 90 years old, asked John Dawkins aged 89 to marry her in a leap year proposal, after the pair met at a local charity event nine years ago and discovered that they had much in common - John served as a Royal Navy Commander, whilst Penny served in the Wrens.

The happy couple who boast a combined age of 179 years, married in ceremony at their local registry office in Honiton, Devon last week.

The new Mr and Mrs Dawkins, who are both from the town of Exmouth, managed to outdo the previous UK record holders of the oldest newlyweds title - 93 year old James Mason, and his 84 year old bride Peggy Clark, who also wed in Devon last year.

John became Penny’s carer and the pair lived at Johns home around a year and a half ago when Penny unfortunately suffered a stroke. She was then moved to a local nursing home to receive adequate care, although John visits her there every single day.

Mr Dawkins said in an interview with a local newspaper:-

“It was absolutely excellent. I would have been a very grumpy old man if I had not met Penny. Now I have a greater incentive to live to 100.”

TV and radio presenter Dominik Diamond has revealed that he plans to have nationwide bakery chain Gregg’s cater for his wedding bash in January.

38 year old Dominik, who is best known as the host of XFM radios breakfast show and as a columnist for UK newspaper the Daily Star plans to marry his fiancée of 10 years, 41 year old Phoebe Sicks in Edinburgh in the new year, before they emigrate to Canada.

Dominik told a national newspaper recently:-

“It’s good old-fashioned Scottish food - and it’s what I’m going to miss most about life here.

There’s so much pressure on folk to serve up some posh Gordon Ramsay-inspired guff for their wedding receptions.

But I reckon they’re daft. It’s Gregg’s all the way for me and Phoebe.”

I’m going the full Monty — I want pies, steak bakes, sausage rolls and bridies at my do.

I also want folk to experience how great the mighty yum-yum is - and how the apple turnover just melts in the mouth.

I’m planning on serving them up on silver platters and having French language descriptions of what the scoff is.”

After professing to his love-affair with Gregg’s, Dominik went on to reveal that it was their Cornish pasties that got him hooked.

When Sian Davies and Craig Wilson from greater Manchester got married recently there was more than magic in the air - there was an owl!

During the ceremony at the White Hart Inn, near Oldham, the barn owl named Fudge landed on the grooms arm, bearing a pouch which held the couples wedding rings.

Ten month old Fudge belongs to a cousin of the bride who runs a local falconry and Sian and Craig’s wedding was in fact the second that she had appeared at.

Also present on the big day was Cracker, the couples Staffordshire bull terrier who donned a short and tie for the nuptials.

Sian aged 25 said of their unusual choice of ring bearer:-

“We wanted to do something a bit different and the thought of an owl flying the rings to us seemed incredibly romantic. It felt very special when it happened, although she was a bit reluctant to fly at first.

I was nervous, but it was great. It wasn’t anything to do with Harry Potter, but I think people have taken that as our theme.”

Fudge was accompanied by the bride’s cousin, Helen Chadfield who said: -

“She’s been practising quite a lot and works with noisy children most of the time, so she wasn’t too fazed by the guests.

She’s at a special weight, so she’s quite hungry and noisy. Owls won’t fly unless they need to feed, but she had a good meal after the ceremony.”

Welsh rock-star Kelly Jones, vocalist with renowned band Stereophonics has spoken out against claims that football hero Wayne Rooney is attempting to sue him.

Kelly, aged 34 revealed that he was initially stunned when his band was asked to play at Rooney’s honeymoon party, the day after he wed long time girlfriend Colleen McLouglhin in Santa Margherita, on the Italian Riviera.

He said:-

“I was stunned when I got the call to play for Wayne to be honest. I knew he was a big fan and had been coming to our gigs for a long time and Colleen said she’d love to have us there to surprise him at the honeymoon party the day after their wedding.

So they sent a private plane over, as you do, and we suddenly found ourselves on the Italian coast.”

He went on to say that the party was not the star-studded extravaganza that he had been anticipating, it was simply the newlyweds close family and friends.

Soon afterwards newspapers were awash with reports that Rooney was considering legal action against Jones over a comment that he had reportedly made during an interview with a music mag.

The singer denied the claims saying:-

“All that came about when I told them about how Wayne supposedly tried to pinch a hoodie from the merchandise stall at one of our shows when he was a nipper and got smacked by one of our guys for his trouble.

I think some of his people saw it and got a bit anxious about it, but Wayne doesn’t give a s*** – he was texting me all during that time and didn’t even mention it once.”

Delighted Bride from Simonside, South Shields was proud to be the very first bride to be walked down the aisle at a new registry office in South Shields recently.

42 year old Tracey Worthington married her beau Ian Kirkpatrick at the brand new Broughton Road registry office in front of the pair’s family and friends.

Accompanied by her sons Colin, aged 26, and Mark aged 22, Tracey arrived at the pristine Barrington Suite to find it decorated with a festive theme.

The blushing bride said:-

“We had no idea we’d be the first couple to get married here, we only found out last week, so it certainly was quite a surprise.

It’s a nice thing to have happened though, not many people can claim to be the first people married in a place and now we can.”

She also spoke of her relief that the weather managed to hold out as she arrived at her wedding venue in a luxury limousine:-

“The weather was awful this morning and there were reports of snow on its way, so we’ve been very lucky it’s held off.”

The happy couple were wed by superintendent registrar Maria Schromek, who said of the occasion:-

“This is a very special day for Ian and Tracey as they start their married life together and also for us as registrars as this is the first ceremony to take place in our new registrar office.”

Afterwards the Tracey, her new husband and their friends and family celebrated with a reception at the New Crown pub, South Shields

A Scottish bride had a unique request on her list of wedding gifts, when she asked her guests to donate blood as a gesture of gratitude and appreciation to the donors who helped doctors to save the life of her beloved grand-mother.

Margaret Smith, aged 81, was the guest of honour at the wedding of her grand-daughter and her groom, 35 year old Iain McKenzie.

Margaret had emergency surgery to remove her leg above the knee and survived thanks to a highly skilled surgical team and a live saving blood transfusion.

The 31 year old bride Claire tenderly embraced her gran outside St Mirins Cathedral in her home town of Paisley before walking down the aisle to meet her husband to be.

At their wedding reception, the newly weds gave out ‘Give Blood’ themed wedding favours and the groom offered information on local donor centres during his speech.

Claire speaks about the grand mother’s ordeal, who is currently reliant on electric wheelchairs :-

“Gran was diagnosed with critical limb ischemia in her left leg and her only option of survival was to have the leg amputated above the knee.

She required at least three pints of blood following her op and had people not donated that blood, she simply would not have been here to celebrate our big day. It means the world to us to have her at our wedding, so we decided to try to recruit as many donors as possible on our special day.

Instead of giving everyone favours they would just leave behind or stuff in a drawer, we thought it might be nice to ask guests to give something back.

There’s a massive shortage of donors in Scotland and the situation is worse around Christmas, so hopefully some of our guests will try giving blood. My gran is doing really well now and even though she is in a wheelchair she promised to bum-shuffle on the dance floor at our reception.

Without the blood transfusions she would never have made it this far.”

Claire, Iain and their immediate families all give blood on a regular basis.

A 25 year old PHD student and bride to be has recently been forced to deal with the fact that she may have to face her wedding day without her Mother after immigration officials refused her entry into the country.

Devastated Catherine Dunford plans to marry her fiancé of two years, 37 year old Hugh Martin in St Andrews on 6^{th December.}

But if their appeal to the UK Borders Agency is unsuccessful, Catherine’s Mother, Shariwa must remain in Zimbabwe thousands of miles away.

Zimbabwe remains in the throes of an economic catastrophe, with inflation in the country currently at 231million %.

Immigration officials are reported to have informed Catherine who lives in Cupar with her husband to be, that they suspected that the application for a visiting visa was simply a ruse to enable her Mother to stay in Britain on a permanent basis as a route of escape from Zimbabwe’s economic ruin.

Catherine, who lost her British Father to cancer, feels that time is running out in the race to bring her Mother to the UK in time for her wedding.

She said in a statement to a local newspaper:-

“In the last few days before my wedding I thought I would be stressing out about flowers, not something like this.

I feel cheated that my mother, my only surviving parent, won’t be there. Aside from my disappointment, it’s knowing how disappointed my mother will be.

It’s also upsetting that my mother may never meet my future in-laws.

We tried to put in the best application possible. My mother was completely honest about everything, her life—her finances, everything they requested, and we did the same.

My mother has never had any desire to live in Britain otherwise she would have come here with my father.”

Catherine has also requested the help of her local MP Sir Menzies Campbell in an attempt to have her Mother granted access to the country in time for the big day, but his offices have so far only confirmed that he is ‘considering the situation’.

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson and her actor husband Ryan Reynolds are reportedly planning to hold a second wedding ceremony.

The pair, who originally wed in the grooms native Canada are rumoured to be planning a ’simple and classic’ ceremony in the presence of a wedding party of 150.

This second ceremony is thought to be an opportunity for family and friends of the couple who were unable to be present at the first ceremony, to help celebrate the couple’s marriage.

Their initial clandestine wedding ceremony took place in a remote backwoods resort on the fringes of Vancouver, British Columbia. The location of the secondary ceremony has yet to be disclosed.

The new Mr & Mrs Reynolds began met early in 2007 shortly after the break down of Ryan’s long term relationship with Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette to whom he had been engaged.

The couple publicly announced their engagement on May 5th this year when world famous Scarlett was spotted wearing a 3 carat diamond engagement ring estimated to be worth around £16,500.

Just before their first ceremony the bride revealed her resolve to control the privacy of her wedding and confirmed that their wedding pictures would definitely not be posted in any celebrity magazines.

Concerned brides-to-be are anxious that their forthcoming nuptials could be devastated after Scottish branches of a wedding store closed down suddenly and without any prior warning.

Pronuptia, a French wedding chain has closed the doors of its franchises in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, reportedly leaving more than 150 brides without wedding dresses.

Lauren Smith, one of the distraught brides affected by the closures, put down a deposit of £300 on her dream dress a the Glasgow branch of Pronuptia and was knocked for six when she received a letter in the mail one week later confirming that the store had closed. The classroom assistant from Stewarton, Ayrshire who is due to wed her fiancé Amer Hussain in April of 2009 said:-

“It was awful. I was in tears. I thought they were one of the most trusted companies.”

Trading standards officers in the region confirmed that they have been swamped with complaints from distraught members the public affected by the closures, and confirmed that they had been in contact with the director responsible for the two Scottish stores, Robert Devlin.

Mr Devlin issued a statement from his £1million home in Sussex which is currently on the market. He said:-

“Pronuptia were not supplying goods on time and that’s why one or two closed. Another bridal shop has taken on orders and there’s no problem.”

Perfection Bridal and Menswear in Glasgow have confirmed that they will step in and ensure that all the brides involved receive their ordered wedding gowns.

A spokesperson for Perfection backed up Mr Devlins statement, saying:-

“Pronuptia in Glasgow will reopen as Perfection and all orders will be fulfilled. We’re not making any money out of this.”