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.”

Whilst a wedding is more often than not a combined effort between the bride and groom and their family and friends, the honeymoon is often a decision simply between the bride and groom.

A honeymoon should be the perfect start to married life; it will enable you some down time and help you to relax after the weddings, and will provide you and your new husband with some private time together before the practicalities of married life kick in.

As such there are a number of points to consider when planning for and booking your honeymoon, here are just a few:-

Budget - Decide early on, exactly what kind of honeymoon you can afford. Your wedding will likely have put you under some financial pressure, so there is no point planning an all inclusive fortnight in the Maldives if realistically all you can afford is a weekend in Brighton

Holiday type - Consider your perfect honeymoon from both points of view, its no good booking a relaxing beach holiday if your partners idea of a great holiday is hiking up a mountain

Freebies - When you book your honeymoon, make sure that your hosts are aware that you are newlyweds. You may be upgraded to a superior room at no extra charge or receive a congratulatory bottle of Champagne on the house

Time together - Wherever you decide to honeymoon, make sure that you arrange to spend at least some time together doing nothing at all, whilst you might enjoy sightseeing and exploring your honeymoon destination it is important to enjoy the beginning of your married life together, and this is your honeymoon after all!