Couple travel on a tractor made for two

Geoff, a tractor driver trainer, had arranged for them to travel to their wedding reception in the £150,000 green machine after they tied the knot at Swindon Register Office on Saturday.

Marion, 52, of Walcot, only found out about the addition to the wedding plans a week before and said she did not believe it until she saw it.

“I had never been in one before. Getting up and down from it was a bit tricky. I had the best man, Darren Smith, holding my dress,” she said.

“We went up Queens Drive and Marlborough Road. Everybody was beeping their horns and waving. It really did make me feel like royalty.

“It was a day I never thought I would experience.”

Geoff, 54, who works for John Deere tractor agents Farol, drove them to their reception at the Menzies Hotel, where a red carpet had been laid out.

He said: “It had to be done and I think I’m forgiven.”

The couple, who got engaged in October, both have sons called Neil and daughters called Holly/Hollie, with the only difference being the spelling their daughters’ names.

Marion had two bridesmaids, Holly and Hollie, her maid of honour was her daughter, Lucy, and she was given away by her son.

The couple met at a tractor festival in Oare, near Marlborough, about three years ago when Geoff was working on one of the stands.

Their honeymoon has been postponed while they move to Eldene but their first dance was to Andy Williams’ Moon River to celebrate what is going to be Marion’s first trip abroad.

Marion, a carer, said being with Geoff has transformed her life. She said: “I am 52 and this is the first time I have got a passport. He has turned my life around.

“Life begins at 50. I passed my driving test at 49 and I have been a care worker for two-and-a-half years. I was agoraphobic, I couldn’t leave the house, so to be able to come out now and do what I do is amazing.

“I lost my younger sister to cancer and I think it was losing her that made me realise life is so short. You have got to go out and do something.”