A COUPLE on holiday in West Devon decided to have an unusual fishy wedding blessing.

Visiting Anglers Paradise at Halwill Junction, Emma and Mark from Bookham, decided to bid for, and won, a designer wedding dress at a charity auction hosted by Anglers Paradise and then decided to have a wedding blessing down at the Koi Lake.

Owner of Anglers Paradise Zyg Gregorek said: ‘Revised vows are taken very seriously among anglers, substituting the normal vows for — Dearly beloved we are gathered here together in the sight of God, nature, fellow fishermen and fish to renew our eternal vows and proclaim your everlasting love. Do you Emma promise to take Mark for good days and bad days, big fish and small fish, blank days and loads of fish?

‘Will you look after each other’s tackle, wash it and clean it after use? And do you promise to honour and obey and go fishing everyday? I now pronounce you fisherman and fisherwoman, husband and wife and with this net I now re-join you for ever and a day.

‘The weather stayed fine for the couple, needless to say Mark proposed officially to Emma and they now await a date — good luck and best fishes to both of them.’