For better or for Hearse: Bride shocks guests by arriving to her wedding in coffin

Jenny Buckleff makes a shocking arrival       Photo:Courtesy

Jenny Buckleff, 58, who chose not to give her guests prior warning, said: "I just wanted to do something a little bit different"

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Here comes the bride... in a coffin.

But Jenny Buckleff isn't dead - she just wanted to be "different" on her big day.

The 'corpse bride', 58, made the unusual entrance at her wedding on Saturday when she got married to Christopher Lockett, 51, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.

She lay in the black coffin with the lid closed as she was pulled along by a motorcycle in honour of her brother – a motorcycle enthusiast.

Jenny, who works at customer service, said: "I just wanted to do something a little bit different!

"I almost didn't tell Chris but in the end I spilled the beans about three weeks before. "He was a bit surprised but he said as long as I was happy he would go with the flow.

"What more could I ask for from a new husband?!"

Jenny, a former funeral parlour worker and qualified embalmer, was driven to Llangefni register office by her sister-in-law, Hayley Buckleff, who pulled the coffin behind a VW Trike.

The coffin, which was black and adorned with a grim reaper, belongs to her brother Roger who was given it by his daughter.

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Jenny said: "It's definitely different. Instead of turning up in a horse-drawn cart, I thought I'm going to turn up in a coffin.

"The groom was a little shocked when I told him my plans, but he just went with the flow.

"The best man didn't know until the day. A lot of people didn't know."

The couple decided to marry in Wales near to where Roger lives as he suffered a heart attack last year and was too ill to travel.

She added: "I don't normally dress like this and I'm not a goth at all.

"I work for Bet365, so you have to be well presented and I'm normally very smart.

"But my brother is different. He's covered in tattoos so for once he looked the part."Although the pair gave lots of wedding guests a shock, they said they were pleased to have had such a talking point at the nuptials.

Jenny added: "My brother and I are very close so it was nice to be able to do something to honour him and do something a bit different.

"He loved it and said it made his day."

The couple met just six months ago and he proposed one month later in their local pub, the Horn and Trumpet.

Lorry driver Christopher, aged 51, said: "She kept it from me for a bit, but then it slipped out. It was different, but if that's what she wants to do then that's fine.

"When we first met in The Victoria on the Square in Hanley, I gave her my number. But I was so drunk, I gave her the wrong number and kept going back to the pub week after week, waiting for her to come back in.

"It was maybe four or five weeks until we met again and it went from there. It was love at first sight. I proposed around Christmas. I was out shopping for presents when I saw a jeweller's and I thought, 'why not?' It wasn't planned."

The couple have five children from previous marriages. They were all there, alongside Christopher's ex-wife, to watch them get married on Saturday.

Jenny's daughter, Jade Meads, aged 27, said: "The coffin was a bit strange, but my mum is never normal. I thought she was joking at first."

The bride's brother, Roger, was hoping to ride the trike, yet Hayley, aged 46, took on the responsibility due to his ill health.

Hayley said: "My husband has always been interested in skulls and skeletons. The house is full of ornaments like that, and he's covered head to toe in tattoos.

"The coffin was bought as a present, so he turned it into a trailer.

"When we go away on bike rides, we use it to put all our camping gear in. We get an awful lot of looks when we go out with it. It's unique."