Glastonbury wedding for couple who brought their own cake

A couple who got married at Glastonbury transported a wedding cake made by the bride nearly 250 miles (402km) to the ceremony.

Charles and Charlie Shires, from Harrogate, had a “spiritual” hand-tying wedding in the festival’s Healing Field on Thursday morning.

A celebrant conducted the ceremony, which the couple attended after spending the night in a glamping site.

Mrs Shires, 31, a baker, had a “blow-dry bus” to get her hair styled in, and after the wedding they partied in the BBC Introducing tent.

“It was a brilliant day,” said Mrs Shires.

“I make birthday and wedding cakes for a living and I usually make buttercream, but I wanted a challenge to see if a white chocolate ganache would melt.

“It survived!”

The couple were joined by 15 friends who also got festival tickets for the occasion, but have planned “another wedding do closer to home” in the next few months to legalise their marriage.

Mrs Shires, who has been to four previous Glastonbury festivals, wore old, comfy boots while Mr Shires, an aerial surveyor who has also been to the festival six times before, wore his walking boots.

He said he “sadly” lost his jacket in a field.

“It was the only thing we lost!” he said.

The cake was kept in the couple’s tent and fridges in the glamping site before it was taken to the Healing Field.

The newlyweds have now returned to their “normal lives” in Harrogate and are likely to officially marry at a registry office later this year.

Mrs Shires added that her wedding dress was “ruined, muddy and stained”.

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