SOMERSET (Web Desk) – Wedding nerves are natural on the big day. Dangling 25 metres above the ground on a rope when saying your vows, however, may give new rise to the word ‘nervous’.
Two circus performers on Saturday tied the knot while balanced on a high-wire 25m (80ft) in the air.
Professional rope walker Chris Bull, 37, and his 25 year-old fiancée Phoebe Baker were married in the unusual ceremony above the gorge at Wookey Hole on Saturday.
The couple tied the knot on a wire stretched 75 metres across, starting at opposite ends of the rope and meeting in the middle.
A ringmaster friend ordained to marry couples conducted the ceremony from the ground with a megaphone, and the couple hired the Wookey Hole theatre on site for a cabaret-style reception. Even the exchange of rings was conducted in the air thanks to a rope pulley.
Wookey Hole Caves is one of the UK’s most popular tourist attractions and one of the largest show cave systems in Europe.
Joint-owner and director Daniel Medley said: “We have held several weddings at Wookey Hole in the caves themselves but never any as ambitious and unique as Chris and Phoebe’s.”
