A horse-mad groom chose his favourite stallion as best man – which also joined him and his new bride on honeymoon. Paul Boyles, 47, secretly arranged for his former racehorse King Erik to walk down the aisle when he and wife Kay, 48, tied the knot.
Touching pictures show the couple on their wedding day followed by ‘best man’, Erik who kept the rings in a special pouch on his saddle. The happy couple even took 17.2-hand Erik with them on an 11-day horse trekking honeymoon following their May wedding.
The couple, from Hetton le Hole, County Durham, bought Erik last year, keeping him at a stables nearby.
