Five wedding guests had to leave a wedding early as they were called out to an emergency rescue. The Porthcawl RNLI crew were attending the wedding ceremony of fellow volunteer Reverend Mark Broadway and his now-wife Jessie Broadway when they were called out to rescue two people who were cut off by an incoming tide.
It came after the vicar at the start of the ceremony advised guests to "switch off your phones unless you're lifeboat crew and might get a shout". But 17 minutes later five guests of the wedding were called away.
The lifeboat volunteers left All Saint's Church in Porthcawl and arrived at the nearby lifeboat station where they quickly changed from their suits for dry suits before launching their boat to sea. They were first on the scene at Dunraven Bay and luckily the couple cut off by the tide were rescued using a Coastguard helicopter, which had located a rock slab nearby.
