JORDAN & PETER Blacked out cars, tiny white ponies, pink egg carriage .. a tacky triumph
IT WAS billed as the fairytale showbusiness wedding of the year - so trashy glamour model Jordan and Peter Andre were determined not to disappoint.
With the small matter of a £1.75million cheque from a sycophantic magazine helping the nuptials run smoothly, Jordan and Peter orchestrated a bash which even Liberace would have been proud of.
The model, real name Katie Price, made sure she pulled out all the stops for the ceremony at Highclere Castle in Berkshire. More than 350 guests, including "celebrity" friends, helped the pair clamber into a kitsch pink egg-shaped carriage.
Six miniature white ponies then took Jordan and Peter - who met in Australia as contestants on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! in January 2004 - to the castle library where the 34FF model, dressed in an outfit with a 27-foot train, duly managed to say: "I do."
The ceremony began at four o'clock and was performed by superintendent Celia Roper and registrar Penny Brown.
Both Jordan's children, three-year-old Harvey and two-month-old Junior, joined guests.
Guests arrived for the bash in blacked-out cars - in a bid to keep the magazine deal on track.
Jordan herself, though, made her entrance in a helicopter - wearing high-heeled shoes complete with pink satin ribbon ankle ties. Although wags wondered whether she could have floated herself. Bridesmaid Kerry Katona arrived by minibus, smoking a cigarette.
She carried the ladies' bouquets of deep purple and white flowers with ferngrass.
With other "celebrity" guests like Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding, former England captain Paul Gascoigne and Liberty X's Michelle Heaton looking on, the couple signed the register while the choir sang Stevie Wonder's hit Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours.
Guests were later led to a marquee - decked out with pink carpet and pink drapes - in the castle grounds.
They were served pink champagne before sitting down to a five-course dinner. Later, the floor was cleared for the DJ and a karaoke machine. Meanwhile, about 50 locals stood outside the castle, but Jordan, 27, and Peter, 32, had hired a team of 25 security guards to keep their wedding under wraps.
The marriage went ahead despite bridal nerves. On Friday evening, Jordan broke down at the rehearsal saying: "It's too much, let's just call it off... I want it to be right - I want it to be the most perfect wedding ever."
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