Two ponies have tied the knot after their owners arranged a wedding ceremony complete with bridesmaids, pageboys, tea and a “first dance”. The Welsh section A bride Daisy, 15, and 22-year-old groom Raffie are owned by 10-year-old Lucy Wells and her best friend Georgie Orgill, who had been planning the elaborate ceremony since the start of the summer holidays.
Lucy, Georgie and Lucy’s sister Daisy, seven, organized every detail of the two-hour nuptials including the vows, a musical ride in the sand school as a first dance and a wedding tea with cake for both the human guests and the ponies. “Lucy and Georgie have matching ponies who get along very well, and Raffie is nearly outgrown and will soon be retired or rehomed, so they wanted them to get married to confirm their love before it was too late!” explained Lucy’s mum Chrissy, who runs South Brockwells Farm and livery yard in Sussex.
“We had a bit of an in-house Pony Club camp this year, as for many reasons we couldn’t go camping, and I was feeling a bit guilty so I said we’d do something at home,” she said. “They planned it all and wrote the speeches and there were about ten children as bridesmaids, page boys, a maid of honor and ushers — everyone had a job.
Hearing the vows was hilarious, they involved sharing bales of hay.” Outfits were acquired from a charity shop, with Daisy also sporting make-up and a much-treasured veil which belonged to Chrissy’s late mother. “We lost my mum about nine years ago and she would have loved nothing more than seeing the veil put to good use like this,” she said.
