For most brides, a wet wedding day is the ultimate disaster.
But Janet Wright floated down the aisle happily drenched from head to toe.
She married Chris, her partner of 20 years, at an underwater ceremony in the Maldives.
The keen scuba divers got hitched in the Indian Ocean state surrounded by fellow holidaymakers and inquisitive fish.
"It was totally amazing. They'd created a whole stage area with a swinging seat," said Janet, 58, whose maiden name was Janet Dulling.
"There were curtains and flowers, there was an aisle to swim up and a big welcome sign.
"It was absolutely incredible – I didn't expect as much as that."
The couple, who were staying at Centara Grand Island Resort and Spa in Ari Atoll, had been on 26 dives before the ceremony but instructors steered them away from the stage while it was being set up.
So, the wedding 12m underwater was a complete surprise, from its aisle edged with fish statues to the flowers drifting with the tide and the stage where their names were written in a heart.
After being presented with rings carried by Thomas Taylor, son of the couple's friend Lisa, signs were held up asking if they would take each other in holy matrimony.
Mark and Lisa each held up cards reading: "I do."
"We thought it would be a brief ten-minute thing underwater but they had really done the works for us and everything was a complete surprise," said Chris, 63.
"If you're into scuba diving, I would recommend getting married underwater.
"It was just awesome and well worth doing."
After the ceremony, staff working for Best Dives Maldives uncorked two oxygen tanks, sending clouds of bubbles to the ocean surface.
The couple emerged into the tropical sunlight and toured the atoll on a catamaran with a "just married" sail before getting into flower-bedecked golf buggies and heading back to their room for champagne and cake.
It was the island's first underwater marriage, Chris said.
Because the Maldives is a Muslim country it is not possible to get officially married there, so Janet and Chris also held a ceremony with family at Cottingham Civic Hall near their home in the village.
"We've been together for 20 years so we just thought maybe we should get married," said Chris, a chartered accountant.
"We've been scuba diving for years and we thought, 'Why don't we get married out here? We don't want to make a big thing of it'.
"You can't get married in the Maldives because it's a Muslim country but you can have a ceremony."
The couple started diving more than a decade ago and love the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
The water is full of life-supporting plankton and teeming with fish.
"I've got some superb videos of whale sharks and manta rays – it's just absolutely amazing," Chris said.
"There are always fish around out there.
"You put your head underwater and you're in a different world."
