British couple get married in supermarket

Sunday, February 29, 2004

LONDON -- Instead of walking down the aisle, the bride -- and her 11 bridesmaids -- glided up a supermarket escalator. Scores of shoppers filling up their grocery carts in a store in the northern English town of York paused to watch Saturday as Jill Piggott, 42, and Pete Freeman, 54, tied the knot. The couple, who became the first Britons to officially marry in a supermarket, chose the location where they met when Freeman was shopping and Piggott was working the checkout aisle. The bride made her grand entrance up the store's escalator, wearing a strapless white gown, and was accompanied by the bridal party through the menswear and underwear sections to the ceremony in the shoe department.

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