The oversight was discovered just minutes before the ceremony last Saturday but Christopher McQuillen-Wright threw off his priest's robes and sprinted three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometres) to the home of the bride's mother where the rings had been left for safe-keeping, church officials said.
Four minutes later the 35-year-old, who has won the Tresco Marathon on the Isles of Scilly off England's southwest coast, picked up the bands and turned on his heel, making it back just in time for the bride's arrival.
Photographs of McQuillen-Wright sprinting to and from the church near Newquay, southwest England, featured in a number of British newspapers Thursday alongside beaming newlyweds Christopher Smith, 33, and Lucy Rid, 29.
The priest said that the narrow lane outside the church in the village of Parkenbutts, St Columb Minor was blocked by a horse and carriage and he decided it was a better bet to collect the rings under his own steam.
"I have always enjoyed running. When I got back the guests were outside and gave me a round of applause. The main thing is the ceremony went ahead and everyone was happy," he told the Daily Telegraph.
2 comments:
wow..that's cool...
the drawfs told me he would make it in time
It was probably the dwarves that blocked the road with the horse & carriage
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