Say you'll be mine: Couple tie knot at foot of Yorkshire pit

Sharon Torr, 58, and her husband Alan, 68, spent six months organising their unusual wedding venue.

Sharon, who works for the National Coal Mining Museum near Wakefield, where the celebration was held, was thrilled to have been allowed to get married underground.

She said: “It was wonderful. We wanted to get married somewhere completely different and we could have asked for nothing better than to be the first couple to tie the knot down a mine.”

“Everybody had to wear helmets while travelling down underground and to the room we got married in but they were white and mine had a bit of bling on the front - it looked like a tiara.

“I also had my hairdresser waiting at the top when I came back up to fix my hair because those helmets do ruin your look.”

All guests had to wear a small battery pack for their cap lamps to ensure they could see in the pitch black.

Sharon added: “I carried my battery pack because I didn’t want anything attached to my dress.”

Guests at the wedding last weekend were transported underground in two convoys before Sharon made her grand entrance with her two sons, Zac, 26, and Brett, 24, four bridesmaids and two page boys.

Once underground, guests and the wedding party were taken to the museum’s education room for the ceremony.

Sharon, who got engaged to Alan in Mexico in January 2016 after the two met online in July 2014, said: “We kept the benches used in the room for the guests. There was some machinery in the room that we draped cloth over but we kept the informative posters up on the walls.

“They weren’t very sightly but we didn’t wanted to take away from the authenticity of the room.

“We had flowers in the underground room and also two lit miners’ lamps on either side of the registrar.

“It just looked wonderful.”

Sharon, who was married to her first husband for 28 years, said her father worked as a miner for 32 years.

She said: “I remember him going out to work down the mine at the crack of dawn. His dad worked down the pit as did my grandfather’s brother.

“My mum’s dad was also a mine foreman so it runs right through my family.”

Sharon and electrician Alan are now honeymooning in Cornwall.