A REDDITCH couple who did not have enough money to get married in the style they would have liked enjoyed the wedding day they had always dreamed of on Saturday - four decades after their first time.

Peter Grummett, 64, and wife Carol, 56, of Winyates, were married in 1965 at Bromsgrove Register Office when she was 16 and he was 23.

But the couple have always regretted they did not have the wedding they really wanted, surrounded by all their family and friends.

Mr Grummett was formerly a well-known milkman in Redditch and now works in computers, while Mrs Grummett is a lorry driver.

Son Paul, 32, said: "My dad told mum that over the years he'd bought or done whatever he thought she needed or whatever he thought she'd like for their anniversary and said he'd run out of ideas, so how did she fancy finally having the marriage ceremony she'd always wanted?

"She was absolutely thrilled by the idea, so all the planning started from there."

On Saturday at St Stephen's Church, Mrs Grummett was accompanied down the aisle and given away by her father, while Paul was his dad's best man.

Paul said: "It felt a bit weird being asked to be best man for my dad.

''But it was lovely having granddad give mum away as he never got the chance the first time around."

The couple's two granddaughters were bridesmaids and also in attendance were numerous family members and friends, the couple's two daughters, Tracey and Debbie, and their seven grandsons.