Big day at museum is kept under wraps

A couple from the Black Country have held a wedding with a twist by keeping the details of their nuptials top secret until their guests turned up to celebrate the happy occasion.

Nurse Linda Plant and her new husband David Homer, a sign company boss, decided they wanted to do something a bit different when they tied the knot at the Cradley Heath Workers' Institute at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley on Saturday.

The happy couple, who have been living together for more than eight years, invited guests to their home in Withymoor Village, Brierley Hill but once they arrived they then boarded a Black Country Tours bus which took them first to Himley Hall where they enjoyed a picnic before heading onto the tourist attraction where they had decided to hold their nuptials.

They even kept the details of their wedding secret from Linda's daughters Harriet, 23, and Charlotte, 21, as well as David's bestman and brother Ian.