Sat nav almost puts a stop to wedding

A groom on the way to his wedding was held up for over an hour after the coach he was travelling in took a wrong turn and became stuck down a narrow country lane.

Tony Stead was travelling in the vehicle along with 50 guests to Tintagel, Cornwall, when the driver's satellite navigation system directed him the wrong way, leaving them all stranded at the bottom of a hill approximately four miles from the wedding venue.

His wife-to-be, Nicola Barton, had already arrived at the venue, the Camelot Castle Hotel, as had her six 'best women', only to discover that both Mr Stead and the guests were nowhere to be seen, thisisnottingham.co.uk reports. Unbeknown to her, there was no reception for mobile telephones at the bottom of the hill, so no one could contact her, or even the coach company to ask for a replacement vehicle.

"It was a bit tense," said Mr Stead. "We knew our coach was going the wrong way. Then we just went down a very steep hill, the front dug into the tarmac and the back did the same, leaving the wheels spinning round in the air."

However, as luck would have it, local people realised that the coach party were in need of rescue, and kindly offered to drive them all to the service. And what's more, the Nottingham couple both agreed that while the coach delay had certainly been nerve-racking, it had ultimately added a fair bit of excitement to an already special day.