When Ozzy Osbourne married his manager’s daughter, Sharon, on a beach in Hawaii in 1982, he sported fake fangs, nibbled his bride’s neck and sang, ‘Fangs for the Memories’ proving his respect for the holy sacrament of the marriage ceremony…

Kissing the bride to us uptight Brits usually means a quick decorous peck. Not so for sofa-jumper Tom Cruise and his cutie Katie at their nuptials…”It was a never-ending kiss,” said fashion designer Giorgio Armani, who had designed the outfits for bride, groom and baby Suri. “The kiss lasted so long, it caused guests to shout finally, ‘Stop! Stop!’”

When Elizabeth Hurley chose to marry Arun Nayar at Sudeley Castle, the vicar of the small chapel of St Mary must have thought his days of petty fund-raising were over. As a result, he waived the usual fee (about £1,000) but hoped for a celebrity-sized donation. Instead, the chapel received not a penny – the couple gave a dozen hand-embroidered kneelers… useful, one observer commented bitterly, for kneeling on to pray to God to bail out the Save Our Roof fund. “We need money to pay the gas bill!” said the parish treasurer. “Perhaps we were naïve and should have stuck with the normal charges. We’ll know for next time she gets married…”

While most receptions are known for their magnificent hospitality, some couples wouldn’t know lavish if they were ravished by it. Like the couple at one of our weddings who actually charged £8 a head for food at their reception. Or another occasion, where our bride and groom had earmarked their own, very expensive, wine at dinner. When one unknowing guest reached over and filled his glass from their decanter, the bride was seen waiting for him to turn his back whereupon she then poured the contents of his glass into her own, while the groom quickly poured him some from a cheaper ‘guest’ bottle…