Cave Rescue Organisation volunteer Jude Onions and her partner Johnny Latimer will be dressing down in outdoor footwear for their unusual cave wedding.

The pair will be tying the knot at a blessing in Ingleborough Cave in the Yorkshire Dales, before having the main service at a nearby church.

Not content with merely having a cave wedding, the bride-to-be has had an underground hen party too, where 25 guests were winched 360 feet down into the Gaping Gill.

Joined by a band, the women wore feather boas, accompanied by climbing helmets, to celebrate the cave enthusiasts send off.

Speaking to Grough, Ms Onions said: "It was a tad damp sitting in the winch chair but we soon escaped to a dry corner so no-one got too wet. Mud is just part and parcel of caving ... a good slather of cave mud on your face is far cheaper and more natural than any spa treatment."