Brrrr-ide & groom; Couple are married on top of glacier in Alaska.Byline: By CATHERINE JONES Catherine Jones is an English television news journalist, currently a reporter and presenter on Five. Born on 12th January 1971 and brought up in Essex, Jones started her professional career in the newsroom of Buckinghamshire based local radio station Mix 96 in 1994. SOMETHING cold, something new.... It was a nice day for a white wedding when two Huyton lovebirds decided to get hitched - on top of a glacier in Alaska. Tracy Ryder and Steven Worthington shunned the idea of getting married on an exotic beach to exchange their vows amid the ice and snow of the glacier close to the town of Juneau. The pair were accompanied on their daredevil bridal mission by a registrar, photographer and a helicopter pilot who whisked them off to the top of the glacier before acting as a witness. Tracy, 34, who works as a manager for Liverpool Cruise Club, said: "We had looked at getting married in Bora Bora. But we were told the marriage wouldn't be legal in the UK. "I didn't want to go anywhere like the Caribbean and I'd always wanted to see Alaska while Steve wanted to go to the Canadian Rockies The Canadian Rockies comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains range. The southern end in Alberta and British Columbia borders Idaho and Montana of the USA. The northern end is at the Liard Plain in British Columbia. ." The couple spent a week in western Canada
Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West before joining a cruise ship to sail Alaska's inside passage - with a very special stop on the way. Tracy said: "We were picked up by limo and driven to the heliport heliport, airport designed exclusively for helicopter traffic. where we flew off to the glacier. "We landed on an area where tourists don't go so we had it all to ourselves. "It was fabulous. It was all so blue and while and the temperature that day was 21C with blue sky - although I had to wear white snow-boots under my dress. "I wouldn't change a thing. It was just what we wanted." catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk CAPTION(S): I DDDDDO: Tracy and Steven Worthington who got married on top of an Alaskan glacier |
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