Airline's wedding plans scrapped

Budget airline easyJet will not be able to offer couples the chance to get married in the skies after a Bedfordshire council rejected the plan.

The company applied to Luton Borough Council for pilots to be authorised to officiate wedding ceremonies.

But a council spokeswoman said the law did not allow a civil partnership or marriage to take place on an aircraft.

An easyJet spokesman said: "Faceless bureaucrats in windowless offices have scuppered the dreams of many."

easyJet's UK communications manager Andrew McConnell added: "We are of course very disappointed by this news."

The airline said it had received a number of requests from couples hoping to marry in the air and they had hoped to appeal to people looking to get married "somewhere out of the ordinary".

A spokeswoman for the council, which is responsible for registration in the area where easyJet's London Luton Airport headquarters is based, said: "We would be happy to consider licensing easyJet's ground facilities at London Luton Airport."

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