Couple celebrate their wedding day with a Happy Meal after tying the knot

A COUPLE who had to cancel their wedding due to the coronavirus pandemic finally tied the knot - with a McDonald’s me a l o f a l i fet i me t o celebrate.

Melissa

Russell, 27, and

Shannon McKenna, 26, had been engaged for six years but had no plans to tie the knot until the coronavirus pandemic made them realise they wanted to get hitched.

They planned to have a marquee in their garden, but restrictions meant that would be difficult, and when they booked a hotel it was cancelled a week later.

McDonald’s worker Melissa spoke to her boss, Kate Walker, about the difficulties they were facing, and was astonished when she pulled out all the stops to give them a dream wedding reception in the fast food restaurant in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.

After being married by a humanist celebrant in Chatelherault Country House, in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, they went to Melissa’s workplace where her colleagues

pulled out the stops to give the 18 guests the best McDonald’s meal they had ever had.

Guests had a three- course meal with the option of Mozzarella Dippers or Chicken Selects for starters, anything off the menu for a main course, and ice- cream sundaes served in crystal glasses, or apple pie and ice- cream.

The food was beautifully plated and the brides said it was the best party they could have imagined.

Melissa, who wore a white Grecian- style wedding gown, said: “It was an absolutely fabulous day. Kate is such a lovely, helpful person and she went above and beyond, she did so many things we didn’t expect, she got the tables decorated.

“My colleagues treated me like a princess, they waited on us hand and foot.”

Her father, Charlie

Russell,

55, is ill which prompted Melissa and Shannon to think about getting the wedding organised.

Charlie was able to walk Melissa down the aisle, to give her away to Shannon, who was wearing a floor length black dress decorated with feathers.