A bride and groom who spent their wedding night in police cells after a racially fuelled bust up with staff at Manchester’s Hilton Hotel confessed to their marital evening of shame today.

A newlywed couple received the mother of all wedding gifts when Smiths legend Johnny Marr paused his gig at the 02 Apollo in Manchester last week to play them a romantic tribute.

With The Wedding Fair exhibition taking place in Manchester this weekend, here at MM we’ve picked our top five wedding gifts.

Laura Mayers and her Bridal Make-up Team give top tips for brides on their big day.

An ex-soldier was brutally attacked outside his home in Eccles after he disturbed a gang of burglars raiding his home – before they made off with his late wife’s wedding ring.

A leading bridal designer will be coming to Manchester this month to help brides in search of the perfect wedding dress find ‘the one’.

Find out the sotries behind the finest, fiercest and flounciest wedding dresses and the brides that walked them down the aisle from the start of the First World War to present day

Mother of Kirsty Bigland, 30, who was still in her white wedding dress, shouted ‘Fucking monkeys’ and Paki bastard’, when a card payment was refused as she and her husband Nick, 25, tried to check into their room, it was claimed

Online dating is big business and the phenomenon is continually evolving and finding new ways to bring people together. MM took to the streets of Manchester to ask: Do you use online dating?

A wedding dress amnesty is being held to give terminally-ill brides the day of their dreams with the help of a unique marriage charity – leaving them with only something new and blue to find.

A barmaid who was beaten up by a drunken mother of three at a Bolton wedding reception despite pleading she was pregnant with her first child has given birth to a healthy baby.