A BRIDE got steamed up to make her wish come true when she rolled up in style at St Luke's church in Goostrey.

Jade Simms, 26, got to her wedding on time in a hay cart hauled by a century-old steam-powered farm traction engine.

And she and her bridegroom, Nathan Worstencroft, 29, arranged for their guests to come to the ceremony in a 1914 Foden steam bus in the livery of the Midland Omnibus Company based in Stoke-on-Trent.

Nathan, a lorry mechanic who lives in Byley, helped to restore the traction engine owned by Jade's stepfather, Des Bostock from Goostrey after it was rescued and shipped from Tasmania.

The rare steamer named Lady Carrick was built by Fowlers of Leeds in 1902 and is a regular exhibit at traction engine rallies and every year leads the procession at the rose queen festival in the village.

Jade, who works at Mandeville's village bakery in Holmes Chapel, where pop idol Harry Styles also worked before he found celebrity fame, met Nathan through their mutual love of steam engines.

One of the guests said: "She and Nathan are very attracted to traction engines and that is what brought them together.Jade always wanted to go to her wedding taken by the one Nathan helped to restore. Now her dream has come true."

Nathan, who has a repair business in Middlewich, and Jade have bought a house in Sandbach to live in. 

The omnibus is owned by Alan Painter from Sandbach and is a faithful replica he built on the original five-ton 103-year-old Foden steam wagon.