Posted 12/02/2004 05:34:00 PM by Douglas

What a lovely wedding, but the reception left something to be desired. I wonder what the vows were like? "Do you promise to love, honor and cherish for the next 90 minutes."

Scott McKie and Victoria Anderson were looking forwards to a life of wedded bliss as they tied the knot.

But an hour and a half -- and a series of drunken assaults -- later, divorce was looming fast.

The tale of what has been billed one of Britain's least successful ever marriages ended with 23-year-old McKie being dragged from his own wedding reception by police, newspapers reported on Thursday.

According to the reports, the happy marriage lasted for all of 90 minutes before Anderson, enraged at a drunken toast to the bridesmaids by her new husband at their reception, violently hit him over the head with an ashtray.

He responded by taking a hat-stand at the pub in a suburb of Manchester, northwest England, where the party was taking place, and hurling it towards the bar "like a javelin", according to witnesses.

And they were drunk? Go figure.