However the couple from Wisbech, Cambs., had really wanted a gothic wedding in their local graveyard – but realised it would mean their marriage was not legally recognised.
So they decided to fulfil their dream by having a blessing, eight months after their ''legal wedding'', in Wisbech General Cemetery on Saturday at 3pm.
It was performed by a Spiritualist minister, as 40 family and friends gathered around the disused four acre site's ancient stone chapel.
Despite driving rain mother-of-three Samantha wore a white gown, flecked with strips of red material and completed her outfit with a black fur coat and black flowers in her hair.
Her bridesmaids and daughter, Raveena, nine wore matching outfits while her son Kurt, six, wore and AC DC T-shirt and six-month-old baby Nathan wore a sailor suit.
Samantha and Paul, who have three children, live just 200 yards from the cemetery where they have walked their three dogs daily for the last two years.
Factory supervisor Paul, who is from a Protestant family, asked Samantha if she wanted to have a blessing at the site after it underwent a £90,000 regeneration programme.
Housewife Samantha, who is from a family of Catholics, said friends thought she was mad when she told them she was having the £2000 wedding in a graveyard.
''We had a wonderful day and it was actually very peaceful and tranquil with all the graves and trees sweeping over the chapel.''
Following the blessing the couple returned to their local pub where they cut their giant French Fancy wedding cake with a metre-long Scottish broad sword.
Paul added: ''It's a kind of a strange place but it is a really pretty building and everybody really enjoyed the blessing.''
A spokesman for Fenland District Council who granted permission for the couple to be blessed on the site said he wished the couple all the best for the future.
Spiritualists believe the human soul is immortal and that those living in the physical body and those living in spirit can communicate with each other.
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