Couple get married at Channel Islands Pride

Mrs and Mrs Morris were accompanied by people dressed as donkey-corns - a combination of donkeys and unicorns

A couple have got married at the Channel Islands Pride celebrations in Guernsey.

Freddy Palmer and Becca Morris from Guernsey tied the knot on the main stage of the event in St Peter Port's Market Square on Saturday.

Organisers said it was the first time a wedding had taken place at a Channel Islands Pride event. They added that it could have been the first wedding to have taken place on a Pride stage anywhere.

Freddy said: "We're wives and we can say it now. It's for everyone, it's for all the young people who need to see representation like this to feel accepted."

The couple from Guernsey said they had been waiting a year to get married at the event

The couple led the annual Pride parade which saw hundreds of people walk from Candie Gardens, through St Peter Port, to Market Square.

Before the wedding Becca said she was nervous because Pride was such an important event to her.

"It means so much to me, for making me feel comfortable in myself and my lesbian identity," she said.

Channel Islands Pride director Ellie Jones said the wedding could be a "world first where a couple have got married on a Pride stage".

"We can't find another case where it's happened and it's legal," she said.

"Because we have quite unique wedding laws we can get married wherever, whenever rather than getting married in a particular building."

Drag Queen Magenta is a patron for Pride organisers and charity, Liberate

The annual celebration of sexuality and inclusion is hosted by Liberate and held in both Jersey and Guernsey on alternative years.

It officially started on Friday night with the main events taking place on Saturday, including performances from Mercedes Bends and the Jersey Ballet, and activities including arts and crafts and a family zone.

Drag Queen Magenta, who is the patron of Channel Islands charity Liberate, said she was in Guernsey to have a "jolly good time".

"It's a chance for everybody to celebrate their differences and come together. It's fabulous," she said.

"We've got friends from Jersey over, we've got friends from the UK, it just brings people together."

The Pride parade sees hundreds of people make their way through St Peter Port

Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey Richard Cripwell was among the people watching events at Candie Gardens.

"It means a great deal, this is a remarkably inclusive community," he said.