Beautifully turned out in pristine new school uniforms, youngsters from a Wolverhampton school made sure their teacher had the perfect wedding present for her special day.

A guard of honour made of poles and ribbons in the colours of Christ Church Primary School greeted newlyweds Vicky Price and Darren Osbourne, a social care graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, as they left the Penn Church. 

As the happy couple signed the marriage register inside St Bartholomew’s Church , 15 youngsters from the school in Coseley where Vicky works performed two songs to a delighted congregation.

The youngsters, all members of the school’s choir, sang Come On And Celebrate and Best Friends at the wedding on Saturday.

Speaking today before she jetted off on her honeymoon to Miami where the couple will take a two-week Caribbean cruise, Vicky, aged 29 of Mount Road, Penn, said: “I had no idea about the guard of honour –  that was a complete surprise.

“I am very grateful to our head teacher Pat Hazlehurst because she allowed the choir to rehearse during the last week of term.

“She is the one who made it all happen. I am really looking forward to the new term when I will see the children again.”

Vicky said that pupils’ parents stayed for the wedding so they could see the youngsters perform.

Six-year-old Chelsea Roper’s mother has also written to Vicky saying her daughter was “honoured and touched” to have been asked to sing on her special day.

Teachers Tracy Chance and Becky Edkins run the school choir and made sure rehearsals went smoothly.

Miss Chance said: “Vicky wanted to make sure she could see them sing so she asked for them to perform while she was signing the register so they knew how touched she was to have them there.”