WHILE music and arts entertained the scores of guests at the Village Pump in Westbury, the festival also played host to the honeymoon of two beekeepers from Calne.

Fee and Terry Cooke, 48 and 52, from Penhill Road, decided to spread the love a week after their wedding at the village festival after they had made a commitment to trade there.

Mr Cooke said: "We are both bee farmers and this is out best time of year for trading and we had made commitments to the Village Pump to sell our wares.

"With the workload of summer we can't go away for a week or two and obviously the Village Pump was a working weekend so we decided to have our honeymoon there.

"The organisers were fantastic and made sure we had a good time and they clapped us when we arrived in our campervan. It is such a fantastic atmosphere and the customers all congratulated us. It was a perfect way to spend our first week of marriage.

"My wife allowed me an hour off during the day to go and watch the Mark Radcliffe's Galleon Blast who performed sea shanties and were extremely entertaining between the songs and had the crowd in their hands."

The couple, who had their wedding at Calne Town Hall, originally met at a bee club shortly after Fee had moved to the country from Australia.

"Fee used to keep bees in Australia and wanted to get more of an insight on keeping bees in Britain as it is very different. She kept a considerable amount of hives compared to the usual hobbyist and I was giving a talk that day.

"Our friendship grew for two or three years, we courted for another couple of years and then I proposed to her in front of her parents in Australia about 18 months ago."

Although the couple enjoyed the honeymoon, they are now focusing on pollination and their work ahead.

"Married life has been put on hold really, but once the harvest has begun we can then maybe go away for a few days," Mr Cooke said.

"We are a match made in heaven – like bees and honey."