A BIKE crazy couple are to be married in the first Royal Wootton Bassett Ride of Respect wedding in Chippenham next month.

Biker bride Jody Chadbourne, 27, will be walking down the aisle in leather jacket and jeans, after pulling up to the register office on the back of her dad’s Kawasaki 750.

For their honeymoon on May 17, she and new hubby Jason Cross, 43, will be joining around 10,000 others on their motorbikes in Royal Wootton Bassett. They have been going to the mass ride together every year since it started in 2010, to pay tribute to those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The route changed after service personnel were repatriated to RAF Brize Norton rather than Lyneham, but this year's event returns to Wootton Bassett.

Miss Chadbourne, a cashier in a school kitchen, has been waiting eight years after he popped the question at home in Luton, Bedfordshire.

She said: "I love the freedom of the open road. Last year I said to him, We're going anyway, why don't we just get married there? If we tell everyone they have to wear a Ride of Respect T-shirt, we can help the charities."

Mr Cross, a coach driver, said: “Basically, if they don’t follow the dress code, they’re not coming in. That way we’ll raise £600 from the T-shirts. Even my mum, who’s 60, will be wearing one.

“Jody said she didn’t want to buy a wedding dress, so she got a brand new leather jacket tailor made and she can wear it every day.

“We’re hoping around 20 guests will be coming on their bikes, and they can make an alleyway of bikes for Jody to walk through.”

Charities to benefit will include UKHomes4Heroes Pride & Passion, Bike Tours 4 the Wounded, Armed Forces Bikers, Army Benevolent Fund and Walking with the Wounded.

Mr Cross said: “The troops go out and protect us as a nation. And when the going gets tough, when they get back our money helps support them if they’re ill or injured. Bikers are one big family and we all pitch in.”

The Cross wedding will also be attended by the Ride of Respect's organisers, biking grandmothers Julia Stevenson and Anne Cole, who have raised about £500,000 since it began.