MADNESS OR STYLE?: Meet the bride who turned up to her wedding in a closed coffin

COFFINS are usually reserved for the dead – but one has played a part in a very special day for the living.

For it was Jenny Buckleff's vehicle of choice to transport her to meet her groom on her wedding day.

58-year-old Jenny Buckleff surprised guests when she showed up in a coffin adorned with a grim reaper for her own wedding. She got married to Christopher Lockett, 51 of Stoke-On-Trent in Wales. The  ecstatic new bride had the coffin bike driven in honour of his brother, a bike lover.

Jenny, a former parlour worker and qualified embalmer and a current employee of BET365 - a betting company, said. 'I just wanted to do something a little bit different! Instead of turning up in a horse-drawn cart, I thought I'm going to turn up in a coffin.

She said she did it because she wanted to be a different. In her words; ‘I just wanted to do something a little bit different. Instead of turning up in a horse-drawn cart, I thought I’m going to turn up in a coffin.” Her groom wasn’t in support at first, but she was able to convince him to reason with her.
According to her she almost didn’t tell husband Chris but in the end she spilled the beans about three weeks before. He was a bit surprised but he said as long as she was happy he would go with the flow.
Although the pair gave lots of wedding guests a shock, they said they were pleased to have had such a talking point at the wedding.

I almost didn't tell Chris but in the end I spilled the beans about three weeks before.
'He was a bit surprised but he said as long as I was happy he would go with the flow.
'What more could I ask for from a new husband?!

Jenny's daughter, Jade Meads, 27, said: 'The coffin (pictured) was a bit strange, but my mum is never normal. I thought she was joking at first.'

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The groom was a little shocked when I told him my plans, but he just went with the flow. The best man didn't know until the day. A lot of people didn't know."

The coffin belongs to Jenny's biker brother, Roger, who was given it as a gift by his daughter.

Jenny, a qualified embalmer, wanted to bring the wedding to where her brother lives in Wales as he suffered a heart attack last year and was too ill to travel.

She added: "My brother is different. He's covered in tattoos. They are on his face, and everywhere. He looked the part.

"I don't normally dress like this. I work for Bet365, so you have to be well presented."

Jenny met her new husband, Christopher Lockett, just six months ago and he proposed one month later in their local pub, the Horn and Trumpet.

Lorry driver Christopher, aged 51, said: "She kept it from me for a bit, but then it slipped out. It was different, but if that's what she wants to do then that's fine.

"When we first met in The Victoria on the Square in Hanley, I gave her my number. But I was so drunk, I gave her the wrong number and kept going back to the pub week after week, waiting for her to come back in.

"It was maybe four or five weeks until we met again and it went from there. It was love at first sight. I proposed around Christmas. I was out shopping for presents when I saw a jeweller's and I thought, 'why not?' It wasn't planned."

The couple have five children from previous marriages. They were all there, alongside Christopher's ex-wife, to watch them get married.

Jenny's daughter, Jade Worrall, aged 27, from Longton, said: "The coffin was a bit strange, but my mum is never normal. I thought she was joking at first."

Jenny's brother, Roger, was hoping to ride the trike, yet Hayley, aged 46, took on the responsibility due to his ill health.

Hayley said: "My husband has always been interested in skulls and skeletons. The house is full of ornaments like that, and he's covered head to toe in tattoos.

"The coffin was bought as a present, so he turned it into a trailer. When we go away on bike rides, we use it to put all our camping gear in. We get an awful lot of looks when we go out with it. It's unique."