A KENT church was filled to the cloisters when a bride led her bridesmaids up the aisle - all 21 of them!

Apart from the bridesmaids, Tracey Duffin was accompanied on her big day at St Michael's Church at Wilmington, near Dartford, by a pageboy and four ushers.

It took a limousine three trips to ferry the excited group from Tracey's home in Oakfield Park Road, Wilmington, to the church.

The bridesmaids, pageboy and ushers spanned two generations - the youngest just 15 months old and the oldest 26.

Tracey, 39, married 34-year-old Jason Andrews. The couple were joined by their children, eight-year-old Page and Teoni, five, who both escorted their mother down the aisle.

Tracey said: "I have been with Jason for 10 years and we never felt that we needed to get married.

"But the children have lost two of their friends and we wanted them to have a really good day. The children have been through so much in the last couple of years. The wedding was really for the children."

Tracey said: "About 14 of us turned up for the wedding fitting (at BhS) and I think the staff were pretty shocked, but they coped really well."

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