A Camelot Wedding: Couple plans themed wedding in three days

        As the 70 wedding guests of Sandra Elor and David Williams gathered at Stonehaven Farm in Harrow, ON, Canada, they had no idea what was in store.

       They had been told they would be attending a garden wedding, but nobody said anything about horses.

        Even the parents of the bride and groom were caught off guard when they saw their children make their grand entrance at the ceremony on horseback.

        "The guests were shocked that it was a Camelot wedding," says Sandra. "We kept it all a big secret."

        Visions of Camelot danced through their heads, as the guests watched David, in full dressage, enter the arena on the back of a gorgeous black gelding named Lazaar.

        When his beaming bride followed, riding sidesaddle on Freespirit, a gentle Arabian mare, a hush fell over the audience. Without as much as a nay from the horses, the couple calmly said their vows, making official, their status as husband and wife. It was only when the two newlyweds leaned over to give each other a kiss, that the horses got restless.

        "Lazaar tried to kiss Freespirit, but she nipped him," says Sandra.

        Sandra and David decided to get married on horseback for obvious reasons: they both love horses, and they both enjoy equestrian riding.

        "Basically, we wanted to incorporate something that we really enjoy doing together, and that was riding horses," she explains, adding that they had been taking English riding lessons together for a year prior to the wedding, and that each of them owned a horse.

        The horses that participated in the Camelot wedding, however, were borrowed from friends.

        "They were experienced being around crowds because both had competed in a lot of shows," says Sandra.

        Amazingly, it took the couple only three days to plan the entire Camelot wedding.

        "We decided on Monday to have the wedding on Thursday," says David.

        After hearing about the couple's plans, friends and fellow horse-lovers immediately got to work decorating Stonehaven, and preparing the horses for the big day.

        "The horses had to be bathed the morning of the wedding, their manes had to be braided, and their hooves had to be polished," says Sandra.

        Both Sandra and David have fond memories of their Camelot wedding.

        "It was a success," says Sandra. "And we couldn't have done it without everybody's help."