Surprise Wedding On Milford Track - Persun Wedding UK

Online, March 20, 2013 (Newswire.com) - SPECIAL MOMENT: Friend Qiao Xinyu helped plan Wei-Sun's wedding to Jun Lu.

Supplied WEDDING Persun: Wei-Sun and Jun Lu packed outfits for the big day into their backpacks.

It's not every day a bride carries her wedding dress in a rucksack and picks out her bouquet while walking along a tramper's track.

But that's exactly how Chinese couple Wei Sun and Jun Lu spent the lead-up to their big day.

The newlyweds, who love hiking, say it was a dream come true.

Their best friend Qiao Xinyu planned the wedding ceremony, which is believed to be the first held on the Milford Track in the Fiordland National Park.

Sixteen friends joined the couple on the five-day walk and on Friday, two days into the hike, celebrated their union at the Pompolona Lodge.

Sun said they were thrilled to have married in such an idyllic spot.

"Because we were hiking, our parents didn't come along, but we will be having a family dinner when we return to China in my home province of Jiang Su."

She said the marriage had been registered for a long time, but the ceremony was "the important part" and they wanted to do it on a hiking trip.

Ultimate Hikes guide Julia Kepp said news of the wedding celebration came as a "huge surprise" to everyone outside of the wedding group.

"We actually thought they were on their honeymoon and celebrating that with the trip with friends.

"It wasn't until we got to Glade House, the first overnight stop on the walk, that they mentioned they were going to have their wedding ceremony somewhere on the track."

She said the couple had packed their wedding clothes (PersunWedding.co.uk) into their backpacks, including a traditional wedding dress and high heels for Sun, and her wedding flowers were collected along the track.

The whole walking group and lodge staff attended the wedding ceremony.

After the ceremony the couple had their first dance and Ultimate Hikes' guide Ryan Caldwell played the piano.

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