BRIDE-TO-BE Andrea Campbell spent two years planning every detail of her dream day - only to see it turn into the wedding from hell.

Andrea, 23, and husband Paul Swan, 37, spent £5,000 on a spectacular ceremony, which included tying the knot on the oldest floating warship in the country.

But an amazing catalogue of calamities left guests bloodied, battered, lost and eventually dining on fish and chips at the reception.

Andrea, from Seaham, County Durham, said: "The page boys' suits didn't fit, my dress couldn't be finished, our wedding car was sold, the lady repairing the suits broke her arm, Paul lost his wedding ring, a disabled guest fell over and needed first aid, and a page boy cut his lip and bled on his suit.

"We were banned from taking wedding pictures, the food didn't arrive at the reception and I got into a row with a bunch of footballers... but at least the weather was nice."

She and Paul had planned every detail of their day, the highlight of which was a ceremony on the HMS Trincomalee, at Hartlepool's Historic Quay.

The mother-of-three said: "We thought that planning in good time would allow everything to go smoothly. We couldn't have been more wrong."

After an amazing catalogue of crises, the last straw came when the 200-strong wedding party arrived, hungry and distressed, at a pub for the reception, to find that a staffing mix-up meant there was no food.

It was then that Andrea got into a row with a crowd of footballers eating from what she assumed was the wedding buffet.

But the staff explained that the wedding caterers had not turned up - so Andrea had to apologise.

The bridegroom's mother and the bride's aunt went out to get buns and ended up going to the fish and chip shop.

Andrea said: "The main thing is that we are married - I just can't comprehend all the things we had to do to get there.

"It might seem funny looking back, but it definitely wasn't at the time."

"I wanted a nice big wedding, but all I got was a nice big headache," she said.