Love is a Cupid's cabbage

A Wellington bride whose family work in the fruit and vegetable trade ditched a traditional wedding bouquet – when her husband said it with cabbages.

Wellington bride Victoria Kelly, whose family have run a market stand for many years, received a Cupid's cabbage.

And now the farmer who grew the cabbage has named it after the blushing bride and put them on sale in supermarkets.

Victoria Kelly said her new husband, Gavin, gave her a Cupid's cabbage on their big day at St Patrick's Church, Wellington.

She said: "I thought it was lovely, to be honest. I was much happier with that than I would have been with roses or a traditional bouquet. It made me laugh and it looked very pretty. We've been in the fruit and veg trade for all of our working lives. We know one of the growers, TH Clements, and they came up with a special cabbage. They decided to name it after me and put it on sale in the supermarkets."

Mrs Kelly's brother, celebrity chef Jon Corbett, was impressed. He said: "The cabbages look amazing."

TH Clements, which grows the cabbages and has fields in Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Cornwall and Norfolk, believes the cabbages will be a smash hit.

Chris Gedney, managing director of TH Clements, said: "It became clear that the flowering cabbages were going to be a big hit." Flowering cabbages are on sale at selected retailers priced at 89p each.