However, grit and determination helped them make it to the finish line.placeholder image
However, grit and determination helped them make it to the finish line.

In Pictures: Husbands take their wives for a ride in the marriage stakes

William Shakespeare’s adage that the course of true love never did run smooth was proved during the UK Wife Carrying Race.

Competitors in Dorking teamed up for the event that sees husbands carry their better halves over a series of obstacles including some passion-dousing buckets of cold water.

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