Groom still feels the jitters despite experience of 41 wedding ceremonies

Forget about the blushing bride. It’s the groom you have to worry about.

Alex Pelling got a dose of the heebie-jeebies yesterday when he tied the knot, in every sense, with his bride Lisa Grant.

“I was very nervous,” said Alex, 31, just after a wedding ceremony among the crashing waves of Doonbeg beach in Co Clare. “It was a bit nippy but the nerves kept me warm.”