The couple had left their front door unlocked for their son after going to bed. "We have two massive dogs which sleep in the hallway so I usually felt it was fine," Mrs Norris-Lee said. Unfortunately the dogs had been put in kennels and the burglars found the couple's rings and other personal items in the kitchen ready to be taken to the wedding venue the next day. "They must have thought they had hit the jackpot," she said.
"The most mortifying thing was they also took Dave's late mother's jewellery and irreplaceable photographs." Mrs Norris-Lee and her husband, 43, decided against buying cheap wedding bands as temporary replacements. "We'd spent so much time choosing our wedding rings, it didn't seem right to have some other gold bands blessed," she said. "I just said to Dave I'd rather use Haribo sweets, so we did."
The jelly rings were blessed at St Laurence's Church, Meriden, where Mr Norris's mother's funeral was held earlier this year. "The vicar was lovely about it, and happy to bless the sweets, but when they started to melt onto our fingers I had to ask if it was OK to eat them now." The couple plan to buy new rings after their honeymoon. Mrs Norris-Lee said: "We had a theft, married each other using Haribo, the band was late and there was a fire at the hotel, but we were not going to let anything spoil what was a wonderful day."
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