Victoria Lee rode her white chocolate button cow, White Chocolate Button, to her wedding in Mark, Somerset, last weekend. The 37-year-old bride arrived after a tractor ride into the village, then made the final stretch on the cow she calls her best friend.
White Chocolate Button in Mark
Lee said White Chocolate Button is “pretty much my best friend,” and she chose the cow for the wedding after growing up on her family’s farm in Dorset and learning to ride cows instead of ponies. “I grew up on my family's farm in Dorset and we weren't allowed ponies so I started riding cows,” she said.
She also said, “I thought - why not train White Chocolate Button to take me to church.” That is exactly what happened in Mark, where she and her bridesmaids were flanked together as the bride and cow made their way to the church.
Basil Did Not Want To
Lee said she also tried to train Basil for the same job, but it did not work out. “I also tried to train [my other cow] Basil but she didn't want to do it so we left her alone,” she said. The detail gives the story its friction: this was not a farmyard parade by default, but a choice narrowed down to the animal that would cooperate.
White Chocolate Button had already been part of farm festivities before the wedding. Lee said, “She's used to being dressed up as a ghost for Halloween,” adding, “She gets a bed sheet put over her with eyes and ears cut out, so she's used to it.”
After the Ceremony
After the ceremony, Lee and Mike went back to the farm to milk the cows before joining the festivities. Guests at the reception entertained themselves for a couple of hours while the couple stepped away, then returned to the celebrations with the dairy work done first.
The wedding stands out because the transport was not just decorative; it followed the rhythm of farm life. Lee’s route from tractor to cow to church, and then back to milking, kept the day tied to the same routine that shaped the choice in the first place.
