An avid horseman was getting married at St. John the Baptist Church on 119th Street Saturday afternoon. He had wanted to involve his horses in the wedding ceremony but couldn't so the women in the wedding party brought in a horse and carriage to surprise him, horse trainer Tamara Nevinger said.
"The groom in the wedding is a horseman and was upset he couldn't have any of his courses so the gals got together to surprise him with this. He has no idea," she said. "It's for a nice little photo shoot so he will have a horse in his wedding photos outside the church.
It was important to his family." Antique Coach and Carriage from Homer Glen supplied the horse and carriage for a photo op outside the church. The firm has brought horse-drawn carriages to weddings, quinceañeras, birthday parties and other special occasions across Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland since 1985.
"We've done jobs in Michigan, even Iowa," Nevinger said. "We've been to this same church before. We do a lot of jobs in Chesterton at the Sand Creek Country Club.
" The spectacle of setting the horse up on 119th Street drew a crowd of the curious before it trotted over to the Catholic church. Beauty is a Percheron, an elegant French draft horse breed that's often used in harness racing. It's one of 10 horses that Antique Coach & Carriage keeps in its stables.
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