However, the sight of him whisking a bride to her dream ceremony in his £250,000 Bentley Continental would become a familiar one in Truro. When he scooped £13.5 million on Lotto, former bus driver and retired funeral director, Peter Congdon did what so many lucky winners have done since the first National Lottery draw 30 years ago, he treated himself to a selection of luxury cars, including a BMW i8 and a Bentley Continental.
Peter Congdon has transported more than 25 Cornish brides to their weddings (Image: Martin Bennett/National Lottery) He said: “I was driving a Ford Kuga at the time of my win, funnily enough, nobody asked me to chauffeur them anywhere but soon after I bought the BMW, a local lad came up to me and asked if I’d take him to his school prom. I agreed – and from then on, it’s snowballed with other pupils asking me to take them so they can arrive in style. “One teenage girl sat in the car and actually cried, because it was her dream car.
” It was during the pandemic, that Peter, who is a grandfather of ten, branched out, helping a local bride when her wedding was cancelled four times and, when they could finally go ahead, she couldn’t get a wedding car in time. Peter said: “It was such a memorable moment, when the bride walked out, she was expecting to climb into her dad’s car and instead, she looked up and saw my Bentley parked across the street, and realised she did have a beautiful wedding car. “She wept so much that she had to go back .