I'd thought that Londoners had seen it all, and that no amount of dressing up or acting in socially unusual ways would incite so much as a batted eyelid. But when our Runaway Bride (Victoria Clare) in a full bridal gown and veil from the 80s and running mascara came hurtling down out of Brixton Station it did cause a certain commotion. Onlookers stopped and gawked, commented, shouted, whistled, honked their horns. One lady even pushed her child forwards across the road as she looked sideways at the running bride (see photo #3 on the Urban75 blog post - http://www.urban75.org/blog/the-bride-of-brixton-tube-station/).
However, it was the pair of police officers that surprised us the most. As they approached Victoria at the bus stop, I made myself very small, and broke down my camera equipment, ready to be threatened with some sort of public order offence. But to my great heart-warming relief they had stopped merely to ask her why she was upset and crying. Was there anything they could do for her, alone and upset, on her wedding day?
Never a dull moment as we made our how-to-get-there video with a difference for Shotgun Wedding on Sat 28 July at The Windmill, Brixton.
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