Bride claims sausage burials lead to sunshine weddings

However, a lot of couples anxiously cross their fingers and hope the skies will stay blue so they can capture photos that can be treasured forever.

But one bride-to-be wasn't taking any chances and decided to banish the worst of the weather by trying an old wives' tale - burying a raw pork sausage in her garden.

Lisa Sale is convinced the unusual trick transformed the weather on her wedding day to childhood sweetheart Murray Sale from rain to 'perfect' sunshine. (Image: Kennedy News)

The couple, both 52, feared their outdoor wedding at The Swiss Garden in Shuttleworth, Bedfordshire, on July 5th  would be ruined as rain was predicted.

After researching online, the mum-of-two discovered a strange wedding tradition of 'burying a sausage' the night before the wedding to supposedly guarantee sunny spells the next day.

Lisa, who works as a voluntary trustee for a hospice, dug a four-inch hole in her garden and horizontally buried a single raw Co-op Butcher's Choice sausage before saying a small prayer.

Despite waking up the next day and initially believing her ritual hadn't worked, the 'superstitious' bride was over the moon to be 'blessed with perfect sun' just one hour before the main ceremony.

The 'wedding lore' is thought to originate from Spain, where farmers buried sausages among their crops to protect the crops from stormy weather.

Lisa, from Hatfield in Hertfordshire, said: "I bought a packet and sent a picture to my now-husband to say 'Right, I'm burying this sausage'.

"I dug a little hole and I buried it in our back garden the day before [the wedding]. I planted just one and I put it in horizontally.

"I dug about four inches down and well and truly buried it and I did a little prayer.

"I felt very positive doing it. I do believe in positive manifestation.

"You've got absolutely no control over the weather but at that point, I was convinced I did. I just felt hopeful.

"It did work but I woke up to rain the following day at 5am.

"I sleep in an attic bedroom so I could hear the rain coming down and I thought, 'oh no, it has not worked'.

"I was having my hair done at home, it must have been 9am and my daughter came down and she said 'Mum, it's stopped raining!'

"It hadn't quite but it was like icing sugar rain.

"By the time we left the house at 11.15am though, it had stopped raining.

"We got in the car and as we got to Shuttleworth the sun came out.

"We were blessed with just perfect sun. It wasn't too hot, there was no wind, it was just perfect weather.

"We headed off at 2pm to our next venue where we were having our wedding breakfast.

"We were about midway through the meal when the heavens opened.

"We'd just had this perfect window."

Fearful of the typical British summer weather, Lisa began to consider the trick after a friend shared her daughter's success story with her.

Lisa said: "The weather has been dreadful this year.

"We booked our wedding at this little chapel outdoors.

As the date started getting closer, we started looking at the weather forecast and it was just rain and rain and rain. (Image: Kennedy News)

"I'm part of a Facebook wedding page and they were discussing the weather and somebody had said 'Oh you need to bury a sausage'. I'd never heard of it.

"I researched it and I spoke to a friend who said 'my daughter got married and she buried a sausage and she had a break in the weather and we actually believe that's what it was'.

"I'm a little bit superstitious but I thought 'I'm not going to do it, a sausage can't possibly impact the weather'.

"And of course the day before, I found myself popping to my local Co-op thinking 'is it plain pork or pork and herb sausages?'

"Is it a front garden or back garden?"

"'Do you cook the sausage, is it a front garden or back garden or do you take it to the venue?'"

Lisa met Murray later in life, after both previously going through divorces when the charity she worked for at the time was working with the print company owned by Murray.

However, the pair had been childhood sweethearts who dated at primary school when they were just eight years old.

The lovebirds have been together for seven years and had a small wedding, which Lisa says was the 'best day of her life'.

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Lisa said: "We're childhood sweethearts. We went to school together. We dated when we were about eight years old, only for a few months.

"Eventually we were about 45 and our paths crossed. We were both divorced.

"It's lovely because you can reminisce about school days and school trips.

"We got engaged two years ago. We went to the Trevi fountain in Rome and he proposed there. It was lovely. I was really shocked, I wasn't expecting it at all.

"The wedding was the best day I think I've ever had in my life. It was wonderful.

"Having gone through the wedding and all the emotions, it's almost like the weather doesn't matter. It's about not losing sight of the fact you're marrying your love."