The couple wedding reception was chopped so that the venue could show the World Cup match

A newly married couple went up in smoke after a bar canceled his wedding reception because the patrons wanted to show the World Cup match of England

Katrina and Samuel Williams were considering to bring together 200 families and friends at Humber Dock. Bar and Grill in Hull Saturday after their wedding in Cyprus last month.

But their carefully prepared plans were thrown into chaos when the venue said they should use a smaller function room – and began advertising the English game to Katrina, 25, said : "Everything collapsed on us when we received an email from Humber Dock at 5:45 pm [on July 4] to cancel our wedding celebration, which left us 48 hours

" It's absolutely horrible – we have a family flying from New Zealand to celebrate with us especially, as well as family and friends from all over – it's so stressful to try to find a new place and let everyone know

She added, "We can not have access to everyone who has to come, so I had to drive to inform people of the news." I found it all traumatizing – we have a toddler to look after and I work full time as in nurse and I do not need this extra stress. "

The couple believes that the change of plan of the place was due to But the bar insists that he has never offered the great hall that Katrina and Samuel, 31, have asked.

A spokesman said: "It was unfortunate that on this occasion the communication between us and the concerned party was delayed. and the details were finalized only up to a week before the event. We would like to point out that this was not a failure on our part.

"Due to this delay, the apparent confusion over the function room offered turned out very late in the day." We did our best to find an alternative solution and it is a shame we could not do it. "