This image shows police talking to the bride at Manchester's Hilton Hotel[MEN]Police arrested the newlyweds amid an alleged spat said to have erupted between them and the hotel's reception staff as the couple tried to check-in.
The photograph of the alleged matrimonial misbehaviour was taken in the city's Deansgate area by a bystander in a taxi.
The witness said: "The bride had a cigarette in her mouth. I couldn't see the groom.
"It looked like the police were trying to calm her down."
Officers were called to the plush hotel shortly before 11.30pm on Saturday night, after a concierge called the hotel's security to help quell the row.
But a fight then allegedly sparked, involving security guards and the couple.
During the scuffle, the 25-year-old groom, dressed in his wedding suit, allegedly attacked one of the security guards, cutting his face in the process.
The Hilton Hotel towers over Deansgate in Manchester [GETTY]We can't have a situation where, regardless of what ceremony they have been to, people are being allegedly being assaulted and racially abused.
The groom was arrested on suspicion of assault with his 29-year-old wife held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.
They were taken to a local police station where they were kept in separate cells, just a few metres apart, overnight, having entered the police station without the customary lift over the threshold.
Nick Adderley, Chief Superintendent of Greater Manchester Police's North Division, backed his officers in making the shock arrest.
He said: "Police officers were asked to attend and we did so. We then obviously had to think over the decision whether it was right thing to do to arrest.
"But it absolutely was and I support the officers who made that decision.
"We can't have a situation where, regardless of what ceremony they have been to, people are being allegedly being assaulted and racially abused."
The identities of the bride and groom have so far not been revealed.
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