More than 800 volunteers turn up every year to help out at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire which run this week between 7 – 11 May.
For one couple the event, which attracts about 200,000 visitors to watch the best horses and riders in the world, it really is a love affair.
Martin met his wife-to-be Emma nearly 25 years ago by the finish of the cross country course.
"We subsequently got engaged a few years later by the lake, so there are many happy memories for both of us, with families and friends attending with us over the years," says Emma.
Throughout the year, Martin travels past Badminton every day to his furniture workshop in Luckington.
He has been volunteering at the event since about the mid 90s.
Mostly, he says he would be riding a quad bike delivering dressage scores down to the secretaries and giving lifts to riders from the lorry park to other areas of the ground.
