A bridegroom who repeatedly punched his wife and bit and choked her in the back of the bridal car on their wedding day has been sentenced to more than two years' jail.

Adnan Rusanovski, 30, was ordered to serve at least 15 months behind bars at a sentencing hearing in the County Court.

Adnan Rusanovski leaves the County Court after being found guilty of assaulting his wife on their wedding day.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to two charges including recklessly causing serious injury after leaving his new bride ''black and blue and covered in blood''. The attack was so bad, Judge John Smallwood described it as a "flogging."

Rusanovski also assaulted his best man in a stretch Hummer limousine that contained a bridal party of five teenagers, a bridesmaid, aged 11, and a nine-year-old pageboy who screamed during the attack.