Covid crisis could see an end to lavish weddings for good
The dress, the cars, the flowers, chocolate cake for him, vanilla for her. For brides, grooms and parents faced with raiding savings to help with the costs, everything about the big day tended to be, well, a little bit too big. And for ‘big’, read ‘eye-wateringly expensive’. Before the pandemic rained misery on brides and grooms across the land like coronavirus-soaked confetti, the average wedding day was said to set couples back just over £35,000. Caught up in the Instagram dash to create the most lavish and fun social media friendly wedding, as well as the basics, there wou...