BRIDESTALK

“Don’t laugh. All that talk about increased birth rates! Well we are contributing to that figure now and I am due early next year! I’d like to get married before then, but don’t want to make any plans yet, especially re the frock as I have no idea what size I might be! I will start looking online soon to see what’s available.”

Out of the Mouths of (Bridal) Babes...

Unsurprisingly, the current topic is what style of wedding will be first choice in 2021 and if there are changes to original plans

“Right now, the traditional ballgown (that my mother loves) just doesn’t seem appropriate for a downscaled wedding but a boho number (which I love) certainly is. I had a fairly healthy budget

for the dress and will probably spend less than half of that now and the savings will go towards my honeymoon wardrobe – of course that’s when a honeymoon will be allowed.” ‘Okay, so it took a good while to get over the shock of my dream day vanishing into thin air, but I suppose there have been so many changes in our lives one has to adapt accordingly. Not seeing my fiancé for a good few months has been really hard but with daily skype and zoom sessions I actually feel we have got closer and I have certainly struck up a real relationship with my future in-laws that I didn’t have before. We have rescheduled our wedding for October 2021 – lockdown taught me to be patient – and right now we are thinking small. But I will have my dream dress, whether we end up just with us, and guests on a big screen, or manage to have a proper party.”

“We decided that outdoors was what we wanted now, and we’re looking online to see what is available a year from now. It will be low-key and good fun, rather than anything formal, as previously planned. I already had my dress, bought off the rail in a local bridal shop sale, but I have spoken to the shop owner and a little later her alterations lady might make some changes so the dress is more casual.”

“We had been planning a real splash, with friends and family from abroad joining us, and had saved seriously for almost two years. After much discussion in recent months we have decided to use the money earmarked – and use it all! That may sound extravagant or crazy to others but I want to remember my wedding day as being the best ever. If that means we end up in the most expensive hotel having dinner with the immediate family, so be it. I will not regret the decision. My dress? My thinking has changed. I don’t want traditional any more, I want a touch of slinky Hollywood glamour.”

“This whole lockdown thing has changed my thinking and, I guess, my priorities. That coupled with the possibility of one of us losing our jobs, means we have had to take a long, hard look at what will be possible. We haven’t re-scheduled our venue booking – planned for August – we cancelled it completely a good few months ago, and I have a credit note from the shop I had ordered my dress from. I think we will make decisions in the late autumn about the when and where for 2021. I am not sad… well I am a bit… I know I have to get on with it and make life as easy as possible.”