All Much of a Muchness (You & Your Wedding)

Member Name: Karon

Product:	You & Your Wedding
Date:	21/09/00 (114 review reads)
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Advantages: Puts your mind at rest

Disadvantages: expensive and unrealistic

I can't think of any of the Bridal/wedding magazines that I tried a year ago which stood out in my mind. This one is no exception.

Every single one of them is stock full of glossy adverts and not much else. Even their articles are not so much indepth as promotions for various products.

The basic premise with these magazines is to prey on a Bride's basic fear that something might go wrong on her wedding day, so she pays out @ £3.00 on one of these magazines to help allay her fears that she has not forgotten anything, and that she is doing everyhting right.

Unfortunately these magazines do not seem to focus on what is the most important element of a wedding ; the marriage afterwards. Sure a Wedding day is important, but it's only one day; a marriage could be for a lifetime.

They also pander to the "expensive" side of weddings. Registry Office weddings are rarely if ever featured. They work on the statistic that avergae wedding costs are about £14,000. Let me tell you, mine in May 1999 cost £3,000 including all the outfits and the honeymoon. And I didn;t scrimp on anything that was important, just cut out the faff like "favours" etc.

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