| Don't bother with wedding insurance - after all, | | | | The fact is that weddings are like any other |
| what could possibly go wrong? This is your big | | | | special occasions - simply an occasion or event |
| day - perhaps the biggest day of your whole life. | | | | that is special to a few people, namely the guests. |
| It is a magnificent declaration of the love which | | | | But the dozen or so companies and service |
| two souls have for each other, the very | | | | providers enlisted to put the day together and to |
| foundation of all that is good and true about the | | | | ensure its smooth running will not be so |
| human spirit. | | | | enamoured with the whole atmosphere of love |
| This is the day the world holds its breath for a | | | | and rose-tinted fluffiness. |
| few moments as you gaze lovingly into each | | | | For those employed to provide catering, |
| others' eyes and utter those magical words, 'I do'. | | | | entertainment, music, flowers, table decorations, |
| Quite clearly such a special time as this will be | | | | clothing and outfits, transport and such like it is |
| above and beyond any cruelty on the part of | | | | nothing much more than a normal business day. |
| fate. | | | | It's a little like going to the office, except with a |
| To take out wedding insurance is like admitting | | | | few more tears and considerably more alcohol in |
| that the world won't necessarily stop for you, | | | | many cases (though not all perhaps!) |
| that your big day is not shrouded in a mysterious | | | | With this in mind it is more easily understood that |
| envelope of love which will protect it from all | | | | businesses do sometimes make mistakes, or |
| harm and misfortune. | | | | experience problems or issues which can interfere |
| Surely even having a wedding insurance policy is | | | | with their own running. From double bookings to |
| to invite doubt on your part, and a wedding | | | | incorrect bookings, confused arrangements or |
| planned on a foundation of doubt is one more | | | | misunderstood or assumed requirements, it can |
| surely prone to problems, disappointments and | | | | be very easy for businesses to get it wrong. |
| disasters? Why not play it safe and abandon the | | | | But it is not always the direct fault of the |
| protection of a wedding insurance policy and trust | | | | businesses, because they in turn often rely on |
| in the endless protection which your love for each | | | | other aspects, such as their own suppliers, |
| other has, for better or for worse, 'till death do | | | | transport or finances. Just during the last year |
| you part. | | | | thousands of small businesses, and some much |
| Strangely enough, this is very nearly the way that | | | | larger ones, have become bankrupt, been handed |
| many couples feel when it comes to planning a | | | | over to the receivers or placed in administration. |
| wedding and considering the idea of taking out | | | | This inevitably has repercussions not just for their |
| wedding insurance. Weddings do funny things to | | | | own clients, but for the clients of their clients - |
| people, not least of all clouding minds with fluffy, | | | | which could be you, if one of your service |
| rosy images of a world that's a good deal kinder | | | | providers is let down by their supplier. |
| than it really is. | | | | The point is that whilst your wedding day should |
| Whilst many weddings go smoothly and without a | | | | be blissfully happy and the most wonderful and |
| hitch (except of course the for hitch which is | | | | memorable day of your life, it is still just another |
| planned - after all, that's what a wedding is all | | | | day, and just as prone to the whim of fate and |
| about) there are many other weddings which | | | | fortune. All the love in the world can't promise |
| suffer at the hands of fate, leaving the couple in | | | | that everything will go smoothly, but at least if |
| question to consider rather more thoughtfully that | | | | you have wedding insurance you'll be less likely to |
| part of their vows which refers to sticking | | | | put the 'richer or poorer' vow to the test quite so |
| together for richer or for poorer - the latter being | | | | soon. |
| especially pertinent. | | | | |