How Well Would Your Other Half Do?

Having watched the TV programme "Don't Tell The Bride" last night there were a few things that made me wonder how well my own hubby of 19 years would have done if he had been told he had to organise our wedding all on his lonesome!

There were a few points that struck me during last night's programme. A very sweet young Essex couple,Luke and Lauren, decided to hand over their big day to the BBC by signing a legal document stating that the Groom2Be, Luke would be the only one to be involved in the planning of their big day, in return for £12,000 to pay for it!

Young Lauren scooped up her baby, Poppy and her best mate and hot footed it off to Italy to visualise the Italian style wedding she had always dreamt of. This wedding which would have taken place in an Italian Catholic Church, followed by a small and intimate reception in an authentic Italian restaurant with her dressed in a simple fitted and very plain wedding dress.

Meanwhile Luke was desperately trying to get permission to marry in the local Catholic church that Lauren attended regularly but was having to line up plan B which was to have a Civil Ceremony in a very English stately home hotel!!

My heart was in my mouth as the camera cut back to Lauren who was getting very emotional in the Italian Chapel, describing how her faith is what got her through her baby's early days of lying in an incubator on a Special Care Baby Unit having been born 5 weeks prematurely! The thought of this poor (very teary) girl coming home only to find out she was to be wed in a civil ceremony was almost too much to bear!

Luke then went on to choose her wedding dress - a dress that was - well everything she said she hated in a dress! All except for the fitted bit anyway!

Her Hen Night was to be held in the centre of London (she was a Southend Girl), and she and her hens were to be dressed in skimpy shorts, leotards, leg warmers etc (think Eric Prinz). Of course this left her feeling very vulnerable and uncomfortable and so she and her hens hopped straight back onto their fun bus and set off back to Southend to finish off their night on familiar territory!

So, what started out as a young bride who's expectations were way off target, a young Groom who didn't seem to know what was really important to his wife turned out to be a very successful wedding with Lauren getting the all important Catholic wedding and she even loved the wedding dress he picked out for her!

Phew!