UK Wedding News
08/08/2014
In a new study, carried out by gettingpersonal.co.uk, 1,000 newlywed brides were asked about the planning that went into their big day.
While four in 10 said they turned "fiercely competitive", a further six in 10 said they chose certain things, just to make their wedding more impressive than their friends. Half of the brides surveyed all tied the knot within the same year as one of their friends, while a quarter said they had booked their weddings in the same month. And it seems the comparison to other brides is a large source of concern for a number of women. For one in 10 brides, they said it would be "unforgivable" if one of their friends purchased the same wedding dress as them, while a third said the personal touches, like table settings, dress designer and general theme of their big day had been copied by one of their other engaged friends. 10% of newlyweds even confessed they went as far as to verbally accuse a fellow bride of stealing their ideas. However, 36% also admitted that they had copied aspects of other women's wedding's for their own big day.
Setting competition aside, other worries for a bride on her wedding day include the pressure to look good in photographs, the weather, bridesmaids who gain weight, a misbehaving best man, an interfering mother-in-law and too many children attending the ceremony.
The planning takes it toll on the woman, as one in 20 said they had made themselves ill in their attempts to make their wedding trump their friends' wedding, while more than half argued with their family and friends during the planning stages. The bride's mother – and mother-in-law to be – took most of the blame for the fights, the study found. The bride not receiving enough help to plan the wedding was also another common disagreement.
A spokeswoman for GettingPersonal.co.uk said: "There's definitely a trend now for every wedding to go one step further than the norm.'
"We all know that a woman's wedding is supposed to be the best day of her life - so of course wanting it to be just right can really build pressure.
"With wedding blogs, social media and the huge furore over celebrity weddings, no wonder a bride-to-be can become overwhelmed with making everything perfect.
"But though it's stressful, it's the personal touches that really add that special something to a wedding day, so that everyone can enjoy it as much as the newlyweds."
(JP/IT)
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Four In 10 Brides Are Bridezillas
Four in ten brides have admitted turning into a 'bridezilla' as they planned their wedding.In a new study, carried out by gettingpersonal.co.uk, 1,000 newlywed brides were asked about the planning that went into their big day.
While four in 10 said they turned "fiercely competitive", a further six in 10 said they chose certain things, just to make their wedding more impressive than their friends. Half of the brides surveyed all tied the knot within the same year as one of their friends, while a quarter said they had booked their weddings in the same month. And it seems the comparison to other brides is a large source of concern for a number of women. For one in 10 brides, they said it would be "unforgivable" if one of their friends purchased the same wedding dress as them, while a third said the personal touches, like table settings, dress designer and general theme of their big day had been copied by one of their other engaged friends. 10% of newlyweds even confessed they went as far as to verbally accuse a fellow bride of stealing their ideas. However, 36% also admitted that they had copied aspects of other women's wedding's for their own big day.
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Setting competition aside, other worries for a bride on her wedding day include the pressure to look good in photographs, the weather, bridesmaids who gain weight, a misbehaving best man, an interfering mother-in-law and too many children attending the ceremony.
The planning takes it toll on the woman, as one in 20 said they had made themselves ill in their attempts to make their wedding trump their friends' wedding, while more than half argued with their family and friends during the planning stages. The bride's mother – and mother-in-law to be – took most of the blame for the fights, the study found. The bride not receiving enough help to plan the wedding was also another common disagreement.
A spokeswoman for GettingPersonal.co.uk said: "There's definitely a trend now for every wedding to go one step further than the norm.'
"We all know that a woman's wedding is supposed to be the best day of her life - so of course wanting it to be just right can really build pressure.
"With wedding blogs, social media and the huge furore over celebrity weddings, no wonder a bride-to-be can become overwhelmed with making everything perfect.
"But though it's stressful, it's the personal touches that really add that special something to a wedding day, so that everyone can enjoy it as much as the newlyweds."
(JP/IT)
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