A couple from County Durham are appealing to friends, family, wedding industry suppliers and any other members of the public who can help them arrange their perfect wedding. After being made redundant 2 years ago from jobs in the hospitality industry and struggling to find alternative employment, Karen Wilkinson and Chris Sanders have come up with an alternative way to pay for their wedding.
Originally, the pair planned to marry two years ago but when Karen fell pregnant with their now 20 month old daughter Ellie, plans were put on hold.
Channel 4′s popular consumer issues programme SuperScrimpers is seeking couples planning weddings for an upcoming series about wedding overspends.
The show, hosted by financial experts Mrs Moneypenny from the Financial Times and Moneyweek’s Merryn Somerset Webb, offers advice on saving money and will be including a wedding special to help provide advice to couples who want to make sure their wedding budget doesn’t run away with them.
A plucky groom spent a whole year planning the wedding between himself and his girlfriend, Colleen, using snippets of information gleaned throughout the twelve month period to put together her ideal wedding. Knowing nothing about the event until she pulled up in a Jeep thinking she was attending a retirement party, the bride to be was asked on a rose petal scattered red carpet whether she would marry Shawn.
For romantics everywhere, the video of the day’s event, complete with nervously waiting hopeful groom:
A couple from County Durham are appealing to friends, family, wedding industry suppliers and any other members of the public who can help them arrange their perfect wedding. After being made redundant 2 years ago from jobs in the hospitality industry and struggling to find alternative employment, Karen Wilkinson and Chris Sanders have come up with an alternative way to pay for their wedding.
Channel 4′s popular consumer issues programme SuperScrimpers is seeking couples planning weddings for an upcoming series about wedding overspends.