Maybe you’ve had the same vision in your head since you were 5 years old of what your wedding dress would look like, the extensive floral decorations, all the guests dressed to the nines and catered food from the best fine dining chef.Â
Along the same vein, I can still remember being a young girl and assuming that the only way you got married was if you had an available castle, floor-length poofy dress, white dress gloves to your elbows and awaiting carriage or limousine.Â
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