Penny is at the 'getting married' stage, but Mark has yet to propose! Whilst waiting for Mark to catch her up, Penny has been trying to add to their wedding savings but has taken her eye off the ball playing online bingo. Mark proposes and Penny discovers the wedding pot does not look as healthy as she expected.
In an attempt to salvage any chance of a future wedding let alone a decent wedding, Penny decides to convince Mark to let her plan the wedding as a surprise, like the tv reality show. In the process Penny learns not only the true cost of a wedding, and how to budget but also realises that this is not just about the wedding but her reasons for wanting to marry Mark and spend the rest of her life with him. Will she be able to pull off a stylish wedding on her minimal budget? Will she make it to the altar?
I instantly warmed to Penny and her plight. It is all too easy to let things slide and not realise how finances are changing. I enjoyed being part of her journey to organise a wedding on a tiny budget, but still make her groom proud of her. I could identify with her to some extent as I organised our wedding on a budget just last year.
Fabulous rom-com with the feel good factor. I loved it! Thank you to the author for sending me a review copy for my honest opinion. Megan Readinginthesunshine. Penny has lots of big plans for her wedding day — she wants a wedding celebration that will be unforgettable, and after having saved for a long time to have the perfect wedding, Mark finally ask her to marry him!
But all is not as straight-forward as it seems — shortly after Penny checks her wedding fund she is horrified. Her only choice is to get help for her addiction and plan a wedding on a much smaller budget.
I really enjoyed this. I warmed to Penny straight away, I loved her personality and I could particularly relate to her. Having got married myself last year I know the pressure of saving for a wedding, and then trying to create a perfect wedding on a budget, and how the money seems to disappear before your eyes! I was very proud of Penny that she was trying to sort things out in regard to the gambling and the wedding, and throughout the book I very much got behind her, and I was cheering her on all the way.
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The Last Vermeer. Bargain Hunt. The Long Call. Clean It, Fix It. Richard Osman's House of The Repair Shop. Highest Rated. Meet the Hedgehogs. Denying the bride access to the decision-making process inhibits her ideas from ever being grounded in reality. Should the groom be trying to recreate what the bride wants? Or should they be trying to create the wedding that they might have been dreaming of for their special day?
A wedding, much like a marriage, should be about compromise, and the combination of two people and their lives together. Through the planning process, the couple should be working together to create an event that suits both their tastes.
But, in this show, compromise is almost always failure. Because the bride is not involved in the process of compromise; instead, she only has her own vision to compare it to. This leads us on to the insidious aspects of this disastrous show: the enforcement of patriarchal, heteronormative gender stereotypes.
In Season 1, Episode 1, the phrase her day or variants thereof is repeated no fewer than ten times. Not once is his day , or even their day said by anyone, including the groom, who looks worried when he mentions that perhaps the event has a touch of his personality to it. This perpetuates the stereotype that all women have been planning their weddings since before they were born, that all women want to plan their weddings, love organising, and should basically do everything themselves with little to no input from their hapless husbands.
This huge amount of work should not be left to women by themselves in the first place. He is a grown adult!
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