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It's confession time. Did you have all of this planned?

 

 

Have you ever found yourself wandering onto wedding dress websites to… just, you know… check out the offerings?

Maybe Vera Wang released her latest collection and you couldn’t help just having a scroll through the dresses? Maybe you checked out the clearance dresses on Lisa Ho’s website once she announced her closing down sale?

Maybe… just maybe… you’ve actually picked out your wedding dress already? Nothing extreme, of course. You just know that you want an Alex Perry custom-designed gown with a fishtail skirt. And a sweetheart neckline. And beading across the bodice. And no veil.

If so? Never fear – you’re not alone. Not even slightly alone. According to a new survey out of the UK, 11 per cent of women – that’s about one in 10 – have already picked out their wedding dresses.

And that’s SINGLE women. So… no wedding on the horizon. Not even a proposal.

It gets more interesting from there. 37% of those women have already gone ahead and purchased their gowns. Keeping in mind that there is no significant other – they’ve just gone ahead and picked something that they like.

It doesn’t even end there. We all know that there are plenty of other aspects to a wedding – bridesmaids, a venue, a menu being just some of them – and it seems as though a bunch of British ladies have been busy planning that as well.

This from the Daily Mail:

59 per cent have already planned other elements of their big day, such as make-up, bridesmaids and a venue, despite not having any immediate plans to marry.

And only 41 per cent of respondents who had planned elements of their wedding day admitted that they had told a prospective partner about their plans, whilst 36 per cent claimed that their wedding plans had scared members of the opposite sex in the past.

So. It’s confession time.

Are you single? If so, how much of your (potential) future wedding have you planned out? Have you not even thought about it, or do you have every last detail planned, down to the swan-shaped napkins next to the engraved cutlery on the round tables under the marquee outside that lovely winery in country Tasmania?

If you are already married – how much of your wedding had you planned out before you met your significant other? And how much of it eventuated?

We asked around the Mamamia team – and there is no not-yet-engaged employee that doesn’t have SOME vague inkling of what they’d like their wedding to look like. MM Editorial Assistant Melissa knows that if she was to ever get married, it would be in a yellow dress. Editor Jam knows that she wants to change her dress for the reception, because she really loves dancing and wants to do it properly.

Resident wedding-lover Nat has a pretty good idea of what she’d like her wedding to look like, because she has nothing better to do with her time on long commutes than plan her someday nuptials. She wants a Vera dress and a lot of fairy lights to be involved. And the other Mamamia girls also have ideas about venues and associated decorations.

There are no Muriel-inspired scrapbooks floating around the office – but no one is ruling out an inspiration Pinterest just yet…

How much of your wedding have you planned/did you plan?

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Katrina 11 years ago

I've been engaged for 1.5 years and I haven't even picked out where we will get married. Not as in the venue, as in the city/area.

Although I have thought about the honeymoon, to me that's far more exciting.


Anon 11 years ago

I'm 21, I've been with my boyfriend for over 5 years, and though we don't live together fulltime because he's in the army, he financially supports me. I never thought about my future wedding until recently (in the last year or so). I was always so set on getting through uni, finding a job, travelling etc., and weddings had never entered my mind. But all of a sudden now I can't stop thinking about it! I'm constantly following new wedding posters on instagram, dreaming about how he'll propose and where we'll get married. It's like there are two of me. The feminist (who is also the voice of my mother) says 'Don't get hitched so young, see the world, you're just conforming to the Disney Princess ideals you consumed at 5 years old!' And then there is the other me who wants to be engaged and who wants to be his wife. I don't know where this urge to get married and plan everything has come from. Do I look at other women who are getting married after a few years and think this is the next step in the relationship? Probably. Do I look at his parents who married young (its worked for them!) or do I hear about all his mates proposing to their girlfriends and want the same? Definitely! I might have to admit myself to the instagramer's excessive searching for #weddingideas help centre soon though!