WHEN MY HUSBAND FOUND OUT, HE ORDERED A SECOND OUTFIT, TOO
REANNE BIRCH, 31, works in children’s safeguarding. She married Kumar, 32, a clinical psychologist, in August 2017. They live in grays, essex.
WHEN I told my family I was planning on buying another wedding dress when I’d already bought the first a few months earlier, they were a bit puzzled.
But I’ve always been over-the-top and loved wedding dress shopping the first time round so much that I wanted to do it all over again!
And although Kumar wasn’t impressed I was spending so much, when it got closer to the day he decided he was going to get a second outfit, too.
My first dress was the first one I tried on in the first shop I visited. I wanted a mermaid-style off-the-shoulder gown and Mum spotted it first. A beautiful lacy number, it cost £2,500 (left). As Dad walked me down the aisle of Painshill Park in Surrey to the sound of steel pans playing Pachelbel’s Canon, I felt wonderful. Kumar cried when he saw me.
Social media had a lot to do with my second choice of dress. Instagram clearly knew I was a bride-to-be because wedding dresses seemed to crop up on my feed all the time. I saw a gorgeous Italian designer dress and knew that it was the one — but at £9,000, it was too much even for me! Thankfully, I found an amazing dressmaker who made me a very similar style for only £1,300 (right).
Kumar and I both disappeared after the first dance and arrived back on the dance floor in our new outfits. The guests were so surprised we’d changed but they loved it! I’m thinking of taking off the train of the second gown and making it into a regular evening dress.