This is the only time I wore a wedding gown ... it was for a fancy dress parade, when I was probably aged 7 or 8 (and I didn't win this contest!).
Little did I know then that I'd marry and choose not to have any pomp or ceremony, not wear a white dress with a veil and not become a MRS one day! I was 'into' rejecting the mainstream, and along with it, cultural expectations of what a wedding was. Authenticity was the name of the game. We married on a Friday the 13th, flouting superstition.
At the impressionable age that I chose this costume though, a traditional ceremony was my fairytale dream, and I wanted to pretend I was a bride!
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