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Article: Female Times: Marriage in the BIG TENT; The days of the big church wedding may be numbered. Not only is marriage in decline but brides are opting to tie the knot in Castles, hotels, inns, marquees, exotic islands and even at home. So what has the likes of a tent got that the hallowed walls of a sacred church hasn't?(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2000
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IT'S A favourite picture for the wedding album. The bride and groom happily being showered in confetti by laughing guests at the door of the church.
But if current trends are anything to go by that moment of public blessing for the ecstatic couple could look quite different in future.
More and more of them are likely to be standing under fronds of pink silk draped under the ceiling of a marquee which is flapping gently in the wind. Or they may be receiving their blessing against the lapping ocean on a sun drenched island.
They may even like to show ...