There are some pretty impressive horse and carts around these days, especially those used for weddings, most of them are small family run businesses or those who already have the stables and buy the carriage specifically for weddings, i.e a bit of diversification which is all so popular for rural businesses these days.

Now, whilst they obviously do not come cheap, they really would make a big difference in the arrival at the church.  There are however a lot of costs to be covered, such as the obvious cost of keeping and maintaining the horses and carriage, buit also the transportation costs, not cheap when you consider the size of vehicle required to transport everything to your wedding venue.  Speaking of which, you also need to have the space for them to set it all up and set off with the bride and her father sat in the back. Then the whole thing has to be manned, so you need a groom and driver as a minimum, so I would imagine the cost would be pretty high.

The recent royal wedding also has probably increased the demand for them too.


Of course, if you went to the lengths of hiring a carriage like this for your big day, you would obviously want plenty of photographs to look back on in the future, so a top noch wedding photographer is a must, and these days you often not only get the standard prints as you did before, but also because the pictures are taken digitally you can usually have the whole det on a DVD too.

Of course, once you begin stepping up the whole thing you then need to upgrade everything else, OK a nice dress is a given, but what about the entertainment too? You don’t want Dazling Daves Mobile Disco pumping out Abba and Agadoo all night, you need a professional wedding band who really know how to get the dance floor busy and keep it that way all night. There are a lot of good wedding bands about so make sure you listen to what they play and do a good version of all the songs you like.

Then you need to consider the catering, a buffet probably wont cut it with your guests, so a full sit down meal will be required. So it’s worth considering that just because you can afford a wedding with a horse and cart, do you have the spare cash for everything else required to suitably complement it?

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