After all the planning and the stress of the wedding you need to make sure that you plan a nice relaxing honeymoon in order to take some time out to spend with your new husband or wife. However, a friend of mine who is getting married next year has decided to go for a mini-moon straight after the wedding and she is going to be going on the honeymoon later in the year. This is the first person I know who has done this, apart from Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and I think it seems like a great idea. I can imagine that after all the excitement of the wedding and after a once in a life time honeymoon.

There have been loads of celebrity weddings in the last couple of months which has led to a lot of exposure and criticism surrounding their wedding dresses. First there was the Royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William in April this year and then the other Kate (Moss) and Lily Allan also got married in the last month. Personally I feel that best wedding dress has to be Catherine Middleton’s Grace Kelly inspired dress from Sarah Burton for the fashion house of the late Alexander McQueen. Unfortunately I think the worse dress so far has to go to Lily Allan, her dress was very unflattering and made her look a lot older than 26-years-old.

Another celebrity wedding of 2011 was the marriage of pop singer Lily Allen to Sam Cooper which took place early June at St James the Great Church in the beautiful Cotswolds village of Cranham. Lily wore a vintage style lace wedding gown by French designer Delphine Manivet. Not only was this day special as Lily was marrying the man of her dreams but she also revealed at the wedding reception that she was actually 12 weeks pregnant and just visible through her dress was a very tiny bump. Lily Allen has unfortunately lost 2 babies already so everyone will be watching her closely to make sure that this pregnancy goes smoothly.

The big event of 2011 with regards to weddings has to be the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. There was so much anticipation building up about what the dress would look like, but more importantly to the fashion world, who would be designing her dress. I think that everyone in the country had to agree that Kate Middleton looked stunning in her Alexander McQueen dress which had been designed by the fashion house’s new creative director Sarah Burton. Although Kate’s dress will be remembered forever as beautiful and elegant, unfortunately whenever someone mentions fashion and the royal wedding the first thing that people will think of will be the Philip Tracy hat that Princess Beatrice wore!

At the start of this month supermodel Kate Moss married The Kills guitarist Jamie Hince at a beautiful church in the Cotwolds. Her dress was by controversially designed by John Galliano, the disgraced designer was dropped from Christian Dior (where he was creative director) earlier this year after he made anti-Semitic remarks. The wedding dress was a vintage-style creation in cream with gold embellishment across the bottom of the dress, she also wore a cream veil with a beautiful cream bouquet. The 37-year-old model also had her daughter Lila-Grace from her previous relationship with Jefferson Hack as one of her 14 bridesmaids, well it is Kate Moss so she isn’t going to do things by half, but 14 bridesmaids is a little bit excessive, even by Kate’s standards!