Are you for or against the Royal Wedding? 09/12/2010
Kelly at the Boho Blog raises a good question, are you for or against the Royal Wedding? She raises some interesting points in both directions. Not sure what side of the fence I fall on at the moment. I am hoping that any big wedding such as this can only help the industry and bring lots of additional opportunities for us all.
I have to admit my first reaction was pure happiness, I love a wedding at the best of times and the fact that it was a royal wedding made it even better.
I remember princess Diana’s and Charles big day (showing my age) and I must have skived off school to watch Fergie and Andrew get hitched, but after that my student socialist views took over and I was totally against the royal family and everything they stood for! But now I feel differently.
Maybe it’s now that I’m in the industry that I’m more interested, maybe now that I am married myself it means more?
But I still can’t help but ask myself what will it do to the wedding industry in the long run, will it be good or bad, so I find myself sitting on the fence.
I’m for it:
So a huge wedding like this is surely a good thing?
• It’s going to bring a whole load of attention to the wedding world, at least for the next few months, everyone in the wedding industry will be asked questions, interviewed, and it’s a great chance for some extra PR and promotion for all of our businesses. I myself have been on the radio twice already discussing it, and I’m sure it’s not the last time! If you get your PR right then you can use this wedding to your advantage!
• It’s a great boost for the UK. With so much gloom and doom about it’s something great for us to all look forward to, whether you like weddings or not. If you like weddings perfect then you can get wrapped up in the whole experience, if you don’t like weddings, then at least you get a day off work!
• It will bring in loads of extra money into the economy through tourism.
• It will put the UK on the map again but for something good this time!
I’m against it:
A huge wedding like this is surely a bad thing?
• There has been a huge alternative movement in the wedding industry over the last few years, people like Rock and Roll Bride have managed to revolutionise the way that some people see their big day, what is this royal wedding going to do? It’s just going to take us back to square one! How many copycat weddings are we going to get after this one? How many brides wanting that same dress, the same colour scheme, the same flowers, where will the individuality go, the imagination?? Is this royal wedding going to undo all the hard work that some have been fighting for?
• The cost. The wedding is going to cost the tax payer millions. OK so Kate’s parents have offered to pay for the wedding with Prince Charles helping out. But how about the millions in security for the day, that’s down to us the tax payer, it’s not like we haven’t got enough to pay for at the moment!
• The bank holiday is going to cost small businesses millions. Yes it’s great to have a day off, but your employers still have to pay you while you’re not at work!
Head over to the Boho Blog for the full story
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