t large and lavish weddings, full of sobbing mothers, proud fathers and, to quote Philip LaLove and marriage go together like a horse and carriage – or so the song goes. But these days it seems marriage ends up being a draining experience both financially and emotionally. I bet Paul McCartney regrets the day he ever went down on one knee…and asked Heather Mills to marry him. Even with the religious element being largely ignored now, churches still host large and lavish weddings, full of sobbing mothers, proud fathers and, to quote Philip Lays it seems marriage ends up being a draining experience both financially and emotionally. I bet Paul McCartney regrets the day he ever went down on one knee…and asked Heather Mills to marry him. Even with the religious element being largely ignored now, churches still host large and lavish weddings, full of sobbing mothers, proud fathers and, to quote Philip LaI bet Paul McCartney regrets the day he ever went down on one knee…and asked Heather Mills to marry him. Even with the religious element being largely ignored now, churches still host large and lavish weddings, full of sobbing mothers, proud fathers and, to quote Philip Lato marry him. Even with the religious element being largely ignored now, churches still host large and lavish weddings, full of sobbing mothers, proud fathers and, to quote Philip Lat large and lavish weddings, full of sobbing mothers, proud fathers and, to quote Philip Larkin “uncles shouting smut”. Followed later by the embarrassing best man’s speech, which usually proves him to be anything but, and then finished up with a rather lame disco. Is this what marriage has become?

And now even the pre-wedding is a potential minefield of badly chosen words and legal traps. Pre-nuptials are the preserve of the Hollywood elite – j