Spoilt for choice
Follow some basic rules when choosing the perfect gown for you...

Pray silence for the best man
It’s an honour to be asked, but with this job comes huge responsibility and, for some, it is the cause of many a sleepless night — as Emma Pomfret finds out.

In the best tradition
Kimono fitter dressed couple for their traditional Japanese ceremony in the Cotswolds.

Pioneering partnerships
Exactly 13 years after they first met, gay rights campaigners David King and Louis Letourno were the first couple to register to marry in Oxfordshire under The Civil Partnership Act, 2004.

First impressions
With celebrity customers on her books, wedding stationery designer Charlotte Hewson is becoming a big name herself. Alison Dewar takes a look at her collection.

Make-up made easy
Here comes the bride, all dressed in white, wearing a garish shade of lippy, doesn’t she look a fright!

Small but sweet
You are spoilt for choice when kitting out the little ones at your wedding

Good grooming
The bridegroom’s essential guide to looking great on his wedding day, compiled by SAM POPE

Top tables
With the addition of a few well-chosen decorations, your reception tables will look pretty as a picture, says Sam Pope

Wedding stories
All sorts of bizarre things happen at weddings, as SAM POPE found out when she spoke to some of Oxfordshire’s registrars

Bridal showcase
Woodstock unites in preparation for the town’s first fantastic wedding fair

Weddings in paradise
Ken Bennett looks at the most popular destinations worldwide for tying the knot

Four decades of gowns
Oxford dressmakers AnnaBelinda have been designing bridal gowns for 35 years. Co-founder Belinda O’Hanlon takes a fond look back . . .

Most important reminders
Helen Loggin advises you choose carefully when booking a photographer to record your Big Day

Please yourself
Sam Pope finds that ‘anything goes’ when it comes to choosing your perfect gown

On the cards
Athanasia Mavroudi is expanding her Oxford-based business to include an exclusive range of hand-painted wedding stationery.

Getting ahead
Sam Pope says it's easy to have some fun when deciding what headgear to wear to a wedding

Little angels
Weddings are usually family occasions but will allowing children to attend make your day a dream, or a nightmare? Sam Pope weighs up the pros and cons

Get kilted out in style
Have a real Highland fling of a wedding with the groom and male guests resplendant in tartan

Having a bit of a 'do'
Sam Pope explains why it is important to book your wedding hairdresser well in advance

Just figure it out
How can you look like Elle McPherson when you are five feet tall and definitely a pear shape? Sam Pope discovers how to find the dress of your dreams