Comments on: How to Plan an English Wedding

on 11/22/2005 Remember, it's not appropriate for men to wear black tie (tuxedos) to a daytime English wedding. This is considered evening dress. Wear a morning suit if you have one, but most guests will be in lounge suits.
Women needn't wear long dresses to daytime weddings. Most guests will be in tea-length outfits, with a jacket or wrap they can discard after the ceremony.

Hats are more popular than you'd think, especially at weddings in high summer.

Bear in mind that many English village churches are unheated.

At some villages in England and Wales, local children bar the way of the couple as they leave the churchyard. Make sure someone has some change to pay them off!

on 11/22/2005 It is traditionally good luck to have a chimney-sweep at your wedding (not near the dress, I presume)!

On exiting the church, colleagues or other members of a group that the couple belong to often form a series of arches which the couple walk under (e.g. hockey players use their sticks, military people use their rifles, and most traditionally, morris dancers use sticks decorated with flowers).