What happens if it rains?

Ann and I get wet! Seriously though, what difference rain might make to your wedding day depends on three things: what your contingency planning is like, how you react to it, and how your guests react to it.

We had rain at last Saturday's garden-party type reception, but fortunately Matilda had had the foresight to hire in a load of brollies. Equally fortunately, she is not the sort of girl to make a big deal of a bit of mud on a wedding dress or a pair of shoes, and her guests weren't either.

Net result: down came the rain, up went the brollies, out came more champagne and canapes on the lawn, and the whole thing carried on as normal ...