Life can be remarkably unpredictable, which is why wedding insurance increasingly makes a very great deal of sense. Wedding cancellation insurance costs very little in comparison to the thousands of pounds spent on the average wedding these days, and yet can often prove to be worth its weight in gold.
However, many people decide not to bother with wedding insurance, confident that all will be well. Perhaps they know the service providers personally, and are happy that very little can go wrong. However, there are many potential disasters just waiting to happen, and the words 'who would have thought' come leaping to mind all too easily when faced with an unexpected mishap.
Life can throw all sorts of curved balls, but they seem to be thrown more often when you're least prepared. Not having wedding insurance is a little like staking your life that the old rickety wooden bridge across the canyon is quite capable of supporting the weight of your four wheel drive truck, and demonstrating the fact.
Yes, you might just be lucky - but if you're not, then it may be a long way down. For the sake of a few pounds it makes good sense to protect yourself.
Although it is easy to lull yourself into a false sense of security, believing that everything is under control and nothing serious could go wrong, the truth is that wedding cancellation insurance exists solely because serious things do go wrong, and regularly.
For example, consider what you would do if you discovered that just a day or two before your wedding there was flooding in the area of the venue. Perhaps the venue is flooded, and has had to close, or perhaps the roads are impassable, and no one can even reach the venue. You have little control over the weather, the local drainage system or the ability of the sun to evaporate several million gallons of water by 3pm.
Neither can wedding insurance, but at least it will protect your considerable financial investment, allowing you to rearrange your wedding at no additional expense.
If you have organised transport for your wedding day - perhaps a limousine - then you may well be looking forward to arriving in style. That is, until you get a phone call from the limousine driver to explain that the car has broken down and won't be ready until the following week. Or you discover the driver has been stopped for drink driving and has had his license taken away.
Perhaps you'd played it safe and booked a horse and carriage, only to hear that the horse is pregnant and the carriage has been stolen. These might all seem bizarre and improbable circumstances, yet you could quite easily fill your reception venue with those couples who have experienced these very eventualities for themselves.
Wedding insurance is something you hope never to have to look at again once you've organised it, just as you hope not to look at a flooded wedding venue, a driverless limousine or a pregnant horse.
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