In this tongue-in-cheek article, Jo Thornely predicts widespread marzipan shortages if same-sex marriages are allowed.

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These days, it seems I always either know or can overhear a bride-to-be who is planning her wedding. I’m constantly hearing about dress adjustments, bridesmaid demands, seating plans, cakes and vows.

Sugared almonds become more important than oxygen, and Celine Dion songs are dragged out one more time.

Discussing this recently with a gay friend (let’s call him Barry, so that the girls in his office don’t twig that we were talking about them) it was revealed that a number of the girls in Barry’s office are currently pre-wedding.

This gives Barry more than his fair share of overheard taffeta drama, and he’s reached his limit. It doesn’t help that two of Barry’s male gay friends are also about to get married. Oh, sorry not married.

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