Why I Didn't Lose Weight For My Wedding
Scottish Wedding Directory|Winter 2017

When Pauline Kirby Got Engaged, She Was Bombarded With Wedding Weight Loss Emails . Here , She Tells Us Why She Shunned the Big Day Diet.

Why I Didn't Lose Weight For My Wedding

Last summer, my fiancée Jessica and Finally set a date for our wedding: 10th October 2016 at Lothian Chambers,then a reception at The Bonham Hotel in Edinburgh. To satisfy our insatiable thirst for all things wedding-related, we signed up to all the wedding websites we could find, and bought all the bridal mags we could get our hands on. It wasn’t long before the marketing emails came flooding in. They were generally harmless, but one in particular caught my attention: it was for a super-duper weight loss plan that promised to make me thinner in time for my wedding. Then came another, followed by yet another.

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