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Gillian Marles

07/06/2014

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Gillian Marles explores the wedding industry.

Gillian Marles explores the wedding industry, which is estimated to be worth 10 billion pounds to the UK economy.

This week on Business Scotland, Gillian Marles looks at the big fat global wedding industry. It's estimated it's worth about 10 billion pounds to the UK economy. Gillian hears from some suppliers who keep boxes of tissues at hand. She finds out some of the quirks of the happy couples - from the bride who has spent weeks practising cooking her own wedding meal to the lorry driver who ordered a wedding band fashioned in the shape of a tyre.

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