I'm always in awe of the skill of wedding cake makers so this fantastic creation by Michael Burns of Special Days Cakes for his own wedding really caught my eye.

With Half a ton of mixed fruit, 20 kilos of marzipan, 3,000 eggs and 20 bottles of rum, it's Britain's biggest wedding cake.

Congratulations, Michael.

No, it's not some dreadful child bride story. (I see too many of these checking out the wedding news each week).

It's a mock wedding held by a school in England as part of the class's Religious Education studies. Read more and see the photo here. (Read the comments section as well - just a bit of cynicism creeping in........)

Letting my 2 spoilt cats anywhere near my wedding would be a recipe for disaster, but it looks like including furry friends in the celebrations is a growing trend.

According to the cover blurb, Wedding Babylon, the new book from UK author Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous, lifts the lid on the excesses of the wedding industry.

But don't expect in depth analysis of how the wedding business works - this is strictly chick-lit. Packed with more froth than a capuccino, it's basically a collection of anecdotes taken from planners and wedding professionals and packaged together as a week in the life of an up-market London wedding planner.