Insurance could save your wedding

Specialist wedding insurer Ecclesiastical is urging couples who have planned to get married abroad in the near future to check their cover with their wedding insurance provider.

Depending on the type of and levels of cover taken out for a wedding, insurers may be able to help couples whose wedding has needed to be cancelled due to the continuing travel situation, with no flights currently departing from or arriving in the UK.

Ecclesiastical's standard wedding insurance offers cover if either the bride or the groom will not be able to attend the wedding and the wedding needs to be cancelled as the result. For example, if a wedding was due to take place over the last few days outside the UK and the bride and groom were unable to fly out to the venue, wedding insurance may help to recover the costs of the planned wedding.

There is additional cover in place to help couples in case cancellation and re-arrangement are unavoidable. Insurers, however, similarly to the couples themselves, would much rather see the wedding take place when planned and may go to great lengths to help the distressed couples.  For example, insurers may help a groom stuck abroad ahead of his wedding and assist him with alternative travel arrangements to ensure he is back in time for the wedding and the big day does take place.

Dave Simms, Personal Lines Manager at specialist wedding insurer Ecclesiastical, said: "It is obviously a nerve-racking time for couples due to get married abroad at the moment. If the worst does happen and the wedding can't take place, but the couple has bought wedding insurance, their insurers can help them recover the losses so that the big day can take place at a later time. It's certainly not ideal, but need not be a financial disaster if insurance has been purchased in the first place. We will certainly do all we can to help our customers who are currently faced with these issues."

For more information, visit www.ecclesiastical.com