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From a young age, girls around the world dream about their perfect wedding day, and when the time to get married does finally come around, the big day will be need to be meticulously planned out down to the finest details.

Using scrapbooks and Pinterest boards, the dresses will have been painstakingly chosen from thousands available, and the playlist will have caused a fair few arguments due to different tastes in music.

Long distant family members and old school friends will have been cut from the guest list, before being added back on again, and finding something to eat that everyone agrees on can take months.

Traditionally the bride arrives at the wedding marriage ceremony with her father, or the person chosen to give her away. The mother of the bride travels separately in a car with the bridesmaids to arrive about ten minutes before the bride.

The groom should arrive at the place of marriage well ahead of the bridesmaids together with his best man and the grooms party including the ushers.

Following the marriage ceremony the bride and her new husband travel together in the brides car to the reception venue.

New research from vintage jewellery specialists William May has discovered that some of the oldest marriage proposal traditions are being left behind as couples take a more practical approach to getting engaged.

Surveying over 5,000 people in total, the company asked the following questions:

• Do women still want to be surprised with an engagement ring?
• Would a woman wear a ring she wasn’t happy with?
• Would a man exchange a ring if their partner wasn’t happy with it?
• Do men still ask for the father’s permission before proposing?

We discovered that: