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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Tims

‘All my dreams were shattered when our wedding company vanished’

Bride-to-be Holly Ryland-Jones fears she has lost her £2,500 deposit after booking a marquee and bar from Origami for her wedding.
Bride-to-be Holly Ryland-Jones fears she has lost her £2,500 deposit after booking a marquee and bar from Origami for her wedding. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

Emily Baldwin had planned a bucolic wedding. A hundred guests would camp in tents in a riverside meadow and party in a giant tipi in May. But, she says, things began to unravel last summer, when the company she had paid to supply the tipi disappeared, along with her £1,800 deposit. With three months to go, and her budget shredded, she and her fiance have had to cancel their plans.

An unknown number of other couples are facing similar heartache after wedding supplier, Origami Marquees, ceased trading.

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