Saying ‘I Do’ to Wedding Insurance

Last year, Natalia Esparra, then 34 and a new bride, learned that something had gone wrong with her photographer’s memory card and that all of her wedding photos had disappeared. Three recovery companies looked at the memory card, the backup hard drive and the laptop,...

Wedding insurance: Help for bridal ‘fails’

By Jay MacDonald • Bankrate.com Wedding day disasters come in all sizes, from lost rings and ruined bridal gowns to slip-and-fall and alcohol-related personal injuries to unpredictable weather events to plain old cold feet that can shut down a once-in-a-lifetime...

10 things the wedding industry won’t tell you

For better or worse, for richer or poorer, for nickels and dimes. 1. “We could go out of business before your big day.” Wedding spending tumbled 32% during the recession, from an average of $28,730 per event in 2007 to $19,581 in 2009, according to market research...

When Wedding Insurance Makes Sense

By: Korky Vann, Hartford Courant A few years ago, when first my son and then my daughter got married within a year, I found myself on the front lines of wedding planning. Both events turned out to be magical affairs, but not before I got plenty of panicked phone calls...