Nurse cancels her £30,000 Scottish fairytale wedding after ‘rose-tinted glasses come off’ over vital question

A BEAUTY pageant finalist cancelled her £30,000 imagination wedding aft a "lightbulb moment".

Sasha McDonald and Rory Allison booked a accepted achromatic wedding astatine a stately location successful Dumfries, Scotland, past year.

The pair, who person been unneurotic for 9 years, paid £30,000 for the venue and database of vendors for their large day, which was primitively booked for 2025.

However, fears of falling into indebtedness and changes successful their idiosyncratic circumstances prompted the mates to question whether they truly wanted specified expansive nuptials.

Sasha - a 24-year-old caregiver and Miss Scotland 2024 finalist - said she and 25-year-old technologist Ross had enactment their beingness connected clasp to prevention for their wedding time earlier questioning if their 'sacrifices' were truly worthy it.

Determined to enactment their matrimony astatine the forefront of their day, Sasha and Rory swapped their luxury 100-person wedding for a much intimate matter astatine a edifice successful Glasgow, alongside 25 members of their contiguous family.

The caller plans volition mean their bills are reduced to little than £10,000 - meaning they person chopped the outgo to little than a 3rd of the archetypal expected outlay.

Sasha, who lives successful Glasgow, Scotland, said cancelling their wedding felt similar a 'weight lifted disconnected their shoulders' - and is urging others to see ditching the accepted route.

Sasha said: "We came crossed a venue that we some truly liked and was what we wanted astatine that time. We booked that and were ace blessed with it.

"We booked the vendors from determination and were beauteous blessed with a accepted wedding. A batch happened successful that twelvemonth betwixt booking the wedding and deciding to cancel it.

"I got the quality that a adjacent household subordinate was ill, my gran died, we mislaid our small canine and that felt similar the closing of 1 section and the opening of the next.

"I was competing for Miss Scotland, and doing fundraising and foundation work. We were conscionable engaged surviving life.

"So a batch happened successful a abbreviated abstraction of clip and it made america question what we were doing. We conscionable benignant of looked astatine each different and said 'why is this wedding coming to £30,000?' And that's not what matters.

"We were stretching ourselves bladed financially for conscionable 1 time to walk an extortionate magnitude of wealth and it conscionable did not align with america anymore.

"We said to each different from the commencement that we'd wed each different time truthful wherefore are we doing this?. The rose-tinted glasses conscionable came off."

Sasha said the fiscal load of spending tens of thousands of pounds connected 1 time played a large portion successful the cancelling of their wedding day.

Sasha said: "We conscionable thought it's not worthy it. I conscionable thought, 'Why would we walk much connected a wedding than a location deposit?'

"Financial strain was decidedly thing we were disquieted about. And we thought 'why would we commencement our matrimony successful debt?' I wasn't consenting to sacrifice holidays and dinners for this 1 day.

"We did mates modelling for weddings connected the broadside of our mean jobs and it made america realise that a batch of what we spot successful the wedding manufacture connected Instagram and Pinterest isn't real.

"Vendors are each coming unneurotic to marque the manufacture look similar this but it's not really realistic arsenic to what radical are really doing.

"We conscionable started reasoning we didn't privation to enactment our beingness connected clasp for different year. We hadn't been going connected holidays oregon thing - we were conscionable moving and saving."

Instead, the mates opted to publication a French-themed edifice successful Glasgow for March 2025, opting to lone invitation a fistful of their nearest and dearest.

Luckily, the brace lone ended up losing £1,000 connected the venue and were capable to swap dates with vendors.

Sasha said: "Cancelling the archetypal wedding and rebooking this felt similar specified a value disconnected our shoulders. We felt similar we could support getting joined astatine the centre of it.

"I decided to hand-write and plan each our invites, I'm doing each the flowers and bouquets myself.

"People are putting themselves into indebtedness to person this picture-perfect day. I deliberation a wedding should beryllium astir matrimony and the idiosyncratic you're marrying. It shouldn't beryllium a accumulation oregon show.

"I would accidental if you've got an impulse to cancel your big, accepted wedding, look into it. Your wedding is 1 day, your matrimony is each day."