Hi Simon – ignore Pete, he's like the Oscar the Grouch of our wedding forum. By which I mean he lives in a bin and has probably recently had someone's hand up his *rse.

As for wedding-related freebies – I spent about a year fake proposing to my now wife in various restaurants because they'd then give us free booze. To be fair, we were lethally poor at the time but quite often as we drive around Manchester we'll point out several restaurants to our children and say, "that's where daddy proposed to mummy, again."

Then we'll laugh to ourselves and get drunk. And I'll propose.