The Tuscan town hall had been booked for the ceremony, the villa for 42 guests to celebrate in paid for, and every detail of the five course Italian feast planned - before Lisa Horley and her fiancé Rich Mitchell had to tell everyone their wedding was cancelled. “We were on the final run and getting excited,” says Lisa, 32, from Lytham St Annes, Lancs, who has been advised to postpone her nuptials by six months and estimates doing so has cost the couple around £3000. “I feel a massive sadness.” Increasing numbers of couples have had to cancel their weddings for fear that the coronavirus would render them untenable.
Among them Princess Beatrice and her fiancé, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi - who had already cancelled their celebration at Buckingham