Like any bride-to-be, Helene Manca wanted the perfect dress for her wedding day.
But she simply couldn’t make her mind up.
In the nine months before her marriage to Joe Glass, the 25-year-old model bought 18 gowns at a cost of more than £20,000.
And on the day itself she wore nine of them at different stages, from the ceremony itself to the disco that went on into the early hours.
‘Every time I tried a dress on I just had to have it,’ said the new Mrs Glass at the couple’s home in Guildford, Surrey.
‘But as soon as I took it home and compared it to the other dresses I had already bought, I couldn’t bear to choose.
‘By the end I knew that 18 was too many and I wouldn’t have time to wear them all, so I thought about the different stages of the wedding and decided nine was perfect.’
