{"id":738687,"date":"2026-08-15T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:32:09","slug":"bride-dazzles-in-thrifty-chester-wedding-with-2-charity-shop-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738687\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride dazzles in thrifty Chester wedding with \u00a32 charity shop dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gina said they had an &#8220;amazing&#8221; day and worked out they and their guests had collectively donated more than \u00a31k to charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she and Jacob, who are both 32, love buying from charity shops and wanted to encourage more people to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The barista and musician, who works at Short and Stout in Hoole, said she spotted her dress after finishing work one day and &#8220;it fitted me perfectly&#8221;, before her friend, seamstress Grace Patton, modified it for her big day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gina also bought a range of other wedding dresses for her wedding-themed hen do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she and Jacob, who have been together for 11 years, were proud to see their family and friends embrace the thrifting theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gina said they had an &#8220;amazing&#8221; day and worked out they and their guests had collectively donated more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}