Go big or go home!

To chav and to hold - bride's 19-stone bling dress
By Kate Jackson Kate.Jackson@Mirror.Co.Uk 9/08/2007

(Side note: "Chavs” is the English equivalent of a “hoochie mama” or “white trash”)

Catrina Nolan's wedding EXCLUSIVE

Bride's colossal crystal-encrusted dress is a real aisle-opener
Some people's marriages are over quicker than the time it took Catrina Nolan to get in and out of her wedding car.

Four people - all shouting "Push!" - needed a whole hour to haul the blushing bride on to her belly and roll her in and out of the vehicle.

If you don't believe.... here's the link to the video! http://shesoghetto.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/wedding-day-no-nos-tackiest-wedding-ever/

Yet Catrina wasn't overweight... her dress was an incredible 19 stone. (For those of us in the US and measure weight in pounds... 19 stone is approx 266 pounds!!!!!!)

"It wasn't dignified but I just wanted my dress to be different," says Catrina, 18. "I wanted something that would stand out."

It certainly did. In fact her wedding was probably visible from space.

Her gown, which cost £6,000 was a mammoth 40ft wide and made up of a dozen different materials including satin, feathers and lace, and an astonishing 20 layers of underskirts.

Catrina says: "The bodice was made up of Swarovski crystals. One side is half a star and the other is half a love-heart. It had all frills and ruffles on the skirt, it was really fantastic."

Catrina's three bridesmaids - her sisters Margarita, 16, and Nelena, 11, and John's sister Roseanne Nolan, 16 - wore satin pink corsets and skirts, with matching caps.

"It was about being funky," says Catrina, who stars in ITV1's Britain's Youngest Brides.

"They loved the outfits."

But walking down the aisle wasn't quite so funky.

"When I got to the church it took 10 minutes to get to the door when it would normally take two seconds," says Catrina, from Queensferry, North Wales.

"My brother Philip gave me away and he had to glide me down the aisle because I couldn't walk properly myself. It was really, really heavy. When I got to the reception I had to take off half the underskirts because it was getting too much."

And groom John, 20, who lays paving for a living, says: "Catrina looked amazing, I'll never forget seeing her walk down the aisle."

We bet he won't.

The DRESS..

Cost£6,000 (approx $12,000)
50,000 Swarovski crystals
20 underskirts
3 weeks to make
90 minutes to put on
12 types of fabric
19 stone in weight
40 feet wide
Britain's Youngest Brides, ITV1, 9pm - see We Love Telly!