A romantic day was booked and the deposit paid. Then it was all gone in an instant

Emily Baldwin had planned a bucolic wedding. A hundred guests would camp in tents in a riverside meadow and party in a giant tipi in May. But, she says, things began to unravel last summer, when the company she had paid to supply the tipi disappeared, along with her £1,800 deposit. With three months to go, and her budget shredded, she and her fiance have had to cancel their plans.

An unknown number of other couples are facing similar heartache after wedding supplier, Origami Marquees, ceased trading.