Australian insurers are now offering 'wedding cover'

Worried about your wedding dress being damaged before the big day, your cake supplier going bust or your wedding day being rained out? Theres insurance for that.

With the cost of the average Australian wedding reaching $54,000, brides and grooms are increasingly taking out insurance.

The products insurers are selling protect the wedding party against such events as severe weather, the bride or groom being struck down with a sudden illness, loss of wedding documents and damage to gazebos, staging, flooring, chairs, tables and so on.

Some products will also protect the bride and grooms home contents while away on their honeymoon if the home is burglarised and their wedding gifts are stolen.

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Sejal Patel, who moved to Australia from England three years ago, spent about $200 on insurance to cover her destination wedding in Thailand in April.

In England theres insurance for everything - wedding insurance is much bigger, says Patel, who is preparing for her wedding in Phuket.

I probably got it because of the large cost of the wedding and Id heard of it. I assumed it was the normal thing to do.

In Thailand we have the hotel where we are having the wedding and there are multiple suppliers, so in case anything goes wrong we want to be covered.

We were also thinking about weather and if something happens to the hotel before we get there wed need to be covered.

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Australian insurers are now offering 'wedding cover'