3:32pm Thursday 29th July 2010
By Giles Sheldrick
When Julie Farrant and Keith Wheatland planned their wedding they went to great lengths to pick a quiet summer's day.
With military precision, the couple spent hours trawling lists of events to ensure their big day did not clash with anything else going on in the city.
Happy they had picked the right date, Saturday, August 7, they booked the Victorian bandstand on Brighton seafront as their pictureperfect wedding venue.
It was only when friends reported difficulty booking accommodation that the penny finally dropped.
They had chosen one of the busiest weekends of the year, the annual Pride celebration, when an estimated 150,000 revellers are expected to descend on the city.
Community nurse Julie, 31, from Shoreham was worried at first but says: "I'm quite relaxed about it now."
About 60 guests are expected to witness the first official wedding at the bandstand, or Birdcage as it is affectionately known, which was recently refurbished by Brighton and Hove City Council as part of a £1 million project.
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