Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson haven't really stood out for their frugality in the past few months.

£ 30,000 a year is available to the UK Prime Minister to renovate his private space on Downing Street.

Recent renovation costs are believed to be around £ 200,000.

In order to escape the “John Lewis nightmare”, as Carrie Symonds called the functional furniture once brought in by its predecessors, they chose thick wallpaper, among other things.

840 pounds the roll.

Unfortunately, it was so heavy that it came off the walls again.

45 pounds for the wedding dress - per day

Jennifer Wiebking

Editor in the "Life" section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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    Last weekend, the couple secretly married, and their dress - was only rented. 45 pounds a day, a bargain considering the fact that the cost of a wedding dress can easily run into four figures. The big party won't follow until next year, and it's entirely possible that Carrie Symonds will pull out all the stops in terms of clothing, but for now she's the surprisingly modest one. The resource-saver with an awareness of sustainability, who shows how one can also get married. It fits in with the time when micro-weddings, i.e. less agitated celebrations, are taking the place of marathon weddings anyway. Renting a dress is of course exemplary, because although hardly a woman wears her bridal gown twice, hardly anyone lends one.The wedding dress is, so to speak, a prime rental property. You need it for a certain amount of time, namely for a day, after which you can get going quickly. Good idea.

    Renting clothes is nothing new. Many have been renting items of clothing for years in order to show themselves in as different outfits as possible or to have their photos taken for Insta. Of course it's more environmentally friendly than constantly buying something new, but what's so bad about being seen over and over again in the same things? What speaks against a limited wardrobe with all your favorite pieces with which you have good and bad times? Of course, too: the stars and influencers, who are often given clothes as a gift and can set an example so easily that a glamorous lifestyle obviously includes having an endless number of clothes.

    Carrie Symonds, not exactly un-famous, goes the opposite way with her wedding dress rental and shows: You don't even have to own that. Maybe she'll rent it again next year for the big party.