Jane grants wedding wishes on show

A wedding planner from Lichfield, famed in Canada for rescuing weddings from the brink of disaster – and making dreams come true – will make her UK television debut today.

Jane Dayus-Hinch, who has run wedding planning business Occasions, in Lichfield, for 25 years will be on Sky 'Real lives' Channel from 1pm in a seven-and-a-half hour run of her programme Wedding SOS. The show will then run every Monday at 7.30pm.

From a full-suit of armour for a groom, to providing Scottish bagpipe players for a Sikh wedding, each half-hour show sees the 50-year-old organising a unique dream wedding for every couple she meets. The mother of one, who was made an ambassador of Lichfield in 2006, said: "The most time I have ever had was 10 days to organise the wedding, the worst was when I met them at 4pm on Monday, they were married at 12noon on Friday and she had no dress – they'd booked the venue but had not followed through with organising it."

Each show sees her talk to the couple about the situation they are in and what they need to do for everything to be done on time. She also grants them three wishes to make their day perfect. She said: "One of my favourites was the True Princess wedding where they were married in a castle and the bride's wish was for her bride-groom to become a knight in armour walking down the aisle.

"So we found him a suit of armour and it was a fairy-tale event. People do a lot of themed weddings but this wasn't tacky – it was magical."

Originally an events and party organiser, Jane managed to get into her "dream job" as a wedding planner back in 1984 when she went over to the US and helped her cousin organise an American-style wedding for a British couple.

She stayed and worked for six months before returning to Lichfield and adding wedding planning to her list of events work and later became one of the country's first lady toastmasters.

She landed the Wedding SOS job after being spotted on breakfast TV by an executive producer from Toronto.

She said: "I have filmed 50 episodes of Wedding SOS and every couple is unique, you can't say any two are the same."