A BRIDE-TO-BE who has a love affair with the colour pink has been left feeling blue after her dream wedding venue was redecorated. Charlene Jepson booked her civil wedding at Foxfields Clarion Hotel, Whalley, last February after falling in love with the pink colour scheme.

But when she returned last week to show off the venue to a friend she was devastated to see the room was being redecorated blue and yellow.

Hotel bosses have given her a refund to make up for the disappointment -- but insisted the new colour scheme was very popular.

The 23-year-old, of Moorgate Street, Blackburn, who will marry fiance Dan West, 28, on March 27, said: "I have not stopped crying.

"Everyone knows that I love pink, it has always been my favourite colour and that is why we went for it.

"Since we booked it I have been telling everyone about the room as I fell in love with it when I first saw it.

"Then I went last week with a friend to show the room off because she is planning her wedding too, but when we got there they were decorating the room.

"When I saw it I was shocked and just said 'what have you done?' then I got into the car and cried.

"I couldn't even talk because I was so gutted."

Charlene, a sales assistant at TJ Hughes, Blackburn, has been obsessed with the colour pink for as long as she can remember.

When she was little her bedroom and many of her toys were pink and she has 12 pairs of pink shoes, pink pyjamas, slippers, and a variety of pink tops and pants. She had already paid for 10 pink bridesmaid dresses, pink flowers and other colour co-ordinated accessories.

She said: "I have always been a girlie girl and at our previous house the bathroom and two bedrooms were all pink with pink accessories.

"Every day I wear something that is pink plus there is my phone and bags, which are all pink too."

Charlene, who lives with Dan and their eight-month-old daughter Adonia, had already sent out invitations to more than 200 guests and booked a registrar.

The couple have now rearranged their wedding for the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, which Charlene says has a neutral colour scheme.

Staff at the Foxfields have written to other wedding parties notifying them of the changes and inviting them to a wedding fair on Sunday from 11am until 4pm to view the facilities.

Steven Frewer, operations director for Choice Hotels, which runs Foxfields, said: "It is a shame it's not going ahead from my point of view because it's costing the hotel money as there will now be no wedding on that day.

"But as a gesture of goodwill we will return her deposit, although we are entitled to keep 75 per cent of the value of the booking.

"We don't want her to be upset on her big day.

"This particular colour scheme is one we put into a sister hotel in Wigan last year and it has been extremely well received."