Your wedding isn't cheesy. Your personal vows involving your pet names are moving, your pink heart-shaped mashed potato is perfect with the theme, the Katie-Price-style wedding dress is romantic, and the dyed poodle delivering the rings is a lovely touch.

But when we take the rose-tinted spectacles of our relationship off, we realise that there's a very fine line between romantic and cheesy. So how do we avoid straying over the line?

There are four things that will push you firmly into the cheese camp.

1. Anything that brings aspects of your personal life out into the open that should really remain private - also known as the Katie Price effect. Pet names, details of your love life in speeches, a really shameful first dance, they all veer terribly towards cheese.

2. Anything in a colour it was never meant to be. From poodles to mashed potatoes, flowers and feathers. If it's not the same colour as your theme either live with it or find something else. Getting out the dye is the last refuge of the tasteless (although exceptions can definitely made for hair).

3. Animals. OK so a horse drawn carriage should stay the right side of the romantic/cheese divide, but dress those horses up or put unicorn horns on them and you're into cheese. Dogs are usually tougher to keep out of the cheese camp - and if you even think about dressing them up you're in trouble.

4. Being persuaded of anything you're unsure about by a supplier is a risky business. It doesn't matter if it's really popular, or if they are convinced it's going to work. If you don't want a million heart-shaped balloons in the church or the entire buffet to follow a pink theme, you are allowed to put your foot down - very firmly.

Of course, you may not be worried about cheese. In fact, you may not be worried what people think of your wedding at all. After-all it's your day. If the fairytale is your dream, feel free to stray over the line in any way you choose. Your real friends will avoid sniggering, at least in front of you, and you'll get the cheesetastic day of your dreams.