War in the Middle East has disrupted travel across the region - cancelling flights, closing airports and causing uncertainty. 

But, it has also wreaked havoc for important life events too, including one bride's big day in Dubai.

Surabhi Bhatnagar, 33, from north west London, and Jake Richardson, 36, were set to enjoy an extravagant two-day Indian celebration over the Easter weekend at the Hilton Hotel Al Habtoor City. 

Her British-Indian family had moved to the UAE city a few years ago and, with her mother and sister based there, it made sense for the couple to choose the city for their destination wedding.

However, as the conflict between the US/Israel and Iran continues, they made the difficult decision to call off their plans and notify their 200 guests.

Surabhi, who works in film production, tells the Daily Mail, 'I spent a lot of time crying that week. 

'We felt better having made that decision, it's incredibly frustrating that it's happened this way but I'm very aware of the fact that what's happening around the world is a lot bigger than my wedding.'

The bride emphasises how she didn't 'want to put anyone in a position to pick between their safety and coming to our wedding'. 

Surabhi and her husband had booked flights with British Airways, who cancelled the journey and gave full refunds.

However, 150 guests were set to fly in to join another 50 Dubai locals, and not everyone has been lucky with getting their money back. 

'I know a lot of our guests booked Emirates and they've had a bit of a struggle because I think Emirates, until last week, was only offering refunds on their flights until March 31st,' she says. 

The couple kept this in mind before cancelling the wedding to try and ensure all of their guests were able to get their money back. 

'I think now Emirates is giving refunds until the end of April, but it's just that a lot of our guests have booked with travel agents, so they are experiencing some issues with travel agents. It's not so easy as going onto their website and asking for a refund,' Surabhi explains. 

One of the guests who booked with Emirates is Deepak Tailor, 38, from London.

The founder of consumer finance site LatestFreeStuff.co.uk was ready to jet off to Dubai for Surabhi and Jake's big day until the conflict kicked off. 

He was supposed to fly with Emirates on April 1st and nervously waited until the airline cancelled the flight and offered a refund. 

'We obviously were a bit concerned for quite a while, we didn't feel like it was very safe,' Deepak adds, noting the UK Government was advising against all but essential travel. 

'Obviously this wasn't really essential travel, for a family friend's wedding,' he says. 

The Londoner had different hotels booked for the trip and is in the process of getting his money back. 

'Some of them were free cancelation, some of them weren't,' Deepak explains. 'So we're going to have to maybe claim for insurance for some of them.'

All of the guests are disappointed about the situation and were excited for the chance to bring everyone together. 

'I think we were all looking forward to just going out there,' Deepak says. 'It would have been a good kind of trip for the whole family and friends to get together.'

The businessman describes how it 'came as a bit of a shock' and expresses how 'everyone's a bit sad we've had to cancel everything'.

For now, Surabhi and Jake plan to wait and see what the situation looks like later in the year and hope to rearrange the celebrations for October. 

They had their civil ceremony in the UK back in December and intended for Dubai to be the destination for their religious wedding.

Fortunately for Surabhi and Jake, the hotel hosting all of their guests and events has been 'incredibly understanding' about the situation. 

'They basically told us that we had up to 12 months to delay the wedding after you paid for everything, 12 months to transfer all the credit to a different date,' the bride says. 

The couple are also in the process of working with the hotel to get 'some money back' for their guests who have booked rooms directly, so they have flexibility when it comes to rebooking when the wedding hopefully goes ahead. 

Surabhi feels they have been 'lucky with the hotel' after spending a 'big chunk' of their wedding budget on the events and catering there. 

But due to the nature of the plans, 'there will be some cancellations,' she adds.

 'Maybe some vendors that won't be available on the new date, or because we had to cancel the wedding so last minute there will be some cost to delaying the wedding which we wouldn't have accounted for before'. 

She adds, 'So we're aware that our budget has gone up, but until we know what that amount is, yet or not. We don't know.'