Essentials you should pack for your wedding day, and why Hannah is planting a sausage!

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It's happy Saturday for us as recording, aren't we? Weekend vibes! Finally,

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right?

Britain. It's been

Thank God, finally. Oh, I need to, by the way, I've been told to put out a little message to say, from my friends who hired the the Silent Disco, that I said the lights and everything came with it, but they don't. So if you hire the Silent Disco, you need to, they went and bought all of the lights and stuff themselves. So if you hire the Silent Disco, you need to, they went and bought all of the lights and stuff themselves. So,

oh my gosh,

disclaimer, I got it wrong. I was corrected.

have you a lot to

Yeah,

that.

she knows me too well. Should we get started?

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Hello! Oh, I can tell, I feel really bad for you, but

I'm fine.

I'm fine, I'm just crying

Basically, guys, at the time of recording, it's three days, I think it is, till my allotment. I get married on Tuesday, basically. Today is Saturday. I'm trying to get everything done before I go in terms of work. I want to finish work today, and then tomorrow, get ready. For the elopement. So pack all the car. I've done my to do lists and all that kind of jazz of what I need to do. Pack.

list.

beat a list.

write a list.

yeah, I feel, I'm feeling it. I'm, I'm like, I'm feeling the pressure to be able to sign. I feel like I just want to sign off today. I want to sign off, put me out of office on, and just be like, Bye bye!

you later.

Until next weekend. So yeah. Oh, also, I feel like it's I've just had a handover meeting with Chloe, bless her, but I feel like I really, and she kept saying to me, like, Hannah, it's bank holiday next week, so you're technically taking four days off, like, chill.

Yeah

know, you've taken four days off before, like, it will be fine. I'm like, oh, this knee's doing, this knee's doing, don't forget this, don't, and I'm like, she's like, yeah, it will be fine. You're out of the office for four days, like, chill.

Oh, but it's hard though. It's

It is

Like, everything falls down

Yeah,

anything, like, that's why I'm a big fan of a list, like,

yeah, definitely.

anything. I'll just write everything down. I'll be waking up in the night

Yes,

like, I

But I, I also feel a bit like it's really weird, but obviously this time I'm only going off for five days. We're going from Monday to Friday to Wales to get married. But my next time that I'm off, I'm off for three weeks, which is obviously a lot longer.

isn't it?

But in my head, I feel like I'm going off for three weeks. It's really weird. I feel like I'm putting so much pressure on myself, but I'm forgetting that this is just, this is a taster. We keep saying this is a taster for what's to come.

trial.

it's a trial. It's a five day trial, but I don't, so I don't know why I'm getting so, like, worried, because things can wait for five days. But

more going on, like, between now and then when you go on honeymoon than you have after your honeymoon, like, just, like, wedding wise and work

yeah, so when I

busier,

Yeah, when I get back off honeymoon, it's like, full on, like, we're straight into, we're like, weddings every weekend. And we have a full plan, like, ten days after I get back from honeymoon, which is fine. We did their final meeting today, they're all happy, their plan's gone out to all the suppliers, so like, everything's good. But yeah, I suppose it's just making sure we're on top of it.

Yeah, I hope you catch

it's all busy, busy here, but how's your week been? How are you?

week's been good. So I've been I've been actually getting a few more followers on Instagram, which has been quite nice.

Nice. Yeah.

obviously, yeah, I'm going viral.

you so much.

This goes out to all my followers online. So,

you think you've done to get the, what, what you put out there? I've actually posted for once.

yeah, I mean, I'm not going to lie. Like, obviously, when I was going into my maternity leave and everything like that, I mean, technically still on maternity leave, but

Yeah.

But I wasn't posting at all and I had a lot going on at the end of my pregnancy, so I was

Yes, you would. You did. Yeah.

yeah. But I've obviously with the weddings that I've had going on, I've had actually weddings

Yeah.

working, I've been a bit more relevant. So I've been

Yeah.

and like commenting and

Yeah.

a bit more relevant online. I think that's what it is. But it's like when I get like a flurry of new followers, it always like gets me

Ah, that's nice.

and then with that always comes like you'd probably get the old

Yeah,

been

that's good. Did you accept my collaboration on the post I did the other day? I collaborated with you.

Oh,

Did you accept it?

one,

I, I'm loving this collaboration. So basically, yeah, instead of tagging people, you collaborate and then it shows on their grid. So what that means is you get obviously anybody that's then on their feed. So say all of your followers then see it. And so you get so many more views, so many more likes. And also at the same time, say you post one and collaborate and put me as a collaborator. That means I haven't got a post because you've already posted for me that day.

up on your grid.

I'm like, great. I ain't got post today now.

I'd noticed this, actually. I didn't realize that's what it

Yeah,

that makes sense, yeah, because a few, like, people I follow have gone on their grid and I've seen, like, oh, they've something, but then when you look at who's posted it, it's not come from

yeah,

sort of thing, but it's on

yeah. That's exact, that's a collaboration. Yeah, it's good. It's a really good little tool. Really, we should just like merge up and then say, Right, how many times a week do you need to post? Like, we'll just basically share our content. Yeah,

good to be fair, save us a job.

yeah, yeah.

yeah, I think it is just from posting and getting a bit more

Nice.

online, but it's, I've been toying with the idea of the last, well, couple of months really, probably longer. So at the moment I do mainly weddings, but I also do retail. So I

Yeah,

bouquets all occasions and things like that. So people can go onto my website and order a bouquet for a birthday or whatever. Deliver it gets delivered, which is great, obviously, but I find unless I've got like A lot of work going on with weddings. I don't keep like a rolling

yeah. Fair, which makes sense, yeah.

yeah, so obviously say if you were to go on to my website now and order a bouquet for like 40 quid, I technically need to order flowers for my wholesaler for that and I'll have a minimum order of like 200

Yeah, oh, so, yeah. So actually you're making no money.

so I normally turn off the webshop if I've not got

Yeah.

because there's no point because I've literally been

Yeah.

No

Yeah.

but realistically when I think about the profit I make from a bouquet like it's

I bet it's so minimal, isn't it? Yeah,

it's not worth it. And while I love doing it and obviously delivering flowers and things for people It's just I need to think of this now like Obviously, we're having a small family and stuff like that, it's a bit

yeah. Of course.

to do is just do like the main seasons like peak seasons. So, you've got Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas. As retail for bouquets. And then I'm going to close the web shop for the rest of the year. And just have it for and just do

Nice. Great.

I just think it's like, it's just going to be more

Yeah, definitely

Yeah, so I'm gonna, so basically over the next couple of weeks, I've got to sort out my website and get that sorted so that that's the

amazing. That's good. It's,

that's

don't you feel like, like a relief when you make these decisions as well? You're like, oh yeah, that's what I'm gonna do, and

Cause when I think about it, I've not done retail for like, Well, I've been off now for like four

Yeah.

and I haven't done any retail since Christmas and it's not really

No,

me to be

no.

like, like I thought it might

Yeah, and if you get like a bouquet coming and they want it delivered on like a Friday, Saturday, you probably think to yourself, if you're not doing a wedding, you'd rather like be at home with your family now, you know, not like rushing around taking a bloody flower order to somebody. Yeah, that makes sense.

the only time I find it's ever like profitable is in the

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

to, I'm like making more money out of what I've already got. So it's fine. But yeah, it's not,

sounds good.

practical anymore.

no.

like the weddings do have now, it's just the structure of my business has changed. So it's like I do more, yeah. bigger

Yeah.

of them a

Yeah. Nice.

which is what I

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, great.

so that's been my week basically

Well, Yeah, so going on to my final month wedding prep, we're a couple of days out. So I've done, I know, I know, I've like I say, I mentioned my list. So I've done loads of lists of like what I need to take. So I've got a list for my elopement for next week. And then I've got a list for the wedding at the end of the month. And I found it has really helped me because I just think of things like, Oh, I need to put that on there.

lists?

For my wedding at the end of the month, I actually started a while ago. I'd say like a good two, three months ago, because I was really like, you know, probably had that as a focus. But then I I really need one for Wales as well. So, yeah, I think I started that about a week ago. Elopement, so I don't need as much, you know. But, well, actually you say that, but my list is huge. It's basically the same stuff, you know. But,

elopement though. I would

no,

list like as long as me arm

well, yeah, true.

climbing

Yeah, and it's like, you know, your face stuff. And, like Any medication you take, and things like that, you actually, it's the same, you need the same things. That's like, you know when you go on holiday, and you're like, Oh, I'm going for two weeks, or you're going for two days, and people go, Oh god, you look like you've got enough stuff to last you for two weeks.

I feel the same. Like, yeah, anything to do with hair and face makeup, it takes up a

Yeah,

its

exactly, loads of stuff. Like, so, yeah.

long haired

Yeah,

not, there's a lot of,

there's a lot of maintenance. You know, so. So yeah, so it didn't really change, like, massively, but yeah, so I feel a bit better that I've got that, so tomorrow I've got it earmarked to go through my list and I'd pack it all, essentially.

Yeah.

So I also had to do a list for, so because we're, basically we have a van, As Hayley knows, that we convert during lockdown, we go traveling in it and whatever.

Love

It's, it's got, it sounds like it sounds really dodgy, but it's like, it's got a king size bed in it, full kitchen, like, it's awesome. Yeah, we love it. Absolutely, we've spent, we've been to places for like, we've spent like a month in it at a time, like, yeah, it's liveable, it's great.

It allows you to

Yeah,

cool. Like, at the same time, it's like, you haven't got to worry about your accommodation on

yeah, it saves you so much money. Yeah, it's great.

amazing.

doing the first, the night before the wedding we're staying at a hotel, and then the night the night of the wedding we're staying in the van. And then the night after, the next day we're going to a spa hotel and we're staying there. And then for a couple of nights afterwards we'll just stay in the van. So I needed to do some like food shoppy bits and I needed to get like lunch for when we're climbing Snowdon and just bits and bobs like that.

Yeah.

the shop just got delivered while we were about to start the podcast. My other half just keeps laughing because obviously I ordered Because we've got to plant the sausage the night before.

This makes me

Yeah, well we've mentioned this before, haven't we?

I don't know. What if we

I feel like we have. Yeah, so basically What is, it's, it's probably just a rumour that got started somewhere, but they basically say if you plant a sausage,

wives

wives tale, yeah, if you plant a sausage the night before the wedding, you, it brings you good weather. So I'm like, oh well I'm doing it, because anything, because we need good weather, anything, anything to give us good weather I'll do, so I'm planting the sausage. So my other half's like, Hannah, you've ordered Tesco finest sausage. I said,

But there's

yeah, but No, but there's only one sausage that we're

me laugh.

gonna plant. They have a five we can then eat. So obviously I'm gonna get good ones. What's the other part?

Well, so, whatever your hen do, you said you were going to cook it so that whatever dog, if

Oh

digs it up, they

yeah!

But animals can eat raw meat, can't they? Yeah,

Can they though? I know Camille! Yes, but

They don't get a stove out and it on the fire.

But like, I'm thinking like a cat or a dog.

Yeah, they still

Can they?

raw meat. They can

Oh, I felt like it would make my cat ill. Poor thing.

be fair. I don't know. I mean, I'm just, I think that Yeah, maybe actually your cat. That's, I

Yeah, you know? So, yeah.

So yeah,

So we got the sausages. Honestly, we got so much food for next week. And I need to be careful because when I went on the Hendoo, I gained two pound across the weekend because I ate so much food. I've got it off now. But basically, I'm like, Big into fasting, I love fasting. And so I was on a fast yesterday and I, I edited the Tesco order when I was fasting. Honestly, we have so much stuff now. Cause I was like, Oh my God, this looks amazing.

totally.

got mine. Martin actually bought it for me for Christmas, which is so great. You can get it as gifts. You can always buy it as anniversary presents as well.

what

Yeah.

Richard bought mine for my

There you go, lovely. So Martin's still deciding on his, and this just explains what he's like as a person, right?

just

So, he's got a piece of paper and he's put boxes, and so he's got five different, he got testers of five different aftershaves. And he's, each day, he's in the box, he's put, he's sprayed, he's sprayed it on himself, then he's sprayed the box, and then each day he's written down, like, what he was wearing, so he can remember it, and a score out of ten. I mean, that's a shame! And then he smells back the paper as well, like, just to remind himself. So, yeah.

That

So funny. And he's got his little tester stood next to it and like, written down like what the name of it is. And then every day he says to me, oh this is day one or day two, like smell it and I'll say which one I like. So funny. Brilliant.

That's

week, so when we went on the Hendoo, you know you guys have, we have the masks of his face? So I've been planting him places and then he'll like open the wardrobe and they'll be like, whoa, why is my face there? I've been like planting him. I need to plant some more actually for him to find. Yeah

my gosh.

things we get up to in this house, honestly So yeah, that's been my week. But, yeah, so going back to, obviously, like, the lists and stuff, I thought it was quite interesting, really, because, actually, it'd be good to get your view on, and our view, for any of the listeners, as well, on what you need on that list.

should you

Because it is vital, isn't it? Like you said, like, I feel like it's, my head, I tell you right now, and I think it is because of work, and if you're lucky enough to be in a job where you don't have to worry about it, then great. But my head is mashed at the minute, and it probably is because of thinking about what Gotta finish up at work and stuff. But I feel like a lot, most people are in that same position. It's like, right, what have I gotta finish up at work?

Yeah. No, you definitely need to start a list and it's good that you started it so long ago as well. Like you say, you can just literally whip it out on your notes and just

Exactly.

add to it when you think of something.

literally going to get it up now so I can check with the stuff that you say that I've got it on. Ha ha ha.

I mean, I wrote a little list thinking back to what I

Yeah, yeah.

So they're not like. Every, I mean, obviously you think of your everyday

Straight away I've seen on there you've got a steamer. And yeah, I've got it on my, I've got it on for the The one at the end of the month, but I haven't got on the Wales one. I'll take, take my steamer. Yeah,

steamer. Yeah, that's good. Get rid of any creases on your wedding dress where it's

nice.

or bridesmaids

Yeah.

suit, whatever. so yeah, that's really good.

Also with the steamer it's really good if you're having a veil, I don't know if you If you are having one, they tend to crease, I found, quite easily. Even just when they're trying, even if you try and keep it, like, really, because obviously sometimes they can be really long. So you have to fold them up and put them into the bag or whatever. And that they come in, but they can, they can crease really easy.

my To be

so,

as well, though, because sometimes they can almost, like, melt the material because it's so thin.

yeah yeah, because they can be quite, quite long. Yeah, so you have to be

I am worried. That's one of my worries, like, oh, what if it burns my

yeah, I mean, to be fair, like, Richard, bless him, if he doesn't, he does not like to iron, neither do I, I'm not gonna lie.

you

But sometimes if he's got a shirt that's particularly creased, he'll just take it into the shower with him when he gets a shower and it like, steam, wear the steam from the shower. It does get rid of creases, yeah.

be

Yeah, so you could just do that with your veil.

me.

Yeah, yeah. Amazing. Some other things I've got on here. So, I mean, I've got really thick hair and it tends to get quite frizzy. So if that's you and that's, and you're that person as well.

Well, now

well, silk turban.

another story.

Wow. I I wore a silk turban. So I was game changer for me. So if you've got particularly frizzy hair, I would like literally get out of the shower, like dry my hair. It's like a big deal. ball of frizz. Sleeping in the silk turban, my cup is like, it's literally like, soft as anything frizz free.

pillow.

that. Yeah, silk pillows are good as well. Yeah, they stop any breakage and stuff but, just for the lot, I just brought it with me because I use that to make sure that my hair was nice and like,

yeah,

frizz free, ready for the wedding. Body shimmer. So if you're having a dress where particularly you've got like your arms and your like neck and chest out particularly, like I bought a really nice one. Just like a little bit of a shimmer to it and it's a nice oil and it had a nice scent as well. Yeah. So I got a Tom Ford one actually. It was in the sale. Yeah. It's called Soleil. Soleil. Basically Soleil.

stuff. Yeah.

Yeah, and it's only subtle they just put a little bit on me when I was ready with a like makeup brush and that was Yeah, but it also smells lovely. So you can get like cheaper ones.

Yeah, that's a good one. And I think any, just like, little bits, like, especially if you are setting up the day before, you know, like, you know, a full kit of, like, scissors, tape,

Yeah.

just things like that, because there's always stuff, isn't there? Super glue. The amount of times I get asked at weddings for

really? Okay.

scissors for, like, cutting off tags.

Yeah, Yeah,

yeah,

yeah, Andy.

Isn't it, really? Just little things like that. uh, probably seeing a lot at the minute on TikTok is the crochet hook to do the buttons

Oh, yes. Yeah,

think are helpful But honestly we had a dress the other week like that And the mum was sat there doing using the crochet hook and I was going from the top using my fingers and I must have Done about 15 buttons in the time. She did

she's done it with a yeah

to do your fingers But the only thing is is be careful You haven't got any like oils or makeup or anything on your hands if you do

Yeah,

hook But if not, if your hands are clean, I do recommend Personally think, because you can control your fingers easier than you can a crochet hook, can't you?

yeah, absolutely.

just, just rock in there and freaking

Get stuck in!

stuck in! get stuck in definitely.

So this one's a little bit of a tip slash, sort of like, don't, I guess, don't do this. Don't eat garlic or spicy food the night before your wedding. But I have, I have made a note here about packing Rennies. You never know when that indigestion's gonna hit once you're past 30.

And any kind of a supposed medication like if like

Yeah.

you're on or like Yeah, paracetamol for

yeah, you can't go wrong with paracetamol, ibuprofen, anything like that, you know,

Yeah.

bring it along.

Yeah.

And then just something, so when you're getting ready in the morning, so pyjamas, or like, you know, you get these dressing gowns and things like that with bride on, bridesmaid but they are actually really nice and loose something comfortable to wear when you're having all your hair and makeup done, because bearing in mind you've got to get out of that outfit to then get into your dress,

They say to either

um,

pyjamas, don't they?

so you can just slip it off. Yeah

if you

without going over your hair. So yeah, so

over your hair, use like a really strappy one so you can just kind of lift

It's not really loose

bit easier. Yeah.

you step into a wedding dress, don't you?

Yes,

think yeah. so it's a

that you can, like, shimmy down, yeah.

shimmy out of

out. And, and your slippers. I've got them and I've got my

yes

well, so I can

can't go wrong with a crock. Good old crock.

I think sometimes people don't, you know, and just like any other little things, like think, think, forward think of like the next day. So like, what are you going to wear the next day? And yeah, the morning, like Hayley said, what are you going to be getting ready in? Is don't just think about the actual day itself.

Yeah.

for us, we're eloping, we're there for five days. So what else am I going to need?

Yeah, exactly.

I've got my pillow, because I've got my silk pillow, so,

Oh yeah.

got that on there.

Excellent.

wear a

Yeah.

at night, um, take your teeth whitening. I'm I'm,

Teeth whitening

on

strips.

my teeth

Yeah. Although, although, I've got a bit of a horror story about teeth whitening strips.

Oh, I

I don't know if I

the proper

Oh,

use anything on my teeth other than what the dentists give me, so I've got

yeah, no, that's good.

yeah.

because I remember when my cousin got married, they did teeth whitening strips.

Mm.

must have been using them before, I don't think it was the first time they'd done it. But they were using them, like, before the wedding. I was like, oh wow, that's amazing. I didn't use them myself, but then, I think, like, a year later I was doing something else and I wanted to use some, so I tried them out. And when I peeled them off my teeth, like, my teeth looked see through.

Oh,

they weren't a really funny color. Honestly, I thought I'd, I thought I'd destroyed my teeth. Like, I was literally like crying and panicking, but then it faded away. Yeah, the anatomal had like come off. I was like, oh my god.

was probably more adding color color onto your teeth, wasn't it,

It looked, they looked like gray, like they'd gone all see through, but then, but like in a couple of hours, they faded back to the normal color.

so

it was, I was like, I'm never using this again. I was like panicking.

a coating onto them rather than taking

It was

off

so strange, because they wouldn't peel off. They were like, I was like really trying to like,

Uh,

I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What the dentist

should be really. Yeah.

to do. Um, Yeah I mean the list could go on and on and on couldn't it

That was just a few things I thought were like, handy bits of things you might not normally look like think of, so. I did also ask Richard, so my husband, I asked him if there was anything he had for the grooms out there. Shout out to the groomies or, you know, brides you can pass the message on. So he, he wanted me to let you all know that he packed mints.

Nice, yeah.

Not mince beef but mince. is in fresh in your breath. Um,

in case he got hungry.

Aftershave, obviously,

Yeah.

as we spoke about.

Martin

And then he really wanted me to mention about bamboo socks. So,

is obsessed with

yeah, so he said that the,

they don't make

That's it. Yeah. Don't make holes. They don't rub and make your feet smell so much. That's what he put. And if you're wearing new shoes, so obviously, normally when you get married, you're going to wear a new pair of shoes. They can be quite stiff, quite prone to giving you blisters. They got like natural antibacterial in them so that they're sort of like, it's less likely that you get, get, blisters.

Nice.

also another little tip there. Thanks Richard. Yeah,

to get the boys on.

we do.

wedding so we can, like,

That would be great. Yeah.

Do you

Richard would love it, but it's all for England.

about, um, his suit experience. So, yeah, we should

Yeah.

he had a really good experience, but I think it's something that he, you wouldn't normally do for your suit. So, yeah, let's do that. One more other thing to think about on the list is your underwear. Sometimes people, you know, like, if you're doing, like, Boob tape

Oh, yeah,

and like your pants as well. Do not forget the pants.

no. Oh my gosh. So we actually funny enough like, you know, the chicken fillets things you get like the fake

yeah.

so I bought some for my

she used real chicken.

Richard Willis mints and me and mitchie. so I bought some and then I actually got my sister in law, was like, can I get anything for you? And I was like, can you get some of these from Primark, like another set.

Yep.

bought these massive thick ones and we were like laughing about them. I packed them anyway. When I got my dress on on the day, I'd like lost a little bit of weight in that last week before. And actually I had to use the big massive ones. So here we are laughing about I'm not to shove. That's the ones I wore.

you go.

It's not like dropped a few like no

fillet just in

it's a great. Yeah, push up a bit of a push up bra

them when I went pick up my dresses, and they just didn't look right. Like, I felt like I preferred the shape of my boob without them,

yeah,

without.

fair enough.

but yeah, honestly, I've got some ran like we say, tailor your list, but start it a couple of weeks before so you can really

Yeah Oh

So the emergency pizza is, we've allocated a certain amount of time to get up and down Snowdon, Uh, and we're gonna go to our

She gets stuck.

we're gonna go to our favourite pizza shop for our dinner. But if we then, it takes longer to do up and down Snowdon, and we get to the bottom, and I have no pizza for my dinner, and we're in Snowdonia, like, where the hell

Yeah help.

We're a bit screwed, so I've bought some emergency pizzas, just

Well fair enough.

in the van, lovely, got, got me a pizza. yeah, we're all good.

I love that

the

Amazing.

this was Martin's purchase fair, um, we are having some photos in the lake and obviously lakes are really stony so we bought some shoes so we can

Yeah,

to go into the lake.

where she's a great though. Love where I don't like the feeling of anything under my Feet

same.

sea and stuff. So actually we should both have wet shoes.

Yeah that's a good idea and like for the honeymoon and stuff we'll use them because we go quite

Yeah,

waterfalls and stuff like

yeah, exactly.

so

does. Yeah. So yeah, good one.

Good, should we go on to listeners questions?

Let's do it. So the first one do groomsmen walk down the aisle with the bridesmaids for a church wedding

So I don't think it matters whether it's church or not. I feel like we should just answer this.

just as a general venue?

So, walking, the bridesmaids and the groomsmen walking down the aisle together is very American.

Yeah. I thought that

Yeah. And, um, you can do it, of course, and some people like it, but I always think it's, it, logistically, like, you have to have the same amount of bridesmaids to groomsmen, then. So if you're not sure,

and that's a bit difficult, yeah.

it's really awkward, like, I don't know about you, but I've walked down the aisle before with a green room. Didn't know him, felt really awkward. And then I've watched my other half walk down the aisle. with a bridesmaid and I

like, I'm gonna beat her up, bitch.

Yeah, who the

Let's go, bitch. Don't link with my boyfriend, bitch.

you know what I mean like if you don't know them

Yeah, it's a bit awkward. It's a bit cringe, isn't it? Let's be honest. Like

weddings before where they've done it But they all knew each other and it was nice But I think if they don't know each other and they're just kind of stood like next to each other

awkwardly like, yeah, it's a bit weird, isn't it? I actually really like it when the bridesmaids walk down like, individually, just think, work it girl, you know what I mean?

And also the groom it's not really like an asset like the bridesmaids are with the bride who is walking down the aisle Where is the Groomsmen should really be with the groom. Like, do you

yeah, like standing up.

bride, you know, being there

I think it looks nicer for photos when they're walking down a bit individually because then each one of your bridesmaids then gets a nice photo

Yeah.

in their dress and then they haven't got to worry about linking their arm and holding their bouquet and stuff and Like what if you've got like a little kid or something as well like coming down the aisle? It's just too much I just think like individual keep the grooms up front there where they're meant to like with the groom

Yeah.

Like you say,

say, is for a church, is the aisle's normally quite narrow, isn't

it's so small.

so, you might not have space. I'd keep him at the front with the

Yeah.

it's personal preference. If you

Well, exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

speak to them and see how awkward they would feel. Because, like I say, I felt really awkward. Divided.

Yeah. Yeah. Who are you?

but I just thought I was a bit like, oh yeah, I don't know. Who the, yeah, who are you? Yeah.

now my husband. I'm joking.

Um, Should I do an order of day sign? Not sure if I need one or not. Now this is interesting because I've been toying with mine a little bit as to whether it's needed or not. Sometimes I think, is it almost like too regimented? Because I've got

Yeah.

informal day. It's like, this is at this time, this is at this time, this is, then on the flip, people like to know

Wonder what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. So I honestly, I think all people worry about is when they're going to get food

Yeah.

of, if anyone's going to ask any questions, it'll be like, when are we eating?

Oh yeah,

Like

thing

that's it.

experience that people have been asking me is like, so what's

Yeah,

the day?

when's the food? Yeah, I think if you could maybe put something somewhere saying like where the food, what time the food is, like food is at whatever time,

like a restaurant,

food's

served at two

from, yeah, but to be fair, like if you've got a wedding website and you put everything on there, and your order of the day is on there,

or remember?

yeah, well, I mean, you could always be like, just have a look at, if someone asks you on the day, you should probably look at the website, go on your phone, like, look on the website,

But then I suppose

obviously,

like, the one that I'm looking at having doing is from our lovely friend Kelly at Pink Peony

Yeah,

And she does all the beautiful illustrations. So that's the only reason I'm kind of like pulling towards

yeah, so it's nice to Yeah, it incorporates into your day, doesn't it, and like your style and the theme, like, of your stationery and kind of, I had one for our wedding and I liked that it was drawn from, like, obviously our theme and everything. Whether it was helpful for the guests or not, I couldn't tell you, I don't know, but if I'm thinking from, like, a guest's point of view from myself, if I was at a wedding,

Yeah.

really, all I really want to know or ask is, like, I don't know, what time the food is and what time it finishes, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Sort of thing. So, you know, when to get a taxi home or, but like, yeah.

on when you're getting married, Like, where we're getting married, you need to have pre booked your taxi anyway, um.

Yeah. So, I don't know.

you're toying with it, like, well, but then that's

I think it's more aesthetic, isn't it? It's more, it's,

bothered,

it's,

have

no. Yeah.

And if you think people already know what time the food is, like, especially like for us, for example, we get married at three, so in my head I'm thinking, well, people have lunch, like, before

Before. Yeah.

um, I'm gonna do like a, like a Tesco order and get bits for us to have lunch before we go. I feel like surely, like, you know, people will do the same. Even if they're

Yeah.

get something at lunchtime, won't they? Because they'll be hungry. They're

Yeah. Yeah. You wouldn't, wouldn't wait until like,

you know.

exactly. I mean, even if you knew the wedding was at three, you know, you're not getting fed at three. It's going to be a couple of hours later, so you would definitely eat lunch beforehand.

maybe if you get married at like one and it is more of a, you know,

Yeah,

12 one, then people will wonder like happening. Um, And I feel like if you've got quite a bit going on, maybe if it is a

yeah,

and you are doing things at particular times, the only other thing that bloody bugs me as well, of an order of service from an event management point of view is when the board is there. like, things happen, right? So, say something's happening in the kitchen, or something's been delayed, or maybe you've gone and discussed with the couple. You know, normally you might have gone and discussed with the couple, or parents, whoever they've put as their main kind of contact for the day.

yeah,

like, mum or something. So, we go and say to them, look, you know, you're late back from the church, so, you know, do you want us to move this? Or, you know, there's a problem in the kitchen. Or, I don't know, like, whatever, and we might

yeah, yeah. You might have to just get in touch.

got uncle fricking ed like, um, we should down now. Uh,

Oh, for God's sake, come on.

says, uh,

Yeah, wish they didn't have one

and it always

Yeah,

when as well, generally nine times out of 10, you have speeches after the meal. If you're not, do it that

Yeah. Oh Yeah

for like the suppliers so we can work out the rest of the day. But actually it's kind of just. when the meal is over you do your speeches. So again, if it's like, oh we're eating at four and then speeches are at six, if it gets like six and then they're like, oh well the speeches should be now, and it's like, well, no, they're after the meal!

Like they should be

So yeah, there

yeah,

really given a yes or no

no again do what you like just do what you feel like doing I I just I don't know like

for both of those questions, isn't

I feel like if you have got a lot going on and it's a formal day, then perhaps you should do, because if you've got like, you know, you're going off for photos, you're going to have a cake cutting, you're going to have the first dance, like things like that, I feel like you can pop it on there.

Yeah.

feel like it's a nice thing to just add to the day for your stationery and stuff.

yeah, for like me, I, I, I feel like I just want it, and I also want it as like a welcome, because I'm not having like a welcome sign, so,

Yeah,

be like, you know,

Yeah, that might be quite nice then. Yeah,

And Kelly is amazing at all the drawings and stuff,

you see all the illustrations and things, like you say, it can be drawn into your, like, the aceic. I love that,

I would

so.

afterwards as well.

Yeah, we've kept all of ours.

I love

Yeah,

you're

so,

always remember the times of the

yeah. Yeah, ahaha, this is the time we ate. Ah, cut our cake.

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