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year, 52 episodes. Episode number 52.

can you believe it?

I can't.

year gone?

I Do you know what? So, I've been We're gonna do a bit of a special episode today, guys. So, we're gonna be doing our top 10 moments of the year that you guys have been sending in to us. Stuff that we feel like is our top 10. But, I was looking back, right? And you know that this time, last year, we were talking about Britney's wedding.

I can't believe that.

That is nuts.

as well.

You were so pregnant. You really was. That's crazy. But isn't it weird? I was talking to my friends the other day about this, right? Don't you think time is so weird? Because, like, that feels like, I always feel like time goes really quick, but at the same time, if you say to me, like, oh, that, the wedding we did together, that actually feels like ages ago. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, like how are we in no middle of November?

Yeah, it's so weird, isn't it? I feel like the older you get, the more like, time, the concept, your concept and understanding of time is just

Yeah,

It

it's bizarre. Yeah

it goes, yeah, I don't know. Especially since having a kid as well, like that is mad, like makes everything go quicker.

So true, but at the same time, I bet it's gone quick But at the same time does it feel like can you even remember a time when Lily wasn't there? Do you know what I mean? So at the same time? Yeah, it's gone quick But at the same time it's not because you're like what

Yeah,

like nine months ago that Lily Yeah,

Yeah, I know what you

yeah, do you know what I mean? It's very, very strange.

has happened in the year as

It has, yeah. I got married, yeah. Moved house.

Moved

You had a baby.

What else? That's it. Oh. That's a little big thing. Big life moments though, you know.

They are

milestones for us.

literally the three big things in life that we've done between us

It's

within a year. Yeah,

Yeah.

what else?

my windows cleaned.

Hayley finally had her windows. Clean. That was a very exciting moment. Oh, well. A lot has probably happened. A lot of weddings have happened.

of weddings. Lots of happy couples.

Hundreds and thousands of weddings. Yeah. Lots of lovely messages. Lots of new listeners. So, yeah, it's been an exciting one. But,

good.

get into our top ten moments of the year?

Yes, let's do it. So we've I mean, yeah, we had a lot of messages, didn't we? So

did.

it was hard to pick 10, but we've managed to,

We've done it. We've squeezed in our own. We've squeezed in other people's. Well,

I mean, the first one here, we've got the budgeting episode. I mean, sounds boring, but that episode has helped many people. So,

yeah, literally. So we had a comment on our Instagram saying, yeah, it really helped them. And I do think, do you know what? It's so often I was literally on it on Facebook like two days ago and somebody had written like, I'm just engaged. I don't even know where to start. Everybody was commenting like, Oh, so you go and find a venue. These are the places you could look for venues, blah, blah, blah venue. And I commented like, hi. And I was like, okay. Budgeting!

It's so

I got it. It is!

people don't really want to talk about but actually, I feel like if you are more, like we tried to say, if you're more open and have honest conversations about it, actually you'll find the whole process easier.

100%.

stressful because you're on the, like, you and your partner will be on the same page

Yeah.

I just feel like people need to be more open about money.

Definitely.

to sort of be, even like with supplies and stuff, sort of like, what's your budget? Like

More transparent. Yeah, definitely.

so much, it's easier for me to work

Yeah.

I know what their budget is as

Yeah. That's exactly what I do with my couple. So I will take that overall budget, split it down. And then for example, when I look for a florist, I create a mood board and I say to the florist, this is the mood board. This is what we'd ideally like. This is how much I've put aside for flowers. And then they can say to me, yeah, like that's realistic or not. Well, you'd need to cut back on this or, you know,

Yeah,

it just makes sense. And also everybody's saying like, Oh, go around you know, go around. Look for a venue, but how do you, how can you look for a venue without knowing how much money you've got to put aside for the venue?

Yeah, I just, I don't even know. How you would start that looking

No.

if you don't know what you what you have to spend

No, but what we will say, yeah, so what I'll say is like, that budgeting episode is probably one that I share a lot with people to say like, go and listen to this episode, it's going to really help. Even if you only listen to that one episode in your wedding planning, that's going to really give you a good head start and also save all that stress. And I think we spoke about this, didn't we, in the episode about how so many people then get stressed about money,

Yeah, that's it. And it's, it's one of the main things I think people will find that they will sort of be, if

panic about,

and

yeah, arguments, yeah,

half running up to the day, it's

yeah,

I don't know if you've not done a budget and then you're trying to find the money and

yeah.

having to get finance or, you know, you don't want to be doing things like that on like up to your wedding and you

No,

just not, it's not the one. So

panicking about paying final invoices and stuff. But if you know you've got it in an account, you know, not getting yourself into debt, which we always say is really important. Yes, it's the room. And you know what, I have so many people say to me about how I actually had a consultation with a couple recently, and they were like, but how like, we don't know what things cost. And I was like, it's not about how much things cost. It's about how much you can afford.

hard these days because you can, everything's so accessible online.

Yeah.

like people see loads of things on like, Instagram I want this, I want that.

Yeah.

do, like, it's that thing about like, your Pinterest wedding versus your real life

Yeah.

obviously, you know, you should have You've gone through your budget first before you start booking things

Yeah.

like like saying I want this that and the other because actually unfortunately like it could be out of your price range or There might be other ways that you can do that that like, you know more cost effective and stuff so once you know

Yeah.

a better position,

A hundred percent,

Definitely feel like that episode was yeah real popular because of that sort

that was a great one.

open people's eyes

Yeah, and I think we will do some more like coming up towards like Christmas, New Year on, maybe we'll go into a little bit more in depth into what things actually cost, like how much you do need for each area.

Let's do

yeah,

I think like we say with the transparency and stuff

yeah,

can give you can give an idea and I it's not

yeah.

Not

Yeah,

So yeah,

loved your ick moments the last year. Feels things that make you feel awkward. We talk about this a lot, don't we? It's gone down well. My, I feel like my, I'm trying to think what my biggest one is, the overall one.

I mean

so many.

Do you know what I was thinking the other day is quite an ick for me It's that whole like, standing there, waiting, like, when then, like, the first look with your dad, like, with your

Oh, yeah, you're not a fan of the first look. Yeah.

know, obviously I

I know what you mean.

and it was, it was, like, it was fine and whatever, but it's, I just don't know, is it a bit of an cringe moment?

Yeah, I'm with you on that So we I have quite a few couples now that like I don't want that stage Do you know where like the dad closes his eyes stands in the room?

I'm surprised, ah!

and then there's also so much pressure on everybody to like

if he

cry or

oh you look, oh shit.

Yeah, like, oh, oh, is that what you're wearing?

Oh god, I get

Are you getting changed? Yeah, you're getting

is that it?

changed. But quite a lot of people want to do it naturally now. So where the bride is stood in the room, we have got her in good light, but she's already had some portrait photos on her own. And then he literally just walks into the room. I do feel that it's better, but I know what you mean, because I was always like quite anti I'm going to be doing a lot of like, stage stuff like that.

nut.

but actually it's got there's some beautiful photos so yeah it's a difficult one isn't it I suppose like you can do it natural but you're not always guaranteed to get those pictures I suppose so

That you're saying. I mean, I liked it. I, it was nice, like, it was funny though because it, it, basically broke the ice because my mom and dad were trying to get in the room and the door wouldn't open and they kept going, no,

yeah

stood there like my dad

look hello

it was like stuck and they couldn't get in. It was just quite funny.

Oh dear. I still think mine's gonna be anything to do with like, it's like, you know, when the bride groom announced into the room, people clap and then they sit down and there's no music. I'm always standing there like,

God.

play, let's play. When it's like silence, while they're like going behind the top table and trying to get the, the dress in, and everyone's just like, yeah. Or like when the speeches fit, if there's a gap between speeches, if there's no like. Music or no one just says anything. They're just literally standing watching the next person walk up to the table.

and then they tell her something they think is funny and it's not funny and no one

Yeah

massive ick. Uhhh

to my friend yesterday about this and she was like I just and we were saying about weddings and she said I always just Don't like the best man's speech and I was like, oh, how come? And she's like, I just feel like there's such pressure on the best man for it to be funny and they're never funny.

yeah

Why are they got? And she said to me, what, what's that about? How come the best man's speech got to be funny and like tell stories and stuff. And I was like, I don't know, I suppose.

and stuff.

Yeah, that's what she was saying. And it just makes everyone feel awkward. And you just say, Oh, like it's probably funny for you too, but not for everybody else.

yeah.

know, I suppose it's just come from years of, yeah, yeah. But back from years ago when it was all about the man, I suppose. Dunno, we'll have to do a deep dive into that one. Why is, why does a breast man speech have to be funny?

map.

Breast man, the best man. Oh, what we got next then?

You mentioned not needing to extend the night weddings. This helped me to persuade my other half.

yes, when we were saying about you don't need to, you know like some venues offer like a late night extra charge and you can go till 2am.

for, yeah, like, add an extra hour on or whatever, but

Yeah,

find it's a long day. It's a long

such a long day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

yeah, we're both a fan of not extending, I

No extent. I have got it actually.

that's just cruel.

Oh yeah. I I did. I have got a couple next year, but that's because they're at, I work at a lot of venues that are what we class as points of interest, so like, places that have tourists during the day, so you can't actually, so the two I've got next year, they're not getting married till five o'clock.

Well, that's

So,

then,

yeah, that makes sense.

like, normally our weddings start at like 12, they?

yeah, but if you're getting married at, yeah, 12, 1, 2 o'clock, go until midnight, is the way I always put it is, right, so say you get married at 2, because that's a 12.

Yeah.

That's a 10 hour day, like that's longer than a working shift, like that's a lot of time.

Putting a shift in.

Putting a shift in is literally, yeah.

Yeah.

I don't get this until 1, 2 in the morning. Also, and actually I've had this conversation a couple of times I always think that you're better to end on a high. So even if you've got 80 percent of your guests still there at midnight and it's your last song of the night, you're better off ending with that dance floor full

true.

wandering off in bits and bobs and having 10 people on the dance floor at 1am.

that's so true. Yeah. Cause I actually feel like I've stayed and like, done collections a lot after 1am finish. And there's just like a few people

Yeah, a few stragglers.

yeah,

Yeah, you want to finish on a high. Everybody dancing. Like, I remember my last song.

yeah.

Yeah, I remember my last song of the night. We were like all stood in a circle and we was all like dancing together and it was just really nice. Yeah, and yes, you might feel at that point like, oh, I wish we'd have gone on longer, but you finished on a high.

it.

Yeah,

I agree. that.

cool. So next up we've got the episode about what you should pack for your wedding day. Yeah, like what you need to take. Yeah.

good actually because I feel like when I was packing my bag, I was just like grabbing this out and the other.

The kitchen sink.

and then it ended up being just, but then it got forgot anyway. Sorry, I'm not, you know, I'm not salty about it, but I just, you know. No,

sink?

my God, I needed that. But yeah, no, that, that was helpful, I think, for

Yeah, and I think, again, just advising anyone that didn't listen back to that episode, have a listen back, because we talked about things that are easy to forget, that people do forget. We were making lists, we both said, didn't we, like, a couple of months in advance, it was easy to just add bits onto it as you go,

it.

day before. I found that really helpful. Yeah, especially if you are traveling like we were saying that I went to Wales like people that are going abroad Like you ain't going home once you're there.

No.

You're screwed

You need to make sure you've packed that bag well.

so everything you're buying even if you're buying bits I did as well where I'd buy bits and put them in a box

Yeah. Oh

like

good idea. So you've like got it all together in a,

yeah, because what's the point in having it out? Like if you're not using it before the wedding?

That's

Yeah, so yeah very important list Knowing what to pack making sure you don't forget anything because that is stressful. Also for your decor as well, I used to find this a lot, especially when I worked in venue, like, I would say like, pack your tables in like boxes, like table per table, and in each, if you're doing the deco yourself. And then if you're not, like make sure like your place cards are in table by table, and that they make sense, and it matches the table plan.

yeah,

mum's name Judy? Like, you know? Just make sure everything's organised and makes sense. Like, you might think, oh well that makes sense. You know, those candles are gonna go on those tables. But the person setting it up might not know. So, write a list.

self explanatory, doesn't

Yeah, yeah. And that's what I did. I, again, the plastic tubs were a little bit, I didn't do a lot myself, but you know, with a, with a note on the top of like, this is for this, this is for this, this is for this. And exactly what happened, you know, the day before, yes, I was supposed to stand myself, but things ended up taking longer. I had to leave, but then there was stuff, you know, right.

yeah, it was all

Yeah.

like,

It was all organized.

just grab it out and do it for you

Yes,

like, like we said, self explanatory, so

exactly.

So the Prezola episode, so where we spoke about your wedding gift list. I feel like this is, was really helpful because for me it was like a real, my god this is like game changer moment. when I found out that you could do that. So,

yeah, I actually recommended it to one of my couples the other day.

yeah, I'll recommend it to people as well

Yeah.

since we've put it on, obviously we did the episode, we've had a couple of messages in like with people saying that they've done it as well. So,

Yeah.

really helpful and I just feel like it's a way of putting together a gift list that sort of stops you from to feel awkward about asking for what

Yeah

But it's also kind of because then it stops you from getting all the chat, you know?

Yeah, exactly and you can do gifts or money and you can do a mix which is great as well.

and the

Yeah, we did.

like oh just put money towards like this is towards our honeymoon towards a

Yeah

Like we'll enjoy like this and you can kind of like tailor it to whatever. I just

Yeah,

a really good

yeah, that worked really well for us. So we basically did a whole list of all the excursions we wanted to do because we did a very, like, active honeymoon. So we literally listed all our different excursions and then we kind of said, like, if whatever excursion you buy us, we'll then, like, send you a picture from that trip that we've done.

love

We still booked and paid for those trips. We were gonna do them regardless of if they got bought for us, but we then on the day of our honeymoon, got all that money back essentially. So we then paid ourselves back into our honeymoon account with that money. And actually we was really lucky. Like majority of what we wanted to do was bought for us. And yeah, it was really nice. And people really loved saying, Oh yeah. Like how they asked that they were more like willing to ask us afterwards.

doesn't

Yeah.

actually.

Yeah. They kind of get an eye. Yeah.

lives

Yeah.

The honeymoon and the wedding forever!

Literally, and it gives, it gives them a bit of more of an idea of what you're going off to do afterwards, you know, so,

no, I, I just love, I love telling anyone about Prisona because I was just like, this is,

so easy.

good.

Here's a link.

you go.

Go on to here. The amount, honestly, you still get people ask you though, even if you put it on your wedding website, the amount of people I still had, like, messaged just like, oh, do you have a, is there anything particular you want for your wedding gift?

like cash and then, or

Yeah, we did get, still get a lot of cash, which was still great because, you know,

fine.

Yeah, we still, we just, we changed it up at the airport. And actually, excitingly we also kept some of it aside, the cash that we got.

Oh,

we, I went and banked it at the, the post office. Took a trip to the post office. And we're actually, this weekend, going on our, like, six month, couple of days away, So we're Yeah, we're going to London, we're going to see Harry Potter at the theatre, which I'm so excited. And it was so nice because I've wanted to, we've both wanted to see that for a long time, and it's not cheap to see if you want good seats. But, because it was like from our wedding gifts, we felt,

That you could

yeah,

treat

we can do it. Yeah, do you know what I mean?

and I love

I know.

a six month kind of anniversary, like half year. I can't believe it's been six months, but

I know.

that's

Yeah, it's crazy. But you said about doing that, so that was another great tip that you brought saying about, you know,

I just remember sort of someone saying to me once, Oh, you know, it's really depressing. My wedding's finished and

Yeah.

it's quite nice to have something to look forward

Yeah.

six months or a year or like for your anniversary.

Yeah, exactly.

that honeymoon money or like, you know, you've got something left in the pot. I just

Yeah.

have something to kind of look forward to

Yeah, 100%.

all of your wedding and everything. So,

nice. Yeah.

you're doing that. It's

Yes, that'd be good. We're actually been talking last night as well about the one year anniversary.

Oh.

Was you pregnant on yours?

Yes,

anything?

So we went back to where we got married. So we went back to Stowe

Oh, yes. Yes.

lady who made our wedding cake. And she made us three small cakes of each tier. So we took

Love that.

like,

That is so cute. Oh, it's so

Little picnic.

romantic!

was really romantic. It was

Oh, this isn't going to be as romantic as I didn't think.

Oh,

like, we'll just go on holiday.

Oh, we'll just go away.

We need to book it.

well, we got married to like a national trust site, so you can go on like really, I mean, I go there all the time.

Yeah.

there for walks all the time, so it's really nice, but,

Yeah.

I love, because you can go there and it's like, oh, I remember having our photos all around here, and so, that

That is so cute. I love that you went all in though with the cake and

I know. Okay.

the first year, is it?

year's paper, yeah,

What did you get?

So I think I just got Richard a card.

Well, yeah, that is paper. Yeah.

what else I got him, but he, he got me a So, when we got engaged, we went to watch this film, which is actually a, like a book, by Jojo Moyes. It's been made into a film, Last

Oh!

Last Letter

yeah!

Your Lover.

Yes.

So he actually bought the book, and then he put a little, like, message inside the book, and a photo of us inside it, and that was his First year because it's paper, but what made me

that.

was this year was cotton

Yeah.

For two years and he got me a tea towel

Yes.

he calls me Bean, like as in a baked, like not a

Yeah.

calls me Bean, it's

Been it?

it's

Yeah.

of a cringe ic moment. But, so he got me this tea towel that says we've been married for like two, for two years and

Oh,

bean tin and Hayley and

that is cool. I like that.

some socks.

I think that's why I remember that. Yeah, I remember the cotton year. I remember you saying that you got something random

yeah, socks and some gardening gloves that had like So much percent cotton.

and I love that you checked. Do these have cotton

I was like, this has got to be, but, but the the socks were cotton, not bamboo. So he wasn't, you know, he loves his bamboo

Yeah, that's very true.

you know.

Mm, yeah. Good point. Cool, so next up we've got the body positivity episode. Yes,

yeah, I

I know this was quite like, especially for you, this was quite a one, one that No! As in you were like keen to talk about this.

Yeah, no, I, I love that episode. Yeah, I just feel like.

That was your episode, you rolled with it.

I'd roll with

Yeah, yeah,

it's always good to just remind everybody that although it's your wedding, you shouldn't have to change

yeah,

just be you. Who

definitely.

If anything, get a work on yourself. Work on loving yourself. Don't work on trying to lose weight.

There was me booking a PT two months before I made it. Yeah.

I really don't need to. But I'm doing that because I want to, not because I feel like I have to.

Yeah, exactly. That was the same with me. I was like, I want to look my absolute best on the wedding day and that's what I'm gonna do and I'm just very much like the kind of person that's like if that's what I want to do That's what I'm gonna do. You know, like I'm not gonna sit around moping about it. I'll do something about it, you know

it's not, you know, it's a bit sad when people buy a dress that are two sizes too

Yeah, you're so right

this. It's like, no, you should be. Buying a

Yeah,

you, like, unless you are like, literally looking to like, drop. But then even so, why are you looking to drop all that weight before a wedding? I just find it,

literally. It's just adding stress. Yeah, do you know what? I remember actually as well that we spoke about this because I know that, but a couple of times that when I went to like dress shops, et cetera, is even, I'm quite, I'm pretty small to be fair. But I was asked, are you going to lose weight? And I know that's because They're like, Oh, a lot of people want to lose weight, but I felt like I, I, they didn't bother me in the slightest.

if.

understand that, you know, they need to make sure you get the right site and it's not going to be too big because then that's an issue. And the same with alteration people. I know, I understand they need to know that, but maybe weight, you're going to know in your head, oh, I want to lose weight so it needs to be smaller or whatever, you know?

I just don't feel like it needs to be art. Like you say,

Yeah.

it with them, wouldn't you? You'd bring it up if you're like, well,

Yeah.

dress this one 'cause I'm definitely going to lose weight. You, you would definitely mention it.

Yeah. Exactly.

like you just don't need to, it doesn't

You almost plant in the seed, aren't you?

Yeah.

When they're then looking in the mirror at themselves, they're thinking, oh, maybe I could do with losing a stone and yeah. Yeah, so no, that was a really good episode, a very important, a serious, a serious episode, that was, yeah, yeah.

And then so next we've got the excuses for dropping out

Yeah, that was quite a recent one, wasn't it? I love that.

funny Yeah I mean So they just get more and more wild and even since then I've seen some like crazy

Same, yeah.

like sit like reasons why it's just like oh my god. They just get wilder and

Yeah, so we're talking about guests, the guests who last minute drop out and when we're talking last minute We're saying like this could be a week before this could be on the day. And yes, it does happen and expect it to happen Yeah, at least a handful. I always say but I've seen like people panicking lately where they're like, oh, I'm so worried because

it. Yeah.

people are dropping out, like my wedding's gonna look terri Is it gonna be like a disaster because there's nobody there? And I just think you can't worry about it. Like the people that turn up are the people that actually love you. You know?

got like a genuine reason,

unless they're like ill or whatever.

But we were gonna do an episode on that and how you can

Yeah.

with that, you know, that worry

How to respond. How to Yeah.

What you

to respond. How to like Yeah. Like, tips on like how to, you know, not have to worry about that and to make that situation better, essentially.

Yeah.

Yeah, but yeah, it is. Guests are funny, aren't they?

are

old things. Funny old things.

Oh dear.

Oh dear, but yeah, we'll do that one soon. We'll do that one episode soon, so. Yeah, yeah.

their dog was ill, they couldn't get a dog sitter. And it was like, it's a, it's a dog, like what the hell, like, you were just like, call the RSPCA. No,

did it? I'm now like thinking, I'm like, was that my wedding?

No, someone said that there was a reason that someone had said

Yeah, because the dog.

to look after their dog

What the heck?

like what the hell man

Seriously.

Like it's

Seriously. Yeah, we,

I

but didn't we do two? We did one on like, the reasons. And then we did one on like, Whether it's an excuse, I can't remember now, we did two episodes on it though.

did like a, what's it with family, was it family fortunes or

yeah,

like

yeah.

I

What is the top answer? Yeah, what do we think is the top, top reason that people drop out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, people are funny, but yeah. Cool, so next up we've got my favourite episode. So, I said, obviously we've got to say my wedding episodes.

my favorite episode was about me.

It's about me. No, it's really, really nice actually to like recall the wedding and like so many people are asking me about it, like, you know, that I work with and stuff and I was like, just go and listen to the podcast. But we did an episode on the elopement episode on the wedding day, which I'm really hoping. Yeah, exactly. You can. They were in May. Oh yeah. Oh.

in years to come when we're like real famous podcasters. Yeah. And you listen back. You're like, wow, look at where we started. Oh, yeah, my wedding.

Yeah, I think the elopement episode was May and then the wedding episode I think might have been back when I got back from honeymoon Yeah, that'd have been June.

It

But

did it in two parts, didn't we?

yeah, yeah so the elope, I'm just really hoping that elopement helps people to realize that you can do a cost effective wedding and you can you know, have an amazing time and not have to feel pressure about these family logistics and all those things. Because yeah, the elopement is possible and it is amazing and you don't feel hard done by it, all those different things.

it? It was

Yeah.

true, like you say, true to what you wanted and you

Yeah.

because you felt you had to and I think one of the episodes as well we did on like traditions and stuff

Yeah.

But like I feel like you just what you wanted to

Yeah.

thinking about

What you've gotta do.

expect you to do

Yeah.

so

Literally, yeah. Yeah. And I just think it's, and also I was thinking the other day, right? So we're, it's like six months ago now. We'd literally been in between the two weddings six months ago. And actually looking back now, when you look at what is it you actually look at? So I think about like, you know, we had such a great time. Like my friends always say to me and my family, Oh, we just had like, it was such an amazing weekend.

You're

it's like forgotten.

totally.

not because I just brought it up, but only for podcast. You know, and the same with you, isn't it? Like, think about the things that were maybe negative on the day or afterwards. Because there's always going to be little things, like, it's always going to happen. But, do you even think about them now? Probably not. No. So yeah, I just thought that was quite interesting. When I was thinking about it the other day, I thought it was quite interesting.

mate, yeah. Yeah.

that was some of my favorite moments. Obviously, it's been a big year for us. Like I say, it feels like a lifetime ago. So yeah, we're now going through the name change process, which I'll update you on next week. And yeah,

Time

my one.

I think our joint favourite has got to be made in about Cadbury Purple. Come

Oh, that was such a funny episode.

Ah.

And I felt like proper, like reminiscent.

me too. I can literally feel like I'm there at one of the,

Yes.

like I could see it. It was just like, do you know what I mean? It was just like, I was there with it.

Literally. And the other day I was having a conversation with someone about in the industry about chair covers and I was like, ran in, I was like, why are chair covers still a thing? They are

That's what they look

hideous. And again, it put me right back. So, to the Cadbury Purple Bows,

Oh, it's that horrible,

of the Cadbury,

bows.

yeah, hideous.

vibrant pink.

I don't know, some people on here might be listening and they might be thinking, Oh, but I've got to have chair covers. Hold the phone because we'll bring this up again on what you can do. And I'm going to show you the difference in prices of what you can do to not have a chair cover.

I,

venues still got banqueting chairs that we have to cover

are

baffles me.

why are your chairs red?

Yeah.

beautiful venue,

Yeah.

and very ornate, and it's everywhere's white, and, or cream, or whatever, and very neutral. Then you've got red chairs.

Literally. And do you know what I'm so sick of hearing is hotels that are like, Oh, but we need to like be corporate and wedding and I'm like a chivari chair Does not mean it's not corporate like a corporate does not care if they've got a chivari chair or if they've got a red Banqueton chair they couldn't care less

I don't get it either.

With a corporate as long as I got something to sit on doesn't matter. So just buy good chairs buy good chairs people

She's not happy about it.

There you go. Sorry, that's my rant of the day. But anyway, we'll come back to that. But yes, the Cadbury Purple. It was just another little reminder of that the other day. I was like, oh no.

Oh, God.

But it wasn't it? Oh, it was a Reddit post, wasn't it? And the guy, and the, and the bride was saying that the groom wanted Cadbury Purple. And I, and I replied and said, leave him. I'm gonna have to have a look back at that and see if she ever responded. Yeah, I don't know if they did. I feel like I would have got an email notification or something if they did, but yeah. How funny, how funny.

And I've just really got to mention here, going right back to the start, there's

Yeah.

that I remember well. One is the Shrek weddings, that

Yeah, oh my god. Cut.

started. Dammit,

I can't believe you, because guess what? The other day, I was like, oh my god, I would love to bring Hayley a Shrek themed wedding that's happened this year to show you, like, live on the podcast, but there hasn't been any. Ha ha ha ha! Not in the press anyway.

what

searched high

what

and low on, on the news, but the last one I could find was like 2013 and they'd literally painted themselves. But I was like, oh, I was really hoping to find one from like this August to be like, Aunt Hayley, I've got a surprise for you. But no, that's, nobody's taking you up on that.

yeah, it was the Shrek, the Shrek weddings and also my lovely friend who told me about the story about someone being sick all over the table

Yes.

working.

Do you know what? I think that was one of our first episodes because I found that when I was looking back through TikTok videos, and that was like one of our first TikTok videos.

first of all we were just, just starting out.

I mean, you've got to repeat the story, come on.

So, basically, she used to work in quite a posh venue. She said they did silver service, so that's, I don't know, that's pretty posh, isn't it? It might have been.

I feel like

yeah, I think it was.

now, I'm sure you said it was.

A

lovely. A nice hotel.

posh, you know, not the kind of place where you want what happened to happen, I guess.

Yeah.

and she's serving, and I think, I don't know what the guest was in relation to the couple or whatever, but he had Drunk a lot throughout like I think it was like a tasting menu, you know, there was loads of courses

With a flight of wine and all those, yeah.

try this wine with

Yeah. Because it was a small wedding, wasn't it? Wasn't it COVID? But

was no it wasn't covid but it just was a

it was a small wedding. Yeah.

would say yeah, like a micro wedding. I don't know anyway

Intimate wedding, whatever. Yeah.

intimate

Yeah.

more intimate when the man Threw up all over the table

Oh.

All over the table. And she had to, like, fold, like, She had to clean up the sick with, like, a dustpan and brush, she

That's disgusting.

it's bad when you gotta get the dustpan and brush out.

Oh.

Oh, that's not good.

Also, just think for that bride and groom. A. They then got sick all over the table. But B. If you're in like a fancy hotel and you're doing like a tasting menu for your wedding, like it's going to be a lot of money per head. Imagine that he's just sicked up your money essentially.

Yeah. Not okay, hun.

Not okay. It's not okay. So there was our top 10 moments of the year.

Hope you've enjoyed

What do we think?

have loved doing this

Same.

It's

Same. It's been so exciting.

We've, we've spent so much time talking about weddings, which we love

Yep.

all of the ins and outs and it's just been so good. And thank you so much to our lovely listeners.

thank you.

We get so many messages

do.

and it's really good because we feel like we're actually helping people.

Is always going to be the aim.

which was our goal. And also just keeping it real people, you

Bringing you the real stories and

pretend that it's all sunshine and roses

Yeah.

sick, there's moments,

There's stress, there's tears, there's

but

Bastard family, there's Ha ha ha! There's people making comments, there's people putting their oar in, there's A lot that goes on, there's unreliable suppliers, there's like, yeah, there's a lot that happens. Yeah.

in your ears.

Yeah, we're here to advise you on how to get around these things. Yeah, but we're here every Thursday. So if you are a new listener, you can catch us every Thursday. The episodes get released. So yeah, just thanks again. Thanks for all the support. We've had a great year. I feel like we're like saying it like we're coming to the end, but we're not. We're back next Thursday. It's just because it's one year. It's the same.

It's a special,

And it is exciting for us because I think it was also something that Haley talked about doing podcasts and I really wanted to do a wedding podcast and it took us a year in the making before we actually did it.

talking about it a lot,

Yeah, before we got the headphones on and, and got stuck in. Because it's not easy from the, from the behind the scenes. You know, you have got to get your equipment and like, when we, like, we know weddings, we don't know technology,

definitely don't.

you know, so it's, it's just, it's not an easy one to navigate, is it? All the different systems and

we're just

yeah,

working our way through it. But we've managed it. We've done,

we have,

And

yeah.

52 episodes in, a year later. And,

Woo!

yeah, so,

I will see you for episode 53 next week.

See you next week, guys!

guys! Bye!