go?
Hello.
Happy International Women's
Ah, you beat me to it. Happy International. Where is that? Was? Yeah, I was getting ready for that.
But happy. Happy International
Yes.
fellow podcast host, business power woman,
Oh.
to the beautiful Lily.
Lily and my wonderful friend, brilliant planner, epic legend in the business field.
Oh,
She is
much. I must say, right? Uh, we was watching our wedding video the other day. We were watching the speeches. In the ceremony. It was so, so, so beautiful, and all I kept thinking was they fucking flowers.
Oh yeah, yeah, buddy.
Oh, thank you so much. You
Oh, good. I'm glad.
I'm just gonna thank you for my flowers the rest of my life.
Oh, I mean, you can.
it like I'm so glad that we did the speech to them, front of them flowers. 'cause
Yeah. Oh, they were incredible. They, they looked amazing. If I do say so myself.
looked
They did look great.
like where the girls had like moved those ones onto like behind
the
you
urns? Yeah.
urns Oh no, there was the urns. Yeah. And then they'd moved some of the ones from the centers of the tables to like the stone
Oh yeah, that's it. Yeah.
so good.
Oh yeah. No, it was amazing. It was amazing. Thanks. Oh,
Going?
let's do it.
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Exciting.
mean, as it's traditional, we always start the podcast here, talk about the weather and the time of the year. It's sunny outside.
like
sun is here.
weather written in our
Yeah.
We might as well.
But it's so nice.
it's a little bit cloudy
Oh, it's really,
as it has been this week.
been lovely. At least it's just nice to see the sun.
Yeah, I
it's so good.
um, our American couple come over, well, the bride came with her mum,
Yeah.
a couple of days, Monday, Tuesday, and uh, she came from California and I was like. Did you bring the weather with you? Because it was so
Yeah.
like this has given you a bad reflection of the UK because it's not normally this nice weather.
No it's not.
like, even if it's like this weather when we get married, I'll be happy. I'm like, yes,
When is our wedding?
It's in June. It's June.
Oh, it's the, oh, right, okay.
time. So they should be all right.
yeah. Yeah.
push them more to June 'cause I dunno what it is about July, but the last couple years, I just feel like July's not been that great and
No,
give,
it is been rainy. Really rainy,
Isn't it?
eh?
So, yeah.
It's just not the same.
But Eva, to be, I mean, that's just me being. You know, looking at the last couple years, it probably completely changed, you know, so
Yeah.
couple years May has been really nice.
Yeah. I was gonna say May is. Yeah.
then my wedding day was all over the shop,
Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy.
How has your week been?
My week's been good. Yeah. I've been, um, doing some, uh, quotes and things like that, just getting back to people. Like I said, I do these presentations now rather than just a quote, so it take me a little bit longer. Yeah. Let me,
I need to send
I was gonna send you one actually, like, Hey, look at this.
do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, so yeah, just, uh, confirming with a couple of people about that they want to go ahead and just start firming up detail sending over, um.
Nice. Do you think that's
and stuff like that. Um,
these
it's good for them. I, I don't I'm yet to know whether it has or not, because I think it'll depend. Yeah. Um,
write in a, let us know if you are picking florists or you picked a florist
yeah.
sent you a mood board. Some didn't. Let us know if you think it, it helped.
Yeah. Tell us, let me know. I need the market research.
Yeah, the research.
Um, but yeah, so no. I mean, I'm, yeah, yet to find out whether they sort of help with booking, but I like doing it. It makes me feel very professional, so I like that.
I bet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then. On a non-business note, I've just been doing lots of, uh, like walkin and stuff. So I started, I don't even wanna use the word diet 'cause I'm not dieting. I've just decided
darling.
lifestyle change. I've stopped eating like a lot of ultra process and even ultra process. I've sort of like stopped eating or avoiding where I can't. Sometimes it's very difficult because something they'll have, I mean. Yeah, but nah. And then, so I've just been doing loads of walking 'cause the weather's been so nice. Um, yeah, I've like racked up like 60 K this week and so ridiculous. Yeah. I walk everywhere.
good.
I can, 'cause where I live, like if I need to go somewhere, I can walk. So like Monday I had to go to the doctors and I mean, it's like a half hour each way, but it was fine. So I walked there
Wow.
like that. So it's quite nice, really.
Yeah. Love that.
but yeah, just trying to, I think it's good. Isn't it? Good for the mind? Good for the good for the body.
jealous because I'm normally a, like a daily walker. I
I was gonna say, you've been so busy, haven't you?
week's like exploded in my face. Busy
I am here.
I, yeah, I just feel like I've neglected my whole being,
no. I hate that. That's like me at Christmas. That's why I always put weight. I'm like a bear. I put, I like put weight on and hibernate sort of thing
eating because I'm
with work.
haven't had time to even
Yeah.
eating. I'm literally just doing one thing after the other. it's
Oh
been a bit crazy, but yeah.
yeah,
it's, it's all fun and games.
You've told me a little bit about it, but Yeah. Well, how, how's your week been then? Tell, tell us.
was because the corporate company that I work with is kind of classic corporate. They, they love anything to be last minute.
Of course.
board to kind of start working with them in January on the delegate management, but the invites didn't actually go out until like two weeks
See, that's mad.
a lot of management that
Yeah.
So, um, I wasn't really doing anything for them. And then. The invites went out. But the thing is, is everything that I need to get from them. So like finding out what room nights they're stay, you know, what nights they're stay in, um, the sizes for their shirts. 'cause they all have like the matching shirts. So when
Yeah.
you know, it shows off the brand for their customers and whatever. Uh, bad name badges, bits like that. They ne need, I need that information now
Needed that yesterday.
Yes. 'cause the company that needs to do the shirts is like, we need it now to be able to process your order. The hotels are like, we need your room and lists. So
My goodness.
Whoa, because now I'm
the, phone.
whereas before, if the response had to come in like January,
Yeah.
I could have kind of eked it out a little bit and done like an hour a day
Split it up.
the information. Whereas now, like yesterday, I spent like six hours on it. But I
Bly me.
I, don't, I plan my time in all weeks in advance. Like I know how much time I'm spending on projects and. Yeah, when expecting in March to be spending this much time on
Mm. That's
is
mad.
is and you just gotta kind of get through and, and get by. And
Yeah. You can do it. I believe in you.
and, and, or we're having to re-recruit as well,
Yeah. I was gonna ask her about that.
time consuming doing interviews.
my God. Yeah. And then you wanna make sure you've made the right decision and stuff, don't you like,
you do.
cause it's,
um, I think I've made a decision on that. So, but then it's training them. Um, so you've gotta find a day in the
yeah.
like, right, to actually
Just another thing.
some time. You wanna give them the time.
So I, um,
of like, I kind of really wanted someone to start the training last month, which was what was gonna happen. But then things, things change, you know? It is what it is. But uh, yes, it was still a little
It is difficult, isn't it? Because I have, um, people email me quite a lot saying that they've like, maybe just come out of college or they're interested in flory and they're like, oh, can I come And like.
Oh yeah. We
Freelance. And
yeah, yeah.
So like going back to when I first started, obviously I needed someone to just like, I needed some shop experience because that's where you learn, like on the job, don't you? So,
Yeah.
it's hard because when you are like events and when like when an event's focused, it's like straight in, full on. You don't really have time to sort of show someone the ropes. They need to come in. Like they can't be green when they're coming in. They need to be like already like experienced. And so I feel like. In that scenario, it's probably best.
Someone would went and worked in like a shop, did a bit of retail that does a bit of wedding work and stuff, and then then they come and, because otherwise it is hard. 'cause I've mean I've had like a couple of times like friends and, uh, in the industry, um, that sort of do like decor, decor and stuff, so they kind of know how a wedding works stuff. So they've come and like, they're not florists, but they can come and help out. That's not too bad, but like, yeah. So if you.
what we used to do. Um, before I had Chloe, I'd use freelancers to come help me on a wedding day,
Yeah.
have my own team because they know how I
That's it. Yes, exactly.
we're working with. So It's
Totally.
Chloe, for example, speak. To my couples every now and then through the they, they know who she
Yeah.
wedding day, they're not just wanting to speak to me. It was, if you've got a random there, when you do the event manager, like, oh, you're just like, oh, this person, I don't know, Haley's here to help me.
Hey,
they won't necessarily
who that is.
because they don't know you.
Yeah,
same level of trust,
I used to get really worried that couples would get, um, like angry, not well. Yeah, kind of like a bit put off if I didn't myself show up on a wedding day and stuff like that. Like I used to. I really like sell myself on being personable and like that I meet with them and like they, they deal with me the whole time, but obviously like. The truth is that sometimes you do have more than one wedding on a day. Obviously you wouldn't take on two massive weddings.
No, but like for me, say if I've got two small, uh, like say if like you've got bridal stuff and bridal stuff, like that's fine 'cause it's just two deliveries essentially.
Yeah.
I used to get really funny about them finding that out or them knowing that, or thinking that I wouldn't be,
bouquets,
yeah.
could probably get someone else to just drop them off,
Yeah, that's, that's what I mean.
before.
So I don't need to be there and be like, oh, hello. Like necessarily, but I used to feel really like guilty about it, and I think it's just something that I've kind of like, but now I have like freelancers that help me, but they're freelancers that have always worked with me. They're more like, they are more like staff that,
Yeah. yeah,
like members of staff that kind of come in and out rather than just like random people. Yeah,
brand
because it's hard. It's difficult.
it is protective of your business, but,
exactly.
so yeah, it's all got a little bit crazy. But yeah, I mean, once I feel like this, it is just gonna be like this for a week or two and then it all, um, once we've got all that information,
Then you'll be
we'll be good to
all right.
the, one of the women at the company sent out like a male blast of everyone and was
Male. Blast.
everything by Monday, but we're actually gonna go away for a couple of days next week as well. I mean, I'll still be working,
Yeah.
uh, Martin's a bit quiet at work next week and I, um, I, I haven't physically gotta be out of the office
That's, yeah. So ideal
yeah, we were like.
can take your van.
go, yeah, work in the van for a couple of
So cool.
and we'll go in tomorrow. So I don't work on Sundays anyway, so it'd be nice to have a day to do something then. And then I kind of thought to myself, well actually, like this week, Monday, Tuesday, I was out all day anyway doing site visits. So
Yeah.
like even if I, like this week, I'm working today, so I'll have done a six day week today. And then, um, yeah, I, I'm just a bit like, do you know what if I, if I just do two half days, Monday, Tuesday, then fine, you
Alright. Yeah, you've worked, you've earned a bit of time off. You've earned it, girl.
weekend I'm off to London. We're gonna see Clueless, me and my
Oh my god, I really wanna see that. Oh my
it for each
God.
so
Oh, that's amazing. I kept seeing the, um, advertised when I was on the tube, and so, you know, they have all of the,
It's
yeah.
Yeah. The
really wanna see mean girls as well.
We saw that
Oh, did you? Oh
went into that last year. Uh, so we thought, oh, this year we'll do clueless. So.
Oh, that'll be so good. Joy.
times. Busy, busy times. But yeah, we, um, so yeah, it was really great. Me meet my American couple. We had such a great time. Um, we saw four different venues, which they absolutely, they liked all four, but three, they were like, love, so really bad predicament for them because. They dunno which one to choose, but
Yeah. Yeah,
at my job.
that's it. High five girl. That's really good actually.
Um, but I think they've kind of shortlisted it to two and
Are they all London venues or like around Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah, we did and we went to One And Buckham Sure as well. But I think the one with that, they absolutely love it, but it's, I think because you're flying everyone in from America, it's like actually looking at it. American weddings don't start till later. They're at
Okay. Yeah.
So A people are gonna be there for a few days, and B, the wedding don't start till later in the day. So actually London or Oxford just gives them so much more to do. Whereas I
That's true.
everybody out to Buckinghamshire,
Yeah.
like you've got put some entertainment on or something during the day. Um. And transport and things like that. Whereas when you're in the center of Oxford, center of London,
can just hop on and off bus or, Yeah.
From the airport. They can get to Eve really easy on the train and then they can taxi to their hotel from the train station. So it, yeah,
That's a good point. Yeah. Interesting.
about that. They can go, you haven't gotta think of, I've gotta put on a lunch. And we are doing another American wedding this year and they're a little bit like that. Look, we're having to put lunches on and stuff during the day,
Oh
we can't do it at the venues 'cause it's too much. But you feel like you've gotta feed people 'cause they're in the middle of nowhere. So if you're coming from America, you dunno where you are. It's like it is. You can't really
It's gonna cost, cost you more money and stuff, I suppose as well then, isn't it? But
a
yeah, so that's a good, that's a good point though. I suppose it's not really something that maybe people would necessarily consider.
maybe.
like you would probably point that out and
you're coming out of town, people are very aware of it. I think a lot of Americans are used to go into international weddings, so they're very aware
Yeah.
so we, this is how we were treated. I think that's always a good way of looking at things is this is how we were treated, so that's, this is what we enjoyed,
Yeah. Do they
thinks
ever do the, do your couples ever, do your American couples sort of ever tell you why they love like wanting to get married in the uk?
Yeah, they just love it. So normally there's ties. So like with this couple, the
I.
although he's American, it's because his mom, his dad is American, but his mom was British, moved out to America and then stayed there. So all of the rest of his family's in the uk. So they do visit the UK to see his family and they just love it.
Okay.
I've worked with just love the, like the couple that we did before American,
Yeah.
like no ties. It was just, they just loved, like they don't have houses and ma you know, like man houses and
Yeah.
like we do castles. Like it's just not the same.
Yeah.
yeah, I just think they love it.
Oh, that's really cool. Yeah. I just wondered if they, yeah,
weddings, but they, they love it. I mean, I maybe would dunno,
Do you know what? Do you know what We should put it out there? We, we, I really wanna do a Scotland wedding. We should just, we should do it together.
maybe it's not too bad for you 'cause you probably do one site visit, but you think For me, I have to do
Yeah. You can fly there though. It's only an hour on a plane.
I suppose,
you could get the Caledonian sleep. Treat yourself.
night. Jesus.
love to though. I would literally love to do a Scotland wedding. I,
do you know why it's not the hour flight? It's the, you've gotta get to the airport, you've gotta hang
it's a faff. It's a faff.
Like, do you know what I
Alicia can go from looting though. It's like quite close, isn't it? Well because for,
I have no supplier network in
yeah.
I could build one pretty easy, like pretty quickly, but not easily.
me, it wouldn't be a problem because it's the same, like getting flowers there is not gonna be different to where it, like for me it's just a case of I would just order from
Yeah.
one of the wholesalers Cash and carries. Like in Scotland, it's not a big deal. It's be the same.
Would you Or
Yeah,
could hire an Airbnb and do 'em all in there or
exactly. Yeah. Just hire or you could like do like unit for a weekend or something like that. I think it'd be, it depends on the size of it
give me a little bit of anxiety.
Yeah.
to be able to get also like even like the tastings and things like that. They're all gonna be up
Yeah,
do you know what I mean?
you just like, yeah.
put them all together.
And then did like a week or something and
yeah, if it was an American couple it'd be okay because they only generally fly over once or twice, so going up there once or twice within a year would be fine. But. it was a Scottish couple and they're like, oh yeah, let's just meet at the venue and do that. Yeah,
Yeah. Yeah,
I wouldn't
true.
but they'd probably pick a Scottish planner, so
Wow. Well,
and
oh, sorry.
married in Scotland, maybe. Maybe I'll debate it.
Yeah. Get in touch.
Only if you bring Haley as well,
I, I come as part of the package. I'm not free either. Well, speaking of, uh, Scottish and Scottish accents and things like that, I just wanna, you know, shout out to the, uh, people that sent in the, uh, dms this week from, uh, the Shrek, the Shrek wedding.
that was like so random because you messaged me that, have you seen all these
Yeah,
like they were all coming in at the same time, but I feel like these posts aren't new.
I don't, I think this is a new wedding because remember the, the OG Shrek wedding we, we covered right back, very first episode.
that was our first ever
Yeah. I think it was. So these people that are listening are like OG
We talk about. Yeah. Yeah, they are. Or they've gone back and listened to, which if you're listening now and you haven't heard about the Shrek wedding, go back
Go back
the
cause that is, and I was even wearing green just to,
Were you,
I was wearing a green top.
was she pregnant as well?
Yes. I probably like
Brilliant. Of course she did.
I dunno.
Fiona, that's me, Fiona. I got the ginger hair and the other
I fu and green.
He was then you ain't, now you was swollen and green.
Thank you. Wo
You
uh, I was, I can't even, no. Oh my God, I can't even deny. I was like a bowling ball. Anyway, anyway, I digress.
she
yeah, so people have been sending in, uh, basically, I'm pretty sure I looked it up, tried to look, it was really hard to find, like the link just went to an Instagram photos of, of basically this couple in, was it Dudley or something?
yeah. Dudley, which is
Which is, yeah.
of Birmingham, isn't it?
Yeah. And they'd, um, they'd had a Shrek themed wedding, and I just, the, the photos are hilarious, but they, they, They've
themselves
green
like
uh, so talk about,
going all out
yeah, that's it. Dedication to the theme, but was even funnier. Is that in the photos, like you've got the guests and they're like all dressed up and there's just this guy dressed as jy, and, uh, he just look, it's harrowing. It's not fit the.
would dress. as the cat.
PERS and boots.
Yeah, that's it. Put some boot. Yeah.
I dunno who I'd go, oh my God. I'd go as Lord.
You would take a good job with that. You would
What? Why not?
Why? You have a good history of dressing up as Ben. Oh,
I do actually. You're right.
do. You did you do well at
Oh God. yeah.
It's a, I mean, it's an interesting
Oh, it's funny.
wonder, I mean, it's great fun, great for them. Maybe their friends and family understand it. But
Sorry.
gonna look back in 10 years? Uh, do you think it was the only wedding?
I mean, yeah,
Do you think that was just the, the,
the wedding.
there
Did they do,
wedding?
they had a celebrant? Was their registrar.
you're gonna have your own wedding photos forever if you dressed up as shred. Imagine. Imagine, right? Imagine going to view a house. Yeah. You are looking to buy a house and you look on the wall And
And most photos.
picture and they're painted green.
Yeah. I mean, I'll be like, what? What, what? Blast
What? a
What?
It's a bit like that when I was talking about last week when he was dressed up as the Mad
Yeah. Took it really seriously.
And I think you've got, I mean, I suppose, you know, it's, it's personal to you, but I just think, are you still gonna love that in 10 years time? But then you might not like your dress in 10 years time anyway.
Yeah. I mean it's, it's probably not something we would class as timeless.
for that.
Classic,
on Instagram. Do
yeah.
you, would you go all out there?
Yeah. Good. Good idea.
you'd regret it in 10 years?
Oh, I feel, I feel like if you are gonna go for a theme, you've just gotta.
do you think
Go for it. I think you do. Yeah. Like if you say I'm having a themed wedding and like it Shrek or whatever, I feel like you'd like, you've gotta go in. I, I mean, you can't half do it otherwise it just looks like you've weirdly dressed up. Do you know what I mean? I feel like you'd Let me have a look.
Doesn't say, so we can't seem to find if what food they ate, but if it was going, you know, full Shrek then, doesn't he eat, he eat eyeballs and stuff like that and like stuff in the swamp, you know, it's like soup with eyeballs and
I'm making waffles. they have
yeah.
Okay, so we've done a little bit more.
we did a deep dive.
this is resurfaced, 'cause this is like over 10 years old, so I don't understand why these posts are, maybe it's 'cause people are listening to our episodes
And they're like looking it up
about Shrek weddings,
Wow. I mean,
but on a more, not as light side or very light kind of wedding. Funny wedding, but it was for cancer research. Um,
lots of money, didn't they? For Cherry
So yeah,
Fair Place here. What a way to do it as well.
Apparently it was a
I.
joke between them all their friends were get, all their friends were getting married and they said, when we do it, we'll have a fairytale wedding. So they
Oh, that's good actually. I like that.
I hope they raise some money.
Yeah,
anybody knows any more about this story? Yeah, like
let us know. Write in.
and just weird that it's resurfacing now on social media. Bizarre. But
Love that
we go. Either that or our listeners are big, deep divers, or they've been looking into Shrek weddings
Yeah. Maybe they all want themselves.
Maybe, something that they wanna do.
It's funny.
So the news article actually resurfaced. Sorry, I'm just doing, I'm, I'm, I've gone down a rabbit hole.
It's fine.
article resurfaced in December, 2024. Uh, but we did the episode 2023, didn't we? I
Yeah.
blame you for this news article
Oh,
maybe The Daily record wrote about this on the back.
Because of us and our popular podcast.
They raised 2000 pounds instead of traditional wedding
Yeah, that's good. That's really good. Yeah, well done.
of any more crazy theme weddings, send them through to us.
Also, another thing I've seen in, uh, the news or the online world this week is, uh, so previously from Maiden Chelsea and Queen of the Jungle, Georgia Tolo Toff, she got married to her a long time. Boyfriend, the guy who I'm like giving her a name, and I'm like, yeah, the guy who owns Brew Dog.
Yeah, he's like more famous than her, isn't
I don't know. I can't remember. His name is now though.
isn't
Yeah,
one of the most richest men or something along those
that's it.
Fair play. The reason we had to talk about this, like we both literally shared it with each other is
Yes
look, let's face it, these people have a lot of
they do.
did
We assume,
basic of basic, well, no, they didn't do, it's not a basic wedding, but they eloped. They
It was very low key, wasn't it?
Solo key to the point that from the hou, they stayed at his NAN'S to
I love that. So cute.
then they got a, it was literally a budget mini bus, like it was called like budget mini buses or something to take them to the town hall where they got married. Um, so yeah, there was just so many little nice elements to it. They went on a fishing boat afterwards. Don't really understand that.
I think he, I think they, he must fish a lot. I think he does. It's in Scotland, isn't it? I think.
There we were in Scotland. Yeah.
um, I think he, and they go on there quite often from what I've like looked on. I follow on Instagram and I think they, they did go on there and he does quite a lot of fishing and I think so it was really like personal, very much
personal. And
like them. I.
like her wedding pictures her in her dress and she's just in front of the fridge
Yeah,
kitchen? I love
I really like it. sometimes when people do it, I feel like they'd be like, oh, like celebrities. They'll be like, oh, we eloped, and it was really low key, but it's not, do you know what I mean? Like it's
but that actually was, and
really,
it. It's almost a little bit similar to what we did. Like we then put,
yeah,
it that
exactly. You went and did something that you, yeah, went and you did your walk and. That's something you love to do together. And it was like, I, yeah. I, I actually really rate that. Yeah. I, I thought that's so cool.
I was gonna ask you is, and I think I have an opinion on this,
Oh,
I'll see what you think. Do you think, obviously they're not, they're not gonna say yet. you think this was the ultimate wedding, or is there gonna be. Another lavish
uh,
fricking Greek islands or the, you
I.
Portuguese algarve or the Spanish
what you mean.
Do you
I, if I was to guess, I think that that is it. I just, from what I've seen of their relationship online, um, I think they're very, they're not. Massively in the public. I think they actually very genuinely like keep it like quite low key. Yeah. And I actually think, because you remember I mentioned to you that they have a, I said there's a couple that does like a, a yearly meeting of the review of their relationship. It was them. yeah. And then obviously I'd seen that aide got married.
doing that review of
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But I dunno.
was the fact that, um, 'cause after that was, I, I didn't actually have her on Instagram. I was like, I need to follow on Instagram 'cause I need to look at this. And, uh, she's been putting up stories and they're on their honeymoon in Scotland. Um, so. she literally wrote her caption on her Instagram post was, um, where we got married, we're going on a few days honeymoon, then we're getting back to normal life.
Yeah.
I dunno if the fact that she said we are getting back to normal life was almost her saying, because I bet they got loads of like suppliers, venues, et cetera, in their inboxes saying. Guys, if you wanna do like an actual big wedding, like another celebration,
Yeah,
for, do you know what I
yeah, yeah. So
wedding. So I'm wondering if that was their way of saying
we're not,
doing,
that's it. Yeah, that's a good point.
wondering if I remember, she used to be on Maiden Chelsea. She used to make it very known that she wanted to have a family and stuff. And I would think she's probably in her thirties now, so I'm wondering if they just wanted to get it
Just wanna, yeah.
They're probably both. Well, he's probably a very busy person.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
I'm not sure. I'm sure she's a busy gal in her own rights.
Yeah. No, I agree. I think that, I think, well, I think it's, that's it, but we'll see. You never know.
loved it. And it just
I did.
again, look, I showed it with my wedding. They've shown it with theirs. You can do something really small, personal. Also, I think their family was there. That's another reason why I would think it wasn't just an elopement
No,
to just do the legal
I.
Uh,
Because she said, I think the original post said, said that she gave people 48 hours to,
That's
to get there, to,
or no.
to come and like just, we had all the people there that we really wanted there. That was what was sort of a post, and I just feel like, yeah, that was nice
aim to like, you know, people that if they really wanna be there, like if my best friend said I'm get married in 48 hours, be there, I'll be square. Like I would do anything to
to get there. Yeah.
thing is if I had a natural rhythm,
Yeah.
a bit
I mean, I do everything, but I also, I do have my own business.
let my clients down. I'm sorry. Um,
It's not recommended guys.
you should have given me more notice like
Yeah, yeah.
no, but yeah, you would do anything To to,
To be there. Yeah, exactly.
same time, they're a bit like, we also don't give a shit if you can't make it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like,
Oh, I liked it.
there's no beef here. Like I'm giving you 48 hours. If you can't come, you can't come. If you can. Great. Lovely.
Oh, I thought that was really cool. I did like that.
Absolutely loved it. And from one reality star to the other in very other different news,
Yeah.
I, I had to share this.
Huh?
Vicky Patterson got married, was it last year?
Yeah. Yeah. It was like, oh, I dunno. When it was last year, I feel like it was the end, like maybe it was like September time. I might be wrong. I could be wrong. I dunno.
And I feel like this was after her, so she, before she got married, I remember it. I feel like I remember her being in an interview talking about it, but she'd been really stressed 'cause her engagement ring had been stolen.
Oh
has now come out about it and because they're trying to arrest the girl that's basically been found to. Have done it
Jesus. Bloody hell. It's not you, is it? I'm joking.
But the, the
Imagine.
I found interest in
Oh.
article was because right when Vicki Patterson got engaged, it was all over the press about her ring and how it was worth quarter of a million
Yeah, it's
blah, And
insane.
Like how you know this amazing ring and she's marrying this rich man and blah, blah, blah. And it just shows how it's all a smoke and mirrors, because actually now it's in court, the real facts come out and the insurance company have valued at 25,000, so that's
that's interesting.
the cost.
my God.
you don't
Yeah.
Everything
you read say,
said it was worth 200,000, but court documents by seen by this newspaper, put its value at 25,000.
wow, I'll be damned.
there we go. So in there now, trying to arrest her, 'cause she basically, I think she nicked, she'd seen that it was Vicki Paterson nicked the backpack, but Vicki had left. Why'd leave your ring in the backpack though?
Uh, that's what I was thinking. I mean, I mean, I say that, but I have actually had to take my engagement ring off sometimes
Yeah.
of work and stuff. Like there's, there's been the odd occasion not when I'm like trying to look like I'm not married or, but
Yeah, yeah,
I think I took it off and I have put it in a bag. May maybe it was like that kind of thing.
if your ring was worth
Yeah, if I thought it was, but she thought it was worth half a million. Uh, quarter of a million, didn't she?
Yeah, the fact that, I mean, we are saying, oh, it was only worth 10% of the fault that everybody thought it was. But still 25 grand is
pounds.
Most people's is like 10% of that, you know?
it makes me wonder how much is too much on a, on a engagement ring.
yeah.
is too much? Like I just think, I mean,
Good point. But then if you get it insured,
yeah, I dunno. I'd be really annoyed, even if I had loads of money and someone spent that sort of money on a ring, I'd be annoyed about it. I'll be honest. It's not, I'm just not materialistic though. But I'd be like, why have you spent that on a ring?
Yeah, but,
Really? It's just, it's just a ring.
but don't you think it, it's all in, it's the same with houses. Like if you've got
Yeah.
like if that's a percentage of your income, if you're a high earner,
Yeah, it's not a lot.
us paying two and a half grand. Do you know what I mean?
Well, that that'll be the day.
if they're earning 10 times, the amount of us 20. To them.
Yeah, that's true.
do you know what I mean? It's
Yeah. Different world, isn't it? Different world.
It's like people that spend three grand a month on their mortgage, four grand, five grand, 10
Yeah, that's true.
grand a month on their mortgage. To us, that's like, that's insane. But actually that's probably 10% of their
It's relative to their situation. Financial situation. Yeah. That's what you're saying?
relative.
Yes.
I, I think as well, the thing is she would've got that money back. She would've got it back from the insurance company. But I think at the time, and I remember her being in interviews about this, and it's more the fact of, you know, it's, uh, it doesn't matter if something's worth 200 pounds or 200,000 pounds, that's like ti that's like, to you, that's those me, you know, that
Oh yeah, that's it. Yeah, totally.
I remember her saying she was really distraught about it and
You'd be really, really upset, wouldn't you? I'd be, I'd be devastated if I lost my engagement ring. 'cause it's not just a ring. Like
a silly,
it ties to a lot of
Yeah,
memories.
exactly. The the, the thing is when the girl nick the back, she didn't know the ring was in it.
No, I see. It was like a Louis Vuitton bag. She's nicked the bag just thinking like it's to design a bag. But imagine, you imagine the luck when you're over there. You're like, whoa, I'm gonna sell this one
Because surely jewelry is a lot harder, not harder, to,
to sell.
but someone's gonna have seen that in the press and
Yeah.
Like Surely jewelers
I think,
a
yeah.
see a young girl come in and be like, well, where'd you
I, I would if it was me, right? And I'd nicked it, and then I realized that was in there. And, and thing is though, right? If, if you, if you've nicked it, you are completely unknown that that is Vicki Pattinson's ring. It could be anyone's bag. Depends. Unless she's seen her in there, she knew it was her.
her on CCTV that she
She's like,
it was
right. Okay. Yeah. So, but I honestly, if I'd seen that and that like someone's engagement ring was in there. I, I mean you,
I'd
you could just take it anonymously and just drop it off, wouldn't you?
I'd be like, oh, I found
But then I feel like if you're gonna nick someone's bag, knowingly knowing it was her and everything in the first place, you're probably not very nice person. So you probably wouldn't do that. You're probably like gonna just take their, take it and try and sell it or whatever.
thinking, oh, well she can afford to buy
Yeah, exactly. Sounds targeted.
she was supposed to be in, uh, in court in February, but she missed court. So
So she's on the run.
So hopefully they find her. If I see her guys, I'll
heard a hit first. People
thing is that they've put out a warrant for the girl, but all the pictures are of Vicki in her ring. And I'm like, well, what does the girl look like? How is anyone
supposed to know,
this? But there you go. We're spreading the word. If anybody sees her, we dunno what she looks like.
but we, you know, we are just trying to help.
Talking of how things look like. I wanted I part those pictures of my brows on
Oh my God.
Oh
I can't believe you did that. I was like, yes,
yeah,
that was so
a few
jokes.
reactions on
God.
eh,
Oh my goodness. That really did make me chuckle. My friend was like, why did you put that photo off of what's happened to my eyebrows?
Oh no, because Ernest's in Con, but I did write that, didn't I If
I was like, oh yeah. I was like, well, if you listened to the podcast, you would know.
yes,
exactly. Cool. So that's what we've seen online this week anyway. But if you've seen anything else like the Shrek wedding and you wanna send it to us, then please do, because, uh, we, we love to chat about it.
do and send us all your questions and messages.
Yes.
And, uh, speaking of listeners questions, I've got one here, so I've got, um, maybe a silly question, but I've Googled it and cannot find a simple answer. How do I book a registrar and who do I contact? I'm getting married in the county next, next to the county I live in. So if I have to contact the council, which council do I contact?
The council you contact about your bins.
Yeah, so.
get, don't book a registrar.
Just get celebrate.
We'll give you, we'll give you some legit advice
Yeah. You need to get in touch with Yeah, that's right. So isn't it, so say if you are getting married in Buckingham Shear, you need to go to a Buckingham Shear County registry office.
That's correct. So, so for you to book your ceremony, which you can do 12 months in advance, you go to the county, you go directly to that
Yeah.
or say you get married at a venue. Yeah. In Buckingham Shear, you go to Buckingham Shear registry office to hire one of their celebrant. You go again, one of their registrars. To come out to the venue or you book that registry office. But you then, if you then live in Northampton, you need to go to your local registry office, which is the person that you pay for your bins and your council tax, and you book your notice of
that's it. Yeah.
So for example, Myers West, north West Northampton Share Council, and they have offices in Toaster Daven, tree Northampton. We could have gone to Eva or where
Yeah.
did you go? Milton Keynes
Yeah. So we went to Milton Keynes, um, to do the notice of marriage and everything, and then be,
got married in
yes,
married in Buckingham.
that's it. So, yeah, so we contacted Buckingham Shear. Um. Uh, what would you even call them? Registry office. Yeah. So, and then they sent out, like, I think I've rang them. They sent out a pack and stuff in the post, and then you choose the package you want and all of that. And that's all booked through them. Um, but yeah, like Milton Key's Council was who we then did our notice of marriage with. 'cause that's where we live.
What I would say is, um, that a, a lot of the time your venue will say, this is where you, so they'll give you the link to book your registrar, and then when you've booked your registrar, they will tell you where you've gotta go to give your notice of marriage.
Yeah.
send you all the guide and stuff. The only thing I'm seeing lately though is that there's a lot of venues that are more pro celebrants, probably be because of the experience they've had with registrars. And I'm also seeing a lot of. Celebrants kicking off saying, oh, it really bugs us when venues push. You know, they say, next you need to book your registrar. But at the same time I see it, I see it in a 50 50 way because a lot of people don't understand the legalities of getting married.
So the venue do need to, I see what the celebrants saying. 'cause it should be like, you can either do
Like e, like an equal. Yeah.
need to still tell people how to book registrar. 'cause it's not, not that it's not an easy process, but it's not a process. You just
No, exactly. That's it. And obviously this person's asking us for advice, so it just shows that people aren't a hundred percent sure on what you're meant to do. And I, and I think they're just trying to help, aren't they? Just trying to like, give some guidance. But,
Yeah,
but I mean, it's, it's fine to, it's just ask, ask your venue or even like, ring your, like ring your local council and ask for advice. Like if you are already stuck, why not? Yeah. Ring about your bin as well. We need a new bin.
probably the weddings. Yeah. They,
Oh.
yeah. It's, it's, and at the end of the day, there are people out there that still wanna use, do the registrar like that. They're
Yeah,
about the
that's it.
wanna, one
Just wanna,
year is using registrar. They're just say, yeah, I
yeah, why not?
that day. So,
It's what? What suits you in it?
we go.
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