Hello!
New Year!
Happy New Year!
We're nearly there. We, so obviously this is going out just after New Year, but we're recording it just before New Year, but we're not doing what every other podcast does and recording it before Christmas. We are post Christmas, aren't we?
we are. We're in that weird bit between Christmas and New
Yeah.
day it is, you don't know where you are, and you've just eaten cheese and
Yeah. I heard someone the other day describe it as the gooch.
That's such a good That is good. It is the gooch.
The gooch of Christmas.
jokes. And true.
Twixmas, the in between y, bitty bit.
that. What's Twixmas? Do you know what I
Yeah. That's a very good point, I'd never really thought about it. Twixmas. I think it's in between Christmas and Yeah, that's a very good point. I've never thought about it.
Dunno.
Shall we get started?
Let's do it.
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Oh, it kind of makes me feel a bit sick, it's 2025. Like, I don't know
Does it?
but when you like, hit 30, you just
Yeah. I'm
You just You just start looking back.
35 now! Christ!
mean? You start looking back and you're like, God, this time 20 years ago.
This time, 20 years ago.
pit.
Oh, yeah, time does go quick. And I'm assuming that everybody is getting married. 2025 brides and grooms.
many people getting engaged this year actually.
Lovely, yeah. It's good.
season is well and truly
It is. So you might even be planning 2026, 2027, but welcome. Anybody that's new, welcome. We're here to bring you all the tips, the plans, the advice, the Tricks, the, yeah, the tea, what really happens on a wedding.
Yeah.
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nothing is a silly question either, I
No,
that
it's not.
I feel like sometimes you might have a question and you think, oh I'm not going to ask that because it's
Yeah,
isn't. You just
it's not.
a message and ask us and we'll answer it for you.
You're also better off messaging us and asking the question the professionals and putting on a Facebook group because you're gonna get
Oh my gosh, yeah. While
gonna get too many responses.
we love a Facebook group, like, you know,
Yeah, it gives us great content
It does give us great content. They are full of people that are just not okay
God, opinionated. I saw this whole thread the other day where people, when someone had literally posted, like I'm not being funny, but I'm just reading this group and I just don't even understand how people can afford to get married so quickly after they get engaged. And she was like, I think of this group is just full of people that actually have money. And I just thought, like, what? Like, everyone's got completely different circumstances, completely different situations.
They're planning completely different weddings. Like, Jesus, calm down, Karen. Oh,
do you know what? My stepmom's called Karen. She's really lovely and I always feel bad being a Karen
we'll
no, no, no I mean everyone says it but it's just like poor, you know, if you
Poor Karen.
and hopefully we've not insulted you.
Yeah, sorry Karen. But how was your Christmas anyway? Yeah, it's a
I really did. So sometimes like, you know, Christmas is it like meh? Yeah, take it or leave
bit naff.
This year was probably the best Christmas I've had in a long
Well, it's Lily's first Christmas, that kind of makes sense.
and it
And she's like a good age first Christmas, like, she's nearly one, so, yeah. Oh, was she?
She's like, what? She's a bit overwhelmed. Like what's all this? All the, all these toys, like all
Oh,
unwrapping, but she loves wrapping paper.
that's fun. Yeah.
'cause it's so true. Like she was like, got all these gifts and then she's just interested in a cardboard box
Yeah, so true. So true.
she got
They
truly
do they?
don't, but she got well and truly spoiled and I think
Aw.
it should be
Yeah.
at Christmas. So. I was happy for that to happen. me and
Aw, you were I love that. Yeah, you're like, Oh, I need to help you open that. That thing that I asked for, for her.
what's this? I wonder. No. Yes, thank you.
Well, the question I've been dying to ask you, and I'm genuinely asking Hayley this live on the podcast, we have not spoken about this pre recording, but I need to know about your Savoy wedding.
Oh my
amazing on social media.
get ready. Buckle in people
Buckle up!
So I freelanced a Saturday before Christmas
Yeah.
the Savoy it was insane. It was amazing. It was just it was such a light long day. Literally. We did a 24 hour day
Wow.
insane. So we left it. We left it. Well, I was up at half four left at like five half five. I didn't get back to five the next day
So that was the Saturday morning, Saturday before Christmas, so you left at five in the morning. What?!
Yeah.
because you had to set up,
set
and then set down.
up. We did a changeover in between the ceremony and the wedding breakfast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
until the whole, like, reception finished, which was 1am. And then pack everything away.
a later finish.
so.
So what time did you actually get out there? Like three? Half to three? Oh my
It was mental.
god.
took us about two hours to pack everything up.
Yeah. And did you go home in between?
I stayed there the whole time. Yeah, so
We just chillin at the Subway. Okay. Okay. Okay.
So really cool like room which is like kind of underneath so it's like for supplies to go and it's really good They had like
Okay.
in there and then
Yeah.
as well
Oh
yeah, and there was a sofa so I did actually sleep for an hour on the sofa
Yeah, don't blame ya.
like I haven't moved around like that for a long time It was and the thing is with the Savoy when you first come in on you're on one level Where you come in for the wedding and then you go downstairs to where the ceremony room is, which I think is a Lincoln room
Oh yeah, yeah, the linker room. Oh yeah, that's a beautiful room. Really nice.
really lovely. So they had
Yeah.
like low lights. There's
Yeah.
room, but it's got
Yeah.
like chandeliers and things
Yeah, it's nice. It's neutral colours as well, isn't it, which I like in there.
and then like
Yeah.
pale blues, but it's
Yeah.
overpowering.
Mm.
So yeah, they had a setup. So it's about 150 guests.
Nice.
and they had like plinths all down the aisle with really large arrangements on top of like glass vases, candelabras, loads, like hundreds of candles,
Wow.
real flames as
Yeah.
But, and then they kept the like I say, the, the lighting was very low. So it was really, really like wintry, but they didn't want
Yeah.
wanted winter.
Yeah. Nice. Yeah.
it was really beautiful. So florals wise, it was all like lots of greenery with whites and like frosted berries.
Oh, nice.
twigs and
Yeah.
that. So it was really
Stunning.
really nice. And then obviously we moved everything in that room then got moved over to the wedding breakfast, which is in their like main ballroom.
Was it in the ballroom? Yeah. Which is more blue, isn't it? But
Yeah, still lovely. Yes.
Very Bridgerton vibes, I always think, in there.
Yeah.
Bridgerton wedding we did last year would have worked perfectly in there, wouldn't it? With the blue and the white. Yeah.
it would have
Yeah.
So, that was but they had a really cool top table. So, their top
Hmm.
see if you can imagine, like long, trestle tables.
Yeah.
sort of like two, two tables deep.
Yeah.
and then, middle we did like a a hanging canopy.
Oh, nice.
structures which went,
Yeah.
onto the sides of the tables and they come up and then over. So like a bar
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
then we wrapped this stuff called Smilax, which is like a vine.
Right.
it comes from Texas and I think there's only one supplier I know of anyway that got, got it from. But anyway, it was we wrapped it all around this thing. Canopy so they had like
Oh, nice.
like tall and short tapered
Oh, beautiful.
they had like a garland all along the base of it But it
Yeah.
stunning and then
Oh,
ones but but yeah No, it was it was it was a lot of hard work like a
yeah.
and moving stuff but
This sounds amazing though. It's one of those things, isn't it? Because you kind of think to yourself, oh, should you get in a separate team
Yeah
do clear down? But sometimes you just think, oh, do you know what? I'm just going to do it myself.
Yeah, I think that's the thing so I mean
Especially when it's somewhere like that, you kind of almost want to be there yourselves, don't you?
100 percent and also like I feel like sometimes when you get in a separate team of people to do like either logistics, so I
Yeah.
used like that just come and done like driven the vans, but,
Yeah.
they don't know how to pack stuff.
Yeah.
flowers and they have like made mistakes and like piled stuff on top of each other
Yeah.
And I feel like if you're packing it yourself, you just know how it goes as well. I just safely
Yeah. Saves you time afterwards. And also, it's like, you probably end up gonna get calls anyway, like, Oh, where's this? And where's that? And where's this going? And where do I park? And all those kind of things, isn't it?
yourself, you might as well just I mean, it's hard and that but it's worth it.
Where do you park for the whole time?
So actually I had to just park down the side,
Yeah.
just got a ticket, and just
Oh, no.
well if you think about it, I parked there all day, 24 hours, and it cost 40 quid.
Because you got a ticket for four.
for 40 quid.
I love that. Just get a ticket for four.
nowhere else to park, there's no, there's
No, that's really nice. That's why I asked.
it, you just have to take that, unfortunately you have to
I wonder what florists would normally do.
I think that's what they would do. There's parking
Oh my god.
van went out the front and
Yeah.
had suspended parking. They have parking there. It's like, like roadside parking, like two
Yeah.
or whatever sort of vibe. it was, the parking was suspended for some reason,
Right.
like that since I went there a year ago, and it was the same then.
Yeah. So you can't park there.
suspended parking but it's still a space so I just went there and I got a ticket but I mean for 40 quid parking all day in London ain't actually that bad
Yes. Yeah, not too bad.
yeah but obviously you have to pay all your u layers your congestion charge and
Yeah.
people
Yeah.
don't get caught out with this if you are doing a wedding like this and then you're there technically for two days so you have to pack because
Oh yeah, you have to pay two days.
in
Yeah. Mm hmm.
and I've left it past 12
Yeah, that's two days.
days
yeah, yeah. Mm hmm.
I did one day and was like I've done I was only there for a day Because I was wasn't even there for like five hours. I know I contested it and I actually they actually dropped it But
Oh, that's good.
I just I always now I'm like, oh dear I need to do two days. So
Yeah, you do.
if you are hiring suppliers to come and do like a takedown, like you're, you know, if they come in
Yeah.
like a, especially if you have a 1am finish, this is the
Yeah.
or anything where you're going to have to get suppliers to come and take down and they're doing like those anti social hours and you are somewhere where there's extra parking fees and things like that, just take that into consideration because you are going to get charged for
Yeah, definitely. This is also, again, goes back to when we say it is so good to use suppliers that understand venues as well, or that at least do a site visit or something. But if they've worked there before, it is so much more beneficial when you've got difficult logistics. Yeah. Yeah.
know where you're going. This
Yeah, that's a lot.
turn up to a venue like that not knowing.
No,
You'd
what did they what did you do with all the flowers at the end of the night? Did they have, like, a plan for them?
they all got taken away,
Yeah.
so packaged up. So the only fresh flowers were the ones that were on top of the vases. So there was about
okay, fine.
So they all went away.
Yeah.
and
him his gifts or anything like that.
we took those, we took those away. And then yeah, so that was it. But and it was all like we were
Nice!
of the night. So yeah.
Exciting. Was there anything exciting? Did you go and, like, were you going in and, like, peeking at the wedding, like, throughout the day? Yeah. Yeah?
all of it pretty much because
Nice.
the whole
Yeah! That's like, not normal for you guys, is it? So that's probably quite nice, wasn't it?
what was cool though
Yeah.
so during their ceremony obviously you have like an order of service sometimes people pop on the seats They had like a
Yeah.
it before people have like a newspaper It
Yeah.
is like so and so got a getting married and it's
Yeah.
of the day on it But they'd actually credited all of the suppliers in there, which I
I love that.
like
That's so nice. Yeah.
flowers and things like that So I just
Oh, I love that! What nice people! I always think that they've got a real nice couple when they like, mention their, when they realise that your suppliers are like, what is making this day happen? Yeah! Yeah! So when they mention you, or mention your speech and stuff, isn't it so nice? Yeah, love that. Oh,
was really nice of what I just
yeah.
because if anyone's getting married I want to credit their supplies and
Yeah, but make sure, but you should, you know,
it is
I know you're paying people, I get that, but still, it goes beyond money, doesn't it, really, when people have done a good job, unless they've not done a good job.
standard. Do you know what I mean? Well, yeah, that, yeah, if they've done a bad job, then don't be, be
Oh, Jesus.
yeah, so,
Oh, well,
That
nice.
my pre,
Yeah.
Busy, busy time,
I bet you were so ready for like, a bit of a chill. Well, but Christmas isn't really chill though, is it? That's the thing.
goodness, this year was it? No, so I still feel like I'm like, half asleep. I'm so tired, honestly, I
Yeah, I bet you were knackered. Did you have to stay up all day on the Sunday as well? Or did you go to bed?
I didn't go to sleep, no.
No.
I,
You messaged me actually on Sunday. You were like, I'm just driving, I've been so awake for 24 hours.
So I'd actually, I'd come home, when I got home, I'd, I'd go home and I actually had a shower and like freshened up. So I cannot just go, I wouldn't have been able to just go to bed, like, it was grim.
no.
was so funny though, because I was like, I took like stuff to freshen up when I was there. Like, some wipes and
Yeah.
had. But there I am. Like, yeah, we had to use the same like, the, the cloak rooms, the
Yeah.
guests and stuff. So, like, I'm in there, like, in my supplies out, like, just. Washing my face
Wiping your armpits.
Washing
Oh my god, I love that. Getting ready for bed. Oh my god. Oh no, your flowers are so amazing. Oh no, I
Oh, scrubbing my armpits and having a sink wash.
love that. That's so funny. I was talking about that actually over Christmas to my friends. I said about how it's so nice like when People are drunk. They're like, oh, you've done such an amazing job, blah, blah, blah. But then because they're drunk, they keep going on.
yeah,
And they like tell you like 50 times and you're like, by the end it's so awkward because you're like, I don't, I don't know what to say.
I think enough has been said.
Yeah, I feel like, I'm gonna say that. Honestly, and you're like, okay, yeah. I just want to go home now. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great, great, great.
Oh dear, but yeah, so that was my busy time, but how was your Christmas
Yeah, very, yeah, you know, busy seeing lots of people, you know, seeing different families, obviously both our families are a bit of a distant, not that, that far, but yeah.
like, they're
Yeah, I'm Norfolk. Yeah.
to do over
Yeah, exactly. So yeah, did that before Christmas. We had a really chilled Christmas day, which was lovely, which was needed. And then yeah, just still been seeing family and stuff ever since. So I don't really feel I've had a Christmas Day, Boxing Day was probably like our biggest break where we just didn't do a lot. But
enough though, sometimes that's how it should be anyway.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we did. Went to the pub. So nice. It was so nice to just be like, get up in the morning and not have to think, Oh God, I need to be up at this time to like, put this on or whatever.
in!
Yeah, because we had family here the night before, so we hadn't gone to bed like that early. But yeah, so just got up, make some bacon rolls, and then opened our presents and stuff, got ready, went there, and you just, yeah, you just, The food was low. I will say, you need to make sure What we did was we did a trial run. We did a few Sundays at a different, different pubs to make sure, 'cause if the food's gonna be good on a Sunday, it's gonna be the same in a very on Christmas day.
Yeah. So just make sure it's good. Obviously it's quite, it is quite a lot of money, but it, it was worth it just to go out, be chilled.
wonder how much, if you worked out how much, say if you're hosting for Christmas, how much you would actually spend on all
Yeah.
turkeys aren't cheap,
Well,
one, but I bet you'd
yeah.
the same amount
you would,
stuff. Oh,
That was my basis when we booked it. I was like, well all the money we spent on food. But I actually still went to the butcher, bought a turkey, bought a gammon, because, Well, you want turkey sandwiches, don't you, for the rest of the week? And we had family here Christmas Eve. We had family here this weekend just gone, so like, I still needed all the stuff. So I actually bought the same as I probably would,
That's jokes. Yeah.
bought like sausages and bacon, because I did them one night on a buffet. Bye! So, yeah. Oh, they probably would have bought more, maybe. But, yeah, whatever.
like, no, you're like, mm, I
But not having to, like, do all the washing up and the clea Do you know what? Like, the dinner on Christmas Day takes up such a chunk of the day. Like, getting it ready, eating it, clearing up. Like, your day's gone.
present either, because if you're the one cooking,
Yeah, exactly.
heart, like, doing a roast dinner isn't that hard in some ways, but actually, Christmas
Yeah, it's a lot of prep. You gotta get it right for Christmas as well.
you do. People just say it's an easy dinner for Christmas. It's not as
It's not.
level of pressure with a
It is. It's gotta be banging. And also it was just us two, so it's a lot of work for just us two. And then Martin would've just been sat there on his own while I'm finishing cooking or whatever, like it's a bit rub. Yeah. And it was just nice that we got back. We actually did a 12 o'clock booking, which to start with, that was all they had. I was a bit like, oh, but actually that was perfect.
But by the time we got back and then we literally chilled all day and then by like six, seven, we were getting all the cheese out and whatever.
the
Oh my god, honestly, I
Let's be
got so much cheese. It was ridiculous. I know! Honestly, I went to the cheese monger a couple of days before, and just bought so much cheese. The woman in the shop was like, you've got a lot of cheese here by the way.
something very indulgent this year.
What'd you do?
I was at the Savoy,
Nice, yeah.
between the gap between the obviously the reception and then the
Yeah, yeah.
Went with my friend, we went to Harrods.
Yeah, nice.
to the cheese monger in Harrods. This guy, can I just say, I don't know what his name was, but shout out to this guy at Harrods cheese stand because he was, he was, he was doing the hard sale. He
Oh, nice. Nice.
and I bought some delicious cheeses, like, and he was letting us try loads and
Oh, I love that.
I'm so into cheese and I just thought, you know, it's one time a year and I've bought some really nice stuff. So we're actually going away on the second.
Yeah.
We're going to Lancaster in a little Airbnb. So,
Exciting.
will all last. So I've bought a load of this really fancy
Lovely.
But,
Yeah, great.
I just
Cheese does last. People don't realize that. I'm like, that's what I said to Martin when I came home with 1. 5 kg of cheese. I'm joking. But I'm like,
out. It was huge. And we nearly finished it.
lasts and you can use it. Well, there you go. Well, that's what I was like. Oh, well, you can use it in all these different things in January. And then I'm like, actually, it's nearly all gone anyway.
Oops. Oops. Oh dear. Oh
But yes, guys, that's our Christmas. Hope you had a lovely one and welcome. Sorry, I've been rattling on now, but welcome to all our new listeners.
welcome. And congrats if you've just got engaged.
Yeah, congrats and we are here to give you all the help and guidance that you need. So 2025, let's talk 2025 weddings because the trends are coming in, we're seeing them on social media, they're coming in thick and fast. So we've got, we wanted to put in our What's the word? Two pennies? Two pence worth, yeah. I never
saying, but what did you say
know them!
remember, but it was, oh, how many strings to your bow
Bow?
or strings to your arrow, you said.
Three strings to your arrow or something? Oh, I don't know. I'm not good with the sayings, alright guys? But yeah, so we're just gonna go through some of the 2025 trends that we are seeing from our couples things that we've started to see this year trickling in. So, yes.
let's do it. So, I mean, first up, let's talk cake. So,
Oh,
we've, we've seen this starting from
yeah.
but it's making its way into next year for sure. And it's the one, it's the extra large, huge,
tier cake.
cake.
Amazing. And I did one, I did, yeah, so it went in in July, and it was insane. So it was one, I think it was just over a meter long.
hell, that's a big cake, isn't
Yeah, it was a round one and the whole top it had that kind of the retro pipe dicing Around the edge and then it was just filled in the middle with fruit all different berries. It was insane It was so so good. But my top tip for that is you may need to go to an actual bakery Instead of going to a wedding cake maker. We went to an actual bakery because of the size of the ovens.
how, someone's
Yeah
making that in a conventional oven,
No. Although you could do, you can do it in quarters. I've seen people do it in quarters.
then just
So they bake a bit then put it together. Yeah.
Interesting.
say out of all the cakes I did last year, that was the best tasting cake because it came from a bakery. It was probably if they'd made it fresh that morning, they'd been up since like two in the morning doing it. Whereas a wedding cake I always think is more for the look and it's maybe they have to make it in advance and then decorate it. And do you know what I mean? So it's not.
that do wedding cakes and they make the sponge and then they freeze it, don't they? And then like
Yeah, and then you've got to worry about the decoration, whereas that is, they did it all that morning. They bought the sponge and then they decorated it all there and then, so yeah, I it tasted amazing and because of all the fruit and stuff as well, people were loving it, so we put out loads of like little plates, napkins, and forks we kind of like sliced a load of it up, but then kind of let, left people to kind of take their own slices as well. But with all the fruit and stuff, lovely.
Yeah, that
Oh, it's incredible.
I like
So good.
be honest. I think it's quite cool. It's different and
I like the heart shaped ones,
yes, yeah,
nice.
have become like hugely popular as well haven't
Yeah.
it's basically like the retro piped icing with the like little cherries on,
Yoooow!
Might be something on there like, Till Death Do Us
yes!
on.
So cute.
so they've got like pink icing, like I've seen some that are like black and white,
Yeah.
red, like real,
Yeah, nice.
or what it is, but
Yeah, I don't know, but it's a very cool trend that's coming back, and what I also think is great is I've seen some people just do a little mini one, so they're doing their little cake, it comes out to them, they cut it,
that's
and then you have, if you're not fussed about having a wedding cake, or you don't think it's gonna be massively popular, or you've gone all out on your dessert station or whatever,
just
can still cut something, but yeah.
cake.
Yeah,
That's cool.
a big trend that I am loving right now.
love that.
Yeah, so I've got here bigger parties than ever, so no separate evening guests. I don't think I've got a single wedding next year that's got a separate evening guest list. Yeah, and I just think people, the guest list that I'm seeing are just getting bigger and bigger. Like, more people, bigger parties, and every couple that comes to me that is talking about their wedding, and I always ask them about priorities and stuff like that, is they just want a really good party.
Yeah,
want to have a good time.
old party. And actually this,
Yeah.
nicely because I've noticed a lot, especially from the few that I've done lately,
Yeah.
budgets for their entertainment.
Yeah.
has become huge. Obviously I
Yeah.
is quite a big thing at weddings anyway, but I just feel like they're not just having the band, they're having like a
No.
that's like,
Yeah.
the one that comes like, they'll come and
Out roaming. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I actually saw someone doing like that electric violin the other night. Yeah, we're
that was probably a yeah. So if you've got a full like 10 or 12 piece band with a brass section, they sometimes have a violinist. Yeah.
But
Insane.
I just
So good.
gonna be big next year. Like people spending, a bit like what you did. You had, you, a lot of your budget you spent on like live
Yeah.
I
Yeah.
like it definitely adds like something extra to your
100%. The thing is,
most
yeah. The thing is, right, say for example you add like an acoustic singer to your drinks reception, yeah, for two hours. Actually, if you look at the cost of that, if you took out the money that you spend on personalized sunglasses for everybody and those foam sticks for everyone, I guarantee the cost of those two together is probably similar for a couple hours of a live singer. And that's what it's about, it's stripping it back to what you actually care about, and what people care about.
Getting all this personalized stuff, it all adds up. And people think, oh that's what everybody wants, but actually, this is stuff that gets left behind. So,
No, I totally agree. I totally agree. And I just, yeah, I've just noticed it massively. But it's not just also saved for the reception either. They're using it like in, Like the disco the
Yeah.
party is what I mean But like they're actually bringing it into sort of like from the
The wedding breakfast, and yeah. Yeah.
I just
I think
well spent I do personally
definitely. And I think as well, like, bands are getting more cotton in on to that because they're offering extra services, like, Oh, we can come and sit up earlier and do a bit during the wedding breakfast or whatever. And if that's your vibe and that's what you want, then great.
I did at the Savoy, they had a gospel choir during their ceremony as
Insane.
And while
Yeah.
up, they were like practicing and it was just like, although
incredible.
but they kept, they obviously like practicing this song and they kept
Yeah.
and over and over and
Oh, and you're like, alright.
I can't remember what it was. It was a lot, it was a line, it was a Lionel Richie song.
You're just like, great. I'm surprised I'm not ingrained in your brain.
I feel like my brain's like blocked it out because it was
Yeah. Too much. Yeah. Love that. But yeah, big parties. But yeah, this real like separate thing where you have day guests and evening guests. I'm really seeing that. Like diminishing.
Yeah, I know what you
Yeah.
And it's funny though, because you look Say if I looked on now, online now, like 2025 wedding trends. A lot of these like, you know, you get people that do blogs and stuff like that. They're saying, oh, micro weddings are back. I don't think they
No, I don't. I think they're dead.
I really don't, like, I know that it's been popular lately for people to go and have their ceremony, or like a
Yep,
something like that,
yep.
have the photos taken of them in London at the town hall,
Yeah, we're ten people and
party.
Yeah, so the big parties Yeah, and again that leads back to what we're saying that people are focusing on the party They want to just do the ceremony a lot of people are moving away from we spoke about this last week actually about wedding breakfast And couple saying to me that how can we move away from not sitting down? And we are looking at more sharing stuff and stand, you know, having CPEs as starter and having dessert stations so they haven't gotta be sat for as long.
And that means it takes less time in the day. And that means people can get married later?
yeah. Well, yes and then I also have notice massively obviously in the weddings I had inquiries for next year is colour. So
Yes.
colours and it's not just like, ah, I'll have a little bit of pink it's like clashing colours. Like oranges and bright pinks
Yeah,
like
love it.
and, and all sorts of colours to be honest with you but
Yeah.
sort of like things that are clashing and, and, yeah. Stuff like arrangements like for floristry. They want things that are like not arranged but arranged if you
Yeah, I know what you mean. They want it real wild, unstretched,
unstructured, yeah totally
Yeah, I'm really finding out with the color schemes and I'm actually finding that, like, people aren't having regimented color schemes. They're not saying I want blue or pink. They're just saying, Oh, I just want a, you know, wild flowers of all different colours, like, you know, and, and all different, you know, it might just be like, oh, I want pastels, or I want bright colours instead of like sticking to one colour. I've really, really found that for next year.
There's no, they're not saying specific colours and also, I need to mention for colour next year, I absolutely love the Pantone colour of the year. There
mocha and mocha is my favourite drink.
you go!
like, this is, 2025 is year.
Yeah!
But I thought I'm just gonna bring that up because it's such a lovely neutral shade and what I'm finding is, with a lot of my couples is, so for example, I've got a couple next year that want all bright colours, really, really bright, lovely colours in all their flowers, and they want like, the bud vases that are all like, multicoloured, and they want, you know, the goblet glasses that are all different colours but then We're then bringing in, to make it so it's not too much, all the natural
color linens, so the napkins, the tablecloths, are all going to be a very natural color. So colors like that Pantone color of the year are perfect to use, and then add a pop of like, coral, or like a nice turquoise would look lovely with that, wouldn't it? Like a bright color, but you don't need to bring it in too much if you don't want to, but something like a mocha,
like a base colour, isn't it? It's a good
yes.
So I feel like sometimes when they release a colour and it is like a, like a bold colour, it's
Yeah,
to kind of tie that into your wedding if
yeah,
if it was like a bright purple. It's a bit bold, bit out there, but actually with a neutral tone, it's quite nice because like you say, especially with linens and things like that,
yeah,
that's a really nice way of bringing it in. And also with like bridesmaids dresses,
yeah,
like like a neutral dress. I know before I went for blush pink, but I was looking at like a caramelly kind of
yeah, nice. Yeah,
especially if you have got an autumn wedding,
yeah, nice, yeah.
I, I like this one as well. Actually, I
It's like the areas that you have like a bigger block colour. So your tablecloth, your bridesmaid dresses, they're a big block colour. So you can go those neutral and then in your flowers bring in those brighter tones. Yeah, beautiful.
They're really
Nice! We've got AI.
Oh.
AI is just getting huge now, isn't it?
don't like it.
you not I didn't but I love it now. I think it's brilliant Yeah
know. I'm a bit
But imagine moving into a universe where we can actually These things that we're talking about and seeing in our heads we could create on a system and show it go That's how it's gonna look
Yeah, true. But don't you
like. I think that's cool
well, I don't know.
the only thing is The only thing is I suppose is I do think it could potentially set like unrealistic expectations Like there's a lot of stuff On Instagram. I don't know if it was on here that I was saying about it, but where I saw on Instagram this beautiful train that was going through these mountains, snowy mountains, and I was like, this is insane. Where is it? I want to book this train. Looked and it's not real, this AI.
is what I don't
See, things like that bug me because it's like,
not.
yeah, yeah, yeah,
Like you say,
Yeah.
and say I had this. I could create a wedding on AI and make out that this is a wedding I've
Yeah,
And then do this,
and then actually it's not. Charlie and the Chocolate Oh, brilliant.
and the Chocolate Factory experience, and then it could be like that, like
Yeah,
was it expectation versus reality,
literally.
it could end
I think, you know, if it's being used in the right way, where it's like, this isn't real, but this is what, to help you with your planning. And also,
impression.
Yeah, like,
isn't it? No, no, what is, no. Artificial
I,
intelligence.
yeah, Artificial, you nugger, can you tell she's in her thirties, artist impression though, no, not quite, but then I mean, then people are saying things like, you know, you can do your full wedding planning on ChatGPT, which ChatGPT is great, but still never going to be the same as, Because, you know, somebody said to me recently, Oof, you know, your job could be replaced. I'm like, oh, don't quite think so. Because,
they've not got the experience. No it couldn't. Because you're
no, and also, they're not a physical being there on the day, are they? Unless you've got a robot, like, setting up. Eh, eh,
Eh.
eh. Like, moving around, putting the place cards out. Doot, doot, doot. And like, you know. But I do think it is great to give people ideas and, yeah. You know, but I do think it's quite generic still. You know, it's just gonna give you, like if you went on now and was like, give me ten top tips for wedding planning to put on social media, it's gonna be very generic stuff, you know?
totally.
gonna be the same when you're planning your wedding, like, give me ten tips to plan my wedding, it's gonna be very generic stuff. But yeah, I do think
true.
is coming in, but I do think it's something to look out for as well, is like, is an image real? You can tell, you can still tell nowadays if it's real or not.
you can.
I saw an AI image that someone had done, it was like a, it looked like a drone shot, where you know when you do the ceremony with like the art, the circle of chairs,
yeah.
and the chairs just looked
Awful.
I was like, what is going on with those chairs? And then zoomed in on that, I was like, oh, cause that's not, that chair is in half, like, what is going on?
How weird. Oh, this is
So you do need to be careful of these things though, because are you picking suppliers that are like, yeah, look at my amazing work?
why, that's why I
Yeah.
like
Yeah,
up a fake portfolio.
yeah, I don't know that makes sense.
couples, just keep an eye out. Make sure you look at the image and see if it says made of AI because
Is it AI?
don't want half a chair. I know that's
bad, it is bad what you can do nowadays, isn't it? Like,
Yeah.
But no, I think it's definitely a benefit, I think there's some really cool stuff that tech companies are doing, production companies are using AI to like, make some really cool stuff and, you know, at your wedding if you want to make it look like, I don't know, you're in a forest. You want to look like you're under the sea or something like there's some cool stuff now
C. Ha
best man's dressed as sebastian the crab,
ha,
you know
jokes.
Like I feel like you can transform a room now with like production that does look insane
So, next up J. I. P. Gypsophila, my old friend. It's
your old friend I had to bring this up right because I have two weddings next year that are going for The long tables with down the centers like the clouds of jip and I was like You Where, like, Drip was buried, like, 15 years ago, then it came back again, about five years ago, and now it's, and I just said to myself, Has it come in and out, or is it, I had to ask you this, is it just a timeless flower?
Yes.
I remember someone once saying to me,
It will
do you think,
People love it. I don't, I could do any wedding and they were like,
Yeah,
of jib in.
add a bit of jip.
Five
I kind of agree with that because somebody said to me when I started my business, so this must be like 2019, don't ever put a picture, if you want to do like higher budget weddings, never put a picture of jip on your website because it just think makes you look like you're a rustic barn
I
kind of vibe, but I don't know if it is because look at your wedding! That was not a rustic barn vibe wedding and that was like full on jip.
of jib for the
Yeah,
with the flex roses sticking
yeah.
I feel like
And look at that
it
chip, chip cloud that you did last year, last year. And that was at like a hotel venue. Yeah, the ones I'm doing next year are like not that vibe at all. So I kind of stepped back this year and went, I've always been a little bit like chip barn kind of vibe, rustic, shabby chic, but actually, which isn't my vibe. I don't know if that's what you have in lovely, but that's not my vibe, but I don't know if it is.
I just think that it is, it depends how it's used. For me in
Right,
it's, you put it into an arrangement, so say it's really hard to explain without showing a photo, but like you could do a really nice arrangement and it's lovely and it looks quite modern and then you add jip in and it does just give that like rustic y look.
right.
like it has its place.
Okay.
And then
Yeah.
put some asymmetrical flex roses in, for example,
Yeah.
bright pink, like any, like
Yeah.
of, and you can spray it as well.
Oh,
like,
okay.
Like these, we were saying about the colors, the color pops and things like that in the
Yeah.
so like down a trestle sorry. So that down a banquet in table style, top table, anything like
Yeah.
could have like, you say like little clouds of jet light
Yeah.
like bright pink. And then you could
Yeah, nice.
and
That's cool.
out
Yeah.
So I feel like it's got its place and if it's done right and if it's done in In kind of a modern way then it's fine But I do feel
Yeah.
it's kind of being left behind a bit where you jipping
Yeah, maybe that's the ticket. Maybe you're right though, it's using it in bulk. It's doing these big installations with it that is actually what, what is cool.
It has
Yeah,
I don't think it'll ever go out of fashion to be honest with you
timeless. We love a bit of timeless. I love timeless.
do.
Bows on bridal wear. We're still seeing the bows, aren't we?
don't know if I like it or not. I
It's been in the last couple of years though, but I feel like,
Floral wedding dresses. That's apparently quite fashionable for
yeah, that is, that's been in for the last couple years. I nearly went for a floral wedding dress. No,
honest.
a lot of people said that.
you mean like a printed floral,
Yeah, printed fabric, but it's really hard to get the printed fabric.
like
hard.
curtain, you know?
I'm glad I didn't do it now, because it's not very timeless, but Yeah, I feel like the bros have really, I do think you're right, I think they're going to be a big bang next year in terms of them just not even being on the dresses, it's going to be like bows wrapped around the napkins and, you know, all different, Bringing it into different areas of the day and not just bows in the hair and bows. But I feel like, yeah, bows have been quite a big thing for the last, probably, year or two. But,
like little mini
yeah,
sort of
probably more for the, because I think a lot of people are going down the celebrant route. So for their legals, I feel like the little mini dresses for the,
with a big bow on the back.
yeah.
like block heels.
But I do think the big dresses are coming back as well. Like, not the big, like, ball gown, like, but like the big, flowy, huge trains. Yeah. Yeah, nice. Okay, cool. So next up, guys, we're going to talk about things that we want to see left in 2024. The things we didn't like.
Basically.
And I've got to kick it off.
Nope.
This has been going on since the start of my career 15 years ago. But we need to leave the chair covers. They should have been left in 2014. They need to go This needs to be the year 2025. Sorry guys, but if you're listening and you're having chair covers, please just get rid of them. Hire a Shavari chair. It's the same. I had this rant to someone the other day, he was like, oh, but you know, if the chairs don't look great, and I was like, but it's the same cost to hire a Chivari chair.
And I just feel like venues, I mean, like, just get a decent chair.
Yeah, just buy some chairs. Yeah,
and you just stick a dark red chair in there. Who's having that? It's because they know that you
so true.
So you have to spend more money. That's funny.
vile. They're just the worst invention ever. 15 years ago, yeah, probably made a marquee look quite nice when you had the old crappy chairs. Yeah.
organza sash bow.
Oh, horrific. They need to go. They need to go. And also, if you see a venue and it has a, their main image has a picture of Jerkoff, just, just don't go see the venue.
Give it
they should have learned by now.
they should know. That's so
Ten.
nothing.
Ten thousand and nothing. Yeah, nothing. But back in 2010, when I started in the industry, you know, chairs were, you know, was, we've talked about this before, weren't we? Very, like, heavily on the hotel front, and they did use banqueting chairs, and they couldn't have two sets of chairs because you had to use the same ones for the restaurant as you did.
And that kind of made sense, and I don't even know if shivari chairs were, like, a vacid thing then, like, but now, there's so many more options of different chairs that you can hire
exactly.
Yeah,
is a lot
they need to die, they need to go.
They've got to go.
Vile. And the biggest, the biggest ick is when the company comes and like a load of them have either got stains on them or like the whole, you know where you put the feet and the chairs and then they don't quite, all the elastic's broken and then it pings off and you've got one side like where you can see the letter. And you just go around all day trying to hook them on. File.
Gross.
gonna not take in any weddings. I've just said for again.
Oh,
just made that decision
day.
If I should be a question of my consultation I am chair governs that I'd only been on the day management because if I was doing the planning I would not be adding them in Absolutely, no
what someone's argument would be if they were like, No, I really want chair covers. No, I really want them. Like, Just
And even I'm sorry guys, but even the sashes on the shivari, you know, some people have like the drape things
Oh,
Do you know what I mean?
They don't
Just, just keep it to the chair.
They
They really don't. They're so bad. Let's just,
agree
let's just get rid.
bin!
Leave it. In 2024, let's forget about it. gummers. Done.
Okay, so next up is one that we have mentioned a few times, and that is people understanding that content creators aren't photographers or
Yeah.
So, I don't feel like we're saying content creators need to get in the bin.
No.
that's not where we're going. Let's just put that, that's not what we're saying here.
No,
What we're
after we got ranted out for it. We're not saying that we're saying there's a big difference.
massive difference. And I feel like what we're leaving from that in 2024 is people thinking that they're the same.
Yes
they're not the
Exactly. That's like what we're trying to educate people I saw this whole thread the other day about it because somebody had put up like hi can't decide whether to have a videographer Or a content creator and I was like They're completely different. That's like saying I can't decide if I'm gonna have a florist or a decor company. Like, you do completely different things.
different product.
Yeah, if you want, and I literally replied and said, look, if you want long videos, you know, you want your ceremony videos, you want your speeches videos, you want a whole video capturing your day for like, you know, a videographer normally does like a 10, 15, 20 minute, you know, full video. That, and also, That's normally a video that's in landscape.
Whereas if you want everything in portrait, which is designed for Instagram and TikTok, and you want short, you know, 30 second clips that go, that you get instantly the next day and are filmed on an iPhone or whatever, you know, and content creators now are getting better tech, but it's a very different concept.
totally understand. Actually, this wedding at Savoy, they had a content creator.
Yeah.
I just found it fun I just find it funny because they kind of follow you around like you're a celebrity like filming
Yeah. If you want that vibe.
don't know about
Yeah. And actually I put that as a, as a point in what I replied. I would say that they are more for the couple and, and, and showing, you know, what's happening. And it's very natural stuff, which is great. You know, you walking along, holding your dress or your bridesmaid's got your dress. But a video, a videographer will have a team who are focused on like your friends and family. So.
like the experience as a whole aren't
Yeah, the whole story. I would say they're more of a storyteller. Whereas a content creator is, yeah, more of those snapshots of content.
Yeah.
Yeah, does that make sense?
It does.
different job guys, very different job. If you want those quick videos back and you want those little 30 second clips, great, have a content career, but have both. Did your, did that Savoy couple have both?
Yeah.
Videographer and content creator
creator, photographer.
and photographer? Yes, if you want to go all three, which I did a wedding in October, who did that? They had all three. Fine, but they're different jobs. Open bars.
Oh,
might come as a shock, right?
Why is this staying in 2024? I love an
I am anti an open bar. I don't like an open bar.
suppose? Is that what you're
even from Because I just think that even for the guests, right, if you have an open bar, as soon as you know you're doing an open bar wedding as a, as an event manager, it's just going to be ridiculously messy.
Okay.
just go too far, they get too drunk and it's just mess, like the messiness of an open bar wedding compared to a pay bar wedding. It doesn't even need to be pay bar, it could be I always advise my couples, if you're going to do a open bar, just put a certain amount behind, right? So it's not completely free all night. They're going to get a lot still, or do it so you buy all the drinks and people manage the bar, but keep it, keep it like, so it's just beer, wine, and gin.
Like, keep it really like, stripped back. But people who are just like, Yeah, just let everybody have whatever the hell they want and we'll pay for it at the end. It just, yeah, it just gets ridiculous. You get people that are buying, like, all these different drinks, they're left on the the amount that gets wasted is ridiculous.
would annoy
Yeah.
actually, because people do, they just have more, it's just like with when you go to like an all you can eat buffet,
Yeah!
thing, isn't
It is!
People
Yeah, it is.
and they don't eat it, because they just
Yeah.
like, it's all you can eat, so it's that whole, it's that whole mindset. So
and they just go crazy. And honestly, the messiness from weddings that I see, the difference, is when it's open bar, the people just get so ridiculously drunk, they're falling all over, they look a mess, so in your photos that's just gonna look horrific.
And this is by, like, I've had people this year be, like, sick during the wedding breakfast, like, That's how crazy people are going and I think just strip it back and actually the weddings I've done well, they do want an open bar And i've kind of convinced them to not go that way and we've done the paired back bar That works because I do understand some people don't want people to have to come and spend money But a paired back bar where you've literally just got basics Well, I had a bar this
year where they literally kept all the wine on the tables And behind the bar all they had was beer and two cocktails and it worked so
that's
well
enough, yeah. That's a
Yeah, because they're not going and getting a, Oh, I'll have ten tequila shots and I'll have a Spiced rum and coke on actually and I'll have a Vodka and coke and I'll, you know, and then they're just Mixing and it just goes To OTT.
Too much, too much. What about if you had like a signature cocktail, so like,
Yeah!
grooms and they're like on
Yeah, Mr. and Mrs. or a Mr. and Mr. Yeah.
something like that, I would rather do that. Do you know what? Rather than a wedding favor, which you wasted, because I'm just saying, sorry, wedding favors can stay in 2024.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%.
just, I'm not a big fan.
No.
But rather than doing a wedding favour, and if you want to give your guest something to say thanks or whatever, you could do a signature cocktail that is on the house. So you could have like
Yeah.
bride and grooms version, they go up to the bar, they have a
Yeah, lovely.
and then that's your like favour technically.
Yeah, or a lot of people are having like a cocktail hour now after the wedding breakfast, so then people, the people just go around with trays of cocktails. You say you've got 100 guests, you order like 50 espresso martinis, 50 passion fruit martinis, go around with them. People love that, yeah, 100%. And by the time you've paid for favours, you could pay for something like that and it would be a similar cost.
But yeah, I just don't, and I think as well, if you do the paired back bar and just keep all the wine on the table, a lot of people that drink. wine during the day will then just carry on to it into the evening and yeah, it's just avoids that mixing of drinks
I
it's too much, too much. But yeah, and my next one which might be again a little bit What's the word?
Controversial.
yeah. Champagne towers, I hate them.
They give me anxiety to be honest with you.
Oh, honestly.
watched a video of a guy at a wedding putting one together and he, it looked like it was going really well and then it all fell over. But
Oh, terrible.
up each, the coupes are all supposed to be filled up a little bit first,
supposed to put a little bit, yeah, in the bottom, but this is the thing, is people don't realize all this, they just see the cool picture on Instagram, but I'm telling you now, unless you, so you, yeah, you have, for a start, you have to have the right glasses. I will always refuse to stack them because
I mean,
It's not happening. You have to generally do it outside, because no venue will allow it inside. So, if you're having a UK wedding, the chance of a slight bit of wind is highly likely. Yeah.
Yeah.
on your dress, right, and you wanna, and you're gonna go for it and pour it, and you're gonna go for it and have a great time and be smiling and laughing, then Go for it. But the problem is, is that anxiety inducing. Exactly like you've said, when they get there on the day and they're like, Oh no, it's a bit of wind. And then look on their face. You're never gonna get a good photo. So what's the point? And then you're just gonna end up with glasses of champagne all down your dress.
Because they're gonna fall over. Like, it's, like, I don't think I've ever seen a champagne tower that hasn't fell over. Because as soon as you're pouring heavy liquid into it, they're spilling down. They're light glasses. They just fly everywhere.
no.
Nightmare.
See
And also, who drinks champagne?
I mean, I drank loads of champagne this Christmas, but that's because I
Oh, there you go.
given to me from having Lily in my 30th that I'd
There you go. But
I wouldn't
yeah, I mean you could do Prosecco, but I just think by that point, you normally do it in the evening. Are people still drinking stuff like that? That's like a start of the day drink, isn't it?
Yeah, I know what you mean, it's like a toast drink, isn't it? I
Yeah, and that's like a lot of people are doing this instead of the cake cuttings. This is like an 8 p. m scenario. And again, it's one of those things you have to get everybody rounded up. No one cares.
No one cares
No one cares.
I'm with you here I actually the more you say about it the
Not a fan.
see you
Yeah, bin it off more. Again, it's just extra cost you don't need. And then also, hey, you're not stacking a hundred champ champagne coupes.
like 12 probably best
so then you've got to get the catering staff to then fill up one, because everybody's gonna then want something, although not if it's champagne, because it's rank.
of
Yeah, exactly. No, leave it. Yeah,
So the next thing that we've mentioned is suppliers talking in plus that
we brought this up before, didn't we? So annoying,
Just say
on. Yeah,
the plus that.
we don't need the plus that. Ink that. I understand businesses have to actually state that it includes VAT, because that's like a legal thing, but quoting in a price and then in the small print being like, this does not include VAT.
Yeah.
Like, that's annoying.
just mean.
You don't go to a shop and it be, That's like a trade thing, isn't it? You know when you go to the supermarket, their price is the price. Yeah.
go to
Yeah.
and it's got like blah blah plus that, but then you like know that, but it's not like a quote. I mean like, as a
Yeah.
just say it all inclusive of that, I don't know, something
Exactly. Well, you're not a supplier. You're not a wholesale supplier. Alright, suppliers?
there you go.
Just include that in the quote.
The last thing that I added on here, It's flip flops.
the flip flops.
baskets of flip flops. Now, I'll tell you why this irked me. It was that, it was a lovely, beautiful wedding at the Savoy. Beautiful venue. And then they had flip flops.
They didn't.
flops handing out to people. I'm sorry, but if you can't
But they actually pry backwards.
in your heels, then why are you wearing them?
But also, I feel like people are in tune to that now. Like, I, people know to bring a, bring a flat shoe to a wedding, don't they? Yeah, people just do. And you, you know, if you're staying there, you go up to your room, you change your shoes, or you bring a, you just put them to the side somewhere. Oh no,
of shoes. You're buying them for every
90p and prime, I love.
Oh my goodness. Still, if that's one pair If you're buying them for all the women,
yes, you buy like 100 pairs, it's 100 quid.
Yeah. It's a waste of money. Just get
Honestly,
shoes.
I completely agree. And actually, it's only if you buy the 90p ones if you want the real basic ones. If you want to go a bit nicer than, yeah, they are more three quid. But yeah. And also if you go somewhere, that's if you have time to go to Primark. A lot of people do a last minute order on Amazon and
Okay.
they're more money.
But what you could do is if you're doing a wedding website, which we highly recommend, is
Yeah,
FAQs, you could just put in there, don't forget to bring your flat
bring your flat shoes for the dancing, the dancing shoes,
write that in
or just go old school and go bare feet.
exactly.
Honestly though, you're so right because last year, 2023, I had like, I had a wedding who had these flip flops, right? And about two people used them and she bought like 100 pairs, right?
mental.
said to me at the end, oh, take them to your next wedding because like, we're not gonna, they're just gonna go in the bin basically, which more shit to landfill people, it really irritates me. So I said, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I kid you not, Hayley, I took them flip flops to four different weddings.
Still you
They were still sat in my cupboard when I was about to move house. I was giving them to people, like, Are you going on holiday? Have some flip flops, have some flip flops. My friends would come round, I was like, take some flip flops. In the end, I still had to bin some of them.
Oh
is how bad it was, because people do not use the frickin flip flops.
I brought this one up.
Yeah.
of a out there one but I just saw it the other day and I was like, This is annoying actually.
So, with the little sign for your dancing feet.
Oh, don't. Just don't. Don't even go there. Oh, god. Well,
guys.
was fun. I
I like that.
So, yeah, that was our 2025 trends. What's
Yeah,
year, next year, and then 2024,
yeah.
leaving
year, technically, by the time you're listening, yeah, we're going to be in 2029. Well, this is the part of the pod, guys, where we go into your listeners questions and messages. What we've done this week is we put up a little thing on Instagram to ask, all I want for Christmas is dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. So we're going to read out some of your responses. But don't forget you can write in your questions, your messages, your am I the arseholes we love, don't we? Yeah,
favorite. So first up, all I want for Christmas is dot dot dot, my wedding video.
Oh, they're hanging on they're waiting for their wedding video Yeah, I know
have to wait a while for it to come through. It was totally worth it when we got it, but it's, it's, I don't know what it is, but there, sometimes there's a delay, but it's just, you really want to get it because it's so special. And then, especially if it's around Christmas when, after your wedding, and you want to, you know,
Yeah, you want to share it about.
all
so I,
where's your
don't have my wedding video yet, and I'm like, ah, you want it? It's been, it's, there's been a slight delay, but yeah, mine is, I really just want to see me walk down the aisle. I've said this to you before, I'm really paranoid that I walk too fast. And I, one of my tips all the time is always, walk slower than you think you're gonna walk, and,
I feel like you soaked it up. You were
and also, I want to listen back to my speeches.
Yeah.
I can't remember them fully. 'cause the day is just so heightened and so, yeah. So somebody else is, is, yeah, they're being impatient. They want their wedding video, but I feel you. 'cause I'm the same. I haven't got mine back yet. And yeah, I want it. Yeah, it'll be worth it once you get it. Next step. We've got a ring so I can plan a wedding. And I like that. See, you can listen even if you are not engaged. Yep.
so when you do get engaged, you're ready. You're
Exactly. There's no overwhelm. You know what to expect, you know?
to get all the tips and the jokes, the behind
Yeah,
So.
As you've heard today, we don't always just talk about weddings.
All I want for Christmas is a stress free wedding planning experience. Well, you've come to the right place.
you have. Yeah, all you gotta do is not listen to other people, do what the hell you wanna do, listen to the podcast, get a planner, you'll be fine.
It's all good.
Yeah. We've got, all I want for Christmas is my bridesmaid's degree on the dresses.
god.
But just, just let them have what they want.
what colour and get them to pick
Yeah, that's what I did. Here's your colour. Yeah, and then, but even then, with the mismatch of colors we've been talking about, you could go different colors.
seen loads of weddings this year where all the bridesmaids have been in different colours, different
Yeah, I've seen some really nice stuff this year on socials where they're literally just gone for like a mismatch of patterns and whatever.
really
Yeah, yeah, I do. Yeah, because I do think that's quite mean. I'm gonna be really honest here. Sorry, listener, but I think it's mean if you're making them all wear the same dress because everybody's got a different body shape.
exactly.
that to people. You know, and different styles, different tastes, you know, yeah.
all I want for Christmas is a decision on a winter or a summer wedding. Haha,
year. And they are, they live in Australia, and they came back just before Christmas and we went and met them. And they were like, oh my god, it's really, really cold, it's really, really cold. Anyway, I got a message from them the next day saying, we've got a wedding. We're thinking that maybe we'd like a summer wedding. They literally messaged me yesterday, they've made the decision. It's moving to the summer. So we've done a full mood board and ideas on a Christmas themed wedding. And
oh,
we need to change it. But it is, it is a hard decision, I think. The thing that I said to them was, the benefit of having a winter wedding is, yes it's cold, I mean for them it's different, they're used to an Australian climate, they're gonna feel the cold.
wouldn't be,
Yeah, yeah, exactly, you know so they're gonna feel the cold regardless, but the benefit is, is that I feel there's no pressure on it being nice weather. Whereas when you go for a summer wedding,
yeah, there is that pressure of the sun needs to be out, needs to
yeah, yeah, which it ain't always in the UK. Yeah,
travelling here for a wedding from abroad, like you say, from a
that does make sense because even if it's 20 degrees, like in July it's gonna roughly, even if it's a crap day It's gonna be about 20 degrees compared to the nought degrees it was You know, then yeah, that's a big difference. But
And
yeah,
is notoriously cold. So,
it is Although saying that, is it? Because just before Christmas it was like 12 degrees some days, you know?
weird, isn't it, this weather though? Just feel like
Yeah, I always think January,
honest with you.
January's when it starts getting bitter and icy
yeah, it does, normally snows, doesn't it?
Yeah.
to give birth in January, I was due in February, but I was like, yes, because I couldn't think of anything worse than being heavily pregnant in the heat of the summer,
Yeah. So true.
yes, the colder
Yeah. It's a benefit. Well, that's us for today, guys. Happy New
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