Well, my wreath is still attached to the door, surprisingly.
That is impressive. I literally felt like I needed to do a public service announcement yesterday and be like, look, take those doors in those doors, take those reefs in people.
your whole
Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's not blown off. Jesus.
Have you got one on your
Not yet. It's bad, isn't it? Ours always goes up really late. Mine my mom and dad get me to do one for them every year. And it was always like the last ones to be done. I feel really bad, but.
The
I, I like to spend my good time on them, so then I'm like, wait till I've got a bit of like, last minute go in me, but no, I think I'll get them up this week, to be fair.
Yeah. Nice. let's
let's do it.
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So I'm upstairs in Lily's room today, back to the OG room, doing my record.
I did think, when you said
See the,
I'm in a different room and I'm
see the cloud curtains in the background. I do
Room.
wonder if my, because we're like mid terrors, I wonder if my neighbours can hear me like doing the recording.
Maybe, maybe they're listening
Maybe they're like, yeah, big fans of the show. Big fans of the show, man!
they're such big fans. Martin always says that. He's like, it's like I get a live record if he can like hear me downstairs. I'm like, oh, have you listened to the episode this week? And he was like, I heard you talk about that live.
Yeah.
Speaking alive. Tickets are still on sale 29th of January. Link is in all of our show descriptions, so make sure you hop on over. I'm also thinking, I haven't even run this past
Oh.
but I'm feeling like we should do a little offer for the listeners.
offer.
A
Cheeky
offer. So let's have a little chat about it because I forgot to mention it to you before. We won't put anything out now, but next episode we'll, we'll do a little offer because you
The spirit of Christmas.
Yeah, and also you, they're the listeners. So if they're going to hear the code, it means they're a regular listener.
Yeah, that's true.
the listeners, you
Yes.
So
Okay. I like the sound of that.
yeah,
you a special discount code.
do your little discount
Yeah, that sounds good.
very exciting. Very exciting.
can't wait. I'm so excited to
I know.
chat and meet people and just do what we do best which is just talk shit and people listen.
Yeah. All about weddings.
Love it. Exciting.
is your December week going?
I mean, it's been so busy, to be honest. I'm not used to this level of busyness anymore. With work, to be fair, it was a bit of a shock to the system, but no, it's going really well. Just busy, busy doing lots of still making lots of reads, doing lots of workshops. I've actually got a class for 30 people on this Thursday.
Wow.
so,
a
that is a big one. So, I'm I'm looking forward to it, it'll be good. I, I, do you know what, I feel like I thrive off of adrenaline and being busy, you know? In a situation, yeah, when I'm stressed, stress just runs through my veins, it's constant.
don't you think with like there's always a few people in there that have done it
Yeah.
and they kind of almost like, like with the one that I went to, there was about 25
Yeah.
they almost like, people are helping each other and Yeah, you know? And you're
Yeah.
a group
That's it yeah, and I think as well like I'm such a Worry about everything and I'm a real perfectionist when it comes to like my work and stuff and I feel like I always try and put myself in the shoes of the customer and I just go I go way above and beyond for people like which is good.
It's a good thing I'm not saying it's a bad thing But but it gets me in such like a worry and I'm like, oh, but you know They've paid this amount of money and they should have this and that and the other so I am worried about it.
Anyway, I A couple of people that have come to my workshops have said that, like, they've been to ones before and they haven't even had, like, ribbon, they haven't been able to make it from scratch, and, like, I charge, like, a lot less than I know other people do, and they, and they were saying, like, they've never seen so much toys and stuff, and that made me feel so much better.
I was like, I don't know why I worry so much, but it's that thing, isn't it, of being self employed, you just, like, you're always so critical of your own stuff. Yeah,
take on a new client, I have like an onboarding process. And every time I'm like, I wonder how other planners do this. Like, am I doing it
yeah, yeah, yeah.
the ribbons and bits and bobs, but. She had the same I didn't feel like you had less, do you know what I mean? Like, you had the same stuff, like, the oranges and the little baubles and the ribbons and the
Yeah, yeah.
My friend,
Pinecones.
basically filled
you don't like them, do you?
hate
forgot about that. That, sorry, can we just know? Tell people. You're afraid of pinecones.
I've
Phobia.
don't know if it's a fear anymore, they just make me feel really uncomfortable, and I could see the basket from the room and it makes me go really hot
my gosh. Yeah,
be something from my childhood, I don't
yeah.
I saw like a spider on
Yeah, and then it's giving you the creeps.
them with spiders when I was a
like coming out of the little, I see what you mean.
Yeah, so I don't know if it was that, but she also had them bloody dried poppy
knew you were gonna, I was about to mention this, right? Because I wanted to get like a little bit of a, I want to get your opinion on them because I basically,
No,
I, I pre make like a bag for every person. So everyone has like a little bag and in there it's got pine cones, dried fruit, cinnamon and then dried lotus heads, which are the ones that you want about. However, I've noticed this year, particularly they always get left behind. I'm like, so, so now I just put them in a bucket and be like, look, 'cause I do like, I do all of that and then I do a table of decorations of people as well. And then I was like, oh, I'm just gonna put them there.
And I genuinely, people don't like them, they don't like the holes. And I looked it up and there's like this condition, not a condition, like a phobia and I can't remember what it's called, where you have like a phobia of like holes and stuff.
Yeah. That's the thing.
actually I'm gonna quickly Google it, what it's called
most humans, like, most, like in like the psychology world, there's gonna, all, all the psychologists can come at me now, tell me I'm wrong, but apparently it is like a very common thing to make. It doesn't, not necessarily a, a phobia, but it makes you feel
Yeah.
Dots, like loads of
So it's called tripophobia.
Yeah, that's it.
And yeah, it's discussed when they see trypophobic imagery, so it's stuff with like holes and stuff. Yeah.
me out. Can you not remember years ago? It must have been about ten years ago when all them pictures were going around offline
the hand! With the holes in it! Yeah! Yes, I have! See, I'm weird, because I like things like that. I don't really feel comfortable. If any of you guys just want to pop it, I'm like, hmm, what's in the hole? I don't know.
this is what happens. And it was like this
If you wash yourself!
Oh, and honestly, just looking at it just made me feel like dizzy and
Oh no.
friend put one of them things on hers
Oh.
and I was like, am I sitting next to
Ew, you make me sick.
Yeah, I would just keep them in a separate
Yeah, that's what I'm doing now, I'll be like, here they are, but.
with the pinecones as well,
Yeah.
because if I had a bag of pinecones
Oh.
that's quite a rare thing, to I feel like I'm the only person in the world that has
Probably not. Hey look, if you're listening to this podcast and you've got a fear or it makes you feel uncomfortable looking at a pine cone, or a lotus head, dried one, dude, get in touch. Get in touch.
quite bad, though, because people find it funny. Like, my little niece, like, obviously I don't say anything to her because she's young, but she'll, like, literally chuck them at me because she thinks it's really funny. But like, if someone's got like a spider phobia, you
You wouldn't throw a spider? Yeah, no, totally. Yeah, yeah. Everyone has their things. There's nothing to be ashamed of.
gonna say thanks. No, so
But yeah, so I've just been busy doing the workshops, but I'm also doing a Christmas market today. So, I'll be selling some of my finery, my wreaths, but I've made some amazing ones, actually, if I do say so myself. So,
Oh! If I do Do you know what? I see a picture you posted the other day, and they all looked really nice, but I'm not gonna lie, there was one really cute one.
What that I made? Or someone else? Oh! Oh my god! Oh! Oh,
group photo,
Look, look, look. Like I said, no shade, but there's always one.
like, what? I was like, has she actually even put anything on it?
Some, do you know what? So everyone, this is what I mean. You tell people the basics, but they're gonna do like, they're gonna go with their own artistic direction. So, you know, I can't, you know, can't go over and be like, look, that looks, that looks shit.
you know what some people I think it's like one of those things where it's like Oh, yeah, that's a really nice idea Let's go do that and everybody drags all the friends
Yeah.
in And then actually you get there and you're like i'm
I'm not crafty.
really know why i'm here
Yeah. Why am I here? Oh, but it's become like a tradition for some, like I get a lot of the same people coming every year. It's like, I don't really advertise it online. I just,
yeah, that's the my friend that I went with that's the
Same with her, yeah.
they do it every
It's good, it's a nice little tradition.
someone
It's really nice because I've seen people come in now for like, it's been like 8 years of doing it, and obviously minus COVID, but whatever. And it's just really nice, like, you get the same group of friends coming. It's like how they even say to me, like, this is how we start Christmas, like, because they'll often do one around the first December or the end of, very end of November. So they're like, this is how we know, like, we kick off Christmas together.
They all come, have a mulled wine, mince pie, make a lovely wreath, Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt. What? Oh, that's a good idea. I love warm rye beaner.
think that was a very, I didn't even know it was a thing. She said, she,
It's so good.
and said, do you want a Ribena, do you want a hot wine, a tea, or Ribena, and I was quite disappointed that there was no peppermint tea or hot chocolate,
Oh, a hot choc, yeah. We always offer a hot choc.
the
Yeah.
oh, there you go, fine, I would have had
Yeah.
Well, I love Ribena, thinking it was just
Just a,
the
yeah.
And then, no, it was warm, which I was like, I didn't even know
Did you like it? Yeah.
nice. Yeah, I suppose it's basically like, non alcoholic Red Bull,
Yeah, well, yeah, I guess so. I love it. Well,
little tip for
nice.
I would have gone for a hot
Yeah.
Ribena, like, any
Oh God, I love a hot chocolate.
Yeah,
God.
Obsessed.
for it as well. That's how I get so fat. I'm like, oh, the choggy, hot choggy milk. Ha ha ha.
orange hot chocolate at Costa Coffee is
Oh, so I actually have Terry's chocolate orange syrup. You know, like the Monin syrups. And I've got an espresso machine and a froth milk. One of them. You know the velvetizer things but it's a dual it version to have the Money for the hotel chocolate one Anyway, I make my favorite drink is a mocha Because why have coffee when you have chocolatey coffee at the end of the day But I made a terry's chocolate orange mocha yesterday at home and it was it was so good. It was so good
I drink, drink coffee, but it still sounds
Yeah, I only drink decaf to be fair but yeah delish
go. There
how was your week anyway
Yeah. Good. Obviously a back from
Yes
now.
Have a good time.
since we, yeah, it was so, so good. And since we spoke we were at the Eden Project. So I had a site visit there because I've got a wedding there next year. Met the florist as well, which I love. Oh my god, right? Listen at this
Oh, oh, please do.
So Balesa, she was telling me how they used to always do all the floristry in
Yeah.
And then she'd met them a couple of times at wedding fairs and stuff because she lives in the area. And she said they then got in touch and said, Oh, we're actually looking to outsource the floristry. Just because it's like become too much for them when they're doing events and stuff. But there's like a lot of. you know, procedures that she has to abide by.
So she basically, you know, had to go through this whole process of becoming their only florist, which she did, but she said one of the things she has to do, so she has to get all of her ordering by, say the wedding's a Saturday, by the Wednesday, she has to take all of her buckets of flowers, and every single stem gets put under a microscope, and they tell her whether there's something on it that means that she can't use it and
Oh my god. That is insane. That
taken back put them under the microscope how nuts is that she said she's there like she has to take up the whole day
is so interesting that I suppose because obviously there's a pest or it could infiltrate the
that's
biomes.
she said, honestly, she said she loves doing it and she loves doing the venue, but the stress of thinking a, if something gets put through and then it like a harms you. Some of the trees are in there up, up to like 6, 000 years
Yeah, of course.
them and she knows, and it's her fault, she said, I'd feel awful. And she said also that pressure of what about if they reject the whole batch or like there's a particular, she said, she says to couples now you can't have a particular flower because if they get rejected. And she
Yeah,
then
oh my gosh,
is
that is
the,
crazy
that's in the Med Dome. So they've got the Mediterranean Dome and the Rainforest Dome. In the Rainforest Dome, you can't have anything in there. So only the Med Dome, but it's so strict.
Wow, I I do wonder though obviously other than your bridal flowers why you would need a lot of flowers in there
Yeah,
Sort of thing. I guess it like
a decoration.
very full of flower and foliage, isn't it? But, but I mean, I get it. I totally get it. I just wonder, like, it just, like, surely as a, like, if you were a customer, like, you're the, you're the couple, like, that's going to, to me, that's like, I'm thinking that's going to be costly. Surely.
ain't got the quote yet.
Bloody hell. That is insane. That is so interesting.
Where you have the ceremony, you don't need anything because it's got all the
Yeah.
it. But on the tables, obviously, it is like a terrace
Yeah, yeah.
the dome, so you do need,
Something on there.
table and obviously, yeah, like bouquets
Yeah
But again, you have to, she meets, she stays for the ceremony and meets them at the door and gives them their bouquet, so they're not, she knows herself, that they haven't been taken off somewhere, or,
that's interesting
I
Wow, I'm actually so
fair
Yeah Gosh, there's a lot of pressure.
did that. And then we stuck around and we went to the light show in the evening, which was insane. So good,
Yeah,
thing, it's amazing in there, but it doesn't, is not a massive interest of mine. But. When it's with the Christmas lights and all the music and
But that was really cool. Oh
and it just took me back as soon as we walked in the rainforest one. I was like, oh my god, I feel like I'm in Costa Rica
That's really cute
Yeah, it's
I love it in there so cool
oh, it's so cool. All the lights and stuff were
Yeah, but I was a bit different because normally it's just like Well, I've never been in the evening there, but I can imagine it was really cool.
yeah. It was so cool. It was so, so cool. Have you been
Yeah, I've been twice. I went, I went there last year. Yeah.
Ah, when you go up onto the mezzanine in the rainforest one, that
Oh, I know. Yeah, it's amazing. It is amazing.
music on? Can you
Oh, I don't know. I, I don't remember to be honest.
saying. Cause we were saying like how, like, the music makes it really atmospheric, but I didn't know if that was part of the Christmas light
What sort of music was it? Just like
In the Med Dome, it was all timed, the lights, there was this whole
Oh, okay. Yeah.
was basically like they'd remixed Christmas music, there
Ha,
like, like sandstorm and everything mixed into
that's hilarious.
But then in the Rainforest one, it was just really like, kind of eerie, atmospheric, kind of,
Yeah.
of the forest, kind
I
like,
did
vibe.
that, I can't remember, but yeah. It sounds really cool though.
it was.
I love that.
that's me. I'm back from Cornwall yeah, it was lovely. Got done what I needed to get done.
Perfect.
also, honestly, I don't know what's going on at the minute and I don't know if it's because I use I, I put a lot of time and effort and money into Google,
Yeah.
I'm ranking at the top kind of thing and ads and stuff like that. But am getting so many calls at the minute from, I'd say they're spam. Calls,
Yeah.
supplier calls that are trying to sell me, that are trying to be like, Oh, hi, we're just giving you a call to have a chat with you because we would like to get on your recommended supplier list. That's the kind of calls I'm
Oh.
honestly, all the time. I got one yesterday, 6pm a Saturday
Oh, that's weird.
What? Like, who's sitting
Yeah, I can't. Yeah, that's pretty weird. Oh, that'd annoy me, to be fair. I mean, I wouldn't answer that, but
It is so frustrating because I get suppliers, it's the time of year, people want to be like out there trying to, I don't know, sell themselves and yeah, good for you. But I'm like, Jesus, I'm getting so many at the minute. And also, unless I've like seen your work or worked with you, I'm not just going to start, Oh, Oh, hello.
Yeah, sure, I'll drop you on. Yeah!
Sure. Sure. I'll put you forward. I just like, Oh,
Yeah, that is just to call someone though. Although that time of night is annoying, but yeah, that, I would find that irritating to be fair. I hate, I get, I get a lot of junk email. I get so much spam coming through my website. Yeah. Yeah.
I can help you like this. I can do this. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's just, like, so impersonal.
Yeah, it's very, very annoying. I, I just delete it straight away. I don't even read it. I'm like, spam!
email. If you write it, like, it's not, like, it's personal. I once had somebody, they'd obviously clearly researched me, and was like, Oh, I saw you love cats. I've got two cats. Like, talking about cats, well, yeah, I'm
Yeah, exactly, because you've actually taken the time to look to see who you are. Cornwall. Cornwall
cold calls at 6pm at night.
and cold calls.
Yeah, lovely jubbly. How has the rest of your week been then other than wreath workshops?
it's been alright. I've actually put my Christmas decorations up, which is, yeah, I know. There was me moaning that I wasn't going to have my tree up until like Christmas Eve, but I've actually I've actually done it. Yeah.
And what what, did you buy a new tree or did you go for the
Oh no, we got a new tree. We got a new tree, yeah. So, it's a fake tree, but yeah, we got a new one and
all for the
Yeah. I mean, Rich is highly allergic, so
I have a, I have a cat, so you can't really have a real treat. Although this year, I am going to get one, but I'm going to get just like a small little potted
Oh, okay, yeah.
Because obviously, we're living in dust.
Dust? Oh, yeah. Oh.
for Martin. Well, obviously, it was like four days later, and we've got nowhere to put them. So, They're basically a waste of people's money, because just gonna get
Yeah.
So I sent a message around and was like, Guys, like, appreciate the thought, but for my birthday and Christmas, like, just save your money, don't bother getting us a card. Because, honestly, like, we've got nowhere to put
Well, that's fair enough. That's fair enough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
one lounge area, which you can kind of half call it that. But the windowsill is just full of stuff, because we've got nowhere to put anything.
Yeah, that's true
There's nowhere to put them up,
Manic well, well, how long do you think you'll be to before you finish renovating? How far along are you?
will be like spring next year I
yeah
will get done over Christmas. That's being plastered next week and then it will get like decorated and stuff over Christmas. Then the master bedroom will be done probably towards like New Year. That's just got, that's all plastered and he's
Yeah
So then, yeah, and then the kitchen will start in,
Excited
time.
love the color of like plaster freshly plastered walls Yeah,
know you can't really see it because of the light, but this is in two of the bedrooms, this just very neutral, like, stony color. Well, the plasterer came to do one of the window sills, because where we'd have the new windows put in, but we'd already painted it,
ah
was like, Hannah, that wall is literally the colour of
Yeah.
even tell that he's plastered it.
That's mental. I love it, I love that colour. It's very, it's very on trend, I think.
Yeah, it is the, the browns, I went for browns not, or like beiges not greys because this is we're not going to be staying here but it's just keeping it neutral
fair enough. Oh, cool. Well, that's our weeks, but Yeah, I'd like to know if you've put your decorations up yet, people. Have you? Have you not? Is it too early?
the 80s things
Oh no, so we were gonna do 90s Christmas,
it,
but then I had a, then I felt bad buying loads of plastic. I know that sounds a little bit, but I was like, I don't really want to buy loads of plastic and it's not good for the environment. And just,
year,
yeah, see, I get it getting it out. I just feel like I don't want to buy it. I wasn't sure about it. I know, I know how that sounds, but it's true.
Yeah
but yeah,
think you've made the right
Yeah, so we've actually just gone for, well we've just used our, so my lounge is like a dark purple plum colour, so we've just, all of my baubles are like dark purple, teal and like cerise pink. So yeah, it's quite colourful I suppose.
I do wonder, how long do you reckon we've got tinsel left for?
Good point.
be gone soon,
But they're selling it everywhere! I love tinsel, right? The smell of tinsel, tinsel, I love it. I had it all the time as a kid on the Christmas tree, so I do love it. But I've had It's banned in our house. Richard hates tinsel.
Yeah, same. I don't mind it on, like, up the stairs or something, but, oh, no, not on the tree.
hates it. He was like, not in our house. I was like, okay. Scrooge. Ha ha. Aw. So, this week online I've seen a few things that have made me chuckle and got me got, I've been roped into the clickbait basically, and I'm bringing it here.
you've been sending me some
I've sent you loads,
oh my
so we're going to have a little chat about that this week, so we're just going to keep it funny, keep it, keep it a little bit light hearted, light hearted.
Yeah.
so, the first thing I saw, which really I thought was Insane, actually. A bride went viral after letting her wedding guests vote on her last name.
Yeah, what the hell? I saw
so,
the context of the story? I didn't I kind of half read
so basically, I think she's got like quite a funny, like, last name, or it's a little bit unusual.
Yeah,
so she's, gone to TikTok basically to ask the general public what she should do. So they both love their individual last names, but her fiancee's obviously suggested that they like hyphenate it.
right, but then it makes it
but then it sounds funny. So it's, so her surname is Bonadonna and his surname is Bartlebarfs.
What?
So,
surely this is
so it would be
be
Bonadonna Bartlebarfs.
No, someone's making that up. They just want the TikTok views. Surely. God.
So they're gonna let their wedding guests vote if they should hyphenate it or not. But they both really love their surnames. I mean, not being funny, but if mine was Bartlebarf,
Yeah.
I'd be de polling that as soon as I was 18, mate. Ha ha ha ha! Oh,
I don't know about that. Although, to point out from my last episode, if they do decide to hyphenate Donna Bonham, Bonham, and don't
Bobo.
have to pay to depoll that.
Yeah, that's it. That's true. I genuinely feel like this is a joke, but it's not. She's straight on TikTok like, No, this is my real name.
Also, asking your guests and family and friends is the worst thing because obviously they're going to pick the one that makes you sound
Well, yeah. I mean, I'd be like, Yeah, you should definitely hyphenate it. That's funny.
Unless I really liked you and then I'd be
But I just feel like it's a little bit late in the day asking your wedding guests what you should do with the name. Surely you
you change it after the wedding, don't ya?
Do ya? Don't ya? Oh yeah, of course you do. Wait, no.
I see what you mean, like, if you're
Yeah, cause like, when, you know when you're doing like your ceremony and stuff, there'll be like the new Mr. and Mrs. whatever or Mrs.
it's a valid
and Mrs. or
one of the questions I ask, and it's on, detailed on my wedding plans, but I always check what they want to be
Yes, yeah.
some people are just the first
Yeah.
like, please welcome Haley and
Yeah.
Your new, your bride and groom, Haley and Richard, or
Haley and Richard!
if they
It's Haley and Dick! Heh. No,
one of my couples this year who made up their surname? I don't know if I mentioned that. Yeah, so,
that's amazing.
Yeah, I, can't really remember what the situation is, but essentially he, I don't think he has much contact with family or passed away or whatever, and then she, so they were like, oh, we'll take her surname, but they didn't really want to do that, so they basically made it
Wow.
I think
What?
they used his mum's name in it,
Oh, that's so interesting. Oh,
they kind of like, they basically just made it up.
fair enough. I didn't even know you could do that to be honest with you, but I know I suppose you can be anything.
you
Yeah.
as Princess Banana Consuela.
Consuelos. No, I was just quoting,
that is.
Bridesmaids there, one of my favourite films, but it's fine.
there you go.
I'm just gonna leave it there. Anyway.
That's a Friends quote. But anyway.
Anyway, I digress. You
wanna be.
can be whoever you wanna be.
Yeah, but you have to depol it,
Fair enough. That's cool that they made up their own name though. I wish I'd have done that.
awesome.
I went from being like the most common surname of Smith to Wooler. Thanks for watching!
Yeah.
And, yeah. Did I ever tell you what happened to me when I was in, I was in one of my, like, maternity appointments, and I, someone said they come out and they were like, oh, they said what I thought was my name. Right. So I remember in mine it used to be Hayley Smith.
Yeah.
I said, oh yeah, that's me. So that's what I thought they said. Obviously, Then I'm like sat there and they're talking to me about something and they were asking me questions I'll say you're so many weeks. I was like, no, no, I'm only like 28 weeks or something They're like, oh wait. No, you should be your favorite on that I was like, no not and then she was like wait, can I just check your name is Jemma Smith? Not only am I not Haley Smith, I was Haley Waller. It was a completely different name
What is
So then so I'd sit there and be like, oh, sorry. My name is actually Haley Waller
That's completely different.
I was, I was so embarrassed. I was like, I'm sorry.
my name used to be
I did then say it was Haley Smith, but not Gemma.
Not Gemma. Oh, Jesus.
in there was probably like, that's actually me. You're trying to impersonate me, you imposter.
my god,
How funny. Anyway, so,
hilarious.
that. Oh, that's funny. Good times. But speaking of what to call each other. Another article I saw was a lady who said that she will not be calling her husband her husband because she feels it's sexist. So,
Like,
yeah, what do you feel about that? What think it's sexist to say husband?
the point? Is it that the, is it that, because I know some people are like, oh, I don't like being called wife. It's like a, like the wife or
Yeah, yeah, so that's what it was along, that was, it was along the lines of that. So she didn't want to be called wife or missus. And then,
then why not then call the husband husband? Because a man is a husband and a woman is a
yeah. She, I think she's
girlfriend and boyfriend and
Yeah, and she doesn't agree with that either. She says that she wants to now use the word partner. And, and that apparently has become more popular.
I used to always call Martin my other half,
I do that. Yeah, I do that.
love saying husband. I love calling Martin my husband. This is my husband.
so I always feel like it makes me feel old.
Yeah, that is
I, I say my other half still. The old ball and chain.
I always like the thought, I mean this never actually happens, but in my head I like to think that when I say to someone, oh my husband blah blah blah blah, that they think in my head, their head, has she got married young?
Yeah! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! I
No one's probably ever
actually think the same. I'm so glad you said that. Cause that's what I think when I say it. I'm like, yeah, my husband, that's right. I'm so young and I'm married. I'm so ahead of my time.
know that when some people are like early, like I
Yeah.
like, oh you're
Yeah. You're waiting for someone to say it to you, but they never do.
But they never do. How
exactly what you mean, I'm exactly the same.
I do
funny. Yeah.
I don't know, I don't even mind like Martin referring to me as the missus. I hate, but like, you know, like when
You're bad.
feel like I said this generation
No.
whole bird
Oh god.
Yeah, no, I just think you are what you are. Let's like, but then I also, I suppose if you're the kind of people that say like they and
Yeah.
I do still say he and she, like whether you should, I don't know. But I'm 35, I can't freaking get used to it. Like, the change. I'm not good with the change. So to me, if it's like he, him, her,
Yeah, like a couple that is, yeah.
the
I think it's what works for you, isn't it? Like, if you're, if you guys are happy with it, then that's fine. But if you're not, then I mean, that's fine. I mean, nobody's telling you what you should call each other. I mean, some people just have like, pet names for each other, don't they? Like, they might be like, oh, I mean, makes me cringe to my core, but like, you might just be like, oh. I don't know, my arm looks a little wacky. Oh my god, it's so funny you say that.
You
No, no, I don't, we don't have anything. He just calls me twat. Ha ha ha, no he don't. No he doesn't. No but I, I had a
Badger.
an order for someone.
is
they're not listening to this podcast, so I'm just gonna go ahead and say. But basically, he used to call, refer to himself as Badger on the card message, and it used to make me die of cringe. It used to be like, two bunny from Badger. And I used to just die of cringe. Honestly, I'd be like, oh, it's probably what they're like, calling each other in bed. That's it! Oh. It's weird, isn't it?
I couldn't, I wouldn't have the I wouldn't be able to do that if I had to read it out to a florist, like, Oh yeah, my card message.
some
Oh, we used to see a lot of stuff.
Oh,
we had to we had some when I worked in the shop Oh my god It was actually jokes some of the stuff that used to come through and in the floor because they just type out so they haven't got Worry about telling someone
oh yeah.
was in if one time we had some Like this really dirty message and it was like saying about basically they were referring to a dildo in it and everything
But then send them a dildo, don't send them a bunch of
Exactly
you ever had, like, an affair situation where someone's rang up and
Yeah, yeah, we've had that, we've had an affair. So we have had one where we, we've sent flowers to the I don't like the word mistress, that makes someone sound like
the
The, the It's just as bad. The old ball and shine.
No, that's the
Oh yeah. No, so Yeah, we've had to send for the We used to send for the wife and the girlfriend. Basically, yeah, and then we also had some guy come in with like this long letter It was like and then he was like, yeah reading it out and it was just really like inappropriate I can't remember what it was now, but I just remember us being like look, sorry But we're not we're not sending that mate. That's fucking weird
I also feel like they, clearly have some psychological issue to be able to walk into a florist and just be able to read that. It's almost like
Totally
out of like, seeing your reaction from it, which, no, you're just
The worst ones though, we actually a couple of times had, and this is not funny, this is genuinely serious, was a couple of people that were like stalking. We had, yeah, and we had to report it to the police and everything.
my
Yeah,
you know?
so, because you'd, basically what would happen was they'd order a bouquet, you'd send it, and then that person would come in and be like, if someone orders flowers for me, and they're like, if this person, please do not send them, and they were like, no, I don't want to, obviously they didn't want to receive them at all.
Because they were being stalked, and it was like someone at their workplace, we sent the flowers, obviously we had no idea, but once you do, you then have to report it to the, the police and everything, but, yes, that's terrible, so that, things like that, I mean, obviously that's not funny, that's serious,
a
but sorry, sorry, Merry Christmas, no, but, I don't know.
saw a article this week. No, I shouldn't laugh. No, this is really mean as well, actually, to laugh. Is it? I don't know.
well.
no, it is
Oh well.
well. Basically, this guy, I sent it to Hayley and she was like,
Oh yeah.
basically, it was an arranged marriage situation. So this guy had been talking to this woman on the internet, Indian wedding. They so the parents had spoken. Arranged marriage. Turned up. The, the, the, the bride's family had made all the arrangements and the venue and everything. Turned up the venue wasn't real. And
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I really made me laugh.
think that they'd maybe shared the
Oh yes, because it's cultural for them to do that, isn't it?
Well,
Is it a dowry or something like that? They'd have to pay,
like that. Yeah, so they're like paid money for this wedding, which actually I suppose is quite easy to be a scam if you're speaking to somebody on the internet. Apparently they've been speaking back and forth for six months
Bloody hell.
like, yeah, let's get married, which again can be very normal in some cultures to never
Yeah.
be chatting online. All I'm gonna say is, guys, if you sit at home and you listen to this and that is part of your culture, please just make sure you meet them face to face before you send them money. actually research the venue as well. Ask for a website. Ask for an
Yeah, I need to see proof of you. Video proof. Oh my gosh, that is That is just completely off topic but it made me laugh.
Go
this program on at the moment, it's about scammers. They must be rife at the moment, but it's terrible when they target older people. But, obviously now with all this AI and this What's the other thing where someone puts another face on your face? What's it called? Face something.
Like,
swap or, do you know what I mean? Like something like that. I can't remember what it's called. But anyway, deepfake is deepfakes
Oh,
Yeah, so this older lady. She was like, she was she she absolutely loved Donny Osmond and She was like, yeah, well he's He, he got in touch with me on Instagram or something, and then we were talking for like six months. And, but the person had,
and she thought
yeah, she was like, genuinely like, and then, yeah, and then like video called her and it was like someone had done a deep fake, so it actually looked like him,
Yeah.
it, when you're like front me and like, I suppose like someone like, that's not online a lot, but I could tell it was fake. Like the mouth was like all blurred and it was just really bad. But he was like asking for like 10 grand and she was gonna give it to him. Because he was in trouble.
Jesus. Scary.
But
beware of the scammers
mate, they're bad, especially this time of year, because people are getting scammed. And I'm sure it can be the same with weddings. So if you are, I just think like in this day and age, like if you are signing up to anything online, I think you need to do your research properly, just like make sure it's a legit company. Because I have heard it where Someone's paid for, I think it was a photographer, and they paid like a lot of money, obviously paid deposit or whatever it was,
Yeah.
turned up on the day or anything, like, and it was a scam, it was a scam, and apparently they'd done it to loads of people.
Beware, guys!
Scammers, beware!
Yep.
So this one was funny and did make me laugh, so let's lighten the mood a little bit here. I love how we were like, let's keep it light hearted and we're talking about stalkers and scammers, like. So basically a man in Spain has started a business. being basically a wedding crasher. So say if a bride's got cold feet or a groom's got cold feet and they're like, now I need to, you know, the bit where they say, has anyone got any objections?
This guy will for 50 quid, he'll stand up and say, I object.
either! is quite I don't know!
I object. He'll stand up and go, I object.
oh, okay, so the bride's got down the aisle, so she's
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
then,
And they'll go, I object, we're in love, make some story up, and then they run off, they run off hand in hand and go,
doesn't it still make the bride look
well yeah.
as well just
But rather than say their true, true reason, they do that instead. That's, that's what it was for. I thought 50 quid was bargain. Yeah.
the bride would then make up a story about the groom. I'd be like, oh, the groom's having an affair. I object. So then she doesn't look bad,
Oh, that's terrible, but at least you'd look better.
but, but yeah, surely you bet. Why would you spend money on hiring someone to do that for me? And you could just stand there and say, sorry,
Sorry, just don't like you anymore.
Yeah. I don't get that either. Like, how can you get to the, we need to do one on being jilted. We, we
Oh, yeah.
another time
Gosh. Do you? Wow, okay.
at ones I've
No. Blimey. I want to look forward to that. I love a bit of that.
yeah,
do, because we're like, I love weddings, but I mean, everyone loves a bit of goss. Come on, don't. Let's not lie here.
if you get jilted at the Isle, does that mean that I get to finish my working day?
Am I getting paid for the full day still?
Do I have to refund or
Have you ever had a wedding cancel? Have ya? Yeah.
but like
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I had one for next year cancel.
Wow.
Yeah, literally like a couple of months ago.
We're cancelling because we now hate each other and I couldn't afford the wedding crasher.
up. Yeah, I've had a few split up.
Fair enough.
Also like, get pregnant,
Yeah, I had a
Yeah,
that did that. They got pregnant and then decided to postpone. So. Fair enough. And lastly, which did make me laugh, sort of basically a bride has kicked her sister out of a wedding, her wedding, for refusing to follow the colour scheme. And when I looked into this I was like, oh, you know, I wonder why.
And then it was like this backstory about how, I think the sister was adopted or something, and then the mum and dad just favoured that sister, and then it was like her whole life this sister had been favoured, and then the one thing she asked her was where, I The color scheme,
A that
blah, blah, blah. Obviously she didn't, she turned up in a different color, they kicked her out. So it was, am I the arsehole for kicking her out?
I mean,
However, on deeper inspection of this article, I have to question the color scheme choice here. They were going to make, so she basically was like, I love yellow. It's my favorite color. So they were like, they wanted the bride's family in yellow and the groom's family in blue. And if you're a friend or a mutual, you wear green.
what,
So like, the colours together make green, don't they? So, like, yellow and blue. So then, I just was like, Sorry, what?
basically like, you're basically saying that the important people are in yellow
Yeah, so like, So like, at your wedding, If you guys had done that, I'd have turned up in green, because yellow and blue together make green.
mutual friends of
yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I thought that was fucking ridiculous, to be honest with you.
I'd be, I'd rather be a green person though, than a yellow person.
wouldn't look good in yellow. Bye. Pfft. But apparently this sister actually refused to wear yellow because it washes her out. The colour, the colour doesn't suit her.
I mean, yeah, I can, I can see that. I'd feel the same.
So,
I'd be
yeah.
alright with. Yellow,
Absolutely not.
for
And so she turned.
was a bridesmaid and the bride said she wanted yellow,
Yeah.
it.
yeah, I've done a wedding where the bridesmaids have been in yellow.
Yeah, and it looked really,
Yeah.
be fair. Like a nice
Lemon. I mean, I personally wouldn't choose it, but I mean, you know, each to their own. But anyway, so this sister actually rocked up in purple. So I kicked her out.
This is not even, like, anywhere near the colour
No.
an easy one,
Green's easy.
in his colour scheme, like, then yeah, then she'd have been mutual. Which I'd have been like, Well, yeah, I love your husband, so I'm mutual to
Yeah.
Like, at least she could have spun it to a nicer story.
it.
Weird.
But yeah, that's what I've seen on the world of the internet this week. Which has made me chuckle.
Yeah.
felt it was a good place to bring them here. So we could all have a good laugh together. But, people are mad. And yeah.
They are. Should we go on to the listeners questions and messages?
so I've got here, Am I the arsehole? For telling my sister she's selfish for asking me to change my wedding gate. Gate? Wedding date. Oh dear. So basically The sister has asked her to change the wedding date because she's fallen pregnant and she's now going to be heavily pregnant or with a newborn on the wedding date. But their wedding is already booked and paid for.
oh yeah, no,
sorry. No, she's not. That's what I thought. So I'm glad we agree on that. That's not if you've decided if your life happens and unfortunately if you then can't make that date because you're going to be heavily pregnant, that's it. It's what it is.
Did she say anything about what she'd said though? Like, say the sister has the baby, is the baby allowed to
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, well then,
Yeah. She just didn't want to. She doesn't want to be uncomfortable with a newborn at a wedding. So it's her problem.
know what? I'm a very, as we know, anti child, anti baby at the wedding, but if my sister, who I'm really close to, had a baby, then it was like, right close to the wedding, I'd already booked it
Yeah.
would just be like, I'll just bring the baby. Or maybe bring like, you know, your husband's mum to sit with the baby and then you can pop
Yeah.
Do you know what
Yeah.
I would, I'd be a bit more lax on it because it is your sister. But yeah, I wouldn't be moving my day, I'm not gonna
No, no.
Some people just think everything's about them, don't
Yes.
honestly, if you try to book your wedding around babies, like, as we saw, it's really difficult. Like, there was so many babies coming, like, around our wedding. Like, you just, it's impossible around, like, hen doos and stag doos and wedding. Like, you just can't, you just gotta book it, do it. And
Just go for it. Yeah.
Like, you can't evolve your life around other people all the time. Because, what? If the sis, if you move it because of the sister, what if your brother then, brother's wife then gets pregnant or your best friend
Well, that's it. Yeah.
just
You'd just be constantly doing it. Yeah, exactly. And you can't do that. And they've already paid out all the money and stuff. So that'd cost them loads of money to cancel and move out. I'd be like, well, look. Yeah, exactly. I'd be like, well, if you really want me to do it, that's fine. But you can pay for it.
You also, with babies, you just never know what's gonna happen. I've mentioned this before about, like, my friend who had her baby a couple of
Yeah.
wasn't gonna come to my hen do, and then she could because the baby was, was early. He was fine. But then by the time the hen do, he was, like, three months old instead of being, like, three
Yeah.
was supposed to be. So you just don't know what's gonna
Yeah, exactly. You don't. You don't. It's unpredictable and it's But yeah, she's definitely not the arsehole. Her sister's the arsehole.
where people are, like, heavily pregnant. Like, he like, as in they've got, like, two
Yeah. I think pregnant ladies look beautiful in their dresses and stuff anyway. I'd be like, showing off that bump.
I've, yeah, I've seen loads of like, heavily pregnant women at weddings. You just crack on
Just get on. Get on.
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