The fact that the mere premise of Don't Tell The Bride (BBC3) makes me shudder with fear probably indicates that I'm going to be a complete bridezilla when/if it comes to my own wedding. And as such, I've never watched it before, gripped by fear at all the things that could go wrong.
I steeled myself though to watch the horror unfold. How on earth could our plucky groom Lee get the dream day for his fiancée Sophie?
For four weeks, Lee and Sophie agreed to live apart and for Sophie to be kept in complete ignorance as to what's going on. Lee moves his best man, Pete, in and promptly cracks open the beers and starts on the guest list.
Which consists of his football team. And drinking buddies. And random people he may have met on the street. Sophie meanwhile is worrying he won't know which of her friends to invite. You signed the papers signing away your rights love...
Being a man, Lee automatically assumes that the church will be available. And even that Sophie would want to get married in a church. Lucky for him, it's available. So that's one half of the venue issue sorted.
Next up is reception venues. Lee only has a budget of £15k but seems to think that luxury hotels are the way forward. Except of course they get booked up weeks in advance and so the one he wants isn't available on the Saturday he wanted... he makes decision though to switch the wedding to a Friday. Which in theory should make it a bit cheaper at least.
OMG! He buys the dress as well?!?! What madness is this?!?! It's at this point Sophie starts worrying a lot. Damn right you should worry!!!
The bridesmaids take pity and go to help choose their dresses. SO at least something will be right.
Lee is starting to get a bit bored with the whole wedding planning thing so his old landlady decides to get him organised via the medium of a huge white board.
Bianca the chief bridesmaid arranges Sophie to actually be fitted for the dress which is a bit of a saving grace.
Then Sophie's mum steps up with a guestlist of Sophie's family and friends which means bye bye to some of the football lot. Oh the shame. Then she steps in to help organise the flowers. Lee doesn't seem overly concerned with girly details like flowers. Even though his surname is Orchard...
Sophie wasn't impressed with the size of her hen party and now she's losing her best friend to a job overseas. Lee meanwhile is busy tasting the wedding menu. Sophie is back to stressing at her sister that Lee won't be coping with the stress. Yeah, eating free food looks really stressful...
Sophie's sisters start grilling Lee about the plans so far. He hasn't done the seating plan, transport, music, suits, rings... any of the actual details then. I'm starting to feel anxious on Sophie's behalf.
Thankfully they've organised the stag do for 2 days before the wedding where he drunkenly professes lots of love for Sophie which is sweet and fairly important!
Sophie finally gets to see the dress and... she likes it. I'm not sure why she thinks it wouldn't fit though seeing as she got measured for it...
On the day, it all seems to be going well. Except for Sophie running late, which quite frankly can be forgiven as she has no idea what's going to happen.
And you know what? It seems to have worked out quite lovely for them which is nice. There's tears of happiness, sunshine and squeals of delight. I'm guessing it would be more fun to watch if Lee had got it completely wrong and I have been told that this does happen with other couples.
I still wouldn't do it though...
I steeled myself though to watch the horror unfold. How on earth could our plucky groom Lee get the dream day for his fiancée Sophie?
For four weeks, Lee and Sophie agreed to live apart and for Sophie to be kept in complete ignorance as to what's going on. Lee moves his best man, Pete, in and promptly cracks open the beers and starts on the guest list.
Which consists of his football team. And drinking buddies. And random people he may have met on the street. Sophie meanwhile is worrying he won't know which of her friends to invite. You signed the papers signing away your rights love...
Being a man, Lee automatically assumes that the church will be available. And even that Sophie would want to get married in a church. Lucky for him, it's available. So that's one half of the venue issue sorted.
Next up is reception venues. Lee only has a budget of £15k but seems to think that luxury hotels are the way forward. Except of course they get booked up weeks in advance and so the one he wants isn't available on the Saturday he wanted... he makes decision though to switch the wedding to a Friday. Which in theory should make it a bit cheaper at least.
OMG! He buys the dress as well?!?! What madness is this?!?! It's at this point Sophie starts worrying a lot. Damn right you should worry!!!
The bridesmaids take pity and go to help choose their dresses. SO at least something will be right.
Lee is starting to get a bit bored with the whole wedding planning thing so his old landlady decides to get him organised via the medium of a huge white board.
Bianca the chief bridesmaid arranges Sophie to actually be fitted for the dress which is a bit of a saving grace.
Then Sophie's mum steps up with a guestlist of Sophie's family and friends which means bye bye to some of the football lot. Oh the shame. Then she steps in to help organise the flowers. Lee doesn't seem overly concerned with girly details like flowers. Even though his surname is Orchard...
Sophie wasn't impressed with the size of her hen party and now she's losing her best friend to a job overseas. Lee meanwhile is busy tasting the wedding menu. Sophie is back to stressing at her sister that Lee won't be coping with the stress. Yeah, eating free food looks really stressful...
Sophie's sisters start grilling Lee about the plans so far. He hasn't done the seating plan, transport, music, suits, rings... any of the actual details then. I'm starting to feel anxious on Sophie's behalf.
Thankfully they've organised the stag do for 2 days before the wedding where he drunkenly professes lots of love for Sophie which is sweet and fairly important!
Sophie finally gets to see the dress and... she likes it. I'm not sure why she thinks it wouldn't fit though seeing as she got measured for it...
On the day, it all seems to be going well. Except for Sophie running late, which quite frankly can be forgiven as she has no idea what's going to happen.
And you know what? It seems to have worked out quite lovely for them which is nice. There's tears of happiness, sunshine and squeals of delight. I'm guessing it would be more fun to watch if Lee had got it completely wrong and I have been told that this does happen with other couples.
I still wouldn't do it though...
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