Stargazing Marrying Mum and Dad

BOTH: Marrying Mum And Dad is back! CHEERING

SCREAMING

NAOMI: Get ready for more crazy parents

handing over total control of their wedding day.

The kids are in charge, they can do whatever they want.

They have no idea what's about to happen.

Are you ready for a huge surprise?

They have to wait until their wedding day to find out.

LAUGHTER

It's a massive risk.

And we've got less than four weeks to organise everything.

Awesome.

On today's show...

I now pronounce you officially 100% in charge!

Yes!

..the kids want a wedding that is truly out of this world.

Even if it means building a whole solar system by hand.

Never wanted a poop-coloured planet.

Can our secret wedding planners

reach the stellar heights they're hoping for?

-ALL:

-Lift off!

Or will their ambitions crash and burn?

-We're about to find out...

-Because we're...

-ALL:

-Marrying Mum and Dad!

One of the most important days of your parents' lives, their wedding.

Surely no mum or dad would be reckless enough

to put kids in charge, right?

Wrong!

That's right.

Three kids in Middlesex are in control of everything.

Jade, Grace and Seb are two sisters and a brother

who are boldly going where no wedding planners have gone before.

My organising skills are the best on the planet.

My gadget skills will come in handy.

-RAPPING:

-# Dad is stellar and Mum is amazing

# This is why our theme is officially... #

ALL: Stargazing!

Stargazing, eh? Bright idea.

Well, the first thing you need is to go and look at stars...

is a telescope.

We'll also need planets, constellations,

and an unexpected astrological phenomena.

An unexpected astrological phenomena.

Mum Maddie, and Dad Shaughn have been engaged for 15 years.

15 years?!

No wonder the kids have decided to take control.

-JADE:

-My mum is a beautiful, caring mum.

-GRACE:

-My dad can be funny and silly sometimes.

THEY LAUGH

-SEB:

-Daddy really likes space.

He has his own massive telescope.

He likes spotting all the planets.

Dad's hobby has given the kids an idea

that's new to Marrying Mum And Dad -

a night-time wedding where not even the sky is the limit.

Mum and Dad will be completely in the dark, of course.

I'm going to be incredibly nervous.

-DAD:

-It's going to be a mixture of excitement and a little bit of fear.

-LAUGHING:

-There will be fear! Definitely.

Bye!

See you later, Mum and Dad.

We've got secret wedding planning to do.

You've done loads here.

'The kids need a venue, but wherever they go in the country,

'they won't get any closer to the stars.

'Unless they look up.'

And upwards doesn't come more spectacular than this -

the Orbit Tower at the Olympic Park.

The kids can take Mum and Dad into orbit

whilst still in the heart of London.

-There it is, the Orbit.

-That's really tall.

So how do we get up there?

I'm not climbing them stairs.

It does look a lot, doesn't it?

'The Orbit was designed by famous artist Sir Anish Kapoor.'

Luckily for Grace, he put in a lift.

At 114 metres, it's officially the tallest sculpture in the world.

Where better to be nearer the stars in a stargazing wedding?

Eh, is the wedding venue of Mum's dreams

a giant welded steel sculpture?

BUZZER

My perfect wedding would probably be

very, very pretty, sparkly things.

Em...

A big castle, maybe.

It may not be a pretty, sparkly castle,

but the kids think this is a stellar wedding venue.

It's a good view of London.

Look at the Olympic Stadium.

You can see the Gherkin. Canary Wharf over there.

So can you see them getting married in this space?

-SEB:

-Yeah. There's plenty of room.

So the view's great, but how do we turn a glass room into outer space?

We could hang up planets and stars

and make it look really spacey.

-Big stars on the floor.

-Mm-hmm. What, stars everywhere?

-Yeah, like, stars on the floor, stars on the walls.

-Fill it. Mm-hmm.

Shall we say venue sorted?

Yeah, venue sorted.

Venue sorted. Big handshake.

'It still needs some work,'

but the countdown to launching Mum and Dad into orbit has begun.

The kids have found their venue,

but what happens if it's cloudy?

Not much stargazing, then.

We need to guarantee stars at this wedding.

'We need...'

Pop-up planetarium.

'This portable, inflatable planetarium

'will let us project stars on the wedding day whatever the weather.'

-Do you like it?

-Yeah. What's that thing up there?

That's the moon.

What are you picturing on the day, Jade?

One of these, but twice the size,

because it's got to fit all our guests in it.

Well, I found this one, so you guys need to find a bigger one.

Aye-aye, captain!

Yep, if they want a bigger one, they'll have to find one.

And the kids aren't just going to project stars,

they want to screen a whole film in 360 degrees.

I would like to do a story for the wedding.

If we could get a famous scientist to tell the story,

it would just be really cool.

So the kids want to make a stargazing-inspired film

for their stargazing wedding,

and they want a famous scientist to feature in it.

It's never simple, is it? This is a big idea.

Fear not, Naomi.

We're heading to Herstmonceux Observatory

in East Sussex.

We're hoping to persuade real-life space scientist

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock to be in our film.

Dr Maggie's presented loads of Mum and Dad's favourite astronomy shows,

like Stargazing Live and The Sky At Night.

What can I do?

We've written a movie and we would like you to be part of it.

What's the movie about?

Mum being a star and Dad being a planet,

and Mum gets attacked by aliens,

but then Dad comes up and trumps the aliens away.

So when you say "trumps" you mean "trumps"?!

-Yeah.

-Well, you're going to be in it, hopefully.

I'm not doing any trumping, I'm sorry, guys.

'Amazingly, this famous space scientist'

agrees to be in our film about trumping planets.

But is Dr Maggie really ready for these guys?

-JADE:

-Camera rolling.

-SEB:

-Camera rolling.

-Sound ready.

-GRACE:

-Sound ready.

Action.

Space is amazing.

When you look up at the night sky,

you're seeing light that has travelled quadrillions of miles.

-Cut!

-Shall I do it again?

What should I do differently?

-Hand actions.

-GRACE:

-Louder.

-Louder? OK, OK.

I'm glad you haven't been directing me. You guys are harsh.

Take two, here we go. Action.

Space is amazing.

When you look up at the night sky,

the light that is...reaching your eye.

-Cut.

-Be louder this time.

OK, even louder!

At least they know what they want.

The director is very demanding.

I make the big decisions.

I bet it's not like this on The Sky At Night.

You're the scariest sound operator I've ever worked with.

Fearing for my life.

Time for take three. Action!

Space is amazing.

'Jade's finally happy and Dr Maggie is in the can.'

Cut! That's a wrap. That's a wrap.

It's safe to say that's entertainment sorted.

See you at the premiere, Mum and Dad.

The kids have come up with a dazzling idea

for Mum's wedding dress.

A starry and LED dress.

She's actually going to have stars on her dress?

And then Daddy's going to have similar to Mummy,

but obviously not a dress, because that'd be silly.

Oh, I don't know about that.

But light-up outfits - that's genius.

But why have the kids brought me back to the observatory

in the dark of night?

So what's looking through this telescope got to do

with designing your mum's dress?

We're going to look at moons and stars

and then we want to put them on the dress.

You want to actually have all sorts

-of real-life constellations on the dress?

-Yeah.

This world-class telescope makes Dad's look pipsqueak.

He's going to be so jealous.

So that yellow dot up there, that's Jupiter, is it?

Tonight we can see Jupiter really nicely.

Can you see the stripes across the middle?

Yeah. I can see two.

Even the moon looks totally different when you're stargazing.

Whoa!

I can see craters and everything.

Witnessing the infinite majesty of the heavens -

what an awesome privilege.

Now what we've got to do is stick it on a wedding dress.

How hard can it be?

Don't worry, Ed, the kids are on it.

Jade takes inspiration from their evening stargazing

and adds Mum and Dad's star-sign constellations to the design.

A dressmaker will use LEDs to create the stars. Sorted.

True to form, the wedding planners want to do something very different

with the cake as well.

What would you like the cake to look like?

A big sun cake that's 3-D...

I think it should be a chocolate cake, personally.

..and then little pop cakes around the solar system.

The kids want to build a solar system of cake planets,

so we've beamed in intergalactic cake creative Sharon to help.

But how do we turn these into planets?

Right, we're going to cover them with some fondant icing.

First up, choosing our planet cake colours.

Unfortunately, Grace gets to choose mine too.

What about brown and purple?!

-Brown and purple?

-Yeah.

It's going to be the most disgusting-looking planet ever.

OK, brown and purple.

Icing mixed, we roll it out into a constellationary crust

and wrap it around our planets.

I've got a lumpy bottom.

KIDS LAUGH

There'll be eight planets in our cakey solar system,

as well as a giant sun.

-Planet poop!

-Venus.

-Earth.

'And if you think an entire solar system

'made out of cakes is ambitious, you ain't seen nothing yet.'

Planet Poop's got the runs!

'Cos they want to send one of these cakes into actual space.'

For those who haven't sent a cake into space before...

In other words, most of us, Ed.

..here's the plan. Our small cake is attached to a big weather balloon.

It goes 75,000ft up to the very edge of space.

The balloon pops, said cake falls to Earth, we find where it lands

and bring it back to join the rest of the cakey solar system.

Oh, I forgot to mention, this is going to happen on the wedding day.

ED SCREAMS

This is all possible. People actually do this sort of thing.

-Just depends on what the weather is like.

-And also the weight.

Oh, OK. How much does it have to weigh?

80g.

If the cake's too heavy, the balloon won't lift it.

It's actually 76g.

We're going to send the cake into space!

Cake sorted.

Cake in space on the wedding day?!

To be continued.

The kids have decided they want a car wrapped

in super-shiny silver foil

for Mum and Dad's starry wedding transport.

I think if you fold it and bend it, it might stay in place.

They test the concept on Seb's own radio-control car.

Not bad, but Mum and Dad won't fit in that, Seb.

Luckily, car-chroming king Gregory is on hand to show us

how you wrap a car in shiny foil for real.

Let me just grab a tape measure.

Pull it, pull it, pull it.

That's our piece.

Oh, super-sticky.

If this looks like we're about to put a big shiny sticker

on an £80,000 sports car,

it's because that's exactly what we're doing.

Yeah.

Yeah, drop it down.

It's like covering a book at school.

Giant stickers mean giant air bubbles,

so the kids are on bubble-smoothing duty.

She's on it. On it like a car bonnet.

NAOMI LAUGHS See what I did...

Oh, Naomi. I'm finding your car jokes TYREsome.

In fact, I think they're EXHAUSTing.

It's a good job.

Peeling off the tape we laid first means the shiny sticker is cut

and not the car.

# Duh-da-da-da-da-da-da! #

NAOMI WHOOPS

So that's how you add stellar shine to a car,

but it's a slow, fiddly job.

If the kids can find one that's been chromed-up already,

it'll be transport sorted.

With just a few days to the wedding,

the venue still needs decorating.

Jade, Seb and Grace rope in some mates

and set up a cosmic production line making hanging stars and planets.

Jupiter!

They find a bigger pop-up planetarium

to give their guests that big-screen alien epic experience.

Oh, and there's that small matter of sending a cake up into space.

The kids check the weather forecast.

We can't launch if it looks like the balloon carrying the cake

will get blown into the sea.

This is no longer just a wedding,

it's a space mission, and no-one knows how it'll turn out.

The morning of the wedding.

The weather around London is worsening,

so we're forced to move the balloon launch site 150 miles away

from the wedding venue to Shrewsbury.

The kids can't risk missing the ceremony,

so the person launching the balloon needs to be a bit more,

um, expendable.

Morning, Steve, I brought your balloon,

we're going to send it into space!

Oh, no! No, I've ruined everything!

-No, we've got a much bigger balloon than that one.

-Oh, really?

Yeah, way, way bigger.

Oh, good.

Steve is a weather balloon expert.

If he can't get this small cake into space

and back down in time to cut the cake, then nobody can.

Sorry. Haven't had my elevenses.

The cake goes in its special protective spacesuit

known as clingfilm.

String, bits of fishing wire - it's not exactly Nasa.

It may not be the most hi-tech spaceship, but it's our spaceship.

Can it get our cake to the edge of space and back?

We're going to find out.

Meanwhile, 150 miles away in East London,

a wedding is about to take place.

The ceremony room high in the sky has become the very cosmos itself.

The kids' search for a shiny star car has come up trumps.

And the supersized pop-up planetarium to screen the animated film is,

well, popping up.

This is going to be the wedding with everything.

In fact, all that's missing is a cake.

Ah, yes. About that cake.

-SEB:

-Hi, Ed.

-GRACE:

-Hi.

-JADE:

-So, how are you doing?

'Good. I think we're nearly good to go.'

You better get back in time.

I know! I'm trying to send a cake into space.

'What more do you want?!'

The bosses want lift-off. Steve wants...

-Gaffer tape. Can you get me some gaffer tape?

-Gaffer tape?

-That'll do.

-That'll do?

We're sending a cake into space, Steve,

that's not a phrase I want to hear.

Well, it'll have to do because the clock is ticking.

Over in East London, Mum and Dad have been rocketed to a hotel

just metres from the Orbit Tower.

KNOCK AT DOOR

-Hello.

-Hello.

-How are you doing?

-I'm all right.

-I have a special delivery for you. Your wedding outfit.

-Fantastic.

-Thank you very much.

-Someone will assist you to get into that.

-You're going to be blindfolded.

-Wonderful. Thank you.

-Bye.

This morning I am feeling really, really nervous.

Just so excited about what today's going to bring.

Nervous? Tell me about it - I'm trying to send a cake up into space!

Although Steve seems very laid-back for an intergalactic cake pioneer.

-We're good to go?

-Yep.

-We're good to go!

The weather balloon is full of helium gas, and there's a parachute

that'll bring our cake, GPS tracker and camera safely back to earth.

That's the theory, anyway. Time to call the kids to count us down.

Finally!

ALL: Five, four, three, two, one!

Lift off!

There you go!

That's your mum and dad's wedding cake.

Good speed, little cake. Mum and Dad's wedding's relying on you.

Follow that cake!

-Quickly!

-Step on it!

-Come on.

-You better hurry up.

All right, I'm on it.

As the balloon shoots spacewards,

we race to where the cake should finally land, over 100 miles away.

Fingers crossed the wind doesn't blow it off course.

-You're my sat nav.

-Yes, I will be your sat nav.

-Turn left. Sorry, right.

-That's a good start.

One cake on a mission. Will we ever see it again?

Back in London, we can't hang on any longer.

It's time for our three stars,

plus one slightly squished orange planet, to reveal the wedding theme.

On the count of three, you are going to open your eyes. Altogether.

-ALL:

-One, two, three!

-DAD:

-Fantastic.

-MUM:

-Wow.

-Oh, my goodness.

-Well done, guys.

Wow!

-JADE:

-On your dress, Mummy...

-This is so beautiful.

..on your dress, on the front is Pisces for you.

Then on the back is Libra for Daddy.

That's so creative and so clever.

So any guesses on the theme.

-I think it's...

-Stars?

-Star themed?

That is correct. You are having your very own stargazing wedding.

-Wow, perfect!

-Fantastic. Well done.

Smiles all round.

But would Mum and Dad be so relaxed

if they knew a key part of their wedding was halfway into space?

It's just crossed the Bristol Channel

and it's at around about 19,500 metres.

According to the GPS tracker,

if everything goes to plan the balloon will come down in Wiltshire,

still a good three hours' travel from the wedding.

If all doesn't go to plan,

well, the English Channel is waiting.

Over in Stratford, Mum and Dad are seeing their wedding venue

for the first time,

through a telescope, of course.

So it's not the crane.

-GRACE:

-Yeah, it's not a crane.

-DAD:

-It's the tower.

Yep, it's called The Orbit, so you are literally going into orbit.

-Fantastic!

-MUM LAUGHS

Come on, then, let's get the stars into space.

Stars into space? Ha! We've got...

..a cake into space!

Well, what scientists call near space, actually.

75,000ft above the surface of Planet Earth.

Up here the temperature

is a freezing minus-55 degrees Centigrade.

This is officially the highest wedding cake in the galaxy.

Steve and I celebrate with a cheese sandwich on the M5.

Our cake would keep on going higher still, but we need it back,

so Steve has set the balloon to burst.

In less than an hour, our cake will land somewhere below those clouds.

Where exactly is down to the wind.

It's up to me and Steve to find it

and get it back to the wedding in time for the cake-cutting.

We'll need that cake soon, Ed,

because it won't take Mum and Dad long to get to the wedding in this.

What do you think?

That's super-shiny.

-SEB:

-Dad, you're driving it!

-Your own cosmic chrome-mobile.

'Mum and Dad are on their way to the wedding

'in a starry, chromed sports car.

'Steady on, Dad, don't scratch the chrome.'

As Dad puts his foot down in a sports car,

'Steve and I are somewhere in Dorset in a people carrier,

'but it doesn't matter, cos guess what we've spotted!'

-COW MOOS

-'No, not a cow.'

There it is! There it is! It's over there!

There it is! That orange thing, that's our wedding cake!

Wahey, let's go get it.

Right. Got to get that cake!

I don't believe it! This is amazing. Yes!

I've got the cake! Steve, you see this?!

Steve plays it cool, like a genius.

-We did it!

-We did it.

-Yeah!

-Yay.

Now all we've got to do is get this to the wedding.

Success!

After an emotional goodbye with Steve,

all I have to do is get on the train at Bath

and travel back to Stratford in East London.

Nothing can stop me.

Except missing my train by a minute.

PHONE RINGS

-How are you getting on?

-'We just found the cake.'

-Yes!

-We've got it. Yes!

Well, you need to come back with it.

We need you here, we need the cake here. Now!

Let's hope that's the right train, Ed, because the wedding is starting.

Jade, Seb and Grace have found the ultimate way

for Mum and Dad to arrive at The Orbit.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, we've had the most amazing day.

Right, shall we get up into orbit?

The wedding party is going into orbit and our cake from space is...

Actually, where is it, Ed?

The cake may still be en route...

..but everything else is in place to finally marry Mum and Dad.

I give you this ring as a symbol of our marriage

and as a lasting reminder of the promises that we've made here today.

I promise to love and cherish you and remain faithful

and loyal to you for the rest of our life together.

You are, by law, husband and wife.

CHEERING

Happy tears all round.

Jade, Seb and Grace have pulled off a stunning stargazing ceremony.

I know what you're thinking.

Where is Ed Petrie?

Well, since you asked, Naomi...

..I'm in London!

Not far now.

A few hours ago, our cake was 75,000ft up in the air

in near space. Now it's going underground.

I've sent him lots of texts. No reply.

At last, Stratford Tube station.

We've travelled over 200 miles by car, train and Tube.

The last few hundred metres to The Orbit is on foot.

There's not a second to spare.

Newlyweds, are you ready to see your wedding cake?

'I'm stalling for time, but I can't put off the cake-cutting any longer.'

I'm coming, Naomi!

ALL: Whoa!

The cake solar system looks stunning,

but there's one very special planet missing.

Where are you, Ed?

Hold that cake-cutting!

'One quick outfit change and I've made it.'

This cake is a very well-travelled cake.

Today, this cake has been to the very edge of space

to be part of your wedding cake.

'Against the odds, Mum and Dad get to cut their solar system cake

'with all of the planets in place,

'including one that's actually been to space.'

You didn't cut that one? After all that!

LAUGHTER

You went for that one.

It was closer.

Cake mission accomplished, well done, Ed.

The wedding's not over yet -

there's still the star-studded entertainment

in the pop-up planetarium.

Dr Maggie introduces the kids' stargazing epic.

'Space is amazing.'

Good direction.

For centuries, Planet Shaughn wandered lonely around the galaxy,

silent apart from the occasional blast of toxic gas.

'It has action.'

The star known as Maddie was in danger.

'Adventure.'

And alien war raged in her solar system.

'And a happy ending.'

The star and the planet fell in love.

Soon, new noisy planetoids arrived in the system.

Their love would shine through the night sky forever.

The noisy planetoids round off the entertainment with a song.

# Don't close your eyes

# Don't fade away

# Don't fade away... #

MUSIC: Rule The World by Take That

# Yeah, you and me

# We can ride on a star... #

The wedding in the stars has come to an end.

When I realised that I was going to get married in Orbit, I was,

"This is crazy!

"This is completely nuts," but how amazing and just fantastic.

I thought, "I can't wait."

It feels quite good that we've given them

something that no-one else has had at their wedding.

We love everything that they've done for us.

We wouldn't change it for the world, so thank you.

What a wonderful day. I love you all very, very much.

Amazing.

Epic.

Super, spacey, marriage-errific.

Wow, what a wedding!

Jade, Seb and Grace pulled off something special there.

You should have seen it when they saw her dress, when they saw Mum's dress.

-Oh, it was just unforgettable.

-I saw a cow.

Oh, when they said their vows to each other, that was so romantic.

Oh, I loved it.

Yeah, all right, I get it - I wasn't at the wedding,

I wasn't at the wedding. But how was the cake?

Oh, what, that tiny bit of cake that went all the way

to the stratosphere and back again?

That cake was out of this world!

They still haven't eaten it?!

ED GROANS