0:00:02 > 0:00:05In the last three years of Don't Tell The Bride, dozens of brave women
0:00:05 > 0:00:11have handed complete control of the biggest day of their lives to their blokes.
0:00:14 > 0:00:21In return, their grooms were given £12,000 and a chance to prove themselves to the woman they love.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Oh, my God!
0:00:29 > 0:00:33Lots of the boys had big ideas, and most of the girls
0:00:33 > 0:00:36couldn't believe their luck when they were finally reunited.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39But nobody's perfect.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46He's just not organised anything!
0:00:46 > 0:00:51So did the blushing brides really get the wedding they'd always dreamt of?
0:00:51 > 0:00:52Oh, my God, there's naked girls!
0:00:55 > 0:00:57- Oh, what a plonker! - And how did they react
0:00:57 > 0:01:01to the way their blokes had spent their last three weeks of freedom?
0:01:01 > 0:01:04I was horrified. He was a mad man.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07That split-second, I was just like - I'm going to kill him.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12Tonight, the girls finally get the chance to have their say.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14That's exactly what I said I didn't want!
0:01:14 > 0:01:17- You don't know how mad I am.- Oh!
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Well, quite frankly, aren't I the bitch?!
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Months down the line, who is still making their man pay for his mistakes?
0:01:26 > 0:01:29No, he's got another 50-odd years of me going on about that.
0:01:29 > 0:01:35And what happened to the couple with the most OTT wedding in the history of the series?
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I was married for six months.
0:01:48 > 0:01:5423-year-old dancer Ayca Ayabakan, from Belfast, had her heart set on
0:01:54 > 0:01:57a traditional wedding with all the trimmings.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Unfortunately, there was nothing traditional about the day
0:02:01 > 0:02:06her 23-year-old barman fiance, Jonny, organised for her.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08A garden?
0:02:08 > 0:02:09What if it starts raining?
0:02:09 > 0:02:14Ayca had no idea what Jonny had in store for her.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17But with the bride-to-be safely out of their flat for three weeks...
0:02:17 > 0:02:19- To Ayca. Good man.- ...
0:02:19 > 0:02:25..it soon became clear that wedding planning wasn't high on Jonny and best man Jim's list of priorities.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27COUGHING
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Morning.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34- Morning.- Morning.
0:02:34 > 0:02:40I don't think Ayca would be too happy if she knew that the first thing we did was go out on the town.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I was horrified.
0:02:43 > 0:02:50He was a mad man. It was just them having a three-week long stag do, and it was so disappointing.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Jonny might have got away with his three-week stag do,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55but he didn't know that
0:02:55 > 0:02:59house-proud Ayca had decided to pay a visit to his wedding planning HQ.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Oh, my God! Smell it.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Oh, my...
0:03:08 > 0:03:11goodness!
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Oh, my God!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Look at the amount of drink that's been drunk.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18They are meant to be organising a wedding.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Surely they can't have enough time to have this much fun?
0:03:22 > 0:03:27# Start wearing purple Wearing purple
0:03:27 > 0:03:31# Start wearing purple for me now
0:03:31 > 0:03:36# All your sanity and wits They will all vanish
0:03:36 > 0:03:37# I promise
0:03:37 > 0:03:39# It's just a matter of time. #
0:03:39 > 0:03:42I honestly couldn't believe my eyes.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46There was Jonny with like 10 other people in my poor little house,
0:03:46 > 0:03:50jumping up and down, wearing my clothes.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Jonny was in my pink glittery top, which I ended up having to throw away because it was stretched.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59What was he thinking jumping up and down, when he was supposed to be organising my wedding?
0:03:59 > 0:04:04Clearly so drunk that he probably won't be able to function for the next four days.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09I think it was Jim, actually, that stopped me putting on one of the bridesmaid dresses,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12or the wedding dress, because that would have been... Because they were in the house, so...
0:04:12 > 0:04:14That would have been a disaster.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17# Start wearing purple
0:04:17 > 0:04:23# For me now! #
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Oh!
0:04:35 > 0:04:38'I was so disappointed in him.'
0:04:38 > 0:04:44Even if he didn't know I was going to be going into the house, he knows that
0:04:44 > 0:04:49I am house-proud and that it is a big deal for my house to be kept
0:04:49 > 0:04:53in a good enough condition. I would say pristine, but I knew not to expect that.
0:04:53 > 0:04:59I found it very difficult to encourage myself to forgive him for that.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04I really want him to feel really bad for this.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10# So I say, think I better leave right now... #
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Ayca wasn't the only one who was upset.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Friends and family also found it hard to forgive him.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20One of my close friends in Belfast, his granny didn't actually speak to me.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24She was so annoyed that I'd upset Ayca over that flat.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27She didn't take into account that at the end, Ayca was really, really happy.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31She had just seen Ayca crying over the state of the flat and just refused to talk to me.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34It was really, really awkward. I was like, "Oh, come on."
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Nope, wasn't happy at all. She said, "The state you got that flat in."
0:05:38 > 0:05:41That's grannies for you, they're bitter.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47All Jonny's partying didn't leave much time for traditional wedding planning.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51And this groom wasn't shy of taking a few short cuts.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53We can send a lot of invites through Facebook.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58That means I won't have to post things.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Facebook wedding invites.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Who does that, honestly?
0:06:05 > 0:06:09We're going to give this a go, we're going to try to do video invites
0:06:09 > 0:06:13with me and Jim, featuring Peter Andre as the music, just for a laugh.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- What song is it?- Mysterious Girl.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18MUSIC: "Mysterious Girl" by Peter Andre
0:06:21 > 0:06:24# Baby girl, I said tonight is your lucky night
0:06:24 > 0:06:27# Peter Andre along wid Bubbla Ranks on de mic
0:06:28 > 0:06:30# I stop and stare at you
0:06:30 > 0:06:34# Walking on the shore
0:06:34 > 0:06:37# I try to concentrate my mind... #
0:06:37 > 0:06:40I am actually still a bit annoyed about that, because there were
0:06:40 > 0:06:45certain people that should have been invited to the wedding that weren't.
0:06:45 > 0:06:51I sent Ayca's mum the Facebook invite and after the wedding, she told me she wasn't impressed about
0:06:51 > 0:06:55the handwriting, the fact that maybe we hadn't printed out the signs properly
0:06:55 > 0:06:59and did it a little bit better. But I didn't really have the time,
0:06:59 > 0:07:01or couldn't really be bothered.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05It's one thing to improvise an invite,
0:07:05 > 0:07:11quite another to take a risk with the wedding venue in the rainiest summer for 50 years.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17Imagine Ayca crying when she wakes up in the morning to realise that it's raining on her wedding day.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22Not wishing to put a dampener on his bride's mood, Jonny did consider
0:07:22 > 0:07:26a traditional wedding venue, a stately home that Ayca would have loved.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Is this a safe option, or is it actually a really good option to go for something like this?
0:07:33 > 0:07:38- It's definitely safe. - But safe wasn't a word that was in this groom's vocabulary,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41so it was goodbye to Ayca's dream country house
0:07:41 > 0:07:45and hello to a couple of teepees.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49It's looking good, and it won't rain.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51And everyone will have a good time.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54THUNDER RUMBLES
0:07:59 > 0:08:05What's the weather like? At the moment, it's bucketing down out of the heavens,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08and...I'm nervous.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Have we made a mistake? Have we?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Oh! Look!
0:08:26 > 0:08:32Judgement day finally arrived for this unorthodox groom and his big fat outdoor wedding.
0:08:34 > 0:08:39He'd got away with it. It was the first day it hadn't rained in a fortnight.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43I got driven to this outside wedding.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45It was perfect.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50Because it was sunny, and the sun was just shining through the trees, and I just thought,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52"Oh my goodness, what have I done to deserve this?"
0:09:05 > 0:09:12Once I seen Ayca walking down the aisle, it was just such a mix of emotions, really, like with nerves,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15relief that she was smiling.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21It was a mixture of relief, emotion and love,
0:09:21 > 0:09:25the three key ingredients in a relationship.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31It is the will of God that in marriage, husband and wife
0:09:31 > 0:09:34should experience a lifelong unity of heart,
0:09:34 > 0:09:40body, mind, comfort and companionship.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43At that point, I just forgot about everything.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46It really wouldn't have mattered what it was, it's just that moment
0:09:46 > 0:09:52when you see each other, it all comes back to what exactly the whole point of this is.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56And it's not the setting, it's not anything that matters apart from the fact that
0:09:56 > 0:10:01you're just here to get married and, you know, promise to spend the rest of your lives together.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Jonny Lacey luck comes into play.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15Anybody else had planned a wedding in Belfast outside, it would have rained. Jonny Lacey, nah!
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Hello, everybody!
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- Everyone through my legs! - CHEERING
0:10:20 > 0:10:22This is the way to the feet.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Holy BLEEP!
0:10:34 > 0:10:37If it hadn't have been such a success, the wedding, I think
0:10:37 > 0:10:41there would be a lot of things that you wouldn't have forgiven me for.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Yeah, like if it had rained on the day...
0:10:43 > 0:10:45You can't blame me for rain.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49- No, I know, but I can blame you for risking.- Oh, yeah.
0:10:49 > 0:10:55And, yeah, I think if the wedding hadn't been so perfect in every way,
0:10:55 > 0:11:00then there would have been a lot of things I could easily bring up, like the mess of the house and...
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Would you still have married me?
0:11:02 > 0:11:05- Yes.- Good.- Yeah.
0:11:07 > 0:11:13It's been almost a year since the wedding, but it looks like Ayca's finally got her own back on Jonny.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16We clean the house together now!
0:11:16 > 0:11:17It's so exciting.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Jonny's in charge of the kitchen and the living room, and I'm in charge of
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- the hall and the bedroom and bathroom.- Yeah.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27It's so exciting for me, because that just did not happen.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32And you're getting better at putting washing in the basket, instead of around it as well, so...
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Just small changes, but every little helps.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39- Just one little step at a time. - It's brilliant!
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Oh, it's so good. He's really grown up.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- That sounds really patronising. - Yeah, it does.- I didn't mean it to be patronising.
0:11:50 > 0:11:5422-year-old customer service manager Linda, from Derby,
0:11:54 > 0:11:58had been planning her wedding since she was a little girl.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00But in the summer of 2008,
0:12:00 > 0:12:05she gave away all control of her big day to 27-year-old fiance James.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Yeah, she'll be getting in the car now.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14He was supposed to give Linda the best day of her life.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Instead, he gave her a wedding morning from hell.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22Tonight, Linda finally gets to tell her story.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25My lid was about to explode. I was so cross,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28and I just couldn't explain to anybody how cross I was.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33I felt as though James was the only person to blame, and he was getting the whole blame.
0:12:35 > 0:12:40Four hours before the wedding, James still hadn't told any of the wedding party
0:12:40 > 0:12:46what time the ceremony was due to take place, and the bridesmaids' dresses were missing.
0:12:46 > 0:12:51The dresses aren't here, we have no idea what's happening, who's coming, what.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54He knows how stressed I'll be.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57God knows what time it is now, and we're still waiting.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Nobody's about. It's not funny, this isn't.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02- It's just too late.- I know, I know.
0:13:02 > 0:13:08Don't start getting wound up. Honestly, not this morning.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- Don't. Don't get upset about it, don't.- It's not worth it.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14We will get... We will sort it.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Nobody could get hold of James.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20People were just ringing and ringing and ringing him.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Basically, he should have known better.
0:13:22 > 0:13:28- Linda's dad finally got through to the oblivious groom.- Daddy Linda!
0:13:28 > 0:13:32James, I've got girls crying down here. They need those dresses.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36Right, OK. I've got them in my house now, I will sling them round.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38'What the hell are they doing there?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40'They're supposed to be here.'
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Forgot about the bridesmaids' dresses!
0:13:43 > 0:13:45But things were about to get much worse.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47DOORBELL RINGS
0:13:47 > 0:13:52James had decided on a dramatic makeover for his usually understated bride.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56I said that I wanted Linda to look different.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Glowing. Do you know what I mean?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01You've got to look different for your wedding day.
0:14:01 > 0:14:06With only a couple of hours till she was due to walk down the aisle,
0:14:06 > 0:14:12- her bold new look was unveiled. - # Oh, pretty woman. #
0:14:12 > 0:14:14I don't like it.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17I like the hair. I do like the hair.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20I'm happy with the hair. I hate the make-up, I'm really sorry.
0:14:26 > 0:14:31'When you see somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with cry,
0:14:31 > 0:14:33'that's really upsetting.'
0:14:33 > 0:14:38When you see the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with cry and you've done it,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41then that's even worse.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43I never liked that bit.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47The rest of it, I can deal with, but I never liked the crying bit.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49And the crying bit later.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- And the crying bit later! - And the bit after that.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54And the bit after that! And the other crying bit!
0:14:54 > 0:14:56I don't know what time I've got.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Don't worry. Take the lot off.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- It doesn't matter.- What if I'm late?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03It doesn't matter. Don't worry.
0:15:03 > 0:15:09I think it was about three or four attempts before I got my make-up on, and even then, it was minimal,
0:15:09 > 0:15:13because every time I was crying, it was wiping another layer off.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16The whole day has been ruined.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19He's just not organised anything!
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Can you just turn that off a minute?
0:15:24 > 0:15:31I really wish that I'd perhaps reined my neck in a little bit and just not been so easily upset,
0:15:31 > 0:15:34just taken everything more in my stride, been a bit more controlled.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37The make-up wasn't the end of the world.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39It could have been changed. And if I hadn't started crying
0:15:39 > 0:15:43every five seconds, it probably would have taken a lot less time.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Just when it looked as if things couldn't get any worse,
0:15:48 > 0:15:54it became clear that James hadn't booked enough wedding cars for the 45-minute journey to the venue.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57- I want you lot to take the first two cars then.- No.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00No, no, no. I want you to take the first two cars. I will wait.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Because the show can't start without me.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05- You need to be there.- No! Go.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08And he can...wait.
0:16:08 > 0:16:14I wanted them to have the traditional ride to the church, or wherever it was going.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16I wanted it all to be right.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21What Linda didn't realise was that by waiting the extra 90 minutes
0:16:21 > 0:16:25for the cars to come back, she was jeopardising the entire wedding.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28- Is there anybody that can bring her here?- The answer is no.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30I'm stood there at the altar.
0:16:30 > 0:16:36I've then got my nerve-stricken wedding planner saying, "If we don't get her here soon..."
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Do you know what I mean? "..there may not be a wedding."
0:16:39 > 0:16:43And that prompted me to get Sam to ring Linda, to ease nerves.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45It turned out well, didn't it?
0:16:45 > 0:16:49- Hiya, Linda, how are you?- Fine. What?
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Please don't say what you're going to say, Sam, because I'll go mad.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56OK. So, you wouldn't like your dad to bring you to the...
0:16:56 > 0:16:58I wouldn't.
0:16:58 > 0:17:03So I have to squash my dress in their car, which has got dog hairs in it?
0:17:03 > 0:17:06- Is that pretty much a no?- Yeah.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08It is pretty much a no.
0:17:08 > 0:17:13To have gone in their car, in my lovely wedding dress that James had picked,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17just with the dog hairs in there, I couldn't have thought of anything worse.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21At the end of the day, he will have to wait. This is his mess.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24He can wait and he can explain to everybody why I'm not there.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28That scene, I come across as an absolute Bridezilla.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32And, to be fair, I felt like an absolute Bridezilla.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35It was just such a stressful moment.
0:17:35 > 0:17:41At that moment, I thought, "We are close to having no wedding here."
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Do you know what I mean? Over cars and make-up.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46I'm just going to...
0:17:46 > 0:17:48go down here for a second.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52# You got me begging you for mercy... #
0:17:52 > 0:17:54'Now, looking back on it, I wish...'
0:17:54 > 0:17:59I'd just got in my own car, just taken my keys, said, "Come on, Dad, get in!"
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Chucked my dress in the back and just driven myself there.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06But then on the day, it was just all, you know, you're...
0:18:06 > 0:18:09you just want everything to be perfect.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15She'd had four attempts at make-up and was almost two hours late,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18but Linda eventually made it to her wedding.
0:18:18 > 0:18:24So when she got down the aisle, did James get a slap or a kiss?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29As soon as I walked through the door, the way I was feeling all changed...
0:18:29 > 0:18:33I just was so glad to see him.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36I missed you so much.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I'll love you forever.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:18:42 > 0:18:45James had accomplished his mission by the skin of his teeth.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48But Linda wasn't about to let him get away with it.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50You don't know how mad I was this morning.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52I'm sorry.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Fortunately, the wedding reception got off to a great start.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Obviously, we had the traditional wedding breakfast.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Then, all of a sudden it was, "Oh, come through, I want to show you something."
0:19:06 > 0:19:11I got really excited that, this is it. And then they opened the doors...
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Oh, God!
0:19:13 > 0:19:16# Let me...
0:19:16 > 0:19:18# Entertain you... #
0:19:18 > 0:19:22..and there's just these half-naked dancing girls standing in front of me.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26All I could see was these half-naked girls at my wedding.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31I was like, "I'm the centre of attention, it's my wedding, it's about me and James,"
0:19:31 > 0:19:33and there's just dancing girls.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35James and Linda, welcome to your Vegas!
0:19:35 > 0:19:39"Welcome to your Vegas!"
0:19:42 > 0:19:48Yeah. That was perhaps the most inappropriate welcome that any bride has ever had.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Even when he showed me the tables and all the games, all I could think of is...
0:19:53 > 0:19:57these girls standing there with big feathers in their hair, half naked.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Are you not impressed?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03- You're not, are you?- No.- No.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07At that moment, I just thought, "Oh my God!
0:20:07 > 0:20:10"What have you done? "What have you done?"
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Do you know what I mean? Who picked their costumes?
0:20:12 > 0:20:15Not that I'm an expert! Do you know what I mean? I'm not an expert.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Although at that point, I was thinking I was some sort of expert.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23The only one point that sticks in my head that he will never, ever
0:20:23 > 0:20:25get away with is the half-naked women.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31Two years on, Linda and James are expecting their first child.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34And James' stab at wedding planning, for all its flaws,
0:20:34 > 0:20:38has been a massive turning point in their relationship.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41I don't think we would have lasted if we hadn't have done it.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46So, I owe a lot to this, and that's the God's honest truth.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50- I think it saved us.- Yeah.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53It has saved us. I think that...
0:20:53 > 0:20:56showing you that I actually care about some of the decisions
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- that we're making in our life is enough to make us stronger.- Yeah.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03Everything seems so much easier. It's not as though it's a fight.
0:21:03 > 0:21:08Everything is more 50/50, and there's a lot more compromise.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13It's fun to watch back, isn't it? Always pulls a heartstring.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17- Yeah, it does. I always feel for me. - Yeah!
0:21:25 > 0:21:3022-year-old Laila Walsh, from Preston, worked on a make-up counter
0:21:30 > 0:21:34- and had huge ambitions for her big day.- Party time!
0:21:34 > 0:21:36I'd love a celebrity wedding.
0:21:36 > 0:21:44In 2008, she handed over the reins of responsibility to her 25-year-old postman fiance, Nick.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Wanted a footballer, gets the postman!
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Nick was determined to give her a wedding fit for a celebrity,
0:21:51 > 0:21:55complete with a two-grand princess dress,
0:21:55 > 0:21:58- the biggest tiara he could find...- Oh, my God!
0:21:58 > 0:22:03..a horse-drawn carriage, and even a helicopter.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05SHE SCREAMS
0:22:05 > 0:22:09- You've not arranged that? - That's for us, baby!- Get lost!
0:22:15 > 0:22:20This is the real... I'm an ordinary girl from Preston.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Amazing! I feel like a celebrity.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38I feel like a celebrity.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42- You are a celebrity. You're MY celebrity.- Aww!
0:22:43 > 0:22:46- Love you!- Love you!
0:22:46 > 0:22:49# Cos we all just want to be big rock stars... #
0:22:49 > 0:22:54- Woo!- There's no doubt Nick succeeded in giving Laila the wedding
0:22:54 > 0:22:58she'd always dreamed of. Unfortunately,
0:22:58 > 0:23:04a great wedding doesn't necessarily make a good marriage.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06I was married for six months...
0:23:06 > 0:23:08and that was it!
0:23:09 > 0:23:16- What God has joined together, let no man put asunder. Amen.- Amen.
0:23:16 > 0:23:21I honestly believed that when we got married, it was going to be forever as such.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24As cheesy as it sounds, I did. Otherwise, I would never have done it.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29When you come to that agreement, especially in front of God, it was meant to be forever.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32But you can't stop things changing.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35God can't stop things changing, unfortunately.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38- But you move on. You learn.- Mmm.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43At the end of 2008, the marriage broke down.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Nick and Laila are now getting a divorce.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49She's chosen not to look back on her wedding day,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52but Nick and best man Stephen are proud of what they achieved.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56It's still given me huge confidence to know that we've planned a wedding in three weeks
0:23:56 > 0:24:00and gone through it and done it. It's a fantastic achievement for both of us.
0:24:00 > 0:24:07I think for the level that we pulled as well and for what we sort of wanted, it was fantastic.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10- Wasn't it?- Oh, yeah.- I can't blow my own trumpet enough, I feel.
0:24:10 > 0:24:16Nobody was more surprised by what they managed to accomplish than the boys themselves.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Me and Steve are just the most casual people on the planet.
0:24:20 > 0:24:21He's still a bit of a boy.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24He's going to have to buck up his ideas.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25We're slackers, aren't we really?!
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Social lampers!
0:24:29 > 0:24:35- PHONE BEEPS - Is that your phone?
0:24:35 > 0:24:39- Are you on the fax number? - Don't know.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Yeah, sounds like it. Well done, Nick!
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Knowing how high Laila's expectations were,
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Nick and Stephen threw themselves into the task in hand.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52- We need something quite different. - Celebrity springs to mind.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Celebrity status, yeah, definitely.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- I like it. I really like it. - What stands out for you though?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06I think it's exactly what we've been looking for.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08THEY LAUGH
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- Stephen!- It wasn't hard work.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14It wasn't the most difficult work, choosing that wedding dress, was it?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19- How does it feel comfort-wise? - Very comfortable.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Is it not restricting?- No. It has like a hoop around it,
0:25:21 > 0:25:22so it allows you to walk.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27- So you've got nothing between your legs at all.- Right.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28I won't take that as an insult.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35They did us a massive favour, because they told us about wedding dresses.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37I'd never been into a dress shop until then.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42Like the weight of dresses. You wouldn't think that traipsing around in something quite heavy all day,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44it's going to wear you out and get you quite tired.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46That's lovely.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50- How much is it?- It's 1,720.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Get back in and get if off!
0:25:54 > 0:25:58It would cost him a sixth of his budget, but for Nick,
0:25:58 > 0:26:00nothing was too extravagant for his bride.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02She never, ever lets me do anything.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06So, to choose a dress of this quality, I think she'll be absolutely gobsmacked.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12The wedding day arrived, and the actual horse-drawn carriage
0:26:12 > 0:26:16that took Jordan to her wedding pulled up at Laila's door.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19DOORBELL RINGS
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Oh, my God! You won't believe what he's got for me!
0:26:25 > 0:26:27SHE SCREAMS
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Oh, my God!
0:26:33 > 0:26:37- Look what he's got for us! - Jordan's carriage!
0:26:37 > 0:26:42- It's Jordan's carriage! - Oh, my God!
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Oh, my God!
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Argh!
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I just can't believe he's done something like this for me.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56Nick may have wowed his bride, but he'd forgotten about the bridesmaids.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58How are we going to get...
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- To the church?- Yeah.- I don't know.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02We haven't got any transport, have we?
0:27:02 > 0:27:03- Have we really not?- No.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Have you got any taxi numbers, lass?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08For your mum and that?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- Yeah?- Has he not got them a car?- No.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15I put Stephen in charge of transport, in terms of the coaches,
0:27:15 > 0:27:17and I think that's all you did really!
0:27:17 > 0:27:20It was a funny one, that.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23It was my... It was my...
0:27:23 > 0:27:27my one objective. I think it just completely slipped my mind.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Which sounds stupid, but I think I just completely forgot to do it.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32How is everyone else coming?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Unless they squeeze into the horse and carriage, I don't know.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37They know what time the wedding's at, don't they?
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Do they?
0:27:41 > 0:27:45I've not arranged any transport for bridesmaids.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47It was just sort of panic stations really.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51But in the face of adversity, we sort of came through again.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54When everything went a bit chaotic,
0:27:54 > 0:27:59we kept our cool and managed to sort it out.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Didn't the hairdresser sort it out?
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I think so, yeah!
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Have you got any taxis available now?
0:28:06 > 0:28:11- 10, 15 minutes. Nothing sooner? - The church was only about three or four miles away.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15It was only a fiver, I don't know what they were all complaining about.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16It wasn't a massive trek.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19- Get your hand in your pocket. - Yeah.- Yeah.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand to greet our bride.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26ORGAN PLAYS WAGNER'S WEDDING MARCH
0:28:26 > 0:28:27SHE WEEPS
0:28:27 > 0:28:29CONGREGATION: Aw!
0:28:40 > 0:28:46Laila Nadine Frances Walsh, will you take Nicholas Paul Miller,
0:28:46 > 0:28:49here present, for your lawful husband,
0:28:49 > 0:28:53according to the rite of our holy mother, the Church?
0:28:53 > 0:28:55I will.
0:28:56 > 0:29:01Nick is now living back at his mum's and studying to become a teacher.
0:29:01 > 0:29:07I'm still glad I got married, yeah, because if I was ever to get married again, I'd be better prepared.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10I'd be more understanding as a person.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12I'm more focused. I sort of know what I'm looking for in a woman.
0:29:12 > 0:29:17I know the finer qualities that I would like to have on my side.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20- I think just about I've married the right man.- Just about!
0:29:20 > 0:29:22Just about! Grapes in there.
0:29:22 > 0:29:26# If you are what you say you are
0:29:26 > 0:29:29# A superstar... #
0:29:29 > 0:29:31I think what I take from the break-up really
0:29:31 > 0:29:35is that relationships require effort, married or not.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38And I think if that effort
0:29:38 > 0:29:41dwindles, then fractures start to appear.
0:29:46 > 0:29:5024-year-old Catherine Tolland from Glasgow mentors in a high school.
0:29:50 > 0:29:55She was not used to letting her man take control of anything, but in 2009 she allowed
0:29:55 > 0:30:00her laid-back 24-year-old fiance Richard to organise her wedding.
0:30:00 > 0:30:01Nervous?
0:30:01 > 0:30:05I need the toilet now you've said that!
0:30:05 > 0:30:07He was always going to have a hard time
0:30:07 > 0:30:10satisfying his perfectionist bride,
0:30:10 > 0:30:13and she was never going to be one to hold back.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17I knew that I was always going to be quite demanding.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21I've always been very harsh, I just say things as they are.
0:30:21 > 0:30:26You're doing this to please me, so you should make sure that I'm happy, and if I'm happy, you are happy.
0:30:26 > 0:30:30That's how it works. It's the wedding day, so you should think about what I would like.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32San Miguel?
0:30:32 > 0:30:38Richard and his best man Phil were more interested in pleasing themselves than Catherine.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41I had in my head that Phil was going to be distracting him,
0:30:41 > 0:30:45going out and buying beer and they'd be drinking in a pub all the time, and proved it quite nicely.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49I thought, "Yeah, that's exactly what was going to happen."
0:30:49 > 0:30:52So I wasn't shocked, but I think I was shocked by the way
0:30:52 > 0:30:55that was their absolute first thing.
0:30:55 > 0:30:56Pub.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00- You reckon?- Pub.- I've got to see a minister.- I don't care. Pub.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03You're worried that you've got to go and see this minister tomorrow.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07- He is a massive influence... - Listen, that's a big thing.
0:31:07 > 0:31:12We've had nine beers, are you telling me two beers will make one bit of difference?
0:31:12 > 0:31:15- Right, let's go for one. Let's go halfway.- You have met me halfway.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18It's not going to be one, is it? It's never going to be one.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20It will be one. Well, no, it's going be two.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24- All right?- Let's go.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Judgment day had arrived.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Phil's had no sleep at all, and I've had three hours.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32Richard might have been worse for wear, but
0:31:32 > 0:31:36Catherine would never forgive him if he messed this meeting up.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39You particularly wanted a Christian wedding?
0:31:39 > 0:31:44I think, for me, a church wedding's very important, it's very symbolic of what you're doing.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46To be married in the eyes of the Church
0:31:46 > 0:31:49is a very important tradition, I feel, to me.
0:31:49 > 0:31:54I was really embarrassed. I was sitting watching it thinking, "They must be stinking."
0:31:54 > 0:31:58Like, really, how could they have went in that state?
0:31:58 > 0:32:00I found it a bit disrespectful as well.
0:32:00 > 0:32:05The most important part for me was that they had to make sure that
0:32:05 > 0:32:10we could get married in a church, it was the first step to our marriage, and they just kind of took it
0:32:10 > 0:32:13very light-heartedly and made a bit of a joke about it.
0:32:13 > 0:32:17Yeah, on reflection I probably wouldn't have done that,
0:32:17 > 0:32:21but luckily I think the minister saw through the alcohol breath.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23That's sweet!
0:32:23 > 0:32:26It's not really, is it? It's a bit tacky, really.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29Unaware that her groom was putting ticks in all the right boxes,
0:32:29 > 0:32:34Catherine wasn't impressed when she discovered what he'd planned for her hen night.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37That's exactly what I said I didn't want!
0:32:37 > 0:32:42With every hint of what he'd been up to, she became more convinced he'd got it all wrong.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45What a weird choice of tartan.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49It's just a horrible colour.
0:32:50 > 0:32:55Does it really matter, at the end of the day, if things don't co-ordinate and don't match?
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Are you joking?! Of course it matters!
0:32:57 > 0:33:02Tiny things felt like they were massively important, and because
0:33:02 > 0:33:07it was Phil and Richard that were planning it, I was very concerned about things like things matching
0:33:07 > 0:33:10and colour schemes, so in the back of my mind I was picturing the absolute
0:33:10 > 0:33:17worst, with nothing matching, being really garish, really uncoordinated, just looking absolutely vile.
0:33:17 > 0:33:22While Catherine was losing her sense of perspective...
0:33:22 > 0:33:26Richard was enjoying his freedom with his stags.
0:33:26 > 0:33:33Wish I didn't have to see that, I think that's clearly a reason why stag do secrets stay secret.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36All I could think when I was watching it was, "My family are watching this,
0:33:36 > 0:33:39"my dad'll see this, my gran'll see this".
0:33:39 > 0:33:42And then I thought, "Oh, that minister's going to see this"!
0:33:43 > 0:33:47After three weeks away from Richard and her house, Catherine was
0:33:47 > 0:33:51determined to get ready in her own home on the morning of her wedding.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59Got a bit of a problem. Just wondering where Cat's staying tomorrow night?
0:33:59 > 0:34:01She's really getting upset.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03She'll be in the hotel.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Ask him if I can have the house.
0:34:05 > 0:34:11She really, really would like to stay in the house, is there any chance you could sort that out?
0:34:11 > 0:34:16- If I could, I would, but it's just impossible. - Absolutely genuinely impossible?
0:34:16 > 0:34:18Genuinely impossible.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Nothing's impossible!
0:34:20 > 0:34:25Cat, he is at the end of his tether with stuff.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29I'm not getting anything that I want, so why can't I just have one thing
0:34:29 > 0:34:32that I really want, cos I'm not getting anything else that I want!
0:34:32 > 0:34:36- You've got to trust him, you've got to trust him. - I'm not going in a hotel.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Then come here and I'll go out.
0:34:38 > 0:34:42No. I'm going home. I'm packing my suitcase and I am walking home,
0:34:42 > 0:34:45and I will stand outside the house till he pisses off out of it.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48Oh, God!
0:34:48 > 0:34:53When I think about the things that I said, and the way I was acting,
0:34:53 > 0:34:57I was absolutely mortified, I really was.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59I thought, "I can't believe I said things like that, I can't believe
0:34:59 > 0:35:02"I really thought that was massively important."
0:35:02 > 0:35:08Richard got quite annoyed with me about the way I had behaved.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10He said, "Could you not see the stress I was under"?
0:35:10 > 0:35:15I was thinking, "No, cos I couldn't see you, I couldn't talk to you, how did I know what you were doing"?
0:35:15 > 0:35:20In my head, he was out drinking with Phil all day every day and there wasn't much else going on.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22It did upset me, because I thought she was quite...
0:35:22 > 0:35:25I almost felt like she was a bit ungrateful, almost, as to what me and Phil were doing.
0:35:25 > 0:35:30It is the one part that I really, really regret, like I just wish hadn't happened.
0:35:30 > 0:35:34Because I do, I look completely psychotic.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36After three weeks of tears and tantrums,
0:35:36 > 0:35:43it was finally time for doubting Catherine to see what her future husband was actually capable of.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46Just coming into the church and walking round the corner,
0:35:46 > 0:35:49all I could think in my head was, "Walk, just walk, don't run".
0:35:49 > 0:35:53I wanted to give him a massive cuddle, I was so happy to see him.
0:35:57 > 0:36:01Richard, I promise to respect you as your own person and to realise that
0:36:01 > 0:36:05your interests, desires and needs are no less important than my own.
0:36:05 > 0:36:10I promise to share with you my time and my attention and to bring joy,
0:36:10 > 0:36:12strength and imagination to our relationship.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14Do you give your blessings to this marriage of Richard
0:36:14 > 0:36:19and Catherine and promise always to support and encourage them?
0:36:19 > 0:36:21We do.
0:36:23 > 0:36:29Richard had given her the church service she so wanted, but surely he wouldn't get all the detail right?
0:36:31 > 0:36:33I was really shocked.
0:36:33 > 0:36:39I was like, "Wow". It was way better than I was expecting it to be.
0:36:39 > 0:36:44Things matched. I was like, "Oh, my goodness, there's like a form of colour co-ordination".
0:36:44 > 0:36:49- What were you expecting?- I was expecting something a bit garish.
0:36:49 > 0:36:53Shame you couldn't have eaten the cake, though, eh?
0:36:53 > 0:36:57Yeah. Next time. Well, not that there will be a next time,
0:36:57 > 0:37:00but remember I don't like fruit cake, I wanted sponge.
0:37:00 > 0:37:01I like fruit cake, that's the problem.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05But I don't. There was three layers, you could have got a sponge one.
0:37:05 > 0:37:06How ungrateful are you, eh?
0:37:15 > 0:37:20I don't think I could actually explain in words what it felt like, because it was like
0:37:20 > 0:37:24every great thing that will ever happen to you and every massive
0:37:24 > 0:37:26surprise that you'll ever have in your life, all at the one time.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Every single thing that I saw was a surprise, everything that
0:37:29 > 0:37:34happened was a surprise, and it was quite an overwhelming experience.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38I don't think you'd get that sense of excitement and joy from a normal
0:37:38 > 0:37:42wedding, because you would know what was coming next, whereas everything
0:37:42 > 0:37:46that was coming next was an absolute surprise, and I just didn't know what to expect.
0:37:46 > 0:37:53It's been less than a year since they got married, but Catherine has learned some important lessons.
0:37:53 > 0:37:58I didn't feel that I came across well at all, I just looked like a complete Bridezilla.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00And I did find it quite weird.
0:38:00 > 0:38:06I would say almost a bit ashamed about how I acted or came across, so it was quite hard to watch
0:38:06 > 0:38:11and I just sat and I thought, "If that's really what I'm like as a person, then I've got to change."
0:38:11 > 0:38:17I'm a lot more relaxed about a lot of things, and I'll certainly try and be a lot nicer.
0:38:17 > 0:38:23I'd like to think the experience has made us more of a partnership,
0:38:23 > 0:38:27but I think, at the end of the day, Catherine still rules the roost.
0:38:31 > 0:38:3429-year-old Sheena, from Leicester, works as a government
0:38:34 > 0:38:40project manager and is the first to admit she can be a bit of a diva.
0:38:40 > 0:38:44In 2009, she allowed her wacky 30-year-old fiance Ritesh
0:38:44 > 0:38:51- and his sidekicks, Bav and Nimesh, to plan the most important day of her life.- Do not cry.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Sheena, you're spoiling your face.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Stop it.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57It was touch and go whether this groom would ever be able
0:38:57 > 0:39:03to deliver the impressive wedding day Sheena so desperately wanted.
0:39:03 > 0:39:09With Ricky, he does like to... He likes to be a bit outside the box and do what he likes to do.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13Some of the time that's really good, but on your wedding day if you had, like...
0:39:13 > 0:39:16You can't have a chip van at your wedding.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19No-one even eats cake, but people eat chips.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24- Chips on the wedding day? - I'd like to factor it in.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28If we can factor it in, I'd go for that ahead of other little things that we've got.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31You would rather have chips than the decor?
0:39:32 > 0:39:33Yeah.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Hire a balloon, pow!
0:39:36 > 0:39:38- To where?- Alton Towers.
0:39:38 > 0:39:43Ricky gets hung up on details sometimes, and for the normal person
0:39:43 > 0:39:46it's not that important, but for Ricky, that is crucial.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48- You got any good CDs?- CDs?
0:39:48 > 0:39:50We can't go to this venue with no music on.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53Try and get the Rocky theme tune as well, Eye Of The Tiger.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56- Eye Of The Tiger, we've got. - All right, wicked. Let's go.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06It does make you nervous to think that's how it all started.
0:40:06 > 0:40:11# It's the eye of the tiger It's the thrill of the fight... #
0:40:11 > 0:40:15I think the music was important, cos it got you in the mood, didn't it?
0:40:15 > 0:40:18- It was a challenge, wasn't it? Have you seen Rocky IV?- Oh, yeah.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21It's quite an intense movie, people get killed in that kind of movie.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25It's really a motivator, isn't it? Charge yourselves up.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29Rocky and his sparring partners got a bit carried away with their wedding challenge.
0:40:29 > 0:40:34Two walkie-talkies, I'm Delta One, you will be Delta Two, Sheena will
0:40:34 > 0:40:38be known as the Eagle and you will be known as Ritzy A, right?
0:40:38 > 0:40:42- So we'll be known as the A Team on the day.- Yeah.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44Got no worries at all now!
0:40:44 > 0:40:47I'm hoping at the end of it, right, the whole event finishes
0:40:47 > 0:40:51and everything and it's a roaring success, and I'll be like, "I love it when a plan comes together"!
0:40:54 > 0:40:56This is your cue to put the A Team music on in the background!
0:41:03 > 0:41:05I think that they thought that they were the next big things
0:41:05 > 0:41:08to hit the UK, you know, in terms of planning weddings.
0:41:08 > 0:41:13It's like they were in control and they were the men, they were the guys.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16I think they loved all the attention, they'd be like
0:41:16 > 0:41:19these wedding superheroes.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Delta Two, come in, Delta Two, over.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23Delta One, over.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25We have a code red situation.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29And I think that they enjoyed that sort of power.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31Something that was missing out of their lives, probably.
0:41:33 > 0:41:39While Ritesh was busy being a wedding hero, Sheena was busy being a stresshead.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40Still no news on the date.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44- My God. - He hasn't even sent any invites out.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46That's Ricky!
0:41:46 > 0:41:51No, but you would think that, you know, the first thing you do is sort the date and the venue out.
0:41:51 > 0:41:57- At the moment, I don't know anything about what I'm wearing, nothing. - Jewellery, hair, nothing.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59It just feels weird, it doesn't even feel like I'm getting married.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02It will be memorable whichever way it goes, that's the thing.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Either it'll be hideous and we'll have a good joke...
0:42:04 > 0:42:07I don't want people to remember my wedding just because it was a joke!
0:42:07 > 0:42:1148 hours before the big day, the joke is wearing thin.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15The guests were gathering at Sheena's traditional mehndi night, but the bride to be still hadn't
0:42:15 > 0:42:18received an invitation to her own wedding.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22I've not heard anything at all, I don't know if we've got a wedding date.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24Ricky, what are you doing, you know?
0:42:24 > 0:42:26You should have let me know by now.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33- Hi.- I'm coming down. - Are you all right?- Yeah.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36- Who else is downstairs?- Everyone's here, you ought to get a move on.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38No, they can wait, I'm sorry.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40It's up to me, isn't it?
0:42:40 > 0:42:42I've been doing things, haven't I?
0:42:45 > 0:42:48- OK, I'm going.- It'll be the longest hairdo in history.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50Yeah, and it doesn't look any different every time I do it.
0:42:50 > 0:42:54Let go. Can I not let go of this, is that what you're saying?
0:42:54 > 0:42:56- No.- Can I let go?- No.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01I think I came across a bit...
0:43:03 > 0:43:07Like a bit of a diva, and that's fine, because you can be a diva
0:43:07 > 0:43:11on your wedding, it's the one time in your life that you can be a diva.
0:43:11 > 0:43:14Oh, God, no, he's got me a bloody tiara!
0:43:16 > 0:43:18- I'm not wearing a tiara!- Shh!
0:43:18 > 0:43:20- I'm not wearing a tiara.- Ssh.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22Nina, I'm not wearing this.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25It's not funny, Nina. I'm not joking.
0:43:25 > 0:43:31- See, you can just have it so you don't see it like that, and have your hair round it.- I don't like it.
0:43:31 > 0:43:35Can I just take it off one minute, we'll try and pin it back and then see what we can do.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38- How can he choose a tiara, he knows I don't...- Shh, shh.
0:43:38 > 0:43:44I was like, "Oh, my God, you caused that much of a thing about it?" You know what I mean? Jesus!
0:43:44 > 0:43:47It was a nice tiara, nothing wrong with the tiara, know what I mean?
0:43:47 > 0:43:50Yeah, I thought it was a bit dramatic.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53Can we just try that thing again? I thought that looked really...
0:43:53 > 0:43:56Look straight and put your hands down, please.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59- I've got one hairpin. - You don't put it on like that.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01Just shh.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03It's princessy, isn't it? It's lovely.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06It didn't look bad, it looked all right.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08It looked all right, but it didn't suit me.
0:44:08 > 0:44:12Then you just don't wear it. You don't make a big calamity about it.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Yeah, but I didn't think I was making... It was the first reaction was I don't wear tiaras, you know?
0:44:16 > 0:44:19But...
0:44:19 > 0:44:22Every cloud's got a silver lining, now I know how to control her.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24- I'm not wearing a tiara.- Shh!
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Why would he choose a tiara, he knows I don't...
0:44:27 > 0:44:28- Shh, shh!- It's like, "Shh!
0:44:28 > 0:44:31Shh, shh! I never even noticed that your sister does that before.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34- Just shh.- I'm not wearing a tiara. - Shh, shh.
0:44:34 > 0:44:38The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan, does that thing on dogs.
0:44:38 > 0:44:39So I've started to...
0:44:39 > 0:44:43I've implemented some of the strategies on my marriage.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46- And has it worked?- Yeah, yeah. Shh!
0:44:49 > 0:44:52The big day arrived and it was time for Princess Sheena,
0:44:52 > 0:44:58minus the tiara, to find out if Ritesh the joker had it in him to deliver her perfect day.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01When she comes in, bling de da bing!
0:45:01 > 0:45:03Oh my God!
0:45:22 > 0:45:28I knew Sheena was happy because she cried for absolutely ages.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38But there was one point when I was there, that she cried for
0:45:38 > 0:45:42extra-long, and I started thinking you're going to say no, aren't you?
0:45:42 > 0:45:43And she goes, "I'm sorry."
0:45:45 > 0:45:48No need to be sorry, just say yes!
0:45:50 > 0:45:53Sorry. Sorry, sorry.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55Every time I went to say something it just
0:45:55 > 0:45:59all came out, tears everywhere, I was a bit of a mess.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03She started talking and bubbles started coming out of her mouth.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06Snot started coming out.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08I had a few doubts myself, if I'm honest!
0:46:10 > 0:46:13Joking, best day of my life.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19- Thank you so much.- No worries.
0:46:24 > 0:46:29His wedding planning success has been a massive confidence boost for Ritesh.
0:46:29 > 0:46:33I started working for myself, which was one of the biggest things I realised -
0:46:33 > 0:46:38you can go into companies and work for them, but it taught me to gamble
0:46:38 > 0:46:42on myself and I thought I'm a winner, go for it.
0:46:45 > 0:46:50Me, Bav and Nimesh, we really want to become event planners.
0:46:50 > 0:46:51Wedding planners.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Ritesh could not have been happier with the day he planned,
0:46:54 > 0:46:58but of course, Princess Sheena might have done a few things differently.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02The only thing I would have changed probably is maybe a bigger wedding cake.
0:47:02 > 0:47:06I would have had toilets in the grounds.
0:47:06 > 0:47:10I would have been nice to have a bit more food and nibbles in the evening.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13I maybe would have had a dance floor, and a free bar.
0:47:13 > 0:47:16But apart from that I don't think I would have changed anything.
0:47:16 > 0:47:18It was lovely.
0:47:23 > 0:47:2725-year-old nurse Pippa Hawkins, from Ipswich, was already organising
0:47:27 > 0:47:32her own wedding when lack of money put paid to her ambitious plans.
0:47:32 > 0:47:38So in 2008 she let her 24-year-old fiance Tony organise a new one for her.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41He was on a hiding to nothing from the start.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47I think brides have a right to be a bit Zilla-like.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50For that one day.
0:47:52 > 0:47:56For Pippa there were two crucial elements to her dream wedding -
0:47:56 > 0:48:00- walking down the aisle of her favourite church... - Longest aisle in Ipswich.
0:48:00 > 0:48:05- And wearing her dream wedding dress. - That's my dress!
0:48:05 > 0:48:06That's it.
0:48:06 > 0:48:10How beautiful is it?
0:48:10 > 0:48:12- It's the dream dress.- I love it.
0:48:12 > 0:48:13It's the most...
0:48:13 > 0:48:16It's really comfortable,
0:48:16 > 0:48:20it's a mix of elegant and simple with a little bit of sparkle.
0:48:20 > 0:48:24I don't think another dress is going to be good enough.
0:48:25 > 0:48:29Pippa knew it was against the rules to try to influence Tony's
0:48:29 > 0:48:35decisions, but she couldn't resist having a quiet chat with her sister about the bridesmaids' dresses.
0:48:35 > 0:48:40I really would like you to have a very plain, simple dress.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42With preferably no sparkle.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45And straps.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48- Well... - And I would like you to remember
0:48:48 > 0:48:51what I want when you go looking for dresses, rather than what you want.
0:48:51 > 0:48:54No, it will be a case of what looks best.
0:48:54 > 0:48:56What I'm asking you is to think of my feelings when you're picking them.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58I'm not going to pick anything you'd hate.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01It doesn't matter cos Tony gets overall say, and he wouldn't let you.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Then this is a silly conversation.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06You cannot refuse to wear it cos then you're refusing to be a bridesmaid.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09And you're not going to do that to me, I know you're not.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11You're so aggressive!
0:49:11 > 0:49:17She was stroppy. I felt sorry for her sister because of how stroppy Pippa was.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20I thought, you can't really say that to her,
0:49:20 > 0:49:23because it wasn't Vicki's decision,
0:49:23 > 0:49:27it wasn't Pippa's decision, it was mine.
0:49:27 > 0:49:33Pippa knew that Tony's dress choice would never match up to her own,
0:49:33 > 0:49:35and with less than 24 hours till the wedding,
0:49:35 > 0:49:39it was time for this bride to confront her worst fears.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43Is that the dress?
0:49:43 > 0:49:45Oh my God, look at all the buttons.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48I know you don't like buttons, but you won't see them.
0:49:48 > 0:49:52It goes right down to the bottom.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54- They're dress buttons. - I will put it on, OK?
0:50:02 > 0:50:03Wow.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05- I think that's gorgeous.- So do I.
0:50:05 > 0:50:08I think that is stunning.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10What do you think?
0:50:10 > 0:50:12Makes my hips look huge.
0:50:12 > 0:50:14- No, it doesn't.- Not at all.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17You've got no waist, you can't even see your hips.
0:50:17 > 0:50:22Is that your veil? Lovely.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24It's got a sparkle in that.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39I didn't feel comfortable, I didn't think I looked nice.
0:50:39 > 0:50:45So I couldn't pretend I liked it, when I didn't.
0:50:45 > 0:50:52Here we are the day before the most important day of our lives, and I have reduced her to tears.
0:50:52 > 0:50:53It wasn't a nice feeling.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55My hips!
0:50:55 > 0:51:02- You can't tell. - But I can see them, I'm not stupid.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Tell them I don't like it.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14- It's your choice. I can ring Tony... - Why are we having a discussion?
0:51:14 > 0:51:17I said ring him!
0:51:18 > 0:51:21That's really spoilt, Philippa.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23She doesn't.
0:51:23 > 0:51:25She doesn't.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27Mum, I asked you to support me.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29- You don't like the dress? - Do I look like I like it?
0:51:29 > 0:51:31I think you look stunning.
0:51:31 > 0:51:35You would say that if I had a bin bag on my head.
0:51:35 > 0:51:37There was nothing special about it.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40There was nothing that sparkled or...or
0:51:40 > 0:51:42made me stand out.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44She doesn't like the dress, Tone.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46So what, she's not going to wear it or...?
0:51:46 > 0:51:49I don't think she's going to wear it, no.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52I was gutted, I did think that she looked beautiful,
0:51:52 > 0:51:56and I couldn't see what was wrong with her wearing it.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59I could have been worse! I think I handled everything very well.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01It was a nice wedding dress.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03For older people.
0:52:03 > 0:52:10Tony didn't want to upset his bride further so allowed her to exchange her dress for another one.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12Now, that is better.
0:52:12 > 0:52:16See, now my hips don't look like Manhattan.
0:52:21 > 0:52:23When the big day finally dawned...
0:52:23 > 0:52:25This is the moment we've been waiting for!
0:52:28 > 0:52:34Tony was going to have to work pretty hard to make up for the dress disaster.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36- Still none the wiser? - I still have no idea!
0:52:36 > 0:52:40It's so annoying!
0:52:40 > 0:52:43Oh, my God! Is that where I'm getting married?
0:52:43 > 0:52:46He'd agreed that we'd get married in a church then move on
0:52:46 > 0:52:51to another venue, so I was surprised when we didn't have the church,
0:52:51 > 0:52:58but as soon as we came out of the drive and went past it, I thought, "Oh... Oh."
0:53:02 > 0:53:05I don't want to look.
0:53:05 > 0:53:06I don't want to. I'll cry.
0:53:09 > 0:53:11I was wearing a dress he hadn't seen,
0:53:11 > 0:53:14so he didn't know what I looked like.
0:53:14 > 0:53:18And I just desperately wanted to see his eyes, so when I got
0:53:18 > 0:53:22to the end of the aisle and he did eventually look into my eyes,
0:53:22 > 0:53:25then I relaxed completely then.
0:53:28 > 0:53:33I was just taken aback by how beautiful she looked.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35You'll start me off again, don't!
0:53:35 > 0:53:39- You have chosen to make personal promises to each other.- Have we?
0:53:39 > 0:53:42Didn't you know that?
0:53:42 > 0:53:47You are a truly special man, and I feel like the luckiest woman alive!
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Oh, it's beautiful, it's sparkly!
0:54:03 > 0:54:09Pippa didn't mention the dress drama, but Tony couldn't resist having a little dig.
0:54:09 > 0:54:13At this point there would usually be flowers for the mums,
0:54:13 > 0:54:20but Pippa didn't like the dress I picked for her, so the additional budget got eaten up on alterations.
0:54:24 > 0:54:29She didn't know until I announced it to the whole room right there.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31Yeah, I dropped her in it a bit.
0:54:31 > 0:54:35Should have liked the dress, shouldn't she?
0:54:35 > 0:54:40And all these people are looking at you on the top table, in the middle of the speeches and you're like...
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Well, quite frankly, aren't I the bitch?!
0:54:47 > 0:54:53I do wish that I had just worn it. I have had nightmares over this.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57A couple of family members said, "You should have worn that dress, you are so spoilt,"
0:54:57 > 0:55:02and it is meant in family jest, but it's a sensitive issue.
0:55:02 > 0:55:07I'm a sensitive person, and you know, I think...it's just people's judgment.
0:55:07 > 0:55:13It's been two years since the wedding, and Pippa's expecting their first child.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16But she hasn't given up on her dreams.
0:55:16 > 0:55:19She is currently arranging a five-year blessing
0:55:19 > 0:55:23that sounds suspiciously like the wedding she always wanted.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27The dress I was going to wear,
0:55:27 > 0:55:31my brilliant, most perfect, beautiful dress - he has said I can have,
0:55:31 > 0:55:35if I want to, for the five-year blessing.
0:55:35 > 0:55:40So...how can you not be happy?!
0:55:40 > 0:55:45It is definitely a chance for me to put my stamp on things
0:55:45 > 0:55:49and just to plan a little bit and have something...
0:55:49 > 0:55:53not my way, because that sounds terrible,
0:55:53 > 0:55:56but, no, it is, to have things my way!
0:55:58 > 0:56:02They had the most eventful weddings you could imagine,
0:56:02 > 0:56:06from the half-naked showgirls to the dress that failed to impress.
0:56:06 > 0:56:11Our gutsy brides have finally had their say,
0:56:11 > 0:56:15but the vast majority of them still had the best day of their lives.
0:56:15 > 0:56:19Brave brides of Britain, we salute you!
0:56:23 > 0:56:26# Here come the girls
0:56:28 > 0:56:32# Here come the girls
0:56:32 > 0:56:36# Here come the girls
0:56:38 > 0:56:41# Here come the girls... #
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