Full Transcript for 142. She Skateboarded Down the Aisle w/ Hollie Rogers Music

03:50.050 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know what that meant. 03:50.650 --> 04:13.907 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was sent on an adventure around London going to different locations and at each location one of my friends was weighing for me as a special agent with the next clue and maybe a little gift or something and this went on all day until finally the second to last clue all of my friends that I'd met through the day with air so there was six of them. 04:15.107 --> 04:15.828 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, 04:16.408 --> 04:20.872 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get in a cab now, and we're going to go somewhere, and I didn't know what was going to happen. 04:21.212 --> 04:36.704 [SPEAKER_00]: But I had a little inkling when this cab pulled up to the place where we had decided to kind of get together properly, which is called Alexander Palace in London, and it's on the top of Big Hill, and you can see the whole of London from up there. 04:36.764 --> 04:37.224 [SPEAKER_00]: It's lovely. 04:38.665 --> 04:51.634 [SPEAKER_00]: So this cab was taking us up there and I thought, I think I might know now what's about to happen and sure enough we got out of the cab and Neil was there and I walked down to him and that's when he proposed with the ring. 04:51.934 --> 04:55.597 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was the crystal connection and it was it was very special. 04:55.657 --> 05:01.221 [SPEAKER_00]: We had drinks with all of our friends afterwards and a lovely dinner so it was great. 05:01.261 --> 05:02.682 [SPEAKER_00]: He really it was 05:05.065 --> 05:06.927 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that is so cool. 05:07.007 --> 05:11.152 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like all the clues with your friends leading up to that moment. 05:11.412 --> 05:12.273 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 05:12.293 --> 05:19.641 [SPEAKER_01]: And then the grand finale of the whole treasure hunt was actually a him giving you the big crystal. 05:19.922 --> 05:20.162 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 05:20.462 --> 05:20.903 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 05:20.923 --> 05:22.324 [SPEAKER_00]: The crystal connection. 05:22.945 --> 05:23.125 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 05:23.446 --> 05:25.328 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if I'd said no after all of that. 05:25.768 --> 05:26.769 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, right? 05:26.829 --> 05:29.310 [SPEAKER_01]: All your friends are like, what happened? 05:29.330 --> 05:30.731 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 05:30.931 --> 05:34.674 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, then so cool and super creative and very thoughtful. 05:34.694 --> 05:36.295 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, very thoughtful. 05:36.335 --> 05:37.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that. 05:38.116 --> 05:46.101 [SPEAKER_01]: So before that, had you guys gone ring shopping or had you talked about like getting engaged? 05:46.301 --> 05:52.365 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God, I said was that I didn't want to just spend loads of money because I'd rather have a big holiday than a big rock on my finger. 05:52.965 --> 05:55.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, I wouldn't have been crossed with him if he'd spent too much. 05:55.468 --> 05:56.249 [SPEAKER_00]:

That's all I'd said. 05:57.150 --> 06:01.676 [SPEAKER_00]: But my best friend, she loves wearing rings. 06:02.377 --> 06:07.723 [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't even make the link, but like six months before this proposal. 06:08.083 --> 06:10.827 [SPEAKER_00]: She was like, I wonder what you would look like with all my rings on. 06:10.867 --> 06:11.588 [SPEAKER_00]: You could try them on. 06:11.948 --> 06:20.591 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, okay, so I tried on all of our rings, but it was actually a secret mission that she'd been asked to do to find out what my ring size was and I didn't even twig. 06:21.311 --> 06:28.073 [SPEAKER_00]: So so I hadn't told him what I would like really beyond that, but he got me a lovely ring that I loved it straight away. 06:28.913 --> 06:30.235 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's amazing. 06:30.255 --> 06:35.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that is a good toy that he had in the last thing you're friends. 06:36.100 --> 06:38.422 [SPEAKER_01]: If you like, I love rings. 06:38.483 --> 06:38.923 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it. 06:38.963 --> 06:40.204 [SPEAKER_01]: They look like on you. 06:40.224 --> 06:45.269 [SPEAKER_01]: That is a good idea to get your ring size correct. 06:45.729 --> 06:48.832 [SPEAKER_00]: He also matched the color of the gold. 06:48.892 --> 06:53.397 [SPEAKER_00]: I wear my grandmother's wedding ring, which is this one here. 06:53.977 --> 06:57.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, she was my great-grand, and we were very close. 06:57.700 --> 07:03.224 [SPEAKER_00]: We only lost her about seven years ago when she was 98 and I was literally with her at the end. 07:03.264 --> 07:05.405 [SPEAKER_00]: It was very peaceful, it was quite beautiful. 07:05.866 --> 07:12.350 [SPEAKER_00]: And the moment that she passed, we took this ring off of her finger and put it onto mine and it's been there ever since. 07:12.610 --> 07:20.436 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, he managed to match the tone of the gold of my engagement ring, which is this one to this one so that they look really similar. 07:20.796 --> 07:22.397 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my goodness, that's beautiful. 07:22.598 --> 07:24.019 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love your ring. 07:24.039 --> 07:24.699 [SPEAKER_00]: It's lovely. 07:24.739 --> 07:25.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 07:25.280 --> 07:28.582 [SPEAKER_01]: So does it have like two blue stones? 07:28.702 --> 07:29.663 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I throw it again? 07:30.043 --> 07:32.646 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a two sapphires there. 07:34.547 --> 07:38.750 [SPEAKER_00]: I've always liked sapphires and I like blue as well because it's his favorite color. 07:39.031 --> 07:42.974 [SPEAKER_00]: So it reminds me of him and yeah matching matching to my 07:45.976 --> 08:04.090 [SPEAKER_01]: very yeah he did good he did good yeah that is super cool he is so thoughtful just with the sapphires and like you didn't even give him any clues on that but he really put a lot of meaning into that and thought which is very cool yeah yeah. 08:04.761 --> 08:06.042 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that so much. 08:06.803 --> 08:14.632 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so at this point you were engaged and you start planning your wedding and that was two years ago. 08:15.252 --> 08:19.337 [SPEAKER_01]: So what was your wedding planning process like for you? 08:20.178 --> 08:31.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, at the beginning, we just kind of thought we'd want something super low-key, but we realized quite quickly that we do have quite a lot of people that we'd want to invite. 08:31.908 --> 08:37.052 [SPEAKER_00]: But we plan to get married in pensants, where I'm from, and we don't live near pensants. 08:37.293 --> 08:45.620 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about a six-hour drive from where we and most of our friends live, but all of my family are in pensants, and that kind of felt like the right place to do it. 08:47.221 --> 08:48.502 [SPEAKER_00]: It's different than in the US. 08:48.562 --> 08:52.406 [SPEAKER_00]: A six-hour drive in the UK is a big deal, like that's a long way. 08:52.887 --> 08:57.712 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we thought that lots of people probably wouldn't want to make the journey as quite expensive. 08:57.752 --> 08:59.233 [SPEAKER_00]: They need hotels and everything. 08:59.633 --> 09:04.158 [SPEAKER_00]: So we invited loads of people and we thought, you know, maybe maybe half of them would want to come. 09:05.079 --> 09:07.862 [SPEAKER_00]: And we booked a venue that we thought we were going to use. 09:08.322 --> 09:11.383 [SPEAKER_00]: and quite quickly we realised it was a good problem to have. 09:11.924 --> 09:13.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Almost everybody said yes. 09:13.604 --> 09:17.906 [SPEAKER_00]: And suddenly the venue that we thought we were going to have it in was way too small. 09:18.246 --> 09:18.787 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh no! 09:18.807 --> 09:24.969 [SPEAKER_00]: We got the bigger venue and we were going to need to have it a much bigger wedding than we thought we were going to. 09:25.670 --> 09:31.312 [SPEAKER_00]: Which was great because you know we really wanted as many people that we love to be there as we could have. 09:31.352 --> 09:33.653 [SPEAKER_00]: We're only going to do it once and so it's 09:33.973 --> 09:38.379 [SPEAKER_00]: start with about 130 people, which was just, we thought it was going to be 60 to begin with, so. 09:38.853 --> 09:55.386 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, yeah, we changed to a different venue and we really locked out with that as well because it's this place for my entire life had just been this old rundown, like disused bingo hall and cinema. 09:55.546 --> 10:00.930 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a 60s and it had just been left to kind of just disintegrate and it wasn't being used. 10:01.471 --> 10:03.792 [SPEAKER_00]: And then couple of years ago, probably around the 10:06.134 --> 10:23.550 [SPEAKER_00]: some investor came in and did the whole thing up and turned it into this absolutely beautiful art deco theatre cinema multi event space and it had just opened kind of around the time that we realised we had an over-subscribed guest list. 10:24.110 -->

10:30.433 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I just popped in there to see what it looked like, fell in love with it and thought we're never going to be able to afford this. 10:30.874 --> 10:32.034 [SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely stunning. 10:32.074 --> 10:34.035 [SPEAKER_00]: But how amazing would it be to have the wedding here? 10:34.495 --> 10:36.597 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just thought, well, you know, we'll ask them. 10:37.057 --> 10:38.197 [SPEAKER_00]: We said, do you do weddings? 10:38.858 --> 10:42.820 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, well, we'd like to, but we've never done one before. 10:43.560 --> 11:03.072 [SPEAKER_00]: like okay and so we came to this arrangement with them whereby they we were there guinea pigs basically for for their first ever wedding which meant that we could have it in affordable rate and and they were fantastic they were absolutely amazing they couldn't do enough for us over and above is an understatement 11:04.112 --> 11:14.975 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's how we ended up with the the most stunning venue that we never never dreamed we could have had our wedding in Because it would just be way out of our budget, but it worked out so well. 11:15.015 --> 11:23.318 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's that's kind of how we ended up having it where we had it and And ended up with so many people coming all the way down to depends on it for the weekend. 11:23.338 --> 11:24.038 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just lovely 11:24.632 --> 11:46.027 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, yeah, that's amazing that, you know, it's like you had to change venues and I'm sure that was super stressful and try to find something else like last minute and then to find this being a hall that you would grown up looking at and then it's turned into something beautiful. 11:55.152 --> 11:56.652 [SPEAKER_01]: we have never done a wedding here. 11:56.913 --> 12:06.656 [SPEAKER_01]: And for them to take a chance on you guys and you to take a chance on their staff and everything, it really seemed like it worked out very well. 12:07.036 --> 12:07.416 [SPEAKER_00]: It did. 12:07.456 --> 12:13.918 [SPEAKER_00]: It felt like a real like serendipitous that it was kind of, you know, suddenly available and brand new and everything. 12:13.938 --> 12:17.039 [SPEAKER_00]: It just, you know, felt, felt, kind of meant to be, you know. 12:17.559 --> 12:20.240 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely, I get that vibe. 12:20.893 --> 12:24.115 [SPEAKER_01]: So, okay, let's talk about skateboarding. 12:24.135 --> 12:26.837 [SPEAKER_01]: Have did you grow up skateboarding? 12:26.917 --> 12:30.600 [SPEAKER_01]: Has skateboarding been a part of your love story at all? 12:30.620 --> 12:35.423 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it has been something that I've loved for as long as I can remember. 12:35.483 --> 12:36.263 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not very good at it. 12:36.284 --> 12:37.424 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not like a pro or anything. 12:37.484 --> 12:38.405 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't do a kick flip. 12:38.825 --> 12:47.051 [SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, I, uh, I never learned to, uh, to drop in from avert ramp when I was a kid and I always wished that I had learned to do it. 12:47.091 --> 12:49.813 [SPEAKER_00]: And then as an adult sort of, or have always been too scared. 12:50.994 --> 13:07.892 [SPEAKER_00]: And then three or four years ago, on one of my birthday adventures that I said that Neil makes for me, my adventure one year led me to sort of indoor skate park that I didn't know existed and waiting for me there was a coach. 13:08.613 --> 13:11.236 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was like, right, we're going to learn to drop in today. 13:11.256 --> 13:12.117 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, no. 13:12.297 --> 13:17.960 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't really tell you how cool is that, but also terrifying when you're not expecting it. 13:19.040 --> 13:23.962 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it gave me the helmet and the pads and everything so I could, you know, protect my grown-up bones. 13:24.522 --> 13:36.287 [SPEAKER_00]: And they had a little mini-vert ramp where they started me off and by the end of the hour, I did my first ever drop in on the big half-pipe and it was wobbly and dodgy, but I did it. 13:36.828 --> 13:39.689 [SPEAKER_00]: And I never would have done it if Neil hadn't 13:39.989 --> 13:42.610 [SPEAKER_00]: kind of a range that for me because I just wouldn't have been brave enough. 13:42.710 --> 13:45.250 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's amazing. 13:45.270 --> 13:46.331 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, congrats. 13:46.471 --> 13:48.931 [SPEAKER_01]: After just an hour, you were able to do it. 13:49.031 --> 13:50.551 [SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing. 13:50.732 --> 13:59.174 [SPEAKER_00]: I just needed somebody to just give me that confidence and to quite literally hold my hand the first few times, you know, to just give me that sense of safety. 13:59.214 --> 14:04.455 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I realise, actually it's not quite as scary as it feels when you're standing up there on the top of the ramp. 14:05.055 --> 14:09.536 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a real achievement for me and I feel very grateful to Neil for kind of facilitating 14:10.337 --> 14:19.488 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I did then about six months later, whilst putling around in the skate park at about three miles an hour, hit a little rock full off the board and break my elbow. 14:19.508 --> 14:24.974 [SPEAKER_00]: So now, no, no, no, when you're a guitarist, that is not ideal. 14:25.014 --> 14:25.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 14:25.475 --> 14:26.596 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a whole thing. 14:26.937 --> 14:29.540 [SPEAKER_00]: But so I haven't, I haven't skateboarded. 14:29.720 --> 14:38.923 [SPEAKER_00]: too much between breaking my elbow and now, but it's still an important part of my sort of who I am and of our story together. 14:39.803 --> 14:44.645 [SPEAKER_00]: So it just somebody gave me the idea as a joke, you should skateboard down the aisle and I thought, 14:45.631 --> 14:46.431 [SPEAKER_00]: actually, why not? 14:46.631 --> 14:49.653 [SPEAKER_00]: That'll be fun. 14:49.673 -->

14:50.593 [SPEAKER_00]: So cool. 14:52.013 --> 14:55.235 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's what I ended up doing. 14:55.275 --> 14:59.196 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought, my dad as well, he can't walk very easily. 14:59.276 --> 15:01.157 [SPEAKER_00]: So walking all the way down the aisle, 15:01.557 --> 15:02.957 [SPEAKER_00]: would have been a bit of a challenge for him. 15:03.077 --> 15:14.440 [SPEAKER_00]: So what we decided to do was, which is my longboard, not my little skateboard, because that longboard is a bit steady and I knew I'd be wearing a dress and I wouldn't get a chance to practice it in the dress. 15:14.500 --> 15:20.042 [SPEAKER_00]: So I thought, don't want another repeat of my broken elbow, but the bridesmaids carried the skateboard in. 15:20.962 --> 15:31.831 [SPEAKER_00]: laid it down on the aisle and then I sort of stepped on to it and serimonyly glide it down the aisle to my dad who then walked me a few steps up onto a stage where Neil was waiting for me. 15:31.931 --> 15:35.074 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was it was not serious. 15:35.134 --> 15:38.617 [SPEAKER_00]: It was all very silly but very special at the same time, a meaningful. 15:39.237 --> 15:41.699 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was so cool. 15:41.859 --> 15:45.402 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, and I'm sure did did a lot of your guests 15:49.025 --> 15:56.146 [SPEAKER_00]: Neil knew that I was going to be the bridesmaids and people close to me, but most of the guests didn't know that that was going to be a thing. 15:56.186 --> 15:57.567 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a bit of a surprise. 15:58.147 --> 15:59.307 [SPEAKER_01]: That's so fun. 15:59.347 --> 16:01.027 [SPEAKER_01]: What a fun surprise. 16:01.948 --> 16:03.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a really good fun. 16:03.808 --> 16:05.308 [SPEAKER_00]: I was so nervous as well. 16:05.348 --> 16:07.409 [SPEAKER_00]: I was just nervous because of my wedding day, you know. 16:07.429 --> 16:12.750 [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think I've ever been more nervous in my life, even though, you know, for my job, 16:13.630 --> 16:16.712 [SPEAKER_00]: play in front of big crowds sometimes and I do get nervous about that. 16:16.752 --> 16:24.398 [SPEAKER_00]: But the nerves I felt before the moment when I walked in and got onto the skateboard, I felt completely detached from my own body. 16:24.438 --> 16:30.163 [SPEAKER_00]: I just wasn't present, but thankfully, like the minute I stepped onto the board, 16:30.863 --> 16:49.126 [SPEAKER_00]: You can see in the video I just light up and there's this huge smile and that is my nerve just dissipating and just like coming back into the room and being like wow I'm surrounded by all these people that I love so much and they're all smiling and I'm happy and I'm gonna get married it was just a brilliant moment. 16:49.767 --> 16:52.827 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah that is so cool. 16:52.847 --> 16:57.228 [SPEAKER_01]: So did you have to plan like for your dress to 16:58.689 --> 17:06.835 [SPEAKER_01]: And I saw that you had like the wristlet with, you know, the train of your dress, so that it wouldn't catch on the wheels or anything. 17:06.855 --> 17:07.936 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 17:08.036 --> 17:13.020 [SPEAKER_00]: But that informed me so that I could hold it on my wrist for that particular moment. 17:13.101 --> 17:17.604 [SPEAKER_00]: And then after that, I let it off my wrist and there's a little train on it, not a big long train. 17:18.545 --> 17:36.032 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, they were quite surprised, I said I need to risk loop because otherwise it will get caught in the wheels and they were like the wheels of what oh yeah I'm skateboarding down the aisle okay that's the first for us there's dressed up as so yeah we had to think about that quite carefully 17:36.632 --> 17:37.952 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's so cool. 17:38.353 --> 17:40.533 [SPEAKER_01]: And then tell me about your shoes. 17:40.573 --> 17:41.814 [SPEAKER_01]: They looked really fun. 17:41.834 --> 17:44.514 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I've had those for a while. 17:44.534 --> 17:49.016 [SPEAKER_00]: And they are the shoes that I normally wear on stage from my gigs, my shows. 17:50.336 --> 17:53.697 [SPEAKER_00]: And they came from a website, I can't remember where a couple of years ago. 17:55.137 --> 17:58.519 [SPEAKER_00]: They're trainers, they're flats, and I knew I would be wearing flats on my wedding day. 17:58.539 --> 18:00.099 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not a chance I'd be wearing heels. 18:00.940 --> 18:01.620 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't do heels. 18:02.200 --> 18:16.646 [SPEAKER_00]: So I looked for a pair of trainers for the wedding day, and I just couldn't find anything as spectacular as these stage shoes that I have, because they are, what's the word I'm looking for? 18:17.666 --> 18:18.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, diamondy. 18:20.367 --> 18:27.210 [SPEAKER_00]: even the laces and the tongue and the base of the show is all covered and they've discontinued them. 18:27.250 --> 18:31.751 [SPEAKER_00]: I tried to get another pair, you know, I wanted to brand new pair for the wedding, but they don't exist anymore. 18:31.811 --> 18:33.972 [SPEAKER_00]: So God help me when they wear out. 18:34.012 --> 18:38.814 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what I'll do, but so yeah, they were the obvious choice. 18:38.894 --> 18:42.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I did shop around a bit, but I thought nothing's going to be better on the wedding day than these. 18:42.855 --> 18:44.536 [SPEAKER_00]: They are the sparkly issues I own. 18:45.576 --> 18:47.818 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's so fun. 18:47.838 --> 19:02.629 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought it just all went so well because they are kind of like a skate shoe, but then they're like be dazzled and like, you know, diamond and crust that like so fun it all just went with your vibe, which was really cool. 19:03.530 --> 19:04.551 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my goodness. 19:05.091 --> 19:19.768 [SPEAKER_00]: So, the video of that, you know, I put it up for my followers and I don't have a, I don't have loads of

followers, I've only got like 4,000 followers on my Instagram, but there must have been something about that particular video. 19:19.809 --> 19:23.172 [SPEAKER_00]: It just went a bit viral and it got a million views and then, uh, 19:23.713 --> 19:31.057 [SPEAKER_00]: and then it was picked up by a publication in the UK called Metro, which is a newspaper here, and they have a website and social media as well. 19:31.638 --> 19:35.920 [SPEAKER_00]: They reposted it, and it got like 15 million, I think, it's at the moment. 19:36.361 --> 19:37.541 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's been really interesting to 19:40.743 --> 19:49.753 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, to see people's comments on that, particularly on the Metro version, you know, so they don't they don't know me and people have got such opinions about weddings. 19:49.813 --> 19:51.154 [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's amazing. 19:51.194 --> 20:00.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Like there's lots of nice comments on there, but it's just a really nasty, really personal comments on there as well, being like, oh, this is rubbish, this is blah, blah, blah, she looks ridiculous. 20:01.105 --> 20:02.947 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, you're trying not to read them, but 20:03.367 --> 20:09.472 [SPEAKER_00]: if you know people are having a conversation about you and you can be a fly on the wall and look, it's hard not, it's hard to, you know, resist looking. 20:09.512 --> 20:18.599 [SPEAKER_00]: But it didn't make me realise that people have such, they jump to conclusions, like, I think with its social media, people, 20:19.740 --> 20:29.988 [SPEAKER_00]: don't remember that there's a human being behind whatever you're commenting on and I thought I'm not doing anything offensive here or you know not doing anything that hurts anyone. 20:30.108 --> 20:31.909 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone in the room is obviously so happy. 20:32.270 --> 20:45.540 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so happy and yet people some people can't stop themselves from saying something negative that's been a really interesting experience but it hasn't it hasn't tainted that moment before me you know it could have but I'm quite 20:48.422 --> 20:53.769 [SPEAKER_00]: I think if someone puts a negative comment on something like that, it says more about them than it does about the person in the video. 20:53.789 --> 20:55.251 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what I mean? 20:55.271 --> 20:57.414 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a good way to look at it. 20:57.514 --> 21:03.022 [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, it's when videos go viral like that, you never know who's going to be commenting. 21:03.122 --> 21:04.564 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's such a fun 21:05.405 --> 21:12.886 [SPEAKER_01]: like light-hearted video and it just made me smile and it like when it came up in my feed it like caught me off guard. 21:12.966 --> 21:14.787 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what is happening here? 21:14.807 --> 21:28.229 [SPEAKER_01]: I need to know what is going on like this is so fun and unique and it put a smile in my face so like like you said it

says more about the other people than it does about what you're doing in the video. 21:29.370 --> 21:30.710 [SPEAKER_01]: If they leave a negative 21:32.542 --> 22:00.260 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like who I am as a person I love to make people smile that I feel like that's kind of part of my identity and you know when I'm doing my music shows in between songs I try and make people laugh and I I'm not you know I wouldn't want to do stand-up comedy that fills me with with with terror the pressure of being funny but I do like to make people smile like to make people laugh and that moment with the skateboard 22:00.720 --> 22:07.263 [SPEAKER_00]: that was as much for me as it was about thinking all these guests who are here is probably going to make them smile and it did, you know. 22:07.343 --> 22:10.084 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a fillet mission accomplished, do you know what I mean? 22:10.624 --> 22:11.745 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure. 22:12.625 --> 22:18.368 [SPEAKER_01]: So I know you said like right before you walked down the aisle, you were super nervous. 22:18.848 --> 22:22.930 [SPEAKER_01]: Were you more nervous about getting married or more 22:31.173 --> 22:33.794 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't even pinpoint exactly what I was nervous about. 22:34.094 --> 22:36.095 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that I wasn't nervous about getting married. 22:36.255 --> 22:36.875 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't that. 22:37.295 --> 22:41.577 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was just the, it was such a lot of work to plan the wedding. 22:42.837 --> 22:48.259 [SPEAKER_00]: And, and it had been such a long time of, you know, putting together all of these moving parts. 22:48.299 --> 22:50.120 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd completely underestimated how, 22:51.480 --> 22:54.642 [SPEAKER_00]: how complicated it would be to organise a wedding. 22:54.842 --> 23:01.886 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you know, I've done, same, this year as well, I did, I released an album this year and there was a big event to promote. 23:01.966 --> 23:02.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 23:03.466 --> 23:04.607 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a huge project. 23:04.627 --> 23:06.128 [SPEAKER_00]: There's like the biggest project I've ever done. 23:06.448 --> 23:09.489 [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, oh, it'll be a bit like organising the album launch. 23:09.589 --> 23:11.170 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be like that, but maybe a bit more. 23:11.551 --> 23:14.992 [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, it's so beyond flattening. 23:16.653 --> 23:41.409 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I think it was just knowing that it was the culmination of all of that and that it was all about to happen and all of this work that we put in and you know all of this planning that we've done There was no more planning to be done everything was going to happen and what would be would be I think it was just just that just knowing that now was the moment it was all about to start that was where the nerves were coming from But they did just dissipate the minute I mean I stepped on the skateboard 23:41.809 --> 23:42.450 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, good. 23:42.510 --> 23:45.794 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just the culmination of all the planning and everything. 23:45.874 --> 23:47.736 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like it's come to that point. 23:47.776 --> 23:50.259 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get how that can make you a little bit nervous. 23:50.439 --> 23:51.841 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we watched a video. 23:51.941 --> 23:52.321 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 23:53.102 --> 23:54.804 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my goodness. 23:54.824 --> 23:58.368 [SPEAKER_01]: So what was the style of your wedding? 23:58.388 --> 24:02.373 [SPEAKER_01]: So you had a reception in that same space after the ceremony. 24:02.393 --> 24:02.533 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 24:03.073 --> 24:24.438 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, everything was in the same space and it was quite relaxed and informal, like, you know, in the same way that you see in the video when I skateboard down the aisle, it's not too serious, but it was meaningful though, you know, it wasn't, you know, lots of people were saying, if you skateboard down the aisle then you're not taking it seriously and, and 24:25.338 --> 24:32.585 [SPEAKER_00]: We may not have been taking ourselves too seriously because we don't in general, but we certainly took the commitment that we were making to each other seriously. 24:33.726 --> 24:36.348 [SPEAKER_00]: And we had quite an unusual ceremony. 24:37.789 --> 24:40.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Our favourite movie is The Big Lebowski. 24:40.872 --> 24:45.156 [SPEAKER_00]: And we had a sort of loosely big Lebowski-themed ceremony. 24:45.556 --> 24:50.921 [SPEAKER_00]: So the guy leading officiating our wedding was dressed like the guy from The Big Lebowski. 24:52.562 --> 25:13.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And we did it like chapters of a book so he read the first chapter was about me as a child and the next chapter was about Neil as a child and then third chapter was was about a sort of how we met and I love story so far and then the fourth chapter was the sort of right now that in the moment in the room we're all going to write this chapter together and it was. 25:13.602 --> 25:43.105 [SPEAKER_00]: us doing our vows in front of everybody that was there so and then we sort of we had songs in between the chapters and little readings and things like that so it was about 45 minutes it was quite a long ceremony but it was I've got so many creative friends I wanted to kind of bring that into it a little bit and so you know have some music and some poems and things like that so it was hopefully quite an entertaining ceremony and fun but also 25:44.247 --> 25:54.666 [SPEAKER_00]: meaning for we wrote our own vows and we're both cried obviously when we read those out so so you know it was it was it was silly it was fun and it was meaningful at the same time 25:55.368 --> 25:59.391 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love that, just the combination of all of that. 25:59.491 --> 26:02.453 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, especially for your guests too. 26:02.713 --> 26:12.219 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, it's

something totally different and outside the box than what they're used to seeing at a traditional wedding ceremony. 26:13.059 --> 26:17.482 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure, like you said, your guests were probably all smiles. 26:18.743 --> 26:20.485 [SPEAKER_01]: during the ceremony. 26:20.705 --> 26:26.270 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so so much smiling so much laughter and just it was just joyous it really was. 26:26.771 --> 26:41.625 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I love how you did the whole chapters and it sounds like everything was just tied together and super creative and I think that you know, when's itself to you as an artist, you know, 26:43.927 --> 26:56.856 [SPEAKER_01]: brought that in with your creative friends and really wanted you know to show more of your creativity and who the two of you were together through through all the creative process of that. 27:02.460 --> 27:12.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, one other thing about the video that I wanted to ask you about, yeah, was the song twice, so, so, so, so, so. 27:16.820 --> 27:22.541 [SPEAKER_01]: Was that song actually being played when you went down the aisle, or did you? 27:22.901 --> 27:26.622 [SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was, I'm just the song that I skateboarded down the other day. 27:26.642 --> 27:31.143 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so... Could you please always and even find that? 27:31.424 --> 27:35.945 [SPEAKER_00]: We went through a few different things, a few different ideas, and we were listening to them all. 27:36.045 --> 27:37.485 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're on a car journey, I think. 27:38.386 --> 27:54.039 [SPEAKER_00]: and we were just playing them out and that song started playing it's like sort of came on shuffle somehow as we were looking through for a song for me to walk down to and at first we couldn't remember what the song was when the intro was playing we were like oh what's this? 27:54.539 --> 28:04.088 [SPEAKER_00]: I know this song but can't remember what it is and it started playing and we just both looked at each other and burst out laughing and we were both having the same thought which was 28:04.978 --> 28:05.398 [SPEAKER_00]: Should we? 28:06.758 --> 28:07.519 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so. 28:07.579 --> 28:09.299 [SPEAKER_00]: Has anyone ever done this before? 28:09.619 --> 28:12.280 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we just decided, what is our wedding? 28:12.680 --> 28:14.300 [SPEAKER_00]: If we're really funny, why not? 28:14.400 --> 28:14.960 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it. 28:15.121 --> 28:19.242 [SPEAKER_00]: It felt like the right mood, the right vibe for sort of skateboarding down the aisle too. 28:20.322 --> 28:22.002 [SPEAKER_00]: And a bit cheeky. 28:23.002 --> 28:24.083 [SPEAKER_00]: So we should tell everyone. 28:24.123 --> 28:28.064 [SPEAKER_00]: It was by the divine halls, the song called, I touch myself. 28:28.304 --> 28:31.445 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know it, that's kind of the crux of it, isn't it? 28:31.805 --> 28:32.925 [SPEAKER_00]: The lyrics in the chorus. 28:33.625 -->

28:34.926 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, exactly that. 28:34.986 --> 28:39.428 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm like, yes, oh, I love that. 28:39.588 --> 28:41.409 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's so funny. 28:41.729 --> 28:48.191 [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I can see in some of the comments, some people caught on to that too, and they were like, wait, what? 28:48.792 --> 28:55.355 [SPEAKER_01]: And that, that was another reason why probably the video did go viral too, as if people had their sound on, they were like, 28:59.337 --> 29:19.035 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I think, oh man, just the combination of everything, there was super cool, super fun, like it's that super cheeky, yeah, it felt super nice, yeah, and luckily all of our older relatives are all quite liberal, um, living in Boston, and when I was just there, I think that's good. 29:19.468 --> 29:32.847 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's a classic, you know, after the ceremony, we had some Cornish cream teas, which so we had sort of Cornish food for the wedding, because that's where I'm from, so we had cream teas and we had pasties. 29:33.308 --> 29:34.469 [SPEAKER_00]: But before we had supper, 29:37.133 --> 29:42.856 [SPEAKER_00]: some of our musical friends, we got them to put together a little band and they did a concert. 29:42.996 --> 29:54.662 [SPEAKER_00]: It was about 50 minutes long and everyone was sat at their tables, you know, informal able to go and get drinks and whatever, but they just did a load of upbeat cover songs that everyone knows. 29:55.202 --> 30:21.584 [SPEAKER_00]: and they were just amazing like I forget because they're my good friends and I work with them all the time and when we're playing music together you know we love it but we're at work at the same time and it was so nice for me to just not be on stage and just sit and watch them doing their thing and just just to remember how exceptionally talented they all are and I felt so kind of proud to know them and to sort of share them with all of our guests as they 30:21.964 --> 30:23.966 [SPEAKER_00]: did these amazing performances. 30:24.646 --> 30:31.791 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a really nice little moment of entertainment for everyone before we sat down to eat, you know, that was a really nice touch. 30:31.831 --> 30:32.932 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know if it was going to work. 30:32.952 --> 30:40.758 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't, I was a bit worried that it might feel a bit formal to sit down and watch a concert, but it was great and they played some great songs. 30:41.491 --> 30:42.752 [SPEAKER_01]: That's really cool. 30:42.912 --> 30:53.182 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that you did that because normally like, at least here in the US, it's like, you know, if you have a band, they're usually playing while people are dancing. 30:53.563 --> 30:59.689 [SPEAKER_01]: But I think, yeah, that's how I love how you incorporated like a mini concerts. 31:00.009 --> 31:02.310 [SPEAKER_01]: like before dinner. 31:02.490 --> 31:05.832 [SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to share them with everyone if that makes sense. 31:05.892 --> 31:06.472 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 31:06.672 --> 31:09.894 [SPEAKER_00]: And we could have had them in the evening for everyone to dance to. 31:09.974 --> 31:15.217 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I didn't want, because they closed friends, I wanted them to also be able to come and enjoy the wedding. 31:15.817 --> 31:24.201 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that playing a wedding gig for most of us musicians is not our favorite thing, because you're in a corner for three hours. 31:24.261 --> 31:25.302 [SPEAKER_00]: It's quite hard work. 31:25.502 --> 31:26.702 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, everyone's 31:29.343 --> 31:36.066 [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't want to put them in that position, but I did want for people to experience their talent. 31:36.346 --> 31:39.907 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that felt like a nice middle ground earlier on in the day. 31:40.247 --> 31:43.328 [SPEAKER_00]: They were very happy to do it, very excited by the idea. 31:43.728 --> 31:47.349 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, then in the evening we had another friend of ours who's a DJ. 31:47.890 --> 31:51.951 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we had kind of the best of both worlds in some ways, yeah. 31:52.641 --> 31:53.622 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh really cool. 31:54.103 --> 32:08.217 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you get up and sing at all during I didn't do one song I did yeah I joined them at the end for one song so that there are some photos of me in my my full bridal attire with with my guitar on doing a song with that so cool 32:08.677 --> 32:12.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so that was nice and a huge surprise for me in the concert. 32:12.979 --> 32:18.902 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know this was going to happen, but they went to introduce someone that I thought was going to be me. 32:18.982 --> 32:26.685 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, and you know, I don't know if anyone knows, but we do have another singer in the room and I thought, all right, this is going to be when I go up and join them. 32:27.185 --> 32:28.706 [SPEAKER_00]: And then they didn't introduce me. 32:28.746 --> 32:32.707 [SPEAKER_00]: They introduced Neil and I was going on, Neil's not a musician. 32:33.788 --> 32:37.109 [SPEAKER_00]: I know he can hold a tune, but I've never heard him properly sing. 32:37.629 --> 32:40.750 [SPEAKER_00]: And he got up and sang a song especially for me. 32:40.770 --> 32:45.572 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd never sung in front of an audience before solo. 32:45.792 --> 32:49.013 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was like incredibly brave and he was so nervous. 32:49.554 --> 32:51.894 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just went to pieces. 32:51.994 --> 32:53.175 [SPEAKER_00]: It was so great. 32:53.735 --> 33:09.231 [SPEAKER_00]: So he was accompanied by our friend, heir, to plays the piano, and it was just him and the piano, and a microphone, and the room just was on its feet at the end, because it was so so beautiful, like, so thoughtful of him and touching. 33:09.252 --> 33:10.373 [SPEAKER_00]: He's such a romantic. 33:11.113 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33:11.834 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 33:12.134 --> 33:13.515 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it sounds like it. 33:13.615 --> 33:14.716 [SPEAKER_01]: That's amazing. 33:15.036 --> 33:17.378 [SPEAKER_01]: Was it a song that he wrote or did he pick out? 33:17.398 --> 33:18.299 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it was a song. 33:18.479 --> 33:28.066 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a it's a jazz song called There There is no Great Love and the opening line is there is no Great Love and the love I feel for you 33:28.586 --> 33:30.287 [SPEAKER_00]: and that's kind of the sentiment behind it. 33:30.367 --> 33:34.368 [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, we just got a little bit of a little bit so beautiful. 33:34.388 --> 33:36.348 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's so great. 33:36.488 --> 33:42.870 [SPEAKER_01]: I love just how much music was incorporated into that because that's super important to both of you guys. 33:43.170 --> 33:45.011 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, so very authentic. 33:45.611 --> 33:46.931 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely. 33:47.591 --> 33:48.832 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's so cool. 33:50.532 --> 33:56.734 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so when you look back on your day, what are some of the most special moments to you? 33:57.652 --> 34:17.544 [SPEAKER_00]: definitely that the moment that he was saying because you know we'd planned everything together and so I thought I knew absolutely everything that was going to be happening and you know it was going to be like a military operation and then suddenly this thing happened that I knew nothing about that was just such a surprise so that stands out as a real highlight for me another highlight is 34:18.524 --> 34:28.592 [SPEAKER_00]: Neil and I love drum and bass music, and we like to go to usually daytime raves because we're too old to go to nighttime raves now, actually. 34:28.672 --> 34:34.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Neil's not, I am too old, even though he's 20 years older than me, he can do an all-nighter, but I definitely can't and much too old. 34:34.817 --> 34:42.043 [SPEAKER_00]: So we go to daytime raves, and we dance to drum and bass music, and most of our friends hate drum and bass, so it's usually just me and him. 34:43.084 --> 34:57.745 [SPEAKER_00]: But our DJ slipped in a little bit of drum and bass in the evening just to see how it would go down and suddenly like I mean everyone was absolutely going nuts for it and so he kept playing more and we had probably a 25 minute 34:59.187 --> 35:06.993 [SPEAKER_00]: like section of just everyone we loved giving it absolute beans to drum and bass. 35:07.033 --> 35:08.194 [SPEAKER_00]: What happened in a million years? 35:08.234 --> 35:11.397 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a real highlight for both of us as well. 35:11.697 --> 35:16.741 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that moment that I stepped onto the skateboard and all my nerves just dissipated. 35:16.861 --> 35:20.284 [SPEAKER_00]: I can remember that feeling like viscerally as well. 35:20.484 --> 35:22.666 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I mean there's so many highlights. 35:22.906 --> 35:28.210 [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to, it's hard to just pick a few, but those ones were probably my top three I reckon. 35:28.817 --> 35:29.317 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 35:29.697 --> 35:31.858 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that sounds so awesome. 35:32.598 --> 35:42.040 [SPEAKER_01]: So what about moments where you maybe had to go off script or improvise was there anything that maybe didn't go off screen? 35:42.320 --> 35:43.340 [SPEAKER_00]: It was quite a big one. 35:43.480 --> 35:47.781 [SPEAKER_00]: So the weather in Cornwall is famously unpredictable. 35:48.721 --> 35:53.442 [SPEAKER_00]: September is usually okay and that's kind of why we went 35:56.503 --> 36:02.788 [SPEAKER_00]: But part of our day was, although we were having everything at the same venue, the venue doesn't have any outdoor space. 36:03.288 --> 36:04.989 [SPEAKER_00]: And we wanted to take people outside. 36:05.650 --> 36:12.414 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some gardens very nearby, like just a sort of two-minute walk around the corner, just some public gardens, and they're absolutely beautiful. 36:12.474 --> 36:16.758 [SPEAKER_00]: When the sun's out, they're, you know, loads of color and lots of grass, open grass to sit on. 36:17.558 --> 36:22.720 [SPEAKER_00]: And our plan was to have the cream teas, cornish cream teas in the park. 36:23.300 --> 36:25.160 [SPEAKER_00]: We had picnic blankets and everything. 36:25.520 --> 36:29.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And Prosecco, we had some people there ready to serve. 36:29.882 --> 36:32.762 [SPEAKER_00]: That was the plan for after the ceremony and before the concert. 36:33.343 --> 36:36.964 [SPEAKER_00]: And anyway, we woke up and it was raining. 36:37.104 --> 36:38.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And we thought, wow, you know. 36:38.664 --> 36:40.706 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not due to go outside until three o'clock. 36:40.746 --> 36:42.168 [SPEAKER_00]: It's surely not going to rain all day. 36:42.228 --> 36:44.110 [SPEAKER_00]: It's been been pretty nice all week. 36:44.610 --> 36:45.892 [SPEAKER_00]: So sure, it'll clear up. 36:46.272 --> 36:46.792 [SPEAKER_00]: It just didn't. 36:47.073 --> 36:50.096 [SPEAKER_00]: It was miserable for the entire day. 36:50.717 --> 36:54.721 [SPEAKER_00]: And at first, I was feeling really quite disappointed about that. 36:54.761 --> 36:55.542 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was worried that 36:56.082 --> 37:02.985 [SPEAKER_00]: people, you know, there was a sort of two-hour break between the ceremony and the concert, and I thought if we don't go to the gardens, that's quite a long time. 37:03.005 --> 37:07.386 [SPEAKER_00]: There isn't really a lot of place for people to sit while the room is being rearranged. 37:07.446 --> 37:08.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it going to work? 37:08.367 --> 37:09.027 [SPEAKER_00]: Blah, blah, blah. 37:09.467 --> 37:13.049 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know what, in actuality, it just didn't matter at all. 37:13.489 --> 37:18.651 [SPEAKER_00]: We had to adapt, we had to change where we were going to take our photographs, but it all just

happened and everyone 37:22.152 --> 37:26.634 [SPEAKER_00]: I and Neil knew that they were missing being outside in the sun in the gardens, but they didn't know that. 37:27.154 --> 37:29.215 [SPEAKER_00]: And it just did not matter. 37:29.295 --> 37:30.915 [SPEAKER_00]: We just had such a brilliant day anyway. 37:31.195 --> 37:32.996 [SPEAKER_00]: But we did have to kind of adapt. 37:33.036 --> 37:34.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, OK, where are we going to go for our photos? 37:35.017 --> 37:40.859 [SPEAKER_00]: And so a lot of the photos that after Tografotik for us are we're outside under an umbrella. 37:42.200 --> 37:47.001 [SPEAKER_00]: And we even went next door into a carpet shop of all places. 37:47.602 --> 37:49.642 [SPEAKER_00]: She was like, the lights really good in here. 37:49.662 --> 37:51.383 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you mind if we come in here and take some photos? 37:51.603 --> 37:53.523 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, oh, sure, come on in. 37:53.803 --> 37:54.864 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're actually lovely. 37:54.904 --> 37:56.144 [SPEAKER_00]: They're really nicely spoke. 37:56.164 --> 37:57.904 [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got like, rugs on the wall. 37:57.984 --> 37:58.964 [SPEAKER_00]: It's completely random. 37:59.285 --> 38:01.065 [SPEAKER_00]: But our whole wedding was a bit random. 38:01.165 --> 38:03.125 [SPEAKER_00]: So it feels like us anyway. 38:03.265 --> 38:04.446 [SPEAKER_00]: So it didn't matter. 38:04.586 --> 38:05.126 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't matter. 38:05.506 --> 38:06.746 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's cool. 38:07.086 --> 38:08.366 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, bummer about the weather. 38:08.486 --> 38:11.567 [SPEAKER_01]: I love that you planned a picnic, though. 38:11.587 --> 38:13.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, like how fun is that? 38:13.927 --> 38:16.148 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like in-between everything. 38:17.603 --> 38:23.366 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but yeah, it sounded like it all worked out anyways and your guests were having a really great time. 38:23.666 --> 38:24.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we did. 38:24.787 --> 38:38.154 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's, that was, you know, when we were planning this thing, that was actually like, the sort, the top of our minds was, everyone's coming such a long way, you know, they're going to spend money to come and be with us on our special day. 38:38.614 --> 38:41.256 [SPEAKER_00]: And we just really wanted to make sure that they had a good time. 38:41.336 --> 38:42.536 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't want them to be bored. 38:42.957 --> 38:45.038 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't want them to be sort of thinking, 38:46.059 --> 39:00.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, all right, what's next and you know, we wanted to just make sure that we kept them smiling and kept them entertained all day and it was just so pleased that that's that's how it went in the end and we even had some of our guests say to us at the end that was the best wedding we've ever been to it was so 39:01.149 --> 39:07.033 [SPEAKER_00]: mean you don't say that unless you mean it because you

don't have to say that do you can just say that was a great wedding. 39:07.373 --> 39:20.282 [SPEAKER_00]: So for lots of people to say that to us was just it was just lovely to hear that they'd had such a great time because we had had the best day of our lives as well and you know so it's just great to know that people were sharing that joy. 39:20.823 --> 39:22.464 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah that's so cool. 39:23.324 --> 39:27.507 [SPEAKER_01]: So for couples who are planning there are weddings right now what advice would 39:29.928 --> 39:33.489 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, well, if you're going to skateboard, make sure that you have a loop in your dress that you can. 39:33.509 --> 39:33.930 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 39:34.510 --> 39:35.250 [SPEAKER_00]: Great. 39:35.370 --> 39:36.211 [SPEAKER_00]: Great. 39:38.372 --> 39:48.537 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, unless you're having a small wedding, if you're having a big one like we did, just prepare yourself mentally that it is going to be quite stressful. 39:48.897 --> 39:51.178 [SPEAKER_00]: but that it will all be worth it on the day. 39:51.398 --> 39:58.821 [SPEAKER_00]: So because I was a little bit unprepared I think for how stressful it was going to be and just how much organization would be involved. 39:59.161 --> 40:08.905 [SPEAKER_00]: I think maybe because I wasn't planning to have a big wedding and I'm not someone who takes themselves that seriously and I'm not the kind of person who's been planning my wedding since I was four years old. 40:08.925 --> 40:09.465 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm quite 40:09.932 --> 40:16.097 [SPEAKER_00]: relaxed about that sort of thing normally, but it did just become something bigger than we had intended originally. 40:16.297 --> 40:21.982 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was unprepared for, I understood suddenly why people have wedding planners. 40:22.062 --> 40:26.186 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd never understood before why wedding planners were like, oh, can't you just do it yourself. 40:26.346 --> 40:28.287 [SPEAKER_00]: And now I fully understand. 40:28.768 --> 40:31.110 [SPEAKER_00]: And actually I think I'd make quite a good wedding planner myself now. 40:31.803 --> 40:34.845 [SPEAKER_01]: I know, yeah, after planning it yourself. 40:34.945 --> 40:36.146 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely. 40:36.486 --> 40:39.849 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we'll just say just just prepare yourself. 40:39.889 --> 40:42.591 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be stressful, but it's going to be amazing as well. 40:42.631 --> 40:44.132 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's going to all feel worth it. 40:44.212 --> 40:47.174 [SPEAKER_00]: The minute that they start, it's you're going to have the best time. 40:47.694 --> 40:49.596 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's really great advice. 40:50.233 --> 40:52.574 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, as we close out, I love your story. 40:52.674 --> 40:58.818 [SPEAKER_01]: I love the video, skateboarding, everything about your wedding is so creative and fun and cool. 40:59.619 --> 41:10.045 [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, maybe tell people more about your music, what style it is, where they can find you online and where they can listen to your songs. 41:10.705 --> 41:13.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I go on to my name which is Holly Rogers. 41:14.026 --> 41:22.850 [SPEAKER_00]: It's felt with an IE, Holly with an IE and Rogers without a D. I'm on all social media at Holly Rogers Music or Holly Rogers.com. 41:23.090 --> 41:26.652 [SPEAKER_00]: I play mostly on acoustic guitar, but sometimes electric. 41:27.613 --> 41:30.155 [SPEAKER_00]: and I play with a backing band usually as well. 41:30.195 --> 41:38.443 [SPEAKER_00]: My own songs that are kind of Americana, bluesy, folky, but usually quite upbeat. 41:38.543 --> 41:46.030 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got some piano ballads as well, but if you have a look on Spotify, you'll find all sorts of things and my latest album is called Everything's Fine, which is... 41:47.631 --> 41:49.692 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, it is. 41:49.732 --> 41:53.074 [SPEAKER_01]: You're married now, living in a newlywed bliss. 41:53.354 --> 41:56.215 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, everything's so loved but. 41:56.495 --> 41:58.056 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you guys go on a honeymoon anywhere? 41:58.136 --> 41:59.076 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't ask that. 41:59.176 --> 42:01.037 [SPEAKER_00]: We are going to but we haven't been yet. 42:01.477 --> 42:01.937 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 42:02.278 --> 42:05.319 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go to Costa Rica next year. 42:05.399 --> 42:07.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because we both love nature. 42:07.520 --> 42:14.023 [SPEAKER_00]: We love birds and can't wait to go and experience all that Costa Rica has to offer in that regard. 42:14.083 --> 42:14.803 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be amazing. 42:15.295 --> 42:16.337 [SPEAKER_01]: very cool. 42:16.517 --> 42:19.681 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that sounds beautiful and so relaxing and fun. 42:19.941 --> 42:24.848 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm actually quite glad that we didn't decide to have the honeymoon right after the wedding. 42:25.749 --> 42:29.814 [SPEAKER_00]: We might have, but because of Neil's job, he's restricted to, um, 42:30.575 --> 42:31.616 [SPEAKER_00]: to school holidays. 42:31.816 --> 42:33.317 [SPEAKER_00]: He can't go away in school term time. 42:33.417 --> 42:36.319 [SPEAKER_00]: So the next opportunity that we have is Easter. 42:36.719 --> 42:47.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought as it was the day after the wedding and I thought, I am so glad we don't have to go to an airport and get on a long horse flight right now and do all of that because I just need to do nothing for a while. 42:48.087 --> 42:50.809 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get that forward too as well. 42:50.889 --> 42:53.350 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to work really well for us, I think. 42:53.931 --> 42:56.572 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, good sounds like the timing's perfect on that. 42:56.792 --> 42:58.754 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that so much. 42:59.293 --> 43:05.855 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this has been so fun just unpacking everything behind the scenes of your viral video. 43:07.215 --> 43:08.215 [SPEAKER_01]: So awesome. 43:08.355 --> 43:11.296 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for taking the time and congratulations. 43:11.516 --> 43:13.197 [SPEAKER_01]: So happy for the two of you. 43:13.217 --> 43:17.838 [SPEAKER_01]: So fun hearing your story and I'll link everything in the show notes too. 43:17.858 --> 43:21.919 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're listening to this or watching it, like go check out Holly's music. 43:22.800 --> 43:27.946 [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, stream it and yeah, thanks so much for coming on today. 43:27.966 --> 43:29.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having me. 43:29.428 --> 43:30.910 [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a joy to relive it all. 43:31.291 --> 43:32.072 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 43:32.652 --> 43:33.914 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, have a good one. 43:33.934 --> 43:34.775 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Holly. 43:35.316 --> 43:35.676 [SPEAKER_01]: Bye. 43:37.318 --> 43:40.679 [SPEAKER_01]: There you have it, another episode of The Wedding Reporter Podcast. 43:40.899 --> 43:47.601 [SPEAKER_01]: To see those gorgeous wedding and engagement photos head over to NashvilleBrideGuide.com for more behind-the-scenes content. 43:48.121 --> 43:52.762 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you like this episode, I would so appreciate it if you would rate and subscribe the show. 43:53.242 --> 43:55.143 [SPEAKER_01]: See you next time for another great episode.