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 Hi and welcome back to this week's episode of the Wedding Lounge podcast.

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 Now this week we decided to have a bit of a debate between the two of us over larger weddings.

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 The birth is more small and intimate weddings that sort of come along since COVID.

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 Well I think there's lots of different ways you can say a larger or an intimate

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 wedding and we're not talking about budgets.

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 No, no, it's like British numbers.

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 Guest numbers and things like that, like a big wedding with 200-plus people or an intimate wedding.

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 I'm actually 30.

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 Before we came on air we have just discussed about you know being a debate we should both take

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 a clear line, you know. Yeah, proper debate as you would when you were at secondary school.

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 But then we both said well which side do you want to take?

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 When I think we both know there's pros and cons to eat them.

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 So it is going to be a debate but not like a formal.

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 One between Italian and Conclusion.

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 And I'm going to start and I'm going to say that I had about 100 guests up to 120 in the evening

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 for my wedding and we've spoken about things we've changed about our wedding.

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 Would you say that's a large wedding or an intimate wedding?

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 Interesting.

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 I would say that that is more on the larger side.

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 It's not large like average.

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 Yeah, but I wouldn't call it intimate.

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 No, that's quite a good point actually because like a large wedding is like 200-plus.

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 Intimate, I'd say it's like 50 or less.

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 Yes, so there's a lot in the middle.

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 Yes, I would say that my arm is like sort of average.

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 Average to on the large size.

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 Yeah, we've got a couple of clients 150 this year or like 70 so it's kind of in the middle.

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 I actually now having been in the wedding industry feel like,

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 "Bosh, what could I have done with my budget if I had less people to feed?

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 If I had less hungry to hire less things?"

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 And actually I do see the benefit of having smaller number of people

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 are making it a much more elevated guest experience.

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 Now there's lots that comes with a smaller wedding.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 How do you reduce your guest list down if you've got big families and things?

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 But I just, I've come around to the way of thinking that actually having,

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 I'd love to have a client with a smaller wedding where we've got a really high spend per guest.

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 Did you help me on that one I did for 15 people?

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 No, I didn't.

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 Because it needed my help.

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 No, yeah, I didn't need help on that one.

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 So you've done that really intimate wedding.

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 Yeah, which was really lovely and it wasn't a small budget.

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 No, it was not at all.

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 I mean, it was still less than they would have spent

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 had they've had a big, well it's less than she's spent from her 40th.

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 Where she had 70 to 90 people.

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 I think the hard thing and the biggest hard thing is

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 narrowing your guest down.

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 Like where would you draw the line?

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 Like who, you know, and we spoke on our last episode about marriage preparation

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 and the fact that the people and your guests that are there

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 are the ones that are there to support you.

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 So it's kind of sharing that day and that time

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 with more people is you basically inviting more people into your marriage almost.

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 What about having an intimate wedding?

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 Then a big party.

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 Like for your first anniversary or something.

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 Well, there's a few that.

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 And even like a few weeks.

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 Yeah, that was a really popular thing.

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 That's when the moment weddings really came.

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 Then no one had the parties.

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 So it was kind of like the...

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 Would you bother?

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 Would you bother?

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 Like what...

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 And I guess it comes down to like the purpose of the wedding.

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 Was at that point for people to be able to get married.

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 Whereas this is kind of more discussing about the party and things.

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 And yeah, I think that's a great way to do it.

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 And, you know, having a smaller intimate day.

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 And I guess with those couples

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 or they don't want all the attention on them.

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 Or having a destination wedding.

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 Like my cousin, she's literally just having

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 her siblings and like that siblings

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 at the wedding and like parents.

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 You know, we're not going at all to a destination wedding.

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 But then I think she'll have a sing.

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 And not having a program.

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 She's having a party when she comes back.

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 Well, that's been told yet.

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 I'm happy to ask you.

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 Thank you.

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 Next yes.

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 But there were definitely benefits.

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 You know, we've spoken about primings.

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 Having time to speak to guests.

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 You know, having a more of a weekend wedding.

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 So you get a chance to talk to your guests.

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 If you haven't got 30 of you,

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 you can have that really intimate experience.

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 You know, if we're saying 30s intimate.

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 Yeah, I think it's a celebration, isn't it?

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 And it's it's how large you want to shout that celebration out.

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 It's what I kind of feel.

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 And I mean, there was a huge impact on your budget.

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 Having larger numbers.

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 But it comes down to that.

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 Where do you place the importance?

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 Is it on having all your friends in your family bear?

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 And celebrating that in which case you go with the hog roast

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 and something really basic?

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 But then all your friends and family are there or you spend that.

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 You know, if we're talking about a £30,000 budget,

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 which I think now is probably just below the average.

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 What that would get you for 20 guests?

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 As opposed to 100.

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 I've granted a head as opposed to 200 guests.

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 Which is where the mask is going to be really bad.

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 £150 a head.

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 £250,000.

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 Put that cover, you know,

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 if you're sitting down having a three-course meal,

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 that's the cost of a three-course meal.

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 And that's it.

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 No venue.

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 No gym, no gym, no gym, no gym, no gym, no nothing like that.

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 That's one of the differences.

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 But if you want to have those people,

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 then you spend less on your food.

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 And you go for £30,000.

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 And you go for the casual.

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 You go for the really casual thing.

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 Casual food.

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 It's being surrounded by all those loved ones.

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 Chris and I are party.

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 Party have us.

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 We're party have us not party goers.

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 We've got lots of friends that are party goers

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 and not party have us.

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 But we just want everyone

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 all in one space.

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 All the people we love to share that with.

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 And that for us is what makes an occasion.

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 that is what it is.

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 then that's how you kind of got to think about it.

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 Is do you want all those people there to celebrate with you?

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 Or are you not fussed about that?

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 And we'd rather and more.

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 Well, the tricky one, isn't it?

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 It does come down to the people on the budget.

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 But ideally, you have the guest experience

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 of an intimate wedding for your 150.

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 Yeah, 5 grand ahead first.

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 But I think why I'm so interested in intimate weddings

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 is because I'm not planned one before for a client.

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 I just, in my head,

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 I'm picturing like, logistically,

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 you can just do a bit more when you've got less people.

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 You know, like, I think moves quicker.

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 Like, under a pergolaer, like, in someone's garden,

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 instead of having to, like, find a venue in a marquee

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 or, you know, in, like, more intimate location

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 and just do something more unique.

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 I feel like when you've got less people,

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 you don't need the biggest space.

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 You can be a bit more creative, maybe.

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 With a smaller budget.

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 Obviously, if you've got a limited budget and 150, 200 guests,

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 the world is, you know, you can still be.

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 that many people, like, unless you've got the space at home.

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 know they're going to get married at home from the age of about five.

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 With a very different thing, like, you still got to source

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 In order to host that many people.

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 Regardless of the numbers.

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 In my head, I pitch intimate, like, winter.

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 It's really funny.

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 Some people may come from a huge family.

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 that are easier to go, no, like, I'm stick to a set amount.

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 So, yeah, you, you know, it might be easier with family politics

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 It just, it depends.

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 It depends on your family situation and your friend.

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 And on that, though, if you family want to invite people.

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 Like, that is going to limit you as well.

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 Especially if you've got parents at pain.

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 So, if you've got your mum wants to bring 30 people.

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 And you leave your eyes with realistically actually 10 couples.

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 Because most people are in couples now aren't they?

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 Like, it does become quite tricky to set those limits.

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 I think with an intimate wedding, you've really got to be sure

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 Because you want to make sure that those people who are there,

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 And my dad's got invited to a lunch recently for a friend's

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 officially year working for British Airways party.

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 So, it was like a lunch they hired a chef in.

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 Like, there's really six of them when you just make it 12.

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 Although, like, my stepmom's known for years as well.

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 So, going intimate with your guest numbers.

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 It's really got to be careful about plus ones and things.

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 Because as you say, everyone is couples.

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 So, that's not just one person, it's two people.

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 I mean, we had 250 people at our wedding.

261
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 Yeah.

262
00:09:41,065 --> 00:09:42,905
 We still had a no-ring, no-bring policy.

263
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 Yeah.

264
00:09:43,385 --> 00:09:45,145
 And that's something I say to my couples as well.

265
00:09:45,145 --> 00:09:47,305
 Like, if you're struggling to get your guest members right,

266
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 have a no-ring, no-bring policy.

267
00:09:48,905 --> 00:09:49,145
 Yeah.

268
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 Unless you'd invite them individually.

269
00:09:50,905 --> 00:09:51,465
 Yeah.

270
00:09:51,465 --> 00:09:51,945
 Yeah.

271
00:09:51,945 --> 00:09:55,065
 If they're not engaged, don't feel you need to invite

272
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 your best friend's girlfriend, especially if you'd never met her.

273
00:09:57,945 --> 00:09:58,265
 Yes.

274
00:09:58,265 --> 00:09:58,585
 Yeah.

275
00:09:58,585 --> 00:10:03,145
 I think we had more of a, if we'd met them, then they could.

276
00:10:03,145 --> 00:10:05,865
 I think it should be a thought process if you'd had them around for dinner.

277
00:10:05,865 --> 00:10:06,185
 Yeah.

278
00:10:06,185 --> 00:10:07,945
 Have you seen them in the past year?

279
00:10:07,945 --> 00:10:09,865
 Those are the kind of questions you should be asking.

280
00:10:09,865 --> 00:10:11,625
 If you're limited on numbers.

281
00:10:11,625 --> 00:10:11,945
 Yeah.

282
00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:13,145
 Yes, on that one.

283
00:10:13,145 --> 00:10:15,225
 And then, like, it's to work, colleagues and things like that.

284
00:10:15,225 --> 00:10:17,225
 You can interpret it and get probably cut out.

285
00:10:17,225 --> 00:10:17,625
 Yeah.

286
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 All of them.

287
00:10:18,025 --> 00:10:18,585
 mates.

288
00:10:18,585 --> 00:10:18,985
 Yeah.

289
00:10:18,985 --> 00:10:20,265
 And have, like, your friends.

290
00:10:20,265 --> 00:10:23,545
 The one that you assisted me on last year, where we had in September,

291
00:10:23,545 --> 00:10:28,665
 they had 120, 130 to the day, and then they had 250 or so to the evening.

292
00:10:28,665 --> 00:10:29,145
 Yes.

293
00:10:29,145 --> 00:10:30,185
 That works quite nicely.

294
00:10:30,185 --> 00:10:30,505
 Yeah.

295
00:10:30,505 --> 00:10:32,745
 Because your budget per head for an evening gets

296
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 as much, much lower than it is the daytime dress.

297
00:10:35,545 --> 00:10:38,105
 So, if you want to have the big party.

298
00:10:38,105 --> 00:10:38,825
 Yeah.

299
00:10:38,825 --> 00:10:39,945
 You want to have an intimate wedding.

300
00:10:39,945 --> 00:10:43,225
 That's quite a nice way to go about it, rather than splitting it over a year,

301
00:10:43,225 --> 00:10:45,625
 and then not necessarily having the party.

302
00:10:45,625 --> 00:10:49,065
 Yeah, you could do small, you could even get as far as doing small

303
00:10:49,865 --> 00:10:51,705
 ceremony, small dinner, and then party.

304
00:10:51,705 --> 00:10:56,745
 I think they even wanted, I mean, the bride definitely wanted less to her ceremony.

305
00:10:56,745 --> 00:10:59,945
 It just wasn't, they couldn't reduce the numbers down any further.

306
00:10:59,945 --> 00:11:01,385
 And it's one of those things, isn't it?

307
00:11:01,385 --> 00:11:03,785
 Like, that's how you need to sort of look at it,

308
00:11:03,785 --> 00:11:06,345
 is you either go really, really small while everyone.

309
00:11:06,345 --> 00:11:07,145
 Yes.

310
00:11:07,145 --> 00:11:08,825
 Or you go big, go home.

311
00:11:08,825 --> 00:11:09,945
 Yeah.

312
00:11:09,945 --> 00:11:14,825
 How come just going back to your really small wedding of 15 people last year?

313
00:11:14,825 --> 00:11:18,025
 How come your couple decided to go for a really small number?

314
00:11:18,025 --> 00:11:21,065
 Considering she had, she had a much larger 40.

315
00:11:21,065 --> 00:11:23,385
 We already had the large 40, yeah.

316
00:11:23,385 --> 00:11:25,145
 She felt like she'd done that.

317
00:11:25,145 --> 00:11:26,985
 Yes, she didn't need a big party.

318
00:11:26,985 --> 00:11:30,185
 She'd had the big party wherever everyone was there to celebrate her.

319
00:11:30,185 --> 00:11:30,505
 Yeah.

320
00:11:30,505 --> 00:11:33,945
 And I don't think she felt she necessarily needed to do that again.

321
00:11:33,945 --> 00:11:34,745
 Was that her husband?

322
00:11:34,745 --> 00:11:36,105
 Was he at the 40th?

323
00:11:36,105 --> 00:11:37,545
 No, they went together with that.

324
00:11:37,545 --> 00:11:37,945
 Yeah.

325
00:11:37,945 --> 00:11:40,345
 But he second married for him, right?

326
00:11:40,345 --> 00:11:43,145
 So again, I think that had a big impact.

327
00:11:43,145 --> 00:11:45,785
 They wanted to hire a house the weekend with just their family.

328
00:11:45,785 --> 00:11:47,785
 It was literally their immediate family.

329
00:11:47,785 --> 00:11:50,345
 So her parents, his parents, siblings.

330
00:11:50,345 --> 00:11:51,545
 Yeah, that was it.

331
00:11:51,545 --> 00:11:53,225
 That was all there was.

332
00:11:53,225 --> 00:11:54,905
 Which was, and it was really lovely.

333
00:11:54,905 --> 00:11:56,105
 But it was totally different.

334
00:11:56,105 --> 00:11:57,705
 Asian, they sat down, they had dinner.

335
00:11:57,705 --> 00:11:59,465
 There was no dancing, there was no...

336
00:11:59,465 --> 00:12:00,505
 It was a beautiful meal.

337
00:12:00,505 --> 00:12:01,785
 It was a beautiful meal.

338
00:12:01,785 --> 00:12:03,465
 It wasn't a party.

339
00:12:03,465 --> 00:12:06,265
 So I guess you need to think if you want to go into that.

340
00:12:06,265 --> 00:12:08,105
 What's that celebration?

341
00:12:08,105 --> 00:12:09,945
 Yeah, do you still want the dance afterwards?

342
00:12:09,945 --> 00:12:13,465
 Do you still want to be the one that had 30 guests?

343
00:12:13,465 --> 00:12:14,185
 Yeah.

344
00:12:14,185 --> 00:12:15,465
 Dance in the evenings.

345
00:12:15,465 --> 00:12:16,505
 From the evening.

346
00:12:16,505 --> 00:12:17,705
 The atmosphere wasn't there.

347
00:12:17,705 --> 00:12:18,025
 Yeah.

348
00:12:18,025 --> 00:12:20,585
 It was just a bit, we just felt a bit flat.

349
00:12:20,585 --> 00:12:21,065
 Yeah.

350
00:12:21,065 --> 00:12:23,065
 I think if your focus is very much on a meal

351
00:12:23,065 --> 00:12:26,185
 in a celebration over a meal, it works.

352
00:12:26,185 --> 00:12:26,505
 Yeah.

353
00:12:26,505 --> 00:12:30,105
 What I think an intimate wedding in a traditional

354
00:12:30,105 --> 00:12:32,345
 how we know a wedding set up with, you know,

355
00:12:32,345 --> 00:12:33,705
 the wedding and the wedding breakfast

356
00:12:33,705 --> 00:12:36,185
 and the dancing and the evening and the first dance and stuff.

357
00:12:36,185 --> 00:12:37,305
 It's a bit odd.

358
00:12:37,305 --> 00:12:39,225
 It's long if you've got small numbers there.

359
00:12:39,225 --> 00:12:40,985
 Yeah, because you don't need that drinks reception.

360
00:12:40,985 --> 00:12:42,585
 And then the dinner and then...

361
00:12:42,585 --> 00:12:43,545
 No.

362
00:12:43,545 --> 00:12:44,025
 Evening.

363
00:12:44,025 --> 00:12:44,745
 That's really true.

364
00:12:44,745 --> 00:12:45,945
 Actually, that's a really good point.

365
00:12:45,945 --> 00:12:48,345
 To think about is, if you want small and guest numbers,

366
00:12:48,345 --> 00:12:51,465
 do you want to do the whole spread of a wedding day?

367
00:12:51,465 --> 00:12:51,945
 Yeah.

368
00:12:51,945 --> 00:12:55,705
 Just make him of a ceremony and meal celebration.

369
00:12:55,705 --> 00:12:58,265
 I mean, my mum used to say that when she went to weddings

370
00:12:58,265 --> 00:12:59,625
 and she was sort of our age,

371
00:12:59,625 --> 00:13:00,585
 probably a bit younger than us.

372
00:13:00,585 --> 00:13:02,905
 It was traditional to obviously have a ceremony

373
00:13:02,905 --> 00:13:04,745
 and then almost not even a lunch sometimes,

374
00:13:04,745 --> 00:13:05,945
 just like a drinks reception.

375
00:13:05,945 --> 00:13:06,745
 And then that was it.

376
00:13:06,745 --> 00:13:09,625
 Yeah, it would be the end of my in laws how to say had that.

377
00:13:09,625 --> 00:13:11,145
 And then they went off.

378
00:13:11,145 --> 00:13:12,825
 And they decided to surprise.

379
00:13:12,825 --> 00:13:14,985
 I think it was his parents

380
00:13:14,985 --> 00:13:17,465
 going out for dinner or something in the evening of their wedding

381
00:13:17,465 --> 00:13:19,705
 and they were having their own blooming parties.

382
00:13:19,705 --> 00:13:20,665
 No.

383
00:13:20,665 --> 00:13:23,225
 Invited it to the party after our own wedding.

384
00:13:23,225 --> 00:13:23,865
 I love it.

385
00:13:23,865 --> 00:13:25,945
 He just had drinks reception afterwards.

386
00:13:25,945 --> 00:13:26,905
 And it was a wedding.

387
00:13:26,905 --> 00:13:29,865
 I mean, we were guests, but we went to up in Scotland

388
00:13:29,865 --> 00:13:32,665
 where he had quite a lot of people.

389
00:13:32,665 --> 00:13:35,465
 He was the father of the bride needed to invite.

390
00:13:35,465 --> 00:13:35,785
 Yeah.

391
00:13:35,785 --> 00:13:37,545
 So they did it a very traditional way

392
00:13:37,545 --> 00:13:38,745
 and then all those guests.

393
00:13:38,745 --> 00:13:41,145
 So they all came to the wedding ceremony.

394
00:13:41,145 --> 00:13:42,105
 The drinks reception.

395
00:13:42,105 --> 00:13:43,785
 There was a speech at the drinks reception.

396
00:13:43,785 --> 00:13:45,065
 And they all left.

397
00:13:45,065 --> 00:13:48,905
 And there was 120 of us at the stage for the meal and the evening.

398
00:13:48,905 --> 00:13:49,305
 Yeah.

399
00:13:49,305 --> 00:13:52,265
 So they kind of did it the other way around where, you know,

400
00:13:52,265 --> 00:13:54,345
 all these people, the rillity and things like that.

401
00:13:54,345 --> 00:13:57,145
 Yeah, they had to invite, came and did that bit.

402
00:13:57,145 --> 00:13:58,425
 It's the same with the royal wedding.

403
00:13:58,425 --> 00:14:00,265
 Yes, the size of a royal wedding.

404
00:14:00,265 --> 00:14:02,745
 Not all those people go and celebrate the rest of the evening

405
00:14:02,745 --> 00:14:03,305
 afternoon.

406
00:14:03,305 --> 00:14:05,705
 That's just that's the formalities.

407
00:14:05,705 --> 00:14:06,185
 Yes.

408
00:14:06,185 --> 00:14:08,265
 Yeah, the wedding isn't actually a party.

409
00:14:08,265 --> 00:14:09,945
 Like we treat it nowadays.

410
00:14:09,945 --> 00:14:12,745
 They do an intimate one and do something.

411
00:14:13,465 --> 00:14:16,265
 Like the formal dinner or the drinks reception.

412
00:14:16,265 --> 00:14:16,585
 Yeah.

413
00:14:16,585 --> 00:14:18,585
 I think, yeah, that's a really key point to think about

414
00:14:18,585 --> 00:14:20,425
 not necessarily having smaller guest numbers

415
00:14:20,425 --> 00:14:21,945
 and then trying to get that party out this evening.

416
00:14:21,945 --> 00:14:23,705
 Yeah, it just wouldn't work, I don't think.

417
00:14:23,705 --> 00:14:26,505
 So I think if you want to have an intimate wedding,

418
00:14:26,505 --> 00:14:27,465
 you can't have an intimate,

419
00:14:27,465 --> 00:14:29,705
 well, it just doesn't work.

420
00:14:29,705 --> 00:14:31,305
 It's like when you have a dinner party around your house

421
00:14:31,305 --> 00:14:32,105
 and you have 10 people.

422
00:14:32,105 --> 00:14:32,905
 Yeah.

423
00:14:32,905 --> 00:14:34,265
 Then go up and dance that.

424
00:14:34,265 --> 00:14:34,985
 I don't know.

425
00:14:34,985 --> 00:14:35,705
 I don't know.

426
00:14:35,705 --> 00:14:37,305
 Well, it's 20.

427
00:14:37,305 --> 00:14:38,825
 They are and how much we had to create.

428
00:14:38,825 --> 00:14:40,185
 Games, yeah, a new...

429
00:14:40,185 --> 00:14:41,945
 Yeah, it's a different shine for the evening.

430
00:14:41,945 --> 00:14:43,225
 Yeah, it's a different feel.

431
00:14:43,225 --> 00:14:44,425
 Yeah, it is.

432
00:14:44,425 --> 00:14:45,945
 And you've got to guess, think,

433
00:14:45,945 --> 00:14:47,305
 not just about who you want to invite,

434
00:14:47,305 --> 00:14:49,065
 but vibe and the feel of your wedding.

435
00:14:49,065 --> 00:14:50,905
 Do you want party party

436
00:14:50,905 --> 00:14:53,785
 or do you want like an intimate sort of evening experience?

437
00:14:53,785 --> 00:14:54,985
 To party, then.

438
00:14:54,985 --> 00:14:56,665
 Really?

439
00:14:56,665 --> 00:14:57,705
 I mean...

440
00:14:57,705 --> 00:14:59,785
 As in, like, I don't...

441
00:14:59,785 --> 00:15:01,305
 Like, I wanted to party.

442
00:15:01,305 --> 00:15:02,265
 Yeah, I don't know.

443
00:15:02,265 --> 00:15:04,425
 I want different attentionals.

444
00:15:04,425 --> 00:15:07,465
 But just maybe now, I don't think I'd stay up that late.

445
00:15:07,465 --> 00:15:08,265
 I'd be like...

446
00:15:08,265 --> 00:15:09,305
 In bed by nine o'clock.

447
00:15:09,305 --> 00:15:09,785
 Yeah.

448
00:15:09,785 --> 00:15:11,865
 Yeah, I think I'd be in bed by nine o'clock, too.

449
00:15:11,865 --> 00:15:13,305
 There is just...

450
00:15:13,305 --> 00:15:15,145
 Just thinking about what you want, really.

451
00:15:15,145 --> 00:15:17,625
 It doesn't really turn into much of a debate, has it?

452
00:15:17,625 --> 00:15:19,065
 No, it has a conversation.

453
00:15:19,065 --> 00:15:22,905
 Basically, intimate weddings are a certain type of person

454
00:15:22,905 --> 00:15:25,225
 and a big wedding is for a certain type of person.

455
00:15:25,225 --> 00:15:26,425
 Yeah, I think it's just...

456
00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:27,465
 You're not disagreeing.

457
00:15:27,465 --> 00:15:34,025
 Or, I don't think I could go back and have an intimate wedding.

458
00:15:34,025 --> 00:15:36,345
 I don't think I could not...

459
00:15:36,345 --> 00:15:38,185
 I don't think that's a celebration.

460
00:15:38,185 --> 00:15:38,905
 Yeah.

461
00:15:38,905 --> 00:15:40,745
 That, like, we have everyone there.

462
00:15:40,745 --> 00:15:43,385
 And, yes, as my dad rightly pointed out to me,

463
00:15:43,385 --> 00:15:47,065
 I had one minute and 23 seconds on my wedding day

464
00:15:47,065 --> 00:15:49,225
 to talk to every guest that was there.

465
00:15:49,225 --> 00:15:52,185
 That was it, and that would be a whole evening spent.

466
00:15:52,185 --> 00:15:53,385
 It's still...

467
00:15:53,385 --> 00:15:57,465
 I mean, actually, I could probably call about 50 people from this.

468
00:15:57,465 --> 00:15:58,185
 I'm not going to lie.

469
00:15:58,185 --> 00:15:59,625
 I mean, I'd have very different people.

470
00:15:59,625 --> 00:16:01,305
 Yeah, but that's not...

471
00:16:01,305 --> 00:16:02,105
 Yeah, that's life.

472
00:16:02,105 --> 00:16:03,945
 That's what you spoke about that before.

473
00:16:03,945 --> 00:16:06,345
 Yeah, I don't know who I'd invite if I had an intimate one, actually.

474
00:16:06,345 --> 00:16:07,945
 To be honest, it's...

475
00:16:08,745 --> 00:16:10,905
 You've got to be a bit more picky with your guest this time, don't you?

476
00:16:10,905 --> 00:16:12,665
 This has six good parents.

477
00:16:12,665 --> 00:16:13,705
 Last 12 people...

478
00:16:13,705 --> 00:16:14,425
 Well, yeah.

479
00:16:14,425 --> 00:16:16,585
 We've even started plus his parents, plus his brother.

480
00:16:16,585 --> 00:16:17,545
 13 Ashes.

481
00:16:17,545 --> 00:16:18,665
 Yeah, 13 Ashes.

482
00:16:18,665 --> 00:16:22,105
 I think you might be able to have an intimate one if you weren't my encryptment.

483
00:16:22,105 --> 00:16:23,545
 No, no, no, no, no, yeah, maybe.

484
00:16:23,545 --> 00:16:24,345
 But I don't know.

485
00:16:24,345 --> 00:16:25,945
 I don't know.

486
00:16:25,945 --> 00:16:26,745
 I just think it...

487
00:16:26,745 --> 00:16:30,585
 It's a celebration that you want to share with the people

488
00:16:30,585 --> 00:16:33,145
 that you want to support you in your married life.

489
00:16:33,145 --> 00:16:34,585
 Yeah, whether that's a small number.

490
00:16:34,585 --> 00:16:35,625
 And that's a large number.

491
00:16:36,425 --> 00:16:41,385
 That for me, if you reduce that down, you're reducing down your village to support you.

492
00:16:41,385 --> 00:16:41,705
 Yeah.

493
00:16:41,705 --> 00:16:43,625
 That's my closing argument.

494
00:16:43,625 --> 00:16:45,225
 That's your closing argument.

495
00:16:45,225 --> 00:16:46,825
 And I can see the cog's timing.

496
00:16:46,825 --> 00:16:48,665
 I know, I actually would agree with that.

497
00:16:48,665 --> 00:16:52,105
 Actually thinking who, from my wedding,

498
00:16:52,105 --> 00:16:53,785
 I think I was my village.

499
00:16:53,785 --> 00:16:56,985
 And who was there because I had to be kind of thin.

500
00:16:56,985 --> 00:16:57,785
 As in life.

501
00:16:57,785 --> 00:16:58,985
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

502
00:16:58,985 --> 00:17:01,145
 You know, we really had a bunch of 20 guests.

503
00:17:01,145 --> 00:17:02,025
 A lot of family.

504
00:17:02,025 --> 00:17:04,425
 Which are there, aren't there?

505
00:17:04,425 --> 00:17:05,065
 Right.

506
00:17:05,065 --> 00:17:06,025
 Yeah, interesting.

507
00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:08,345
 But then I'm thinking of guestless and going intimate.

508
00:17:08,345 --> 00:17:10,025
 Savannah's first birthday party.

509
00:17:10,025 --> 00:17:11,065
 We had 80 guests.

510
00:17:11,065 --> 00:17:12,185
 Oh my god.

511
00:17:12,185 --> 00:17:15,865
 There's me saying I can have an intimate wedding.

512
00:17:15,865 --> 00:17:17,705
 I could even do an intimate first birthday.

513
00:17:17,705 --> 00:17:20,345
 It was closed COVID, it was 2021.

514
00:17:20,345 --> 00:17:21,785
 I'd not had that baby shower.

515
00:17:21,785 --> 00:17:23,385
 Not seen people during my pregnancy.

516
00:17:23,385 --> 00:17:25,465
 Not really seen them in the last year that much.

517
00:17:25,465 --> 00:17:27,945
 You know, because it was so COVID, you know, restriction.

518
00:17:27,945 --> 00:17:28,505
 So COVID.

519
00:17:28,505 --> 00:17:29,385
 They gave it.

520
00:17:29,385 --> 00:17:30,505
 That should be like a spray.

521
00:17:30,505 --> 00:17:32,265
 That's so cold.

522
00:17:32,265 --> 00:17:34,585
 Why do you miss rains?

523
00:17:34,585 --> 00:17:36,025
 It's like so, it's not big.

524
00:17:36,025 --> 00:17:38,185
 Great impulse to show.

525
00:17:38,185 --> 00:17:39,625
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so COVID.

526
00:17:39,625 --> 00:17:40,505
 I haven't shown our age.

527
00:17:40,505 --> 00:17:42,025
 So, yeah, yeah.

528
00:17:42,025 --> 00:17:43,865
 So I ended up just having everyone.

529
00:17:43,865 --> 00:17:45,865
 We had like tin bar, whole grossed 80 people.

530
00:17:45,865 --> 00:17:46,745
 Is that any individual?

531
00:17:46,745 --> 00:17:48,665
 But that's more of a party for you guys.

532
00:17:48,665 --> 00:17:49,305
 Yeah, it was.

533
00:17:49,305 --> 00:17:50,505
 Yeah, for her.

534
00:17:50,505 --> 00:17:50,985
 So yeah.

535
00:17:50,985 --> 00:17:52,345
 And then again, Xavier's christening.

536
00:17:52,345 --> 00:17:53,145
 He had a big christening.

537
00:17:53,145 --> 00:17:54,585
 Savannah's a COVID christening.

538
00:17:54,585 --> 00:17:56,105
 We only had that actually for that.

539
00:17:56,105 --> 00:17:58,585
 We had a big christening of like 75 people.

540
00:17:58,585 --> 00:17:59,945
 I mean, isn't a lot.

541
00:17:59,945 --> 00:18:01,145
 That is a lot.

542
00:18:01,145 --> 00:18:01,865
 But it's not an intimate.

543
00:18:01,865 --> 00:18:03,145
 I wouldn't even call it an intimate wedding.

544
00:18:03,145 --> 00:18:04,665
 No, it's just crappy.

545
00:18:04,665 --> 00:18:05,625
 Maybe I wouldn't be so good.

546
00:18:05,625 --> 00:18:08,585
 We had a 150 people for a christmas 40.

547
00:18:08,585 --> 00:18:10,585
 Yeah, I can't do intimate.

548
00:18:10,585 --> 00:18:12,745
 No, and that was just his mates.

549
00:18:12,745 --> 00:18:15,705
 Yeah, I was only allowed to invite like a few of my own.

550
00:18:15,705 --> 00:18:17,625
 I think I like the idea of an intimate wedding.

551
00:18:17,625 --> 00:18:20,025
 And I think I like to have the top hand one for someone

552
00:18:20,025 --> 00:18:21,945
 where we have a really good healthy budget

553
00:18:21,945 --> 00:18:24,905
 for like a real intimate guest experience.

554
00:18:24,905 --> 00:18:26,105
 Real focus on the guest.

555
00:18:26,105 --> 00:18:30,505
 But in reality, me personally, I like the idea of it.

556
00:18:30,505 --> 00:18:32,905
 But I don't think I'd practically be able to actually

557
00:18:32,905 --> 00:18:34,105
 narrow down a guest list.

558
00:18:34,105 --> 00:18:35,705
 No, I think I'm fending people.

559
00:18:35,705 --> 00:18:40,025
 Certain type of, yeah, certain type of person.

560
00:18:40,025 --> 00:18:41,305
 There you go.

561
00:18:41,305 --> 00:18:43,145
 Certain type of person.

562
00:18:43,145 --> 00:18:44,905
 But they sit sound like it's negative.

563
00:18:44,905 --> 00:18:46,345
 No, just people are different.

564
00:18:46,345 --> 00:18:46,905
 People are different.

565
00:18:46,905 --> 00:18:49,545
 And if you know dancing till two o'clock in the morning

566
00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:52,905
 isn't your thing, then maybe an intimate wedding is for you.

567
00:18:52,905 --> 00:18:53,465
 Yeah.

568
00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:56,425
 But then some people find like smaller guest numbers

569
00:18:56,425 --> 00:18:58,025
 makes it more about them.

570
00:18:58,025 --> 00:19:00,185
 They're actually like getting lost in a bigger party.

571
00:19:00,185 --> 00:19:01,145
 Yes.

572
00:19:01,145 --> 00:19:02,345
 But there we have it.

573
00:19:02,345 --> 00:19:05,945
 Lots of food for thought, hopefully on pros and cons.

574
00:19:05,945 --> 00:19:07,625
 And I've thought about things of an intimate wedding

575
00:19:07,625 --> 00:19:10,425
 that I hadn't thought about for party aspect.

576
00:19:10,425 --> 00:19:12,985
 So hopefully that's given you some insight.

577
00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:14,985
 Not much of a disagreement between the two of us.

578
00:19:14,985 --> 00:19:15,545
 There we are.

579
00:19:15,545 --> 00:19:17,065
 I don't think there's going to be any disagreement.

580
00:19:17,065 --> 00:19:22,985
 So join us next week when we have another interesting guest on all of you.

581
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