The Rising’s Growing Together Podcast - She’s Finally Said “I Do”… But My Dress BROKE Before I Walked Down The Aisle 😳💍

Episode Date: May 1, 2026

On this week’s episode of The Rising’s Growing Together Podcast, Charlotte shares the REAL story behind her wedding day in Gibraltar… and it wasn’t as perfect as it looked 👀💍From emotional family moments to unexpected wedding day mishaps (including a dress disaster just before the ceremony 😳), this episode dives into the truth behind one of the biggest days of her life.We talk about:– Wedding day chaos and how it all unfolded– Emotional moments with family that made the day unforgettable– The pressure vs reality of planning a “perfect” wedding– Funny mishaps that nearly derailed everything– Why the day still turned out better than expectedThis is an honest, funny, and emotional conversation about love, resilience, and what really matters on your wedding day ❤️If you’re planning a wedding, recently married, or just love real-life stories… this one’s for you.

Hi guys. Welcome back. So now we get to talk about the wedding. I'm a wifey. I'm still a wifey. And I actually haven't caught up with you about the wedding. Well, I haven't seen you, have I? Well, you've only been back from Gibraltar really a couple of days.

A week ago today was my wedding. Oh, a week. God, it's good a week ago. Hasn't it? Yeah. So even me and Mitch said we left on the Wednesday to go to Gibraltar. We came back on the Saturday evening. Sunday their children was ill.

Monday I'd booked off work, the children were off school because they were ill. Then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I've been working double, my, triple my hours longer than I was even home before my eldest son and he does some hours. And then Mitch was ill. So literally we was just like, oh, hi husband, hi wife. You're right, yeah? Nothing's changed. Life resumed back to reality. My friend said how's married life and I was like, I've just been working loads, to be honest.

She was like, welcome to that life. I say when I think when you get married after a long time together like we did as well it's like nothing really changes it just feels better because it's like yeah I'm a wife now yeah it's weird it's funny you say that actually because the other day I was talking about saying to a patient and I'd said oh yeah my partner and I carried on carried on and you know like it's weird when you think about conversations like after they've happened and the patient was still there but they were leaving and I thought oh I'm I called him my partner but I didn't want to go oh by the way he's my husband he's not my partner like

Because they're like, yeah, okay, whatever. Well, you've had 20 years of calling them one thing. It's going to take you a while before you start getting used to saying. It's so funny because sometimes I go, my wife, she's not my wife, but she's basically all right. I could just actually say, she's my wife. I don't have to explain anymore. The whole list of what she is.

I'm not actually lying, but it's kind of true, but it's kind of not true. I've still got the cough. I went from my hen, had no voice, and this is the result. Still, three weeks later, I am literally still choking. So tell me, tell me all about Gibraltar because I've not heard. Right. I've seen some photos and obviously been kept in the loop a little bit. Yes. So me thinking about it now, a lot of things could have gone very differently in terms of my mood.

So I was also Jew on. Now anyone knows me, Jew one knows I'm a bitch. I can ruin your whole life basically in about five. There's a few days where it's like, yeah, we should. record and it's planned to but yeah no I've said it I will I'm not recording today I'm scared of myself actually sometimes I am I'm checking I just want to just lock myself in a room don't talk to anyone

because I will say things that I don't really mean but so horribly that you will you will hate yourself for ever literally you will cry so there's a lot of things that could have gone a different way if I was in a different mood and especially with something so important you're already putting that extra pressure on yourself for everything to be perfect so then to have that mood with that pressure could be a volcano. Just starting it off, it was the most amazing, beautiful, intimate, perfect day I could

ever have wished for. Like, you know, I think I'd said it on the last pod about how when I talk about my hair and I smile and I'd never have to smile, cry because it was just so amazing. Even more emotion when I think about the wedding because it really was just perfect for us. It was what it was all about. And that was me and Mitch and love and da-da-da-da-da. So we went to Gibraltar. There was 19 of us.

Me, there's not a lot, but it just turns out my family is obviously big. Yeah. So there was us, there was our parents, there was our siblings and our nieces and nephews. Yeah. And your kids. Yeah. And my children. And actually my family. So the boys were Mitchie's best man and Lexi was my flower girl.

That's how I was keeping it. Yeah. there was so many times I was thinking about, obviously, my nieces and nephews and did it. But again, you can just go and go and go and go. Yeah, and then it gets out of control. And it's like, you're also having a celebration later. Exactly. Yeah, it's very easy to get carried away.

Keep it simple. And that's what you always wanted. It is. It's really simple. And what it's about. The more things you add, the more things you have to think about as well. Exactly. And going back to obviously, even like thinking about you, like my girls and that, like, oh,

I'm not there. But again, it would have just gone on and on and on and on. And that's why I had to just keep it the way it was. And I am glad I did. Yeah. So the day, the morning of the wedding, we'd already had a lovely time before because everyone kind of arrived at different times,

did Gibraltar. So we already had the day before. We'd had to go and do that paperwork. Then that experience was, again, if I was in a different mood, probably would have cancelled the whole thing. Because we went into the office to sign the papers. They were lovely.

The women were lovely. I'm not digging them out, but it was just a very scatty morning. very very scatty morning they're just both obviously had a morning they're a bit older women as well and I just you know at first when you're like hey this is funny and then by the end like

you're stressing me out and I'm trying to get married tomorrow that's where I was out I was a bit like I'm not funny I'm not laughing anymore like come on no this is actually serious for me you might do this every day but for me this is my one time okay so there's little parts like that whereas but me and Mitch were fine we just love it like just carry on you know you know when you walk

I walked out at first, I was like, that was a bit much, wouldn't it? And Mitch was like, yeah, but well done. I was like, well, to see you too. We're all good. We didn't kick off, happy days. We haven't cancelled the whole thing. Not because of that, just because of them, you know? So that was lovely.

We had a day on our own. Everyone was arriving at different times. So it was really, really, really nice start. On the day, I wasn't getting married until four. The day before it had changed to half three because the lady went, oh, I'm free from three. So if you want to do it half three, I was like, yeah, we'll do it half three. That's it.

Said half three, done. Me presuming that everyone would have been informed, like, I'm okay. Like that sort of thing. Do you know what I mean? So it turns out that you bought a package. Yeah, yeah. If you're telling one person, you would think that they would communicate it, if they're willing to change the whole thing, the whole time is.

It didn't cause a huge, it didn't cause a big thing. But obviously at that moment, yeah, half three, great. So my hair and makeup turns up because in part of this package, there was hair and makeup. Again, anyone that knows me knows that I can't do my makeup because I don't wear it and I can't do my hair. I have literally, again, my girls who does my hair and my makeup.

My own makeup artist and my own hair stylist. This is just how it's been, but God knows how long. So wherever I go on an event or whatever, they sort me out. I mean, Lexi can do her own hair and makeup much better than you can, so that just goes to show how not good you are.

So I had part of this package, hair and makeup. I wanted to give my sister-in-law, who he's actually in my hair stylist, a day off, basically. Like, you just get ready. Yeah, you, exactly that. And she's got to get her own kids ready. Exactly, yeah. And she'd ordered them so much for me.

So, actually, can we just rewind? Because prior to the hair and makeup arriving, my sister-in-law turned up with those of different bags and bits and bobs. And in it was a book. And in this book was letters. from my nearest and dearest, my children, my parents, my brother, my in-laws, my best friends, my cousins, my nephew, like, wow, there was a lot of emotion in this book. I think I actually got to a certain, I got to your letter.

I got to, I got past one of the girls and one of my best friends and I got to Bill's there and I was like, I can't, there's not a chance. I can do Bill's letter now. Not a chance. Because I knew what it would do. I was talking to Ashley about when to give it to you. And it sounds lovely to give it to the morning of. And to read a couple of the letters, like you get in the moon and you get the tingles.

But I was like, no, I think like she's going to be your puffy and like, so yeah, you've got time before the wedding. But yeah, probably another time. So we'd had, so I'd had these letters and I'd open up again, I'd have to put them away. You and Sean had got me like a frame of like a lovely saying about best friends and then Mrs. Kayla Cook and a photo of her. in it and that was just all these lovely little things that I was open on the morning. Yeah. Even Mitch had some letters that people had wrote to him as well, which is really nice because we were still together on that at that moment. Well, yeah, because you didn't do the whole.

We didn't know, no, we didn't sleep separate. We had breakfast together. We went for a walk. He literally left just before you were doing hair makeup. I was going to start getting ready, more or less. And it was just so nice to have that, you know, part of that. So then my hair and makeup came in. That was another thing.

Mitch actually rang my sister-in-law and was like, are you in the room with Charlotte yet? And she was like, yeah, why? Just check in because so she's not on her own. You know, like all little things like that, which is really nice as well in it, to think of things like that. Of a man, if you know what I mean.

Yeah. So hair and makeup came in. This is the part, this is where things start could have gone different. Okay. So bearing in mind, I was trying to give my sister-in-a-day off, but I did ask her to do my daughter's hair

because I thought, I've got to look at her hair. So if it's not right, going to annoy me. So, yeah, done. So my hair and makeup have started. My makeup's finished. My sister-in-law's done, her makeup, her hair, my daughter's hair and her daughter's hair. And again, if you know me, I can't, that, that just gives me a headache just the thought of sitting and someone doing my hair. Yeah. And like, you don't have hair like Sean. It's like a main of clothes of hair. And I don't want a lot. Literally, all I wanted was a very messy updo, actually. I know it's not very wedded.

me, but that's just how I like it, okay? Quick few curls, whack it up in a bun. So, but I just think the woman who was doing my hair was getting a bit panicky, because I think Ashley had tried to direct her, which Ashley had already said, I hate it. When I walk into a wedding. Someone says, I'm a hairstylist or I'm a hair this. Yeah.

It puts that pressure on you and she didn't want to do that. Yeah. But I wanted her to direct the lady, because the lady asked me, how do you want your hair? You can imagine. I was like, no, I don't know. I don't know. So she wasn't there at that part.

I was like, oh, she's asking me questions about my hair and makeup and I haven't got a clue. She was like, it's fine, I'm in the lift, I'm on the way. So she tried to just direct her of how I would wash my hair. Yeah. Yeah. And then obviously halfway through, actually seen my hair and she was like, she's like, she ain't good, I like that. Apparently she'd done like a huge quiff at the front, like a huge, you know,

like very typical wedding. Yeah. But I'm not typical. You don't want over the top wedding. Yeah. So she tried a director to change it. And apparently she, obviously, I can't see. So apparently she's done more or less the same thing again.

And then I could feel my makeup very like. sticky. Again, maybe it's just because I don't want makeup. But usually my makeup artist, Love You M. You don't feel it. I don't. She did my makeup for my wedding and yeah, you just feel like there's nothing on your skin. And I got married in a heat wave and even by the end of the evening, people were like, yeah. How's your makeup not even budged?

Yeah. And it just felt like that you haven't got it. So there was all these things. So first I've gone to the mirror to the makeup and they'd said, how are you, what do you, how do you feel? And I was like, yeah, yeah, it's fine. And actually it's everywhere. You need lashes on. So she hadn't put any lashes on me

So I was like, okay, sat down, put my lashes The lady put my leg, I haven't got any glue And she's like, I've got glue Oh my God, imagine. Yeah, so put them on and then there was like A gap in my eyelash. I was like, can you just like feel the little gap? Because I've got, I mean, I don't really know anything

But it's obvious, yeah. I don't think it shouldn't be like that. Oh, my God. And again, don't get me wrong, they were great in terms of obviously whatever includes in a package but I think where I'm, I was just so used to having a very, very good makeup eyes and a very, very good hair stylist, I have to say.

I think it just made me appreciate them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And because they're your close, like, friends and family, like they know what you want without you even having to say it. I've never had, even when I go and get my head, I don't have to say anything. I don't really change anything. But you still wouldn't expect a gap that you then have to tell them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But again, that's just very me. I'm not very good with makeup. I'm not very good with getting my head done. and it was by someone else. I did put that on myself. And they were great in that way. They were doing their job.

It's just what you get used to, I think. So I'm not necessarily digging them out. My point was that if I was in a different mood, I was very calm and patient. Yeah. So calm and patient. If I was in a different mood. Because actually, before we went,

before Mitch went, I was warned by Mitch. He said he'd warned me and his sister. Don't you be, oh, what did he say? Be nice. that was our warning. Literally that was out. He went, please be nice to the hair and makeup. And I was like, I will.

I am going to be nice. I'm a nice person. And I think you just thought if one little thing goes, I will ruin your dad. Well, that is the thing with you. Like, when you hit that mood, it's very difficult to get you out of that mood. And like you say, you don't want to be in that mood on that day. No. And I don't want to put anyone else. I don't want to upset anyone.

But when I'm in it, I don't care. I'm genuinely do not care. Yeah. So where I'd sat for two hours, obviously, and my hair looked great, it was fine. It wasn't what I asked for, but it did look fine, do you know what I mean? And all that. So I was all very, very calm.

Like, it could have gone wrong on a few different times. That was just the hair and makeup. You know, when you have a, you know, the full-on shower, you know, like a shave, all that kind of thing. So I'd done that on the morning, right? I've never, I'll say never. I haven't cut my leg shaving in, God knows, how long. Do you know how many times

I cut myself on that morning, shaving my legs and I could not believe it. Really? I came out of the show and I was like, why am I believing? What have I done to myself? Like, this has never happened and I'm going to be all exposed. I'm all exposed. And then there was a moment, obviously, with the photographer. And I was, I was just getting ready.

She was taking photos when I was doing my shoe up. And you can actually see it there on my leg. I got cut. That was from shaving. I'm doing it out. And I was like, can you not, you can see my cut my leg? Like, do you know what I mean? Oh no, I'll cover it up. I've got my photos back.

I was like, you can see the cut on my life. You didn't cover it up. So little moments like that on the day were just in my mind. But nothing ruined anything. I didn't get Aggie. I didn't change anything. It's so calm. A lot of brides, like the build up and the stress that you go through that most people.

And then it just comes to a head on the day. And like every little thing is just a massive thing. And I wasn't like that. It's very easy to lose it. And I think it's a shame because the brides that end up, you know, even stressing and thing on the day, it's like, this is your day and you're about to miss it. And it's cost you a lot of money. And you can't change. You can't change how you feel as well.

So on the morning, I was worried because I just, again, I wasn't hungry and I couldn't eat. And it was really frustrating me because I was like, Charlotte, you've got to eat. You're going to pass out. Exactly that. And I wanted to. I really wanted to, but I just couldn't. So that was the morning of the breakfast. I couldn't eat.

Then I'd gone up and had a shower, cut myself to bits. That really wound me up. Yeah. It was probably good that I went through all the motion of the letters, actually. That probably helped me. It broke up a little bit. Reminded you. Yeah, just kind of thing without even knowing it.

No, I think it's a shame when you don't get that, but I was very calm, cool and chilled on my morning as well. I think everyone was surprised. Yeah, you was. But I'm glad, like you say, it could have gone, but it didn't. Yeah, it did. Exactly that. And I think, you know, like when things were happening, people,

you know, when you pause from her, is she going to flip out? Everyone's like, oh, fuck, shit. But it wasn't, even before the hair and makeup arrived, Mitch had actually gone and got me this club sandwich from, that was another thing, rang reception. One day I just want room service, you know, didn't answer the phone. I was like, it's my fucking wedding day.

Make me a sandwich. Yeah, so, yeah, lips ran and got it me, bless him. and had this club sandwich, I had a squash in a champagne flute. And I was literally for about 10 minutes, I was there on my own in this room. And I was, because Lexi, my daughter had gone up to, she was in her cousin's room and they were coming down to me in a second.

So I was literally for that 10 minutes or whatever with my club sandwich, a champagne flu of squash, watching daytime telly. Like, I'm so sad, but I'm just so lucky. I'm actually happy. I was so happy. I had one triangle of the club. home sandwich, everyone turned up, didn't need the rest of it. It's nice to even just have five minutes.

Yeah, I did actually take a bit over on my own. Just with people constantly. Yeah, to get that moment. And you end up being with people constantly. Because when Mitch had obviously rang his sister saying, are you in the room? I was even like, I would have been fine on my own. I would have been well-thier on my own. Yeah, I'm just fine.

Everyone would have come like, you're having your hair, you've got no makeup on. I got my dress on. Right? Another thing, quickly, as we were leaving the, as I was putting my dress on, obviously, getting ready. So my sister-in-law has put my dress on She's clipped the clip at the top And she's gone, how does that feel? I didn't really, I just didn't

I probably did understand the question But I just acted at the wrong time So she's gone, how do you feel And I've gone And I've gone, and literally's gone Oh no The clip's just gone So my whole, the dress broke.

Bear in mind, I was already late But I wasn't stressed. You mean just the hook at the top Before you do the hook at the top So that was actually. added on an extra, wasn't it? Yeah, because that keeps you in and keeps everything up. Exactly, because it was a strapless thing.

Yeah. Because even before the clip and after the clip, it feels like you're in it more. Yeah. It just gives you that bit more security. It's not completely broke the dress, but it's a big part of keeping you comfortable. Can you imagine? Literally, as we're literally, how do you feel? Don't breathe out.

And just went, you could hear it. I heard it. She saw it. And again, that was a silent moment of how we're going to react. And we literally, I think we answered each other. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.

And that was it. There was no stress. There was no fucking this, fucking that. Because it was my fault to be fair. Why did I do that? I don't know. But I just needed to breathe. Yeah.

And she was like, how did you feel? So I went, whew, and I just completely stretched the dress out. But the dress stayed up. It was fine. I mean, you can tell during the day it died to drop. Do you know what I mean? But that would have happened anyway. Yeah.

But can you imagine if, again, if I was a different, like, mental space. Yeah. Like, I could have got my dress and throw it over the thing. Because I wanted to tell the lady who, who, where I bought my dress, she said, how did the day go and this, that and the other, I sent her pictures. And I wanted to tell her about that happening, but I didn't want to message her and go,

oh, my dress broke, because that would sound like I'm digging her out. And that is definitely not what I was doing. It was more actually how funny it was. Yeah. It was so funny how it was like, it might have been on video, I'm not sure, because there was a videographer in the room of how it just went, done, how do you feel? Oh!

It's fine, it's fine. She literally zicked me up. Let's just go, we're fine, we're fine, we're good. Yeah. We're all good. And I did get some of the moments, obviously, my first look with my daughter. Her reaction was beautiful.

My niece, my dad. Your dad. That got me. Yeah. That's really got me. Yeah. I actually was, I couldn't breathe before he even came in the door. Yeah.

There was little things that happened like my sister-in-law, like walked him into the room with his eyes closed. And instead of just walking past him and standing behind the top of her, she shut the door behind her. So we've had this moment. And then all of a sudden she went, she's standing behind the door. Why did I hide behind the door?

I can't see anything. You know, like little things like that. Give you a private moment. Oh, I actually want to see that. You know, and I can imagine just standing behind the door like, shit, why can I come back in? The moments of, so all these, you know,

like, which are quite big things really, especially for a bride hair, make up, my dress, my legs cut to bits, you know, like things like that that really could have really ticked me off to be fair. And I wasn't. I was so chilled. It was lovely. The ceremony was just perfect.

It looked lovely. In the photos, it was so green. You were just surrounded by like. Well, we was in the gardens. That's where I wanted to get married anyway. I knew it as soon as we were going to Gibraltar. And we just had the perfect weather. Obviously, it was spring.

So the flowers and everything was just perfect. As I was walking across the bridge to then turn down the path aisle, you can hear. I was like, Dad, can you hear the frog? Where's the frog? I could just hear a frog and I thought, imagine if I'm drunk to know me now. Can you imagine? My bouquet is going to go, what? You're going to fall. I would. Everyone's going to fall over because I'm running, like, literally.

So I don't even know if on the video, you would see. I would. You could see my head's going, can you see the frog? Can you see the frog? Where's the frog? Because it was just so loud. I thought you were going to say, I could hear the bird. No, well, you can, but my concern was the frog because it was loud. And you know, when it's that loud, I thought, that's close. That's really close. It's new. Yeah. So all these little things that were happening.

When I said about the bouquet, because obviously my time changed, they were, I said, oh, they were like, come on. Then I was like, where's mine and Lexington's okay? And you can see their face change. Like, shit, where the fuck's her bocay, you know? But again, I was like, yeah, so me and my dad sat on, it's called the bandstand. Yeah, the circle thing with the roof. Exactly that.

So me and my dad and Lexi were sitting there just, just, you come in, it's coming. It's because they thought it was four o'clock. Obviously it's just a little bit that they were coming. a little bit later and I was like, they were thinking, I'm going to like, where's this? I was like, it's fine, don't worry about it. Me and my dad are just sitting there like, yeah, it's fine. Me, he's probably standing at the end, like, fucking out of God,

like, is she actually coming? The amount of times he rang when we was in the room to his sister saying, is she okay? Have we got the right music? Is it already? Everything okay. He's probably worried about you getting in that mood. Exactly that.

He was really panicky, like, just am I okay? And I was like, I'm fine. I'm absolutely fine. I'm so fine. Yeah, the ceremony was absolutely. perfect. We then went to a restaurant and the restaurant, the lounge in Gibraltar at Carmen, smashed it.

The room, we had our own room. It was set up like, you know how, yeah, like you had like a sea shape. That was in our own room. Yeah. It was our own room. Yeah, because I saw the TV. It said just married on it. Yeah.

Yeah, honestly, they were absolutely fantastic. The food, my father-in-law, officially, and my mom, I mean, they're quite hard people to impress, especially my mum. But they said it was the best meal they've ever had. I mean, that says something, doesn't it? Wow. I know. Yeah.

Yeah. And even then I couldn't eat. You know, when you really want to eat, I picked this. I made this menu. You know, I think I was the same though at mine. Like, I'd got so many nice things that I was like, oh, after the wedding, there was a cocktail. We had really nice cocktails. And everyone kept telling me how lovely these cocktails were.

And we had canopets. which I'd pick. Then we had like a three-course meal. Then we had a girl that I worked with made me cupcakes and we also had like desserts and stuff and a cake. I think I had two bites of steak and that was it. This was me. I didn't even have one cocktail

because they took me off to do my photos. Yeah. And so I didn't even have a cocktail. It is. It's like all these things I'm paying for and I've like planned. And I really haven't given. I had plenty of time, I have to say. I had so much time.

Everything I was controlling that time. Yeah, yeah. It's just you just weren't feeling it. I just couldn't. I genuinely couldn't. And you can't make yourself because you gag. No, exactly. Whereas I can make myself really.

Just eat. Just do it. I just, you can't. But it was, don't know my, I did taste bits and it was beautiful. Just generally the service, there was nothing that she couldn't do. She didn't look stressed. She just took to as children, I felt. Yeah, yeah.

Like so nice. I love when you have service like that, especially on like an important moment. It makes the difference. Yeah, it really does. She smashed it. She really did. Yeah. And because the boys, so my dad did.

his speech there and that was lovely again because it was just the 19 of us I'd put my phone on a stand as I have recorded it but again it's not very because I didn't want to stand there with my phone like that at him no course so it was on a stand so you can hear obviously bits and bobs going on because we are still in a restaurant

although we had our own room but I have recorded it so my dad did a speech beautiful again he didn't want to do a speech as much as my dad can act the showman he was shitting himself I think when it's an emotional speech Whereas I'd imagine him to be fine at any other, like a birthday, whatever.

But yeah, like it's his daughter's wedding. So we, I think my sister and I said to me, are you going to do it before we eat? Because I think like, you know, you can see the nerves on them. So we did it before the food came out. And he didn't even write a speech, my dad. He didn't even write a speech. He just said it. And just spoke about it when I was younger.

And then he ended with a song that we used to sing together. So that was really lovely. Yeah. And then the boys were Mitch's. best men. So obviously the eldest Mason did his speech. Oh my God. Really? Oh my God, Bill. Well, he was really emotional in the ceremony as well, which was lovely. So the, the ceremony, he was absolutely sobbing. Me and Mitch laugh now looking at the pictures because as we're going through him, all they are, it's all his face is like, who, who, where he's completely,

completely sobbing. It's not just, he is. I wouldn't have expected that for him. I knew it would have been emotional for him because he is something like that and he's he grew up with you more than the other two so it's like it is emotional for him as well but i wouldn't have expected but then i didn't think leon would either so yeah obviously they have their moments mason was sobbing when i when i was before how was he in his speech then so he the same very emotional yeah so um he he he he sobbed when i come down the aisle and morgan was fine until the ceremony ended when it ended he came straight up to me, he hugged me and he wouldn't let go of me and he was

sobbing, which is why he's got his sunglasses on every photo, because he just looked puffy and red, you know, like really coming out if you can tell someone's been crying. That was my surprise more than anything. Because my brother-in-law, Jack, he's just a big baby in six-rays. He's like, so emotional. So he expected

a little... So emotional. And Mason's very much the same. He's very emotional and he'll let it out. You know, he ain't shy about it. Good for him. Morgan, not so much. emotion from that boy. My goodness, that was the one that shocked me. My sister actually had to grab him off me and go, should we go for a war just to calm me down? Because he just couldn't get, and this was after the ceremony. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that was my biggest surprise was Morgan actually and his reaction. But some of the shots that we've got that, because I'd, not that I'd ask anyone to not get their phone out, I just said, try and enjoy the moment. Yeah. That was it. I've got a photographer, so. Luckily, my brother-in-law caught some clips and my mum was of their moments. There's moments where before we've even walked down the aisle, Mason started to cry. Yeah.

And you can see Mitch wiping his sweaty hands on his trousers. You can see Mason wiping his eyes and then tapping his brother on his back. Like, it's all right. Everything's all right. Yeah. Yeah. Fine, mate. You're going to be right.

There's them moments that are my favourite. That are my favourite moments. So then when it came to the speech, I'd been already told, again, our sister-in-law, again, had helped him out. I've just practising. She'd been in his room until midnight the night before. He said, she said he'd gone over it four times and cried every time. Oh, bless.

So when it came to the actual speech, he started talking and then he got to certain moments like complimenting the bride or saying something about his dad. Yeah. She put his glasses down. And there was pauses and he could see, obviously, he's getting choked up and everyone's like, come on, mate, you can do it. You got this, Mason. And then he starts again. It was such a good speech. It was a very, very good speech.

And then Morgan then stood up and did the toast to his mum and dad, obviously, bride of groom. and then we spoke and laughed and chatting. That's the lovely bit about having your kids at your wedding. So obviously you have Mason Young and then pretty much from that moment you were like, whenever we do get married, we're going to do it after we've had all our kids. So you probably made that decision, you know, pretty soon after you had Mason. Like whenever it is going to be, it's going to be once all the kids here because we've already got one and it's not fair to have one and not have the others there. So you made that decision really early on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, and obviously we did it the other way around and we had, which is after. Which is nice as well anyway. It's the traditional way to do it. It's nice that they're there and they've done a speech and they've been involved. It is completely, they will remember it forever. Yeah. And that's it.

You know, I can get it when people get married and they haven't got children. Obviously, that's what you do, isn't it? That's part of where their children come from at the end of the day. But because, again, we'd had children so young, like I said, I'd already said it from day one. I'm going to get my way. We're doing it together. Yeah, it's about me and me it. But it's going to be that unit of us, you know.

Yeah. Then all the kids have been there and they can all talk about it. I was there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. And then after the meal, we went back to the hotel to the hotel bar. Even that was lovely.

All of us just sitting around chatting and the kids playing, doing what they want to do. Yeah. We did get told once to chill the children, calm the children band, but it was right. There was boys running around, you know what I mean? It's just normal. But it was so, so, even then moments. you know, were just, just perfect.

Like, couldn't have gone any better. There's a photo of us in them, because we hired, like, a nine-seater to go down and just to be more comfortable. Yeah. With all our stuff and the kids, and there's a long travel and obviously going to Morrison's stocking up.

And there's a photo of us too, because the wage of board is it's a very hilly, walkie place. You know, so I'd already prepared the parents because I was worried, they're older, you know, and it's hard enough for us going up to be. I was quite surprised when I went, I didn't expect it to be. It is. It's like basically on a cliff.

It is. It really is. So going down to the restaurant, we'd already said, Mitch is going to do the pick and drops because we know we're all going to be right. Well, in the end, we did two, and we're all getting in.

So one of my favourite photos is of us. You're a Mitch in the front seat. We literally look like, we do look like travellers to be fair. Yeah, you do. We did say, people probably thought we were travellers because the way that we actually looked, we probably did look like travelling.

I mean, I do come from a traveller family. Yeah. My granddad was bought up by them. So a lot of traditions come from my bringing up from the traveller community anyway. But that's completely different. It was just the way we looked. I was like, if we said we were travellers,

people would believe it. In your wedding dress with a seatbelt and in a van. Yeah. Yeah. But we loved it. We absolutely loved it. It was, it really was the perfect day, I have to say. And now we are even more excited for July.

Yeah. You know? because you just get to celebrate with more people. Yeah, we just get to actually just celebrate, you know. Without the pressures of the vows and the speech and everyone's staring at you and all of that. That bit's like done. Now you can literally just walk into having fun with everyone. Yeah, exactly that.

The part that everyone waits for, isn't it? Come on. Let's be real. The part when you have a whole day of that. It's lovely to see that bit, especially for some people. Some people are there for the party. Yeah. But, you know.

Your closest do. They want to see that. I think it's really nice how he's done it. Yeah. I, I, for us, it couldn't have gone any better. I, I, I am, I'm just glad it at to end. You know, like, and it didn't go quick. We was in the moment.

We didn't get, no, those doing our vows. We didn't get, like, did you do your own vows or did you copy? No, no, no. There was a moment, actually, where the lady had obviously, the registrar spoke to Mitch about certain things before I'd arrived, like checking the, I think he's saying burst of it. Mara's certificate and things like that.

Mitch is dyslexic. So him checking wording on stuff is really not the right thing to be doing. So even he's panicking, you know, do you spell my own name like that. He knows how to spell that name. But you know things like that are. Don't ask me to check that.

Liam would be exactly saying. Don't get me to final check things. So then she just said about taking his sunglasses off. He said, I'm not taking my sunglasses off. She talks about the situation of his eye, the sun. He goes, I'm not going about to see if I don't have a sunglasses. She was like, well, you're supposed to say you about I can see your eyes.

And he was like, you won't see my eyes because I'll be closed. So, you know, so that was one thing. Obviously, he joked about her about, you know, reading the marriage certificate. Then she'd asked about doing vowels. He said, no, I'll just copy you. He says, I am just copying you, aren't I? You know, like word for word. So then when it came to doing the copying the vowels or, you know, repeating after me thing,

I felt like it was very slow. I felt like she was going, I can't remember what they are now. But I felt like it was like, I, I, do, do, take, take. And I was just, you know, like this at one point, I was like, have you told her to go this slow? Like, you know, like we told her to be this, this, you know, word for work. I think that was one point that they'd said something and Liam could remember it because they'd done like five or six words.

That was Mitch's concern. Yeah. The good thing is, is when we went to do it and we were handed the paperwork in the day before, we got asked to go next door to be witnesses for other people, so we got to hear it. Yes. But yeah, it's quite otherwise, it's like, oh my God, what do we say? Well, that was another joke. So I'd already, where you'd said that about you were,

a bit more of aware of what you have to say. A few days before, Sean, my best friend, came around to obviously, it's just good luck and da-da-da-da-da. And we were talking about it and she got her video up from her vows. Oh, so you heard it. So I watched them and then she showed Mitch.

So Mitch had watched them. But I'd remembered how it had gone when she was telling me and also I'd listen to the registrar by telling me how it was going to go that you say our vows. Then I will pronounce her husband and wife. then we do the token of the ring.

So we'd done the vows, we'd kiss to each other, we'd hugged each other. She said to your husband and wife and Mitchie's hugging me going, but where's my ring? That's all he was concerned about. It's weird though. I thought the rings first. No, so we did the vows. Then she pronounced as husband and wife.

Then we did the token of whatever it's called. And it was just that. So we'd hugged his and literally in my event. I think she's forgot something. Where's my ring? And I was like, it's coming, babe. It's coming. That's all Mitch wanted.

The amount of times he got this ring out of the box. When you drive all the way to Gibralware in one day and back again, the thing is Mitch has had this thing in his head for years, since he was probably a kid. His dad has a wedding ring, obviously, and he's always said he loves that wedding ring and he wanted that wedding ring or he wanted to make similar. So when he was looking for these wedding rings,

it was very weird because the first shop, Injibalded it went in, he found the ring that was very similar, but his own style. And he added some diamonds into it for us and the children. And then we'd gone to the job. jewelry caught in Birmingham because that's where I'm used to get my jewelry from and he just couldn't find anything.

So we went back to this first one and it is. It's very similar again, his own style on what he's always wanted. So it was so, it was so much to him. Not only that, but the gold he'd actually used from his family's gold, he'd used part of that what it's

sold or whatever, part of that ring. So it's very, very meaningful. You know, of that style of it. And the amount of times I'd gone up to the room and caught him trying on his ring. Just try it on one time. We just try it one more time. So obviously in the ceremony. Just wait till to marry. Yeah. For the rest of your life. He was like, can I, can I wear it when we're driving down? I was like, well, no, because we're not married, babe. Wait until we're married. We did the paperwork. Can I put it on now?

No. Lee can't wait to get his off. I don't even think he knows where he's being. So that was a funny bit again, where you and our husband and wife were kissing and hugged and he went, No ring. And I knew he was going to say it. That's the thing. I just knew it was coming. So obviously, when we got it out, there's actually a picture. of me doing the bow, putting the ring on. And you could just see his face that. He's happy. You know, because he's just so happy.

So, yeah, what a wonderful, wonderful lady. Couldn't have gone any better. I am Mrs. Kayla and a wifie. Finally. 20 years later. Yeah. No, very happy. And now just July to plan and celebrate.

Roll on July. Roll on July. So, yeah, thank you to everybody for obviously messages. I've had gifts and cards. and money already. I think obviously something, oh, what I'm going to do July? I wasn't expected anything anyway.

So anyone who has sent me things because there's some things that's come from even Mitch's clients who I don't even know. Yeah. You know, and I just think it's so lovely of people. They've even remembered the day, let alone to actually go out and, you know, give you things. So, yeah, I've got my mini moon

that was gifted to me by my in-laws, official in-laws, my mother-in-law, and my sister and brother-in-law. So we're going to Amsterdam in the next couple of weeks for our mini moon. And we'd heard from Billy and Liam that Neo and Acon were performing in London because that's where you've got tickets for. So I was like, oh, that's well good. They're the dates that we're in Amsterdam.

Had to look. They were in Amsterdam, right? But I'd left it. Hadn't really nothing about it. It was getting married. Came back because everyone was like, oh, you got the mini moon. I was like, oh shit, yeah, we've got the mini moon. Went on to look for tickets.

And then I asked Leah, what Mitch and. he'd ask Liam because he goes, just ask because we'll do it. So he'd ask about, see if he could get tickets. Anyway, they couldn't and I'd booked them anyway. And then I'm not on my phone much. I'd see my notification on my phone. I was like, you've been bism. So I was like, okay, went on.

In bism, like a bit of money. I was like, okay, what's this from? Went down, down, down, Billy, wedding gift for the concert tickets. So Billy and Liam have also gifted us concert tickets to go and see Aikon and Neo in Amsterdam. Like, I'm excited. I think when Mitch realized, I haven't even seen,

not for a concert, I haven't seen him so excited. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Even he went down to Mason, like, I'm going to see O'Con. I'm going to go. And then when the kids realized who it is,

because I do know their songs, not me? They're like, oh my God, you know. And he's like, yeah, in Amsterdam. I don't know what Mitch expects you're going to be able to do just because we're in Amsterdam.

Yeah. But yeah, we're really buzzing. So thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, it's just lovely. Lots to look forward to. Really loads to look forward to. And do you know how I just feel, I just feel, I just feel so in love.

Yeah. Like not just with Mitch, obviously, but with just everyone around me, like you and my sister and my, just everyone. You know, like, that just, that's what made a feel. It has been nice to celebrate you guys and, yeah, just like spread that love and just be excited. I feel so in love with Mitch, obviously, but I just feel so loved as well. Yeah, just, and I love yous, you know. So thank you because you've made a wifie happy. We had loads of celebration over loads of time.

So this year is your year. Yeah. So lots more to look forward to. So we'll keep you updated with how the concert goes and how your mini moon and July and everything. But yeah, that's Charlotte and Mitch's wedding story. We will. So I hope you enjoyed and we'll catch you soon.

We will. Bye. Bye. Just to add, just to add, because Liam can click this in. So anywhere he wants, we haven't mentioned, Bill's little foot. injury. Injury people.

Day two after walking. Not even money. No, she's giving it out to everyone that she's eating healthy. Yeah. She's drinking these. Two really good days. She's very active in walking.

Yeah. Don't do it, guys. It's not worth it. We're having a sofa day today. Yeah. No, it's not worth it. It's not worth exercise. And don't recommend it.

We didn't catch this one on video though, unfortunately. No. Bye.