Top Wedding Hints

Female: Andrea, welcome to the show! Andrea: Thank you. Female: Lovely to se you. Tell us about new series Andrea: Well it was loads of fun to make. Obviously new series won a few years ago. I have loads of readers writing us with their dilemmas, be it about their what they can wear and what kind of cake they have, what kind of flowers suit their theme and we try and cover as much of those as possible in the magazine, but obviously we can’t do everything. So this is a great opportunity to really help the brides to be and so we have loads of them writing and wanting to be on the show and we choose the best one. The ones we thought will be able to help a lot of the brides who will be watching the show. And then we got the men, we got these top experts from the industry. We have some amazing contacts. We have top celebrity hairstylist, Errol Douglas. We have Karen Hardy who is the winner of Strictly Come Dancing. She came in to help us with the first star dance dilemma. And we have some lovely people from Kuoni the honeymoon experts. As Bill came in the show and we have the experts from our team as well, we got a fantastic fashion director, style editor, travel writer and we really got the grips with the dilemma, chatted with the brides and hopefully we’ve solved a lot of problems. Female: That sounds fantastic. What are the main dilemmas that you had to deal with? Andrea: Well, obviously in this climate budget is a big one. Lots and lots of brides on smaller budget than they initially planned, so we had to come up with lots and lots of ideas on how to save money initially sort of how to save money on cutting your utility bills, getting the right savings accounts and then to the nitty-gritty on how to save money on the day, things like I’m using seasonal flowers and really negotiating with your suppliers because obviously it’s a bias market out there at moment. So we got a top financial expert. And actually our acting editor came on with a few good tips. So that was the main one. Obviously, dress is a massive one. And we have two lovely girls come in with quite different dilemmas, quite different body shapes and then needed to know which dress suit their shape and their styles. We had some great experts coming on for that. And we have lovely one for the cakes, Mitch Turner again is a celebrity cake maker she makes cakes for the like of Elton John and Madonna. She came with amazing samples. I had to fight the guards to get with her. But yeah it was great, really lots of fun making it. Female: I think a lot of bride actually probably at home now watching this; think “Gosh I have those dilemmas. I thought it was just me that couldn’t get the right dress to fit me or—” So you’re helping just every bride out there with all these different dilemmas. Andrea: Well hopefully, hopefully. And we have so many ideas and tips that come in. I mean I’ve worked on Wedding Magazine for five years and even I learned something new on this show, which is great for me and I really hope that it’s going to help the brides out there and all our readers. And because obviously every bride is creative and they know what they want for their day, there’s always one aspect that they are just clueless over. No one has planned a wedding before. This is their first time and it was great that we can help.