Britt & Ben Got MARRIED!!
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This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. And I'm Mrs. Seagrass. Somebody got you. Firstly, let's address the fact that this has dropped on a Tuesday because we simply could not wait to blow our load and record this and get this out to you. Ben couldn't wait either. What a lovely way to start the episode. Couldn't wait. It's too much. So romantic. But we're so happy.

I'm so happy for you. And it was the most amazing wedding ever. And this, for anybody who is curious, is purely just an ode to Brittany and Ben. This is a wedding special. And you are going to get all the details. Yep. I am officially, I never thought I would say this, officially married. Actually, it's not official. But I had a wedding. You're actually not married. No.

Can we? Okay. First things first. Obviously, like there's like logistics around getting married and like there are processes that need to be followed in order for it to be legally wed. How are we starting the wedding episode with so not actually married? Spoiler. You brought it up. Yeah. So it's well, yeah, let's just start with that.

You do have a choice if you want to, like you can get married internationally, like you can, but you jump through way more hoops. There's a lot more legislation. For Ben and myself, it was way more tricky because we're already from two different countries getting married in a third country. It was too much. So we just have to officially legally sign the documents here. But

By all other accounts. It was exactly like the proceedings were a wedding. Anyone that was there that I didn't tell because everyone thought it was legal. No one knows. But you guys all in on the secret. We're not actually married.

You can't say that you are married. It was an incredible wedding. And also, I mean, like there's a lot happening on this episode. Ben's joining us later. We're answering heaps of your questions, but also I just wanted to say it's really quite special how full circle this feels to have this conversation. Cause when we started this podcast six years ago and for any of our OG lifers who have been along the very turbulent ride at different times, like

this started with you talking about like the absolute treachery of dating and and what you had been through in your dating life and kind of like I guess like the roles that we played on this podcast for a really long time was like I had just had a baby and you were in a different phase of life with dating and navigating what that looked like and now you're Mrs Segrist and I like am so unbelievably happy for you I also genuinely can't believe it happened I do feel really emotional

I know. Keisha's crying again. Really, over the last couple of days, it's been really interesting to me at the different moments I've become really emotional. They haven't been the ones that I expected, but just coming to work this morning, I had that realization where I was like, oh my God, we're going to work today. Firstly, it's a public holiday. Lol. Because none of us knew. That's why she's crying. And

And I just thought, I can't believe that we're actually about to go. We're about to go and record the episode where Brit talks about getting married to the love of her life. Like, you know, obviously we've all been friends for so long and we've been there through some really not great romantic experiences. And it just felt so beautiful to be like, wow, we're going to talk about kind of the final chapter of that dating story. I definitely had those moments.

I don't know. I'm assuming it's normal, but so many times in the week before I would look over at Ben and I'd be like, we're getting married. I was like, you're going to be my husband. Like, how has this happened? Do you feel any different now? I know people always ask, like, do you feel any different after the wedding, you know, in comparison to before the wedding, you know, being now that you're married versus not being married? I do. I feel like nothing has changed, obviously, because it's, again, we didn't even really do it. Yeah.

Let's not focus on that part. But no, nothing has changed, but I did feel different. I felt like we had cemented the next chapter and we really were entering a next chapter of life. Do you feel relief that you don't have to peacock anymore? Like you don't have to. It was so funny. That's another story too. Like one day after the wedding, I accidentally farted in the bed and Ben was like, wow, you weren't joking about letting yourself go once you got back.

It's all downhill for me. But it was really nice. I had this moment where I thought, how lucky are we to have done this podcast for just over six years now, six and a half. Yeah, just over six years. It's six years in July. Yeah, it's like a diary. We have a verbal diary of everything that happens in our life because we're oversharers, all of us. But it means you can go back and reflect on those things. And when I think about that first conversation on when I

hooked up with Ben, the conversation that we had. I would just like to say none of it was positive from my side. I was like, this is a disaster waiting to happen. This feels like a terrible idea. And I remember when you came back from the first time you went over to see Europe and you were like, I'm in love. And I

I honestly was like, this sounds like the worst thing I have ever heard. And I'm very, very glad that I was wrong. But the context in that also, I think is really important because, you know, I remember so many lifers were like, why can't you just be happy for Brit? And I was like, dude, I have just nursed her through the worst breakup with someone who lived overseas where I

every day you would come in and be like, I am unlovable and I'm never going to find someone. And all I could see was the fucking red flags of like, this is going to end badly and you're going to be hurt again. And I don't know how to describe it because I definitely don't feel bad. I feel like any friend who was in that position would be like, hey, I want to protect you from doing something that for 99.9% of people does not work out the way it did. And your relationship is

absolutely the exception. It is not the rule. But I think...

what people don't realize is it's funny. The reason that you said those things, there was a reason. At the end of the day, I came in and told you I was head over heels with a guy I banged that lived overseas. Like any normal friend is going to react like that. It's not like you weren't supportive. Totally. I was like, dude, this guy, he's so hot. He's an ass boy. He lives overseas. I'm never going to see him. I love him. No, no, no. If you're not going to be. When we met, Ben, the first weekend you'd hooked up with him, it was.

It was the three of us plus Matt at your house because we were recording Laura's wedding episode. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's a little peek behind the curtain, isn't it? So you and Matt went away for one week for like your honeymoon. And then it was as soon as you guys got back into the country, Brit had had her hookup. We went away for four days. We just stayed in Ulladulla. Thank you for making it sound fancy. Yeah. We didn't get a honeymoon. Sorry. No, that was nine months later with my sister for her 40th.

My timeline is off, but this part I do remember. It was the first episode that we recorded and that's why Matt was there because it was all about your wedding and everything that happened at your wedding. And Britt was like, guys, I know you could leave.

But don't. But I kind of want you to stay just for an extra five to ten minutes because there's this really hot guy that I've been hooking up with over the weekend and he's going to be here. And I just kind of want him to – I want you to meet him just so you can see how hot he is. No, I just wanted bragging rights too because it was funny. But it was so funny because I said to Ben –

hey, you can come. I've just finished working. Come over. They'll be gone. Like they're heading now. But then I went to you guys. I was like, don't go. Purposely stay and overlap. And then Ben walked in and I was like, I'm so sorry. They're still here. I was like, oh my God. And you guys were like, sorry, just tidying up, finishing up, just faked it. So Ben was so awkward. But,

But I can see why you would say that, Laura. Like, I don't think you need to feel bad. And if anyone's made you feel bad, I'm sorry. But like, that's also a pretty standardized thing. Like if any, if Keisha had have come to us one day and said she fell in love with the guy that she had hooked up with two days in a row and lived overseas, we would have also wrapped a red flag around her face and tried to suffocate her.

I am just, I mean, genuinely, I know we've spoken about it the last five days, one stop, but like, I'm so, so unbelievably happy for you guys. Like it was an incredible wedding. It was so beautiful from a timeline perspective for everyone listening. Brit got married on the Wednesday. Yeah. So Tuesday there was like a, a,

a get-together party that happened first. Wednesday was the wedding and then Thursday was the recovery. And so we've come in as soon as we've gotten back from Bali. We are in recording on Monday. And the reason why we dropped this on Tuesday, which is very out of our normal scheduling. We're too excited. Is because we wanted to be able to get it to you as quickly as possible. Yeah, and I think we kickstart with a few people saying yes.

you know, that I didn't maybe make it really public when the wedding was or where it was. And maybe I was alluding to the fact that I was still in Italy when we're in Bali. And that was all very intentional. And I know a lot of people understand why, you know, we share a lot. I did want to try to keep the wedding private. There were some media outlets that were trying to find out when and where and what and why. And I just wanted to do my best to protect that. And that wasn't intentional to you guys. And I know most of you understand, but

I don't want anyone to feel like I was trying to lie or lead them down a garden path. It was just to protect one special day and we successfully did that. It was beautiful. No one was there to interrupt it or ruin it. What would have happened if they were, Brittany? Well...

on the roof with laser beams. Lucky they weren't rifles. That's a story we'll get into later. But yeah, so I just wanted to start by saying that. So I'm sorry if anyone did feel misled because I know we are a really big family here. But to give people context on that, like the Paps traveled to Italy for Anna Heinrich's wedding. They came down to Ulladulla for mine. I know that's a really big voyage for them. But-

You and Aladala. They published Tammy Hembrower's whole, they had like a drone at Tammy Hembrower's quite recently. The whole wedding, yeah. They published the whole thing. Yeah. At Laura's wedding, Laura's vows were online published whilst we were at the reception. Like, yeah. And you know the thing that was the most upsetting, like obviously we got over it. I wasn't going to let it ruin my wedding. But the most upsetting thing was that there were media outlets that tried to frame that we were in on the pap.

being there and I will swear on everything in my life that we had no idea and the only reason why they were able to record the vows just for anyone who maybe was well how did they get the audio because we were speaking on a microphone and it was projected across everyone who was there and they were hiding in a bush recording everything and filming everything and so like

It felt so invasive. And so we really wanted to make sure that that wasn't something that you experienced, Britt. And because we've kind of like, we've traveled the road already. We knew a little bit better as to how to protect it. Unfortunately, my husband wasn't on board with that. So...

Something happened on the day of Britt's wedding. You guys know our Wednesday episode comes out. We had a great chat around fertility waiting rooms and we just had our normal episode, which we pre-recorded before we went away. Like fake it till you make it. Yes. Great. Love that for us.

Matthew Johnson and his wonderful podcast partner, Ash, they also pre-recorded the podcast. Now I cannot tell you how many times I said to my husband, I cannot tell you, Brit's wedding, we're not talking about it. We're not going to tell people that we're there. You're just coming over for a holiday, like, you know, off the back of my work week. And he was like, yeah, got it. Good. The morning of Brit's wedding, his podcast episode comes out in which he says, yeah, so we're heading over to Bali for Brit's wedding. Justin.

He got the timeline wrong. The amount of messages I received, which were like, oh my God, did Matt just accidentally spoil the fact that Britt's wedding is in Bali? And it was the day of. And then I received, we were sitting at a cafe and Keisha sent me a screenshot from one of you guys who'd written in and my stomach dropped. I think I yelled at him in the cafe. I was so upset at him. And then he got so upset. Matt was almost in tears because it was the second thing that he accidentally unveiled that week.

Yeah, baby names and my wedding. Good one, Matt. You're on a roll. What's the third one? He was like, I need some headlines. True dating dad. How can I spice this up? How can I stay relevant? Yeah.

And they ended up deleting the episode almost immediately, but it had had quite a few downloads. So I just honestly spent the entire day praying to every God that there is under the sun that like, please don't let that get out. Please don't let Britain know. It's so funny. I did walk up to Matt at the wedding and pretend I was mad. Like I had a go at him. I told you though, that's how you knew. Yes, yes. You'd already told me. And I mean, I wasn't mad. Was it a careless error? Yes. Was it reckless as fuck? Could it have been avoidable? Absolutely. Absolutely.

But there was a media outlet that had released the venue location and approximate dates, but they didn't have the exact date, right? They had a window. And I had called my wedding planner. I had a wedding planner in Bali. I had easy weddings here in Australia who were amazing. And then I got some, they had some people on the ground over there as well. And I sent it to them and I said, I don't know how this has gotten out because we did have different names and whatever. And

And they immediately went, they're like, don't worry, we've got this. Like we're going to sort this out. We're going to make sure no one gets in. And it's a huge private estate. The only way to get in for a paparazzi was with a drone. And I said they can. Or the guest list. Or the guest list because they weren't checking names off apparently. Or the guest list because the people at the door were just showing the entire guest list and saying which name is yours. Which one are you?

And so because we got married, like it is stunning. I cannot wait to show you. But it's on a cliff, right? Like Ben and I were on a floating stage on an infinity pool. We couldn't have been closer to a cliff. If a paparazzi wanted to with a drone, he could have been like half a metre away and got the best content ever. So they were like the wedding planners in the Balinese side were like, okay, we've got this. We're on it. We've got security. They're going to sit on top of the roof. They've got rifles. They're going to shoot the drone out of the air.

And I was like, sorry, what? Rewind. Like just an air rifle with air or like a rifle rifle, like a gun? They're like, no, we're going to shoot it with bullets out of the sky. And I was like, okay, slow down. I cannot be responsible for accidentally killing someone in Bali with a rifle at my wedding. Imagine that headline. Can I say though, it sounds okay in theory, but imagine being mid-vow. Yeah, the thing that

the funniest is that you also had a drone and so I pictured that they wouldn't know which one was which. So let's imagine that they accidentally shot your drone and then you had to ask the paps for their footage. Sorry, can you actually Dropbox me that? Can you just airdrop me because we lost all of ours. It's just got like Daily Mail trademark on it. But I had to talk them off the ledge and I was like, look,

I don't know if that's legal in Bali and I don't want to go to prison for shooting rifles at my wedding or accidentally shooting somebody. So we settled for laser beams. They had like – like it was so funny. I feel like it could have been out of a movie. There was this guy on the roof with a laser beam and if a drone came past, he could –

It's like shining a light in the eye and it stops them from being able to film. It was very, very funny. But we didn't need to use any rifles. I do not want that going out. And the guy on the roof with the laser beam was just sitting up there drawing pictures on the roof. I watched him for half of it and he was just like, he was drawing a cat. He was not watching the ceremony. He was drawing a cat.

Anyway, look, Ben is going to join us. And so, you know, so many of you guys wrote in questions and there is so many details around it. But Keish, you had one very specific and important role. Probably the most important. Also the heaviest, actually, technically and logistically, the heaviest role because we all saw how much fabric was in British dress.

So a couple of months ago, I think it might have been, we were actually sitting at a cafe near work and Britt turns to me and she was like, hey, I have a favor to ask you. It's a big one. She goes, I'm not going to be going to Bali from Australia. I'm actually going to be going over to Europe first because we've got our friend's wedding. So I'm wondering if it's okay if you take my wedding dress over? And I was like, yeah, yeah, of course. No worries. Like,

I think a lot of these moments I'm kind of just a no worries type of person and I don't really think about like the actual logistics of certain things until I'm in the moment. Until you become worried. Until I was like, it's not exactly small. So Brit brings the dress over and it's a Stephen Khalil dress and Stephen Khalil's shop used to be just down the street from where I lived. And so I would look in the window every time, you know, after I found out that he was your designer. Yeah.

And I kind of started to grasp like, oh, he makes big dresses. Like he doesn't do anything subtle, you know. The day that Brit was about to go over to Europe, she's like, I just need to drop my dress in. I've just picked it up from, you know, down the street. And you had this thing where you were like, I don't want you to look at it. You know, there was a bit of a joke that the reason you weren't asked, Laura, is because we all knew that you would look at the dress. Even try it on. Yeah.

Even if I looked at it, there was so much dress, you wouldn't have been able to make out what was going on inside a bag. My favorite image is still, it's not ever real, but my favorite visual is if I gave it to Laura and she was just walking around her house with it on. The entire bodice of your dress wouldn't fit one boob at the moment. Yeah, I couldn't breathe, but it looked great. It looked great. So Britt brings the dress over to the house and I have this photo. If you're watching this episode on YouTube, I'll make sure that this includes it.

There is a picture of the dress next to Delilah. And I just remember standing there and looking at it and I was like, how is this going to work? That's bigger than me. That's really large. Like if we were to give this a size, this is like triple XL in terms of a dress. But I was like, all right, no worries. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

We got to the day that we had to actually go to the airport. And so I didn't kind of grasp until I was getting it into the car just how large this fucking thing was. It sits on your lap and it takes up the whole car. We had our suitcases in the back of the Uber. And this was at like 3.30, 4 o'clock in the morning, mind you.

And so my boyfriend got in one side of the car and I got in the other. And then the dress just took up the whole rest of the back of the car. We couldn't even talk to the Uber driver because it was just taking up this whole thing. We get to the airport. I'm in the line. And one thing I have realized is it really restored my faith in humanity. The way I was treated by strangers through the airport was like the kindest thing I have ever experienced. Everyone just kept congratulating me.

And at first I was explaining that actually it wasn't my dress. And then I changed tactics. Then she was accepting money gifts. So the one thing that I haven't told you, Brett, is that you gave me quite a big responsibility. But I tried the dress on. I temporarily lost it. And I promised to you that I wouldn't look. There was a part where I saw a part of the dress, but it wasn't my fault. But there are certain things that can't fit through an airport security scanner. Yeah.

So we are going through. Because this dress, I took it as carry on because you didn't want it to go underneath in case it got lost or whatever. So we had it all pre-approved by Jetstar that I could take it in and like it can go in the overhead and whatever. So I get to airport security. And you know how you have to take your laptops out, take your phone out. Take your wedding dress out. They looked at the wedding dress and they were like, that will not fit through the scanners.

They were like, what's in it? And I was like, it's a wedding dress and there's an air tag in there as well. Cause I knew that they were going to kind of wand over it. Right. And they looked really worried once I said the air tag thing. And I was like, it's going to set off your metal alarms. Just so you know, like there's an air tag in there.

So the dress went behind security and went up to where they were doing the scanning. And I just did our normal like airport. We went through the scanner, you know. As it turns out, you have to stand with your belongings when they're getting checked. They were like, you have to come over here. You have to come over here. And I was like, no, you don't understand. I'm not allowed to look at it. I'm sorry, I can't look. They're like, is this your dress? I don't know. I can't look at it. They're like, you have to be with your belongings. Like it was getting more and more suspicious to them.

So at one point they unzipped the bag and I've like shot my eyes upwards because I'm like, I'm not allowed to look at it. I was really dancing the line of trying to not look incredibly suspicious and also trying to get your dress through security. I definitely should have elaborated, Keisha. If it comes down to you being arrested by airport security, you're allowed to look at the dress. Yes.

But anyway, they zipped the dress back up and I carried this thing along with me. Surprisingly, when I actually saw the dress on you, I was quite shocked myself. I was like, wow, okay.

I carried that. I was like, I don't know how that fit in the bag. It was kind of heavy, but it was more awkward than it was heavy. It's actually quite light. Like for how big my dress was, it wasn't, it was really thin fabric with just like these little flowers on it. So it wasn't like a thick, but it was just, there was a lot of it. How many kilos are we talking? I didn't weigh it, but I did pull it around. I didn't weigh it.

Maybe like three and a half. Oh, that's fine. It was nowhere near as heavy as what I thought it was going to be. Ben reckons more. You reckon more? Maybe I've just been working out. Eight.

We got onto the plane. Again, also a lot of congratulations. So thank you to those people who made me feel really special about going. Did you walk around with a wishing well? Congratulations. Congratulations. Hope you have the best wedding. I was like, thank you so much. That's so interesting because I brought the dress home and not one person said that to me.

I'm so offended. It's a different vibe coming home from a beautiful tropic holiday to the cold. But we also stuffed it. You know how you said it doesn't fit through security? Oh, it does. We rolled it up into a ball and threw it through the Bali security. We were like, this bad boy's getting through. Yeah, but it had already done its job. So you were fine to do that. I feel like Keisha and Khalil. Keisha had a fire.

It's a far harder task. No, I appreciate you. Thank you so much. You're more than welcome. Because it was a huge responsibility. You had killed my plants before. I wasn't sure we'd gone down the right path. I restored your faith in me. I'm also available if anyone else has any international weddings, if you need a cargo shipper. You're a wedding mule. Happy to go.

No, thank you. You did an amazing job and you got it there safely. Well, you looked absolutely beautiful and the dress was fantastic. I mean, speaking of things going off without a hitch, there was one small hitch that we did encounter before we get Ben on and that has to do with the rings. Now, you guys all know that I made the wedding rings for Brit. And Ben. And Ben. So this is like Tony May. Brit came into my work and we sat down and we went through all the details. We went through everything, as I told you on the episode two weeks ago. And...

And Brit's rings, perfect, beautiful. I gave them to you a couple of weeks ago. You tried them on. They fit great. And you were like thrilled. I was wearing them around for the wedding. I couldn't take them off. The problem that we had is that Ben had to size himself at a jeweler overseas and Brit was flying to Europe first and she was going to give the rings to Ben. Unfortunately, that meant that we were quite close to time and he didn't have a lot of days prior to the wedding to actually see the ring. There were seven days from when I got to Italy with Ben's ring until when we were at

in Bali getting married. Yeah, so he'd seen photos of it. I knew that Ben was thrilled with the way that it looked, but Ben's design of his ring was also very specific. So it has an infinity loop of diamonds that go all the way around it. The problem with having infinity diamonds on a wedding band means it's really, really tricky to resize. You can only make it bigger because you can carve out the middle, but you can't make it smaller because you can't contract the diamonds. So Ben got sized, brought

Brit comes in, we sit down, we do the consultation. Perfect. Love it. Ben's is 64. I write it down on my notes. I put it into the system. 64. Great. Give or take. 64. 64 give or take. Two and a half sizes. So brilliant.

Britt takes the ring over to Europe. Ben tries it on and it flings off his finger. Oh, not even close. And this is something that people don't realize. Your right hand, if you're right-handed, it depends on your dominant hand. If you're left-handed, then it's obviously your left hand's bigger. But your dominant hand is always bigger than your non-dominant hand. And for most people, that means their right hand is bigger than their left hand.

So the ring measurements that I received was not in fact for Ben's wedding finger, which was not a 64. It was a 62 or a 61. It was a 60.5, I think. 60.5. I received the measurements for Ben's right hand, which I'm pretty sure he's also broken several times playing football, which meant that we had five days to remake Ben's wedding finger. Ben, so I get there and I'm like, we pulled the ring out and Ben's like, oh my God, like it's

Dunning because he's such a baller and he likes fluffy, fancy stuff. And it has diamonds all the way around, huge diamonds, bigger than mine. Yeah.

And it looks, he's like, I love it so much. And I was like, put it on, baby. Put it on that beautiful Swiss skin. Anyway, he puts it on and it just falls to the ground. It's a bracelet. It's a bangle. Yeah, it's like a bangle. It went up his arm. And I was like, what's happened? Put it back on. He puts it back on. And I was like, I don't understand what's happening. I had a meltdown. I was like, how does this not fit you? Messaged Laura and I was like.

Laura, you've made a mistake. Britt messaged me and she goes, Laura, you're wrong. She goes, I think you've made the ring too big. And I was like, no, I made it exactly to the spec. Wait, and checked my notes, checked the notes that we did in store. Checked notes? I was like, so luckily for me, I'd also taken a photo of the notepad that I had written everything down on whilst Britt was sitting next to me. I'll give it away. And then I put everything. Dated. Next to a newspaper. Yeah.

Held up. So anyway, I also just want to say we got it done. So Ben. We get problems solved and that problem was solved. I'm like, cool, this is a week before the wedding. You don't have a wedding ring.

this is a very expensive ring. I was like, hey, Lorsi, hypothetical. Could someone that has an infinity diamond ring get it resized? She's like, what have you done? I was like, Ben's ring doesn't fit. So once we heard you can't get it resized, I was like, oh my God, this is the most expensive ring full of diamonds that we can't resize. We're getting married in a week. I was like, it's okay. We'll sort it out. We'll sort it out. And so I blamed Ben. I was like, Ben, you gave me the wrong, you obviously gave me the wrong digits.

And he's like, no, I didn't. I gave you the right. I was like, I wouldn't have made a mistake. So he sends it to me. And I was like, no, I've definitely told her the right date. I was like, it's probably Laura's fault. Because Ben and I are fighting against each other. I'm saying it's Ben's fault. Ben's saying it's my fault. And I was like, should we blame the person that's not here? I was like, no.

that meme and it's like advice to couples to have an imaginary person who lives in your house that you blame everything on. Like if a cup is left out, it's like, that's Frank. Bloody Frank. He's the worst housemate. Like Frank must have left the toilet roll. You know, Frank must have not cleaned up after this. Yeah, the partner's like, I'll speak to Frank, but I'll move it. Yours is just Laura. Frank definitely thought it was a size 64. Put it that way. So Laura is like

gotten her shit together, gotten her team together and has made the ring again in like six days. We got it the day before the wedding. We were at the recovery party. Laura was cleaning it with a cloth. Wait, does that mean that there's two versions of the ring? Yeah. Correct. So I have the second ring now. If anyone wants to buy it. It's a cock ring. It's a diamond. We have a diamond cock ring. Contact. If anyone wants a beautiful diamond bracelet, contact me at tonymay.com. Almost exclusive. If anyone wants.

anyone wants to match Ben's wedding ring we have that that is for sale we have an identical I just need your husband to have slightly larger hands and it'll be for sale in Bondi in two weeks what do you melt it down and like reuse the diamonds yeah I'll just melt it down okay so like yeah I mean for a solid gold you can obviously repurpose it but it will just get melted down and put back into like gold stock and then we'll make it into something else at another point in time it's so funny I feel like we could

do a whole episode on the mistakes that happened the week before the wedding. Well, I think I should jump out of here and we should add Ben into this chair so that you guys can kind of... Sorry, do you mean my husband? I know it was Britt's wedding, but I do have the feeling that it was also Ben's wedding. So he can join us and we can ask him the questions as well. Ben, come on down. Benjamin. Ben, welcome to the podcast. Hello, guys. You've just been lurking in the corner this whole time. Yes, I was listening to everything you said.

And I did not blame you. I was going to say, who's fault do you think the ring was? I did not blame you for the wrong size. Yes, you did. No, I just pointed out that I passed on the right size. That's just, you know, make sure I'm out of the firing line. Okay, I will admit something.

I did go back to try to confirm where the error occurred. So I went back through all messages through you and me, Laura, through Ben and myself, through myself and Ben's sister, Becky, who helped resizing. No, don't bring her into this. I liked it. Now, like, more names. It was Keisha's fault. It was Keisha. Ben's mom was there. And then I'm pretty sure. And then the dog. Delilah did it. What I can say is in my investigation, I did discover that you did indeed pass on the correct size, Ben.

Thank you very much. Did you send both hands or something? Yes, because you made this other ring. Yes, you made the ring for Christmas. Yeah. And obviously that finger is a little bit more crooked than the ring finger. But I had no idea what hand, sorry for context here, guys. I've made now two rings for Ben and one of them he wears on his right hand. But I had no idea what finger you were wearing that on. So I didn't know. Right. I wasn't able to use that as a reference. She's still trying to get rid of the black. She's like, it couldn't have been me. I didn't know.

And her message was like, but you made the other ring so you know the size. And I was like, I have no idea what finger Ben wears that ring on. I was like, don't drag me into this. Yeah, that's a 65 and that's a 61, I think. Okay. Yeah, I'm so glad we got it. Guys, I just took the blame, all right? Yeah. I just did it. Wait, can you just say it was my fault? As in like, say- I'm not going to actually say the sentence. My name is Brittany Hockley and it was my fault. No, because you might freaking buy that. Use it for other stuff. Get the timestamp as well, please. That's very important. And then we'll play that at the start of every intro. I'm never giving you that.

My name's Brittany Hockley and it was my fault. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Forever. Now into perpetuity. I'm not saying it was my fault. I'm just saying one step can be excluded. All right. Well, look, let's get into. We've moved on. Let's get into all of the wedding stuff.

details, the chat. Firstly, you guys have had to change your plan because up until recently, you were never meant to come back to Australia. Britta has been saying that the wedding was happening, you had a few days in Bali, and then more than likely you were going to have to head back to Italy. But clearly you're here in the flesh. So welcome. Yes. So every football team has a sort of different off-season, different plans. And now they've swapped teams to Italy, they have a longer break and all that kind of stuff. So luckily I managed to sneak an extra couple of weeks. And how long are you going to stay here for?

Still not confirmed, but hopefully minimum two weeks. Minimum two weeks. Yeah. So we only knew the week of the wedding that he was able to come here. He didn't have a flight booked. He had nothing. So we always were going to have two days in Bali and that was it. Then he was going home. So I don't want anyone to think I lied about that either. But that came the week of the wedding. He said, look-

look, it's still up in the air. I'm going to book a flight to Sydney and if they need me to come back, I'll come back. So we're unsure how long he's going to stay here for. But I said, I'll take you for as many days as I can have you. I just turned my phone off now. So when they tell me, it's just like, I'm sorry. No, baby, you need a job. It could be a week, but it could be up until...

It could be three weeks. It could be three weeks. Yeah, it could be up to three weeks. Oh, amazing. End of June, early July, really. Yeah. Which is really good. What I usually get is just this year was going to be a little bit shorter. And I know that this isn't specifically wedding related, but it is obviously a question that we get asked almost every day. And that is like, what's the plan now? Or there is no plan now. Lol.

I feel like we have this conversation every year. It's the same thing. We don't know. We're going to maybe do this, maybe do that. It obviously depends on which team I'm

I'm going to go to or if I'm going to remain or whatever, like a lot of open questions. The plan's the same. It's like we are married and we'll be long distance again still because we still both have our lives. Ben's life is still in Europe somewhere. Mine is still here currently. We are making plans for the future to spend more time together. We just don't know what it looks like yet. But if we have a baby...

100% we're going to be together. There is no way in hell I'm going to have a baby on my own. And I wouldn't want to do that to Ben. Yeah. And I wouldn't want to let you be by yourself. And I want to be part of it, you know. Of course. Not just the 30 seconds beforehand, you know. What a fantastic contribution to the fatherhood process of making this baby. Yeah. So for the rest of this year, for those asking, that question comes to us every day, but

But we're just going to get back to how we were. We're going to be long distance. It's not normal. It's not ideal. It's not. But I do feel like this is the year that you guys will have a plan. Yes. At the end of the year, we'll have a plan. There's hope. Yes. Yeah. Well, Ben, in terms of like your family coming over from, you know, coming to Bali from overseas for us and from being in Australia, it's almost like the easiest hop, skip and jump. Like we do it all the time. But that's like quite a journey. Yeah.

In terms of your family who came, can you kind of give us a bit of an overview of like who it was that traveled for the wedding? Yeah. So most of my family tried to make a big holiday out of it because obviously long, pretty long flight. Your mom said so.

someone asked, oh, like how long are you staying around the wedding? And she goes, well, I'm not just coming here for the wedding for three days. That was totally deadpan. She was being so literal. She was being like me. She's like, well, I'm just letting you know. I'm not just coming for this. She was like, I wouldn't just travel all the way here just for a wedding. She was like, clearly we're having a holiday. And your stepdad was like, you would travel here just for their wedding. It is your son. Never have a fight. They don't have a fight. She was so literal about it. Yeah. That's the Swiss. Yeah. Which is very us. So yeah, mom, stepdad or dad, uh,

Really, my sister and husband, who it has been the highlight of the wedding, I think. Then we've got my best man, couple of friends and my auntie. And that was kind of it. So a small, small group compared to your crazy lot. But a lot of Ben's friends and family, it was their first time in Bali. And...

I mean, Bali is so amazing because you can get these beautiful villas and eat so well and you're getting massages and it's so much cheaper than anywhere else. That's why all of the Australians love it. They were just beside themselves. They were all like, we're moving here. This is the best holiday. They were living like kings and queens. We're buying a house and everything. All the Swiss are moving to Bali. It's going to be an influx.

But it was really cool. But Ben and I were meeting each other's friends and families, a lot of them for the first time as well, which was a weird thing, like to have people on each other's sides at the weddings that you've only spoken to on FaceTime. So that was really cool. But that's why we had a welcome party. So we had a big white party the night before. Everyone wore white except us. It was on this beautiful beach club like Cliff. And that was to break the ice so that we could all meet each other and all of our friends and families could meet too. And that way it's not like that awkward conversation on the weddings.

Yeah, absolutely. Like, you know, first times meeting people at a wedding. But also it is unusual because I'm sure that there are so many people who have listened to this or are listening to this who have married someone who is from overseas and, like, it is an instance where you end up meeting people at a wedding. Whereas, like, normally if it's someone who's –

from the same city, same town. Usually it's like the opposite. It's like we're not having people at the wedding who each other hasn't met. But in your case, it's like that's an impossibility because yeah, there's so many people in each other's lives that you were meeting for the first time. Yeah, we had like one, you know,

both sides of parents and siblings like Christmas together and that was kind of like the the main thing and then everybody else is like I'm still trying to put names to faces and all that kind of stuff so but it was really good from my side everybody tried to speak English as good as they could which was funny to me because I know they definitely can't speak English but everybody made an effort to speak with each other which was really nice and

I think there'll be some friendships going on now between the two. Yeah. One of my friends wants to go to Borneo with my auntie on an orangutan tour. Yeah. Random. Simon. But also, your groomsman, your best man, you said in your wedding speech that

that he learned English when you asked him to be your best man for the wedding. Yeah. And it was a task he took on so that he could do a speech at the wedding. Yes, he did amazing. He honestly, he couldn't say hello in English, which is basically the same word, but...

I normally get random texts and say, hey, I'm trying to do this. Can you translate that for me? And I'm like, this is literally like, hello, how are you? And he wouldn't understand a thing. His English was like, you couldn't have a conversation. And so when I told him, he was obviously very honored, but he was like...

damn it, I've got to do this in English now. And I said, yes, it would mean a lot if you could do it in English. That is a huge responsibility to be like, hey, can you please be my best man, but also learn another language? Thank you. Bless him. He did amazing. One year he took English lessons. He came through, he took English lessons. He had somebody help him because sometimes when you try and translate jokes,

one-to-one. It doesn't really translate into another language, but I think he smashed it. Yeah, he killed it. It was really special. And I think for anyone, when you said your speech and everyone realized that that was something that he'd taken on because he cares so much about you, like that was, I mean, I think that was amazing. It was really beautiful. I would

I would love to know a little bit around like the pre-planning of the wedding and like the day of the wedding before you walked down the aisle, Britt, and before everyone arrived, how did the day go and did it go to plan? Ben and I, I mean...

We haven't really done anything traditionally, but we decided to spend the night together. Traditionally, you're supposed to spend the night apart. The bride and groom, they don't see each other for 24 hours. I thought we never see each other through the year anyway. I'm not going to spend another night apart from him. We were doing things we probably shouldn't have. We went and played racket sports. A big group of us, we went to the gym and then we went to play paddle tennis. I

This is where it all unraveled. 24 hours before a wedding, you probably shouldn't be playing ball sports. So the best man that we were just talking about, Eve, I was on his team and

And he. It's funny that she didn't pick me as her teammate. She just walked over to him and said, I play with Eve. It's because you guys are so competitive and it's always against each other. Not, not competitive with each other. Well, I was also trying to bond with your best man. Anyway. So he smashed the ball. It came off his racket. Like I was a meter away, smashed into my face, into my tooth. My lip went up into my tooth. It was one of those moments where you're like, Oh my God, this is funny. Oh no.

No, it was one of them ones. And it was like, you get the ice and Brits just kind of look, I think you were close to crying. I was. Yeah. Really hurt. It was like on the floor. He's like, he can't believe what he's just done. And, but I know deep inside he was laughing his head off. I was laughing. Everyone,

I was laughing except me. I was crying because my tooth went through my lip. Keisha was there filming the whole thing and she's like, great content, whatever. And Britt's like holding her face and she's like, just tell me. Just be honest with me. Just tell me. Do I have a fat lip? Well, no, I thought I chipped my tooth. It was a full on – it was really, really hectic and all I could think of was like, oh, my God, I've chipped a tooth. My tooth.

My lip's going to be fat. Anyway, once Keisha stopped getting the content and filming, she ran and got some ice and I sat down for like the next couple of hours and just had ice on my face. Anyway, I took it off eventually and I looked at the guys and I was like, how are we looking? Because I hadn't had a mirror yet. Keisha looks at it and she's like, just let's keep the ice on for a little bit longer. And I was like, is it that bad? She's like, no.

So it's fine. Just let's just keep the ice on. Anyway, thank God it was mainly all on the inside. It was only cheek a little bit as well. And it was one side of my face, but within 24 hours with the makeup on, you couldn't see anything. It was free Botox basically. It was just a little. No, it's filler. Filler. Same thing. So yeah, that was what we did the day before, which if I can give anyone any advice that is having a wedding. Yeah, don't do that.

No contact sport, no ball sports within 48 hours, at least before the wedding. But then we spent the night together. We just like all had dinners. Ben and I went to bed together, woke up together. We spent the morning together. Like we came out into our balcony. We wore our matching Seagrass t-shirts, which is vomiting the mouth.

Which was really cute. And then we sort of like watched them build our wedding. Like our wedding overlooked... The stage and... Yeah, it overlooked the stage and we were watching the flowers come in and we were doing that together, which was really, really special, I think. You guys did it a little bit differently in terms of having a first look. Yeah. That was before the actual ceremony. What were your decisions around that and like why was it that you wanted to do that? And you also had photos taken at that time too. Yeah. So the way that our villas worked, so...

It's at Pandawa Estate. That's what it's called. And I can't recommend it enough as a wedding venue because very private. You can hire six private villas that all have pools. You can have them singly or you open gates and fences and you can go between. So I was, when we said goodbye to Ben, we're like, see you when we get married. And we had this very strict schedule. Like people know when you're getting married, you have a schedule. So I'm up in my room and I'm like on a second floor and I can look into the other villas across the way. And I'm like,

The gates were open between the fences because people were building. Anyway, I'm dressed, done, ready. And I look out the window and I'm like, is that Ben? And I can see through the gate to the next villa. He's flower pool with his friends like he's in Ibiza at a party, like having a full pool party. We had the speakers out, everything, throwing balls across the pool. How far past the schedule were you at that point? Two hours. Whoa, look. Whoa. We had –

We had very different preparations. No, everyone has the same schedule. Yeah, same schedule but different preparations. So we say we spent the morning together. We probably say goodbye at like nine o'clock.

And then the bridesmaids got their makeup, their hair and everything. I didn't have to do anything. I get dressed in 10 minutes. But there's still a schedule for a reason. Yes, but I only need 10 minutes. So I'm going to spend some time in the pool. He made his own schedule. So we went down to a little private with the boys and we were, you know, playing cards, playing music and all that kind of stuff. Can I just say there's nothing more infuriating that it takes a guy 10 to 15 minutes to get ready for their own wedding. I've been getting ready for 37 years. Yeah.

This is the argument I had with Matt before any event. So like say your wedding, like I'm getting ready. I've been getting ready for an hour and Matt was still laying in his budgie smugglers on the bed, on his laptop. I was fully dressed, ready to go. He's like, only takes me 15 minutes. Firstly, it never actually takes him 15 minutes. It always takes him longer than he thinks it does. But still you can leave.

For a formal event, walk out the door in 15 minutes. So, okay, this is where it unravels. Let me tell you. This was the first marital fight that they've ever had. No, so I'm standing up on my balcony like the queen in my dress and I'm looking down at him and I call him. I see he's got his phone on the side of the pool. Picks it up. Would have been worse if he hung up. I know, I should have. Or screamed me. Put it down again. He goes, hey, baby. And I was like, hey, baby, how are you going? He's like, good. I was like, you almost ready? He's like, yep.

And I was like, lies. I was like, Ben, I can see you in the pool. I can see him looking around for me. And I was like, get out of the pool. He's like, I'm not in the pool. I was like, I'm looking at you. You're physically out of the pool because you're on the phone, but you're still in the pool area. He was on the phone in the pool. The water was stuffed with his nipples. Anyway, so I make him get out. So there's three groomsmen. So the bridesmaids are ready. We're done. Three groomsmen. So there's Ben, my friend Simon, who was in his suit.

J L four J and Eve. So Ben gets out. Now I have told Ben that he has to dry clean his suit because he decided to wear his wedding suit to somebody else's wedding a week before. Just the bottom half. Okay. Hit me out a week before. I was like, babe, how about we keep the wedding suit for our wedding? Let's just get you a different suit for your friend's wedding, which is in another country.

Five days before. He's like, no, no, no, no, no. It's cool, cool, cool. So anyway, he wears these wedding suit, gets them dirty. So I said, you have to dry clean them the day we get to Bali or there'll be no time. It's not something that gets done in a day. Takes three to four days. And we were only in Bali three days before the wedding. Two days before the wedding.

babe, did you send your stuff off for dry cleaning when we got here? And he was like, oh fuck, I forgot. I'll do it now. So he calls up and they say, sorry, sir. Stop laughing, Laura. You're a fucking punishment. Dude, sorry, sir. It takes three to four days. The wedding's in two days. And I was like, you're kidding me, Ben. I was like, sort this out. Go and sort it out. So anyway, he calls around, he's throwing money around. He's like, do what you've got to do to find a dry cleaner. He's anyway, he's like, babe, sorted. Got it. It'll get delivered the day of the wedding.

I don't care at this point. I'm like, as long as it comes. So this is the wedding day. They're all in their suits. I would like to say we have a snitch on our side because you're not supposed to know this. It's Jay. So somebody was snitching. We all know it's Jay. Jay has a habit of giving away things early. Jay would absolutely. But I have my own story on Jay. I'll get my revenge. Don't you worry. So for context, Jay is Sherry's husband. Sherry is Britt's sister. So Jay is very evidently the leaker.

No, Jay wasn't elite because he had his own issues. None of the groomsmen were elite because they all fucked up. So Ben gets his suit out. It is like a suit for an ant. The dry cleaner, it has –

It shrunk. The zipper doesn't do up. He had to pin his zipper with multiple pins. I initially thought they gave me the wrong pants back. He couldn't get his thighs in. Because I looked, I was like, that is way too small. And why is it? He was wearing leggings. That is not it. And I put it on and I went, and they were here. They were like, they were like up here. I was like, all right. Um,

Maybe I just leave the socks and just wear the shoes, you know, like modern style. Yeah, like a crop. All the stuff that she knows. A crop formal pair. Yeah. And then I got all the boys in, all the boys that were there. I'm like, boys, what are we thinking? And they're like, yeah, not great. And I was like, right, okay, let's get a steamer, some water and maybe expand them a little bit. Let's maybe do some squats in the pants. And yeah, it turns out we had to go...

to a tailor and add about five centimeters to my legs. Yeah, this is the morning. The day of. How did you get five centimeters added to pants? Did they have a trim? It's not like patchwork. It's just patchwork. They were from a factory. They were really long where you just do them yourself once you buy the suit. And this is where Jay comes in. So we bought the suit together in Italy for all the groomsmen. Jay tried his on. He was the only one there. He's like, cool, top fix, bum, bum, got to do this.

He gets there and he goes, I'm done. I'm tailored my pants. Also an hour before the wedding. An hour before the wedding. And I'm like, right. And then that's before I even discovered that I needed to do mine. So I was obviously like, Jay, come on. Like you're supposed to be the organized one. I put my pants on. And so his are too long. Mine are too short. And he was just one of many things. So they cut Jay's and sold to Ben's. Yeah.

One of the many things that nearly derailed the wedding. It was the ring. Then it was the pants. Then my zipper wouldn't do up because they were so tight. So I had to do the, what do you call them? The safety pins? No, we had to pin. Our wedding has his pins. So my sister. I do want to say, I did notice that your pants were pinned, but only at the reception. Yes, because I was standing. You were standing. And I was like, that sucks.

And I was like, oh, they're pinned. I was like, that's a disaster. And the funny thing was, so when the guests arrived, I had to go past the room all the groomsons were staying in. And obviously we had to hide and, you know, after the first look. And then my sister comes in and said, Becky, I've got a problem. I've got a, have you got safety pins? So it's like, yeah. So she did...

the safety pins in my crotch. Becky's on her knees. With the wedding planner walking in and all she can see is me standing there with my pants sort of halfway down with my sister like on her knees standing there and I'm like, I'm holding my shoulder up like to my nipple so she can get it done and she just walked in and she just looked at us. I'll give you a moment. Yeah. We're a really close family. She's like, secret safe with me? Yeah.

Yeah. Look, I think our preparation has been very different. We haven't finished yet. So Jays, when you get suits, they're made to be particularly long so that anyone can see them. So they're not just a little bit long. Jays were like over his feet. So he had to emergency sell them to a tailor. Now we're two hours behind schedule anyway, because they're still in Ibiza having a party.

Then Simon, the other groomsman, also forgets. He's like, oh, my God, the pants are too big. I forgot a black belt. So he gets a tenner out and asks one of the staff to go down to the shop and get a belt, a black belt. I did see the belt. So the staff go down. This is like what is happening on the men's side, right? You've had a year to prepare. The staff go down and come back with a black leather belt that says Playboy on it, like Playboy.

With a Playboy bunny. With a Playboy bunny. But it's P-L-A-Y-B-O-I. Playboy. Because it's Bali. So now he's wearing like a porn star belt at the wedding. Bends don't fit. His zipper is pinned. Jay's looks like a clown. He's too long. And I thought, what? What have I done wrong for this to happen? Again, I don't know how this information was fed back to you. Because we were having fun. We were having fun. We were having a good time.

We were chilling. All the boys were having a good time. We're eating food. We're smoking some cigars. I might have to bleep that out depending on my new team. But anyway, we were all chilling. This is part and parcel of getting ready when you're with the boys. Okay.

really just, it needs to be said. It needs to be said. It's all funny. It's all fun and games. There is nothing more infuriating that as the woman, you are stuck doing all the organization and you can't even get a pair of pants. Yep. Like for your wedding, your wedding event, that's been ready for a year. But also like, I know that there'll be a lot of people that relate to this, but

The reason why you're able to flap around and not have pants and everything else is because somebody has done all the organizing. So it's like, you know, thank you, Brittany. You did an amazing job of organizing your own wedding. That's all I needed. Thank you. No, I did need that part of my back, but I couldn't even be mad. I was like, well, like finally 37 years, someone's marrying me. I'll take him. This is not going to stop me now. So yeah, we did, we did do the first look and we did that.

probably two hours before the wedding. And we chose to do that

Not necessarily because I wanted to, I would have loved the first moment to have been down the aisle, but people had traveled so far from all over the world and everyone keeps talking about how quickly weddings go. I wanted to get a lot of the photos out of the way so that I could just be present and spend as much time possible with the guests and at my own wedding. Because everyone says you get married, then you go off for two hours, you lose your whole cocktail hour. So we decided to do that and get as many photos out of the way as possible so we could enjoy the wedding.

And that was the main reason. And it was a, I don't regret it. It was really nice moment between the two of us. And one of the questions was, we didn't walk down and tap on the shoulder. You know, those, all the first look videos, we didn't do that. We just had, I was probably 20 or 30 meters away. Ben turned around and we looked at each other and I walked, it was like walking down the aisle because I wanted to have that moment like we would have had on the aisle. So I was like walking towards him. And one of the questions was, a lot of the questions was, did Ben cry? Yeah.

And yes, he did. I don't know. It's something really bothered me in my eye. It was just, it was really, the dress was really bright. No, you were, you, you looked incredible. You look stunning.

And because I was so relaxed, I never got nervous or anything before the wedding, before the ceremony. I was more worried about speeches and the first dance and all that kind of stuff. And then when I was waiting for you where you were 40 minutes late. But anyway, that's when it sort of hit me. My dad came down and said, hey, big man, just enjoy every moment. And I was like, oh, like now it's actually...

It hits me like I'm getting married and got a little bit emotional and stuff. It did surprise me because Ben actually ended up crying more than me. Like I cried sporadically through the day. I kept like before in the lead up, I kept thinking about it and how happy I was and I'd have little tears. But in the moment, again, I was just giggling. Like I giggle a lot in those moments, much like our engagement. Yeah, you're an awkward giggler. Yeah, and you were really emotional, which was like...

I love that. Did you expect to get that emotional? I guess, how did you feel when you first saw Brit? Were you expecting that kind of reaction? I mean, I knew Brit was hoping...

No, I wasn't. As a joke. I mean, you've said it multiple times. I do. Actually, we could probably find the audio of Brit saying he better cry when he sees me. And like you guys know, that's my MO. I'm always going to be silly. But on the night before the wedding, I said to Ben, you know, I'm joking about that. I said, just be you. React however you want. It does not mean anything to me. Because the worst thing is you don't want someone to feel pressure. I was like, you know that I joke.

I didn't want him to do anything or be anything or be anyone or feel like you have to play up to some sort of a character. And you would know anyway. You would know anyway if I did. But I'm not an actor. I can't fake cry. But I sort of knew then...

I was like, I'm probably going to be emotional. Yeah, for sure. I just thought, wow. And I was like, the dress is way bigger than I thought. Way bigger than I thought. You had Keisha's exact reaction. Yeah. I sort of guessed the dress a little bit because Brick kept asking me. She's like, what do you think I'm going to wear? What do you think I'm going to wear? And I was like, I'm not.

I'm not going to say anything because you give it away. She's not good at keeping secrets. No, I think what gave it away was I had to request a four meter wide aisle. The aisle was so big. Yeah, but I don't know that. Why would I know that? You're on the meeting, but whatever.

So one of the big decision makings when it comes to planning around a wedding is song choices. And I know that they were particularly important to you. Can you talk us through, like, how did you decide on what was going to be the aisle song and also what was the first dance song? So we decided on the bridesmaids song, like the party was walking down to two hours before. We didn't know what we wanted to do. We just, like, sort of Googled love songs until we found one that we liked. And we went with an acoustic version of –

I love you always forever. Because that's a great song. It's a banger. Everyone loves it, but it needed to be more acoustic. And then for the...

aisle song, my wedding present to Ben. And I hadn't told Ben this. So we were picking, we were trying to decide between the aisle song. It was Ben's idea to say, ask on Instagram, you know, ask everyone what's more important, the aisle song or the first dance song. Now I already knew what the aisle song was going to be, but Ben didn't know. So I had to sort of like play along with this, that like what song would we possibly use? So I had as a wedding present to Ben organized with Sam Fisher to pick

create a song that was for us, just for us. And Sam was going to originally come to the wedding and sing it. But then he got this really huge gig in London that was far more important. And I was like, it's more important you get paid, go to London. So he recorded the song for us anyway. And so that is something I'd been working on with Sam for quite a while. And Mitch Chury was our MC. Fantastic job. He was like a comedy standup session from the start to the end.

And the only, he was one of the only people that knew that I had created this song for Ben and myself. And it's called Till I Die. I'll say Sam will release it. It's actually so good. And so I had said to Mitch,

The night is yours. Do with it what you will. I know you'll nail it. But there's one job that you, like one thing that you need to do. The schedule changed and he was stressed. The schedule didn't change. If he told you that, it's because he made a mistake. The schedule, he told us before we arrived, he was like, I've just gotten this and like stuff has changed. And he was stressed out beforehand. He's full of it. It didn't. I love you, Mitch. But anyway, this didn't change. Even if the schedule changed, I have the messages. I've got the receipts. I said to him, the only thing.

thing you need to remember is once the bridesmaids have walked down, before I come down, you say...

Ben, like listen really closely to this song because this is your wedding present from Brittany along with Sam Fisher, Sammy singing it. Like this is a song made for you guys because otherwise Ben wouldn't know. He's just going to hear a random song playing. I stood there and I knew the song that was going to come and I know the song's like two and a half, three minutes long and I stood there and I went, we're about to run out of music. What is going on? And then

Because the setup of the villa, I saw Brit at the top and I'm like, we're running out of music here. And I turned around to my grooms and Becky, I was like, shit, we were about to run out of music. Because Ben just thinks it's a random song playing. So Mitch forgot to say what I asked him to say. So then the music's coming on. I was like, oh, I hope they've got a backup song. And then I was like. It changes mid-wall. Yeah. And I was like, oh no, Brit's not going to like that one. And then the song, and then Sherry, to be fair. She was a saving grace. She was standing there for the bridesmaids. She's like, Ben.

Ben, listen, listen. And in that exact moment, the lyrics were, we walked across the street hand in hand.

So I recognized this moment of our beginning, if you will. And I was like, oh, this makes sense. The lyrics are about us. And then I realized. But Mitch was just when I was like, and now Brittany Hockley made a song for Ben. Like, I was like, surely that's not planned. Yes. So the one mistake that Mitch made was that when Rick got to the end of the aisle and they'd just seen each other for the first, like being able to like embrace. No, we've been together.

You weren't even embracing. I was still walking. Mitch announced over the top really loudly. And quickly, every special song that Brittany made me send Bishop and Ben. Ben, make sure you listen to the lyrics. Song's over. I'm already down the aisle. And I was like, I mean, it's fine. It worked out because Sherry was the only other person that knew. So when Sherry realized that Mitch forgot accidentally, bless you, love you, she looked at Ben quickly and was like, listen, listen, listen. Like this is for you. Because Ben was like.

Ben was looking for the wedding planner being like, this is the wrong song. I was looking over there to the DJ booth. I'm like, what are you doing? Yeah. What's going on? So that was a really special moment for our aisle song that we had together. To be fair, Mitch did a great job. He did. He was so funny. And I do want to say it is very stressful emceeing. Because he didn't just emcee the wedding, like the reception. Emceeing a ceremony is a different kettle of fish. And that is hard. It looks so easy for him. I'm sorry. He was so good.

He was doing like full stand-up pieces. He also took his pants off at the start of the reception and I was like, the internationals are not sure about this. No, I think they loved it. He was like cupping his own ball sack and getting into a pair of shorts and I was like, please, Mitch. Yeah. It's too much. This is not a Life Uncut live show. Put your fucking pants on. He did. But that's what I mean. Mitch-

Mitch loved that. I'm sure he's going to ask me for footage. He'll make it into a show reel. It's going to be like what he's going to use to get jobs. So we love Mitch, minor technicality at the start. Then the first dance song was the same song that we have used from the day we met. It was our song where we hard launched our relationship. It was our song we put to our engagement video. It's

now our song for the wedding. So it was Teddy Swim's All That Really Matters in the end, which is like a really, really cool song. So that was, they're all like the main songs. And one thing I did want to say is as another present,

You lifers will know in our discussion group, you might have seen that one of our lifers who's been in there from the beginning, her name's Mina. She actually wrote a song for Ben and myself and she posted it and it was beautiful. And I actually worked alongside her privately. We were trying to get it

to the exact level that I would want for the I.O.L. song and we couldn't quite get it in time but we did create a song. She's so amazing. If anyone wants anything written and created, she did an impeccable job. You can find her on the discussion group but she also created a song with me separately that I have given to Ben and you'll love it. I've got my own wedding album now. Yeah, all his private songs. About our love story. No, it was really nice and once I realised this is like

a song about us and listening to the lyrics because you normally you just listen to the music you go over it and then like seeing you there coming out of this massive massive i don't know what it's called like it it's like it almost like a portal yeah it was almost like a portal and you came down and then i was like listen to the song but i have a question why does everybody look at the groom when the bride comes out yeah you literally came out and everybody looked at me and i'm like what are you looking at me for

I feel like they look at both. They look at the bride and then they look at the groom for a reaction. They look for the reaction and you didn't have your zipper done up so they were probably looking at that as well. Yeah, probably, yeah. That was an issue. Damn, it's so presumptuous. Yeah.

What do you think was your, and I'll ask you guys this individually, but what do you think was your highlight of the day? Oh, I mean the whole thing. I have so many and I can't wait to share with you guys. I know you're asking, like the videos and stuff are incredible. I do have a few. One of the things for me, the first look, like the first moment, I feel like that's a no brainer. That was really special because it was a really big moment that we've been waiting for for so long and like seeing each other for the first time. And like, I felt, I've never felt more beautiful. I just felt

I was the happiest I've ever been. I felt stunning, like my dress, my makeup, my hair. You were like a little girl. You were like so happy, glowing, giggling, like standing there and everything. The glow was sweat. It was very humid. It was 90% humidity. But then another surprise that I had for Ben was,

And I don't know if this is a highlight or a low light for you, Ben. It's a highlight. It's a highlight. It could have been a low light, but it's a highlight. For like the last six months, I've been learning German and it is so hard. And I learned my vowels in German so that I could surprise Ben at the end of the aisle. And it was definitely, I mean, it wasn't supposed to be comedy, but Ben

That sounded very funny. How did she go in terms, I mean, to us who don't speak German, like, I mean, it sounded slightly butchered, but like fine, possible. Was it good? It was actually flawless. It was perfect. And we had the couple from Germany and they were like, we understood everything. And the difference between high German and Swiss German is quite big. So she did it in high German because Swiss German is impossible to learn. And I understood everything. It was brilliant. And then after she showed me her trial run. Practices.

And it was hilarious. I have never laughed so much in my life. It was brilliant. So my hairdresser, Alex, who came over with me is also from like almost the same town as Ben. So I've been doing lessons with him, bless him for months and months and months. And we would do voice messages back and forth. And at the start, we have voice messages to each other where he's like,

It's okay. I don't know how we're going to get there, but we'll work on it. And then to hear Ben say at the end that I nailed it and it was flawless is the biggest result I could have because I was so nervous and I was almost embarrassed afterwards.

to do it if it wasn't going to be perfect because it's like if you're going to do something you need to try and do it well but that was like definitely a highlight for me was that I nailed it and you understood what I said and I've read her um vows and how she phonetically spelled the German words like to allow herself to pronounce them correctly honestly hilarious I was just like but which is funny because Eve my best man did the same for his English vows

So he would phonetically spell them differently to make sure he pronounced it. Which makes sense because, like, I mean, I don't know how Germans spell it, but English is such a fucking stupid language. Germans? Stupid. If stupid was a word, it's stupider. But I'm like, I'm learning this now from trying to teach people

Marley, like Marley's obviously reading and she's learning to write and stuff. She'll ask a question. She'll be like, oh, I know this word and she'll spell it out. And you're like, you would think it's spelt like that. But actually there's a GH in there for no fucking reason. Dude, Germans. Why? Why is it there? Germans are saying undentalisch Tunterfisch. That was...

My last sentence of German is... So Tinte is squid or octopus, right? So Tinte is ink. So he's ink... Translated as ink fish. But Tinte is tit. So she said in one of the practice runs, she said, I love you, tit fish. So I almost see my vows. I almost said, I love you, big tit fish. But no, it was amazing. And then...

Probably the next and last highlight would be we had some incredible fireworks. Hazardous, but incredible. Guys, the first dance, so Brit and Ben did their first dance, then fireworks went off, and the fireworks were so impressive. We were a real hazard. They were 4D. You felt them. We were so...

We were so close. Like I think that like in Australia there must be restrictions on how close you can be to fireworks. In Bali those restrictions do not count. And it was like the first two went off and I got hit by fucking shrapnel on the arm. And then I like I retreated to the back because I was like this feels deeply unsafe. So we did this. It was pretty amazing. We'd organized the fireworks to go off at the same time as we dipped on the first dance. So like we did the dip, the first dance. I haven't seen the footage yet. I think it was great. It was beautiful.

Yeah, it was really beautiful. I put a Dancing With The Stars movie. Jess, the footage already. God damn it. Everyone's begging. I've got it. I'll send it to you. Do you have the first dance? Yeah, I've got the whole thing. The whole thing. I've been asking people, anybody got a video I want to see? Matt and I both have the whole thing. Yeah, we filmed it from start to finish. Great. We would just love to see it because we've been dying. We've been doing so much practice. We've been practicing. I'm like, fucking post some photos.

some photos. I've got all this shit in my phone I want to share. And then, anyway, so Ben and I, we did the dip, then the fireworks went off and they were incredible. Like, it felt like it was the New Year's Eve at Sydney. So we're watching it, we're like, wow,

wow, we're looking up at the sky, Kylie. We're like, wow, beautiful. Ow, ow. Because the strap was burning you as a horse. It was so close and everyone was enjoying it, but then everyone had this real sense of unease. They were all a bit concerned. It was like we wanted an immersive experience, so we gave you the feel of it as well. But the burns weren't like hardcore burns. They were just little like – It was just the shells sometimes would hit you. The shells –

And obviously they just come out of the back of something that's molten lava. So they were like a bit hot when they hit you. But apart from that, fine. No, no. It was very funny. So what were your highlights? Ben's like, you've said every bar. But his might be different. Ben was like swimming in the pool before. Yeah. To be fair, we did end the night by swimming in the pool again. We all jumped in the pool at like midnight or whatever. Yeah. Which was fun because some of the parents got involved and aunties and stuff. Because you would assume the young people –

jump in and all the others would be like my mom jumped in before me yeah she's nicky was straight in there highlights oh ice cream ice cream car for sure ben's famous my only and very successful contribution well fireworks but i didn't actually do them i just wanted them but the ice cream card was a highlight great flavor choices thank you very much well done i enjoyed it i went back for seconds so thank you i had vanilla and cookies and cream i ate like i was pregnant that

wedding, I ate literally everything. Even things that I was like, I probably shouldn't eat that. I might get listeria. Fuck it. Let's see. The ice cream cart was a raging success. We managed to cull

16 flavors to eight. Yes. I was forced. I was forced. Yeah. Thank God. I mean, you had to cut costs somewhere, right? It was pretty lavish. Well, they were like, we just don't have a cart for 16 flavors. It was just too many. Ben, how do you feel now? Post-wedding, back in Australia, everything done and dusted. I mean, we had an amazing three days. I mean, we had the welcoming party. We had the ceremony and after we had the day party, which everybody was just chilling and there was more chatting and stuff going on. So I had

The most amazing three days ever because I got to spend it with obviously you, your family, my friends, and everybody had a great time. We were very lucky with the weather. I think it rained either side of our three days. Yeah. The other really special thing that I didn't say or that I haven't told you guys yet, and I...

get to have that forever is that my dad married us. So my dad walked me down the aisle with my mom and then my dad was the celebrant. So he, no one knew that. And then he'd been preparing for months and I get to look back at that moment and that footage and the feeling and have him be the person that, you know, gets to say, you know, I now pronounce you and I'm so proud of you and

That was a really special moment for us to have because obviously it's an important moment and like all celebrants are amazing, but to have somebody that's like, I'm so close to my dad. So to have him be that person that did that for us is something that. It was a really nice touch. Yeah, it was one of my favorite things. Well, what does it mean for you now? Because I mean, we made jokes at the beginning being like, we're not actually married. Yeah.

Expensive wedding, but like nothing legal. What does it mean now in terms for now that you're here for several weeks? Yeah. When will you do the certificate side of it for also anyone who's curious? My girlfriend, Kaya, who married me is also going to be doing the officiating of your wedding or your marriage. Yes, we do have to lock that in. So what does that look like now? But now that you're here, you're like, surely you can do it. We can. Yeah, we will. And we need Delilah as a witness.

Yeah, Delilah was a big part of it. If you guys want to come, we do need a witness. Yeah. Keisha wants to live stream it to the lifers. Absolutely. Let's do it. Brittany's actual marriage. Not the wedding, but the marriage. You guys can watch the live stream at the... I mean, yeah, maybe. Can we get a sponsor? No, sorry. The wedding was really expensive. Can we get a sponsor? Emco Beauty, swipe up. Yes, Emco. Looking at you. You can do your wedding look for the day.

Registry. Maybe you guys send me in a location in Sydney. You can still have a beautiful location and like, cause we still get to get some nice photos. Delilah's there. So I do want photos with Delilah. That was a big part that I missed. One thing we haven't spoken about yet. When you say, what are the highlights and lowlights? There was a very funny lowlight. Wasn't expected, but we have to talk about the wedding cake. The wedding cake.

You can't even, can you even call it a wedding cake? I don't know if you can explain it properly without seeing it. I will, happily. Yeah, please. Help us out. Wedding cakes, firstly, I think that they are unnecessary. I think they're totally unnecessary. Nobody eats them, especially when you also have dessert.

They hardly ever get eaten and they're just for a photo op, right? Okay, but this is the reason we went for the wedding cake we did because I hate that no one eats wedding cakes. So we picked something that everyone would genuinely want to eat. I didn't even get to try our wedding cake. I didn't even get to taste the wedding cake. I saw you eat ours, Laura. So, yeah, look, Britt and Ben walk over to the wedding cake and we all get told to come over to the cake.

I kid you not. This cake looked identical to a four stack pizza. It looked like someone had gotten four humongous Supreme pizzas and layered them on top of each other. It was covered in blueberries, which looked like olives and then little cut up strawberries, but they look like cherry tomatoes. What was the fetish? What, what,

What was it that looked like feta? It was yogurt. It had yogurt on top, but it looked like it had white cheese garnishing. It was not what we've ordered at all. And when they cut it up and they served it around, it actually looked even more like pizza. But I tried it and it tasted identical to cornflakes and fruit. Like it tasted like cornflakes and blueberries and strawberries together. It was amazing.

I need to get some photos of what you ordered online versus what you got. It's like getting a cake on Timu. It was Timu. It was like we went to a French patisserie is what we ordered and it was Timu. And I get – so –

In their defense, it was quite hard to find a Balinese cakery or bakery. And it also was massive. Like you probably just asked for something that was not feasible in Bali. Well, they said it was. Yeah. And that is the problem. That is the problem. They are the same but different. You know, when you lie on your CV and you're like, yes, can do that. Then they've gone, how the fuck do we know?

do that? The funny thing is I have a little bit of OCD on the cake. A little bit? I wanted every single raspberry and strawberry to be placed, not just thrown on there, right? No, he even said that. That was a request. Because optically, that's what I like and it's our wedding and I want what I want, right? Yeah. And I've seen it and it looked like somebody has taken full corn wraps. No, like tortillas. Like tortillas. Burnt them. Burnt them. Poor.

Put blueberry yogurt on top and just went a handful of berries and just went. That will do. Yeah, it definitely had a scatter approach. Scatter garden. Someone had just seeded the garden with the blueberries and the strawberries. There's meant to be some icing sugar as well, I think. And Ben and I hadn't seen the cake until the moment we went up there. And so we walked up there and we stood in front of it. And I think they've got this on camera. We looked at each other and we're going to each other. We're going, what the fuck is that? We're like, what do we do now? Somebody set the fireworks early to distract the people. Like, what's going on? Yeah, we're like, bring in the entertainment.

We were like looking at each other going, what the fuck is that? And then we tried to cut it. It was so burnt. It went and just crumbled everywhere. And I literally said, stop filming. I said, stop it. I said, take it away. No photos. Nothing to see here. But we had to laugh. We had other desserts, but we were devoured. We were like, this was supposed to be. I just need to show you what we ordered. Also, I'd love to know how much you actually ended up paying for a cake that truly was. It was $1,000 for that pizza. Burnt pizza. Was it really? Yeah, it was $1,000. What?

Which I would have happily paid for what we requested. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so the lesson learned. You might see, for anyone listening, it might sound like Brit is being ungrateful. The cake was really bad. No, I'm not. Objectively, it was a really bad cake. I actually think that. I'm so sorry. No, everything else was literally immaculate. The cake was just so confusing for everybody. Every single person was like, why is the cake a pizza? They thought.

They thought it was an ode to Italy. People were like, oh, it must be an Italian thing. It was like that moment out of Bridesmaids where you're like, don't look away. You weren't shitting in the street in a wedding dress, Britt. It was slightly different. Okay. Anyway, whatever. Well, guys, I feel like I've asked all of the questions that there is to ask in case they've missed anything. Is there anything else from the day that you want to share that I haven't interrogated you on already? We didn't have sex. That was a big question. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm sure you've consummated since though.

Well done. The morning after. Yeah, in the morning. Technically that still counts, right? Technically. I think statistically, and I'd love to put a poll up. Here it is. I knew we'd get a chance for a poll in this episode. Who is consummating their marriage on the day of getting married? Because come 10.30 when that noise-

restrictions come in you're tired you want to go home it's a long day so we wrapped about 2 a.m 2 2 30 because we stayed up partying and stuff and then we went it was so unsexy ben was like struggling to get me out of the dress then he was like massaging my ribs because the corset was so tight and then we got into bed and i he gave me a foot rub until i fell asleep because my feet were so sore that was as unromantic as it got so no sex but the next morning but yeah people are not

People are not doing it. Put that poll up. I know some people that do it in between. So like after a ceremony, before reception, they go and do it then. So like when they're supposed to be having photos, they'll sneak away for a quickie. It would have taken us hours to get you out of that. Yeah. You weren't ever doing it because your dress was non-feasible. At one point for my dress change, I had three dresses. Laura had to take me behind the toilet wall. I ripped her skirt off. Ripped my undies. She's pulling my undies up, ripping my skirt down. If anyone came behind there, they would have been like, what is going on?

Well, I mean, we've already seen them with his sister. So it couldn't have been that surprising for anybody else. Can you imagine if the other wedding guests would be like, what the fuck is this wedding? I really open and we're really friendly. No, Britt had her second dress had a skirt lining in it that could come off to make it like the party dress. So I just, it wasn't a big deal, but I just went in and undid it. Well, I had to pull it up, pull it down. Then the undies came down. My vagina was out and she was like pulling my undies off. It's nothing I haven't seen before. No, 100%.

A hundred percent. Anyway, guys, look, I know I've said it already. I'm so, so happy for you. Mrs. Seagrass, are you going to change your name? We haven't got that far yet. Let's get married first. You're like, I legally can't. And guys, we'll let you all know when you can join the live stream for Brandy's actual ceremony. Yeah. Yeah. If I live stream it, you'll know. But yeah, that's an idea that's brewing. But definitely send me good, if you're a local Sydney-er, I

location that's quite private but with a nice view maybe that you suggest we could get married because we actually don't know where to go so I will change my name eventually to Sigrist that is a genuine question that people are asking but publicly I won't like I think I'll always stay Brittany Hockley just on documents and if we have kids and things like that but

Brittany Hockley's just who I am. I feel it. I get it. Laura Byrne. I'm also really bad at paperwork, so I'll just be this for forever. Do you know I probably will never change it too. Anyway, guys, look, that is it from us. I feel like we don't need to do a suck in a sweet because clearly it's pretty fucking evident.

Suck cake being burnt by the fireworks. But we will get back to our normal programming as of next week. There's been a few people who said that they suspected that maybe you were getting married because we had foregone doing Suckin' Sweets on the last two weeks of episodes. So people were suspicious. Well, also, Mitch was like, going to Bali. Laura's like, in Bali. Matt's like, also.

So many different people were like, Bali. But to be fair, we'd already said on records that I was going over and my family always come over after a week of work. Mitch gave it away. I blame him. Shock. Shock, Mitch. Well, husband, thank you so much for coming to Australia, for joining us on the podcast, for marrying me.

Yeah, we're all grateful for that. Thanks for that. So for taking off everyone else's hands. And thank you for actually showing up in a pair of pants. Like I know that that was really stressful and hard for you to achieve, but I'm proud of you. You could have never told that I wasn't stressed or anything. You actually owe me so much. With all my planning, you ended up with no pants on our wedding day. Listen, don't even respond. It's another day.

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