Wedding podcast The Unfiltered Bride gets behind the scenes
t’s supposed to be the happiest day of your life, but weddings don’t always go to plan. And that’s when those of us not invited can enjoy some schadenfreude in the relating of some disastrous nuptials – which can act as a warning for anyone still to tie the knot.
Of course, there can be many reasons for a wedding veering off piste and it’s not always the bride. Indeed, a wedding expert who regularly reveals her top tips for tying the knot in podcast The Unfiltered Bride says the term “bridezilla” is dying out.
Host Georgie Mitchell says bridezillas have been replaced by the “main character bride” – a much more positive figure.
Georgie, who along with co-host Beth Smith also gives
Idaily tips on Instagram and TikTok, keeps the podcast chatty and a little bit scandalous. There are some shocking revelations, like the time a the groom waited till reception dinner to reveal the bride’s affair with the best man – because they wanted the bride to have had to pay for the food. Listener discretion is advised, as their frank tales can get a little sweary.
But the podcasts are full of hints and tips as well.
Georgie says the cost of a big day has risen in recent years, with the price of a photographer more than doubling – as people want social media ready content.
But modern weddings are generally smaller and more often held outside, she added.
The host, from Cheltenham, said: “Weddings are a lot more informal now.
“Couples just want their friends and families to come along and have a good time.
Food is no longer a sitdown, served meal, but more likely street food vans, and pie and mash is a popular option, she said.
“Social media has generated a lot of the change I think.
“Now people use it to get ideas, and they realise they’re not alone when they want to go for a non-traditional option.”
But despite the price of the big day it’s important that it should be special. “The biggest change is that couples are doing it their way because they don’t feel beholden to anyone else,” Georgie says.
“I’ve known a couple to be given £20,000 for their wedding... They were told who to invite, what kind of wedding to have, what the colour scheme would be. but it came with so many stipulations that they gave it back.”
Hear The Unfiltered Bride at the usual podcast sources, or watch at www.youtube.com/ @theunfilteredbride.