7 Things "Don't Tell The Bride" Has Taught Us

Like there's no better way to realise your fiancée knows nothing about you than on a TV show. In front of millions. Three weeks before your wedding.

1. Your wedding is not going to be your dream wedding

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You might have fantasized about your dream wedding in a stately mansion with champagne-coloured table cloths. You're not going to get your dream wedding. Instead, you may find yourself on a rollercoaster with your dress around your ears. The quicker you prioritise about what's important the less stressed you'll be if things don't work out exactly to plan. For example: family being invited = important. Shoes you wear under your dress = less so.

2. With themed weddings, less is usually more

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Themed weddings can be gorgeous like this Peter Pan wedding, however less is definitely more. If prosthetics, face-paint or alien autopsies are involved it's usually a sign to take a step back and re-evaluate.

3. You should invite the most important people to both of you

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Who could forget cringing when Simon planned a wedding in Vegas, then realised he could only afford to fly out some of Katie's immediate family. Cue her sister refusing to go and a very awkward reception.

After the wedding the groom wrote, "On reflection, if I was asked would I do it again, the answer would be yes, but I wouldn't have gambled on a wedding with only half the family being present."

4. A cake of your husband/wife's least favourite body part is a baaaaaaad idea

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At least it wasn't of her bum.

5. If you turn into bridezilla, your BFF WILL call it out

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You'd better eat a big ole' slice of humble pie before your bridesmaid count is 0.

6. It's hard to shop for dresses, ok?

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It's hard enough shopping for your own clothes, let alone for someone who has completely different wobbly bits.

7. And never, EVER get married during a football game

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I know I wasn't the only one screaming "IT'S NOT TOO LATE!!!" at the TV.