Don’t Tell The Bride couple who planned wedding in 12 days reveal if they cheat they have to pay back £12k budget at £1,000 a DAY

Steve and Emma, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, appeared on series eight of the show in 2014 and they have spilled the beans about the strict rules and what happens if you 'cheat'.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Steve revealed that he had a total of 12 DAYS to plan his dream wedding, and he wasn't allowed to reveal the venue until the day before.

Should they have been tempted to cheat by texting each other about the arrangements, there was a harsh penalty.

They signed a contract that said they would have to pay back the £12,000 budget at a rate of £1,000 A DAY if they contacted each other.

Emma said: "It's obviously a lot of money to get married these days, if we had the wedding the way I would have wanted it, it would have cost an absolute fortune!

"So we'd kind of put it off and not mentioned it and suddenly it was three weeks away; we were going on this show and we were going to be married at the end of it. I just put my trust into him."

The couple applied to go on Don't Tell The Bride in 2014, when it was still on BBC3, as Steve had claimed he could do a better job than some of the hapless grooms on the show.

Emma said: "Since I've been with Steve for nine years, he'd know me well enough to be able to pull it off."

After applying, they waited for three months before they were asked to send in a video – and the producers loved it.

The couple were then asked to do phone interviews, separately, and Steve was asked to pick a theme, which he knew would have to be something different.

The Frozen theme came about as he was thinking of his daughters, aged seven and four, and not his bride Emma.

Steve said: "I was thinking of different themes, and then I thought that the kids would like it, and Emma's all about the kids, so if the kids liked it I knew she would like it."


Once they were told they were going to be on the show it was full steam ahead.

Steve had three weeks to plan the entire wedding but he claims "it wasn't even really three weeks" as they only filmed for four days a week.

As he wasn't allowed to do any planning without being filmed, he essentially had 12 days to plan an entire wedding.

And Steve says one of the hardest parts was not being allowed to tell people where the wedding was.

He said: "I was getting annoyed with that side of it, I was worried about people not coming, and they were insisting that I couldn't tell people. That was really annoying me."

When the show aired, the couple were disappointed to find out that a the prettier scenes of the wedding had been cut out, and they'd only kept the part where they were in the snow.

They had a room with lights and dry ice coming across as Emma walked down the aisle with a beautiful back drop but that had been cut out of the show.

When it came to the morning of the big day, Emma wasn't happy that the producers said Steve asked her to have her hair in an 'Elsa plait'.

She told the team: "It's my hair, and I'm not doing it."

Emma added: "At the end of the day, it was my wedding day, and I'd signed a contract with them saying that there's got to be a wedding at the end of the day.

"You can't not get married, so they had to go along with it. I could have got whatever I wanted, basically."

Whilst Emma said she would "definitely" do it again, Steve doesn't feel the same.

He said "I would never go on that show again.

"To be honest, looking back now I wish I'd relaxed a bit more and enjoyed it more, but at the time, the stress I went through… I wouldn't change my wedding day, though."

 

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