"Welcome to a video that I have put off. For a long long time" y/n says on a sofa in what looked like a conservatory with Thomas beside her holding one of hopscotch in his lap
"Yes you have" he chuckled
"For any confusion about our current set, and also the large break we had... we moved."
"We did. It was complicated."
"Yeah turns out moving from a house you've lived in for like a solid nine years is hard. Especially with two kids, eight rabbits and a Thomas"
"I'm a hazard" He smiled
"Yes, yes you are" she laughed, holding his wrist and exposing his arm covered in bruises "tell the people what you did?"
"I fell down the stairs" he admits "you were convinced I broke my ankle"
"It was sideways! I was alarmed!" She says
"I didn't break It just bruise it really bad and it like swelled up really bad making my ankle look broken"
"But yes we moved and I'm sure videos about that are going to be coming out soon I think they are being edited at the moment"
"I mean I sent them so probably"
"But as that's gonna take some time I thought we'd do a little video in the new house" she smiled "But today we are going to be having a nice little time"
"Yeah I think it'll be very nice"
"Its going to be very teary"
"Ohh god yes. I have already got the tissue box next to us and a bunny I can hug"
"Yeah I I got a plushie too, I didn't wanna use a rabbit I feel like thats mean to hopscotch to use her as a tear rag"
"She likes drying my tears don't you hopscotch?" he cooes giving the bunny a hug but she jumped and bolted away "You traitor"
"For explaining. We are reacting. Yes, this is a reaction video. To our wedding video."
"A little bit late"
"Yeah, we were planning to do this video on our five year anniversary or Our wood anniversary but"
"But you know, kids. Pets. new house. The last two years have been a bit crazy and we we been really busy, the schedule has always been crowded but it feels like a really nice time now the house is settled, girls are settled. Nice time to sit down and watch it"
"Fun fact, we have not see this"
"Not all of it"
"No, we did uhhh we did a thing when we got married which was instead of your usual like wedding photographer and videographer who kinda get the best off bits" she explained "we more had a team, we the video team and the photo team which I think ended up being about... ten twelve people, am i right"
"I think so, we had one guy with a still camera who did the photobooth area"
"Yes, we had a little like flower wall?"
"Star wall"
"Yeah star wall thing for more posed photos which was his job that was his whole job from wedding reception onwards to just have people in there taking photos some of which are amazing"
"He was really good, the photo of my ava in that booth from our wedding is like her main photo now she uses it for everything"
"True. we then had a guest photographer that was his job to just go around tables and family sort of groups and do sort of smaller photos. Then... was it another guy?"
"Two guys, we had our personal photographer so his whole job was just you and me. That was all he did was just us and then another guy who did the parties so my groomsmen your bridesmaids who then after the ceremony became the dance guy"
"Yes! He set up like I think two or three almost like slow motion times cameras I don't know what they where, but they where for high def clear photos of any dances" she explained "And then video team who split into two one came with me and one went with you for our respective hen slash stag weekends and then filmed the prep an then came together to film the ceremony and reception"
"That's the thing when we say we haven't seen all of it. There is a lot of footage, and sally edited it all together for us make it in the same style as she edits theres. Hi sally" he waved
"She's gonna make you really overexposed now" Y/n laughed
"Or put a cock over my head"
"Both. she doesn't like being mentioned"
"No, like a reverse beetlejuice"
"She who must not be named"
"The unspoken editor"
"Yeah, so anyway yes we haven't seen this all the way though, we've seen bits of it we saw alot of it when it first came to us when the edit was done but we where... just back from our honeymoon, and I unknowingly was maybe two weeks prego. With the girls. So... I think it was just a wave of tears."
"I think on our first watch we got to maybe you putting your dress on, maybe before we had to give up so no matter what we are getting though it today"
"We're gonna try. I'm not making promises" she laughs "But before we click it on I think we should talk first about what lead to this wedding video. Our engagement and I'm handing that off to you as I had no idea what was happening"
"Fair enough, Yes. We had been - not dating because dating sounds too early, we had been together lets say for a good solid five years at this point and we had lived together for a good three. And we where starting to look at moving into our first mortgage house together and signing a mortgage lease as a couple. Or a what do they call it?"
"Common Law couple. Which is what they class it after couple and before engaged"
"At that point with common law whats yours is still yours you haven't intermingled finances and such yet which i mean we kinda had because we had a joint bank account at that point for rent and such. But that was the scene and our status. And we where because of not being engaged or married we were having to jump through alot of legal hoops and extra paperwork because of this. England still has some pretty outstanded rules with this stuff. And originally it started as a joke we jokingly said, why don't we just go down to the courthouse, get legally married and come back and sign on a basic mortgage as man and wife" he explained "and thats all it was just a joke, we knew we weren't actually going to do so. But eventually the house sorted out and we moved in together into our first owned house, and the thing was I think it was that joking volazion of it that kinda got the little hamster of my mind kinda whirling" He laughed "even though I knew it was a joke I think part of my head kinda said well why don't we get married and that staid in the back of my mind stewing while we moved in and made the house our own and every so often i would kinda get little pop ups about it but I never really put that much thought into it."
"Until?"
"Until, we went on a little holiday to Lowersoft? Yarmouth? Somewhere in norfolk?"
"Hemsby?"
"Yep! That's the place" He says "and they have a big vintage retro festival every yeah, so we went and did the whole thing on the bike, with a full vintage wardrobe and we had a lot of fun. And while we were wandering around one day you looked endlessly beautiful!"
"Awwww" she cooes leaning on his shoulder
"And there was this really cool couple, like they are awesome. Who ever they are. But they where actually getting married at this festival in like leather jackets, they went off on a motorbike it was amazing, and it was in the open on the beach and I just remember sitting there with you and watching these strangers get married"
"Sounds creepy when recalling it"
"Kinda does." he laughs "But at that moment my mind did a little pop! And said hey, won't this be fun when we do this. And I very nearly said it outlouded!"
"Really?"
"Yes! I was like biting my mouth about that. It had gone from Ohh we could go and get married too, We are going to get married, some day. And then after I had that thought of when we get married, I realized I had actually been thinking about it alot and had come to the conclusion that I do wanna marry you like within the next five years I want us to be married."
"Awwwwwww"
"And maybe... a week later, I brought it up to you how you'd feel about us getting married"
"And I remember i said, well yeah i want us to get married, Like I'm down"
"Sure why not?"
"Pretty much, I think for me because it was kinda... on the cards. I think I knew we were gonna get married it was just kinda... a waiting game for how long it would take"
"Waiting on me to move my ass"
"Kinda"
"And You went away not long after this you went off to your families for a bit. And I was talking to jack about it and he said if thats what you want just do it. Y/n wants to marry you, you wanna marry her the worst thing she'll say is not yet, not now. So i went and had a rummage around your jewelry box and may have borrowed your laptop and... stalked your instagram a little."
"What?!"
"I think I logged onto your laptop and let like a bunch of say yes to the dress and wedding stuff play and then just waited for targeted advertising which did not take long I think maybe two episodes of say yes to the dress I was already getting like jewelry ads. And i saw one for a store not far from us in a little shopping area quite a small independent store that advertised a lot of custom work and I went in and told them the plan and I think I showed them your instagram."
"Why?"
"I was like, this is her. This is her.... Vibe. make it look like that"
"Maybe it gothy"
"Make it gothy. And vintage. And glamor. What you think Morticia Addams would wear on a red carpet, and we went back and forth with concepts and ideas until we just hit it. They emailed me a random tuesday with a design and I just immediately loved it I told them I adored it, it was perfect immediately start making it. And I then had to figure out how the hell I was gonna do it."
"Had you not thought about that yet?"
"No. part of me was just like should I just come home with it and be like here picked this up for you"
"I'm very happy you didn't do that"
"And once it was finished I went and got the ring, and I just threw any ideas I had out the window I was just itching with impatience so on the drive home I booked us a nice dinner came home made up some bullshit about a cheap deal, we got all dressed up I managed to convince you to do your nails which was hard"
"I did think it was weird at the time. But I had no clue"
"So we went off had a nice dinner all the while I'm trying so hard to get on a topic where I can get us over to this like a semi planned speech I had in my head but it just wasn't working. All the while the ring is like burning a hole in my pocket. We end up leaving the restaurant and going for a little walk in the park and I just blurted it out"
"Very randomly, like we had been talking about grass before,"
"We had, and I just asked 'Do you wanna marry me?' and you kinda needed a moment or two so I got down and I offered the ring and rest is history I think"
"Yeah, it was very beautiful" she smiled fixing her ring and giving him a kiss "Without further adieu or wedding video."