This, surprisingly, wasn’t the biggest disaster on my wedding day. Something else happened that was much worse and left me bitterly disappointed.
Music was the thing that my husband Luke and I wanted to get just right. We got together at university, sharing a love of the same bands, going to the same grubby indie clubs. New music remains one of his biggest passions and I work as a DJ for BBC Radio 1. We go to gigs together even if our other friends can’t make it, we’ve booked Glastonbury for this year, just me and him, because music has always been our common love.
Lauren and her bridesmaids
So tell me, why did the DJ start to play a load of music I’d never heard in my life? Why did my friends start asking me to “have a word with him, he’s not playing anything we know”? Why, when I went over to ask him about playing our playlist did he look at me with a blank stare?
The average cost of a wedding in the UK is around £20,000, a figure we reached with ease. And when you’re paying that much money for just one day, it stings when things go wrong or don’t live up to expectations.
It’s for this reason my feelings towards The Bad DJ fluctuated over days, weeks and months. “Maybe he did play all the songs I wanted, but I was too drunk and couldn’t remember them? Am I being overdramatic?” After all, everything else was spot-on.
It was one of the best days of my life, but I still can’t shake off the disappointment of hearing some obscure drum-and-bass, when the mums were chomping at the bit for some Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!.
What is the point of huge weddings anymore?
Read MoreBut then I had an idea, inspired by a friend of ours. His first marriage was a beautiful event in the north of England. Everything was perfection – except his bride, who filed for divorce after only a few months. A few years later, he met the real love of his life and had a second wedding, just a beautiful as the first, if not more.
Obviously I’m not going to spend another £20k doing it. My husband would divorce me. But it’s become obsessively important to me to do something that will rewrite that history, and create a new narrative. Rather than “We got married but the DJ was shit”, our story becomes “We got married, the DJ was shit, so we threw another party!” There’s no rulebook.
Lauren Layfield is a broadcaster, author, and presenter
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