The 10 best ever Don't Tell The Bride episodes (2025)

Already sick of weddings this summer? Bankrupted yourself buying John Lewis vouchers for the bloke you worked with for three months five years ago? Gone without a holiday because five of your uni mates are getting hitched this summer?

Well, you can rejoice in the fact that Don't Tell the Bride is back for a brand new series on Sky1 tonight (9pm) and promises to be as awkward as ever. The show where a hapless, hopeless (sorry, but he always is) groom gets three weeks and £12,000 to plan a wedding while his wife-to-be isn't allowed any input at all is always a treat. In celebration here are ten of the best ever episodes.

Should anyone here present know of any reason that these couples should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace…

1. Simon and Kayleigh: The Ultimate Gamble

"You've absolutely broken my heart." Short of "it's actually your dad's baby" or, "I lied, the antibiotics didn't clear it up", there can't be many sentences you less want to hear your bride utter on your wedding day. But that's how poor family-orientated Kayleigh felt when her dimbo, gambling addict boyf decided to plan their wedding in Vegas. And couldn't afford to invite her own brother.

2. Liam and Lynn: The Alien Wedding

She wants a fairytale wedding. Well, she did get a fantasy. But sadly it was rather more 7-year-old boy's dream than princess perfect as Liam arranged an extra-terrestrial ceremony in a bunker, complete with alien autopsy and a dress full of holes. His excuse? He wanted her to "see the real him"...

3. Steve and Kayleigh : Love is a Rollercoaster

Nothing says romance like recreating a hostage situation, and from the second high-maintenance Kayleigh is forced to pull a blindfold over her intricate make-up on the way to her wedding, you know there's going to be trouble ahead. Before she's even shed the blindfold, she's worked out she's at Thorpe Park (MI5: sign this girl up) and she is NOT happy about it.

4. Ian and Hayley: In at the deep end

Now, getting married where you met is all well and good – if that was a beautiful, tropical paradise or a swanky Michelin-starred restaurant. But what about if your eyes met over a crowded leisure centre swimming pool? Get married there, of course, and make the bride take the plunge in more ways than one.

5. Jay and Ian: Holiday shopping

Question: When is a bargain not a bargain? When you have to travel halfway around the world to save a couple of quid. Ian's budget-busting plan was to fly to Thailand to buy the wedding dress and suits and, you know, maybe get him and the boys a bit of a hol. Meanwhile, Jay's dressed as a rabbit in rainy Wakefield being chucked down a hill in a plastic ball.

6. Alex and Luke : A real frock up

With all the enthusiasm of someone waiting for news of a terminal diagnosis, Alex is apprehensive as she walks into Luke and his best man's choice of wedding dress shop. Fair enough, as it does look like a slightly ritzy crematorium, and the best man appears to be Fargo's William H Macy. Sure enough, she's confronted with her nightmare. Satisfyingly, and unlike 99% of the brides, she doesn't come round once she tries it on.

7. Nicki and Stephen: A Shotgun(s and Roses) wedding

Who wouldn't want their wedding day to resemble a rock music video? Um, maybe someone who hates rock and only pretended to be into it to impress their fiancé a million years ago. The joke wedding dress he sent her didn't go down well either, although it was hard to tell if his real choice was much better.

8. Tony and Pippa: Hips don't lie

Okay, it's another bad-dress reveal moment, but this one is a cracker, mainly because of her mum and sister's desperate (but rubbish) attempts to convince a hysterical Pippa that the dress she thinks is so unflattering is in fact her perfect gown. She doesn't believe a word.

9. Tommy and Hannah: Scissor Happy

Tommy wants something short and cheap. No, he's not after a budget minibreak to Benidorm, but his wife-to-be Sarah's dream dress. He spends a whopping £75, which he barters down as if it's a third-hand Ford Mondeo – and then hacks at it with a pair of scissors to make it fit.

10. Ami and Lee: Taking it to extremes

Extreme sports nut Lee wants to set up a "gauntlet of extreme things" for his wife to go through on their wedding day (sounds as if she's already done that every day of their life together). The highlight is her standing underneath stunt riders on filthy Motocross bikes as she wonders if her big day is also her last day.

Don't Tell The Bride returns tonight (July 21) at 9pm on Sky1 and Now TV.

The 10 best ever Don't Tell The Bride episodes (2025)

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