![]() ![]() He says that Disney has a lot to answer for when it comes to unachievable fantasy weddings. Wedding planner Mark Niemirko says he’s used to dealing with ‘more sane’ couples, such as former clients James Corden and Julia Carey (Getty Images) Another time a British Pullman train was hired to transport the guests to the hotel. One bride even asked to arrive at the ceremony in a helicopter… even though she was already at the venue. He’s hired dogs to give an English venue more of a “country vibe”. But that doesn’t mean his clients won’t go to extreme lengths to have a standout wedding. Mark Niemirko, a British wedding planner who designed James Corden and Julia Carey’s wedding, thinks that his clientele have been “more sane” than the Bridezillas and obsessive mothers of the brides we hear about in popular culture. “You always have to feel like you’re ready to battle.” ![]() And the last thing I am is the planner and the designer.” Who are you refereeing, I ask? “All of them, the bride, the groom, the mother, the bridesmaids,” he says. “I become a mediator, a referee, a magician, a best friend. “And often I have to have a conversation with the client and say, first of all, this is unsafe, or this is not a reality.” He’s typically asked to be more than just a wedding planner, too. “After the party is over, they went their separate ways and split up,” he laughs.Īt this point, I realise that a huge part of Tutera’s job is convincing excessively wealthy people not to embarrass themselves in front of everyone they know. “He said to me ‘No, we’re not cancelling this wedding, I paid for it.’ So it was a fake ceremony,” Tutera tells me. After it transpired that the groom was in fact still married to his ex, the father of the bride requested Tutera find an actor who could play the role of the rabbi. In another outrageous demand, Tutera was asked to literally fake a ceremony. “I knew that when she’d show up at her wedding, there was no way she would go up that high.” “I said ‘you go and learn, and when it comes to your wedding day, and you want to get lowered down from 70 feet above, we will make that happen’,” he recalls, politely yet firmly. Instead of denying her this theatrical moment, Tutera told her to sign up for trapeze lessons. No joke.” Tutera says that her dress was so huge that it wouldn’t have been physically “safe”. “As opposed to using her feet, she wanted to enter the room lowered down on a trapeze,” he tells me. She had picked a venue in New York City with 70-foot ceilings. One bride told Tutera she wanted to arrive at her wedding suspended in a trapeze. Think of that peer pressure! Instagram, Pinterest – no wonder brides lose it ![]() It’s clear that the rich and famous will gladly blow the cost of a small island on their nuptials, but for such an apparently happy day, why does it sound so traumatic for everyone involved? Braghin and Grijalba claim that Nelson Peltz wanted to cancel the entire wedding because it was “a s*** show,” but Claudia (Nicola’s mother) had allegedly “begged Nelson not to cancel the wedding because it would ‘destroy Nicola’s career’”. They have now counter-sued Peltz and the rest of his family for $49,000 for breach of contract and “interference”, through a 188-page lawsuit. Their company, Plan Design Events, attempted to salvage the wedding six weeks prior to the nuptials after the initial planners left the project. To add to the chaos, it came to light this week that Peltz’s father Nelson is suing the former wedding planners, Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba, for allegedly refusing to return a $159,000 deposit at the beginning of the month. ![]() Peltz hired and fired two different sets of wedding planners in the process. It’s not all flowers and confetti, though. ![]()
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