The adventures of Almigo

Over the weekend my cousin and his finance had a beautiful wedding beach side in beautiful Noosa, Queensland. She looked stunning in her dress, he looked stoked to be there, I watched on with Mr Bean bumbling around in the background and my own father in law giggling like a loon at his antics... Yeah, kind of like this..

According to the latest Hustle email, next year in the US they're expecting around 2.5 million weddings to happen across the nation. This is going to make up for the severe drop of tieing the knot in 2020 (down 40%!) and will the most weddings in a year since 1984.  (What the hell was going on in 1984?? Did Elton John's wedding to Renata inspire so many others??) As a veteran of quite a few by now myself, here's a few tips - 25 all up, that I reckon will turn your upcoming nuptials from media circus back to memorable which it should have been from the get go.

I'm off to a wedding next month where I think I'm a groomsman. Or maybe the MC. Actually it might be both. Come back next week and I might also be the groom and the catering crew.

I got married recently (happily I may add and by choice, there wasn't a single shotgun in the vicinity). It was a lavish ceremony involving a 21 gun salute, the RAAF roulettes flying in formation overhead and the guests arrived on elephants while Coldplay sang 'paradise' live. A truly beautiful spectacle. Alright, I lie a little - we did run out of elephants early on in the piece so some of the guests did have to ride in on wild zebras but the fact still remains: I got married recently... Looking good Uncle Barry!