- It's happening!
♪ I'm getting married ♪
In case you forgot,
because it's been a long freaking time.
(audio rewinds)
- Will you marry me?
- Yeah, I will!
But I'm so excited.
I'm so excited.
Sorry if my voice is gone.
I went karaokeing last night.
Is that a word?
Oh, also I have blonde hair now.
I am going off track.
So yeah, this has been a lot.
We're gonna talk about it.
I'm gonna give you an update. (whacks)
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- [Voiceover] I'm Harry, Harry Potter.
- Hey, guys!
Tessa here.
Ooh!
So, I told you guys that I wanted to do a wedding series
on this channel, and I still want to do that.
I still think it'll be really cool and fun for me
to share some videos about
this whole experience and process.
It'll be just really special for me,
because this is gonna be one of the best days
of my entire life.
And I'm just like really, really in love with that bitch,
Joe, being that bitch.
If you're a new to my channel, hello.
Make sure you are subscribed.
I have a lot of videos coming up that I'm excited about.
So you should subscribe so you don't miss them.
All right, let me catch you up with everything.
So you guys know that I got engaged March of 2019.
I made a video about Joe's incredible,
amazing, insane proposal.
I still go back and watch it and cry, (laughs)
because I still can't believe that that whole day happened,
our whole trip.
Like it was just a dream.
It was such a dream.
He is perfect.
That proposal was perfect.
So our original plan after getting engaged
was that we wanted to get married in Scotland.
We were gonna do this small ceremony,
mainly just like our immediate family
and some close friends.
And we were gonna like find a castle,
and it would be like an elopement,
but a little more than that.
But then when we started like looking
into the logistics of everything,
we realized that it just like wouldn't work.
It was just too much.
Joe and I really love traveling together,
but when we were looking into having
both of our families travel internationally
and trying to plan all that and coordinate that
and certain people wouldn't be able to go,
it was also a lot, it's expensive.
It's asking a lot of our family to do that.
So we decided we were gonna have one big wedding
with all of our friends and all of our families.
Like we are going to go all out.
We thought that we would regret it
if we didn't have everybody there.
It's like celebrating our love
surrounded by the people that we love.
It's such a special moment, and it's such a special feeling.
And we, that like our lives are changing.
Our friends' lives are changing.
And so we wanted to have everybody there,
because this wedding is really
like the closing of one chapter
and the beginning of a new chapter for us.
And we wanted everybody there to celebrate that
and to be a part of that,
because our friends mean a lot to us.
We love them so much and we love our family.
So like we're being family people, big friend people.
We love the people in our lives.
Also, (laughs) we decided,
because we're so grossly in love with each other
that we're going to keep getting married. (laughs)
Every year after our big wedding,
we want to renew our vows and just get married again,
but just with each other.
So every year we can celebrate our love for each other
and make that commitment.
And it'll just be the two of us.
It'll be really special.
So we can still get married in Scotland.
We're just gonna keep doing it.
It's just like how we kept getting engaged
over and over again.
We're just gonna keep getting married,
(laughs) because we're obsessed with each other.
Oh man, sorry, we're gross. (laughs)
So, big wedding in LA, that was our plan.
And we were looking at dates for 2020,
and we realized that Halloween fell on a Saturday,
and we're like (gasps). (spooky music)
How amazing would it be to get married on Halloween?
Listen, Joe and I love Halloween.
We are big Halloween people.
We love dressing up.
We love just like the Halloween season.
So that was our plan.
And then 2020 happens. (dramatic music)
And I'm not gonna lie, it sucked.
It was the worst.
Ahh.
It happened to so many people.
Like so many of our own friends
had to reschedule their wedding,
but having to cancel and reschedule a wedding is so hard
and so difficult, because the planning is already tough.
But when you have to start doing that,
it's so stressful.
And like I said, it was really important to us
to have a big wedding, and we didn't want to not do that.
So we decided to wait.
So in my brain, I was like, okay, once I get vaccinated,
then we can choose a date and start planning.
So 2021 rolls around
and Joe and I are now both fully vaccinated.
And we felt like it was safe enough
to start planning the wedding that we wanted.
I'm just so thankful for vaccines, oh my goodness.
Obviously we're going to follow
like whatever the state rules are.
Like, we want all of our guests
to feel safe and comfortable.
We're gonna have a large group of people indoors.
We want to make sure that everybody is safe
and feels comfortable.
So anyway, right now
the date for our wedding is March 19th, 2022.
March 19th, 2022 is when I'm getting married!
It's so soon.
I know it doesn't feel soon,
but I know it's gonna creep up on me any second.
Like it's like six months away.
Right now, we're like basically on track.
We're a little behind,
but we're pretty much on track with our planning,
but I'm the type of person that if we're on track
in my brain, I'm like, oh, we're behind, we're so behind,
'cause I like to be early.
Joe and I are so busy.
We have really busy schedules.
We're never early, (laughs) so it's good.
We're good.
We're okay.
I don't want to give away like too much of what we're doing.
Like I don't want to give it all away,
because I want to do like a big video after we get married
when we have the footage,
so I can show you all of our plans
and what we ended up doing, but I will give you some info
just not like everything.
The theme of our wedding is like a slow descent
into nerdy madness.
And it's kind of perfect,
because when we're getting married is around the time
when "Multiverse of Madness" comes out.
So like that's basically the vibe that we're going for.
I want our wedding to like start out,
so that people think it's just like a normal wedding
with nerdy touches.
But then like as the night progresses,
I want it to get crazier and crazier
like the descent into madness.
Oh, you think this is normal?
Ha ha ha, no, it's not, (laughs)
because Joe and I are big nerds.
I shared with him my love for "Harry Potter."
He shared with me his love for "Star Wars."
We both love like superheroes, Spider-Man.
Like Spider-Man is both of our favorites.
Like we bonded over our love for Spidey.
We love so many nerdy things
that we want to bring all that together.
Also, I want to say that my wedding
isn't just gonna be "Harry Potter" themed,
because it's not just my wedding.
It's my wedding and Joe's wedding.
If I was marrying myself,
then, yeah, I'd just have like a big "Harry Potter" wedding.
(laughs) But to be clear,
there's going to be a lot of "Harry Potter" things
in my wedding.
Ugh, I'm like dying to show you, but I'm not going to.
We are definitely not having a traditional, normal wedding,
because, newsflash, Joe and I are not normal.
Our love isn't normal.
Our relationship isn't normal.
Like what?
Now that I'm adult, I can't have any more fun?
In order to be accepted by society,
I have to have like this specific job,
live this specific life,
things in this specific timeline.
No, I reject it.
It's like (hisses).
I'm like a vampire big burned by the sunlight.
That is me and normal society.
This is part of the reason why planning a wedding
was so hard for me at first,
because I'm not the type of person
that like dreamed of getting married.
I didn't have like all of this planned out.
I didn't have like an inspo board
or things that I knew I wanted to have.
But while we were planning,
I wanted to make sure that like our wedding felt like us,
that we were putting emphasis and money towards things
that were special to us that felt like us
that meant the most to us,
'cause I think that's the most important.
I don't want my guests to come out of my wedding
and be like, "Oh, this was the most beautiful traditional,
"sophisticated, aesthetically-pleasing wedding
"I've ever been to."
No, no, my wedding isn't gonna be
just aesthetically-pleasing.
That's not me.
Like we just want to have a fun, nerdy ass time.
Anyway, (laughs) we're in the middle of planning right now
and, not gonna lie, it's been kind of a nightmare,
but at least I know that I'm the type of person
that on the day, I'm not gonna be stressed.
I think it's like the performer in me.
Leading up to a show in rehearsal,
you're like really stressed,
'cause you're trying to nail everything down
and get it perfect and learn everything,
but then like on the day of the show,
it's like, whatever happens, happens.
You're just having a good time.
You're living in the moment,
and if something goes wrong,
then it's like, okay, great.
Joe and I have found the most amazing wedding coordinator.
We love her.
Her name is Sierra from Something Borrowed Weddings,
and she is the best.
She's a huge "Harry Potter" fan as well,
which just makes my heart so happy.
Also, to be fair,
planning a wedding in 2021 is honestly
like the worst time to do it.
Not only did so many people's weddings
have to get pushed and rescheduled,
but also over quarantine, a lot of people got engaged.
So everyone is getting married right now, everyone.
There's so many people getting married.
And because of that, all of these vendors,
all of these venues, all everything is more expensive,
'cause everyone had to jack up their prices,
because they only have so much time
and there's only so many dates.
So, if you see me doing sponsored content
up until my wedding, please interact with it,
comment, engage, because that is helping me pay
for this wedding, because this wedding is more expensive
than we thought it was going to be,
just because everything is more expensive.
So if you want to way to help us out,
that would help out so much.
And because everything is so expensive,
we actually had to cut like 100 people from our guest list.
Originally we wanted to invite like 250 people
and have around 200 guests.
Now, we're inviting around 160 people,
and we're trying to get it to like 150.
So if you're planning a wedding right now or about to,
the guests count can really, really drastically
change your prices with everything.
And also what someone told me is that like,
you're not gonna be able to talk to everyone
on the day of your wedding.
So make sure that like all the people
that are there mean a lot to you.
Just the problem is Joe and I have so many friends
and we have so much family and we love them all so much.
So like cutting people was so difficult for me.
It was really hard, 'cause I want everybody to be there,
'cause I love so many people.
Like I wish I could invite all of you honestly,
but it's fine.
There's gonna be so many videos.
Like you're gonna see everything, I promise,
'cause I can't wait to show you.
Okay, what else should I tell you?
So we're going to have two venues,
'cause we're extra as hell.
I can't, we're so extra.
The reason that we're doing this is that both the ceremony
and the reception are gonna have completely different vibes.
Also our reception is gonna be fully in costume.
We still wanted to have some Halloween vibes,
because we were really, really excited
about getting married on Halloween.
And we realized like we couldn't do that anymore,
because it just doesn't work with our schedules.
We're like, okay, so March is the best time
for us personally to get married.
So, we're gonna create kind of like a Halloween in March.
So yeah, people need time in between to change.
So it's like, you're gonna go to the ceremony,
go back to the hotel and change,
and then go to the reception.
So I kind of don't want to tell you that much else,
but leave a comment if you have any questions,
or if there's a specific video you want me to make
in this wedding series.
I have some ideas, but I would love to hear your ideas.
Oh my gosh, wait, I have to show you our save the date.
Hold on, hold on.
Isn't it amazing?
It's a magnet.
I actually designed this myself.
I found like a template for it on Pinterest,
but I just thought it was so cool,
'cause it looks like a Hogwarts express ticket,
and it says save the date.
And, yes, our wedding is called
the Netting Moses Wedding Showses
For you OGs that have been here since the beginning,
you know that Joe used to have a one-man show
called the "Joe Moses One Nan Showses."
Our wedding has to be the final showses.
We have to have a showses.
I really wanted to do a magnet save the date,
because to me in anything physical that I get
I end up losing or I end up putting it somewhere
and forgetting about it.
But it's like when I have something to put on the fridge,
I'm always gonna pass my fridge, so I will see it
and remember it, and we kind of had that same idea.
- I don't know if Tessa's gonna want to keep this in,
but since I'm editing this video,
I thought I would show the fridge magnet in action.
I just realized that it was flipped in the last video.
But here it is again.
- And here are the envelopes
that we did for our save the dates.
My mom actually hand did the wax seal on all of these.
And it's like a little Hogwarts wax seal.
And she like melted the candle acts and did all this.
And then she put this beautiful owl stamp.
My mom nailed it.
She is a queen, a DIY queen.
Mom, I love you so much.
Thank you for doing this.
And then we put like a little Harry Potter stamp
in the corner.
We love a theme.
Our actual wedding invitation is going to be digital.
I'm not the type of person
that wants to spend the money on paper goods.
I'd rather spend that money on something else
like stormtroopers or something. (laughs)
I've already given away too much.
So we still need to make a wedding website.
That is on our list.
Joe and I are so pumped for our honeymoon.
We want to go to Japan.
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
I've never been.
Joe has never been.
We're dying to go.
Like, it is our dream, our dream place to visit.
I know I'm gonna love it so much.
Because of pandemic things, we are going to wait a year.
We're gonna do our honeymoon the year after
on our anniversary on 2023.
And then right after we get married,
we're gonna go on like a mini moon, (laughs)
a little honeymoon, a little teaser.
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♪ And don't let the muggles get you down ♪
Zoom in on that scar.
There you go, Starfish.
Buh bye!
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Oh, my gosh.
Was I out of focus this whole time?
Hopefully not! (TV static)
♪ I see them bloom ♪
♪ For me and you ♪
♪ And I think to myself ♪
♪ What a wonderful world ♪
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♪ What a wonderful world ♪