- Excuse this somewhat accidental,
but kind of growing on me,
like, weird yellow and orange mane I've got going on.
Hi, I'm Clare, and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
I am on the Irish version of Say Yes to the Dress.
It aired the Monday just gone in Ireland.
So now I can finally talk about it.
(upbeat music)
What do you want to know?
Ask me in the comments below.
First of all,
I applied for Say Yes to the Dress,
and I got my first interview thing.
They said, now we need to talk to your bridesmaids,
and I had not asked my bridesmaids yet.
So, I had to ask my bridesmaids.
So first I asked my best friend Lorraine to be my bridesmaid
Today I'm going to ask my best friend to be my bridesmaid,
and I'm gonna tell her I'm daily vlogging
to make an excuse for the camera.
I've got the camera shoved in the, like,
in the lining of my jacket
cause I didn't have a pocket.
Okay, let's do this.
There she is.
Ooh, I was thinking your hair was different!
It's fab!
- [Lorraine] Ah, what's the craic?
- [Clare] So I take it that they're extensions?
- [Lorraine] Of course they are!
- [Clare] Oh my god, Lorraine, they're fab.
- [Clare] Come here, take a look at that.
- [Lorraine] Nerd, what's this about?
My birthday's not til August.
- [Clare] Yeah, happy early birthday.
(gasping)
- Aww! I do, I do.
Oh my God, look at this!
(giggling)
- [Clare] Are you surprised?
I was like, she's gonna know!
I'm like, will you meet me for lunch?
- Aww!
- [Clare] I was so nervous, my gosh.
- Why are you so nervous?
Wait, no, I'm busy.
What day is that?
(laughing)
Yes!
This is gonna be amazing.
- Then Lorraine helped me organize
to ask Lauren to be my Best Woman,
or Maid of Honor, as normal people call it.
(chatting on phone)
Unfortunately, I lost that footage,
'cause this is ages ago.
So, thankfully, Lorraine got some of it on Snapchat.
'Cause Lorraine is a good friend.
And a good bridesmaid.
Knew I picked her for a reason.
- [Lorraine] What's happening?
- What's this?
- [Lorraine] Read the front of it.
(laughing)
(squealing)
I do!
- So then, I called my other bridesmaid, Orna, via Skype,
and asked her to be my bridesmaid.
- Like right now?
- Yeah.
- I just got a message from ya, I know that much.
- Yeah.
- Okay, hang on, hang on.
Oh, this is great,
you know Facebook puts a little screen
at the side of your phone
when you're doing something else?
- No, I didn't, actually.
(gasping)
- [Clare] Hello!
- Yeah, of course I will!
(giggling)
- [Clare] Yay!
(laughing)
- You're gonna make me cry.
- This is the second time I've been selected for something
that I've gone for over Skype with Lorraine.
And I just think Lorraine does amazing interviews,
and she's just so funny.
At one point in the interview,
I was asked if I was feeling pressure or something,
and Lorraine turns around and goes,
"ah, pressure's for tires".
And yeah, I was like,
if that doesn't get us it, nothing will.
I'm here in Dublin with my best friend Lorraine.
And we just finished a Skype call
for Say Yes to the Dress.
- Yeah, it went really well, happy now.
- And we were just saying, like...
- We're normal.
(laughing)
- We think we have a good shot,
like, we're very likable.
(laughing)
We're sound.
- Kind of a big deal.
Not really.
(laughing)
Yeah, it went well.
Yeah, no, I was happy with it. - Yeah, it did go well.
- And I think that we're down to earth,
and I think that like,
we will be looking for stuff that's,
you know, pretty decent.
Nice dresses.
- I was like, I want something mental!
And she was like,
would you consider something non-mental?
And Lorraine was like,
don't worry, I'll make her consider something not mental.
(imitates whip cracking)
- And then the woman was like,
hmm, interesting, okay.
- Yeah, I'm really excited,
it's gonna be such a good little adventure.
- Yeah, so, cut to us revealing whether or not we got it.
(laughing)
We got picked for Say Yes to the Dress,
and we traveled down to Vows in Cork.
Again, I lost all of the vlog footage!
Because this is what happens with me
if I can't put a video up straight away
after I take the footage.
I'm disorganized,
you can't expect me to be organized.
Luckily, I had also taken some footage on my phone,
which backed up to my Google Photos.
Yes!
Android for life!
("Love Yourself", Justin Bieber)
Here's some footage of me
actually coming out in a dress to the girls.
(inaudible chatter)
- [Lorraine] Oh, that's lovely.
Yeah, that's really, really nice.
- [Clare] Okay, so.
I don't like this,
but that can be changed.
I do quite like this.
And here is some footage of us
making like, social media posts.
Check out how thick Lorraine is in this clip.
- Yup, it's the dress.
- [Clare] What're we doing now?
- Post to social media
- [Clare] Are we saying "coola boola to Laguna"?
I'm gonna make that happen, no matter what.
Lorraine, what're you doing now?
What're you doing now?
Can you explain what we're doing now?
- We're doing--
- Take a photograph, Clare.
Take a...
(laughter)
- The first dress was a blingy dress,
and I only really put it on to show the girls.
I didn't think it was The Dress for me.
But I was very surprised that they didn't like it at all.
- So busy with sparkles,
this is just a little bit too much sparkles.
- I expected them to like it,
I'm very surprised.
- It's okay,
we have something similar with less bling.
- So the next dress I put on,
to kind of please them,
I knew wasn't the dress for me.
It was very pretty, but it was very wedding-y.
And they loved it, and they cried.
I was like, I'm never going to find a dress.
I think that part of the show is actually really funny,
because you can see me be like,
I'm only going to show this to them,
I don't really like it, and they're like...
(imitates crying)
And then I'm like, oh my god.
Then they cut away to me,
and I'm like, I don't like it.
It's very--
I feel like the contrast between me and the girls
in the show is very funny.
So they loved all the dresses I didn't like.
And I loved all the dresses they didn't like.
There's a very funny moment with the second dress,
where Lorraine loved it and I didn't like it.
And then there's a cut away to Lorraine,
and she says,
"well, unfortunately, it's not about me".
(laughing)
It was really good fun shooting Say Yes To The Dress.
It was a long day down in Cork,
but it was well worth it, and yeah.
I haven't really been able to tell anyone for ages,
I've only been able to tell people for the last two weeks.
I think it was a really good experience.
I would definitely recommend,
if you're interested, applying,
they're actually looking for brides
for Season Two right now, already.
It's a really quick turnaround time,
we only shot this in September.
It's now the end of November and I'm on it,
it started, I think, at the end of October.
You do have to like,
know that it's gonna come out before your wedding.
But I don't care, so.
(whooping)
(laughing)
- [Clare] Woohoo.
- Wahoo.
We're down a bridesmaid.
She's here in spirit though.
We should actually do a little blow-up,
some kind of a balloon or something,
and put here here in the middle of the two of us,
and have her here, in spirit.
Well, have you taken a Xanax yet?
(laughing)
Do you remember you kept getting
dirty auld white bits on your shoulders
and they kept having to brush ya?
(laughing)
She's hanging up.
(laughing)
- A couple of questions people started asking me
since I was on Say Yes To The Dress were like,
did you say yes to the dress?
And like, spoiler alert, but I mean,
the show is not called Say No To The Dress.
They were also asking me like,
oh my God, is Alex gonna see your dress?
And as I said,
I used this for material in a recent stand-up gig.
Recent, my second ever stand-up gig.
It's not like he was dying to watch a reality TV show
where women try on one dress after another
while all their friends cry.
(laughing)
So, he was fine with not watching it.
- [Clare] Alex's gonna walk the dog
so he doesn't have to see the episode.
- 'Kay, I'm just gonna get tea here.
You only brought two cups though.
- [Clare] Yeah, it was for me and Lorraine, that's why.
- I'll drink outta this one.
- [Clare] No!
That's my cup, stop it!
- [Alex] That was a joke.
- [Clare] It's for my Instagram post.
Oh, so you'll take Lorraine's?
Like, Lorraine is the guest.
- Well, like, I don't think I had much of a choice,
- [Clare] FYI there, Lorraine is the guest,
just so you're aware.
- No worries.
- [Lorraine] We'll share the cup there.
Don't worry about it.
- But yeah, if you wanna see what dress I picked,
go and watch it on the RT player,
but the link down in the description,
it is geoblocked to Ireland,
And I have absolutely no idea
how you would watch that
if you weren't in Ireland,
considering it's geoblocked.
To Ireland.
And yeah, link's in the description
to apply to Season Two.
Link there in the description to our episode.
And I'll also put the link down in the description
to a teaser clip that was up on Facebook,
because everyone will be able to see that, surely?
Yeah, it was just a really, really, really good experience,
It was well worth it,
and I'm wearing a crop top to my wedding.
Hell yeah!
Also, ignore this crater on my face.
I was watching blogs
from this time last year of vlogmasses,
and I had a similar crater in a similar spot,
so it must be just like a December thing.
My battery's about to die,
but you voted that I should do vlogmas again
for a third year,
and I should do it on this channel
instead of my second channel.
Some of you said,
I didn't know you had a second channel.
That's, how?
Go check out my podcast,
there is a brilliant new episode up,
with Will, the Irish Will, about LARPing.
And it's really, really interesting,
and it's totally not a sex thing.