Radio star Brittany Hockley’s wedding almost began with a disaster.
It’s expected that every wedding has it’s hiccups, maybe the makeup artist is late or a groomsmen spills a drink on their jacket, but it’s safe to say that a pants-less groom isn’t a particularly common hurdle to encounter.
But that’s what almost derailed the celebrations for the 37-year-old and her Swedish soccer player husband Ben Siegrest, 33, in Bali.
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A dry cleaning blunder almost derailed the whole event.
It started a week prior to the wedding when Siegrest decided to wear his wedding suit as a guest at another wedding.
Speaking with his wife and her best friend, Laura Byrne, on The Pick Up, Siegrest described his decision as “Swiss efficiency”, but Hockley wasn’t letting him get away with that.
“I said, ‘Baby, let’s maybe save the wedding suit for the big day and get you a different suit’,” Hockley explained.
”He goes, ‘no, it’s fine’.”
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Of course, as Hockley predicted, Siegrest got his suit dirty and had to have it dry cleaned after arriving in Bali for his own wedding.
“I said, ‘You have to dry clean this suit three days in advance, because that’s how long it takes. Do not forget to give it to the hotel and send it off’,” Hockley recalled.
“[Ben said], ‘Babe, please. I’ve got this.’ So, two days before the wedding, I say, ‘did you dry clean the suit?’ He’s like, ‘…I forgot.’
“He goes to try and do it, and he’s like, ‘Babe, problem. They say it’s going to take three days.’ I said, ‘I know, Ben, the wedding is in two days’.”
So, two days out from their big day, the groom was left with no clean suit.
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In attempt to solve the issue, Hockley said that her now husband began “splashing money around” until someone agreed to dry clean his suit and have it back to him in time for the event.
Thankfully, an hour before he’s set to walk down the aisle, Siegrest’s pants were returned to him – but they weren’t his.
“He can’t get it on because it’s like jeggings,” Hockley shared.
Siegrest said that he didn’t look at the pants until it came time to get dressed, and that was when he realised something wasn’t right.
“I thought, OK, everything’s in order, brilliant, done it, Britt’s going to be happy, super,” he said.
“And once I actually looked at them put them on, I was like, they’re not my pants. They’re too small. They didn’t fit. I had to stretch them out a little bit.”
But, stretching them out didn’t quite do the trick, leaving the groom pants-less mere minutes before he was set to meet his bride at the end of the aisle.
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Thankfully he was able to find a tailor to rush to his hotel room and add five centimetres onto his pants.
He wasn’t able to do up the zipper, so he came up with another solution, thinking no one in the audience would notice – but Byrne quickly noted that he wasn’t as smooth as he thought.
“I could see that your pants were safety pinned together at the front,” she told him.
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