The Hotel

Checking in this week are Faye, 34, and Mike, 31 from Dudley who’ve come to the hotel to get married. They met just 18 months ago when Mike was working as a labourer in a recycling centre. When Faye arrived for her interview, Mike spotted her from his machine on top of a pile of rubbish. It was love at first sight which was assisted by Faye’s leg wear: "I've got a thing about black leggings," he explains. Within four weeks Mike had proposed and Faye’s been planning her dream wedding at the Grosvenor ever since. She has high expectations for the big day and won’t accept anything less than perfection: “Ever since I saw Princess Di get married I’ve always had this vision of wearing a big white dress with a long train… It’s every girls dream to have the big white wedding.” The Grosvenor used to be Torquay’s number 1 wedding venue, but recent weddings have not gone to plan. New manager Mark does not see eye to eye with Philip - the hotel’s long-serving wedding coordinator, and they disagree on pretty much everything from menus to costs and how much to pander to the bride. Over the months they’ve been planning their wedding, Mike and Faye have already fought several rounds with management over the arrangements. Now the big day’s arrived, all is far from calm. The mother-of-the-bride’s room is double booked, staff call in sick, the bride threatens to call the whole thing off and the groom heads for the bar. With rain clouds gathering overhead, Manager Mark fears the worst – he admits to being more nervous than he was for his own wedding and has visions of himself being pinned up against the wall by an irate father of the bride. As the wedding march begins, can the hotel pull off the day without a hitch?