It sounds like your average wedding dramas - a nervous bride, pushy mother-in-law and problems working out how to pay for the whole shebang.
Throw in the royal family and it takes on a whole new dimension.
The happy couple in question, Lord Freddie Windsor - cousin to the Queen and 32nd in line to the throne - and English actress Sophie Winkleman, had hoped, like many couples, to have a quiet and simple wedding.
But with his high society connections and the hunger of the British media for a royal wedding - even if it involved a "minor" member of the Windsor family - that was never going to be possible.
For starters, the guest list.
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and princes William and Harry all turned down their invitations to what was meant to be the royal wedding of the year at King Henry VIII's former home, Hampton Court Palace, on Saturday.
Prince Andrew's daughter, Princess Eugenie, was the most senior royal to turn up, despite the best efforts of Freddie's mother, Princess Michael of Kent, to convince the more high-profile Windsors to attend.
Lord Freddie's mum, dubbed "Princess Pushy" by the British press, took over the role of organising the wedding after apparently being distressed by the couple's decision not to hire a wedding planner.
According to press reports, Sophie's parents, Barry and Cindy Winkleman, had set aside STG40,000 ($NZ95,771) for their daughter's wedding, an amount apparently described as a "miserable little budget" by the princess.
She then began calling in favours from her well-connected friends to help provide food and other bits and pieces for the wedding while sending her chauffeur on several trips across to France to stock up on cheap champagne.
While Sophie appeared OK with letting her future mother-in-law take over the organising of her big day, there was one area she was determined to remain in control of: the gifts.
The bride-to-be, who ironically starred as a princess in a fictional British television drama about the royal family, was determined to have a gift list at upmarket London department store, Selfridges.
The princess had other ideas. She thought a gift list was "vulgar" and had hoped Freddie, 30, and Sophie, 29, - who have given each other the affectionate nicknames Windy and Winky - would ask guests for pieces of art.
But the bride won that battle and got her gift list.
However, the selection of gifts was anything but ordinary: a STG191 toaster, STG31 teaspoons, STG519.80 salt and pepper mills, a STG225 cocktail shaker, two cream cashmere throw rugs worth STG435 and a STG300 champagne bucket.
The pre-wedding dramas sent poor Sophie into a spin, with friends claiming a week before the wedding she was "super stressed" and knocking back "herbal valium".
But by the time the big day arrived, all was well.
The sun shone, 400 guests turned up, and the bride looked radiant in her Roza Couture dress (the designer apparently chosen by her mother-in-law).
However, after the ceremony, Sophie confided she had sobbed her way through the hour-long ceremony.
Whether they were tears of joy or relief no one was sure.
