Don’t Tell The Bride: Guns N’ Roses themed wedding proves surprisingly emotional

The groom tried to recreate the band's November Rain video
Rocking: Steve and Nicki's Guns N' Roses themed wedding (Image: BBC)
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Ben Travis2 July 2015

We’ve seen plenty of daft ideas on Don’t Tell The Bride over the years, both good (a NASA theme at the National Space Centre), and very, very bad (getting married in the local swimming pool).

But this week’s episode was a whole new level of crazy – rocker Steve wanted to transport his bride Nicki back to the time they first met, and so themed his entire wedding around Guns N’ Roses. A touching idea, although Nicki secretly doesn't love Eighties and Nineties rock as much as she used to pretend to.

The main ceremony was a re-enactment of the wedding in the band’s famous video for November Rain, with a tribute band name Guns Or Roses playing Nicki down the aisle to the band’s 1987 hit Sweet Child O’ Mine. After the ceremony, the married couple left to Paradise City.

While many of the guests were unsure of the unconventional theme, it went down well with Nicki – until the wedding reception, which took place in a Manchester dive bar, where she asked her husband if he was having a midlife crisis.

However, the eccentric idea proved surprisingly emotional for many Twitter users, who sounded their approval.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Anyone else tearing up to Don't tell the Bride tonight? He had the right sentiment bless him!— Bespoke Bride Guide (@BrideGuidePlym) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BrideGuidePlym/status/616497016269602816" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/BrideGuidePlym/status/616497016269602816" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 2, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Guns and Roses November rain themed wedding on don't tell the bride makes me melt— Lucy Worrall (@lucyjworrall) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/lucyjworrall/status/616333269307625472" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/lucyjworrall/status/616333269307625472" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This Guns and Roses themed wedding on Don't Tell The Bride has made me cheer up that little bit. What a belter of an idea— Joshi B (@Josh_Barker92) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Josh_Barker92/status/616333684631826432" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/Josh_Barker92/status/616333684631826432" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Very much weeping at Don't Tell The Bride. Love the Guns N Roses wedding, such a lovely entrance! <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dttb?src=hash" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/hashtag/dttb?src=hash" data-vars-event-id="c23">#dttb</a>— Amy Mulready (@missmulready) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/missmulready/status/616332687033376768" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/missmulready/status/616332687033376768" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I started crying as soon as guns and roses came on, don't tell the bride what the hell man— Kayleigh Gaynor (@kayy_gaynor) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/kayy_gaynor/status/616332637079216128" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/kayy_gaynor/status/616332637079216128" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">how cute is the guns n roses themed wedding on don't tell the bride though?— india (@_h0pxful) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/_h0pxful/status/616332577553690628" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/_h0pxful/status/616332577553690628" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">that don't tell the bride november rain wedding was v cute acc— aoife (@aoife_graham) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/aoife_graham/status/616332944702091264" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/aoife_graham/status/616332944702091264" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">omg this episode of Don't Tell The Bride is amazing. The groom is faithfully recreating the November Rain wedding— Mel Ancholy (@casketscratcher) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/casketscratcher/status/616325354295328768" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/casketscratcher/status/616325354295328768" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Update: Don't tell the bride has gone all big time, is still brilliant. A November rain wedding? YES PLEASE— Nick Von Doom (@1tonpayton) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/1tonpayton/status/616322445738397696" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-13631-https://twitter.com/1tonpayton/status/616322445738397696" data-vars-event-id="c23">July 1, 2015</a>

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