With less than a week to a wedding in Merthyr Tydfil, and despite the imposition of a media blackout, the bidding war between Hello! and OK!, the two main social magazines featuring that sort of thing, has heated up to near boiling point.
Scheduled for next weekend, the wedding of Marion Jones (daughter of Jones the Baker) and Dai Jones (son of Jones the Butcher) at the Church of the Misconception in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, is attracting enviable attention from the media.
In a ferocious bidding war between Hello! and OK! for exclusive rights to the wedding photographs, Hello! is currently just in the lead with an offer, at the time of writing, of £327.73. Commentators expect that the sum on offer might even reach £400 prior to the wedding.
Jones the Baker said: "On the one hand I am delighted about this, but on the other, I am full of trepidation. It's quite a big deal when two major magazines are fighting it out for our only daughter's big day. Also, we are aware that there will be a camera everywhere during the weekend.
"The wedding kicks off on Friday, with my daughter heading off for her hen-night, sponsored by Jones the Baker, open half-day Mondays, closed Sundays, for seven of her friends at the Maid and Dyson pub on North Main Street.
"The hard part comes with the influx of guests for Saturday. We are expecting almost sixty to our reception at the Kneetappers and Shunters Club on Euthanasia Street. I just hope there are enough pork pies, coleslaw from Morrisons and sale or return booze from Threshers to go around. It isn't helped by the undue media attention inflating guest numbers by at least 3 people.
"I also hope that the winning photographer will be discrete and won't ruin my daughter's special day by poking his long telephoto thing in everywhere, especially around the bridesmaids."
