Could you fire a bridesmaid?
Jessica was around six weeks from her wedding and had a problem.
Her hen weekend had taken place in Paris with a group of female friends.
One of the bridesmaids had secretly invited her boyfriend.
Jessica did not discover the plan in advance.
The boyfriend simply became part of the weekend.
That would already have been awkward.
What happened next made it worse.
The bridesmaid disappeared from the hen
During the day, the bridesmaid spent a significant amount of time preparing for her boyfriend’s arrival rather than joining the planned activities.
She then skipped a group dinner.
Later, she appeared at the cabaret with the boyfriend, walking in arm-in-arm.
The rest of the hen group were furious.
The weekend had been organised around Jessica before her wedding.
Instead, one of the key members of the bridal party had effectively turned part of it into a break with her own partner.
Jessica had not confronted the bridesmaid properly yet.
She wanted to know whether removing somebody from the wedding party so close to the ceremony was too dramatic.
Scott and Chris asked listeners the wider question.
Could you sack a bridesmaid?
Could a best man lose the job?
Could an usher be demoted?
The consensus was not that wedding roles were permanent contracts.
If somebody behaved badly enough, the bride or groom was still allowed to change the line-up.
James Corden had questioned their hay-fever knowledge
Scott and Chris also heard James Corden discussing them on Grimmy’s show.
He was amused by their previous conversation about hay fever and the way they had treated it like a condition which might exist differently in America.
Scott wondered whether he and Chris had sounded completely uninformed.
The answer, listening back, was not especially reassuring.
They had asked the kind of questions people normally ask about an exotic foreign phenomenon rather than a common allergy.
Rubbish awards deserved recognition
The programme then heard about people receiving awards which sounded impressive only until the category was explained.
Listeners supplied examples from schools, workplaces and social groups where somebody had technically been a prize winner but the achievement was either extremely specific or not flattering at all.
Scott liked the idea of proudly displaying something which required a long explanation before anybody understood why it was funny.
The day’s real prize for audacity, however, belonged to Jessica’s bridesmaid.
Few people could say they had managed to attend a hen weekend while simultaneously turning it into a couples’ trip.
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