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Tim Ahern at Cheryl and Brian’s wedding 💜🌟💍

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At Cheryl’s request, Dale and Kay made their way over to spend time with Lee and Tim.

“Hi!” Tim greeted them. “Uh Lee, you remember Dale?”

“Yes,” Dale replied, shaking hands with the dapper reporter.

“Hi,” Lee replied, shyly, turning towards Kay. Dale got the hint.

“This is Kay Walters,” he introduced her. “Umm, Lee is an extraordinary journalist,” he explained to Kay. “You might have seen his footage from Tiananmen Square.”

“Yes, I did, and it looked terrifying,” Kay acknowledged, and it indeed was.

“Can I get anyone a drink?” Dale offered, and Lee said “yes.”

“I’ll come with you,” Tim replied, turning to Lee. “I’ll be right back.

Leaving their partners to chat, Tim kept a step behind Dale at the drinks table. They accepted their drinks from Cheryl’s dad, thanking him, and Dale gave his a good swig.

“Hey, umm…” Tim whispered. “I’m starting to think this might be a bit of a mistake, bringing Lee.”

“Well, it’s brave,” Dale shared, downing another gulp, and Tim glanced down.

“Is it too brave?” Tim asked Dale.

Dale paused for a moment, considering his response.

Memories for a happy couple to look back upon! 💖🌟💍

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So much of Cheryl and Brian’s wedding felt incredibly authentic and true to life, especially the footage of the wedding included in the show.

When Maria Angelico spoke to Lola Berry on Berry’s ‘Fearlessly Failing With Lola Berry’ podcast, Berry stated that she loved the way everything was filmed. “I was born in ‘85, and so I can only imagine from watching my mum and dad’s, like, wedding tapes and stuff like that. I’m like, ‘this is exactly how I would have acted.’”

Maria shared some of the behind the scenes magic. “Well, they made for the promo, the ABC, they got this camera operator using an original old camera. It’s online, you can see it on Instagram, and he made, like, a home video, and it looks like a real wedding, it looks so real.”

To the more unaware viewers and followers of the ABC social media pages, they truly believed it was real, as Maria further explained. “And people, like, were confused. They were like, ‘where are they now?’ [in relation to Cheryl and Brian], and I’m like, ‘it was only last year, like it wasn’t like, thirty years ago.’” “How good,” Berry replied. “Yeah, it was great. It was so cool,” Maria agreed.

I think we all agree with Maria and Lola Berry too. Incorporating footage on a real vintage camera did give the wedding a beautiful element of realism, to the point where some viewers truly thought it was really good wedding footage filmed over thirty years ago. The footage is mostly seen in the aisle montage, where more modern footage is splice together with the vintage footage. I especially love the looks of awe and joy on Brian and Ross’ faces on the vintage camera, and the absolute crystal clear joy and radiance from Cheryl on the modern camera. Evelyn Walters was also smirking, but for completely different reasons!

This style of footage is seen later on as Dale meets Brian’s brothers and father, and they pose for a photo together, all three of the Mathers brothers doing their comedy Dale impressions. Bonus footage also shows Cheryl herself, as well as Rob, Evelyn and a few other wedding guests sitting at their tables. Looking at Evelyn, it appears she would rather be anywhere else! 😉

Cheryl and Brian’s wedding is in full swing here at News At Six 1986, and there is much more fun to come! 💖🌟💍

Fearlessly Failing With Lola Berry:

“You may kiss the bride…” 💖🌟💍

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We have established that Cheryl and Brian looked chic and spiffy in their wedding dress and suit, but so did their wedding venue too!

On its filming days of the 21st, 22nd and the very early hours of the 23rd of March 2024, a suburban backyard was transformed into a glitzy 1980s wedding venue!

Chairs were dressed and a white aisle was draped on the grass, a beautiful archway loomed over the couple, and plant stands adorned the aisles. Tables and chairs were scattered around the yard, pink sashes were woven into the white metal pool fence, and white tulle and balloons decorated the rafters and bushes outside.

A white lattice feature wall featured a pink love heart shaped sign reading “Cheryl & Brian,” framed by pretty pink and white roses, and not only did it provide a fantastic backdrop for photo opportunities, it also doubled as the stage for the band that Cheryl and Brian hired for their wedding entertainment. In front of this was a shiny dance floor, which many of their guests packed by the end of the night.

Fairy lights were scattered in amongst the bushes on the edge of the pool, and balloons floated as little pops of colour in the water. The scene where Dale confronted Lindsay next to the pool was actually the final scene ever filmed for The Newsreader, and according to a tweet from Michael Lucas shared on the evening ‘On The Brink’ aired on the ABC, the shot of Ross diving into the water was the final moment of the show caught on camera, in the early hours of the 23rd.

Cheryl and Brian’s wedding was in a sense a final party and last hurrah for The Newsreader, and no doubt it will be a treasured memory for its cast and crew for many years to come. It is beautiful that they all had this one last opportunity to work and be all together 💖🌟📺

A dress fit for a wedding princess! 💖🌟💍

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There really was not a costume more spectacular and jaw dropping in The Newsreader than Cheryl’s incredible wedding gown!

Like Cheryl herself, it was bold, it shimmered and shone, and truly directed all eyes on the curly-haired bride walking down the aisle. You could not miss Cheryl for anything in the world!

During Lola Berry’s interview with Maria Angelico on Berry’s podcast ‘Fearlessly Failing With Lola Berry,’ Berry commented on how she found it “so much fun” looking at the costumes, hair and makeup on everyone, but especially Maria. “Like obviously you took the cake,” Berry remarked, regarding the wedding in S03E05. Cheryl’s wedding dress was clearly on Berry’s mind. “It literally looked like a cake!”

My visit to The Newsreader’s newsroom set was three days before the wedding was filmed; the filming dates for the wedding being the 21st and 22nd March 2024. Being one of Cheryl’s hens for her hens night, I was knowledgable of the fact that a big wedding would appear in the show, and that Cheryl would need a showstopping frock! Key costume designer Gypsy Taylor kept tight lipped to me about exactly what it looked like, but what she did share was that it was so massive that it had to be kept in a warehouse; it could not fit in the typical wardrobe trailers. I did, however, see a suit bag that was labelled “Cheryl’s dad,” and Jean’s outfit was on the rack too.

In these photos from various people’s Instagram accounts, such as Maria Angelico and wardrobe crew member Taylah Miller, you can see how wide the fluffy sleeves and especially the skirt was - it pretty much covered a table, and look at how Caroline Lee (Jean) and Marg Downey (Evelyn) had to accomodate for the skirt on the lounge with Maria! Maria wore a crinoline hoop skirt underneath to give the skirt its incredible volume, and she wore heart stockings, a blue garter, white ruffle socks and floral Doc Marten boots underneath. Her massive pearly crucifix was hard to miss too!