Things start to go wrong at a wedding in this amateur comedy produced by Brian Dunckley, a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association. Title: Brislot Present Title: Dearly Beloved… The film begins showing an open ring box on a circular green place mat. Inside is a gold wedding band. The groom picks up the box and removes the ring, and gives it to his best man who places it in his waistcoat pocket. They leave the room. A pair of polished men’s black shoes lay...

Things start to go wrong at a wedding in this amateur comedy produced by Brian Dunckley, a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association. Title: Brislot Present Title: Dearly Beloved… The film begins showing an open ring box on a circular green place mat. Inside is a gold wedding band. The groom picks up the box and removes the ring, and gives it to his best man who places it in his waistcoat pocket. They leave the room. A pair of polished men’s black shoes lay ready for the groom to wear. He returns to the room and spots the shoes on the floor. He takes off his slippers and puts on the shoes. The bride-to-be is also putting on her wedding shoes. The woman is preparing for her wedding with two other women on hand to help her. An older woman, the bride’s mother, hands a veil to her which she puts on. The other woman checks that everything is as it should be, and the mother gives her daughter a kiss. Her father sighs and returns to reading his newspaper. A vicar is seated at a table reading a newspaper. He looks at his watch, puts the paper down and leaves. A group of choir boys and girls tentatively enter the room  One of the boys sees the vicar’s cigarette still burning in an ash tray and picks it up. He draws on it then passes it to the other boy, who passes it on to one of the girls. The other girl refuses to smoke from it, so the first choirboy has another smoke. The vicar returns wearing his cassock and surprises them. The boy with the cigarette turns quickly and hides the cigarette behind his back. The vicar looks quizzically at the group. The choirboy seems to be holding the smoke in his mouth, he wants to exhale but dare not, but he’s almost at breaking point puffing out hs cheeks in the effort. The bridegroom puffs out his cheeks in exasperation. He and the best man are having to change the rear wheel on their car. The best man seems to be doing all the work. The church organist rehearses the music for the wedding. The grooms family arrive. The bride's mother, bridesmaid and page boy are waiting at the church entrance. As the groom's mother gets out of the car, the mothers realize with horror they are wearing the same dress. They look at each other with disdain. The groom and best man have yet to finish the wheel change. The best man puts a spare wheel on the car, while his the groom is becoming increasingly impatient. Finally, the groom and best man carry on their journey. In the passenger seat, the best man is less than impressed with his dirty hands. Travelling shot as they pull into a car park belonging to a pub. The best man washes his hands in the gents’ washroom. As he pulls a length of towel from the towel machine, it falls off the wall and the towel rolls out across the washroom floor. The best man comes out of the washroom and walks into a bar where a group of men watch a striptease routine. Back at the church the two mothers continue to look disapprovingly at each other. Outside the church door a bridesmaid waits. A car starts to pull up at the church. In the doorway of the church the vicar looks at his watch. As the car slows down the bridesmaid waves it on. The car carries the bride, but the groom has yet to arrive. The groom and best man leave the pub. The groom has in his hand an item of the stripper’s underwear. The best man snatches it from him. They are about to get in their car but they realise the car has been hemmed in by other cars. The small choir is waiting in their stall at the church. Some read comics and one of the girls plays cats cradle with loops of string. The vicar in the church doorway checks his watch once more. Again the bride’s car begins to pull up at the church and again the bridesmaid waves it on. In church waiting patiently, the two mothers in identical dresses glare at each other. Another woman in the congregation files her fingernails. Another slips her stockinged feet out of her high heel shoes. The bride’s car drives past once more as the bridesmaid shakes her head and shrugs her shoulders at the occupants. The groom is nowhere to be seen. A choirboy in the stall is absorbed by a story in the Beano comic. Two others play noughts and crosses in a hymn book. The bride’s father studies the racing pages of his newspaper given tips by the chauffeur. The bride's car has pulled up down a side street to wait. A traffic warden on patrol walks into the street and spots the wedding car parked on a double yellow line. He duly writes down the car’s registration number. Inside the car the bride sits lost in thought. The traffic warden places a parking ticket on the windscreen. The driver takes the ticket off the screen. At the church the organist studies the pages of a music book. A girl in the choir plays pocket solitaire. The bride pulls the petals off one the flowers in her bouquet, while reciting to herself ‘he loves me, he loves me not’. The girl in the choir continues her game of solitaire. The groom and best man finally arrive at the church. The organist plays ‘Here Comes the Bride’ as the bride and her father walk down the aisle towards the altar. The wedding group stand in readiness for the ceremony. The bride lifts the veil away from her face. The groom looks at her and smiles. The bride’s mother wipes away some tears. The page boy wants to wipe his nose on his shirt sleeve. The bridesmaid stares at him and tells him to stop, so he wipes it on the train of the bride’s dress instead. The wedding ring is picked up from the pages of a hymn book. Outside church bells ring. Inside a sports hall the newlyweds and their families greet their guests for the post-wedding reception. A female guest greets the bridegroom with an amorous embrace and a prolonged kiss. The groom’s mother and the best man look on in disapproval. The bride turns to see the couple, and she frowns. The groom is still ‘greeting’ his guest enthusiastically, then stops. His bride stamps on his foot. The page boy is now sitting on the floor surrounded by five bowls of blancmange, two of which he has finished eating. Then he starts on the next one. Two glasses are filled with champagne by the groom. He hands one of the glasses to his wife and they link arms to drink, however only the groom manages to drink from his glass. He fills his glass again, and presumes his wife wants more champagne, she refuses and he manages to pour the drink over her wedding gown. The bride’s father sits at a small table listening to the racing results on a small transistor radio. He marks the results down in his newspaper. The best man watches the groom’s father open a bottle of champagne. The plastic top flies off suddenly and hits a woman who is in conversation with a friend. She turns around and assumes that the groom has goosed her and slaps him across the face. The bride’s mother is polishing off a pint of beer. The groom’s mother in the same outfit watches her disapprovingly as she sips from a glass of champagne. Another woman sitting at table sips her drink, and slips off her shoes. The groom and four women, including the bride’s mother, stand in a line arms around each other’s waists as they take part in a jolly knees-up. Other guests look on in disapproval. The bride’s mother accidentally collides with the groom’s mother and she spills her drink over her outfit. The best man hands her a cloth to wipe off the spilt drink. The cloth turns out to be the stripper’s underwear he had kept in his pocket since the visit to the pub. The woman who had been sitting at a table with her shoes off, looks around and under the table, she appears to have lost them. The honeymoon car is being adorned with ribbons, balloons and hearts but also tin cans and a pair of shoes, tied to the rear bumper by the bride’s mother. The newlyweds emerge from the reception chased by guests throwing streamers. They get to their car and drive off. However, it is not the car which has just been decorated by the bride’s mother, which remains in the car park. Everyone waves good bye to the couple as they drive off. The bride’s mother, originally concerned by her mistake, now smiles to herself as it turns out the decorated car belongs to the groom’s mother and father. The couple look bemused as they look over their ‘vandalized car. A nighttime view shows a lit sign over a doorway which reads ‘Hotel Entrance’. The bride seems to be pushing their car into the car park. A member of the hotel staff comes out of the door with an umbrella as it is raining. He guides the groom to the doorway, but his wife is left in the rain, getting her breath back after pushing the car. The groom walks into their hotel bedroom and sits on the bed. His wife comes in carrying suitcases. She sits on the end of the bed and then lies down from exhaustion. Her husband closes the bedroom door, but first puts a do not disturb sign on the outside handle. He moves the luggage to one side of the room. His wife lies comatose on the bed. She wakes up and looks at him. He goes through some double doors with a bottle of drink in his hand. His wife takes off her wet jacket. Her husband comes back with two glasses. He pours them each a drink, and hands one to his wife. They raise a glass to each other and take a drink. After emptying his glass, the new husband makes advances to his new wife, who stops him and gets up. She takes her overnight bag and goes through to the bathroom and closes them. Her husband finishes off another drink, then takes off his shoes, wiggling his feet with a hole in his socks. Meanwhile his wife undresses and changes into her fancy honeymoon nightdress. She emerges from the bathroom, stopping to pose sexily for her husband. She looks towards the bed and in despair she finds that her husband, still fully clothed, is cuddling a pillow and is fast asleep with the drinks bottle still in his hand. The film ends as she nods her head in disbelief. End Credit: Kevin O’Keefe End Credit: Barbara Moye End Credit: with Marian Spence, Vera Watson, Bryan Westgarth, Joe Watson, Gordon Wardle, Diane Farbour End Credit: produced by Brian Dunckley