In the heart of the French countryside,
a magnificent chateau has been lovingly brought back to life
by an intrepid British couple.
Come on, missus!
Engineer Dick Straw bridge
and his wife, designer Angel.
This is the magic.
Over the past eight years,
over 50 beautiful spaces have been rebuilt, restored or reimagined.
Smile for Mummy.
Smile.
The enormous leaking roof...
That's a bad sign.
Sunlight coming through the holes is not good.
...now safe for another 100 years.
The chateau's towering walls...
...almost restored to their former glory.
Honestly, I can't... You're happy. It's exactly right.
Service!
Their hard work not only helping create
a successful wedding and events business...
People are smiling and they're crying
and they're hugging and they're drinking bubbly
and you know what? This house was meant to do that.
But also,
an extraordinary family home,
bursting with love.
Up. Oh, Oh...Oh.
...joy and laughter...
THEY LAUGH
Now it's time for the final chapter in this French fairy-tale.
One that is packed with new adventures...
What happens in workshop stays in the workshop.
...mysteries...
...plans...
High ceiling makes me want to have a swing.
...and problems...
Oh, no. Argh.
THEY LAUGH
But best of all,
a happy ending.
Come on, you two. We're walking on. Going to go find Petal.
Walking in a winter wonderland.
That's what it feels like, isn't it?
It's winter
and the chateau has now been closed to wedding guests
for over two years.
I've found some satisfying crunches.
I love that,
I've found some satisfying crunches.
But in just a few months' time,
that's all about to change.
This is lovely but I'm afraid, babes, this is a big year for us.
This is the year of the celebration.
We haven't got time to be doing this stuff.
We have to put our focus back on the house again.
Yeah. We will, cos...
It's interesting cos if you look across,
you can still see what has to be clone.
That will be clone before the first wedding.
Everything else that we have to do as well. Well, that's it.
This spring and summer,
Dick and Angel will be hosting 12 weddings.
But after a such a long break,
they are a bit out of practice.
It nearly feels like when we first started weddings.
You know, we've really got to get...
...processes in place
THEY LAUGH Oh, Petal.
She's so... She'd already found a hole.
But you see, we're worried about getting the chateau functioning
and Petal's worried there might be a little mouse or something
on our land!
We've got to remember our priorities.
I know, babes, this is beautiful
but this is the calm before the storm, you realise that?
But before any wedding guests arrive,
there's a lot still to do around the chateau.
Like finishing re-rendering its 25-metre-high walls.
Over 250 square metres of crumbling
150-year-old render
has already been removed.
And a new 21st-century coat put back on to the front facade.
There are, though, another 750 square metres to go
before all four walls will be finished.
But while render Rob and roofer mate Steve
work on the outside of the chateau,
Dick and Angel have a job to do in the basement.
In the room that was once
the chateau's rather substantial cider and vinegar store.
I can't believe that you're attacking this room.
Do you remember when we first came in?
There was a barrel that was, what, 8ft tall there. Yeah.
Had the cider in it, or the vinegar or something.
The Chateau de la Motte Husson was originally built
between 1868 and 1874 for the wealthy Baglioni family.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
And in October 2014,
when Dick and Angel first explored the chateau...
This is not too shabby.
...they found down in the sous sol, the basement...
Nice stairs, nice and wide. Yeah.
...a cool, dark, earth-floored room
containing empty cider and vinegar barrels.
The latter regularly used in the 19th century
to perk up both food and fainting ladies.
It was very, very rustic and it was very...
It's still very rustic, darling.
Since then, the room's been used as Dick's workshop.
And then, since being moved out of the preserves' cupboard,
as a temporary dumping ground for Angel's wedding gear.
Now, Angel's decided it's time to bring the room back to life
by transforming it into a dedicated wedding workshop,
an Atelier de Mariage.
Do you see shelves and things in here?
Yeah, are you...? You're...? Are you serious?
Because you're acting like
I'm asking for, like, a swimming pool on the roof or something.
This... SHE LAUGHS
I feel that you're sort of attached to this as your workroom still.
Right, 0|<. But the house has moved on.
You've got your own workroom now.
Time's ticking cos I'm assuming you want it organised
before the first wedding. Exactly, that's why... Of course you do.
But the new Atelier de Mariage
is not just going to be packed with vintage china...
...but also Angel's floral flourishes.
Because, over the years,
Angel has enjoyed creating
both delightful displays around the chateau...
She wanted it rustic, I think we're nearly there.
...and dozens of beautiful bridal bouquets.
Each one as individual as the bride herself.
So, now she has her very own wedding room,
Angel's hoping to turn it into a space that's not only practical
but incredibly creative.
So, I know that I definitely need a central work reservation.
Ancl because I have to be essentially practical here,
I'm going to be able to store these racks of china underneath it.
I like the idea of nearly all of the walls having stuff in attractive...
...like all my wicker baskets and my buckets
and galvanised buckets
cos right now, everything is filed in sort of plastic storage boxes.
For Angel, though, it's the flowers that help
turn a wedding from ordinary to extraordinary.
I love the idea of having, like, a big flower chandelier
because I'll be able to dry flowers on it,
but also I'll be able to pick from it.
Ancl I quite like that idea.
So a flower chandelier.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I need an inspiration wall.
And, when it comes to finding something
on which to pin images and ideas,
all Angel needs to do
is visit the chateau's very own reclamation yard,
otherwise known as the outbuildings.
These will fill that place up again cos they did before.
I don't want the...the whole things in there. Oh.
I just want just the top of a barrel
and it can be the inspiration wall.
OK, right I don't understand that but that's OK,
I don't have to understand it just yet.
The old vinegar barrel may ensure there's a lovely reminder of
the chateau's history in Angel's new room.
Turning it into a pin board
is a different matter altogether.
If we try and cut it, it'll fall apart.
Will it? Yeah.
Even though this one's got a band around it still?
Well, yeah, you can put it... I'll put it...
What I could do, do you want half a barrel?
No. HE LAUGHS
No, I just generally want enough to put on a wall.
With the top of a barrel now destined to be a pin board,
Dick's keen to see what else they can up cycle.
There's old doors, there's bits of windows.
Old bits of the stables. Yeah, right.
Gosh. Racking. Looking at racking stuff. We have got the wine rack.
I'm thinking.
I've always loved that trellis.
This is taller than that room by quite a long way, isn't it?
It is.
But I'm actually thinking of it going across the room,
hanging as a flower chandelier,
where I can hang things from.
Lots of dried flowers.
Right. You've got a vision in your mind.
Just so you know, I have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah.
Right. Hold on.
HE CHUCKLES
There's quite a lot of wildlife here.
I've not got my brave gloves on
cos I did not think that we'd be doing this.
Can I help you?
You could do. Grab the end with the spiders on it. No.
Oh...
Oh, my gosh, that is... Properly spidery.
"Proper, proper, proper spidery.
Oh, God, that was so horrible.
I haven't seen one of those before. Oh, gosh...
Oh, my gosh. It's so heavy.
Watch this. Watch this. Watch this.
Right. There we go.
Oh, yeah. This is easy.
I can do it now.
THEY LAUGH
At the front of the chateau stand a pair of magnolia trees,
a birthday present from Dick to Angel.
And now they're both in bloom,
an opportunity for an unusual taste test.
Magnolia pickle.
You don't hear that every clay.
A friend of mine sent me this recipe.
I was like, "I've got magnolia trees!"
They're only tiny.
And to be honest, they are at the end.
But this is good because I've enjoyed the beauty
and now I'm going to pickle them.
Ancl we're going to have them in a little bit of a sushi feast.
With a mild ginger taste,
petals from certain varieties can be eaten, raw, pickled,
or even used as tea.
Taste that.
Nothing on it.
I was absolutely gobsmacked.
That's really odd.
But nice. Right.
Right, 50g of that, pinch of salt.
And to turn the petals into pickle,
all Dick and Angel need to do
is simply dissolve some sugar and salt in a warm, light vinegar.
Even that smells greasy.
It smells delicious.
Dorothy is now completely into her sushi, isn't she?
Oh, you know, if you said to her,
"What would you have on your birthday?"
She would say, "Sushi."
Mm-hm.
This is... After chicken nuggies!
Chicken nuggets.
Here we go, Angela. I'm ready when you are.
I'm ready. I'm just diddling.
OK. Here we go.
I'll just push that in. Here we go. Ready? Mm-hm.
Here we go.
OK.
That looks like Lalique glass, doesn't it?
It looks like a glass. You know what I'm saying?
My gosh! That is so beautiful.
I don't know if I'm ever going to eat it
or just going to have it as an ornament.
No, we will definitely eat it.
First, though, it needs to sit and pickle for a couple of weeks.
Over in the Atelier de Marriage,
Dick and builder mate Steve have been busy
levelling the uneven 19th-century earth floor
with some 21st-century concrete.
Three, two, one, yeah? Yeah.
This floor was rammed earth
because the rammed earth is what you want,
keeps the temperature stable and provides a little bit of humidity,
which means the corks don't rot in your bottles.
So moisture in your cork, that's why it was there.
And for us now 'R's a storage room,
which means we don't want any moisture,
so it's a clamp proof course.
It's going to be the reinforced bar
so that the actual concrete can expand a little bit without cracking
and then we'll tile on the top of it.
And now it's dry,
it's time for some design decisions...
What a difference this has made.
...which is most certainly Angel's department.
OK, let's break this down.
The things I need in this room are
all the racks with glasses
and plates and cutlery and everything. Yeah.
Ancl it's got to be a place
where I can just grab things, you know?
Ancl I want this to be completely 3D.
You know when we're doing flowers,
you know, you're using your body all the time.
You go in to get the water,
you're picking things up, you're doing this.
It's not sort of sitting down and sort of sewing
and kind of going to get buttons.
This is a very dynamic space,
and because of that, I want to be like this and that.
So I would like to see, what?
600. I need 120.
It's quite big, actually,
but that's why... HE LAUGHS
No, that's why it's important to do it in situ, isn't it?
I just want to see where 180 is.
OK. Oh, that's perfect.
That is an absolute perfect size.
OK.
Did you say you wanted plumbing in here?
Yeah. Where'd you want the sink?
We've got to find a sink, first of all.
There'll be one out in the building somewhere.
OK, assuming we have got one somewhere,
I think we do need a sink in here.
I'm really actually very excited about this now.
Where's the water going to go to from your sink?
I don't care.
SHE LAUGHS
I never used to.
The thing is, never a truer word was spoken.
So, while builder mate Steve starts to lay the groundwork...
...it's Angel's job to give the room some va-va-voom,
and to do that,
she's going to cover her workbench with the same light blue tiles,
but this time decoupage them with paper napkins.
When you take all the plies off,
you get this lovely, thin sort of material to work with.
Ancl that's great cos it can feel really integrated
with what you put it on.
It's also a nightmare, because normally,
the way that I've always clone decoupage is
I get 50% PVA, 50% water,
put it on whatever I'm decoupaging,
get my credit card and then get all the bubbles out.
Can't do it on this
because it's actually so thin it just rips.
So I'm doing it a different way
and I'm quite excited by this.
Small things, but small things can make a really big difference.
So last night I PVA'd this, no water,
just plain PVA straight on the tile
and I've got my napkin.
Ancl the idea,
and the dream,
is that...
...when this is ironed on,
it's going to be completely, perfectly flat
with no bubbles.
Need bit parchment paper.
I'm just going to iron away.
Ancl what's going to happen is the PVA,
it's going to start melting
and it's going to infuse the napkin.
Ancl it's going to be bubble-free.
SHE CHUCKLES
And, fingers crossed, pretty perfect.
Now, it's not... It's not a quick job.
Because you've got to take the time, allow the glue to melt.
You can't get flatter than that, can you?
You really can't.
That's quite exciting.
Next one.
I think I'm going to try this one.
Because I'm going to be using this as a splash back,
I'm going to varnish it with a spray varnish, but that's...
SHE HISSES That's easy.
0h, yeah!
Fabula-ruso.
Over in his workshop, Dick's trying to work out how to turn
100kg of barrel into a wall-mounted memento.
Angel would like me to cut the top off a barrel,
so we've got a circle with some bits of barrel on it on the wall.
That is a problem.
Ancl the reason that is a problem is because every single piece
of this barrel has been made to fit together and to be held together
by the bands around it.
So, as an entity, it is really strong and by cutting it off
right here somewhere, it's going to mean
that it's all going to want to fall apart.
I couldn't get her to believe that.
But if I take this as my home-made barrel, yeah, well,
it's very similar because you've got
all these elements going from top to bottom,
you've got bits in the end, and it's held together by bands.
But I have to go and cut through...
Ancl look at that, I can cut through...
There's one of the barrel lengths.
Cut through and just cut through the next one and, oops, there we go.
But the more I go round, the less integrity there is here.
Oops.
That's my problem.
PENS CLATTER
That doesn't look so good.
HE CHUCKLES
Dick, though, has a possible solution -
in a belt and braces kind of way.
This one is beyond use.
Cos it's all... I can see it will never hold any liquid.
This is all we're interested in.
This is the display.
My problem is, as I get towards the end of this...
DRILL WHIRS
...it's we're going to try and fall apart even more.
So I'm going to have to put a couple of little braces in
just to make the barrel complete.
This is it.
The words vinegar and barrel both come from the French vinagre -
literally meaning sour wine.
And as it was used around the chateau for cleaning and cooking,
it was obviously best bought in bulk.
But the vinegar barrel isn't the only original feature
being given a new lease of life.
The Atelier de Mariage's 150-year-old walls
are also getting some much-needed attention.
I love them. I mean, they are... They're a bit dusty.
They're a bit, you know, sort of worn, a bit dirty.
But I'm not changing it.
In fact, I am sealing it in.
Coating the stone with a mix of glue and water
will not only reduce the dust, but also prevent water damage.
Ajob that no-one's been too concerned about in here until now.
Its room is going to, you know, move on from being a store room...
...into a store room with flowers and china.
It's also going to give me memories
because, like, every bouquet that we do
is going to remind me of the wedding.
It is going to be... It's going to be lovely.
Just got to get finished.
In the outbuildings,
Dick's about to find out whether he's made a piece of art
or a pile of kindling.
The top is not attached to the bottom any more.
That's good.
With a bit of luck,
I'll be able to lift this up without all the bits falling out.
HE SIGHS
There you go!
I'm quite pleased with that.
Creating the new wedding workshop isn't the only item
on Dick and Angel's job list.
Within the next six weeks,
the chateau will be hosting its first wedding of the season,
and all four guest suites will be needed.
So before anyone stays in them,
Angel's keen to carry out an in-depth inspection.
They still... Still burn my legs, those stairs.
Ah.
Starting with the patisserie suite.
Oh, it's this light. SHE LAUGHS
You had me there. OK.
When was the last time somebody stayed in this suite?
Oh, gosh.
Two and a half years ago?
Hmm. Well, at least the lights work.
Cos they haven't really been used. Everything will work.
Everything will work, he said.
OK. So we have to check the electrics work.
Make me a cup of coffee. SHE CH UCKLES
We're going to be caffeined out
by the time we get through all the rooms.
Oh, it's not plugged in. Ancl do you know why?
I remember now.
I need to sort out the extensions on here.
Right, it's all these little things, baby.
These things here should all work. Right.
OK. There's a bulb missing.
Oomph! Another job clone!
I wish all the jobs were that simple.
Aw. Hey, both lights work.
I love this, but it's really hard to turn the tap on because it...
Look, I can fix it. Can you? Yeah, I can fix it up. OK.
I don't know about the bath.
I've never used the bath, but I do feel the only way to test
these rooms properly is to actually stay in them.
HE CHUCKLES Only for a night.
Have it is as a little bit of a date.
Check your diary.
Give us a date. That you're free.
That's ridiculous. SHE LAUGHS
For Angel, though, attention to detail is no joke.
And as the sun sets over the chateau...
We've never slept in this bed.
I know! Never slept in any of them. It's quite firm.
...Dick soon finds himself on a date night,
but this time, with a very long to do list.
ANGEL CHUCKLES
The sun is shining, there's blossom on the trees.
And Dick's decided it's the perfect moment to mow the chateau's
three and a half thousand square metre wild flower meadow.
But as they'll soon be hosting the first wedding of the season
and the meadow is in front of the orangery
where the reception will be held,
Angel's eyebrows are understandably raised.
Hello, you! Hello. Where are you stopping?
Good. Because this is looking, like, good.
I mean, it had to come down.
It's going to look different when I scrape it.
OK. Going to look muddier. All right. Oh, oh.
Let's look at this. Down we come. Whoops.
Right, if you look here...
Oh, there's a good example, look. See this?
This here, this whole area here?
Yeah. That's wild flowers.
Yes.
When do you think it will at least be green?
Because we've got five weeks.
Hello, God?
THEY CHUCKLE
Hello?!
My wife's asking me a question here and I have no idea.
You are such a pee-pee taker.
Hello? All right. It's for you.
Actually, could you let my husband know that it can't be mud
for five weeks' time when our first wedding is.
You didn't tell me that before we started.
I didn't know you should scrape it.
0|<, 0|<, I'll just... No, seriously. I'm serious now.
This is my serious face. This is your serious face?
I know you actually don't give a...about this, but, right,
I know that, but I do.
Ancl I know it's never, ever like a wild meadow at this time,
but what it can't be is mud.
So if you didn't scrape it, would grass and stuff still grow back?
I was thinking of pollarding the trees as well, by the way.
Yeah, you can just...
You know what you can do?
Darling, right, to be honest, to be honest, it will not look like this.
It won't look like mud? Ancl it's not going to look like
the ploughed field I did the first time. OK.
That is what I wanted to hear.
Can we get a different plough, so it looks better? OK.
Yeah. But I'm going to let you get on cos you're doing a brilliant job.
Ancl you came up here to tell me that
and not just to come and check on me, did you?
I'd just come to check you were doing a brilliant job.
Exactly. Not panicked at all. HE CH UCKLES
It'll be all right, come the weddings.
Inside the chateau, what was Dick's old workshop
is slowly but surely turning into Angel's Atelier de Mariage,
a place to store her wedding china,
as well as somewhere to create bridal bouquets and floral displays.
Hi. Where do I place this? Hello, babe. Erm...
SHE CHUCKLES
It's not the one we had in our little kitchen at the start, was it?
That's the one that we used for the first sort of six months.
It's slightly crackled, but it looks like it should be there. Yeah. Good.
OK. Good, good. Taps. OK.
I have got a tap, or a couple of taps that were given to me
ages ago by a friend.
Go and grab them. OK. Go and grab them.
Over the years, Dick has installed dozens of taps,
but none quite like this.
I've seen those before.
THEY LAUGH
I've just been waiting for a time and a moment for them.
Oh, that's just the best thing, isn't it, ever?
Hold a second. Hold on a second. Is that possible?
Hold on a second, anything's possible, but...
Must be a good mood.
OK, so that's... See that brass?
That's nice. See that brass? Yeah.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
This is me.
That is you.
HE CHUCKLES
The taps sum up our life.
OK? OK.
Ordinarily, I quite like that.
It's lovely outside... Ordinarily, I'd quite like that.
Well, the thing is, because this room is so rustic as it is,
I thought these were just quite fun because...
Right. Because they add this sort of, like, a twist of ridiculousness
and elegance and just fun.
Don't know. OK, if you're happy?
Yeah. OK. So I have to make this happen. Yeah.
That'll be a bit of fun.
Angel's tap may be a delicate silver fish,
but plumbing it in is a rather different matter.
A hole for the drain has to be drilled through the chateau's
metre-thick granite walls and as it's tough, dirty work,
Dick's hoping it's the last hole he and builder mate Steve
ever have to do.
But at least there's ice cream.
Hello, beautiful!
What you doing? Steve!
I told him not to do it, but he's making a hole in our chateau.
Citron or pineapple coconut?
OK, can I have the coconut?
There's a little bit to hold on to.
Oh, that looks lovely. Good health, mate.
Inside the chateau hallway,
Angel's also about to do some major demolition
because over the past two and a half years,
one of the biggest box forts in the history of the chateau
has been built next to the main staircase.
But with wedding guests on their way and cleaning to do...
The clay has come, my darling.
...Angel would like the prime architect to start dismantling it.
You're all right. Arthur.
You need to put your toys in some of these boxes.
Yes. Boxes not in boxes.
OK. I know you love a box. I know you love them.
I'm not chucking them out.
In here.
MUFFLED CHATTER
I've been waiting for this clay.
I'll just find somewhere...
But while Dorothy is happy to help take everything upstairs,
and even happier to slide back down again...
Another one! OVERLAPPING CHATTER
...Arthur opens his argument for the defence.
Upstairs. What? No. But that's not a box, that's a car!
That's not a box, it's a car.
It's a car that can turn into a plane!
A point of semantics not completely lost on Dorothy.
SHE VROOMS
Down in the basement,
Dick and builder mate Steve are not only building a long workbench
along the back wall of Angel's Atelier de Mariage...
Don't drop it at this stage because it's made to fit this one.
Yes. CH UCKLING
...but also pimping up a simple sink...
...with Angel's over-the-top taps.
Hardest thing about this job was making the plumbing work
with ridiculous nozzles on taps.
Angel's Atelier de Mariage isn't the only thing being jazzed up
in time for the wedding season.
The outside walls of the chateau are as well.
So far, the front and one side have been done
and work will soon begin on the opposite face.
The back of the chateau, though, which is mainly out of sight
of the guests, will now be left till last.
HE CH UCKLES The difference.
THEY CHUCKLE
Oh, my gosh.
Oh!
It... I can't believe it... Was so bad?
Is it... Is it... Has it always been this bad?
The chateau walls may be 150 years old,
but at the moment, Angel's much more concerned about the near future.
With a month to go, it feels a bit tight for me.
Theoreflcafly... SHE CHUCKLES
Theoretically, there is enough time.
OK. OK? All right.
So with no problems and the weather being kind... Yes, that's it.
OK. Remembering, of course, we can't render if it's frosty.
Ancl there is frost next week.
Trust me, if we look right here,
you can see this doesn't look too bad anyway, does it?
For Angel, though, the back of the chateau is one thing.
The side - visible from the front - quite another.
This whole area needs a bit of love, doesn't it?
Erm... Yeah. Big time.
Well aware that scaffolding isn't the best background
for a wedding photo, Angel's set some terms and conditions.
It's fine to have some scaffolding around the back, but not here.
OK. OK. And all of this needs to be completely tidied up.
You know, you haven't got just photographs only from the front.
You've got angled.
Wherever we get to, the week beforehand is where we get to.
Ancl then it's all got to be cleared up.
HE CHUCKLES
No. Before the wedding, we need a mammoth tidy up - agreed.
Not the week before cos that just reduces our time
to get this finished by a week. OK. The week of.
Yeah. What clay does the wedding start on?
Friday. OK.
So, by Thursday morning, this will be tidy.
OK.
SHE CHUCKLES DeaY?
DeaL
What's your definition of tidy?
Tidier than this.
The outside of the chateau may still be a bit rough,
but inside, Angel's Atelier de Mariage is now ready
to be decorated with decoupage.
Right, erm...
I don't remember those tiles.
They're these tiles with napkins on.
HE CHUCKLES
Of course they are, darling, how silly of me.
In the future, Angel hopes to use the tiled top to create
the most fabulous of floral displays.
But, first, she has to actually stick the tiles on.
And to do that, she needs some flexible adhesive.
All right, well, this is quite satisfying.
It's like icing a cake.
All right. OK. What do you think? Yeah, go for it.
That's... Yeah, I'm going to go for it. I'm going to go.
Hmm. All right. Good.
Well, that's making me happy.
So, while Angel tiles in one area,
Dick finishes off the plumbing in another.
That's a good sign.
OK. All right.
I'm minded to turn this tap on, see if something happens. OK.
Oh!
Oh...
How ridiculous is that? How ridiculous...
Oh! Oh, oh, oh!
OK, so it's coming out of the bottom, but...
And the top. And the top.
But it works!
Good.
Can I have a cloth? THEY LAUGH
When you're working against the clock, fixing a leak is one thing...
...fighting the elements, quite another.
I'm sure we said, Steve, as long as the weather holds, we'll be OK.
Yeah. Is that the last thing I heard?
WINDS WHIP AND WHISTLE
Now the erratic weather's settled down,
work on the chateau can continue - both outside and in.
Let's take it up. What could possibly go wrong?
Angel's new workbench in the Atelier de Mariage
has been pushed out the way,
and as it's going to be used as a flower chandelier,
the old trellis raised into position.
Oh, wow. Stop. Stop, stop.
It needs to be centralised with the light, really.
And then repositioned.
Ancl then, yeah, that's about it.
I think it looked a little bit nicer lower.
Otherwise, it looks like a trellis on the ceiling.
Now that's in place,
preparations for the wedding season once again gather pace.
Tables are brought out of storage.
HONKING
Even Dick's rather peripatetic geese are corralled
behind a brand-new fence.
CLANG!
HONKING
And now that Dick and Angel have stayed in all four guest rooms,
there are jobs to do in the boudoir suite.
We tried everything when we were staying in the rooms.
Something that surprised me completely is this.
It hurt!
The shower hurt me.
Well, it's like little needles.
Maybe that's what people like.
I'm going to fix it, I don't like it.
But a scaled-up shower head isn't the only problem they came across.
HUMMING
You can hear...
That's the pump upstairs.
A booster pump in the attic keeps the chateau's water pressurised.
HUMMING
That's the pump kicking in.
Unfortunately for their guests,
both the attic and the booster pump
are just above the boudoir suite bed.
HUMMING
I can see my problem straight away.
This isn't isolated from the floor at all,
which means when the pump's turning around and it's vibrating,
it's going straight into that piece of plywood, straight into the board.
There's a joist there that's vibrating the ceiling below.
I'm going to fix that by isolating this.
Right.
And an old sponge kneeler could be the perfect solution.
I think it's as simple as that.
Done. Let's see if it works.
Pump's on.
SILENCE
That's much better.
Tick.
Down in the chateau's basement, Angel's Atelier de Mariage
is finally beginning to bloom -
in a dried flower kind of way.
Where would you like it to hang?
I don't know if it'll look...
OK.
Thank you.
I'm assuming you're going to want to keep all of these petals,
this is great confetti stuff. Actually, that is, isn't it?
I've not got a confetti bucket for all the bits.
Oh, I'm loving it.
And soon, what was once a dusty, dark cider and vinegar cellar...
...has blossomed into a colourful and creative work space.
A place for Angel to turn her and her bride's imaginative ideas
into glorious reality.
This room is everything that I've dreamt of and more.
A perfect marriage between beauty and functionality.
Love it so much.
SHE CHUCKLES
With the hose coming out,
it just makes me giggle, but it's just so practical
because I could, you know, if I've got a bucket here,
if we've got a bucket here...
Ancl this is exactly the right sink that you'd have here.
So that's why those outbuildings are good.
You don't throw anything away and you'll always need it one clay.
You'll find its natural home again.
Even an old cupboard that Dick turned into a workbench
has once again been put to use.
But this time, with the antique wallpaper that lined the cupboard
around 100 years ago now on full display.
And as far as Angel's concerned,
the images couldn't be more appropriate.
Well, you know, it's up for debate, isn't it?
But, look, they're having a wonderful time.
Come on. He's proposing there.
There's flowers.
I'm sure it must be a sign that this was meant
to be the wedding room.
It just had to go on a bit of a journey.
On the wall, a memento from the old room -
now part of the new.
I didn't think I would feel like this about the top of a barrel.
But, you know, Dick and I know that this is one of the first things
that we saw in this room, and it's back in its original place.
Seven years after their wedding,
and many more chateau weddings after that,
Angel finally has somewhere
to create the most beautiful of bouquets.
I've put lots of eucalyptus in buckets for weddings,
but there's never been a moment that's felt as nice.
Our eucalyptus, our buckets, in our Atelier de Mariage.
Amongst the boxes of dried flowers that Angel's collected...
You remember?
...there is one that is very special.
That's from our wedding.
I know!
Wow. I didn't even know you'd kept them.
HE CHUCKLES
I'm going to put these pride of place somewhere.
I know they are dried and quite old now,
but they're quite beautiful still.
This came from...
...County Antrim. This came from home.
I know, it's lovely.
This is quite special.
SHE CHUCKLES
Here you go. You can do it.
I'm out of my depth. I'm out of my depth.
THEY LAUGH
See, I do weddings.
If anybody wants their flowers clone,
if they got in touch with me, I'll sort it out for them.
THEY LAUGH
Dear God!
I can weld it.
The Atelier de Mariage may be ready,
but it's just one of dozens of jobs to do before the chateau
can be open to guests.
But they'll all have to wait.
All right. There you go, babes.
Because, right now, at the top of Dick and Angel's agenda,
there's home-made sushi.
Here we are. How's that?
We've actually got a complete and utter feast.
And even more importantly, some family time.
Here's to Mummy's flower room,
and Mummy and me,
and Arthur, and Daddy eating the magnolia pickles.
Oh, my God. Magnificent. That is an amazing toast.
Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, Arthur. Thank you.
The fresh fish flavours enhanced by both warm sake
for the grown-ups and hopefully - as it's its first taste test,
Angel's magnolia pickle.
Oh, look at that. I think they're a bit sweet.
It is really, really good. Tiny little bit, babe.
I'm definitely going to make this again next year.
But I might steal some of the flowers for the Atelier.
For Dorothy, though, Magnolia pickle is,
should we say, an acquired taste.
CHUCKLING
Cheers, darling girl.
Hey? Fine, then. I kind of want to taste... Trying to get me pickled!
Did you hear that? What? Daddy's trying to get me pickled.
LAUGHTER
That's for the magnolia.
Next time...
ALL: No!
...unexpected showers...
Get away! You're diluting my drink!
...confetti kisses...
Put your hand there. That's it.
Service!
...and delayed celebrations.
Ladies and gentlemen, would you like to stand for our brides, please?
APPLAUSE
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