As the wedding of the year fast approaches, Bec Harding was in full hen’s mode at the weekend.
Harding and Andy Lee are set to tie the knot in New York in October.
She looked ravishing in red as her Wuthering Heights-themed hen’s party took place on Saturday in Melbourne.
Harding said it was the best day, starting at Crown Melbourne and moving to Bistro Gitan in South Yarra and then to a cabaret dance venue.
Her best friend Elliot Garnaut was chief organiser, with other guests including Emma Hawkins, Lauren Phillips, Lucy Nettlefold, Eugene Canty, Maddison Sullivan Thorpe and Ruby Ryan.
Lee proposed to his partner of 10 years in May 2024 at the couple’s “new old house” — a derelict heritage-listed property in Hawthorn that he and Harding bought in 2021 for $8.5 million.
They are in the midst of renovating and planning the nuptials with several trips to the US this year.
Lee bought into Old Mates Pub in the Big Apple, which has been a huge success story.
The couple has engaged a wedding planner and are expected to be surrounded by a large contingent of friends and family for the special day.
Lee said his work partner in crime Hamish Blake is planning his bucks party and he’s working closely with Lee’s brother and one of his best mates.
“I do feel like Hame has put more work into this than anything he’s ever done in our careers,’’ Lee told the Herald Sun.
“I call and he’s like, I’m just on the other line with your brother. When we’ve prepared for the ARIAs or the Logies, I’ve never got this much out of you.
“Normally when Hame is preparing things something crazy is on the other side of it so I am nervous about that. I don’t even know the date, I know that in Sweden they kidnap you on your bucks day, you don’t even know what day your bucks day is and you get picked up and suddenly away you go. Hopefully that’s not the case.”
Lee, the popular podcaster, television host, and author, revealed he is not sold on using the word forever in his wedding vows.
“I hate the forever term,’’ he said.
“I don’t like the idea of forever and I don’t want that in my wedding vows either, because if Bec becomes unhappy and finds a better model and thinks that’d be a better option for her, I don’t want her sticking around with me just because she said something on one day in 2026.
“It’s less romantic to say ‘it doesn’t have to be forever but it can be for as long as we’re happy’, but that’s what I think. This forever thing people are breaking that left, right and centre these days. I don’t want to put that pressure on her.”