{"id":866546,"date":"2026-08-24T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866546\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:54:11","slug":"andy-lees-partner-rebecca-harding-hosts-wuthering-heights-hens-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866546\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Lee\u2019s partner Rebecca Harding hosts Wuthering Heights hen\u2019s party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the wedding of the year fast approaches, Bec Harding was in full hen\u2019s mode at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Harding and Andy Lee are set to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/big-v-why-funnyman-andy-lee-is-banning-the-word-forever-from-his-wedding-vows-to-rebecca-harding\/news-story\/bd26d811d3ac7eb20c6cd63dff55b4c9\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"bd26d811d3ac7eb20c6cd63dff55b4c9\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tie the knot in New York in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She looked ravishing in red as her Wuthering Heights-themed hen\u2019s party took place on Saturday in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Lee proposed to his partner of 10 years in May 2024 at the couple\u2019s \u201cnew old house\u201d \u2014 a <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/entertainment\/fiona-byrne\/andy-lee-and-rebecca-harding-add-lavish-dog-suite-to-85m-hawthorn-dream-home\/news-story\/1b9b0270cac616afc681fb43a82f81ba\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"1b9b0270cac616afc681fb43a82f81ba\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">derelict heritage-listed property in Hawthorn<\/a> that he and Harding bought in 2021 for $8.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>They are in the midst of renovating and planning the nuptials with several trips to the US this year.<\/p>\n<p>Lee bought into Old Mates Pub in the Big Apple, which has been a huge success story.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said his work partner in crime Hamish Blake is planning his bucks party and he\u2019s working closely with Lee\u2019s brother and one of his best mates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do feel like Hame has put more work into this than anything he\u2019s ever done in our careers,\u2019\u2019 Lee told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call and he\u2019s like, I\u2019m just on the other line with your brother. When we\u2019ve prepared for the ARIAs or the Logies, I\u2019ve never got this much out of you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally when Hame is preparing things something crazy is on the other side of it so I am nervous about that. I don\u2019t even know the date, I know that in Sweden they kidnap you on your bucks day, you don\u2019t even know what day your bucks day is and you get picked up and suddenly away you go. Hopefully that\u2019s not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the popular podcaster, television host, and author, revealed he is not sold on using the word forever in his wedding vows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate the forever term,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like the idea of forever and I don\u2019t want that in my wedding vows either, because if Bec becomes unhappy and finds a better model and thinks that\u2019d be a better option for her, I don\u2019t want her sticking around with me just because she said something on one day in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less romantic to say \u2018it doesn\u2019t have to be forever but it can be for as long as we\u2019re happy\u2019, but that\u2019s what I think. This forever thing people are breaking that left, right and centre these days. I don\u2019t want to put that pressure on her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the wedding of the year fast approaches, Bec Harding was in full hen\u2019s mode at the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[435516,435465,435496,435469,435479,365771,256328,10968,435476,435517,435511,435463,435457,435501,435483,435456,33002,64,63,13682,169018,435491,435499,447,435497,435487,435488,352212,134,435470,78205,435475,435481,435478,6854,435508,435518,435471,435503,435466,392401,435509,435502,321393,4755,435480,435493,293314,647,435513,435494,435464,381228,435489,1025,33373,435460,182243,307881,435477,435506,5948,435510,5122,435473,435500,46907,435505,340719,435498,4200,265767,435472,435486,435504,435492,435514,376840,378599,435462,435467,386615,378979,144284,427962,413240,435484,435461,383216,435474,435468,435458,204813,435459,22514,410029,378969,435512,392395,238160,435485,435507,435515,435490,22676,383221,82350,435495,435482],"class_list":["post-866546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-s-new-old-house","tag-s-brother","tag-s-mode","tag-s-party","tag-8-5-million-they","tag-10-years","tag-256328","tag-10968","tag-a-better-model","tag-a-better-option","tag-a-cabaret-dance-venue-her-best-friend-elliot-garnaut","tag-a-derelict-heritage-listed-property","tag-a-huge-success-story-the-couple","tag-a-large-contingent","tag-a-swank-wuthering-heights","tag-a-wedding-planner","tag-andy-lee","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-author","tag-bec","tag-bec-harding","tag-bistro-gitan","tag-celebrities","tag-chief-organiser","tag-crime-hamish-blake","tag-crown-melbourne","tag-emma-hawkins","tag-entertainment","tag-eugene-canty","tag-friends-and-family","tag-full-hen","tag-hame","tag-harding-and-andy-lee","tag-hawthorn","tag-he-and-harding","tag-her-big-day","tag-her-wuthering-heights-themed-hen","tag-his-best-mates","tag-his-bucks-party","tag-his-partner","tag-his-wedding-vows","tag-his-work-partner","tag-lauren-phillips","tag-lee","tag-lucy-nettlefold","tag-maddison-sullivan-thorpe","tag-may-2024","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-cabaret-venue","tag-melbourne-hen","tag-melbourne-harding","tag-more-work","tag-my-wedding-vows","tag-new-york","tag-october","tag-october-she","tag-old-mates-pub","tag-one-day","tag-other-guests","tag-our-careers","tag-place","tag-rebecca-harding","tag-red","tag-right-and-centre","tag-ruby-ryan-lee","tag-saturday","tag-several-trips","tag-south-yarra","tag-swank-hen","tag-sweden","tag-television-host","tag-that-left","tag-that-pressure","tag-the-arias","tag-the-best-day","tag-the-big-apple","tag-the-case","tag-the-couple","tag-the-date","tag-the-forever-term","tag-the-herald-sun","tag-the-idea","tag-the-knot","tag-the-logies","tag-the-midst","tag-the-nuptials","tag-the-other-line","tag-the-other-side","tag-the-partner","tag-the-popular-podcaster","tag-the-special-day-lee","tag-the-us","tag-the-wedding","tag-the-weekend","tag-the-word","tag-the-year","tag-themed-hen","tag-these-days","tag-thing-people","tag-things-something","tag-this-forever","tag-this-year-lee","tag-three-venues","tag-wedding","tag-what-day","tag-wuthering-heights","tag-your-brother","tag-your-bucks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}