Actress Eilise Patton Jokingly Asks for a PEOPLE Cover to Offset the Crazy Cost of Her Wedding
The comedian explains that while she was joking with the "offer," she truly does have sticker shock from the sky-high price of weddings
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She asked, we answered!
In a hilarious Instagram post, actress and comedian Eilise Patton declared to PEOPLE that she decided to allow the magazine to cover her upcoming wedding — in exchange for the freebies that come along with it.
"This is a message for PEOPLE magazine," she begins. "If you're not PEOPLE magazine, then keep on scrolling. I've thought a lot about it because I know it's a lot of cameras and publicity and I didn't think I wanted that for my special day, but at this point I think I would be interested in doing that," she says.
"So, we would be on the cover I guess, and then just everything would be covered by you," Patton continues. "Florals and bar and DJ and potentially the honeymoon..."
Patton, who got engaged in London in August, tells PEOPLE that she made the video as a joke after being taken aback at how expensive planning a wedding is.
"I knew that the cost of things had gone up, but it's shocking to me how anyone is supposed to pay for it all. I know you're supposed to have a budget, but mine keeps creeping up. My fiancé is like, 'Eilise, this isn't what people do. You have a budget and you work within it!' I'm like, OK...but I also need espresso martinis?'"
She adds, "It's funny how quickly you go from wanting to do a plated sit-down meal to being like, actually let's do buffet. Buffet is totally great."
Patton says the planning is still in the early stages. "We need to sort through the venue stuff," she says. "Right now it's just barn on barn and barn — different barns with the same twinkly lights and the same barn names, like the 'Dusty Rose.'"
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She jokes, "I grew up around so many barns in Virginia that I was like, 'Can we get away from all this wood?'"
Patton, who has been working as a stand up comedian and actress for the past ten years, says her career has suddenly blown up thanks to her presence on TikTok, which she joined during the pandemic.
"I used to think it was just hot girls dancing or something, but then my sister pushed me to put my comedy videos on it," she says of embracing TikTok and Instagram. "Things are definitely taking off now in a weird way, which is really nice," she says.
She adds that her online presence has even netted her a wedding planner. "She's someone who's followed me for a long time on Instagram so I feel like she kind of knows me," Patton says of meeting her planner. "And same with our photographer, we've had a social relationship. So it's been very fun meeting people that way."
Patton, 27, who studied theater and screenwriting in college, says that while she's been chasing her acting dreams over the past decade, she's also done plenty of commercials and side hustles to bring in money.
"I've been a barista this whole time," she says. "But this November, I'll also be joining the Groundlings Sunday Company. So the barista life hopefully might be done for a little while!"
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