My Brothers Wedding in Colombia 🇨🇴

The event the whole Colombia trip was built around. Harry’s brother marries in Barranquilla, and the video is mostly the day before it — a hotel gym, a pool, a facial — with the wedding itself cut down to highlights.

That restraint is the most interesting thing in it, and he explains it twice. He says at the start that he will film some of it because his brother wants a record, but that he wants to actually be at it; and he says at the end that this is why he doesn’t normally vlog things like this — you should separate vlogs and personal life — and that he made this one because so many people asked. It is the plainest statement of that principle anywhere in the bundle, and it answers a question left open on don’t point the camera at private moments.

What survives as travel information is the shape of a Colombian wedding: a 4 p.m. ceremony, a buffet, DJs, reception games, and an hour at 10 p.m. called crazy hour that nobody will explain to him beforehand.

The tail of the video is a chartered boat day out of Cartagena a few days later.

Key moments

• [00:00] In Barranquilla for the wedding, staying at a hotel with a gym he has already been using.
• [01:01] His brother, asked how nervous he is out of ten, answers under one.
• [02:03] A workout with his brother and the best man.
• [03:36] The pool and jacuzzi, empty apart from the pool attendant.
• [05:11] The plan for the night: ceremony at four, buffet, drinks, DJs — and crazy hour at ten, which nobody will describe to him.
• [05:43] He would rather not know, so he sees it fresh.
• [06:15] A spa treatment included in the stay, unexpectedly: reflexology, a facial, or hydration and paraffin wax. He takes the facial.
• [10:04] The therapist’s recommendation for where to go in Colombia: San Andrés, an island with what she calls a sea of seven colours.
• [12:22] Why he won’t vlog the whole wedding — he wants to enjoy it, and the footage will get worse as the night goes on.
• [12:53] The ceremony.
• [14:25] Reception games: which of the couple talks more, is more responsible, keeps secrets better, tips more generously, cooks better.
• [15:39] A tradition described as Lithuanian — the groom carries the bride, something is broken underfoot, and the number of pieces is the number of children.
• [17:13] The camera taken off him by friends to record messages while he isn’t looking.
• [17:48] A few days later: a boat day around the islands with the group who came out from the UK.
• [18:19] The boat, thirteen to fifteen people and three crew, for the whole day.
• [19:22] Vendors coming out to the boat to sell lunch — pushier on the water than on land.
• [19:54] Past Bocagrande, the mini-Miami skyline, and naval ships.
• [20:55] A party anchorage the subtitles render as Cholón — boats in a line, people drinking waist-deep in the sea, families too.
• [21:26] The closing statement: he doesn’t vlog this sort of thing because vlogs and personal life should stay separate, and he made an exception because people asked.

Extracted pages

• Colombia
• Barranquilla
• Cartagena
• Bocagrande
• Don’t point the camera at private moments