00:00This is Gracie. She fell in love with Annie.
00:06After years of friendship, their relationship became something more.
00:11People judge our relationship because we went from best friends to two femmes.
00:15But being young and femme, many people don't respect their love.
00:20We're not taken seriously. We weren't anticipating so much hate.
00:24Lesbian life has no meaning. You should be hunting with a strong, handsome man.
00:28We've had men physically pull us apart, like touching us and being like,
00:33get off each other, you're obviously not gay.
00:35Today we are going to go to a photo studio, try on some wedding dresses and do what we do best.
00:40Love that.
00:42We've spent all these years trying on wedding dresses.
00:44I wonder if we're actually going to do it one day for real.
00:47Morning.
00:49Morning.
00:51Do you want coffee?
00:53Oh, okay, fine.
00:54I'm 24 years old and I am a content creator and bridal model.
00:59Same.
01:01My name's Gracie. I'm 26.
01:04We've been together for nearly four years now, but we were friends before that.
01:08We first met at London Pride in 2019.
01:11We had relationships at the time that we were loyal to and we just didn't kind of,
01:16yeah, we didn't see it like that.
01:18My first impression of Annie was that she was very short.
01:20I also thought she was very good looking, but looked quite straight and a femme,
01:25which wasn't my type at the time.
01:27My first impressions of you were fit, like 100%.
01:31You had a masculine girlfriend, so I thought, unless I shave my head, no chance.
01:36After we met, we essentially became friends. We confided in each other.
01:41Things changed when lockdown finished.
01:45We both came out of our relationships.
01:46We just hadn't seen each other since the whole of COVID and we just hugged for the first time.
01:52It was really weird. It was like we walked up to each other and we had a different type of energy.
01:58You just felt like home, but you'd never felt like that before.
02:01Now we're here and we've got a dog, we've got a house rabbit.
02:04It just happened naturally. We never went looking for it.
02:07And to be honest, it just feels like living with your best friend.
02:10Shall we take a quick selfie for our Instagram?
02:12Yeah.
02:13When I first met Grace, actually, Grace was into modelling.
02:17We started doing bridal shoots.
02:19We noticed that they were asking two straight models to act as lesbians.
02:26I knew I was gay from a really young age, so when I heard that people were trying to pretend to be gay,
02:32I was like, that's just not really on, it's not genuine representation.
02:35Our community can see right through it, but also sometimes it almost mocks our relationship.
02:40We already get a lot of people being like, oh, it mustn't be real and blah, blah, blah.
02:44We weren't anticipating so much hate.
02:47Okay, so this one here.
02:50Lesbian life has no meaning.
02:52Oh, wow.
02:54It's deep, it's deep.
02:56What a clown. I think you're beautiful. You should be hunting with a strong, handsome man.
03:02There is no reason for your disgusting PDA.
03:06Abolish them.
03:08Waste of resources.
03:10Disgusting.
03:12I think the worst reaction we've ever had in person is always men thinking they can get in on our relationship.
03:19We've had people physically pull us apart, touching us and being like, get off each other, you're obviously not gay.
03:25And then they're like, I'll have one of you, they'll pick one of us.
03:29Separately.
03:31It makes me feel anxious about who's watching and why should we have to be on guard all the time?
03:37I think because we both look very similar, people think, oh, they're just friends, they're just messing around.
03:43I think we basically have to come out every day.
03:46We are here and we are representing who we are and this is normal.
03:51The way we deal with this judgment in day-to-day life is we take back our control by our page.
03:57Today we are going to go to a photo studio, try on some wedding dresses and do what we do best.
04:02Who is it?
04:04Hi.
04:05Hello.
04:07How are we doing?
04:09Tom is my little brother.
04:11Recently we've actually brought him in and he's now wanting to take behind the scenes.
04:15Yeah, so we're really excited to get him on board.
04:18When Grace first told me about Annie, I was a little bit apprehensive.
04:22But after meeting Annie, I was totally comfortable and I really did get a good vibe from her.
04:27This afternoon we're going to be going to do a shoot just down the road and I'm going to be helping him out with that.
04:32Right guys, ready for studio?
04:33Yeah.
04:35My mum said to me before she passed away,
04:38I don't understand why lesbians have to be with one masculine and one feminine.
04:43She's like, I get it, but just both be girls.
04:45And then when I found Annie she was like, yay, I get it, this makes sense.
04:50Three, two, one.
04:52Growing up I feel like I didn't actually see many femme and femme couples.
04:57It wasn't really put out there in the media.
05:00Nice.
05:01There wasn't much representation for lesbians anyway.
05:04And what was out there, it was definitely masculine and feminine.
05:06That looks great.
05:08Let's go get changed.
05:10It's probably why I went for the mask type of lesbian in the past, because I just assumed that was the only choice.
05:14Oh wow.
05:16Yes girls, look amazing.
05:18All right, let's get some shots.
05:20Nice.
05:22We get approached a lot by straight girls.
05:25Hold that guys, keep going.
05:27Asking us how we knew or how they navigate it.
05:28I think it's because we kind of look like approachable to them.
05:32They see a common ground in us and I think we want to show that through like starting our podcast,
05:37we're starting our talking videos, but then we want to branch out into a community.
05:41I love you.
05:43I feel great.
05:45We feel like we are representing, doing our thing, not fitting any stereotypes and just having fun.
05:50Yeah, we've been married about 50 times now.
05:54Yeah, we have.
05:55I feel like we've got a nice range, haven't we? A couple of different styles.
06:00We've actually been writing an e-book about like how to know if you're gay and how to like go from friends to girlfriends
06:07and we just really want to like explore what we've got, but also give that knowledge out.
06:12Nice.
06:14We want to show that you can both be the beautiful bride, no one is outshining the other one.
06:19Love that.
06:21Would you mind doing my hair?
06:23Of course.
06:25Annie's aesthetic I would describe as always makeup, always eyelashes, always.
06:32I can't go without that at all.
06:34You love to have your hair like down all the time.
06:37And I think Grace's style is like very femme, but then you have like a mum twist to it now.
06:44I don't know what that is about, I don't know if it's because we have a dog now,
06:47but to the outside world we definitely look feminine.
06:50But I feel like energy wise we're not very feminine, are we?
06:53Right Archie, are we ready for our walkies?
06:56Come on.
07:00Before Annie I never wanted to have children.
07:03Good boy.
07:05But I'm hoping that there's children in the future for us.
07:07We actually went to a psychic who said we're going to have twins.
07:10Twins are in the future.
07:12And yeah, marriage maybe one day.
07:15Definitely.
07:17But would you wear a dress now that we've worn about 5 million?
07:20No, I would wear a suit, 100%.
07:22I'd probably wear my pyjamas because I've already worn wedding dresses.
07:25To the people that judge us, I'd say mind your business.
07:30I just think you don't need to comment on people's relationships.
07:33You've got to focus on your own life.
07:35I would say we are not our sexuality.
07:38There's a lot more to us and sexuality is not a choice.
07:42We didn't choose to be this way, but we're very happy that we are this way.
07:47The thing I love about Annie is that she's my best friend and my partner in one.
07:50We get each other, we have a good laugh.
07:53In our dynamic, we don't know who's going to propose.
07:55We just don't have a clue.
07:57I think we're waiting for the other person maybe.
07:59I am, definitely.
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