Fast Confession - Nikol Moravcová: I am Always Online, but my Wedding will be Offline!
Nikol Moravcová is known to the public as a blogger, presenter and influencer. She has thousands of followers on Instagram, with whom she shares her varied and very wild life. Recently she pushed past her thirtieth year and it turned her life upside down. Against her expectations she is to marry. And despite her diary bursting in the seams because of the impending marriage, she has made the time for an interview with Luxury Prague Life where she confided not only about what will her untraditional wedding look like, but also about her plans for the future.
Nikol, when did you actually marry for the first time?
It´s been eight years ago, if you think about the advertisement. Although perhaps it´s been ten years ago already, it was a wedding for money. Now it will be out of love. (laughter) I had to wait. And when I think about it, I am really eternal bride. When I lived in Istanbul, I took pictures for wedding catalogues and pyjamas. The fashion shows were mainly about wedding dresses, so I have kind of always been a bride.
What did you think about at that time? Have you been imagining,– having seen such a vast range of wedding dresses, what will your own wedding look like one day? Your own dress?
I was never really into that. I looked at it like it is work. And most importantly I never did think that I would marry. I am not the princess type.
Aren´t you?
Maybe I look that way, but I am rather a punk in a Barbie´s body. I have never thought about it, but now I think it is nice. Although now, one month before the wedding and I have to admit that it is very stressful; I hope that I will never get married again. (laughter)
But it is very nice to go into marriage with someone whom you really love, you are planning to have a family with him… It is a tradition that I want to follow, even if nowadays people are not so preoccupied by that and a child is more important for them than a wedding. But I want to make it really nice, it will be a great party for the family and all friends.
Come on, you´ve been to so many parties...
But I have never had all my friends in one place. In addition, it will be held on the roof of Lucerna, so the venue is a magical one.
A wedding is according to psychologists one of the most stressful factors after death and divorce, where some couples don´t even make it through …
No wonder. Fortunately my fiancée can handle that and is very tolerant. The greatest stress for him is to go on the red carpet. (laughter)
Moreover I realised that I am making the wedding also for my fans, followers. I am followed by a lot of girls between 25 and 35 years of age. My personal life is intertwined with the professional one and it is clear that we will have at our wedding a lot of people and companies that I cooperate with - dresses, rings, decoration, catering. Over the ten years in this industry I´ve collected quite a lot of interesting contacts, even though I have to say that there is a lot that needs to be organised. I admire every bride, who can handle it. And consider, that I actually have a team of people, but even so, I must be everywhere first. So I am not surprised that some couples cannot cope with that.
Does your fiancée interfere?
Not at all. We are discussing it and I take into account his views, because he travelled a lot, is a great reader and is very practical, too. He advises me also on the content of social networks and cooperation but generally lets me have space there, because he says that I am better with the visual aspect.
You sound incredibly in love. You´ve been together for a short time...
Well that is quite relative. We are going to marry on 18.8.2018 when we will have been together exactly for 18 months. In addition, the ceremony will be precisely at 18 hours. There is the symbol of number 8, horizontal 8, as infinity. We got engaged after four months on my thirtieth birthday.
It is said that nothing changes when you are thirty, but my life changed completely - we moved, we got engaged and I will get married.
Are you not afraid of it, you really have no doubts?
I am not afraid of it at all, on the contrary, I look forward to a common stage in life. Until the age of thirty I´ve tried a lot of relationships, I have met so many people, nationalities, natures, that I just precisely knew what I did not want. But I didn´t know very well what I did want. I asked my parents if they thought that the engagement was too soon, because they were both there at a family celebration, Karol shot a kind of document where he stepped aside, out of it, and asked for my hand. Sometimes you do not need to test a relationship for years to know that it is the right one. You just know.
But so as not to forget your question. We have been together every day since we met, we travelled together, which is for me one of the most important things. Moreover, he has supported me from the beginning, I knew straight away that this is the type of person who will know how to deal with me. Since we´ve been together I am more in love as the time passes. I thought that it cannot be more so, I wonder how far it will go. Maybe that great love will one day bring us a child, which seems to me to be natural and logical. It perhaps sounds ideal, but as I say, I had to wait and go through ugly things. Just saying that so that people didn´t think that I signed up on Tinder and that´s it.
Hey I am on Tinder too and this didn´t happen to me. (laughter)
I have a lot of friends from various circles and I heard incredible stories, funny ones as well as the less so. But I know of several relationships who are expecting a "tinder surprise", and I know about three couples who met through an on-line dating site and they are also getting married. But the truth is that 70% have a negative experience. If you are looking for a long-term relationship you will absolutely disqualify yourself, the fact is that it is more "for fun", you are to meet people in the place where you are. I have used it for the first time in Italy and I met three absolutely super guys who showed me the place beautifully, took me to places which I would never have seen as a tourist. And none of them wanted anything more from me. It is true that they were all a foot smaller. (laughter)
But that is perhaps the reason why people meet there. My fiencée would not start talking to me in a bar and I don´t think I would approach him either. This meeting simply was to be.
You are a publicly-known personality, he knew you, after all, he is from Slovakia.
He has lived here for 12 years and he works in IT, so he Googled me. But imagine this; a lot of guys wrote to me that I am a fake Nikol, that I stole her photos. So I got fed up, I entered ´only foreigners within five kilometres´ and I have a Slovak from Letná. (Laughter)
It was my first and last Czech date. One simply must not try too hard. I do not want to sound like I am giving advice, but I think everybody is awaited by love sooner, or later. I am convinced of that.
Let us go back to your wedding. I have read somewhere that it will be a bit different than others - without shoes
And most of all without phones.
What?
Yes. We have met online and the wedding will be offline. At the entrance people will hand their phones over. I want everyone to enjoy it. People generally always photograph something and share it and don´t live for that given moment. And I want them to enjoy it with us. In addition there will be a lot of well-known personalities, so I do not want for them to feel that perhaps they are being stalked. I want them to relax like at home on my sofa in the living room when I do the SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE SHOW.
We are not doing many traditions, just one, insisted upon by my mother-in-law. It is called ´čepčenie´ (transl. Note: putting on the headdress worn by married women). There will be girls in national costumes who will turn me into a married woman so I will be there, dancing with ribbons. We have a lot of differently-done things, for example the ceremony is at six in the evening, at sunset. It will be photographed by three of my buddies, photographers, filming it on 8-milimetre camera, which is retro, people have super reactions to that. I also want it to be shot as portrait, because of INSTA TV, which is quite difficult, so I hope it will work.
The dress is being made by designer Terezka Sabáčková; that was clear from the beginning. She has been dressing me for eight years for the red carpet, plus she knows me well, as well as the people who are making the rings, decorations. All of them are people that know me and know my taste. For example peiple ask me a lot about test of make-up and hair. So ok then, - hair is to be done by Michal Zapomněl and he knows what suits me, and makeup will be done by Elena Pinzari who is the best make-up artist in this country, so I believe them, one hundred percent.
In addition there will be kind of cups into which they can contribute for our honeymoon, we want to go to the Burning Man.
Where?
Burning Man - it is in Nevada desert, the largest festival in the world. (Note of the editor:Read about the Burning Man festival HERE.) It is kind of an outdoor gallery, it is in Nevada; for a week there is no money, internet nor cars. So each of the guests can contribute to the honeymoon. I will have the cup always with me, from an environmental point of view I do not want there to be any broken glass, nor any plastics. That place deserves special treatment. When I was there last year for the first time, I was absolutely charmed by it and I believe that it will absolutely enchant others, too. From all cities in the world I could have lived in, I chose Prague. I lived in Switzerland, in Istanbul, in LA, but all the same I love living in Prague the best. I am happy here, so I am glad that we can turn our love into marriage right here, in the heart of Prague.
Who will perform the marriage ceremony?
Probably our friend, economist Tomáš Sedláček.
So it will not be Mayor Oldřich Lomecký?
I had originally wanted him, but his diary was full for that date. We like him, have known him for a long time, but we want Tomáš, he is a kind of a philosopher, he loves life, people and women, I and Karol both like him very much.
Who made your rings?
Luboš Korbička from Brno, a terribly clever goldsmith. Once I shot an advert for him and he told me in fun that when I need wedding rings, he will make them for me, so I called him, and he is making them.
Well, I cannot leave without asking the question; whether you will start to plan a family after the Nevada trip?
Now I am motivating all my friends to become pregnant. Even those who already have children. I am thirty one, so why not. What is there to wait for. But I want someone else to be pregnant too, so that we could experience it together. (laughter)
But also we are jointly planning to establish an agency for influencers and that will cost a lot of time and energy.
What am I to imagine under that term?
For over ten years now I have been working with various clients and I know personally a lot of influencers. Most of them do not know how promotion on Instagram works, so I constantly connect people and advise them how to do it. It was only a matter of time before we give it a framework and structure.
And how do you actually make your living? Is it just Instagram?
At the moment yes. Even though it is misleading, because what I enjoy is presenting. When I was little I wanted to be a presenter. And also an actress, but I think I am not good at acting, even though I have appeared in several movies, but honestly I think that I don´t have the talent. And even though I got the lead role in the first Czech 3D film “The Magical Duvet” with Roden and Bílá, I have to admit that I did not fully accept the responsibility and I remember texts poorly. I am glad that I found this out in time. Because of that I have already spoiled evaluation of a few films on ČSFD. (laughter)
That Istagram… if you asked me a year ago, I would have told you that I enjoy it, that it is super, my dream job, linking of enjoyment with work. But even travelling does not fulfil me properly, because there you must always shoot or film something, you don´t have any time for a rest, you are constantly arranging something with someone, make hastags, prolinks, photos, videos. I somehow got tired of it. I accept only big campaigns and brands that are close to my heart and which I myself would like to use - the so-called "love brands". Such as iPhone, Vespa, Coca-cola etc.
Will it still be doable in ten years´ time?
There will certainly be a different form of media channel, I cannot quite imagine what it will be like. But since I have a university degree in marketing communication, perhaps I will devote myself to it as long as possible and I hope that there will still be something to communicate, what to draw inspiration from - and share with others.
