When will Anthony Albanese, Jodie Haydon get married?

Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon’s wedding conversations will get serious this Easter when the prime minister and his fiancee finally sit down together and start working through their diaries to try and set a wedding date.

Setting a date for Australia’s first prime ministerial wedding, which will have to balance the competing demands of personal happiness, government business and election timing, will be no easy feat.

In a series of TV interviews on Wednesday morning, Albanese – who wanted to talk about the stage 3 tax cut changes – was asked over and over again about the big day.

Seven’s Natalie Barr wanted to know when they would get married, Sky’s Laura Jayes wanted to know if the prime minister would change his name to Haydon, and Nine’s Karl Stefanovic wanted to know if he could MC the wedding. (Probably not, Karl.)

“We’ve got to work out a time,” Albanese said. “And you need not just, of course, a date for the big day but hopefully a few days afterwards for a break together. So, we will sit down when we have a chance. I think what we’ve done is schedule in to try to sit down and finalise a date, perhaps over Easter when we have time of having actually a few days off together.”

As for the name change?

“I’ve had this name of mine for 60 years now. I won’t be changing and Jody, I don’t think we’ll be changing her name either.”

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Choosing a wedding date can be fraught at the best of times. For Albanese and Haydon, the task looks diabolical.