Hey guys, this is Lisa and Rebecca and we are here on the secret life of weddings. If you like drama, you're in the right place where we tell you the world's craziest, but true wedding stories. So get ready for the drama on the secret life of weddings. Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 103 of the secret life of weddings podcast. This is Lisa and Rebecca because you don't know their names. I know well, they probably don't know which one is which if they see photos of us because that's always weird for people. You know, I understand that. Yeah, I've done that. I do I do it all the time. I'm always thinking it's the opposite person and it's not so Rebecca is the older one with the really bad voice the Bad Boys voiceover voice. I thought you said the really bad boys and I was laying down what you're signing your husband bad boys bad boys. I also went there design from the 90s. Now you have a lovely voice you crazy woman. I don't you do to you do to memory with now. Listen after this episode is done after we tell all the stories of the crazy shit show weddings that we love to tell I want to hear all about the pride parade. Okay, gotcha. So you are going to give me the down low I will do that. But before that I just I have a funny story to tell you. Okay. Are you ready? I am okay. So funny story Justin's Grandpa died. I'm so sorry. That's not the funny part. That's not funny at all. That's not the funny part. Okay my God, he was it's okay. He was 91 Zoe. You know, he had it's never okay, but I understand what you're saying. We had a great life, you know. Yeah, he was married for 68 years. Holy fuck. Yeah. And I mean, wow, that's a mother fuckin accomplishment and a half. No kidding. Seriously. Yeah congrats to his wife. Seriously. It's not amazing. So like Justin's grandparents, like he had all his grandparents for longest time in his both of his grandfather's just passed away. But anyway, I know so his papa passed away just the other day and it was pretty sudden anyway. Justin has his dad Dennis who is my father-in-law who's amazing? And then Dennis is brother. So Justin's uncle is Uncle Dale. Okay? Okay, Uncle Dale is an interesting character. He had L is always an interesting. What is it with Dale's? They're always interesting. I knew Adele once he was very interesting as well. Okay, so exactly. So anyway, I was told this story so So obviously everybody's really upset about their dad dying, you know, Dennis and Dale and ever and all the siblings. So Dale drives up and he goes to see his mom and his mom the wife obviously is speaking to the minister who is a good a good friend of theirs and the minister presided over the funeral so they were basically having a meeting. So it was I think His mom, right which is the wife and his sister were meeting with the the minister Reverend or whoever to talk about the funeral and the eulogy and all of these things. Right? So it's an older nice older man. Gotcha. So Dale walks in and he's like, you know all nice to meet you nice to meet you and he starts asking about, you know, The Minister's Wife and just why Oh, just how are you? How's your wife because they're kind of friends of the family. They like he just started asking about The Minister's Wife. I'm like why I know right? No just friends of the family kind of thing or like, you know Friends of the the grandparents. So anyway, He says oh, how's your family doing and he goes, oh good, you know in mentioned his wife being busy at work and he said, oh where does your wife work? And he says though the manner in Guelph and Dale goes. Oh your wife's a stripper. Because guys I didn't know this but the manor is a strip club in Guelph. Yes. I knew that the problem is that's why when you said that I was like, huh? Hold on the problem is the man are also was previously the name of an old folks home. So the wife is not a stripper. She used to work with the elderly at an old folks home sauce. So The Minister's like you know, what I feel for Dale that's not his fault. That's not his fault a manner in Guelph is always been known as a strip club. Okay. Well, I didn't know that. So let me just tell you I have known that since I was like 18 Justin cracked up laughing when his mom told him the story. I've been there, of course you have and Justin cracks up laughing and he told me he said what Dale said and I said, of course he did because he's Dale. He's Uncle yes, that's what he does. Yeah, I anyway that way I don't blame him. It's not his fault. And the best part is him. Justin's cousin put it put this story in the eulogy. That is awesome. It was the very first sentence she came out with and it was so funny. She was so nervous about it. She goes it was like 200 people this whole this Funeral Home was crammed people were out on the streets a very small town very well-respected couple and she goes Okay, I asked a bunch of people if I should start the eulogy this way and they all told me I should so yeah, and then she told the story like because I said she doesn't like I'm telling this on the podcast it goes just wait. I don't know if my dad wants it edited and then she came out with it in the eulogy and I turned him in the funeral home. I went I'm barely I'm telling it on the podcast and he just smiled and was like nodding his head. All right. All right. That's awesome. She is my hero for telling me. That at in the eulogy that's amazing. Oh my God, that's a good Icebreaker. It's something and then the funeral plans was a younger person who died tragically like, you know, you know, then it probably wouldn't have happened but because it was an older gentleman and he had quite the amazing life and you know what? I mean? Like, it's just one of those. Yeah, it was it was throw a little laughter a little chuckle into this before everyone starts crying, you know, yeah, it was a celebration of life kind of Yeah feeling to I get that I get that so that's cool. Plus he had been cremated. So there was like, I don't know. It's a little more chill when they're cremated versus you know, what I find it too. I don't know why that is I think it's just when there's a physical body there still and you can see them. It's very intense. Yeah. Yeah, even if even if it's a closed casket, I still find it very like it is it's like this weight on your Your chest right? It's very heavy. It's very intimidating. But when it's just cremation, I don't know. It's like you have your memories of that person. It's much more. Yeah, I live right? It's yeah lighter so crazy Pro tip if you get cremated don't have to buy a casket those things are expensive. Just saying everybody is looking to save money and this on a light note. I Stray true. Oh, I have another story. I have another story as you know, some shit cost to create a person though. It's very expensive. I can't be more than put getting a casket is a fortune. Yep. Don't you still have to put them in an urn? I hate to see this box. No, it's true. My aunt was a know when you get them cremated when Go into the oven are so so wrong. No, I don't think so. I think they do. I don't know but it could be cardboard. You're fine it burns right honestly, as long as you get something flammable that will oh my god. Look I am defeating from a place. It's going so wrong. Listen. I'm going coming from a place where I am planning on getting cremated. So I'm like throw me in an Ikea box. Shove me in There I'll see you on the other side. I'm goody. I was raised Catholic and you know technically technically you're not supposed to let me let me repeat myself. I was raised Catholic but a big fat butt. Yeah, technically you're not supposed to get cremated if you're Catholic, I believe I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure that's true. You're also not used to use condoms. I know that one is true. That's not true. Oh, yeah. Catholics know yes, they are completely against birth control. No, they're not. Are you crazy? I don't know a single Catholic person. That doesn't take birth control. It is a stereotype like mad Google that Catholic campaign trap. I can make a shitting on Catholics right now. Anyways, anyways, why do you think they are I want to kids. All right. I want to be cremated. Like I've told everyone not except for my parents because I think they might actually have a heart attack. Okay, I'll make a note but listen this ache. No I also have a list of people I do not want at my funeral. Are you kidding? No, you have a funeral shit list. Yes. That's great. That's my level of fucking Petty Wow real that's amazing. I'm like in awe of your spiteful is like, you know, they are not allowed in. I don't give a Shit rejected at the door. Yep. Turn away. I don't want them to know in advance that they're not allowed in. I want them to actually show up and have someone at the door with the listen say, I'm sorry, you can't come here and ghost Rebecca. Oh these floating they're going exactly so there was one other amazing story that came out of this very sad event and I was I was amazed. At how well Justin's grandmother has been handling. This she is one of those people who will be strong for other people. She doesn't fall apart. She doesn't like she's so sweet. She's sweet to her core, but she's so strong and I think we speculate that because he kind of went out on his own terms in a way like it was very sudden. He didn't want to be hooked up to oxygen things like that. He kind of just decided to rip it all out and say I'm out. She's really at peace with it, and I think he's been very Very like Turf her husband was his health was failing over the last few years. I think you almost go through a period of mourning when you're starting to lose your loved one at that age for sure. Right? So she was very even though sudden she was very prepared and she's been doing incredible, you know and handling everything like an absolute Pro. But one thing I totally didn't see coming is they were talking about how they made these funeral plans? Back in 1990. Uh-huh. Okay. So this is something that people do apparently that I was at as a 35 year old. I had no freaking idea. My parents have all there's done if listened it had a done deal. I would we were kids. Yeah, so you actually she went she and her husband went to a funeral home said we want to be cremated. These are the earns. You know, this is this this is that Justin was sitting there. And my mouth probably fellow but I couldn't believe that they did this. They paid their like they're just proud of the deal at this point. And that's the funny thing. I understand as a 35 year old person. I should be like wow, that's kind of fucking weird to plan your own funeral. But then the the mother who's 35 and has like really high grocery bills goes. Wow, that's financially responsible. That's it death. That is something like I bet they got a great deal on that. You know. Yeah, so it's like that and you're not putting the burden on your family. Ali to Fork out all this money like right when you die, well a hundred percent but the best part way they thought back then right to but the best the best part is that I didn't realize how in-depth it goes. Like I figured it just they're paying for, you know, the cremation or the casket whatever and then all the rest of the details would follow right? Yeah. No, no. No, they did it all they had their headstones made already. This blew my fucking mind. The best part is when we're sitting there reminiscing with his grandmother me and Justin and her, you know, having a coffee and she go and he goes, yeah, I'm pretty sure you guys took me to see them one time and apparently I was like what so when he was like I said, how old are you in 1990? He was like 6 so his fucking grandparents take him to the cemetery and the go in and they're like look, There's Grandma and Grandpa's headstones. And I said Justin on a scale of 1 to 10. How much did that fuck you up? Yeah, because how six years old Rebecca. Like I can't deal with that. Yeah. Wow, my parents have told us for years that they had. It's all planned. Like it's all it's in a nice folder and it's good where to find the folder and it's it Listen, it's in a Dua Tang. Yeah, very sensible. Yeah, can you don't you agree though? There's something inherently terrifying about seeing your name on a headstone with your birth date and no death date yet. Okay, so my poppy which is my grandfather, right? He passed away wait quite a head of my grandmother, right my Danny and when you know, we went to the service Cemetery Bob lot right? Well Headstones there and it has her name and it just has her date of birth and it was like that for years. I very long time, you know, and it's just I don't I think maybe because I grew up that way it's been nor it's normal to me, but I didn't and it's weird to me and I was at the service we actually went to the internment just the immediate family and it's like I'm standing there looking around at all these stones in the ground and I'm looking at the dates without the ones Each next to it and I'm thinking you'll be here soon and you'll be here soon and you'll be here soon. It's just wild to see that like yeah, it was so real. You know why I told you how was it last year the year? I don't know. My mother-in-law came out to me just like Becky. Can I show you something and that I told you this right? She was showing me the plots. I don't have my map. I feel like I told you this maybe I don't know bleah and it's a map and it has the plots that are available. You combine that you did tell me that I was like, yeah, right and then she was saying how ones close to the road and I was just like like it matter like does it really matter? Like at this point at this point? Does it really matter? I don't know. I would be high maintenance about that. I'd be like I put in a lot of years you assholes are not leaving you on the side of the road. Yeah. I don't know. It's just yeah, it's so bizarre. This one's closer to the road while the milk the noise might bother me, you know the noise from the trucks. When the cars yeah my keep me up at night. I will say everyone should have some form of like life insurance or something Santa will people otherwise they take your shit. I fucking will have a will. Please have a will I've done that. I just haven't planned my own funeral yet. Gotcha. I've planned mine. Everyone's Vela. Well aware what I want don't want but like right down to my list young bought a headstone yet have you know, and I don't know. Well, I don't want to Buried so neither. I want to be sprinkled. I don't want to be sprinkled either. No. Oh, are you gonna be one of those creepy women who are like put me on your mantle and let me look at you and your wife forever. Yeah. Well I said to my I told my kids right? Well, my kids are teenagers. So I figured they can handle it. I said you each get some, you know, some whatever container you want and then just fucking take me with you. We put you oh my God. Can we please put you in some Tupperware? Can I have stopped it? Ha ha ha I said yeah, so just pick whatever type of container you want throw a little of me in there. I'm gonna have you in a tupperware container and then I will make sure never to open because I'll lose the lid if I open it. So I'm going to keep it sealed. I'm going to wind on a shelf and when the kids are doing something for arts and crafts. I'm going to be like don't touch Rebecca. She wouldn't she wouldn't like it. And if you if you lose the lid I'm Gonna Knock her over and I'll never get that back in so just yeah. Yeah, then you're in the vacuum cleaner and then I'll have a haunted vacuum cleaner. And then you have bigger problems. Right go right not good. I don't want to be sprinkled because I feel like I want to be near those I love ah, so so you can haunt them. I don't know. I feel like if I'm I don't know why I have this in my head. I feel like if I'm buried or if I'm sprinkled somewhere that I'm going to be lost you will cease to exist. You'll live in purgatory forever. Yeah, like I'll be lost. I won't be able to Refine them. I don't know. It's weird. That's interesting. Yeah, so I've always felt that way. So I've always said no, keep me wherever you can put me in a fucking closet. I don't care but just don't what's that? Oh, that's just Mom. So you have your mom on a shelf in your closet and tupperware container High because if God forbid you do that thing where you open the closet door and down on you. Can you imagine attack the lid? First of all, those motherfuckers are probably heavy Stone. Yeah, you know secondly if it falls on your head, she's either going to kill you or it'll open and just coat you and then you're in trouble. Yeah, because you know, then I can live inside their bodies. You just want them to eat. You don't you put me in some cake. Listen, let's just get your ashes roll them into a joint and have the children smoke you that's fine that Works that's interesting. Why don't we Vape you that might work? There we go. Actually, there's no moisture left. I don't know. I'm out of options. I'm just trying to get creative for you to help you with your passion for that and you know, like it's all good. I told Justin because our happiest place was Maui. I'm like we're going to both die and then be high maintenance and say take us to Maui and sprinkle Us in the ocean and you're paying for it children we go. We raised you your take us to Maui or else we will haunt. It you forever. This is what you owe us. You owe us. Oh my gosh, exactly. So on that note no transition possible. Yes. There's no way to transition this out. No, wait, give me give me what's coming out. Let me see what's coming up and I'll try to transition in the news now. I don't got to the era of branded engagements. I got nothing. Okay, Brandon funerals, that could be a thing. Okay. That's the best I got. Okay. So our in the news is also a bit of a story this week. So we're going we're doing something a little different here. So thank you to Nigel from flip chat and Tamara in our Facebook group. And of course the Atlantic for the story as well as every other news outlet has picked this up. So whatever you all know who you are. Yes, welcome to the air. Rev, Brendan engagements and influencers surprise adventure quotes was apparently pitch to Brands months before it even began. Now. I'm going to read this whole thing because it's just too I want to know actually what you think about it. Have you seen it yet Lisa. No, no, okay on Tuesday, Marissa Casey and I want to I so badly want to call her fucks, but it's boots fudge 501 Fuchs maybe Fuchs it does look like Fox. It's a few CHS. Yeah, so I kept wanting to say fox fox is funny Urdu Fox so or I'll color Marissa. Maybe if I was her I would change my middle name to gives no. Yeah, right not Casey Marissa anyways for sir. What is your name? I don't even know Marissa. No. Yeah. Yeah Marissa Casey fucks Marissa case. He gives no fucks. That's what we my name would be officially there you go on Tuesday Marissa a fashion influencer known on Instagram as whatever because I'm not giving her any more publicity obviously video that's not very unique that I shared a video to her hundred sixty thousand plus followers in it her boyfriend Gabriel professes his love and tells her that she's about to embark on an extraordinary Adventure. I have the most important question of my life to ask you. He says the problem is we're not really into Traditional weddings. It's not really our style but he adds he figured out how to provide something to experience enjoy and you know capture for the gram so we know it happened because you know, if it's not on the gram, we don't know what happened the video had originally come from Grossman's feed and then Marissa reposted it to her own. She added a caption what is happening the 48 hours since have been a whirlwind as a Marissa bar. But on a scavenger hunt orchestrated by Gabriel that took her from New York City to Montauk to Miami to Paris along the way she had collected to diamond and gold necklaces which fans can see from the package in came from the brand Jade trou. I don't know and documented her every move on Instagram between her posts Marissa has peppered in commentary from her fans to build excitement. There's a surprise engagement wedding. No one really knows. Was right now happening on her Instagram stories this Tuesday and I am completely invested in it reads a post. She shared from one Instagram user media Outlets, including people Elite Daily and the Daily Mail all covered the drama's it folded Gabriel Instagram story proposal to Marissa is what viral dreams are made of the Elite Daily headline reads is this most extravagant proposal ever wondered The Daily Mail Marissa has gained more than 20,000 followers since first posting about the proposal ha ha ha but as fans waited eagerly for each new surprise brand marketers couldn't believe it was all going to plan many knew exactly how the proposal would play out hour by hour. They knew the couple's engagement hashtag. They knew what hotels Marissa would be staying at where she would eat and when she did post to her feed they had seen it all before in a pitch deck. The viral proposal appears to be a meticulously planned marketing stunt before the proposal scavenger hunt ever kicked off marketers at various Brands and agencies had received a PDF outlining the future engagement in the context of potential sponsorship. The multi-day stunt would be a one-of-a-kind proposal experience for a one-of-a-kind female ambition assist the deck which was obtained by what yeah. Ambition assist yeah, it sounds like exhibitionist but like it's weird. That's a better lot of ambition. That's a weird word. Yeah the deck which was obtained by the Atlantic reads this summer Marissa of and her Instagram will be pulled into a surprise Adventure created by the center of her life Gabriel he why would go ahead and say that the center of her life is Instagram not husband exactly. He will remove. We asked her to take an unexpected and Sentimental Journey to with him a journey that will n be encompassing encompassing many filling your stops along the way that offer their own unique gifts were pleased to offer your brand the opportunity to align with this momentous occasion and the Beautiful cities. She will be visiting along the way. Wow, the deck features private photos of Marissa and Gabriel a various at various destinations. Along with a full biography of Marissa and a summary of her metrics. It gives an overview of her blog and a full page of background information on the couple's relationship Marissa and Gabriel did not respond immediately to requests for comment most important the deck also contains an itinerary detailing how the proposal will proceed including when and what Marissa will post a video announcement Instagram Journey long form video kickoff post reads the description for Tuesday morning and Marissa Delivered Gurney's Resort breakfast check out Instagram short film next post like it was just so laid out. It was crazy Marissa so far there have been only minor discrepancies between the pitch deck and merces posts on Tuesday night. She and her friends dined at Scarpetta Beach rather than the Crow's Nest as originally noted in the deck. She also did an Packing post as opposed to a packing one. Well, you know Rebecca engagements don't always go as planned. So exactly and maybe the sponsorship changed. So, you know, they have to change it after nearly two days of Marissa's posts word about the deck began to spread late Wednesday night Marissa's friend Alicia Blaine Evans took control of merces phone and posted a story on Instagram to without any rumors that the proposal was a setup in it. She describes the deck as a logistical plan created with Gabriel and a few other merces friends. I'm sorry. What do you think a setup is its setting things up? That's exactly what a pitch deck is people but yeah stupidest thing I've ever heard. So I'm stealing Marissa's phone for the next God knows how long Evans says in the post and we're going to get through this but if the deck is simply a plan, it's a weird one the PDF not Is expertly designed but also directly solicits brand Partnerships and was sent to marketers under the guise of a possible sponsorship. It's unclear whether Marissa and Gabriel ever did receive sponsorship for the proposal Marissa has tagged numerous brands in her post office men walk in has especially that in re jewelry. Give me a break but none contain an advertising disclosure Bryan Peterson and advertising executive who saw the deck himself. Balks at the suggestion that Marissa was unaware of the contents either her fiance has been intimately involved in every single aspect of her career her business and influencer marketing career and knows every detail of her influencer Partnerships, or she has had some input in that pitch deck. Yeah, like he couldn't go and Pitch to competitors. So you have to know what's going on and who she's been talking to that's right garbage. Just wait till you hear who she worked for there's no way a Potential fiancé would know how to put together a pitch Deck with that detail influencers relationships with brands are precious and many often vet potential sponsorships with clients. The notion that someone else would be pitching a detailed posting schedule for horses feed for money without her knowledge is a stretch brands also like to assert control over sponsored content and potential Partnerships. This is so true you guys so they would be unlikely to broker a deal without the subjects consent. Ain't exactly. Yes. Marissa herself is the director of brand Partnerships a goop. What's goop? Oh my God, Lisa. Goop Gwyneth Gwyneth Paltrow's company. I don't know what that is. What does she do? What is it? What does it do? It's not brand company. Like it's they promote different brands and shit. I did huge thing amongst. Moms and stuff like that. Oh, well, I'm big like shit. It's a big fucking company now. Anyways, I'm not with it her hip. I don't know. She's the director of brand Partnerships. Oh for God's sake. Yeah, whatever knows a surprise em, so she is likely aware of such of how such details work Gabriel. Marissa's soon-to-be fiance reached out on Thursday afternoon and was adamant that Marissa has no knowledge of the deck or in the imminent proposal. He said it was actually Evans a social media marketer who has done the work for Michael Kors and Audi who put the deck together and suggested reaching out to Brandt's Gabriel told Evans about his plans for the scavenger hunt and Evans knowing which brands Marissa regular works with help Mastermind the Partnerships according to Gabriel the trio received no direct payment for versus posts. In fact, he said most brands didn't even respond almost all the ones that did were companies that Marissa already had a good working relationship with such as flywheel which put on a free private class and clothing designer Love Shack fancy, which sent Marissa some free dresses. They did get stuff. The point is they did get stuff and that they All this together the only major new partnership development from The Proposal came after Evans got in touch with flytographer it provided free three photographs through sorry three photographers for free Gabriel also received a hefty discount on the Jade the jade jewelry. He gave Marissa, but Marissa has been friends with the Jeweler for a long time and regularly receives discounts on her designs anyways. On and on and on and on and on and on and on right there's still so much more people. Some people are pissed. Some people are okay with it. Most of all the people that are pissed they're saying what's crazy to me is the nature of creating a pitch deck for your engagement. What is the price where you'd brand your engagement and sell it away? It's such a special moment in your life. What is the price that makes it worth it? It's weird that they're at a point right now and Our where that's a question wait. So you're asking me what my price would be to Brand my engagement and get away. Well, I'm curious what listen any right Rebecca right now. I'm thinking 20 bucks and to talk about gift card like that that I could really I'm kind of hungry. I'm a Taco Bell in your lunch. Yeah, it's going to involve Taco Bell. Yeah, so I did look into this and he apparently spent close to $1,000 for this engagement. Oh get fucked. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah. So anyways, there's more to the article you guys can go ready yourselves, but I just wanted to add apparently he had said he asked her boss, right which I don't know who that one is altro. Nope not it would be she's way up there but he had asked merces boss and she was behind it and okay with it now. According to the New York Times while we're happy for Marissa The Proposal is only associated with her personal brand and entirely separate from goop said narara Brown senior vice president of communications at group in an email statement Marissa never received formal approval from group for this. We have opened an internal review into this to see what happened. But we do know that she did not go through the proper channels for any such request and her whole just like her whole bio now no longer contains goop in it yikes. So did he get permission or not? Well, there's an internal investigation so I don't know, huh? Yeah. Yeah, I think I think what happened was this all backfired and he's trying to say she had nothing to do with it. Mmm. You know what? Yeah, I think he would have said she has nothing to do with it anyway, because people think it takes the romance out which it does. Totally does but I just it's so crazy. I think we also live in a different world. Now, let's be honest. They don't give a shit things have changed influencers are kind of a big deal now which blows my mind it blows my mind because if you look at any influencers my kids even tell me oh my God, they're doing their live streaming having their baby blah blah blah, and I'm like what? And then they promote these different products through it. Like it just blows my mind. It's I don't I feel like everything is on display and it's like you've hit a new level. There's nothing wrong with making money, but you hit a new you know, new level of sell out, you know, you've achieved the goal of Sully. Yeah. I don't know. It just sponsorships are fine. We're I think we're walking a fine line now in life. Like where what what what is sacred like what is private? I don't know what's private anymore. I don't think a lot of people give a fuck anymore, you know, and I think we're just we just have too much coming at us visually. It's true. It's true. You know, I think it's smart. I think you know like it's a new way of advertising. In stuff like that. I'm very curious on The Advertiser side or the the brand side. How much return they're seeing. I don't think you really see. That's the problem is the ROI. The return on investment is so hard to measure when your way of dealing with brand awareness after the fact. I'm very curious to know what their return what it's hard to it's hard to measure those brands that she promoted for this engagement. Are they They getting any backlash for this now. I see what you're saying. Yeah, right or or did it pay off? Like I'm so curious and I wish I could know the answer to that and I don't think anybody's gonna ever tell us anything that can barely know unless you have a discount code that gets used. It's hard to track. Yeah. Yeah, but well that was interesting. So thanks for that. Yes. So if you guys would you know do something like I want to know if you guys would do something like that how much money what would your price be again? 20 bucks? Taco Bell gift card, that would be my price. What would you settle for Rebecca? I'm a total sellout. You could just say my name on the radio and I'm okay. Say my name in The New York Times and we're back as a media whore everybody. There we go as photographers. I don't know how many times you showed up to a wedding Rebecca, but there would be like missing ties. I don't know suit jackets to be the wrong size always. There's always a mishap with someone suit and we have a new sponsor. Answer generation tux who have solved these problems, you know, you have everybody running around like crazy picking up the suits before the wedding day. You got guys flying in inevitably there is a problem with the suit with generation. 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Hey, Rebecca and Lisa. I just found your podcast by a recommendation from a friend who is equally as obsessed at listening to the shit shows that weddings can be I must admit as a 22 year-old Alum of a huge rorty dating a 22 year old Alum of a huge fraternity weddings surround us. We've been together for two years and people constantly ask when he will pop the question. I always Respond, it's more important for me to have a Juris doctorate than a wedding license. I'm in law school. I booked congrat congrat is awesome. I boast often and when my mom annoys the shit out of me that I am going to elope just me my future husband my precious angel doggo our immediate families and a kick-ass photographer in a devastatingly beautiful place girls got her priorities straight. Hello and Kawasaki. Me too. Everyone thinks I'm nuts and this will not happen. But that's okay. The joy of eloping is that them and their opinions won't be there. Anyways on to the story names have been changed. I have so so many from just this wedding but I'll start with one my aunt on my mom's side. Mandy got married five years ago and asked me to be her maid of honor. I love her but a senior in high school was an interesting choice. We're very close and she is easily my best friend in the world. Old so I was overjoyed to do the job. My mom her big sister was matron of honor. So I had helped don't worry Mandy made the decision to just have family in her bridal party as not to offend any friends of hers. This was awesome. And honestly a really great idea my cousin. Annie is my aunt on my dad's sides daughter. We're getting to be Lisa problematic making her Owing to my Aunt Mandy. However, our entire family is very close were Spanish So my aunt has always considered Annie her knees to Annie called when she found out my aunt was engaged and asked immediately to be a bridesmaid red flag. Number one. That's weird. I wouldn't ask. No that's like very presumptuous. You can't really do that. Yeah red flag. Number one my aunt was like, um and just didn't respond months later. My now uncle decided to add. Groomsmen So my aunt caved and added an e to the wedding party to which she enthusiastically said. Yes. Mandy ask me and my sister to sing a song at the wedding. My sister is trained in Opera. I'm trained in jazz and musical theater. Annie and my other cousin Autumn both have nice voices as well. So Annie feeling left out asked my aunt to sing too red flag number two, my aunt was delighted by having all her nieces sing and thought it would be a good idea spoiler. It was actually beautiful and everyone loved it. No good. We sang Adele's version of Make You Feel My Love Annie took the liberty of splitting the parts giving herself the most to sing. I included the At the end so that you can see it. I Shrugged it off as I had more to do as maid of honor and a song was at the bottom of my list the day comes and because I am a self-taught makeup artist my aunt asked me to do the makeup as my gift to them that day alone. I did 12 people's makeup including mine and my aunt Mandy's that's wild by the way 12 people. That's just what yeah any was obnoxious about the makeup she Demanded to go first was ridiculously specific about how to do her makeup, even though she literally doesn't know how to do it insisted on looking at it. Every time I did anything making the process eight times longer and the most obnoxious thing was that she insisted we practice the damn song every five minutes. She wasn't doing anything but I on the other hand was busy doing everyone's makeup. So to ask me to leave the room every five minutes wasn't an option. She complained to the wedding planner that I hadn't Practiced and that I was bringing the song Down The Wedding Planner was worried it would ruin the wedding and insisted we practice in front of the entire party to make sure it was good. It was fine. So the made up so the makeup crisis was averted. We finished getting ready on time and headed to the venue. We went to the bridal suite and my cousin insisted we go outside to practice again in hindsight. She was probably hyper focused on this because it was the only thing she had to do that day other than walk in a straight line and stand but either way it was obnoxious. Listen don't assume that's easy for a lot of people. Yeah, people are klutzes. They can fall walking in a straight line in heels can be a daunting task. I finished touching up my aunt's makeup and went to practice while we practiced she went flat several times. It sounded horrible. I told her Annie your flat and it sounds bad. Oh, these were apparently yeah, we call here in the South fighting words, and he was super offended and began to yell at me saying that I was a bad singer. I didn't have perfect pitch that I was going to ruin the wedding and that I am always jealous of her. Talent I was like, whoa, bitch not today and just walked away. She then runs after me yelling that we had to practice. I was like we either practice correctly or I'm not doing it you're flat. She then and I can't make this up starts screams singing her part employees of the venue were looking at her like she was crazy guests were coming in downstairs. So I was like, listen, you need to stop screaming people are coming in and I don't want Mandy to know we're fighting. This only made her sing louder. I told her again to shut up and my sister and other cousin agreed. She just kept getting louder and screaming how talented she was. I finally snapped and yelled back be quiet or I'm going to slap you she started to open her mouth to sing and before a flat ass note left her lips. I smacked her Square across the face cool violence is funny. Everyone was in disbelief for a second and then she lunged at me. I was trying to make sure that she didn't fuck up my hair or dress. It was like a weird fight where I lean back and just through blind punches as that sweet a the slap fight thing you lean back and just slap. Yes, my mom and her mom got involved broke up the fight yelled at us to stop and ask the damage. I'm assuming that was supposed to be assessed asked. The damage is funnier though assess the damage. She had a cut lip and a red handprint on her face. Could you just imagine the outline of a hand my God? That's great. That's great. I was fine. Of course. I'm like five inches taller. We had to rush to fix everything as Mandy was being told by the planner that there was an altercation. We walked into the suite and pretended everything was fine and that we had no What the planner was talking about? We then practiced one more time. And this time we were perfectly on key. It's like she slapped her back into key. Yeah looking back. This isn't my proudest moment, but it's shockingly wasn't the biggest disaster of the day Mandy never found out and to this day still doesn't know why Annie was scream singing and then all of a sudden just stopped the song was beautiful. I'll link it below if you want to see I want to see if the handprints Dylan her damn face me and my cousin were right next to each other. I'm in the blue. You would never know. I almost killed my cousin only 30 minutes before love the podcast and you both haha great story. Thank you so much for listening and to your friend for recommending us. That's the best way for disguise recommend us to a friend. That is what we love love is great. And I've never actually had a story where someone admitted to slapping someone else. Yeah, like we don't we usually hear about other people, you know, people don't typically people witnessing dish on themselves, so, For dishing on yourself. That was a lot of fun and your cousin and your cousin before we go on to our next story. I want to take a real quick moment to thank our new patreon members this week. Yeah. So thank you to Amanda. Rebecca K Rebecca Pete. Oh, hey. Yeah, I could pee. There's to Rebecca's in a row. Oh Bethany tea and Kaylee be they went to patreon.com slash secret life of weddings to get additional episodes. As for three bucks a month and it's like so much extra content up there now, it's wild and crazy. So once you there's a shit so much if you binge all these episodes and you want more head over on to patreon.com secret life of weddings to support the show and just so I don't forget because I would die if I forgot again that big thank you to Charlotte Solomon our producer for this week shows if you want to be a producer to head on over and support us over there. Yeah. Thanks guys. Yay. So just a heads up guys this upcoming story may be triggering if you have any issues with pedophilia or child abuse, especially to do with teachers. So it's not like an extreme story, but we just want to be sensitive to anyone who might have those those issues. Absolutely. Okay, our next sinner story comes from Rachel. That's not her real name fake Rachel. Okay. Yes. Hi Lisa Rebecca. I found your podcast because I wanted to listen to crazy and drama-filled stories while I was doing a project for my mom. So when I found your channel, I was totally huh. Now she found us on YouTube. Oh, well, you found us. Yeah here. Yeah, I even downloaded a few chapters to Into while I went to the pool because my drama llama was starving I had to put an end to that quickly since I couldn't swim very well while I was laughing every few minutes and I didn't want to drive a good way to die. Ha ha ha. I know I'm late to this. But I wanted to comment on the asking for money as a gift issue. I don't think there was a question about it until I heard it in your episodes The Giving objects as wedding gifts thing. NG is considered something old-fashioned that happened during our parents time. I do not recall ever going to a wedding that didn't have cash as a wedding gift. So to me giving money as a gift is totally normal and expected. Oh, yeah, but there's any way afferents between expecting it and it being the norm and asking and writing for it. I'm okay with asking for I know you are anybody forgot in case anybody forgot my mom raised me to be like that's incredibly rude. You can't put it in on writing, but you can you know, send word through the family to be Going to create a stamp and it's going to say Rebecca approves me asking you for cash and you can just stamp it onto your invitees. Why don't you just make a stamp that says send money now, I think a little more to the point Kersey Rebecca from Secret Life of weddings. Anyway, while I binge listen to all the stories, I was saddened that I had nothing to share until recently. I don't know if you could use this story since it isn't about the wedding itself, but it is about the Scandal that led them to getting married. Well, it's all it's all fair game for us. The story didn't come to mind quickly because it wasn't a wedding I attended but it was such a huge deal that everyone and their dog or cat. If you're Lisa you about it shortly afterwards names have been changed in order to protect myself since the story. I'm about to tell you will be recognized immediately. Should any of my other X classmates listen to it, and I don't want any angry phone calls later, but feel free to Change the names if you think there are better ones can send us holy race emails those follow-ups if that's something that you guys want to do in order to get the whole picture of some backstories needed in school. The music teacher didn't last long. They were only hired for about a year or two and they left afterwards. The music teacher was also in charge of the school choir when we were around the sixth grade. Mr. Pedophile was hired mr. Pedophile. He was the youngest teacher in the school and he was liked immediately by everyone since he was funny and charismatic. He made learning fun and took the school choir from singing Mary had a little lamb type songs to Mozart and had connections to an orchestra which collaborated with the school and played for the choir in some events. Needless to say the head of the school loved him and did whatever it took so that he didn't quit during class. He was usually talk with us and tell us about his goals in life. We were curious. About his relationship status. I would ask him about it. Mr. Pedo told us he was single since he was waiting for the perfect girl, but he made something very clear to us. He grew up with an ex-military father in a strict household and because of it has some strict rules for his future wife one. If she was even five minutes late for the wedding. He'd leave he wouldn't marry a bride who was late to he would only have well, he doesn't know many women them because everyone almost all women are like for some Justin would have left me 20 times over. I think I was like 45 minutes late. Yeah. I know Wedding Date it always runs late. So chill buddy Nichols to he would only have one child. Okay, three the child had to be a boy. Oh get fucked. Yeah. What do you do if it's a girl put it back? What the fuck? Yeah, I know for he would be strict with the boy just as he had been disciplined by his father. As you know, you are such a success. Yeah, very simple and easy to follow rules, right? Please note the sarcasm getting we got it. Anyway during our final years in high school. We noted that he was getting close to the popular girls group, especially to their leader. I'll call them the bitches. This a mean girl shit and the leader Heather ha ha ha. That's Sophie these tasks. The surprising thing is that Heather was the tamest of them all or so we thought she was mischievous when the teachers couldn't see her but relatively nice the rest were Bish's hence the name. It came to the principal's attention that mr. Pedo was getting close to them. But since she didn't want to upset him she just gave Him a slap on the wrist and called it a day all the worst the enablers, especially when it comes to child abuse and shit are the worst people in the world other than the actual abusers. Yeah next class. He told us that he had been called out on his closeness to the bitches and explained to us that he actually knew Heather since she was young because his parents had been friends with her parents for years, so I don't know about that buddy so that he was close. To her at school because of it and that was that and he was never called out again by anyone as far as I know. Well that's interesting that he would explain that to his class. That seems very unprofessional but our graduation came in with it seems like maybe he was setting it up. So please stop please don't tattle on me. If you see me close to them. I guess our graduation came and with it the news that mr. Pedo was fired. We were surprised since the principal babied him. To keep him happy soon after we knew the reason why. Heather was pregnant and mr. Pedo was the father and why God why no way the news had caused an uproar since she was 17 at this time. So a minor and he was like early 30s offer fall aside from the other small details that he was her teacher and he had known her since she was a child. Apparently. What happened was that on some holidays in her? Year, the two went on a trip and she got pregnant there. We don't know if her parents were told that she would be vacationing with her friends or if they actually knew she was with him. Wow. We think it's the former because no self-respecting parents would allow their underage daughter to go alone with her teacher on a holiday unless anyway are the parents from missing in plain sight. Yeah then oh my God. Yes worst. Yeah worst here. You go take my kid, it's fine. Yeah, that was so bad. Right. Anyway, they were forced to marry by their parents and his rules. They kind of went out the window since things went like this one. He wouldn't marry the bride if she was late if he moved from the altar before saying I do Heather's father was likely to kill him. Oh my God to he would only have one child. They currently have two. 3 the child had to be a boy. It was a girl good for he would be strict with the boy just as he was disciplined by his father with the child being a girl good luck with that. It's been around seven years since then and they are still married and have two children how I hope that is wedding ish or appropriate enough to make it into the show yowza. If it isn't then just know that I'm a Binger that absolutely loves the podcast and that I am a Tran of you both I have a question. Okay, you've earned it you've earned it. Yeah, so she wanted to know I'm currently in episode 93. I'm almost cut up, but I still wonder what happened to the YouTube updates. Do we still post a YouTube? No, I got lazy. Okay. Okay, we'll listen. So there's two things. First of all, I was like, I have no fucking clue. First of all the episodes used to Auto publish when we were with speakers are host. They would Auto publish to YouTube. I literally did no work to do that. It was like a button they when we moved to Anchor that it's like anchor had different functionality and benefits than speaker did and it just was the right choice at this for us at the point. It didn't have that was the one thing it didn't have so we don't publish the episodes to YouTube anymore automatically. Therefore they don't go up there because it's a lot more work as far as the stories. They were a fuck ton of work and it just took so many hours to create the the video content that it just got to be too much for me. So and Rebecca to so that's why we don't do as much on YouTube anymore. It might happen again, who knows if a car comes out with this functionality? I have requested to our account manager as cool. They should have they should and will see right. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, but thank you for finding us on there. That's amazing. I'm so glad to have you you know, yeah, and I wanted to put that question in there just because in case anybody else had that cough solutely now we've covered it. Anyway, I thank you both for the stories. They have made my days so much better when I'm done catching up. I'm going over to patreon as the drama llama needs food. Oh, that's amazing. I love Rachel. It's not my real name so you can have an awesome. Thank you Rachel. That was fabulous being engaged is so exciting but planning a wedding is so stressful. Don't let your big day. Cause unnecessary Financial worries ready to take your relationship to the next level with the twine app saving money towards your financial goals. Just got easier save with a cash savings account or invest in a portfolio customized for you based on your needs and with automatic deposits from your bank to twine you can It forget it and save up without even trying no more temptation to spend that extra money. And did we mention that you could share a goal with a partner and save together that's teamwork flipped wine. You can save and invest for the things that matter to you. All it takes is five dollars and two minutes to get started right now twine is offering you $15 to help you save for your goals. Just go to twine.com secret life. When you open your first goal twine will add fifteen dollars to your account go to twine.com secret life, too. Day for 15 dollars towards your First Savings goal start saving with twine.com Secret Life. So before we finish up this week, we're going to talk Double D's divorce divorce. Took the couple two hours to decide who would get the groceries left in the fridge. Now that is petty that's great estimated value of the groceries was around $40 two hours of my time opposing counsel time and mediator time added up to about $1,000 it all came down to a Costco. / Sam's Club size jar of peanut butter who keeps the peanut butter in the fridge. That's the bigger question. That's a I think I was in a mediation where it took the couple an hour and a half to split their personal property retirement accounts real property and the custody of their six-month-old son. The rest of the day about four hours was spent arguing about how to split the time with the dog can't they just put as agreed upon by the parties, but the dog had a strict calendar to schedule working out ha Holidays and strict pickup drop-off times. I was ashamed to be part of that unbelievable display. Well, we can tell what part of their life was planned and what part wasn't am. I right? Wow, it's so crazy and last one here marriage proposal from wife's new boyfriend while he was being questioned during her divorce proceedings classy yikes. She's just waiting to get back on that training. Yes, because now is the time Time to do that like really not a good idea can't even so Rebecca. I'm an idiot need to hear about how Pride Parade was in Toronto. Pride was awesome. So for those who don't know or didn't listen to us last week are new this week. The Gay Pride Parade happens every year in Toronto and it is colorful and beautiful and accepting and fabulous and just a really cool experience to have a home in our city and I think it gets bigger every year and Rebecca and her daughter's went down and wore special t-shirts. So I'm dying to hear about how it all was. It was great. It was I've never been right. So I think I didn't know what to expect but you know, you kind of have it in your head what to expect but I guess you don't really know what to expect. So anyways, The Pride was super long. I did not expect that what is which is totally fine. Just those very colorful and beautiful and everything but the actual length of the parade itself. Yeah. How long is it ended up we Right before it ended. So we were standing there probably two and a half three hours. Yeah, something like that. You're going to selling it was eight hours long. No, but it was super long. It just felt super long. But anyway, probably because it was hot. We're in the sun, you know, like it still gets to be a long day. But anyway, I'm a I'm a total wuss when it comes to stuff like that. I would be like 10 minutes in and I'm gonna go get a beer and sit down. So I Okay, I was given some advice from our good Fozzie friend Kim and she said to me don't go down the streets, like don't go down to like vendors and stuff. Right and my for whatever reason it escaped my mind y not why does go down the street to vendors? Well, because it's a okay. So my my daughters are 16 and 14. Okay, right, so My 14 year old I'm not really like I'm okay with like everything right but she says you may not want her to see some of like the Kink stuff yet. Like because you know, she's for sure and yeah, I mean like let's he's my kid into Kink. I have nothing against it. I'm Pro whatever people want to do, right but she's still a kid. I was yeah. She's still a kid at the end of the day right anyways. So she had said not to and anyways escaped my mind for some reason and we had extra time so we went. anyways, so, of course I there's a lot to see there's a lot being seen a lot to take in including and I'm not I'm really not against anything right like you do you people we're not judging you can calm down. It's okay. We I'm really not know and I couldn't care less what it was just hard because I had my daughter with me and that That's something I want her to go. See on your learn on her own. He DSM with Mommy. It's not spiritually comfortable with her being with me. And seeing is just weird. Anyways, she hasn't seen in a movie with your parents. It's just not something that's on this to-do list. So, of course the second booth in is and I'm not trying to take away from the experience at I'm just I'm going I'm giving you a play-by-play how this all unfolded the second booth in was is it are they nudists? They're nudists straight? I don't know like your butt naked. Yeah, you're a nudist. Right? And I would love someone like I want to understand how that plays into the pride parade. I don't know but But anyways, it was all men. Did I tell you how many wings you were going to see? Which is fine. How many did you say did you count? Oh my God. I I've never seen so much dick. I told you I told you last week. I said you're gonna see so many wings, which is fine. It's kind but my daughter I don't know if she was uncomfortable seeing it or if she was uncomfortable because she Is with me and seeing it but she was very much. Okay, I'll see you at that age. It's like a weird little animal. You just don't want to go hear it. You're like, I'm just going to leave that over there. Yeah, and yeah, there's so much older right? She's 14. She's out of very tricky age already and then it's like you had these were much older gentleman. These were there yeah much older that's hard. That's a fine thing to negotiate right? Like that was a really weird. That was really and I don't need like it's It's a it was uncomfortable for me with her and for her to see that at that age. Like I just wasn't even legit ready for it's an illegitimate Civic question. Yeah, how is that legal? I don't know like why is it that's why I went. I want to understand how that plays into the whole Pride weekend because I don't because they that is it because it's a light restaurant. They were they were at the parade to like they're watching you know, which is I mean you do you but anyways Is it was just I think I was just shocked by it because there's so many children there. Yeah, so I thought I'd actually are there all ton of children. I don't even know. Yep. Yeah. Yep lots and I don't know and I'm not saying people shouldn't let the kids see naked people. I'm not saying that I'm not judging you for your parent or anything like that. I wasn't prepared for my daughter. Yeah, it surprised you a little bit to see that. Yeah, I did warn you so so I was like, oh right Kim Kim told me not to come down here. And so we went back to the parade route and we just kind of hovered around there and we saw lots of drag queens and it was so cool and great floats and people marching and of course Justin Trudeau was there and yeah everything else. It was super fun. My daughter was so happy. I started crying during the parade because As you know why it was so fucking amazing to see so much love and support in one place. I think the world gets just so ugly. Sometimes that and I've seen so much. I've seen hate against the lgbtq+ community and it fucking breaks my heart when I see hate but to see all that love in one place. It was the most amazing thing ever saying all in our support of all of our Ally friends all of our lgbtq Plus members of our community. Y'all need to come to Toronto during pride and experience ya self. Yes, because anyway and I'm sure it's like that at all the other pride and there are some differences aren't aware and I just think and my daughters were so happy to be there like they were just over the moon. They're like, this is so amazing and you know, it's just There's so much love. I can't even explain it. I just feel like you know, what fuck the bullshit man. No. Listen, I need to know did did love and be supportive you giving me hugs. No, I was finally free and willing to give hugs and no one took me up on it. That's okay. Okay, you know it just knowing that you were willing. I put it out there. R if anybody needed it I was there and you know, maybe I don't know if people still do it or not. But well I just I could never I did it because I wanted to do it and I did it because I couldn't bear the thought of anybody feeling like they don't have a mom to support them like a truly breaks my fucking heart. Well, we love you for it. And that is amazing. I would totally do that myself and we thank you, too. The folks that actually posted in our Facebook group and wrote us messages and just said that they really appreciated hearing about our support of your community and the lgbtq+ community and gay pride and everything and we just wanted to say thank you. We hear you. We love you. And yeah, thank you for saying that to us. It's nice. Sorry if it never came across before I know I thought we were pretty vocal about that stuff, but maybe we're not vocal enough. No, I think maybe we're not totally supportive. Fuck them, right? But next year I'd like to go and do cause it's a full weekend. I'd like to go to more events. Is it a parade on Old it's just a parade in one day. No, it's just that parade on the one day the last day but then the whole thing kicks off on a on the Friday and they do it's a whole weekend of events. Wow going on. Yeah, so it's pretty cool and they have like some pretty big names for drag queens and stuff, which is really neat. And you know, I told you before my daughters are obsessed with RuPaul's Drag Race. So yeah, I've watched some Seasons. I really enjoyed it. And I love the queen. They love them. I would love to see those guys or these ladies that whatever you whoever it is. I would love to see them. I'm a big fan of that show tonight. I fucking love that people were not even in the parade and they were full full makeup and everything. I don't know how they fucking pulled it off man. I because they must have been so hot pay me to do that on a hot day, but they looked so fucking Bilis, I loved it so much. It was amazing. And yeah, I just yeah, I just loved that. Yeah, it was you had to be there you really gotta be there. Like I think everybody has to you just gotta go and be there because you know what everyone deserves support and like everyone maybe maybe next year. I'll come out with you guys because I it's not something else and would be down to go to because he's just not an outwardly outgoing guy to go to a parade like it just would be the last thing. Thing on his list any parade, but I would love to experience that sometime. That would be really fun. So maybe I'll tag along with you guys next year because I don't have anybody to go with some and I love seeing all the dads would free dad hugs shirts on they had some too. Yeah, there's a lot of them and I thought that was amazing. So, you know what the end. I love telling us all the marching with the sign saying I'm proud of my son. I'm proud of my trans child. I'm proud like it was I was just like fucking right? like seriously, can we just make everybody come to this and just just feel the love man's bumps Goose Bumps had to tow your SLI. So awesome. Well, that is our message of love this week. Anyway, I'll shut up now. It's amazing. And you know what? That was so great. I'm so glad you had such a wonderful experience and yeah more power to everyone for being themselves. Am I right? Yes. I am. Right right on. Thank you again to everybody who's so supportive of our show. We love you very much and Rebecca. Anything can happen at what and we will be here to tell you all about it. Well, that's it for us this week on The Secret Life of weddings podcast. If you need more drama in your life go over to patreon.com slash secret life of weddings to sign up for additional weekly episodes. The first few episodes are free. So go check it out patreon.com slash secret life of weddings, and we will see you here next week.
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