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 80 of the secret life of weddings podcast. This is Lisa and Rebecca and we are here for your entertainment today. There's there's so much to catch up on we have a bunch of news up top. And then we're going to of course get to our lovely wedding dumpster fire stories for You drama llamas. You know what I hate. What do you hate Rebecca? I hate that. It's not news by the time they hear this all unfortunately unless we become a 24-hour Like I know, you know CNN or something. Anyways, it's technically news because it just happened but it grew up there till next week. But yeah, it doesn't matter. It doesn't guys, you know, maybe we have some people who live under rocks like me. I totally do truth, right? Yes. Yes, so maybe we have some schemes that are like me true and they don't get out much. They don't really watch new movies like you they don't get hurt, you know know what's going on or who the new actors are. Yeah, I'm stuck in 1995. I'm very happy with that. At so why don't you educate me on what's going on in the world right. Now as far as weddings are concerned engagements and stuff who is getting engaged like what is so obviously we're gonna go right into the news because I mean there's just so much of it. Okay. Well there isn't but anyways, there is it is to be on for Sation already know. Okay? Okay. So Chris Pratt Pratt is engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger. Okay, you know who Chris Pratt is? Yes, and you know who Katherine Schwarzenegger is well. I assume I know who she is. There's not too many Schwarzenegger, 's yes, so they've been dating since the summer and they're now engaged now. He was married to Anna Faris. I know that okay good because I get the sense. He's a bit of a dick. So they divorced I know that do you know when no, okay. So the divorce just became final like final finally, you know in November but they've been apart for quite a while right over a year. Okay not as long as people think okay. Yeah, so Yeah, and they're engaged. He's 39 years of age and she's 29. Okay, and yeah, they're engaged. Okay, and what are what are people's reactions? What is your reaction R about? You know people's reactions are pretty mixed. Really. Yeah. A lot of people are saying it's too soon. Mmm, right not it's anybody's business but their own no shoe fair enough, right? I mean, I can't shit on the fact that they've only been dating since summer and now they're engaged because I you do that. Yeah my my Has been proposed which I was not expecting. Oh, yes. We remember that basically. Yeah, so, you know, I like you do you we're still married. So yeah, there's that true. You know, my parents to be fair have a 10 year age group age Gap do that. Yes. Okay. So I've grown up around it. How long have they been married a long time? So old am I yep care? See the two. Oh gosh, like four to six years. Wow. Yeah. Okay, right. So my mom's an old soul though. Hmm. So it kind of made sense. It makes sense to me because they seem like they're the same age right now. Like it's weird. Mmm. My mom's 10 years younger and like that's a that's substantial amount of time when women are more mature so that we have a similar situation because she's 29 and he's 39. Is that correct? Yes, so it's the same situation. Yeah. So a lot of people are shitting on that to write the whole eat. That thing I think I don't think that's fair because people are all different at their ages. I don't know. I don't know. Like I said my parents were 10 years apart. Yeah. Okay. I think it becomes a bigger deal when you got someone in their 20s and someone in their third was just about to say that like there's that whole living life when you have a younger like imagine a 16 year old with a 26 year old. It's like a hard no. Well, it's like Dane Cook is 47 and his girlfriend's 19 like That's a hard no day. I'm sorry. I used to love him. And I'm yeah, I'm sorry. I'm fucking judging like Mick judge judgy fucker fucker son. No dane. No because I want to see it bothers me because my daughter is 16. How old is he? He's 47 that could almost be his daughter. It could be his daughter. Yes, and it looks like his daughter. Okay EP that shit bugs me because I have a 16 year old. Mmm, I have an 18 year old son. I see what this ages. I get it. I remember it too. Yeah, and I'm like not down with them. Like I'm not quite a lot bigger like let them be Bubba but I'm like, you know, what dude you really can't get someone I don't know even later 20s, I mean still incredibly young. It's very young. Let her kind of live her life and being tied down to a 47 year old. What the fuck don't worry. I'm sure there's a prenup. And anyways people going to hit on me. I used to love him guys. I really did but I kind of that really bothers me. Yeah anyways, so yeah, a lot of people are shooting on Chris his ex-wife congratulated them. That's good. Yeah, she's cool. I love her. I like a first yeah, I love her was on a fair of she Anna Faris on a on a on a ferris. I don't know. I just like her. I think it's on their own podcast to she's super cute. Yeah, but yeah, so that was big in the news I think because most people just didn't see it coming and they had to come. Word with the engagement because I guess paparazzi's been hounding them a lot. And for everyone that's saying that she's marrying him for the money. She is way more well off than him. Really. Oh, yeah. Oh, I guess yeah Schwarzenegger. Her family is like her mom is estimated at a hundred million dollars. Oh my God, and her dad 500 million. So she's not she's this girl's not hurting for money guys that there's a new Terminator movie coming out. Yes. I heard didn't know that. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah, so I'm very excited. Yeah. Because you know, I like old movies. I feel like they don't do it. Well when they redo them, I don't know. I actually liked the other continuation or whatever. But this one's a direct sequel to Terminator 2. Do you know that how is it? Yeah, it's a direct one Linda Hamilton's in it. Oh, but she's that's a big age difference so it but Schwarzenegger to some how is he going to be a he's a robot so he wouldn't age. I mean he's in it, but he does look older but he liked what he lost. You know what? He looks cool. I saw photos. It's really cool. I know a lot of people hate on him because you know, he had that Affair and I know I was going to say is this a nanny kid or is this is this a Maria kid that was gonna fail Maria Shriver kid wasn't it? Wasn't the nanny it was a the he's her housekeeper. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen his son? Yes from that the love you ask the child. Oh my gosh looks quite a bit like him a real. I don't remind he's like in bodybuilding and stuff. If so, it's kind of crazy. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay, and then it's so funny. I was watching a movie with my daughters with Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger. So his other son with Maria Shriver and I was like my daughter is like, oh my God, he's so hot and I was just like, oh, who is that? She's like, it's Patrick Schwarzenegger, and I'm like, that's Arnold Schwarzenegger son. She's like who's Arnold Schwarzenegger. She doesn't know go to your room go to your room and put on Terminator way. Now no she doesn't know no Kindergarten Cop. Can I yes, can we please see if I give her a movie references? She's like me she'll know who they are. It's not a Tuma. Yeah, he's amazing. I love him and do the chopper you did. I know and I like his ex-wife and all but are they doing? No, they're not. I don't think they are Alicia ever. I I just like them. I like him, you know, he did a bad thing, but you know, sometimes good people do bad things. Maybe he fell into it. Am I getting soft usually I hate on the cheaters really hard you usually do but I like him. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I guess I'm just excited about Terminator. Yes. There you go. That's really anyways. Yeah, that's the biggest of the news. Okay. The only reason I pointed out ages and stuff is because everyone's pretty heated over its but whatever hmm, I mean, yeah and a bigger news. I accidentally touched your ass when we were coming into the Pod. This is right. It's a the podcast is not on hot. It's a spaceship. It's taken me a year and a half of crawling into this fucking thing for you to finally touch my ass. It was an accident. I swear I wasn't dark it was a Gary is it wasn't for me? Very firm. No, I crawled under this is she goes to the gym. I can tell no I crawled under and we have all these blankets draped, right? So, you know again before we designed the Pod Booth. Yeah. This is what we had to make a yes basically like apparently they don't get a pug Booth, you know, we just have to live in the shit Shack that I built we crawl in here every time right? Into what we call our scholarship but I get a pot of my own. Well, you know, sorry, we only sell it. We only saw it. So where's this pink ours is pink on the interior. I mean you could take a pod pink in the interior to be fair. Yeah out of extra fabric. Yeah. But anyway, the point is I can't really see when we're going in. So I went in and to lift up the fabric to crawl under because again unlike the pot. We don't have a door on this thing. I'm calling bullshit and I was a full-on grab. I caught her jacket. She was wearing her jacket still she was right on my ass. So now yeah full on background. I didn't I do I just lifted up her. I felt a pinch I lifted up her coat wasn't an aggressive pinch pose a pinched on the list, but I went it was pitch-black. I swear anyway, because she hadn't turned on the light yet because she was forgot she comes in here saying you and run my ass. I would totally grabbed me. What is it? You're my work wife. Of course, I would grab your ass. But anyway, I put my hand under the coat and lift and filing a complaint. Listen. There's no HR in this company. We are way too small. Mall, I am HR. Yeah, I'm filing a complaint against you. Do you make me do but yeah, so I lift it up and that's nothing to laugh about. I'm sorry. I'm laughing. I don't want people to think I'm laughing at ass grabbing in the business place. He's not laughing. It's she's laughing at me grabbing her ass as this place. So I keep trying to get the sentence out. I sorry lift up the fabric and meet with resistance and I'm like, why is this whole thing not going to fit over my head right now and then I was like, oh Rebecca's acids attached to my you may sit on your head. This is getting way out of hand. This isn't what I meant. It's not what I've Rebecca. I'm very sorry. This is her subtle way of hitting on me, maybe but chicken the year and a half but we got there eventually hmm. I'm a little shine you down you weren't it. I'm a little shy I'm a little shy now. It's okay. But like I said, every time we come in here she has one job. So her job is to sit down take her coat off and plug in our light. So we have these little patio lights basically that I Up around it around the top and there's one job and is on her side. So this is why it's her job. I think I've done it three times without you asking in total in a year and a half and like I'm like, I'll sit here on the fucking dark with her. She doesn't do anything until I look over and go Rebecca and I have two or sometimes I just stand up and do it for her over her head. She goes. Oh, sorry. I forgot. I do forget. I don't know why I forgot. I think he's want to be romantic in the dark with me, but that's just I don't know. Maybe it's because it's not so dark that it's Not like because of the glove of the computer not like it's not registering in my brain. Yeah that we need more light. Yeah, but I'm like pretty fairy lights or whatever. Yeah patio light cells funny. Anyway, I just think it's funny that I never remember these are Adventures which I get my brain tested. I don't know it's weird adventures with Lisa and Rebecca. Okay, so we got address the elephant in the room. There is another elephant that motherfucking I get in Heroes control Saga. Okay. Okay, okay this thing. It's like a fucking Boomerang. I'm calling bullshit on this. It just keeps coming back. Yeah, we're hate. Yeah, it's like the cat that came back the very next day. Yeah, they thought he was a goner. Oh, okay came back the very next day. So like what? So what's happened? Now AP is releasing next week next week. I mean, it's a dropping. We're dropping a joint next week. There we go. Cruise control Saga. I'm calling bullshit. Okay, I really I am really I read it. I read through comments know you're calling bullshit on the I'm daring bullshit on this whole latest update bullshit. So not the whole story just the just the update fuck. Who knows. Maybe the whole story is bullshit for all I know. I don't know. Okay, the latest development some people are saying she's been hacked. Oh, I know why I'm saying there was some not-safe-for-work photos that were posted on another thread or something. Oh boy. Did you hear that? No. Yeah. Someone said that some the original poster whatever some not-safe-for-work photos were posted somewhere and she was claiming. She got hacked or something. So now people are starting to discuss the validity. First of all, okay, so two updates ago. Apparently he chose. I'm not going to read the whole thing. No because it's give us the I'm kind of over it. Yeah, just give us the highlights. I don't know what else is. Apparently he chose she gave him she found out about remember. I told you she found out about his other email account. Apparently, he's still in contact with his mom. Yada yada. Laughs yeah or the other Beyonce. Yeah. Were they married? Yes, they did member. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. They did get married. Yeah. So low stay low. Yeah, so he was still in contact with his mom and she found out she was upset about it. And that would that was three updates to go and then the the two updates ago was that she just found out she was still in contact, which I'm like no you already knew this but and apparently she gave him an ultimatum. It's either hers mom, which I mean I couldn't get I don't at that point. I think that you cannot I mean that's a hard ultimatum for someone to but she's made she's given him every opportunity to what to man up and not No to be a reasonable husband. Yes. Okay this I agree with but I don't think it's an ultimatum. It's either her or me. I think you just get to a cut at a point where it's like, yeah, like she saw a flat out said well you either pick her me. Well, I don't know. How about you just walk away because he's not going to change that and she just doesn't want to walk away and that's her last ditch attempt. Yeah, but that's on her. Yeah. I'm just saying I think you know what? I mean? Like, I feel like a last desperate bid. Yeah, and I was just like he's not going to I mean a lot of people aren't going to do that. They're not just going to I get the moms fucking batshit my gal with how he leans on his mother. He's not gonna do it. No and she should have known that from the beginning. I'm sorry to be fair. You could see it for I could see it from the beginning. He was like that and she knew that every every you knew that going in. You knew that dating him. You knew that marrying him and you knew that after all the shit. You knew this. This is who he is you were not going to change him an ultimatum is not going to change him either. Yeah. So, why wait, Why even bother anyways, but that's just my opinion. Now the latest update apparently she's pregnant. What yeah. Jeez. No, do you think but you you don't think it's true? No, I don't. And maybe it is I don't I don't and I don't for a number of reasons because they she was he was not living there which I'm has neither here nor there, but she was they were fighting and in counseling and everything. So yeah, I mean the chances of you like poking out of it with your husband and you say ponying up. Yeah. Wow, that's great. I've never heard that well Thursday, it's bad. I was like Cut it out that no. I just heard that the chances of you doing that when you're so on the outs with your spouse are lower are pretty fucking low. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I feel like this has gone almost too far to the point where it's unbelievable. Like it's my room anymore. It seems like maybe the writer is reaching for that next. How do I keep the story going either the whole fucking thing was a fiasco it is none of its real. Yeah or this one or she been hacked or she's desperate for attention. I don't think she's been hacked because that's just not even that long shot reach. Yeah, I would say this is something we're saying she's been hacked. I'm like, I don't know but I know but I feel like I mean if she's pregnant, I'm sorry like thunder you could be a tough situation. Sorry about that. But I just I think because I've read so many stories now over the past year and a half. Yeah that I'm kind of like weeding out who's full of shit and who's not Yeah, no, I know but all you can do is update on it. Yep. And so that's it. You guys draw your own conclusions. If you want, it's all cool. Let us know on our Facebook fans group because we have guys we have a convo thread on yeah every episode and all the screens got together and we all talked about on the water cooler the virtual water cooler. What we think is bullshit. What we think is right or wrong and and kind of go from there. I also have something to tell you. Yeah. There was the discussion in our patreon episode last week about whether or not it is okay to write that you want money on the invitation right? Have you seen our patreon comments? No, I fucking won hard. You don't win though. I did too. I want how do you win though? Because we asked the screams if they agreed with you or me, and everybody's you ask them if they and I said I was going to change my Yeah, I didn't care but I'm telling you I want that's all but everybody in I did tell you one for yourself. So can everybody else. Please tell her about you didn't win against me because he's so stubborn. Listen to me. I have my opinion. That's a wonderful thing about the world but you so everybody else in the world has a different opinion there Rebecca, but it's wrong. It's not wrong though. Hey, it's just different. Yes Fair. Okay. There you go guys. Guys Rebecca has a very different opinion than 99% of everyone else. It's not 99 is patreons patrons patrons. Okay screams. Here's my words. I love You' patrons are just different opinion on that's okay. That's okay. Yes. Do you think it's okay screams? I'm opening this up to the whole store. Then I am in the Congo threat like not think I love our listeners, but I'm not going to change my mind based on what they are. I just want to rub it in. So listen, I've been what though? I don't care right so All right, how do you know because it's an opinion but it's not just an opinion. It's the world's opinion. You know, it seemed like you have your I think it's rude. I have my opinion your Phi this for the screams. Okay, because they haven't heard if you're not on the patreon. First of all get right over there right now. Yeah, but there's like 50 episodes almost now we argue for the first time ever. It's fucked a we've argued before this not really an argument. Not one be related for fucks sakes. What was arguably? Yeah, but again, I mean It's an argument but it's not argument. Yeah, I'm saying is I believe it's very rude to write in writing on the wedding invitation that you want cash has a gift. I think it's appropriate to send word through family. And Rebecca was saying she thinks it's appropriate and okay to actually write, you know cash gifts are appreciated. I've seen monetary gifts or appreciate it. I'm sure you have seen it doesn't make it right. I'm okay with it. It's not wrong, but I'm not I'm not okay with it and Emily post is not okay. Okay with your wording. I'm not okay with your whole concept. I'm not okay with your face. I'm okay with your face. I think she's very pretty but that's not the point. We're going to forget about the ass grab right now. I am just talking about the whole world and what everybody else you can reaso be ruled. Are you telling the world? Like are you putting this out to the whole world? But your argument is like, oh I come from a culture that you know does monetary gifts and I said, yes, but even if you you are I don't think that excuse is it I here's the thing just but I don't think you need an excuse just I think it's okay. Okay. Well Rebecca seriously needs some people on her side. So if you agree with her, please I don't I'm good as a lone lone wolf here. I'm good. Well, I'm glad you feel that way because it's going to be low. I'm clearly not a lone wolf if I've seen it on him invitations before us because you're an asshole doesn't mean there are another one. I'm not an asshole. I kidding. I love you. Anyway, it's fine anyway, but uh, but would you not agree come to our Facebook group and tell us come to the conversation thread don't care. No, you're supposed to say come to the group and tell us because that's what that's what we do. We talk in the group. Okay, come to the group and tell me how I'm putting my cool air quotes up wrong. I am a genuine come to the groom. Oh geez. Yes, come tell me how I wrong. I am so you fuel Lisa. All laugh invitation ego and etiquette iron literally need By Invitation ego fed, please God. I need validation immediately. Yeah tell you I need constant validation. Just think there's a bigger things in the world to forget. You know, you know, this is a wedding podcaster a fight on yes. No, but I mean like other than monetary gifts appreciated like I don't that's such a little thing. Okay, we're not fighting again. I'm just saying I just wanted to broaden At the pole. No, I'm just putting it out there to everyone that's listening. It's such a little thing. It would not be it would not even phase me older folks in your family would not think it's a little thing they would be best one person one scream said that she got she got that on her cousins invitation and she went out of her way to just get them gift cards or something like that. I saw that I laughed I think she had like started it with that. She agreed with me and I was like, well you agree. No, so then or something. No, she said I don't agree with I I think it's so rude the know she had Post it was when I put the the episode hadn't released yet. Oh and I said, we think we argued over and then I say, oh my God what he's like I agree but she was agreeing with me and I'm like no. No, I was on the other side. Yes. Exactly. I was like, oh you agree with Lisa you mean? Yes. Yeah. I don't like I just don't care either way. I know. I know. I'm just basically poking the bear at this point. Yeah. It's fun to poke the bear every now and then keeps things interesting. I was gonna bite you. She's got teeth. Canada may be known as the friendliest country in the world, but make no mistake. It has some of the most shocking criminal cases to my name is Christy and I host Canadian True Crime. I'm Australian but I've been living in Canada for many years Canadian True Crime takes a deep dive into some of Canada's most well-known cases like the canon Barbie Killers Robert Pickton the pig farmer. A and many smaller cases. You probably haven't heard of but a Justice fascinating if you're looking for the facts of the case told in a narrative storytelling format with ambient music. You can find me on your favorite podcast app or social media just by searching for Canadian True Crime. So we should jump into our stories for the week. Well, we have this update which are doing. Oh, okay cool. Cool. Cool. I like I like updates. So this is actually going to be harkening back because whoever gets to use the word hearkening anymore. What the fuck is on hearkening. I've never heard that in my life. Are you kidding? No, this Harkens back to the Christmas episode basically work harken. It's a refer refers back to this is harkening back to the Christmas episode. Your vocabulary is officially too big. Thank So this is from when we asked about now, I say we it was actually you Rebecca you asked, you know, if you got engaged at Christmas, would you still expect a Christmas gift or is it bullshit to knock out? I was genuinely curious. Yeah, and we had a couple people right in nice. So did do we have both of them here? Okay, awesome. So the first well, I'm just making sure before I'm like we got to and then she's like yeah, I didn't put in the other one. So this is from an anonymously got a text from you telling me to put them in. I know I was like can we put these? Zin so this is first of all from an anonymous bride-to-be. We asked a question about Christmas engagements and whether or not you would still receive a present we had some responses. I'm not going to bring that in. Hi ladies here is my response story to your Christmas Proposal as a gift topic from the most recent podcast also is the Christmas one and I'm late on this it's fine last year my boyfriend of five years proposed to me on Christmas Eve. No crazy proposal story just him and I and Home together relaxing when he kneeled down and pop the question. That's really sweet. Everything was great and happy and couldn't have been a better day. Then on Christmas Day. We went to his family's house where we all do a secret Santa gift exchange like we have every year with them, you know, everyone draws names and you buy a gift for that one person and someone secret buys for you and you find out all at the same time of the gift exchange. Well after everyone exchange gifts, I must have looked confused because my fiancé asked me if everything was okay. I replied I must Have been forgotten in the name draw. I didn't get a gift. He laughs then he explained that he drew my name and couldn't think of what to get me. So that's when the proposal idea came to his mind and he thought a ring would do it. Oh no. Oh God. He says I should be happy. I technically got the most expensive gift. Yes. That's true. And of course, I'm grateful, but I guess in my head, I delusionally imagine him waking up one morning suddenly realizing it was about damn time. He put a ring on it. Went about the proposal. But no now I will forever be reminded that my proposal was because my name was drawn from a hat and he couldn't think of anything else. I know I miss bride-to-be. Oh, honey. Oh listen, don't worry. We don't all have good proposals degrees. That's okay. That's all right. I'm I hope you're happy though. Thank you for writing us. The next one is let's see here from a gentleman who I guess was his name on it or not, or I can't was but I know people who don't know if you Is it on there? So this is for you. I asked my girlfriend to marry me on Christmas. And of course, I got her a Christmas gift in addition to the ring good for you. Actually, my original plan was to propose on Christmas Eve, but for various reasons that didn't happen and I had to improvise so I ended up proposing on Christmas, but I never would have even thought of just giving the ring as a Christmas gift good good man extra points to TeamViewer. His name was bugging me anyway. Christopher but I could be wrong. I was gonna say Dean. Oh, I think it was to you know, what Steve congrats congrats Dean if it's not you if it's not Dean, sorry. Sorry mystery man going from memory on this one. So this next story our first official one for the day is from Reddit. Not quite bridezilla, but boy do I have a story to tell so I got you know, it's funny always when it starts like that. It's totally broken. I'm saying looks the time. Yeah most of the time so I got married in 2016 to the love of my life. We wanted a very small wedding so decided to get married at a courthouse and only invited nine people and of those nine I could have done with two less. Let me explain so my husband has a very large family due to his parents both marrying multiple times. His mother is out of the I pictured like his mom and dad divorcing then marrying divorcing the marrying divorcing than Mary. Seeing no no Mary different people multiple times. Yeah, his mother is out of the picture and wasn't coming to the wedding which was fine by us. In order to keep the wedding small and reasonable. We invited my mom dad and brother his grandmother and grandfather and his dad and new wife the third who we can call see. My husband also has a little sister who was nine at the time who we wanted to be the ring bearer / flower girl. And naturally we invited her mom. Who was his father's Second wife who we can call Em. Emma also volunteers to pay for everyone's meal on the day as a wedding gift. So she is high on our esteem lists. We run this by his dad who doesn't have a problem with this. So day of the wedding we go to court and meet up with everyone there except for em, and his little sister who were meeting us later at the restaurant. We were having lunch at which had a beautiful gardens for photographs everything said and done register signed and we make our way over to the restaurant the second Cece's M her whole Meaner changes so this is the new wife seeing. Yeah the other wife. Yeah, she went from happy and bubbly too sour and seething I noticed this but his dad is trying to deal with her. She point-blank refuses to be in any of the photographs. Alrighty, then turns out his dad didn't tell see that M was going to be there. Maybe this is shit that he's like hey, yeah, that should have been ya know. I mean, duh. So so we sit down for our meal which was a buffet. So everyone could help themselves to whatever they wanted. Everyone gets food and we try to enjoy ourselves regardless a while later. I noticed they are missing from the table. So I thought they might be getting more food making a call whatever turns out they left without saying goodbye to me, but they made sure to eat something. So M had to pay for them. Wow, that is dark. Luckily the car wheel rolled them flat because in their haste to get away they drove into a security van. I love it. See you made such a scene. That she was now permanently banned from the premises. We were there about three hours and they left about an hour in they were still sorting stuff out the security van by the time we left. Oh, that's an awkward walk by mmm. Oh my God hubby, and I decided to stick around but the rest of the family all walked by without saying a word the cherry on the cake was later the cherry on the cake. That's a weird phrase. Isn't it the icing on the cake or the air? The cherry on the sundae. Yeah the cherry on the cake, which I'm going to start saying every day now was later on Facebook. See put us on blast for being so spiteful for inviting that woman and never being there for them in a public post. Luckily. They are divorced now. Wow, she seems like a bitch. She's got a massive hate on massive. Holy crap. Oh boy. I don't ya. I mean, no I'm out. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm not commenting any further on that. It's fine was it's so that's his third wife. Yeah, and the second wife was the mother of the flannel. Yeah. All right. Our next is I have to thank I don't I'm afraid to say her name Marita Maritsa. Morita-ya. I love her. She's so cute. She's always sending me stuff. Oh, she's adorable. Thank you. That's why I want to say her name. Thank you Marissa. Yeah. So the question was I guess in a group some oh and for the record anybody who sends me stories don't I don't I can't read them. I don't have the Let's just send them to Rebecca. I like hearing them on the podcast. Yeah, people send them to me and I go that's awesome. Do not send to Lisa sent they sent to me and I'm like, thank you, but please send a Rebecca because yeah, I don't I don't have the drive you do for reading on yeah and stuff. I just don't do it that way. Yeah, I like besides. I like to hear it all fresh from you. Yeah, so I'm like reading four days keeps me her key funny enough. I always prefer to read stuff online then to read a book. Really. Yeah. Interesting. I really have to be into the book to read it anyways, but if I credit I'll just dive in for a few hours and it's all good. Anyways, the question that was posted was daughter's friend being in wedding my 27 year old daughter and her best friend have been best friends since they were 4 KT practically grew up in our house and is like a daughter to me. My daughter recently got engaged to her fiance and announced that He would be the maid of honor Katie's boyfriend is also a good friend of my future son-in-law. Don't read at Lisa. Sorry. I'm looking at my phone reading it and I like I just I just said I don't read it and I'm because I want to see your shock. Okay, the problem is that Katie walks with a pretty severe limp due to a birth defect not an underlying medical condition. She has no problem wearing high heels and has already been fitted for the dress, but I still think it will look unsightly. She's in the wedding procession limping. Head of my daughter. Oh my God. No, no. No, this is the mother that quote raised her practically. Hmm. What a bitch. I mentioned this to my daughter and suggested that maybe Katie could take video or handle programs while sitting so she doesn't ruin the aesthetic aspect of the wedding. Oh my God, my daughter is no longer speaking to me good you she doesn't you don't do you know you don't deserve it. We were never really close but this is her big wedding and I want it to be perfect. All of the other bridesmaids will look gorgeous walking down the aisle with my daughter. I hope this bitch of a mother limbs down the I'm going to go fucking Nancy Kerrigan the shit and hit her in the fucking knee so she has a limp. She can go fucking limp down the aisle is bullshit. No, that's horrible. The woman has a birth defect and she's shitting all over her. You can't go down the aisle. You're look like crap. Well, you're gonna look like crap when I'm finished with you. Sorry, so this so this is why I didn't want you to read it. It's like you knew I'd have a strong opinion or something. There's one last sentence. Sorry, I went off too early. Is it wrong to have two friends set out like you don't know. Yeah. Oh, yeah I'm seething. That is bad. That makes me sick to my stomach. The people are that fucking shallow? I don't think I've seen you so enraged before I it's fair. She granted birth defect and yeah, we're girl obviously. Okay, you don't makes me even sicker. This woman was like her second mother which means she probably doesn't have like a mother or parents Fair. She was just there so much right like but still she was like a daughter to me. Well if she's like a daughter than maybe treat her like one. And stop being such a shit. I can't even I can't even with people like that. No, like I can't even I would I so can't even I wouldn't have my mom off but my mom would never in a million years. I can't I think anything like that. Okay. Yeah. No. No, I'm just I want to vomit with rage like it's so not okay. I'm spitting I'm talking it's not yet. Okay, look it's so yeah. Okay. Yeah, I agree. It's pretty fucking so in case the Opie is listening. I don't think it's okay. Okay, that that you I hope you got Uninvited to your daughter's wedding. I hope you got herpes. Wow. Well, those just keep coming back. It's true. That's how much I don't like you. I hope you could herpes. All right. Okay, so that's cool. And on that note we want to thank our patrons. There's not herpes involved good these lovely folks Alexandra L Lydia. You Elise are they went to patreon.com slash secret life of weddings to get the additional episodes upwards of 50 now that we have over there, which is crazy. So go again patreon.com slash secret life of weddings three bucks a month, which is insane. You get extra episodes every single week. Our last one was 40 minutes the one coming out. Well, the one that just came out I guess was 14. I look crazy. Hmm, usually about twenty five, but we went wee wee bit. We went on for a bit of planning of this world Lord. I remember what we were talking about, but it was something yeah, there was a topic involved. Yeah, so thank you for your support. It allows us to actually, you know, try to do this as a job. Yeah. We're on our way man. Yeah. We're on our way. So keep up the good work. I will thank you so much you guys rock so we have a new saga. Whoo-hoo. Let's get already buzzed rolling always a good time. Yeah, you're ready. Always my husband and I had been together. About three years when I told him I'd picked a date for our wedding. Yep told him as in came out to the lounge told him we were getting married and that I was wearing a third. I was wearing the $30 ring I got on sale as an engagement ring. Now Hey Joe, we're getting married. This is it you gave it to me. Well, we're going down the I'll get going now. He got on board. Well, that's good lucky, possibly cuz it was either that or move out and he's too lazy to pack. Well as long as you're doing it for the right. Others or he loves me. I don't know after a couple of weeks letting him adjust to the idea. We started telling people we were really happy. I let him get comfortable with seriously like the this first like paragraph of the story. I was like, I had we have to tell this because it just made me laugh. We were really happy. So I put off telling my parents for months because of how Mom behaved at older sister's wedding. Wait, that's how you react to being really excited. And yeah and off for months from telling parents. Yeah, okay, because apparently how her mom behaved at her old sister's wedding. Okay. I'm the middle of three girls. Here's a we sample for y'all sent a three-page handwritten letter about how she didn't want to be older sisters mummy anymore. Stop talking to older sister for a month or so when older sister who made it clear only dad was going to walk her down the aisle and mums mind it should Should have been her or no one. No, Mom and Dad aren't divorced who generally morose and shitty about all wedding ideas sobbing toddler tantrum wild dress shopping because older sisters future mother-in-law was invited as well forcibly took the microphone from the MC at the reception to make her own unauthorized speech. That's awesome spend rest of reception. Alone and weeping while playing the I'm fine game. I'm fine. I'm fine. No, no you go back. I'm fine. I play that a lot. You do not I do. I always say I'm fine when I'm not fine. I'm fine. And that's how everyone knows I'm not fine except except to me though, right? You tell me when you're not fine. I don't know I assume so I probably say something else. Okay, good. I'm joking. You said you were fine. And now I'm not sure if it's time for me. I say I'm fine. Okay. Well, that's yeah, I got a bone even I would know that. Yeah, so you're all on board as to why I was reluctant to tell my mom. I was getting engaged. Yeah. Yes. Let's move on to actually telling my mom who did not believe me. Oh see because he didn't ask me and I didn't ask him. How were we getting married. We can't have just agreed that we wanted to share one life. There had to be some sort of proper asking did he even know was I just playing to kidnap him on the day and spring it all on him? Wow, people do that though ended up having to call it. No, no, you know how remember we told the story before did we? Yeah about how everyone showed up and there were like, he didn't even know. Yeah, he's getting married. That's right that did happen. My memory is not so bad. It is pretty good ended up having to call him put him on speakerphone where he verified he knew wasn't being threatened or coerce. I was okay with the whole thing over the hostage video thing. We were talking about all that was on the patreon never. Yeah go over there to listen to that. There you go. He was on Phone because I'd gone over to tell Mom and Dad by myself because she had previously indicated that finding out your child was engaged was a special mother-daughter moment and didn't need to involve the prospective husband at all and I accepted more of her bullshit until back then until you need proof. Yeah, Mom now accepts this and immediately asks what her role will be in the wedding. You best know what you're going to say huge CBF. Let's see. BF okay. Someone will tell us something huge CBF when I said I hadn't figured that out yet and she liked her but fuck do I win a prize for creativity at least? Yes. Okay. Thank you. You win. I'm gonna give you a gold star huge cluster, but fuck. There we go. Okay, and she might not have one Beyond mother of the bride part two is next week. Wait, she might not have one. What a CBF she might not have Official role wedding other than being a mother of the bride. She wouldn't have enough a full cluster, but fuck CBS sounds painful, doesn't it? I don't know if you know what CBF means please crying bitch fit. Oh, I'd like cluster butt-fuck butter. Yeah, me too. Okay crying. Bitch fit. That makes sense. Did you I don't know. Wow, that just came to you didn't it? Oh, yeah, like I just think he's not before your have. I it's like you're psychic the this is a short forms as trying to think of emotions because it said she had a huge and I'm like thinking fit like some sort of fit. Yeah crying bitch fit when I said I hadn't figured out yet cluster about five. I like that better. Me too much more creative. So more next week. Yes. There you go. Don't go looking for it. Yeah Bunch. Oh, no, we're not swimmers not doing that. We're not doing that. We're being nice to them. Don't look should I do the writer critic? Yes. Okay. Yeah because everything's all ass-backwards. I think so Haas backwards in her notes this week. It's all good. It's all good. This has been fabulous. My husband's sister makes cakes. Are you laughing already? Because she's like I know it's told she's like I know what's coming. She made a wedding cake for a middle-aged couple on the bride's second marriage and drove almost two hours to deliver it. Anyway the groom got so drunk before the ceremony that the registrar refused to marry the couple the registrar offered to come back an hour later to try again. However, the groom carried on drinking and got even drunker always a some always a good plan. Yeah. Ride refuse to marry him her son's ended up beating the groom up in the police got involved. Wow, the cake was used for the wedding party that evening by the bride celebrating her Newfound Freedom Bravo. That's crazy. I actually like that. Yeah, you know what you needed to not marry that asshole. He clearly doesn't have his priorities. I EU in mind in order. Yeah people need to take it easy on the drinking. They sure do. Yeah sure. We just quickly talk about our friend Kristy Lee. Yes. So our official she's hot. She's so hot. She's hot Rebecca's got a total girl crush on Chris. I do so and the accent. Oh, holy shut totally in love with Kristy Lee. Oh and today's Wednesday. Well as we're recording so she's like my woman crush Wednesday woman crush Wednesday. Yes. I love that. I thought I was your woman crush Wednesday. Everything W WCW have to take a back seat this week. Okay, I give up one week. Yo, but listen, so Christie Lee. I'm sure many of you know hosts are one of our favorite podcasts the Canadian True Crime podcast and she is our favorite landed immigrant Australian Canadian girl. Yes is just the sweet. She's the sweetest pie. She's so fun and she's actually hilarious which is so funny because you can't know that from her podcast and that was the one that like we went to her house. Yes true. And I told her, you know, you're genuinely hilarious, but unfortunately, there's no way you can be funny when no ice no one knows this except us. But yeah good because it's our own private little joke, right? So anyway, we went over there because we knew that Christy had a deep dark secret despite the fact that she's had all the success with Canadian True Crime and she has like a hundred thousand listeners crazy amounts and just crazy downloads. She's still records in her walk-in closet upstairs. Yeah, so she records The setup is crazy. It's crazy. And so we were just like not I'm like I'm shocked it worked. I know I know it kind of blows their mind. You have to watch the video on our website. So thin little sweater in the Box. Yeah, I'm towels and yeah, she stands and then she's on the floor and she actually gave us a tour of her house and her dirty little secret that she called it how she records her pot this amazing podcast. Yeah, and it's fabulous, but she was so uncomfortable. Table doing it that she literally quote dreaded. Yeah recording night and I thought that was so depressing to us. We were just like that sucks because so many people find such joy in her show. Yeah, so we were like this is bullshit. She needs a better solution. I don't know about Joy. It's like True Crime, but they very much enjoy her. Sorry, they enjoy your show what I meant people love her show. Yes people love her show. They respect it and she deserved better. Yeah, so, you know for her storytelling and honoring the victims and I think she does with her. Yes, wonderful show her. She was amazing. So anyway, we were like, you know, what you need a better solution. We had a view as you probably remember from last week. We told you we have the Pod now, which is like pop-up sound booth for podcasters voice-over artist that kind of thing and we said we want to give you one. So what we did was we were invited over to her house because she actually lives not far from us. Yeah and no Canada is not that small. It's actually quite large. It's just a really hilarious also our friends at minds of Madness their nearby to yeah. It's so funny we all live Within two hours of each other. So anyway, we drove, you know an hour down and went to her house. We did a whole video of Christie showing us a tour of her house showing us inside her recording space and she was so embarrassed. It was so cute and she's so sweet. So we then did a fast forward kind of video of Rebecca and I setting up a pod time of her a time lapse. That's what professional photographers call it. We did a time-lapse video and we were both it was so funny that She goes, we're not on camera. Are we and I said except for the time-lapse. Hell no. I said I'm not putting on any makeup or you nope. So it was like the to know who Rebecca and Lisas run it like running through with just like hair up far away, you know, so we put up the whole pod and then she test it out and she loves it. So anyway, it's spoiler alert. She's a fan. So if you want to see this video go to the Pod booth.com and if you just scroll down a little bit it was a picture of Christy and it says Kristy leaves, you know dirty. It'll secret or some yeah funny like that, but it's a fun little video and it kind of shows everything. She was using. Yeah that she has used from the beginning to start her podcast. Yes, and now how the pot has helped her and now she can sit and feel like a professional and that she is she is such a professional and she's amazing. So we love her. We thank her so much for her support. Yeah, and we hope she is loving her pod, which she said she was and we just hope she is comfortable now and the poor guy doesn't have to get down on the floor. For laptop, because yep, that is ridiculous. Yes. Nobody should have dreamed that I agree Insanity. You need your own space. You need your own space if you're going to have a podcast or do voiceover, whatever. So again, if you want to see the video the Pod boot.com. Yeah, and if you want to listen to her go head on over to Canadian True Crime, please like such as amazing guys. It's amazing subscribe to it right now and yours truly did a voice on their recently. There you go, the Aaron chorney episode she reached out and she needed this lovely girl Erin chorney was murdered. And I won't spoil the details. But the point is she had some really intriguing diary entries before she was murdered. So Christy asked me if I would read them for her. So I was very honored to nice honor Aaron like that and to help Christian with that sowed so A big thank you to her for having me on the show too. Cool and always giving a shout-out. She's yes and have amazing Peach. So I love her I love her too. So thank you for listening to the secret. Of weddings this week and Rebecca anything can happen I weddings 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. R next week
SKIPPERS - jump to 23:30 to begin the stories! We chat about recent celeb engagement news (Chris Pratt & Katherine Schwarzenegger) before we get into yet another Cruise Control update. From there we argue about whether or not it’s socially acceptable to ask for monetary gifts in your wedding invitation. Stories this week run the gamut from listener updates about Christmas proposals and whether you should get another gift in addition to an engagement ring, a story about an ex-wife of the Groom’s dad who attends a wedding and inadvertently pisses off his current wife to our new saga about a drama mama! Want more Secret Life of Weddings? Get some extra juicy stories exclusively available monthly on Patreon (the first few are free) plus early release ad-free main episodes every Monday over on Patreon! 