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Speaker 1: Matt got a bit of a game for you, close friends.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that didn't mean to be as exasperated as it was.
Speaker 2: I love a little close Friends episodes. It's a way.
Speaker 2: I've got a hypothetical question. I've got a game we never.
Speaker 1: I love quizzing like I like quizzing one another.
Speaker 2: What do you quizz me on today? Darling?
Speaker 1: I saw a TikTok. I don't know if it's real
Speaker 1: or not, like it could be made up, but I
Speaker 1: think let's just say that it's real. And it's like
Speaker 1: a slide like photo slides. The first slide says we
Speaker 1: had guests leave our wedding when they read out ridiculous
Speaker 1: in little quotation mark rules. Okay, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: read these wedding rules to you and you tell me
Speaker 1: whether you think they're ridiculous or not.
Speaker 2: This is a very passionate subject of mine. Oh is it?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm very particular about these sorts of things.
Speaker 1: I would be particular too. If I was going to
Speaker 1: have a wedding and I reckon, people would call me
Speaker 1: an asshole. But it's my fucking wedding, so shut up.
Speaker 2: Okay, ready, yeah, I'm waiting. Okay. Number one, what else
Speaker 2: am I going to do?
Speaker 1: Everyone helps out. We didn't hire any staff, so that
Speaker 1: means everyone needs to do their part. My grandpa set
Speaker 1: up chairs even with his bad back. My cousin bartended
Speaker 1: and it turned out beautifully. Not hate that too, that's
Speaker 1: you're an asshole.
Speaker 2: Hate that, especially the granddad with the bad back, but
Speaker 2: even the cousin bartending. I'm like, so they're not enjoying
Speaker 2: the wedding.
Speaker 1: There, that's no from me too.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The next one. Number two drink tickets. The most expensive
Speaker 1: part of a wedding is alcohol, so my husband thought
Speaker 1: of a ticket system. Every guest gets two tickets to
Speaker 1: buy drinks. This also prevented any family drama from too
Speaker 1: much shrinking.
Speaker 2: I can agree with that one.
Speaker 1: So I've seen people say, like they do alcohol free
Speaker 1: weddings as well, and maybe like the couple doesn't drink
Speaker 1: so therefore they're not doing any alcohol available at all,
Speaker 1: like alcohol free wedding, and people have cracked the shits
Speaker 1: about that because, like with drinking culture, it is like
Speaker 1: one of the main reasons why people get so excited
Speaker 1: for a wedding. But then it does say a lot,
Speaker 1: like if your guests are going to get pissed off
Speaker 1: at you for having a two drink limit or you're
Speaker 1: doing an alcohol free wedding, because it's like, are you
Speaker 1: coming to celebrate my marriage or are you coming just
Speaker 1: for the drinks? Yeah, I think that's what it says
Speaker 1: if people get mad about that, and.
Speaker 2: People just like hate weddings because I've never really like
Speaker 2: I feel like when I go to a wedding, like
Speaker 2: it's never about anything but the fact that two people
Speaker 2: are getting married.
Speaker 1: For me, I feel like it's mainly like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: about the couple, but I feel like it's a party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I'm thinking that they're like, oh, I need
Speaker 2: the drinks to kind of get through the.
Speaker 1: Day, And that's the thing as well, Like people shouldn't
Speaker 1: need the drinks to get through it because it's not
Speaker 1: like it's an unenjoyable experience. I mean, sometimes a fucking
Speaker 1: ceremony is boring if it drags on for like forty
Speaker 1: five minutes. I'm loving the more modern ceremonies these days.
Speaker 1: They're like quick and fun and like the celebrants are
Speaker 1: really fun.
Speaker 2: So what do you think about drink tickets?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think fair enough. If that's what you
Speaker 1: want to have at your wedding, I would be like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: like that's their rule. I might take a little flask in.
Speaker 2: I would assume that the drinks would be really expense
Speaker 2: like it would add up really quickly, because if.
Speaker 1: You a bar tab would be crazy for a wedding,
Speaker 1: like I can only begin to imagine.
Speaker 2: And what's worse the bar tab running out and pissing
Speaker 2: everyone off or people just setting the expectation of two
Speaker 2: drinks from the get go and like that's what you
Speaker 2: But also, surely you could purchase drinks after the two tickets.
Speaker 2: I think that would probably be I mean, it's cheap,
Speaker 2: oh as fuck, Like I get it, Like I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's cheap, but I'm also like, if that's what you want.
Speaker 1: To do, like it's that's their wedding, Like what with
Speaker 1: the guests to say yeah exactly? Speaking of like drink tickets,
Speaker 1: like one thing that we're because we're already planning our
Speaker 1: Christmas party for our work.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say, you're already planning
Speaker 2: your wedding.
Speaker 1: No, we're already planning our Christmas party. And because our
Speaker 1: we do our Christmas party with like our office and
Speaker 1: warehouse like and then like stores get their own Christmas
Speaker 1: party because we obviously can't shut down stores and fly
Speaker 1: people to Newcastle. But what we're going to do for
Speaker 1: our drinks this year, because it racks up so fast,
Speaker 1: is we're doing tickets. But it's tickets for cocktails. So
Speaker 1: like when everyone arrives, they get like two tokens or
Speaker 1: tickets or whatever that they can then redeem on a cocktail.
Speaker 1: And then after that, like the rest of the night
Speaker 1: is just your normal drinks that you would have at
Speaker 1: an open bar kind of thing that they still get
Speaker 1: for free. Because that's just another little thing. Like if
Speaker 1: you've got open bar with cocktails, yeah, and people smashing cocktails,
Speaker 1: twenty two dollars cocktails all night, it's going to be
Speaker 1: fucking fifteen grand on the bar tab. Yeah, So that's
Speaker 1: a little hack.
Speaker 2: I'm all for the two drink limit why not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon that one's fair enough if it's your
Speaker 1: own wedding. Okay, Number three, respect the seat assignment. Unless
Speaker 1: you are getting a drink, food, or going to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: there is no need to be out of your seat.
Speaker 1: Some guests want to just stay with their group and
Speaker 1: not socialize, and that has to be respected.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: I fucking hate this because whenever I'm at a wedding
Speaker 1: or any sit down event, I can't wait for the
Speaker 1: dinner and speeches to finish so you can get up
Speaker 1: and go and socialize and dance and like go and
Speaker 1: mingle with your friends that are at other tables and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like, I feel like the sitting down formalities is like
Speaker 1: one of the most boring bits.
Speaker 2: I honestly have never understood a seating chart at a wedding.
Speaker 2: Like that's one thing I don't understand. I couldn't give
Speaker 2: a shit where anyone sits at all, but it's like
Speaker 2: a really big priority to get the seating exactly right
Speaker 2: and who's sitting with who, and blah blah, couldn't give
Speaker 2: a shit sit where you want. Well, we'll probably still
Speaker 2: have a seating plan, but like, I mean, sit where
Speaker 2: you want because like what's their issue.
Speaker 1: Well, one of our friends a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: we went to their wedding and it was the coolest
Speaker 1: wedding that I've ever been to. Their parents have like
Speaker 1: a property, and so they had it on the property,
Speaker 1: and they had the ceremony at one end of the property,
Speaker 1: like they had it all set up beautifully, and then
Speaker 1: we literally just walked across the property, I don't know,
Speaker 1: five hundred meters and then like the after party whatever
Speaker 1: it's called, what's the reception, was at the other end
Speaker 1: of the property, and it was stunning and it's like
Speaker 1: right on the lake, so it was really pretty. But
Speaker 1: they didn't have a sit down food dinner at all. Instead,
Speaker 1: it almost felt like a bit of a music festival.
Speaker 1: They had like a dance floor in the middle, just
Speaker 1: made out of those like wooden plank things that you
Speaker 1: stick all together and it makes a dance floor. And
Speaker 1: then around they had like a couple of drinks trucks
Speaker 1: and then a food truck, and then they had these
Speaker 1: also really nice like demountable toilets that they like brought
Speaker 1: in like in a caravan thing. And then the whole
Speaker 1: night was just you walk around like you go to
Speaker 1: the food truck and they had heaps of lounges and
Speaker 1: everything like all around and random chairs, but there was
Speaker 1: no sit down part of the wedding. And I just
Speaker 1: thought that was like something I'd never been to before,
Speaker 1: and I felt like that was really cool, and it
Speaker 1: took out the whole part of them needing to find
Speaker 1: out who sits next to who and we can't have
Speaker 1: her across from her because she doesn't like her, and
Speaker 1: it was just really cool, like you just walked around,
Speaker 1: went and order food from the food truck, went and
Speaker 1: got a drink from the van, and then just like
Speaker 1: walked around. It was really great.
Speaker 2: I love that idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for any of you out there who were planning
Speaker 1: a wedding, consider that obviously not everyone has a fucking
Speaker 1: property that they can have a wedding on. But it
Speaker 1: was fucking great.
Speaker 2: Because I do think food is like such a big
Speaker 2: part of the only part of the wedding that I
Speaker 2: don't love because it's always fucking boring. It's checking off fish,
Speaker 2: child fish or maybe beef, but it's like it's not
Speaker 2: I've never I don't think i've there's been actually one
Speaker 2: wedding that I went to where like the food was
Speaker 2: pretty exceptional and also at the same wedding, the coolest
Speaker 2: thing I saw was that they did their first dance
Speaker 2: by themselves and didn't tell anyone. And so we were
Speaker 2: actually all having our dinner sitting down and there were
Speaker 2: like glass doors on the side, like windows, and like
Speaker 2: we just kind of noticed, like one person was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, they're having their first dance, and like
Speaker 2: our heads turned and we could just see them through
Speaker 2: the glass, just having a private first dance, just the
Speaker 2: two of them. It's nice. I was like, this is
Speaker 2: so good because.
Speaker 1: I love seeing all these modern things that people are
Speaker 1: doing with their weddings now, Like I even love the
Speaker 1: first look. So you know, traditionally, like the bride will
Speaker 1: walk down the aisle and that's the first time that
Speaker 1: the groom is seeing her when he turns around kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Well, now a lot of people are doing
Speaker 1: their first look in private before the ceremony, so they're
Speaker 1: in like a private room or whatever, or if they're
Speaker 1: like at the Huna Valley or whatever, they might be
Speaker 1: out in the valley thing in the vineyards and they
Speaker 1: have that moment privately together, just them and like the
Speaker 1: photographer or videographer, so that then that moment is intimate
Speaker 1: just between them two, which I really like.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like seeing people like, you know, not stick to
Speaker 1: the traditional rules of weddings that we usually know and see.
Speaker 2: I know someone who did all their wedding photos prior
Speaker 2: to the ceremony. Yes, me too, went and did all
Speaker 2: the photos with the wedding rings on as if they
Speaker 2: were married, and did the ceremony for that.
Speaker 1: Then you get to spend your whole wedding with everyone
Speaker 1: that's come to your wedding, because sometimes they disappear for
Speaker 1: three hours to do photos and then they come back.
Speaker 2: I think as well, like the traditions as well as
Speaker 2: in like the rules like oh you can't do this,
Speaker 2: or you won't or it's bad luck you know what,
Speaker 2: I mean to see the bride on the night before
Speaker 2: or on the morning off or whatever that whole rule is,
Speaker 2: and like even the something borrowed, something blue, all the
Speaker 2: rest of that. Maybe how many times have people done
Speaker 2: every single thing to the book and they still end
Speaker 2: up getting divorced? So I don't reckon anything matters, and
Speaker 2: you can do whatever you on as long as you
Speaker 2: sign that paper, and that is official. Whatever else happens
Speaker 2: that day is totally up to whatever you want to do.
Speaker 2: Do they have any other rules? Yes?
Speaker 1: So number four, I think I can get behind this one.
Speaker 1: No cameras. My husband said, a QR code in front.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing on the table that everyone scans and downloads
Speaker 1: the pov app, which I'm guessing is like a Polaroid
Speaker 1: kind of app. They then each get ten pictures they
Speaker 1: get uploaded into a big shared album.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but my thing is, if there's no cameras, how
Speaker 2: am I scanning the QR code with your phone? But
Speaker 2: isn't the phone the camera? Like is that? So how's
Speaker 2: the bride gonna know whether I take photos on the
Speaker 2: app or just on my camera roll?
Speaker 1: Because maybe they look different, or they've got like a
Speaker 1: little thing at the bottom, you know, when you put
Speaker 1: them into an app and it's got like a little
Speaker 1: tag on the bottom or whatever.
Speaker 2: Hate that idea, but also love no phones. I've said before,
Speaker 2: I'm so no phones. Do not fucking get your phone
Speaker 2: out of my Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think I can fully get behind. Actually, when the bride
Speaker 1: and groom don't want you to post any photos before
Speaker 1: they do kind of thing like that, they should be
Speaker 1: the ones to share their wedding photos first, and I
Speaker 1: hate when you do see them walking down the island
Speaker 1: and then people have got their phone out, like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm all four, put your phones away. But I do
Speaker 1: like the idea of just like a QR code that
Speaker 1: gets an app and everyone takes photos and it adds
Speaker 1: it to a shared out album, like I reckon, that's
Speaker 1: a really cool idea. But I also think people should
Speaker 1: be able to like take their own photos for themselves.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing. Yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: And there's one more number five, everyone out by ten thirty.
Speaker 1: We love the party animals who stay up late and
Speaker 1: want to have fun. But my husband and I still
Speaker 1: have work in the morning. Surely this is fucking fat.
Speaker 1: But my husband and I still have work in the morning,
Speaker 1: so we need to get a good night's rest just
Speaker 1: like any other day. Well that's just solidified to me
Speaker 1: that this is fake.
Speaker 2: Because I reckon Wednesday wedding, like on a Friday or
Speaker 2: a Saturday, or maybe a Sunday, maybe Monday. But wouldn't
Speaker 2: you be going on a honeymoon or taking the time
Speaker 2: on Why wouldn't you take the next day.
Speaker 1: I've seen people that have gotten married, and then they
Speaker 1: go back to work for a little bit and then
Speaker 1: their honeymoon's coming up.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing.
Speaker 1: True, But everyone out by ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I could get behind that. I'm pretty sure I've been
Speaker 2: to weddings where everybody's out by ten thirty.
Speaker 1: I feel like the latest wedding I've ever gone to
Speaker 1: has been like midnight at the latest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like the room's book till eleven, so
Speaker 2: we're probably out by ten thirty anyway. Yeah, I'm happy
Speaker 2: with that one.
Speaker 1: All right, it's got your ticke of approval.
Speaker 2: So I gave a ticke of approval to drink tickets yep,
Speaker 2: no photos or to an extent. And the last one
Speaker 2: was everyone out by ten thirty. What was the third one?
Speaker 1: Respect the seat assignment?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I couldn't give a shit about that. Sit
Speaker 2: where you want. I disagree with staying in your seat
Speaker 2: Like that is so full on to be, like these
Speaker 2: two go on to work as school teachers the next day,
Speaker 2: because it's giving school teacher energy to be like, you
Speaker 2: must sit in your single file at the bar with
Speaker 2: your two drink tickets. Everybody quiet, please, Like I just
Speaker 2: imagine the bride going to do her speech and going
Speaker 2: waiting for the chat to class, you know, when the
Speaker 2: teacher and then I I A P I A P
Speaker 2: T smart chat. What the fuck is that? You don't
Speaker 2: remember that? I'm sorry, don't remember. I've never heard that
Speaker 2: in my life. What what did you just do?
Speaker 1: I I P P T S not chat?
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Was? Was it a A P?
Speaker 1: It was like some businesses song?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm thinking of teachers standing at the front of
Speaker 2: the room saying that it was like a business and
Speaker 2: that was the I used to be so good at
Speaker 2: personating all the teachers, and they're different ways to get
Speaker 2: the classes attention. One, two, three, stage three. Look at me,
Speaker 2: I was one of That was my Stage three teacher.
Speaker 2: There were more, but I can't remember right now.
Speaker 1: For all your teachers out there, it's fucking tough, GI,
Speaker 1: it is tough, gig. Seriously, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Later I probably could, got you. I reckon, well, I reckon.
Speaker 2: I would have liked to be a teacher, but my
Speaker 2: dad is My dad's a school principal. And when I
Speaker 2: was younger, I remember being seven years old. I mean like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be a teacher like my dad, and
Speaker 2: he said, do not be a teacher. Seriously, get a
Speaker 2: different job. And I was like, okay, it's hard.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool, Well that's close, friends, done and dusted. It is.
Speaker 2: It is what a slagh.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to your wedding with drink tickets and everyone
Speaker 1: can sit wherever they want.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, we're not doing drink tickets. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We might have alcohol free. I mean I don't drink
Speaker 2: alcohol that often and Sky doesn't really drink alcohol at all.
Speaker 1: I'll be sneaking in little flask in my bag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go for it. I'm all about that. You're all
Speaker 2: about that. And you know rules are made to be broken.
Speaker 2: So even if there are rules at your wedding, not
Speaker 2: everyone's going to follow them.