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Speaker 2: Happy Valentine's Day, Annie, Happy Valentine's Day, Samantha.

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Speaker 3: We used to spend Valentine's Day together, diad.

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Speaker 2: I've gotten kind of slow, like slowly rolling back on it.

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Speaker 2: I think I will say. Last night we actually had

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Speaker 2: Gallantine's Sinner, and I told them this when my partner

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Speaker 2: I was like, look at me still doing Galentine's just

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Speaker 3: You know, you gotta celebrate how you can.

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Speaker 2: However you can. I'm gonna take it. So, yes, it

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Speaker 2: is Valentine's Day as we record and as it actually

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Speaker 2: is published, and yes, there's love in the air. Or

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Speaker 2: maybe we're just gonna have a frank conversation about love

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Speaker 2: or maybe the symbol of love. Am I right? I

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Speaker 2: don't know?

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Speaker 3: So say, what are we talking about?

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Speaker 2: Well, we thought we would come back and revisit a

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Speaker 2: topic that the show has already kind of talked about previously,

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Speaker 2: and that's weddings, wedding times, wedding season conversations. People are engaging, engaged,

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Speaker 2: people have gotten engaged recently, New Year's, Christmas, all those

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Speaker 2: And Valentine's Day is also a big day. Now, we're

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Speaker 2: because we, like I said, I know, there was a

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Speaker 2: huge conversation. I remember when Kristen got married, she was

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Speaker 1: Yes, Kristen being the founder and past hosts of the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have to say, every time we talk about marriage,

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Speaker 2: Lot of conversation, and you know what, that's okay, that's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: So let's start at the beginning with a proposal. There's

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Speaker 2: ideal proposal? Annie? Has I ever been a fantasy thing

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Speaker 1: I actually have been proposed to before, though, Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: At least talk to me about it before, right, don't

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Speaker 1: I don't think it ever actually happened, but they were

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Speaker 1: their only ideas. What about using technology to your advantage?

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Speaker 1: They suggest augmented reality AR proposals. Couples are leveraging AR

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Speaker 1: drone videography and cinematic proposal reels are becoming the norm

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Speaker 2: Oh the drones. I could see that. What's so funny

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Speaker 1: the not Style quiz is powered by AI to help

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Speaker 1: couples refine their wedding themes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we wanted to leave that last comment because

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Speaker 2: I thought it was funny, But like, I don't think

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Speaker 2: we understand how much AI is being used in general

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Speaker 2: to generate things like quizzes that people actually do use,

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Speaker 2: or try to generate colors or schemes or like any

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Speaker 2: of that. A lot of it is AI, even though

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Speaker 2: we think it's just photoshop.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Zola dot Com agrees and says quote seven percent

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Speaker 2: of couples admit to already using at least one AI tool,

448
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Speaker 2: while eleven percent are planning to incorporate it incorporate it

449
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Speaker 2: into wedding planning, thirty six percent are considering it but

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Speaker 2: not sure yet. And in total, this equates to fifty

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Speaker 2: four percent who said yes or maybe versus forty six

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Speaker 2: percent who are unlikely to use AI. That's a good

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Speaker 2: chunk of people who are like eh, And this is

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Speaker 2: kind of that whole level of like using digital media.

455
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Speaker 2: And we do talk a little bit about that in

456
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Speaker 2: order to plan it instead of having an actual coordinator,

457
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 2: which they still exist. Yeah, they're out there. Please give

458
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Speaker 2: them business if you can't. So we have talked about

459
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Speaker 2: the engagement phase and we are deciding how to go forward. Right,

460
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Speaker 2: we are at the wedding planning phase and paying phase.

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Speaker 2: So what does this look like? Are you ready any

462
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Speaker 2: cake tasting? Right? First, let's look at the trends and

463
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Speaker 2: see what these cool couples are doing now, because you know,

464
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Speaker 2: my way is not cutting it. According to a Sciphi

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Speaker 2: eventgroup dot com, there are a few returns in traditions,

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Speaker 2: such as an elaborate wedding cake. US millennials, we're loving

467
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Speaker 2: on some cupcakes and even donuts like I love that.

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Speaker 2: Give me my donut, Hi, give it to me, Let

469
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Speaker 2: me have it, let me have it. Buy cookies, so

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Speaker 2: many cookies. But it's it seems the typical multi tiered

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Speaker 2: cake is back. With elaborate decorations. Of course, I hope

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Speaker 2: we're keeping the added figures, like the dog, you know,

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Speaker 2: the little dog figuring that nibbles at the cake. I'm

474
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Speaker 2: not gonna lie to Gus Cube. I know you don't

475
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: love dogs, but I like it. Anie, Okay. And with that,

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Speaker 2: the traditional fancy veil is back in fashion. They launt

477
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Speaker 2: that long, very detailed, eloquent veil back. Apparently really good

478
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Speaker 2: for pictures.

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Speaker 3: Okay, for pictures.

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Speaker 2: And I guess the giant feathers and birds that we

481
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Speaker 2: had witnessed in Sex and the City movie, now it's done.

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Speaker 1: That's yeah, I can understand that. But they did talk

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Speaker 1: about some new editions, including hiring wedding content creators along

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Speaker 1: with the photographers of geographers. Here's what they write, quote,

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Speaker 1: couples are hiring professional content creators to record footage via

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Speaker 1: their cell phones to have plenty of content to create

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Speaker 1: their own media with. These creators capture the raw footage

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Speaker 1: and small moments that are beautiful to watch back after

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Speaker 1: you're married. While professional photos and videos naturally take a

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Speaker 1: good deal of time to be ready, this type of

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Speaker 1: content can be delivered in twenty four to forty eight

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Speaker 1: hours for a newlywed couple to enjoy posts and announce

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Speaker 1: their marriage.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what, this trend has a lot

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Speaker 2: of haters, and there's people who are like why why

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Speaker 2: because for all, for the most part, I know, one

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Speaker 2: of the bigger trends at actual weddings is to put

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Speaker 2: up your phones or even some people like have baskets

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Speaker 2: to collect phones. Like I've seen it go that intense

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Speaker 2: because people were so tired of other people trying to

501
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Speaker 2: like film the wedding instead of not being present or

502
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Speaker 2: blocking views or blocking the actual professional views. That's been

503
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Speaker 2: a conversation where the person like, y'all you can see

504
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Speaker 2: is the back of the head of a person in

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Speaker 2: their camera and can't see the like but here we

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Speaker 2: have actual people hired to you their phone to do

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Speaker 2: some reels and such and for more context, a story

508
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Speaker 2: of your Day dot com defines a wedding content creator

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Speaker 2: like this. A social media wedding content creator specializes in

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Speaker 2: creating content for social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, wills, YouTube,

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00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: and more. Their focus is on capturing, curating, visually appealing,

512
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Speaker 2: and engaging content that is tailored for online consumption and sharing.

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00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 2: They often utilize creative editing techniques and trendy music to

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Speaker 2: produce content that is optimized for social media algorithms and

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Speaker 2: appears to a wider audience. So I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: call her a hater. I'm not because they are. This

517
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Speaker 2: person from the site is a specific professional wedding videographer

518
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Speaker 2: and again doesn't really endorse content creating. I think she's

519
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Speaker 2: just in her blog talking about why it's not the

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Speaker 2: same thing and the differences between. So her definition for

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00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 2: them are very like specific and like unbiased, but her

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Speaker 2: conversation about them as well, like why they're not necessary

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Speaker 2: versus what she does. I think they're trying to differentiate

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Speaker 2: it once again what they do. Again, it's compared to

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Speaker 2: content creations because some people may just go opt out,

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Speaker 2: like the videographer altogether, to go for the content creator

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Speaker 2: because you never know. I know, a lot of the

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Speaker 2: times of your videographer and photographer could be from one company,

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Speaker 2: which makes a lot of sense. But this person too

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Speaker 2: is a world renowned from what I gather like and

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Speaker 2: she's based in the UK, not a fan, not a fan,

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Speaker 2: and I get it. I get it. It's an interesting

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Speaker 2: conversation because also there's a lot of other trends that

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Speaker 2: go with that that could be for content. Yeah, don't

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Speaker 2: have to hire specifically.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's why didn't you sound like so much

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Speaker 3: work to me?

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Speaker 2: Halfway through this episode, Annie.

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Speaker 3: I'm already tired.

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Speaker 2: Man with me.

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Speaker 1: Also, more weddings, are you using interactive guestbooks? Here's another

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Speaker 1: quote from that article. You may have already seen or

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Speaker 1: heard about audio guestbooks. They come with an adorable phone,

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Speaker 1: usually with a vintage style, and your guest can leave

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Speaker 1: a voicemail that's recorded to you to listen to after

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Speaker 1: your wedding. A new recorded guestbook trend has arrived in

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Speaker 1: the form of QR codes. These codes could be shared

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Speaker 1: with guests at your wedding, and even friends and loved

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Speaker 1: ones who were unable to attend for them to leave

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Speaker 1: you a photo and a message signed Jinga pieces, custom

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Speaker 1: custom cornhole games, and puzzle pieces are just a few

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Speaker 1: other interactive guestbook ideas we've seen. We predict creative guestbooks

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Speaker 1: will definitely be on the list of twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: wedding trends.

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Speaker 2: I do it like for a while, like videography, like

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Speaker 2: video messages to rise and grooms or a thing as well,

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Speaker 2: like little backdrops and you can say congratulations. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's the same thing as a vo for going around

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Speaker 2: taking like videos of the guests. Uh, have you tried

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Speaker 2: any of the nutrients? Like, have you been to a

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Speaker 2: wedding that has any other nutrients?

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean the closest I've gotten to this, I would say,

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Speaker 1: is not a new trend, but it's when they leave

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Speaker 1: like the disposable cameras on the table and you just

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Speaker 1: go around and take pictures and then they collect them

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Speaker 1: at the end. That's probably the closest I got. I

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Speaker 1: did somebody who did like an actual digital guest book

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Speaker 1: where you could sign in and write a message.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, nothing like nothing like this.

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Speaker 2: I've done the phone that I've gone to a wedding

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Speaker 2: with a phone message. I thought that was cute, But

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Speaker 2: at the same time, it was so loud in the background.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they heard.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. So, but with all of this, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't just have to be a single day or even

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Speaker 2: a day or two. According to Estherley from the previous

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Speaker 2: not dot com article, it's about the whole experience. Here's

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Speaker 2: the quote. Activities are a post pandemic trend that has

581
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Speaker 2: only grown with more involvement over the years. People want

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Speaker 2: to hang with friends and loved ones for the weekend,

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Speaker 2: says Alison Hotchkiss of Alison Events. So we've seen more

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Speaker 2: activities like pickleball tournaments, mini races like three k's over

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Speaker 2: five k runs that sounds awful, scavenger hunts, golf tournaments,

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Speaker 2: board games, and more. Our team has seen the beach

587
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Speaker 2: and pool parties, farewell seals, and much much more so,

588
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Speaker 2: like they are talking about a whole event, like they

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Speaker 2: do these big giant games or events and tournaments. If

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Speaker 2: you make me run, I'm not coming to your wedding.

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Speaker 2: Just want you to know.

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Speaker 3: It's not even that you're just not coming to the wedding.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm done. Okay, you might not even get a president,

594
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Speaker 2: we might not be friends anymore. What is wrong with you? So,

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Speaker 2: their article continues to explain that the experience may even

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Speaker 2: include a friendly wager. Now I will say I think

597
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Speaker 2: I've had bingo, but anyway, here we go. So lately,

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Speaker 2: couples are even opting to integrate games into their nuptials.

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Speaker 2: A wedding reception trends to watch. Examples include lighthearted wagers

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Speaker 2: over whether the bride will have an outfit change or

601
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Speaker 2: if the band will play ed Cheran. Weddings are evolving

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Speaker 2: into more interactive, personalized celebrations, says Greg Stall, founder of

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Speaker 2: the app betting on the Wedding. Couples want to give

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Speaker 2: their guests an experience and have them feel involved beyond

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Speaker 2: just attending. I feel like if you have to bet

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Speaker 2: on a wedding, you might have a problem.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you, like you said, like, I

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Speaker 1: could see a bingo thing being fun like funny, but

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Speaker 1: if it's like you're actually betting, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: bad song are they gonna play?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 3: Here we go?

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Speaker 2: You know, Like I feel like that's more of like

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Speaker 2: an inside joke that you're making fun of a couple.

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Speaker 2: That's just not nice. Yeah, let me have my ed

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Speaker 2: cheering if I want it.

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Speaker 3: That's true, that's true.

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Speaker 1: There's a there's a fine line there, there's a I

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Speaker 1: can see it working, but it's got a delicate dance.

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Speaker 2: Like who was this? Are you? Are you like a

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Speaker 2: phnomy or are you like what's happening? Or do you

622
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Speaker 2: have a gambling addiction. Should I make concerned? I love it.

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Speaker 2: I will. I will say I did not look into

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Speaker 2: betting on the wedding, so I know nothing about them,

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Speaker 2: so it may be completely fine. I'm just being silly.

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Speaker 2: But that's an interesting concept. I'll give him that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to say. The last wedding I went to,

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Speaker 1: which happens to be a super producer doing, he did

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Speaker 1: a really cool thing where there was like a couple

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Speaker 1: of events over the weekend and they were all optional.

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Speaker 1: So it was like karg one night and like bowling

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Speaker 1: one night, and so that was really fine where you

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Speaker 1: could kind of pick and choose go to the wedding

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Speaker 1: and then let's do karaoke and then the next day

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Speaker 1: I'll do bowling.

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Speaker 3: But I didn't go to the brunch because it was early. No,

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Speaker 3: been out of karaoke last night.

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Speaker 2: I can't do that all that. I can't do all that,

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Speaker 2: thank you. Yeah. So, one of the new trends we

641
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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier was having a content creator on hand to

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Speaker 2: be able to post your magical day, and social media

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Speaker 2: has definitely impacted wedding days from the fact people are

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Speaker 2: more likely to get inspiration through social media such as

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Speaker 2: Pinterest or Instagram. They can also connect easier to venues

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Speaker 2: and vendors as well. So here's a quote from testify

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Speaker 2: dot com. Enterprise Apps Today shows that sixty four percent

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Speaker 2: of people take wedding ideas from Pinterest. Furthermore, get nux

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Speaker 2: reveals that seventy six percent of US couples resort to

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Speaker 2: online resources for wedding planning in this digital age. These

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Speaker 2: aren't just supplementary statistics, but indicators of a monumental shift

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Speaker 2: in the wedding market, transitioning from traditional planning methods to

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Speaker 2: online platforms. But it's also about showing off the wedding

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Speaker 2: as well. Usage of things like hashtags or QR codes

655
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Speaker 2: has allowed for people outside of your invited guests to

656
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 2: appreciate all your efforts. Here's another quote from the testify

657
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Speaker 2: dot com. You create an online community centered around your

658
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 2: big day and enhance the overall experience for you and

659
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: your guests. And there's the magic. Through the lens of hashtags,

660
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 2: community feedback, and real time inspiration, social media for weddings

661
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: become more than just a planning tool. It becomes a

662
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Speaker 2: platform for expression and connection. But as that quote hints,

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Speaker 2: the usage of a hashtag can be a great tool

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Speaker 2: in the planning process. Again from justify dot com, a

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Speaker 2: hashtag is a simple, powerful tool in the world of weddings.

666
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: Crafting a perfect wedding hashtag has become as integral to

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Speaker 2: the planning process as picking a venue or a wedding dress.

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Speaker 2: And honestly, the more creative the hashtag, the more pois

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Speaker 2: you get. Right, right, have you thought of one? Do

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00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 2: we have? If we had a wedding, what would our

671
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: hashtag be? Oh, we gonna have to think about this.

672
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to think of about it.

673
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 2: I did. Someone needs to like workshop this with us.

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Speaker 1: Yes, please, I will think about it. I had a

675
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: friend who did one based on their cat. I can't

676
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: remember what it was, but they handed out like gifts

677
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: like koozies that had their cat on them and there

678
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: was a hashtag. Oh yeah, yeah.

679
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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: The unfortunate thing about this another couple I know, and

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00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not gonna say who they are. I posted,

682
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: you know, beautiful picture of them getting married and I

683
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: was like, oh wow, true love and they got divorced

684
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: not too after.

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Speaker 3: So sometimes it's social media think.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't always help. Well, those are the things like

687
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: you can have a great hashtag. I like been to

688
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 2: weddings where the wedding is photographically beautiful, but there's a

689
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 2: lot behind the scenes, you know, if you have a

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Speaker 2: good last name, like a pony last name, which actually

691
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: my partner does, so I couldn't imagine we're not planning it.

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Speaker 2: This is not this is not a wishless but like

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Speaker 2: he he has a pretty good last name. I think

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Speaker 2: it'd be something funny. I do not have a great

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00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: last name, not not punworthy. Yeah, you have a good

696
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 2: last name too, it's punworthy. It is something that Candy

697
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: would be everywhere. You know. One thing we don't talk

698
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 2: about in this is having a lot of people trying

699
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: to get brands to sponsor their wedding by sending out

700
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 2: or like sending out invitations to them to get gifts.

701
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Speaker 2: Have you seen this. This is a huge trend where

702
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 2: they send out invitations to like corporations they love or

703
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: businesses they love, so like if you love doctor Pepper

704
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 2: like Amy does, like Amy does, sending that to them

705
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 2: to see if they'll send you back, and sometimes they will.

706
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: Sometimes you might get a spoon or a towel or

707
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 2: a congratulations if you make it viral. If you have

708
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 2: a viral video, sometimes they will sponsor your wedding or

709
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: at least give you something like maybe some type of

710
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: alcohol for you course, who knows, So.

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Speaker 3: Walking down the aisle like a resister.

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00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 2: Yes, or you'll be walking down or your reception is

713
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: all just course, nothing, no champagne, no wines, just course,

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Speaker 2: no water, no nothing. But yeah, like that's a huge

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Speaker 2: ten that we haven't talked about, but we won't be

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00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 2: talking about. But that has happened a lot recently. It's

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Speaker 2: a hidden miss if you can get some free stuff,

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00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 2: though I don't blame you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, all right.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily a trend, but because of social media, it

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Speaker 1: has helped people find venues a lot easier. From triples

722
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: dot com quote, if you're a venue host weddings, it's

723
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Speaker 1: likely that you have a Facebook page, and if not,

724
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Speaker 1: we recommend you create one. This allows couples to easily

725
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: search for venue options that fit their needs and read

726
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: reviews from past clients. On a venues page, potential client

727
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: can see pictures from past weddings you've hosted, which helps

728
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Speaker 1: illustrate different ways that your space can be transformed. Facebook

729
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 1: has also made venues more accessible through its messenger feature.

730
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: This allows interested parties to instantly message the venues' Facebook

731
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Speaker 1: admin with any questions they have about your location.

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Speaker 2: So this article was written in twenty twenty. It's a

733
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Speaker 2: little bit dated in the middle of the pandemic and

734
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 2: is probably again outdated. Using Facebook as a reference point

735
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Speaker 2: makes it feel fairly dated, like if that's your one

736
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Speaker 2: central we obviously haven't like. Five years makes a big difference,

737
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Speaker 2: especially the last five years. From a recent survey completed

738
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Speaker 2: by Zola dot com, the gen Zers they love some

739
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Speaker 2: ticktoc love some tick doc, So ninety two percent of

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Speaker 2: gen Zers said that social media is an essential part

741
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 2: of their planning process, the highest percentage of any generation,

742
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 2: which is not surprising. Pinterest remains the number one source

743
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 2: of weddingspo overall, but the second slot is caught in

744
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 2: a generational battle between gen z who are all about

745
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: wedding TikTok or who are all about hashtag wedding talk,

746
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: and millennials who turn to Instagram for their daily dose

747
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 2: of wedding planning. So I think that's interesting because also

748
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Speaker 2: a lot of the Instagram reels we know our tiktoks, right,

749
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Speaker 2: So kind of this. What in the same? Okay, So

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Speaker 2: just to throw out some random facts in the middle

751
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 2: of this, here are some facts from Steviraay Entertainment dot

752
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: com and this was from twenty twenty two. Every year,

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00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: an average of two point four million weddings are performed

754
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 2: in the US and about one hundred and fifty thousand

755
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 2: per year in Canada. That makes me laugh because why

756
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: is Canadian? Is it just a less population. Maybe that's

757
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 2: a huge difference. That's a huge difference. I'll also go

758
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 2: back and look at that. Today's median age for the

759
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: first time brides is twenty eight years old, for grooms

760
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 2: is thirty second marriage meeting age is thirty two, and

761
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: groom is thirty five. That is so strong.

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Speaker 3: What yeah?

763
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Speaker 2: Also I bypassed both. I so you we bypassed both

764
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: of these years. We're running bay.

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Speaker 3: Our marriage will maybe it'll do it, It will last.

766
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Speaker 2: Now, so sixty seven percent of women continue to wear

767
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Speaker 2: the same fragrance they wore on their wedding day. I

768
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 2: thought that was a random fact. Okay. The number one

769
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Speaker 2: wedding city in the US and number two in the world.

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Speaker 2: Can you guess Las Vegas with an average of one

771
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty thousand weddings per year. The number one

772
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Speaker 2: in the world is Istanbul with one hundred and sixty

773
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Speaker 2: six thousand, which is kind of surprising. I would have

774
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 2: never thought of Istanbult for a wedding, but maybe because

775
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 2: Las Vegas is right here. Yeah, the surprising one to me,

776
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Speaker 2: and it makes sense being in the state of Georgia.

777
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: And I think at least two of my siblings have

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00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 2: married here. By the way, the number two wedding city

779
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Speaker 2: in the US is Gatlinburg, Tennessee, with forty two thousand weddings, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, again here's difference in numbers. But Vegas,

781
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 2: Vegas is the spot. Vegas is that spot.

782
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: Could get married to drive through in Vegas by Elvis.

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00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

784
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 2: The number three wedding city in the US is New Orleans,

785
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: with an average of thirty six thousand marriages a year. Again,

786
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Speaker 2: this is all in twenty twenty two, so I am

787
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 2: interested in the new numbers, but I'm like, huh, Callenburg.

788
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: Most people don't even know where that is, which makes

789
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 2: me laugh.

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Speaker 1: We used to my friend group used to go. That

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00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: was our Valentine's Day place. We would go for a

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Speaker 1: cabin weekend I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know a lot of people do. They got caples up there?

794
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Speaker 2: You could. I think you could also get married by

795
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 2: h and Elvis Mabe if you want to. I'm pretty

796
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 2: sure you can. So let's talk about costs. How much

797
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 2: is all of this going to cost? Going back to

798
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Speaker 2: our experts at the no dot com Kim Forrest Rights,

799
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 2: the national average cost of a wedding in twenty twenty

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00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 2: three was thirty five thousand dollars, which is a five

801
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: thousand dollars increase from twenty twenty two's average wedding cost

802
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 2: of thirty thousand dollars. You might be wondering what led

803
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 2: to this increase. Notably, nationwide inflation in twenty twenty two

804
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 2: led to an increase in the cost of many goods

805
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 2: and services in the wedding industry, which affected an overall

806
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: increase in total wedding expenses.

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Speaker 1: And they break down the numbers a bit more quote

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00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: on average, our data shows that couples hire fourteen vendors

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00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 1: in total. Notably, couples are increasingly investing in wedding planners.

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00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent hired a wedding planner in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: up from thirty percent in twenty nineteen. A wedding planner

812
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: can help couples prioritize their wedding funds efficiently to maximize

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00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: overall spending.

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Speaker 2: Right, They usually have connections too, so yeah, yeah, but again,

815
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen was pre pandemic and those numbers are like

816
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 2: I said, we didn't talk about that, but we don't

817
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 2: talk about that in this one. But it dipped pretty far.

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00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 2: So those increases, it would be interesting to know what from, Like, yeah,

819
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: like you know, immediately after two.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I did go to a wedding at

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty October twenty twenty, and it was really it

822
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: was just tense because yeah, we're all by mask and

823
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 1: the photographers.

824
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 3: So the first time I took a COVID test after that,

825
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: I was like, I definitely have to go.

826
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 2: Yeah. So for more detail from Visualcapitalist dot com writer

827
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Speaker 2: Bruno Venditti post which was originally for that app, Voroni

828
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Speaker 2: a breakdown of wedding costs nationwide. So the most expensive

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Speaker 2: states in the US are New Jersey at fifty five

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00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for weddings, New York forty nine thousand dollars,

831
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Speaker 2: in Connecticut at forty four thousand dollars, and the cheapest

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00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 2: are Kentucky, Idaho, and Montana at twenty thousand dollars. In

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00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 2: Utah at seventeen thousand, Georgia was sitting at thirty thousand,

834
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: with Ohio, Oregon, and Washington, which I found interesting that

835
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 2: that's such just like stretch on the map, because I

836
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 2: was interested. Once again, Las Vegas, Hello, is the number one.

837
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Speaker 2: They sit not Nevadasis at seventeen thousand, three hundred and

838
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 2: thirty six dollars, which is pretty is cheaper than Georgia.

839
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Speaker 2: So you know what I get it, Let's go to Vegas.

840
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 2: I'll spend an extra two hundred dollars on the ticket.

841
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I don't want to get married in

842
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: Vegas and you don't take me to Vegas. Oh, don't

843
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 2: do it, Okay, I don't want to. So how does

844
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 2: the US rank when it comes to internationally? We are expensive,

845
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 2: the most expensive. Actually we win. Hey, I can't imagine

846
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen in the next four years. From Statista

847
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 2: dot com, As of twenty twenty three, the average cost

848
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 2: of a wedding in the US is at thirty five thousand,

849
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 2: followed by the UK at twenty eight thousand, five hundred

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00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 2: and France sits at twenty one thousand, eight hundred and

851
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: Colombia is the cheapest at five thousand, two hundred and

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00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: fifty that they listed, that they listed, I should put

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00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: that there. I hon'tastily thought France would be more expensive. Yeah,

854
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: just with all of the islands and then Paris, you know,

855
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 2: the City of Love. Yeah, well, I guess that's Chicago.

856
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 2: Is that Chicago? So Philly Philly? You know how they

857
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: had those little sayings Philly is brotherly right? Or is

858
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 2: that Chicago?

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00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 3: I think?

860
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 2: Well, y'all tell me because I'm all over the spot. Interestingly,

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00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 2: another site s in Travels uses packages as a way

862
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 2: to research uh about the costs and and efficiency that

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00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 2: they found that France was more expensive than the UK,

864
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 2: but doesn't have the US at all as a part

865
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Speaker 2: of this conversation, I guess people outside of the US

866
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 2: wouldn't pick the US as a destination wedding spot. Fair enough,

867
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Speaker 2: if you're in the if you're in Europe, you're like,

868
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go to Vegas. I think I'd rather

869
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 2: go to Istanbul pressly, But if we as a US

870
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 2: wanted to US citizens. I guess wanted to go international

871
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 2: for destination wedding? Right? What would that look like?

872
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: Oh?

873
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 2: My?

874
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: Well, going back to the dot com, Dianehall writes quote.

875
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: According to the not twenty twenty three Real Wedding Study,

876
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: traveling to a destination to get married continues to be

877
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: a popular option, with nineteen percent of couples married under

878
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: what they consider a destination wedding, i e. A location

879
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: other than where they currently live and or grew up.

880
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: So how much does a destination wedding costs?

881
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 2: Right? So would that they answer their own question, saying

882
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 2: the average destination wedding costs in twenty twenty three is

883
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 2: forty one thousand dollars according to the Not Real Wedding Study,

884
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 2: an increase of fifteen percent over twenty twenty two, which

885
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 2: was thirty five thousand, six hundred. As these numbers are averages,

886
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 2: they say use them for baseline knowledge as you begin

887
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 2: planning your own destination wedding. It's important to note that

888
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 2: destination weddings aren't only beach weddings in a far away

889
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 2: tropical locations. In fact, most destination weddings take place in

890
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 2: the continental US. Yes, these may be beach locations that

891
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 2: they can also be in the mountains, at a national park,

892
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 2: near a lake, or in your favorite vacation spot. A

893
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 2: smaller number of weddings were held in international destinations. According

894
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 2: to our study, forty four percent of international destination weddings

895
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 2: took place in Mexico, while twenty percent were held in

896
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 2: Europe and eighteen percent in the Caribbean. Here's how the

897
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: destination wedding costs compared to a hometown wedding. So with

898
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 2: that they break that down costs for domestic destination weddings

899
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: as again forty three thousand, three hundred. Average cost for

900
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 2: international destination wedding is forty two thousand, which is less.

901
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 2: That's interesting. Average cost for the hometown wedding is thirty

902
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: three thousand, three hundred. Overall average for a wedding is

903
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand. So the little cheaper to do international

904
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: destination versus is the domestic destination. I wonder if that's

905
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 2: like guest list goes down and such.

906
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, or in certain places it could be like an exchange,

907
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: right right, right, But not a lot of places.

908
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 2: The UK is that much cheaper. Maybe this take away

909
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars of the expense, but you would think

910
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 2: the travel the visas right, but then if you're going

911
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 2: to a honeymoon over there is less. Yeah, there's so

912
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: many things that's true.

913
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

914
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 2: I did want to also talk about some of the

915
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 2: twenty best or popular destinations that people do go for.

916
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 2: And this is from Travel and Leisure. So some of

917
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 2: the international spots would be Italy, Dominican Republic, Ireland, which

918
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 2: you know what, I get that, France in Mexico, as

919
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 2: they said, Thailand is up there. For some of the

920
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: local domestic New Orleans is up there, Colorado, I could

921
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 2: see that, California, Hawaii of course, and Newport Rhode Island.

922
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 3: I bet it's lovely.

923
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,760
Speaker 2: I bet it's lovely. I've never been to Rhode Island,

924
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 2: but Rhode Island is expensive, is what I found out,

925
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 2: just so you know, yep. And so with all of that,

926
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,479
Speaker 2: what exactly is the breakdown of costs and this will

927
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 2: We're going to put in all the numbers, including destination

928
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 2: wedding stuff. So from the not dot com this is

929
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 2: the list and I'm just coming straight from their statistics

930
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 2: and list. Reception venue costs around fourteen thy four hundred.

931
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 2: Live ban can cost a forty seven hundred. Destination wedding

932
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: photography cost a thirty one hundred destination wedding planner is

933
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 2: twenty seven hundred alcohol, thirty two hundred florists, thirty two

934
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 2: hundred rehearsal dinner thirty nine hundred videographer, twenty five hundred

935
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 2: event rentals, twenty five hundred lighting in decor nineteen hundred

936
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: if you decide to do a DJ nineteen hundred guest entertainment,

937
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. Thirteen hundred ceremony ensemble,

938
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 2: one thousand paper items, five hundred eighty wedding cake cost

939
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 2: five eighty. This is just as much as the paper items.

940
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 2: Catering cost per person is one O two. Local transportation

941
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 2: slash lima twelve hundred favors five hundred efficients two fifty.

942
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 2: They're getting ripped off here. A wedding dress cost around

943
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: twenty four hundred additional jewelry four hundred and seventy five

944
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 2: hairstyle is a prices price for one to be wed

945
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 2: one sixty four makeup artists for one to be wed

946
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty two dollars. That's a that's a

947
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 2: chunk of money.

948
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 3: That's a lot of money.

949
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 2: That's a chunk of money. So the wedding industry is

950
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 2: a money maker. It's not a surprise. Again who is

951
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 2: making this money? I will tell you it was hard

952
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: for me to get some numbers like like I got

953
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 2: for like an individuals per year, per thing. So we

954
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 2: have different breakdowns from Zibia dot com. As of twenty

955
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 2: twenty three, the US revenue for wedding service industry is

956
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 2: at seventy point three billion dollars and according to Globnewswire

957
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 2: dot com buy twenty thirty two, it will be worth

958
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: six hundred and forty six points sixty five b yeah,

959
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:30,280
Speaker 2: b billion dollars. My god, wow, my god, okay almost

960
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 2: ten times.

961
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's billion.

962
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 2: Okay, we need to do something with them, Like how

963
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 2: does sminty Mary's you We'll do this for you, give

964
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 2: us a month. How much does the photography industry make

965
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 2: it during a year? According to Fortune Business Insights dot com,

966
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 2: it is also in the billions. The global wedding photography

967
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 2: market size was valued at twenty three point thirty six

968
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 2: billion US dollars, and that was in twenty twenty four.

969
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 2: The market is projected to grow from twenty five point

970
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 2: zero five billion in twenty twenty five two forty three

971
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 2: point six billion by twenty thirty two, and again US dollars.

972
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 2: I mean, if the value of the US dollar goes down,

973
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 2: it's a whole different conversation, but you get you get

974
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 2: adjust a lot a lot.

975
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: And if you own an ideal spot for a venue,

976
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: according to wedding venue mavericks dot com, it is worth

977
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: thirty billion dollars USD some more statistics from that site.

978
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: Wedding venues generate an average of fifty thousand dollars of

979
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: revenue in a year. The average profit margin for wedding

980
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: venues is twenty percent. The average wedding venue cost ten

981
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to rent.

982
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 2: So my old landlord, oh, has a very nice property,

983
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 2: like real nice. Like it's like an old apparently an

984
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 2: old old funeral home, but like mansion style almost I've

985
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 2: been inside of it. He's hosted many events there now

986
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 2: uses as a wedding venue and hosts probably about thirty

987
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:09,959
Speaker 2: weddings a year.

988
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 3: Wow.

989
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can only imagine, yep, how much money

990
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 2: he's making. I think he lives. There's like a little

991
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 2: like tulshit like type of offshoot house guest house that

992
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: only has like a small bedroom, a small kitchen, everything,

993
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 2: but it's very small, one bedroom type of thing. He

994
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 2: lives there while he runts up the giant house, wedding,

995
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 2: haunted wedding. You know what, a lot of people love

996
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 2: those things, that's true. So what about the flowers? Again,

997
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 2: this wasn't an easy answer to find, but here are

998
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 2: some numbers given by true clientpro dot com about yearly earnings,

999
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 2: and I think it's trying to tell people how to

1000
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: be a part of this industry. Freelance wedding floors make

1001
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 2: thirty thousand to forty five thousand annually, Floral studio owners

1002
00:55:56,320 --> 00:56:01,240
Speaker 2: make fifty thousand to eighty thousand annually. Wedding florist's salary

1003
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 2: is eighty thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand, and

1004
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 2: then luxury wedding floors over one hundred thousand annually with

1005
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 2: high end events, so you can make some money. And

1006
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 2: there's just there's so many how to sites if you

1007
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 2: want to learn how to and how to use, and

1008
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 2: they talk about marking it up six times the actual cost,

1009
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 2: like in order to get that rep share. So I'm like, Ohnine,

1010
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: you do you according to get those revenue. I mean,

1011
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like you do you? So then it

1012
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 2: goes down to who pays? Who pays for all of.

1013
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 3: This good question.

1014
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: According to brides dot com, this is how they break

1015
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: it down. The bride's family pays for quote the expenses

1016
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: associated with the wedding. This includes expected cost like the

1017
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: bride's dress, smaller big day details such as the invitations

1018
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 1: and cake, and big ticket items including the photographer and venue.

1019
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 1: The list looks like this, According to brides dot com,

1020
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: traditional bride family coverage includes engagement parl and pre wedding parties,

1021
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: get togethers, venues, coordinators, video and photography, flowers and decor,

1022
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: dress with all of the stuff, invitations, transportation and accommodation

1023
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: for bridesmaids, the cake, and the after brunch. The bride

1024
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: has their own expenses, including the grooms wedding band, gifts

1025
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: for the wedding parties, and hair and makeup for her

1026
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: people's This is interesting to me because I definitely had

1027
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: to pay for all that stuff what I do, so

1028
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:28,439
Speaker 1: I don't mind.

1029
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 2: Right for the groom's family, they write, the groom's parents

1030
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 2: are still tasked with paying for a portion of the events,

1031
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 2: so there could be a conversation that they partially pay

1032
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 2: for the venue as well. According to traditional etiquette, the

1033
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 2: main financial role of the groom's family intels funding the

1034
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 2: rehearsal dinner, including the venue, food, drink, decorations, entertainment invitations.

1035
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 2: They're also traditionally tasked with planning and paying for the honeymoon.

1036
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 2: The fee of the efficient services and the marriage licenses

1037
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 2: also falls in the parents of the groom's laps in

1038
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 2: their list. They have a following handar dinner, efficient fee,

1039
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 2: license specific bouquet, butineers and carsages, transportation, accommodations for groomsmen,

1040
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 2: DJ and band, alcohol, and honeymoon. The groom is responsible

1041
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 2: for the bride's rings, including the engagement one, grooms attire,

1042
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 2: gifts for the bride and his grooms people, honeymoon if

1043
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 2: the family doesn't pay for it, so that's supposed to

1044
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 2: be going on him. Of course, the party, such as

1045
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 2: the bridesmaids and groomsmen, all have expenses as well. For

1046
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 2: the bridesmaids, there are some gray areas kind of like

1047
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 2: what you're talking about in these expenses, which has a

1048
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 2: lot to do with what is expected of them. For

1049
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 2: the most part, things like bachelor and bachelorette parties and trips,

1050
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 2: the bridesmaids and groomsmen would put their money in. But

1051
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 2: if it becomes extravagant, like we're taking trips to Europe

1052
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 2: or something, there is a lot of argument on who

1053
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 2: is expected to pay. Is the bride going to give

1054
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 2: some of that money, is the groom going to give

1055
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 2: some of that money for the bride, or the families

1056
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 2: adding that money. If the maid of honor is her

1057
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 2: sister or someone from the family, do they pay for it?

1058
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 2: Like so all of these things. If you're putting yourself

1059
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 2: as the host, then yeah, the expense is expected to

1060
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 2: come from you. So whoever is planning this better be

1061
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 2: ready to either cough it up themselves or have a

1062
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 2: prediscussion about who is paying for what so that they

1063
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 2: can know whether or not they can afford it. Dresses

1064
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 2: and tuxes also a toss up, but typically it seem

1065
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 2: to be a responsibility of the bridesmaids and the groomsman.

1066
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 2: I have seen I have paid for every single one

1067
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 2: of my bridesmaids dress.

1068
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 3: Me too.

1069
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 2: I prayed for a j cru dress in college. That

1070
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 2: was a lot. I wore that thing forever too, like

1071
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 2: it was a nice dress, so I would give the hymn.

1072
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 2: I would make it shorter. I would make it like

1073
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 2: this is my aveningwhere for everything, I'm gonna go bed

1074
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 2: in it. With all of the articles we have researched

1075
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 2: a chunk of them on our advice on how to

1076
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 2: talk to the brider groom about the cost and whether

1077
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 2: or not being able to actually afford to be a

1078
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 2: part of the wedding party, like being able to say

1079
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 2: no because I'm like, I can't afford that twenty five

1080
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 2: hundred dollar dress that you want me to get buy

1081
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 2: from that other expensive Gucci store. I can't do that.

1082
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 2: Do they have dresses? Do Guccie do dresses? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This is how well I know. I know that I

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Speaker 2: can't afford that because I don't know where it came from.

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Speaker 2: Shoes talk about that hair, I mean, there's even demands

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Speaker 2: where all of the bridesmen have to have thin color

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Speaker 2: of hair or different color of hair. Like there's been

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Speaker 2: conversations most of the weddings I've been, all of the

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Speaker 2: weddings i've been, they have been reasonable, yeah and not

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Speaker 2: expected that, and I have all like understood, Okay, pricing

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Speaker 2: is a conversation. I did have one where I was

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Speaker 2: just beginning social work and she was like, I got

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Speaker 2: your dress, please be in the wedding, and knowing that

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Speaker 2: they're that could be like a deal breaker for me.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of that was happening. I was also

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Speaker 2: really young when a chunk of people got married, so

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Speaker 2: it was interesting trying to navigate that.

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Speaker 1: I want I hope listeners write in about this because

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Speaker 1: so much of this I'm like, really, we're still doing this,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like my friends got married later, so

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Speaker 1: like we their wedding gift in one example, was you

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Speaker 1: donated to their honeymoon, right, like, because they didn't need

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Speaker 1: all the new They've been living together for years, they.

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Speaker 2: Didn't play new things yet, right.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just curious, listeners, if you write in if

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Speaker 1: this I believe the statistics, I'm just it's not been

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Speaker 1: my experience. It's really interesting.

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Speaker 2: I really expected to see some of the trends being

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Speaker 2: of older people, and we do talk a little bit

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Speaker 2: about that later on, because what we're talking about here

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Speaker 2: is very traditional. Obviously, we were talking because again, yeah,

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Speaker 2: most of my friends, especially in the last four years

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Speaker 2: five years, if you are thirty six and older, even

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Speaker 2: thirty five and older, I guess maybe even thirty. The

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Speaker 2: typical ideas have kind of gone out the window because

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Speaker 2: they've already lived together so they have a lot of stuff,

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Speaker 2: or they've been married previously. They don't I want to

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Speaker 2: do all this stuff. Like all of these things come

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Speaker 2: into factors. I did have several weddings that I was

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Speaker 2: a part of in college. In college when I was

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Speaker 2: living with three other people, paying two fifty a month

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Speaker 2: in rent and having a part time job, because that

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Speaker 2: was a stretch for me, having to throw lingerie showers,

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Speaker 2: so we would do I remember the one I was

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Speaker 2: very proud of. This one. I did a whole scavenger

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Speaker 2: hunt throughout downtown Athens. It was kind of cruel, but

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Speaker 2: thinking is the person I was throwing it for is

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Speaker 2: not super shy, so she was fine. But like I

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Speaker 2: would have our scene to a Barissa to get a present,

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Speaker 2: like I hit her presence all of her downtown Athens

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Speaker 2: and thank you to the people who actually really messed

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Speaker 2: with us with this. And then at the end we

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Speaker 2: would all come together, went on North Campus to a

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Speaker 2: really pretty area, had a whole picnic and had a

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01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 2: light lunch or a light like snack. While she was

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01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 2: opening presents, we did a crossword puzzle for her that

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01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 2: you could generate, not an AI. It probably wasn't AI

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01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 2: technically at that point, but we did. No, it was

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01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 2: AI based on her marriage or based on her wedding,

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01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 2: like all of these things. So we did a whole thing.

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Speaker 2: But I did this as a poor college student, right,

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Speaker 2: so I didn't have to do too much. But like,

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01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,959
Speaker 2: we got creative, Yeah, we got creative. But I'm thinking

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01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 2: back on it now, I'm like, man, a lot of work.

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Speaker 2: The amount of money that we had to get for

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01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 2: the lingerie gifts, the wedding gift, the bridesmaid dress, all

1147
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Speaker 2: the things, there's a lot. She didn't ask us to

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Speaker 2: be the risemaid, I will say that, so we were

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01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 2: grateful for that, but we threw all the parties because

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01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 2: the bridesmaids were his younger sister or her younger sister,

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Speaker 2: who could do even less. Right, Yeah, anyway, and talking

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Speaker 2: again about the actual back to this whole thing about

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Speaker 2: breakdowns of who pays for what? From our friends from

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Speaker 2: not dot Com, Sarah Hanlon writes, because people are getting

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Speaker 2: married later in life, couples are more financially equipped to

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Speaker 2: take on more or all of the wedding costs themselves. Plus,

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01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 2: given the importance now placed on the overall experience, more

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01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 2: couples are willing to splurge on upgrades and extras. They

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01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 2: want to make their dream wedding a reality. Of course,

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Speaker 2: that's not to say to be weds don't receive any

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Speaker 2: financial help from family members. Our study found that on average,

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Speaker 2: couples cover fifty percent of the wedding budget and parents'

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Speaker 2: family contribute the other fifty percent. Interestingly, respondents further indicate

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Speaker 2: my parents' family paid thirty seven percent and my partner's parents'

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Speaker 2: family paid thirteen percent. That is really specific numbers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Zola dot Com ads with the increase of

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01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 2: using digital things like Save the Dates and even registries

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01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 2: or invitations, couples have been adding cash funds as an

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Speaker 2: option for their gifts. They write. Eighty seven percent of

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Speaker 2: couples are adding personalized cash funds to their Zola registries,

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Speaker 2: using this money to not only help cover some wedding costs,

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01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 2: but also post wedding financial priorities such as the first

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01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 2: purchase of a home. The number of couples adding cash

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01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 2: funds is up six percent from twenty twenty three, which

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Speaker 2: at the time we believe to be an all time high.

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Speaker 1: Of course, all of this is also to say traditions

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01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: are not something adhered to by a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: and different people have different traditions. As they mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 1: Because many couples are getting married later in life, they

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Speaker 1: often cover their own expenses, and they do mention the

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Speaker 1: comparison with the queer community. Again from Zola dot com quote,

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01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: it's also important to call out that even as we

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01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: work alongside members of our industry every day to celebrate

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01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: and support all of we know the journey is not

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Speaker 1: equitable for many couples, including members of the LGBTQ plus community.

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Speaker 1: In our own data, there is a noticeable divide in

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Speaker 1: comparing who contributes financially to sexual orientation. It's true that

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of all couples contribute financially, but it's

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Speaker 1: also true that a larger percentage of LGBTQ plus couples

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Speaker 1: in comparison to heterosexual couples, are responsible for covering wedding cost.

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01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: Thirty eight percent of LGBTQ plus couples are paying in

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Speaker 1: full for their weddings in comparison to twenty seven percent

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Speaker 1: of heterosexual couples. Thirteen percent of heterosexual couples have their

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Speaker 1: wedding costs completely covered by loved ones. All the same

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Speaker 1: is only true for six percent of LGBTQ plus couples.

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Speaker 2: Right, And we already know a lot. A lot is

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Speaker 2: part of that conversation. Like I said, I did not

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Speaker 2: we did not do a lot of research for this

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Speaker 2: specific episode, but we do want to talk about what

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01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 2: this looks like. Yeah, it feels trivial to talk about

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01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 2: wedding costs if we're talking about the fact the right

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01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 2: of marriage, Yeah, and of existence is being threatened. So

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01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 2: it's kind of hard, you know, to really look deep

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01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 2: into that. But that is something that has to be remembered,

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01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 2: and I'm glad Zola was very quick to have that.

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01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 2: They're the first ones not to call out or say

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Speaker 2: that The Knot hasn't mentioned it. But like just when

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Speaker 2: I was when we were researching it, this is a

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Speaker 2: or so I came across it was like, oh my god,

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01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 2: there's that information that they made sure to include in

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01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 2: the regular posting, so they wanted to acknowledge it. So

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Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty significant. And from that same article,

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Speaker 2: Emily Forest, who is the writer, writes and the overall

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Speaker 2: balance of planning responsibility is very unbalanced. In fact, for

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01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 2: millennial couples, the stereotypical assumptions that one person will take

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01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 2: on the majority of wedding planning responsibilities is the number

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01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 2: one societal expectation they want to change. In contrast to

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Speaker 2: the financial data above, LGBTQ plus couples generally have a

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Speaker 2: more positive experience sharing wedding planning responsibilities equally, but between

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Speaker 2: women and men who are marrying each other, there's a

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Speaker 2: clear discrepancy about time spend. Only one percent of women

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Speaker 2: fill their male partner spends more time wedding planning, but

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Speaker 2: thirty five percent of men said their female partner spends

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Speaker 2: more time wedding planning. Seven percent of women fill their

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Speaker 2: male partner spends quality time wedding planning, but thirty six

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Speaker 2: percent of men said they spend quality time planning. Eight

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Speaker 2: percent of women said their partner helps them literally zero,

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Speaker 2: but zero percent of men with female partners responded this way.

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Speaker 2: The delusion is real zero, she said, literally zero. Likely

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01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 2: had to yes, of course, I wanted to go back

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Speaker 2: and look at the attitudes, I guess said. We were

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Speaker 2: talking more about like the cost breakdowns and who is

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01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 2: financially responsible and what it looks like today more so

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Speaker 2: than that. Again, this could be a whole series. We're

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01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 2: not doing it. I did it any I didn't do

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 2: it in two episodes. I want that to be noted

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01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 2: and said I did it in my one. However, Yeah,

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01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 2: when I was looking through all of that, nothing seems

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01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 2: to have date changed or no one's writing about it

1241
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 2: because the majority of the articles, when I thought, I

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01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 2: just want to see, I just want to see if

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01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 2: it has changed, if increase, if there's an increase in

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01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 2: men being act defitely a part of the planning, since

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01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 2: I don't know twenty fifteen anything, nothing. The latest article

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01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:11,720
Speaker 2: I saw was in twenty sixteen, and it's say there's

1247
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 2: more men who are being involved. The rest of them

1248
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 2: are pretty much like scoldings telling men to get it

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01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,919
Speaker 2: together from the articles that I've read, So it's interesting.

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01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's just because I didn't dig

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01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 2: deep enough, Like I said, I just wanted to kind

1252
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 2: of get a preview, but it was interesting, I will say.

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01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 2: In that same article, they go on to say that

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 2: for the most part, the couples feel like their partners

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01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 2: are at least very supportive throughout the process. Are they

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01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 2: actively helping, No, but at least they're going to be like, Okay,

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01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:41,719
Speaker 2: that's cool. I like it.

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01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 3: Said something.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's something. So that's what we have for

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01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,600
Speaker 2: this one. Like I said, there's so much more we

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01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:53,680
Speaker 2: should and could go into, but we just kind of

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01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 2: wanted to see how it's changed lately. Like, man, if

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01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 2: you're a part of that industry and if you can

1264
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 2: get your feet wet, whether you're a photographer, a florist

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 2: coordinator which by the way, I've coordinated several weddings. Oh

1266
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 2: that was my gift to my friend to be mean

1267
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 2: to people well and to be organized look.

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Speaker 1: At Okay, yeah, if you're in that industry, let us know,

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01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: people listeners, if you've gotten married recently and you want

1270
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: to share, if this is resonating with you or not

1271
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: resonating with you, please let us know. We would love

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