Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: We cannot recommend having two weddings enough.
Speaker 2: It checked every box for us in the best way.
Speaker 2: I mean, we said it before and again I apologize
Speaker 2: for the state of my voice. Two weddings, having people
Speaker 2: stay at our house for f one a Halloween party
Speaker 2: in the middle, That's what I've decided to do over
Speaker 2: the past two weeks. I just love festivities and people,
Speaker 2: and that's part of why we had two weddings. We
Speaker 2: wanted to make sure to include everybody in our lives,
Speaker 2: our closest friends and family, our extended family, our friends
Speaker 2: from LA from Austin, from all over, bachelor people, people
Speaker 2: I'd worked with. We wanted to include all those people.
Speaker 2: But our big fear was how will we spend good
Speaker 2: time with all those people?
Speaker 1: Right? And that is the key, and that's hitting the
Speaker 1: nail on the head, because it's not that we couldn't
Speaker 1: include all those people in one event. The problem is
Speaker 1: those events wouldn't have been how we wanted to spend
Speaker 1: that time and energy with those particular people. The NAPA party,
Speaker 1: we wanted to spend very intimate time that was family, mom, dad, brother, sisters,
Speaker 1: different than putting on our boots and shaking it up
Speaker 1: like we did in Austin. And we wanted to spend
Speaker 1: that kind of time with those people. So that is
Speaker 1: how the two party system was created.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing we did, I mean, part of
Speaker 2: why we're so tired. Even with doing two parties, you
Speaker 2: still had to find And I should also say, uh huh,
Speaker 2: Like I said, I understand having two weddings sounds like
Speaker 2: this big expense. We're very blessed, We're very grateful. I
Speaker 2: was also a babe on a budget. To the best
Speaker 2: of my ability, wore my dress at both of them.
Speaker 2: My mom made the desserts for Austin. We saved money
Speaker 2: in ways we could.
Speaker 1: Before we leave Napa, I just wanted to make one
Speaker 1: note because people have asked, did you go immediately on
Speaker 1: a honeymoon and the answer was no, because well, we
Speaker 1: had another wedding coming up in three weeks, so it
Speaker 1: would have been and weird to like leave Napa, go
Speaker 1: on a honeymoon, come back, have a wedding, and then
Speaker 1: maybe go on another honeymoon. So after Napa, we just
Speaker 1: spent one very intimate, lovely night at a beautiful hotel
Speaker 1: there in Napa Valley called the Poetry In.
Speaker 2: It's so exquisite if you're ever able to make a
Speaker 2: special weekend of it and go. It only has a
Speaker 2: few rooms. It's kind of an elegant home turned into
Speaker 2: a small hotel up on cliff Lead vineyards. They make
Speaker 2: you breakfast in your room every day. They it's it's like.
Speaker 1: You're rushan bakery goods coming in and the poetry and.
Speaker 2: It's so romantic. Our room at an outdoor shower overlooking
Speaker 2: the vineyards. That's all you need to know. So and
Speaker 2: you know what, I didn't even really feel like I
Speaker 2: needed a honeymoon because the wedding and Napa, I mean,
Speaker 2: Napa could be a honeymoon destination.
Speaker 1: It really was. It felt like that, I think.
Speaker 2: We might do a trip for our first anniversary.
Speaker 1: In a year, and I agree, I think that's what.
Speaker 1: You know, give it, give it time, let us think
Speaker 1: in and then have an amazing anniversary trip a year
Speaker 1: from now. So we left Napa and we went back
Speaker 1: and immediately, as you said, F one race here in Austin,
Speaker 1: we had people come in down for the F one Race.
Speaker 1: We enjoyed that. Then it was Halloween we had a
Speaker 1: little Halloween party, and then it was wedding week number
Speaker 1: two and it started right here at this house as
Speaker 1: we sit in our office with a great Bachelor party
Speaker 1: that we hosted, you know, Friday night.
Speaker 2: You can call it a Bachelor party. It was all
Speaker 2: Bachelor Nation, all of the Bachelor Nation alumni who were
Speaker 2: coming to the wedding. We wanted to have an intimate again,
Speaker 2: to get the good time in with people, and we
Speaker 2: hadn't seen a lot of them in a long time,
Speaker 2: some in part because of the pandemic, even it had
Speaker 2: been years for some, and we wanted to see them
Speaker 2: and kind of have a really good like safe space,
Speaker 2: I don't know, safe space for the drama. It turned
Speaker 2: into actually a bit of healing this weekend from Bachelor
Speaker 2: very cathartic.
Speaker 1: I almost fell back into my hosting role of kind
Speaker 1: of Papa bear, of taking care of everybody. And I
Speaker 1: want to give you a huge shout out and credit.
Speaker 1: This was your idea. I didn't bring this up. You
Speaker 1: actually said Friday Night, Babe, I think we should do this.
Speaker 1: We should bring all of the batch for people in
Speaker 1: just so everybody can be around each other before the
Speaker 1: big event where maybe We're not going to spend as
Speaker 1: much into mind time together, just so we can really
Speaker 1: talk and be together.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. I was also kind of thinking,
Speaker 2: this is a big party. I don't know, people be
Speaker 2: coming up to people asking for photos and stuff. I
Speaker 2: respect everybody's you know, there's that fame level. And they
Speaker 2: were going to an event where they didn't know a
Speaker 2: lot of people. I wanted them to have a safe
Speaker 2: space just hanging out with people, you know at our
Speaker 2: house and we poured some great wines. We poured a
Speaker 2: wine from when we got engaged in Apple, which was fun.
Speaker 1: We got engaged at Brand and there was this beautiful
Speaker 1: wine we were drinking from Brand, and I had some
Speaker 1: magnums like a double bottle is what that is built?
Speaker 1: And they etched into it the proposal. So we opened
Speaker 1: up our proposal wine.
Speaker 2: And it was also funny, like so we you and
Speaker 2: I did all that. We did a bunch of big
Speaker 2: sure couterie boards. We had some desserts and afterwards, and
Speaker 2: everybody had a lot of drinks. And I'm getting ahead
Speaker 2: of myself, but afterwards Kaitlyn Bristow texted, she was like
Speaker 2: so sweet, she said, I just realized we left and
Speaker 2: we didn't help you guys clean up, and like, but
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you hired someone. I was like, I would
Speaker 2: have been a great idea. Kaitlyn, No, Chris and I
Speaker 2: just washed well fifty glasses, maybe more d y.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Lauren just kind of leaped into the lead and
Speaker 1: pop that balloon. So let's get to it. This is
Speaker 1: what people want to know. Who is here, and let's
Speaker 1: just deal with number one. Jason Tarctick and Kitlin Bristow
Speaker 1: both invited and both showed up. They both were here.
Speaker 1: Let's dive into more.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to say, and I'm more not gonna
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to reveal everything about our
Speaker 2: friendships with them. But Caitlin and Jason were both you know,
Speaker 2: obviously they split, and they were both so sweet about Like,
Speaker 2: we reached to them a while ago and said, hey,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about coming to the wedding. They
Speaker 2: both said, each separately said like on separate texts, this
Speaker 2: day is about you, guys. We will be fine. Don't
Speaker 2: worry about us, and we want to be there for you.
Speaker 2: So they were both so sweet about that. But what
Speaker 2: we didn't realize. I did not know this until Friday
Speaker 2: night when they showed up at our house because like,
Speaker 2: they have their dogs together and they both live in Nashville.
Speaker 2: I thought they'd seen each other since the split. Me too,
Speaker 2: they had not seen each other since they broke up
Speaker 2: until they walked into our house only a few minutes
Speaker 2: apart from each other in on Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in Austin. And before we talk about who else
Speaker 1: was there? Yeah, we'll just let's just deal with this.
Speaker 1: I'd talked to both of them, so had you. They
Speaker 1: handled it with such grace and such love for us,
Speaker 1: and they made it about us until it became not
Speaker 1: on purpose about them, because they ended up at this
Speaker 1: party together at our house. And again, I don't know
Speaker 1: how how many people were here, Like, well we had okay.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna run, Okay, I'm gonna run. Sean and Catherine
Speaker 2: couldn't make it because they had a charity event in
Speaker 2: Dallas on Friday.
Speaker 1: Oh we're at the wedding.
Speaker 2: Alan Gail, producer and his lovely fiance Molly Quinn couldn't
Speaker 2: make it because they were busy working. But they came.
Speaker 1: Saturday, and then I think everybody else was here.
Speaker 2: I think everybody else who was at the wedding on Saturday,
Speaker 2: was here on Friday night. And we should also say
Speaker 2: there were some wonderful people in macharination who we did
Speaker 2: invitees who just could not make the wedding. Let's just
Speaker 2: put it out there because we love them. Pilot, Pete,
Speaker 2: Peter Webber, Yes, he wanted to come, Deanna Yes, Jason
Speaker 2: and Molly yep.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Leslie Murphy didn't come. I mean, she
Speaker 1: had a baby two days prior. See Leslie, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 2: The sweetest person in the world. She'd been wanting to
Speaker 2: come and texting us weekly updates from her pregnancy, like,
Speaker 2: I think the baby's going to come and I'll make
Speaker 2: the wedding. And I'm thinking, babe, even if she comes now,
Speaker 2: you're not coming to our wedding a week after giving.
Speaker 1: This is what a badass Leslie Murphy is and one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I adore her. She's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite people from the show. We've become good friends. She
Speaker 1: texted Lauren and I I think it was five days
Speaker 1: before She's like, Guys, I think I just finally have
Speaker 1: to say I can't come this baby. I haven't given it,
Speaker 1: but up until five days before. What if she'd had
Speaker 1: it six or seven days before she was going to
Speaker 1: be at our wedding. That's what a boss Leslie Murphy is.
Speaker 1: But if anybody had a great excuse. Along with Ashley
Speaker 1: and JP, who obviously they are divorced, but they were
Speaker 1: both invited, they were both going to come, but it
Speaker 1: was their daughter's birthday, so they were back in Florida
Speaker 1: celebrating that as well.
Speaker 2: And also Sarah Harron and Dylan. Sarah was invited and
Speaker 2: she was so sweet and we wanted to come. She
Speaker 2: was unable to make it. But there were Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think of anybody would forgot, but I think
Speaker 2: that was everyone.
Speaker 1: I think so. And then all right, and then and
Speaker 1: then you could see the pictures of who all was here,
Speaker 1: But there was the case they're posting great content.
Speaker 2: One thing we can rely on the Bachelor crew for true.
Speaker 2: They are going to take great photos, great videos. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh good, why did we hire anyone? They're on it?
Speaker 1: And so who was here were not only just the
Speaker 1: Bachelor Bacherette people but also their spouses significant others, so
Speaker 1: Colton and Jordan and Becca and Hayley and Jess then
Speaker 1: and Jess and jarn Wells exactly. So everybody was here
Speaker 1: with their spouses, which was also neat because a lot
Speaker 1: of people haven't met. You know, there were a part
Speaker 1: of this family that we created, but a lot of
Speaker 1: them either haven't seen each other, haven't met Beca.
Speaker 2: Tilly was so sweet. She texted us, Hey, just want
Speaker 2: to make sure I know it's Bachelumba. Can Haley come?
Speaker 2: And we were like yes, and she goes, Okay, this
Speaker 2: is her dream. She's so excited. I had never met Haley.
Speaker 1: I haven't met Haley, and I feel like I know her.
Speaker 1: I felt like I already loved this woman, and now
Speaker 1: that I meet her, I'm like, okay, beck, I see
Speaker 1: why you fell in love with this girl. And so
Speaker 1: they it was beautiful to spend time with them and
Speaker 1: get to know her, and get to know Beca with
Speaker 1: Haley now and see them together and see how happy
Speaker 1: they are. But the Jason. So Jason shows up first,
Speaker 1: tartic buffalo boy, always on time, and so he arrives,
Speaker 1: and then Caitlyn came a little bit after. And again,
Speaker 1: as Lauren alluded to, I had not realized and I've
Speaker 1: talked to both of them a lot. During all this,
Speaker 1: I didn't know they hadn't really talked. And I think
Speaker 1: Jason put it best, when you're going through a breakup
Speaker 1: and this is not on purpose, animosity grows and this
Speaker 1: is life because the point of a breakup. First of all,
Speaker 1: it didn't end well. Second of all, you don't see
Speaker 1: each other, you don't talk, it's a breakup. So an
Speaker 1: event like this, they were kind of forced to come
Speaker 1: back together and both Jason and Caitlin and I talked
Speaker 1: to them and they both approved to talk about this.
Speaker 1: They were kind of forced to face this situation and
Speaker 1: it turned out to be a beautiful, cathartic coming together
Speaker 1: and it was very amicable, very friendly, turned into a
Speaker 1: lot of laughs, a lot of friendship.
Speaker 2: It made me so happy to see them at our
Speaker 2: house talking to each other. They were standing to each other,
Speaker 2: It was standing near each other talking and you know,
Speaker 2: you could you could feel a little tension at first,
Speaker 2: but then it felt like the ice had been broken
Speaker 2: and I could see them laughing. And you know, to me,
Speaker 2: that's you always got to break awkward or pain with
Speaker 2: some kind of joe and Caitlin is very good at that,
Speaker 2: especially with her and Jason both.
Speaker 1: Not to use a sports reference, but if you see
Speaker 1: the beginning of a boxing match, the fighters kind of
Speaker 1: dance around each other, you know, finding their space and
Speaker 1: their rhythm. That's how the night started. I felt, well, I.
Speaker 2: Mean literally in our living room that way. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a very big space.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like, you know, one of them
Speaker 1: stood outside on the pool deck, and it just kind
Speaker 1: of gave each other their space. But then, and I
Speaker 1: will tell you, because I know people are wondering, it's
Speaker 1: not one or either of them that made the move.
Speaker 1: They just kind of came together and started chatting in
Speaker 1: our kitchen and then they just had a wonderful talk
Speaker 1: and there were smiles, and I think that they both
Speaker 1: probably wanted that ice to be broken, and then it was.
Speaker 1: And again the beauty of this, Lauren Zima, was that
Speaker 1: it was a safe space we created, so there was
Speaker 1: no cameras, nobody videotaped it, and it just turned out
Speaker 1: to be a great now. And then the whole weekend
Speaker 1: was then a relief for them because then they could
Speaker 1: go to the wedding Saturday night and not have a
Speaker 1: care in the world.
Speaker 2: And there were more couples I think or more people
Speaker 2: that needed this healing moment. Then I realized I turned around.
Speaker 2: At one point in Colton and Taysha were talking, and
Speaker 2: I think they had a good conversation, and I kind
Speaker 2: of thought, when was the last time they talked? You know,
Speaker 2: at this point, so much has happened, but you forget
Speaker 2: that Taysha was on Colton's season, and a lots happened.
Speaker 1: I forget who's on whose season because now I know
Speaker 1: just know these people as hey, I know when they
Speaker 1: are the Bacheler bats are up. But then I also
Speaker 1: kind of forget I don't remember what Wells season was.
Speaker 1: And then he makes a joke about you know, Jojo
Speaker 1: not picking him.
Speaker 2: Oh right, JoJo's there. Ben and Wells are both there.
Speaker 2: I think, Oh no, Jojo was on Ben's season, Wells
Speaker 2: on JoJo's season.
Speaker 1: Yes, that part, to me is funny because they of
Speaker 1: course remember. And I think Ben even made a great
Speaker 1: joke in his social media post of like, you know,
Speaker 1: all these crazy people have probably in some way either dated,
Speaker 1: slept with each other, or you know, yeah, it's this one.
Speaker 2: Well that's the old joke.
Speaker 1: One big andcestuous group, but another and I'm going to
Speaker 1: bring up Jason again. Another meeting that was very important
Speaker 1: that I wasn't thinking of was Jason Tarctic and Colton.
Speaker 1: Jason and Colton had not spoken in quite some time.
Speaker 1: There were some animosity there and they just hadn't really
Speaker 1: dealt with that. They apparently, as Jason told me, reached
Speaker 1: out to each other and had agreed to kind of
Speaker 1: bury this and talk and it had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with our wedding. This talk started about a month ago,
Speaker 1: but they hadn't seen each other until again coming to
Speaker 1: our house on Friday night, and then really had a
Speaker 1: good talk at our wedding, and it was again very cathartic,
Speaker 1: very productive, very friendly, and it worked out beautifully. And Jason,
Speaker 1: as I talked to him, said, I don't think I
Speaker 1: understood the full weight of what Colton was bearing. And
Speaker 1: that's not to excuse anything. It's not to say everything
Speaker 1: he did was perfect, because it wasn't, but it is
Speaker 1: to say I did not walk in his shoes. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he was carrying around. And Jason spoke
Speaker 1: for I think for all of us when he told
Speaker 1: me to see Colton in love and to see Jordan.
Speaker 1: There there is this lightness about him. There is this
Speaker 1: weight lifted off his shoulders. And Jason said, he is
Speaker 1: a different human being. He's a different person. And I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree more. And you were. You and I were
Speaker 1: at Colton and Jordan's wedding and we saw it firsthand.
Speaker 1: He's he is a changed man living his truth and
Speaker 1: that's that part is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Jordan is so wonderful. And I to see them. We
Speaker 2: were at their wedding, but you know at your wedding,
Speaker 2: your I mean, they weren't tense, but you got a
Speaker 2: lot going on. To see them relaxed at our wedding together,
Speaker 2: they put Oh, their outfits were wonderful. They were texting
Speaker 2: me about the effort they were putting in. Our theme,
Speaker 2: by the way, was for Austin Cowboy Cocktail. We were
Speaker 2: here in Texas. We said, go Cowboy Cocktail. However you
Speaker 2: interpret that. I did have some inspiration picks up on
Speaker 2: the website and a shout out to Ari Lyondyke, who
Speaker 2: literally bought the exact outfit from one of the inspiration
Speaker 2: picks his.
Speaker 1: Social media post. Because he posted the inspo pick and
Speaker 1: then he posted his fit, it's he might as well
Speaker 1: have been the model it was identical.
Speaker 2: But so Colton. Colton texted me, I'm coming to your
Speaker 2: house wearing pearls. Anyways, he's wearing a pearl necklace with
Speaker 2: a like sleek jacket and they just look fit and happy.
Speaker 1: And I love what Jordan said to you at our house.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of the party, Jordan came up to
Speaker 1: you and he said, you know, I didn't know all
Speaker 1: these people. I've never seen him in person. Everybody's so
Speaker 1: damn good looking.
Speaker 2: Here Jordan goes, this is a really attractive group of people.
Speaker 2: I said, you know, Jordan, I never think about it,
Speaker 2: but I guess they were all cast for television. So
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to run through else was there on
Speaker 2: Friday night, so I don't forget anything. You know. You, Oh,
Speaker 2: you had some fun with the boys. You you golfed
Speaker 2: on Friday, Well we did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have a little pitching and chipping green.
Speaker 2: No one knows what that is. It's like a tiny
Speaker 2: mini golf course, okay, like one hole.
Speaker 1: Thin, like a little part. And so Ben and Wells
Speaker 1: and I were down there hitting some golf balls. Jason.
Speaker 2: What was cute actually was Jason was filming you all
Speaker 2: as if he was your proud dad. Jason was hanging
Speaker 2: I was worried about a liability. Jason was hanging over
Speaker 2: the edge of our patio to get a good shot filming.
Speaker 2: Ben and Wells and Chris Shipping.
Speaker 1: And Ben and Wells and I. We have this competitive
Speaker 1: thing between us that we just always want to be
Speaker 1: competing and beating each other as much as we love
Speaker 1: each other. But it was also it's been so long
Speaker 1: since I've seen Trista. Ryan, by the way, could not
Speaker 1: be with us, unfortunately, but Trista was here and it
Speaker 1: was so good to see her, you know, as I say,
Speaker 1: the godmother of it all. Like I feel like she
Speaker 1: and I started this thing together. I know there was
Speaker 1: Alex Michelle and Aaron Burgee before her, but I feel like.
Speaker 2: Well, just to stay in the fold with you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, I don't talk to Aaron or Alex anymore.
Speaker 1: And so she's part of the world. And that really
Speaker 1: legitimized our franchise.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That was that lightning in a bottle, the first marriage,
Speaker 1: the first true engage that worked, and that really put
Speaker 1: us on the map. I just love her and she's
Speaker 1: always been a dear friend of mine and I was
Speaker 1: at her wedding back in you know, two thousand and four. Six, No,
Speaker 1: it must have been earlier in that two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: and that was just it was wonderful.
Speaker 2: I think what's fun about this group too, is you
Speaker 2: kind of only all get together for like big, yeah,
Speaker 2: crazy things like this. I think Jade and Jojo saw
Speaker 2: each other and they were like, we haven't seen each
Speaker 2: other since Vegas, you know, And and so there's there's
Speaker 2: probably a drunken story or two in there, but they
Speaker 2: only get together to create good times and maybe great
Speaker 2: drama as well.
Speaker 1: And two things. One of the things I love you
Speaker 1: made me just think of it about having all the
Speaker 1: parents here, Jade and Tanner, Ashley and Jail.
Speaker 2: Thank you for getting child care. You guys, we know
Speaker 2: it's a lot.
Speaker 1: Lauren and Ari like, these people are in the wheat man.
Speaker 1: They are getting beat and I know some others have kids,
Speaker 1: like Ryan interest in all that, but they're older kids.
Speaker 1: These people are in the wheelhouse of just the nightmare
Speaker 1: of being a parent, and they all I think they
Speaker 1: also loved getting a hotel room and having some adult
Speaker 1: time and that was wonderful. A fantasy suite a fantasy suite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but speaking of hosting, there was a moment so I
Speaker 1: wanted to call everybody in and just just kind of
Speaker 1: raise a glass and propose a toast. And so it
Speaker 1: was really funny. There was you know, we had our
Speaker 1: house open. It was a beautiful, spectacular night. So the
Speaker 1: house was open and some of the people were sitting out.
Speaker 1: The ladies were sitting out kind of on our pool deck,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to bring everybody in, and it kind
Speaker 1: of and all of a sudden, I walked out and
Speaker 1: they all looked up, and it was that tink tink
Speaker 1: moment where I go out and I say, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I hate to break this up, but if everybody could
Speaker 1: come join me inside, and I just they all they
Speaker 1: didn't mean it. I didn't mean to go into host role,
Speaker 1: and I totally went into host role. Ladies, could you
Speaker 1: join me inside please? I'm going to send you on
Speaker 1: your first dates. But it was it was wonderful. And
Speaker 1: then I got up and made a toast everybody and
Speaker 1: as that was the cool thing as I looked over
Speaker 1: and I will post a group photo of everybody that
Speaker 1: was here at the house at that time. Jason and
Speaker 1: Caitlyn were standing together and it just it was just
Speaker 1: beautiful and it just warmed my heart that all these
Speaker 1: people have loved and supported me and now lz in
Speaker 1: my life and they were here in our house and
Speaker 1: it was just so warm, so lovely. There were so
Speaker 1: many laughs. We wanted to. This thing was supposed to
Speaker 1: end at seven thirty at night.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, we see this with love. But again, we're
Speaker 2: trying to make time for everybody. So we kind of
Speaker 2: triple booked but not overbooked ourselves. Friday, we planned to
Speaker 2: be with the Bachelor crew five thirty to seven thirty,
Speaker 2: kind of do happy hour and light bites with them,
Speaker 2: and then we were going to meet my family friends
Speaker 2: and my sorority sisters at a rest to see all
Speaker 2: of them. So we were trying to make it there. Now,
Speaker 2: we did plan for it to go to a little late.
Speaker 1: Yeah we knew, but it was fine.
Speaker 2: It was going over an hour late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, about eight thirty eight forty five. I go, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna propose this toast and try try and
Speaker 1: kind of start getting people. You know, are so good.
Speaker 2: I know, I actually and I'm glad. I mean, we
Speaker 2: also didn't want to stay out too late Friday night,
Speaker 2: but I could have hung out with everybody a lot longer.
Speaker 2: I was looking around, going, you know, I wanted this
Speaker 2: to happen, and I thought it'll be like good for
Speaker 2: everyone to see each other and just break the ice
Speaker 2: and also reconnect. But it really was an evening of
Speaker 2: witnessing growth. Everybody's in such a healthy, like adult place
Speaker 2: right now. Overall, I think, and I didn't want it
Speaker 2: to end. We were having a lot of really genuine,
Speaker 2: happy fun and chats and catching up, and I could
Speaker 2: have stayed all night. I sort of regretted the double booking.
Speaker 1: I think we all needed this. Yeah it felt good,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like I needed it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't know if I needed it, but I
Speaker 1: definitely felt something in the room that I wasn't I
Speaker 1: wasn't anticipating, and that was just healing and feeling the
Speaker 1: love and support as I know I've had from these people,
Speaker 1: but where the state of the franchise is now is
Speaker 1: so different from when I was hosting the show and
Speaker 1: helping produce it and when these people were on it
Speaker 1: for the most part, and so it was just it
Speaker 1: was very I think it felt good to them to
Speaker 1: know that we are still this family and this tight
Speaker 1: knit group that made that made the show what it
Speaker 1: is and paved the ground for whatever I guess it
Speaker 1: is now. But yeah, I think it was something that
Speaker 1: we all kind of needed, and I wasn't. I don't
Speaker 1: think any of us anticipated how good it was going
Speaker 1: to feel. I think one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the night was at the end, we'd all had a
Speaker 1: few and Bob Guiney decided he was going to be
Speaker 1: the toastmaster General. He raised a glass and made a
Speaker 1: toast that.
Speaker 2: He raised a shot glass tequila and it was beautiful
Speaker 2: and every we were laughing.
Speaker 1: Of course Bob. You know, if you weren't old enough
Speaker 1: to know Bob guinea season, he was so good. He's
Speaker 1: so charismatic. He's so fantastically funny. I put him and
Speaker 1: Andrew Firestone on that Mount rushmore of guys that just
Speaker 1: crush it.
Speaker 2: Oh and Andrew Firestone. People were asking about him, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's another one. He and Evanna were invited, of course,
Speaker 2: but he was hosting a charity event in Santa Barbara, a.
Speaker 1: Huge event that Havanna has been charing for a while,
Speaker 1: and so that they came to NAPA. They were a
Speaker 1: part of that. They could not make it here unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Well, I love hearing I think you just nailed something,
Speaker 2: And I've wondered sometimes, like, I don't know, I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear from people on this. Sometimes I feel like
Speaker 2: I got to come into the franchise and start covering
Speaker 2: it at like a really good, powerful time. I mean,
Speaker 2: of course I missed those big years where you've had
Speaker 2: tens of millions of people watching it on broadcast and
Speaker 2: you know, sort of the origins of reality TV. But
Speaker 2: I came in at a time when, like social media
Speaker 2: was really blowing everyone up, but the family was like,
Speaker 2: but social media was connecting the Bachelor family, and so
Speaker 2: like I first started covering it with Ben's season, which
Speaker 2: is part of why you know, I'm close to Ben
Speaker 2: and Wells and Jojo, and so I've wondered, Wait, do
Speaker 2: I just feel like I was there in a really
Speaker 2: good time because that's when I was there and they're
Speaker 2: my age or was this kind of group in this
Speaker 2: age range, in this era really a good solid time
Speaker 2: in the franchise and it has gone I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's still there anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, think of the decades that span in that room,
Speaker 1: from Trista in the early two thousands, yeah, all the
Speaker 1: way through.
Speaker 2: But I guess I'm saying I think that that crew,
Speaker 2: those couple of years of like ben Jojo Colton, like
Speaker 2: Hannah Brown in there like that, those couple of years,
Speaker 2: those were some really good seasons of the show. Ye,
Speaker 2: and whatever has happened with us, I just even just
Speaker 2: as a viewer of a show, I know those were
Speaker 2: really good times. And maybe I can't tell if that's
Speaker 2: me protect at her if that was a good chunk.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's been that good since then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know if it's been that good
Speaker 1: since then. I don't know what the con well, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the camaraderie is. But to that point,
Speaker 1: I would just add this. I think the fabric was
Speaker 1: being torn, and I'm glad, and I think everybody in
Speaker 1: the room Friday night felt we're not going to let
Speaker 1: that fabric be torn. We're going to let this family
Speaker 1: heal and be together because we all realized, wait, we
Speaker 1: love each other, Like what happens, you can let this go,
Speaker 1: Like we're going to stay together. And I really appree
Speaker 1: I think that was maybe the healing and the love
Speaker 1: I felt in that room of it was this big
Speaker 1: sigh of relief, and we all put our arms around
Speaker 1: each other and just there was love. It was as
Speaker 1: I always said, at the end of the day, it
Speaker 1: was always about love, and so was this.
Speaker 2: We had such a good group. We kept saying on
Speaker 2: Sunday morning after Friday and Saturday night, the Bachelor crew
Speaker 2: that we had, the people we invited, and the people
Speaker 2: we invited are people we kind of use the barmeter
Speaker 2: of who do we regularly still talk to or catch
Speaker 2: up with text with, who do we feel really close with,
Speaker 2: who do we both know really well? And the crew
Speaker 2: we had was such a good group and so supportive
Speaker 2: of us and so cheering us on and out on
Speaker 2: the dance floor on Saturday. And they all showed up
Speaker 2: Friday night. Nobody I kind of listen. Everybody said Jason
Speaker 2: was little late, which is fine. I'm not a person
Speaker 2: who's early are on time to parties, but I was
Speaker 2: almost for a second I thought, Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe they're exploring the city and they're not going to come. No,
Speaker 2: everybody showed up and everybody was so happy for us,
Speaker 2: and it was just such a loving group of people.
Speaker 1: Two things One we forgot, I forgot we invited Claire
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Claire couldn't make it.
Speaker 1: And what was cool was at the end of the night,
Speaker 1: some people had reservations and went off on their own.
Speaker 1: I know Culton, Yeah, Culton and Jordan had dinner reservations.
Speaker 1: But there was this core group that ended up splitting
Speaker 1: up into boys' night and girls' night. So the boys
Speaker 1: ended up having a reservation. They went often had a
Speaker 1: night in that.
Speaker 2: One of our favorite restaurants in Austin fixed.
Speaker 1: Ye so good dude, biscuits, the chicken, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: But then the girls went out and this just happened
Speaker 1: like spontaneously, and they were in our driveway like okay, guys,
Speaker 1: we're going here. Girls were going I'm like, okay, this
Speaker 1: is awesome. I just I love that this group truly,
Speaker 1: there was so much love and companionship and camaraderie. It
Speaker 1: just in my heart was swelling and it was such
Speaker 1: a great jumping off point, diving board springboard effect. To
Speaker 1: get us into our wedding day On Saturday.
Speaker 2: Taysha brought her new gentleman, oh yes, to a wedding
Speaker 2: for the first time Luke of Summerhouse on Bravo. You know,
Speaker 2: I felt like, oh, okay, we're we're debuting this at
Speaker 2: a wedding. It's listen whoever you are. It's a big
Speaker 2: deal to bring somebody to a wedding. I think we chatted.
Speaker 2: He was very sweet, and it was so good to
Speaker 2: see Tasha taysha Is. She looked so lovely and she
Speaker 2: was so happy for us.
Speaker 1: And she's someone I had not seen since the pandemic,
Speaker 1: since IF the show, and I've talked to her, but
Speaker 1: it was we just I don't know, we kind of
Speaker 1: exchanged a big hug when she first walked in the door,
Speaker 1: and just kind of a knowing hug of everything that
Speaker 1: you know, she had been through and I had been through.
Speaker 1: So it was again, it was one of those relationships.
Speaker 1: It was just good to see her. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: met Luke, a nice guy and had had a brief
Speaker 1: chat with him and a good Midwestern boy Minneapolis, Minnesota GA.
Speaker 2: He and I talked so much about the Midwest. I know,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I instantly, I instantly vibe with you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that night was a great springboard to get
Speaker 1: us into Saturday. So her wedding at Austin was not
Speaker 1: traditional at all.
Speaker 2: I did not walk down an aisle alone. Anyway, we
Speaker 2: entered together.
Speaker 1: This is again another reason why you should always have
Speaker 1: two wedding ceremonies. We did the typical traditional walk down
Speaker 1: the aisle. I was up there with the offician and Napa.
Speaker 1: Lauren walked to me. It was beautiful and it took
Speaker 1: my breath away and I cried like a baby. But
Speaker 1: the great thing about Austin and again the vibe was cowboys,
Speaker 1: chic and let's crush this and it was one big party.
Speaker 1: So Lauren and I with the kids, we actually drove, well,
Speaker 1: drove my truck to the wedding. We drove together. We
Speaker 1: spent the day together, drove together to the wedding with
Speaker 1: the kids. The kids went in and stood by the stage.
Speaker 1: There was no sitting. We weren't sitting in pews and
Speaker 1: all that. This was on the dance floor when Lauren
Speaker 1: and I walked in.
Speaker 2: This s yeah. What we had the band leader do
Speaker 2: of the Little Wedding Band. If you are doing any
Speaker 2: event in Texas, hire the Little Wedding Band. We have
Speaker 2: so many compliments on them. They rocked the house. So
Speaker 2: the band leader, Matt, we said to him, we're gonna
Speaker 2: let you know, text you when we're pulling up in
Speaker 2: the pickup, and we want you to tell everybody get
Speaker 2: up on the dance floor but clear path. So he did, and.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was such a great idea. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if who had it. We just I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was my I'm sure it was your idea.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is, I don't think we really
Speaker 1: thought through like this is why we're doing it at
Speaker 1: the time. It just turned out to be so wonderful
Speaker 1: that we got to experience walking down the aisle together.
Speaker 1: So we walked in hand in hand. And number one,
Speaker 1: what were we wearing?
Speaker 2: And why I wore my same dress.
Speaker 1: Same wedding dress. There was not two dresses same wedding
Speaker 1: dress from Napa. We wore it again.
Speaker 2: I didn't even get it cleaned because I don't really
Speaker 2: know anywhere you could get a wedding dress cleaned in
Speaker 2: like a week, and I didn't want to risk it.
Speaker 2: So it had some of that nap A dirt still
Speaker 2: on it, it had makeup on it. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can see it in the pictures. But who
Speaker 2: cares sweaty for the wedding?
Speaker 1: My thought was, who gets to wear their wedding dress
Speaker 1: twice and enjoy? She looks so beautiful in that wedding dress.
Speaker 1: It's such an incredible dress. Why not wear it again
Speaker 1: instead of putting it in a closet acting like you're
Speaker 1: going to do something with it and you never will.
Speaker 2: So you also wear your suit.
Speaker 1: I wore my same customers.
Speaker 2: You get your suit cleaned.
Speaker 1: Didn't get the suit clean? Shirt? Yes, okay? For the armpits, yes,
Speaker 1: well yeah, just you know a little little sweat there
Speaker 1: from dancing a napis. Shirt was pressed and clean, and
Speaker 1: I steamed out my suit and got that ready. But
Speaker 1: we wore the same suit, same dress as we walked in.
Speaker 1: So we walked in together, hand in hand. Two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five people there. The seas parted. They created
Speaker 1: kind of an aisle force and this is the cool thing.
Speaker 1: And again I can't recommend this enough. The great thing
Speaker 1: about walking in everybody had the aisle. Everybody created an
Speaker 1: aisle for ut so everybody had a great look. Everybody
Speaker 1: could film us. We didn't say put your phones away.
Speaker 1: We didn't care. There were no rules at this party.
Speaker 2: Everything goes well, and I think it being so casual,
Speaker 2: like I don't love. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't
Speaker 2: If I go to a wedding, I do not film
Speaker 2: the bride walking down the aisle. Yeah, because I think
Speaker 2: if it's that emotional wedding, like if a bunch of
Speaker 2: people had been filming me as I walked down the
Speaker 2: island Napa, you're just seeing cell phones. I want to
Speaker 2: see people's faces. I want to connect. But it's because
Speaker 2: it's so emotional and big. This just felt more casual
Speaker 2: and so and also if you're filming it's just the bride.
Speaker 2: People got like these really fun videos of both of
Speaker 2: us coming in. We had a really long aisle with
Speaker 2: everybody lining, and so we got to really say hi
Speaker 2: to people as we walk down. And as we've thought
Speaker 2: about all this, well, okay, look, I know when people
Speaker 2: are married they enter a reception together, but it was
Speaker 2: that difference of having an aisle. You and I actually
Speaker 2: had another idea, even in Napa. I don't know why
Speaker 2: weddings aren't like this. Yes, we want to change the game.
Speaker 2: We think that wedding ceremonies should be flipped in terms
Speaker 2: of the audience's viewpoint. Why isn't it that the ceremony
Speaker 2: point is I'm trying to explain this right. Basically, the
Speaker 2: audience instead of looking back the guests, instead of looking
Speaker 2: back at the bride, they should look forward at the bride.
Speaker 2: So the bride should walk towards the guests, and the
Speaker 2: groom's already there. The guests are standing at the groom,
Speaker 2: and the bride walks towards and stands with.
Speaker 1: It the groom. At the beginning, my back would be
Speaker 1: to the crowd, to everybody there at the wedding. You
Speaker 1: would walk towards all of us. We'd all get to
Speaker 1: see it, and then we'll turn and.
Speaker 2: It just yeah, we're switch it up. But anyway, I
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: It's not really conducive to churches because you're not going
Speaker 1: to have fifty yards walking into that direction one way.
Speaker 1: But I did anythink about the building, okay, but walking
Speaker 1: in with you, it was this was what was so
Speaker 1: different than Napa Napa. I was so nervous. I was
Speaker 1: just everything was flooding through me emotion wise. This was
Speaker 1: just so happy, go lucky, and it slowed down for me.
Speaker 1: I got to breathe. This whole thing in I had
Speaker 1: you in my hand and we could just look at everybody.
Speaker 1: I felt so calm, so relaxed, and we then we
Speaker 1: got up to the stage and people did not know,
Speaker 1: not everybody really knew that we were going to get
Speaker 1: married again, that we were going to make it official
Speaker 1: here in Austin. That was really interesting. People thought, many
Speaker 1: thought we were just going to.
Speaker 2: Be I think we should know. That's because we changed
Speaker 2: our minds. Yes, we What we had always planned on
Speaker 2: was doing actually a ceremony in Napa and a kind
Speaker 2: of a reception here in Austin, which I've heard of
Speaker 2: other people doing before. But when we started, when I
Speaker 2: made the website, because I may hit the websites for
Speaker 2: both events, I put that on there. And here's what
Speaker 2: I learned. Just like people don't really read invitations, they
Speaker 2: don't really read wedding websites. So I was getting text
Speaker 2: from people saying, can't wait for the wedding in Austin.
Speaker 2: And then what do you do. You have to text
Speaker 2: people and say, oh, no, sorry, you're not invited to
Speaker 2: the wedding. This is a party. But there was that,
Speaker 2: but then it also became I think we did start
Speaker 2: feeling like, you know, A, we wanted to get married
Speaker 2: legally in Austin because we've made our home here, and
Speaker 2: B we want why not share the love and make
Speaker 2: sure that those people who were saying they wanted to
Speaker 2: see us get married get to see us get married.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was again that's how I felt too,
Speaker 1: about wanting to profess my love, say our vows. You know,
Speaker 1: have our efficiant Mike Levitt, who also presided over this.
Speaker 1: I mean we had to pay him a double rate
Speaker 1: to have Mike Levitt, our dear friend came up. And
Speaker 1: so what I did is so is joking, No I am,
Speaker 1: I'm joking. So, as I said, this was very non traditional,
Speaker 1: Laura and I walked in, took the stage, and we
Speaker 1: hosted our own wedding. We grabbed the mic and we
Speaker 1: just we raised, you know, a glass. We said, hey,
Speaker 1: we're really happy everybody's here. We're honored by your presence.
Speaker 1: This was going to be just a party, but if
Speaker 1: you guys don't mind, we actually wanted to make it
Speaker 1: official right here, right now, we are going to get married.
Speaker 1: We brought up our friend Mike Levitt, and we went
Speaker 1: right in, hid the microphones and went right into a wedding.
Speaker 2: He had a short and slightly different version.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Of Napa. We had slightly shorter versions of our vows.
Speaker 1: Yes, different and a little different yeah, which was.
Speaker 2: Cool because I think that saved something really special in Napa.
Speaker 2: And then but everyone was so complimentary of the vowel
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: And by the way we wrote them. We wrote our
Speaker 1: own vowels. Someone had asked, and I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: who else would write your vows?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think they mean versus saying like the traditional
Speaker 2: do you take her? Do you take care? Oh?
Speaker 1: We did both. Yeah, we set our vowels via the
Speaker 1: typical wedding tradition, but then we wrote our own vowels
Speaker 1: and sent them to each other. I guess I could
Speaker 1: say one part about the vowels. I mean it was
Speaker 1: very public that it was funny to me. I kind
Speaker 1: of started my vows by saying, the irony is not
Speaker 1: lost on me of standing before so many people that
Speaker 1: I have either married forced to write their vowels, perform
Speaker 1: their vowels, or just do ridiculous things on national television,
Speaker 1: and now here I am going through the same exercise.
Speaker 1: So the irony was not lost on me. That I
Speaker 1: was doing this in front of all my bachelor family,
Speaker 1: which was really it was beautiful, funny and a great moment.
Speaker 2: You were the one in the vulnerable position for one.
Speaker 1: Exactly cute it and it felt good. It felt it
Speaker 1: felt scary, but it felt good. And so we went
Speaker 1: through our regular ceremony a little shortened and we and.
Speaker 2: It was so cool to have everybody. So we had
Speaker 2: everyone stand up for the aisle as we walked in.
Speaker 2: And then when we we, like Chris said, we took
Speaker 2: the mic and we said okay, gather in and come in.
Speaker 2: Everybody and everyone was standing and literally just gathered around
Speaker 2: this lab from it. So it felt so close. Like
Speaker 2: I looked, I saw Caitlyn smiling at it, I says
Speaker 2: a tryst. I saw some of my friends from ET,
Speaker 2: I saw our families, and you had an excellent idea
Speaker 2: as well. Two weddings we advocate for two weddings in Napa.
Speaker 2: Just it was like the you know, your family sits
Speaker 2: on your side.
Speaker 1: It was kind of the bride side in the groom side.
Speaker 2: So what that meant though, was that as we were
Speaker 2: doing our vows, I was staring at Chris's kids, and
Speaker 2: Chris was staring at my mom and siblings. Now, that
Speaker 2: was amazing because you're kind of seeing the family you're
Speaker 2: marrying into. But then we thought, in Austin, let's switch
Speaker 2: it so that we can look at our own family spaces.
Speaker 2: So that was magical because we got to see our
Speaker 2: own families during the vows, and I could see my
Speaker 2: brother tearing up and oh my gosh, it was so awesome.
Speaker 1: And I was, yeah, I was looking at Joshi and
Speaker 1: Taylor and yeah, that was it just got me. Listening
Speaker 1: to your vowels and then looking at them.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like it was any Was it still
Speaker 2: a blur this time or did you hear no?
Speaker 1: I felt like on the second yeah, the second read no.
Speaker 1: I in Austin, everything about it slowed down for me
Speaker 1: and I finally, I think the adrenaline wasn't as high
Speaker 1: and intense in my body and I just because we
Speaker 1: had walked in together and it was just so much
Speaker 1: more relaxed that I really got to hear everything. I
Speaker 1: looked out at the crowd and I got to see
Speaker 1: people's faces as again, it was so intimate. Everyone crushed
Speaker 1: up on this near the stage. I could really see
Speaker 1: everybody and feel the love and see my kids, see you.
Speaker 1: I could hear your vows and really feel him this time.
Speaker 1: I even asked you if things if certain things were different.
Speaker 1: You said no, I know.
Speaker 2: He said, did you change your vows? I said no,
Speaker 2: and he said, well maybe I just wasn't was out of.
Speaker 1: Body not yeah, And so I really I really got
Speaker 1: to breathe in this.
Speaker 2: My vows are pretty great.
Speaker 1: Thought you crushed it. Honestly. Honestly, if I was, if
Speaker 1: I was going to not that we should, but if
Speaker 1: I was going to rank them, you crushed me. I
Speaker 1: wanted to outdo you in that department and out love you,
Speaker 1: but you crushed like your your your No, your vowels
Speaker 1: were spectacular. Mine were good. I'm not gonna lie mine.
Speaker 1: We're good. Yours were spectacular.
Speaker 2: No, maybe you's were so good. And he cried again.
Speaker 1: And I thought, that's one thing I thought I was
Speaker 1: going to get through. I was going to say this.
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to get through. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: look I've been here, done this three weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: got this. Ah damn it.
Speaker 2: Well everyone was, But you know what, I think people love.
Speaker 2: One thing I love about going to weddings is sharing
Speaker 2: the emotion is feeling like you get a window into
Speaker 2: the couple. And so many people came up to us
Speaker 2: and said that they really felt that they understood more
Speaker 2: of our relationship from the vows.
Speaker 1: It like yeah, And I overheard some people talking about
Speaker 1: out how they felt it was not a production and
Speaker 1: they felt it was just real and heartfelt and that
Speaker 1: they saw a side of us that they weren't expecting
Speaker 1: to see. And that made me feel really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I should. We should note about Austin.
Speaker 2: One rule we had in Napa, these have to be
Speaker 2: our closest friends. In Austin, we knew mostly everybody. A
Speaker 2: couple of people brought like plus ones who we didn't know,
Speaker 2: so it was definitely a bigger party. I think the
Speaker 2: people you overheard, we literally hadn't met them, so they're like,
Speaker 2: they were like, oh, they're not like TV people.
Speaker 1: Can we should we just tell the dirt of how
Speaker 1: we heard. I think it's a good story. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna spill a little tea here. So after the ceremony,
Speaker 1: Lauren is in her wedding dress. I'm in my suit. Well,
Speaker 1: the whole point of this was cowboy chic. We wanted
Speaker 1: everybody to be in their cowboy boots and jeans and
Speaker 1: you know, dress up. And obviously we had decided to
Speaker 1: get married again. So she's in her wedding dress and
Speaker 1: I'm in my suits, so that's not going to work.
Speaker 1: We had outfits picked out for the cowboy chic party.
Speaker 1: So that's what we did. We got married, and the
Speaker 1: funny thing is there was no recessional. We didn't march
Speaker 1: off the stage and you know, get in the car
Speaker 1: and leave or go to the reception. This was it.
Speaker 1: So as soon as we kissed and kind of sealed
Speaker 1: the deal, we then picked up the microphones and started
Speaker 1: hosting again and introduced our first dance. And I will
Speaker 1: get back to our first dance, but I want to
Speaker 1: tell you as soon as our first dance was over,
Speaker 1: we went to go change, and so we went to
Speaker 1: the bridal suite. There was this little room there at
Speaker 1: the Ranch Austin where we had this event where we
Speaker 1: got married, and we go into the bridal suite, well,
Speaker 1: the bridal suite that we were changing. So Louren's getting
Speaker 1: out of her dress and getting into another dress and
Speaker 1: her frilly boots, and then it was just spectacular and
Speaker 1: I changed into my cowboy jeans and my Takova alligator boots,
Speaker 1: and I had this beautiful velvet jacket from Ken'sman's Shop.
Speaker 1: I kept my shirt on, but I put on this
Speaker 1: beautiful velvet jacket. It almost looked like a tucks jacket.
Speaker 1: Very petible, very sexy, if I do say so myself.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is is we're changing. We hear
Speaker 1: these people talking and you could really hear. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was as if they were in the room with this,
Speaker 1: and we thought, oh no, we are right next door
Speaker 1: to the lady's room, to the women's bathroom. So all
Speaker 1: the women were going in there and kind of gossiping
Speaker 1: about what they had just seen. And I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: this could really ruin our night if they're about to
Speaker 1: trash us, tell us how horrible we are, how ugly
Speaker 1: we looked, and how bad this wedding was. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I almost said, please stop talking, don't say anything bad.
Speaker 1: We can hear you. But instead of that, we heard
Speaker 1: the most amazing compliments and they couldn't have been lovelier,
Speaker 1: and it absolutely Laura and I just looked at each
Speaker 1: other and smiled, and it was a really cool moment
Speaker 1: to share that we were not expecting and sorry for
Speaker 1: eavesdropping on the women in the ladies room. Typically we
Speaker 1: would not do that, but the geog this place kind
Speaker 1: of set us up for that.
Speaker 2: And now I hope they reach out. And we didn't
Speaker 2: find out who they were was because we were listening
Speaker 2: and we're like, we don't know these voices. Okay, So
Speaker 2: our first dance, yes, this was the first dance of
Speaker 2: my dreams. Oh wow, the emotions are still I So
Speaker 2: Chris and I have been fortunate enough to get to
Speaker 2: know this up and coming, incredibly talented country crooner of
Speaker 2: a singer, William Beckman. His voice is like if Elvis
Speaker 2: and Frank Sinatra had a baby and that baby went country.
Speaker 2: He's so talented. So check out William Beckman. And we
Speaker 2: asked him if you would play a few songs at
Speaker 2: our wedding, and he even had a show that night
Speaker 2: and said, I will make it happen. I will come
Speaker 2: to your party first do the song is leave right away.
Speaker 2: I hope he made it to a show. And oh, babe,
Speaker 2: I just want to sorry, so what I really wanted
Speaker 2: And I was afraid to ask you this actually because
Speaker 2: you know I've lost my dad, and I know I've
Speaker 2: talked about that a lot on the podcast and sometimes
Speaker 2: On the one hand, of course, I wish my dad
Speaker 2: was here. He deserves to be here. It it is
Speaker 2: a fair damn that he's not here. I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: But I also understand that there's a delicate balance, and
Speaker 2: people who've been through loss know this of when you
Speaker 2: can bring up like you don't want to be afraid
Speaker 2: or ashamed to bring up the person you lost. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't be. But I also don't want to, Like you know,
Speaker 2: you have to watch the mood you don't want to.
Speaker 2: It's our first dance. I wanted to be romantic for us,
Speaker 2: and I did it. I want you to feel like
Speaker 2: I was making our first dance about my dad and
Speaker 2: about that instead of about you and I, because our
Speaker 2: weddings about you and I. But I just really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I said to Chris, I would love if William could sing,
Speaker 2: because William does a lot of old song covers, Frank
Speaker 2: Sinatra and Dean Martin and that kind of thing. I said,
Speaker 2: I would love if he could sing my dad and
Speaker 2: my favorite song, which was Summer Wind by Frank Sinatra,
Speaker 2: and you jumped on board with that so quickly supported
Speaker 2: it right away, didn't question me on it at all.
Speaker 2: In fact, you reached out and coordinated everything with William
Speaker 2: and made sure William would introduce and explain the meaning
Speaker 2: of the song so it wouldn't be me, because then
Speaker 2: I would have been crying like this. And so that
Speaker 2: was our first dance song in Austin, and it was
Speaker 2: so meaningful and actually we're just starting to get the
Speaker 2: pictures back yet it Oh my gosh, everyone was crying.
Speaker 2: Catherine as you need. She is like, there's this picture
Speaker 2: of her in here. She's so sweet.
Speaker 1: Plan on how it ended up, which was then there
Speaker 1: was this kind of semi circle that just formed around us,
Speaker 1: and again you could just feel so much energy and
Speaker 1: it's something. Again, we didn't have a wedding planer, We
Speaker 1: didn't rehearse this. It just this just happened naturally. People
Speaker 1: kind of came forward to the stage and gave us
Speaker 1: a little area to dance and we danced to Frank
Speaker 1: Sinatra and William God, what a voice. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just dripping with honey. This kid is spectacular from Del Rio, Texas.
Speaker 1: He has it all. And then after summer wind. He
Speaker 1: sang two other songs, but one of them the third song.
Speaker 1: He sang three songs for us. He sings this song
Speaker 1: in Spanish, beauvaire. Laura and I have probably seen him
Speaker 1: half a dozen times and gotten to know him and
Speaker 1: consider him a friend. I don't think once have we
Speaker 1: ever seen him, whether it's you know, at Red Rocks,
Speaker 1: at the Saxon Pub here in Austin, or you know
Speaker 1: at their wedding where you don't cry when he sings
Speaker 1: vote in Spanish.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. So thank you to William.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God bless your brother. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: That's how we started the night. A little emotional but
Speaker 2: some incredible talent. And then we took the mic no, no, no.
Speaker 2: Then we took the mic yes, and Chris made another
Speaker 2: my dreams come true. I said, we want people to
Speaker 2: know this is a party. They're going to be a
Speaker 2: little emotional after William. I want to have that moment,
Speaker 2: but you want to make it clear it's a party.
Speaker 2: Let's kick the night off. Instead of a champagne toast,
Speaker 2: let's do a tequila shot. So Chris and I announced
Speaker 2: that the buffet was going to open up, and we
Speaker 2: did a tequila shot together, and Chris Harrison is not
Speaker 2: a shot doer.
Speaker 1: I am not a big shot doer. I will but
Speaker 1: but I'm not a big shot.
Speaker 2: But we do love this tequila see Emprey Tequila. We
Speaker 2: had all of our signature cocktails by see Emprey Tequila
Speaker 2: all night. It's so delishous and so affordable, by the way,
Speaker 2: my all time favorite, affordable, delicious tequila.
Speaker 1: No additives, all natural. Damn it's good tequila. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Sam Prey.
Speaker 2: So Chris wed a tequila shot with me on stage.
Speaker 2: Then we went to change eaves, dropped on some people.
Speaker 2: I put on my very Oh I loved my dress
Speaker 2: by the way, by Justin Alexander. It's called the Share dress.
Speaker 2: And what was amazing was Elon Gail's fiance Molly Quinn,
Speaker 2: came up to me and said, oh my god, you're
Speaker 2: channeling Share. I said, oh wow, Mollie, what a compliment.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Can't wait for their whenever they're going to
Speaker 2: get married. So put on this Justin Alexander dress. It's
Speaker 2: so cute. It was that cowboy vibe and I've put
Speaker 2: on my first ever pair of cowgirl boots.
Speaker 1: I was so good. They looked so hot. They little,
Speaker 1: as I said, they kind of the frills. The friend
Speaker 1: I was saving the moment I didn't. I wanted to
Speaker 1: wear boots for the first time at our wedding.
Speaker 2: I love that and Exluckily they didn't give me blisters.
Speaker 1: And so we introduced everybody via the Seamprey tequila shot.
Speaker 1: And then it was time for the food. And that
Speaker 1: was really important to me in Austin as important as
Speaker 1: it was in Napa. And this was a very formal
Speaker 1: wine dinner. I wanted Texas. I wanted everyone to get
Speaker 1: a taste of Texas. And if you look at everybody's
Speaker 1: social media posts, you saw that we were at the
Speaker 1: Ranch Austin, which is a great venue.
Speaker 2: Ranch Austin wedding venue. You can't recommend it enough. Chris
Speaker 2: and Melissa, who own it, I said, I love a Chris.
Speaker 2: They were such a sweet couple. They actually had longhorn cattle.
Speaker 2: Did we say this yet?
Speaker 1: No. I was about to say, you know one thing,
Speaker 1: this is a working ranch. So there were real steers
Speaker 1: out there, longhorns with I mean beautiful long horns. The
Speaker 1: spread on these horns about thirteen feet wide. They had
Speaker 1: donkeys out there and so it was funny all the
Speaker 1: La folks.
Speaker 2: We really wanted to give those Californians a real taste
Speaker 2: in Texas. And what Chris at Ranch Austin does is
Speaker 2: he uses sugar cubes and brings the long horn over
Speaker 2: so everybody can take pictures with them. And it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful setting and people really have a theme.
Speaker 1: Everybody was posting pictures of the steer. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: And so we also wanted them to well, ironically enough,
Speaker 1: taste that as well and eat barbecue. So we really
Speaker 1: wanted a Texas Barbecue special and all I.
Speaker 2: Loved to the vegetarians out there, Sorry.
Speaker 1: This was not for the faint of heart. Sorry vegans,
Speaker 1: but you can't do fondue barbecue. But a good friend
Speaker 1: of mine and now a good friend of ours, Cameron
Speaker 1: True and this might seem odd, but Cameron is actually
Speaker 1: in from Provo, Utah. He owns Bambam's Barbecue in Provo, Utah.
Speaker 1: If you're anywhere near provol Provo, Utah, Salt Lake City,
Speaker 1: Park City, get down there, go to Bambam's. Ask for
Speaker 1: my boy Cameron Spectacular. I met him about twelve years
Speaker 1: ago here in Austin on a barbecue tour. Yes, I
Speaker 1: would go on barbecue tours. I was with some friends.
Speaker 1: Cameron was there working at Law Barbecue. He was at
Speaker 1: a food truck and I met him. We just became friends.
Speaker 1: I tell you.
Speaker 2: He told me the story of what he yelled at
Speaker 2: you from across the room, which is amazing and I'm
Speaker 2: wondering if a fan has ever yelled anything better. Do
Speaker 2: you remember this?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh me. So he loved the show, which
Speaker 2: is how you first.
Speaker 1: Met, because he was in the food truck.
Speaker 2: Said he yelled at you barn my language. But he
Speaker 2: yelled Chris Harrison. I think loved The Bachelor and I'm
Speaker 2: the biggest because he's like six foot sex here. He said,
Speaker 2: I love The Bachelor and I'm the biggest duty her.
Speaker 2: So if anybody says anything to you, just come get
Speaker 2: me and I'll kick their ass.
Speaker 1: So I remember him yelling at what was weird? So,
Speaker 1: you know true barbecue places in Austin, you got to
Speaker 1: get there early, you get in line. This food truck
Speaker 1: had a line. I'm about twenty deep, and we kind
Speaker 1: of wound around so he could see me from the window.
Speaker 1: So the awkward part was that he yelled at and
Speaker 1: then of course all eyes just turned to me, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, he.
Speaker 2: Kind of defeated the purpose of protecting you from any
Speaker 2: of you weird fans.
Speaker 1: So much for being on the dalla. So Cameron true
Speaker 1: whipped up brisket, smoked turkey, pulled pork. We had thanks
Speaker 1: to Law barbecue here in Austin that gave us the
Speaker 1: mac and cheese.
Speaker 2: Petap love that ma. They loved aushtit.
Speaker 1: He made banana pudding, so people went back for seconds, third, fourth.
Speaker 1: They crushed the barbecue.
Speaker 2: The barbecue was amazing. I again, was a real barbecue.
Speaker 2: I got bamboo eco friendly disposable plates bottom ourselves, and well,
Speaker 2: I just we didn't have cutlery like we had these
Speaker 2: bamboo plates. We had, you know, just dinner napkins and
Speaker 2: dinner rolls. And I loved it, and everyone loved the food.
Speaker 2: I did make the mistake. I didn't do this in Napa.
Speaker 2: I didn't have one bite of the food.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: Well, good for you man.
Speaker 1: We go and we brought some home. We did have left.
Speaker 2: I was talking to too many people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was funny. You had a plate of
Speaker 1: food you were carrying around for a little bit and
Speaker 1: you're like.
Speaker 2: This is this No, I know it was that someone
Speaker 2: walked by it with me. I had one bite off
Speaker 2: of it. I mean, so I guess I had literally
Speaker 2: one bite. But I'm shocked. I wasn't hungover because I
Speaker 2: did so many Sam Frey tequila shots because people keep
Speaker 2: bringing them to you, and I literally didn't even eything.
Speaker 1: And we kind of went our separate ways a little bit.
Speaker 1: We started seeing everybody. We tried to really, this is
Speaker 1: the tough thing about a big, big wedding, and that's
Speaker 1: why you got to do too. It's tough to see everybody.
Speaker 1: We wanted to walk by every table, and there.
Speaker 2: Was a lot of the night when we were apart
Speaker 2: in Austin and so dividing and congering.
Speaker 1: Everybody sat. Nate had a kind of a calm forty
Speaker 1: five minutes while we ate dinner. Then it was time
Speaker 1: for the little wedding band and they brought the house down.
Speaker 1: They kill it. They just play the bangers. They let
Speaker 1: us kind of coordinate with them.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of Blink one eighty two, We
Speaker 2: had eighties music that they played. They're not so much
Speaker 2: like horns. Their guitars and drums and more so like
Speaker 2: you're going to see live music versus a wedding.
Speaker 1: There's not a song you can't sing along to at
Speaker 1: the top of your lungs. And when you see pictures
Speaker 1: of us and you see how ridiculous we.
Speaker 2: They go above and beyond. I mean, I said this
Speaker 2: on the other podcast. I was so sweaty. I danced
Speaker 2: for two hours straight. I didn't stop. I literally did
Speaker 2: not sit in a chair once all night. I should have.
Speaker 2: I had those cute two strands, the two strands of
Speaker 2: hair look that you do in front of a ponytail.
Speaker 2: That was a mistake because they were just sweaty worms
Speaker 2: down my head.
Speaker 1: So and a shout out to some other friends because
Speaker 1: look the people we've talked about them, they were not shy.
Speaker 1: They hit the dance floor.
Speaker 2: Oh, I rocked out too. I'm gonna give it something
Speaker 2: I love about the Bachelor girls. They are swifties with me,
Speaker 2: broke out, Becca, Sarah.
Speaker 1: Heren, Christa was right there, Lauren.
Speaker 2: Lyondyke, Tasha We I think it was love story, yeah,
Speaker 2: and we were just crushing it. I was so happy
Speaker 2: all I I have so much of the happiness for
Speaker 2: me from a party comes from dancing, and everybody was
Speaker 2: on the dance floor. The little wedding band let us
Speaker 2: come up on stage with them so many times. And
Speaker 2: when I looked out and saw everyone, the dance floor
Speaker 2: was completely full, I thought, this is my dream.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Bachelor people, kudos to them. They
Speaker 1: were so much fun and had a great time.
Speaker 2: Let me pause for a second. Do you think Ben
Speaker 2: Higgins's dance moves are good?
Speaker 1: It's not like Ben's dancing and he feels it. Here's
Speaker 1: the good thing about Ben, and God love him. He
Speaker 1: is unabashedly Ben Higgins. This is what you know. What
Speaker 1: you see is what you get with Ben. I adore him.
Speaker 1: I love him like a brother.
Speaker 2: Our producer Kendall, I'm gonna call her out because she
Speaker 2: knows Ben. She just chimed in via chat and said
Speaker 2: they are terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his dancer, and I think now he leans into
Speaker 1: him because he knows how bad they are. I know.
Speaker 2: I always say I would rather be with somebody who's
Speaker 2: a bad dancer but dances than someone who just doesn't dance.
Speaker 2: He's tall, so that's hard for him. Maybe I don't.
Speaker 1: They're not great, and it was great justin Turner and
Speaker 1: Courtney Turner justin now playing with the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 1: but we got to know him when he was a
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodger.
Speaker 2: Wonderful, incredible, probably lost on me. The level of his
Speaker 2: fame as a golf for Sergio Garcia is there.
Speaker 1: He is a major champion, he is a Master's champion. Yes,
Speaker 1: Sergio Garcio.
Speaker 2: Lovely wife Angela, And you know what I loved by
Speaker 2: the way everybody again brought it so much with the outphas.
Speaker 2: Angela said to me, Sergio has never worn a cowboy
Speaker 2: had he put it on for this event for the
Speaker 2: first time?
Speaker 1: You look? I told him, I said, dude, what about
Speaker 1: a Spanish Capairo. It's not like it's part of your
Speaker 1: culture as well. But they live here in Austin. We've
Speaker 1: become friends with them. I love Sergio such a good guy.
Speaker 1: I almost and I don't know if any you know,
Speaker 1: any outsider's wedding has ever had this. I almost had
Speaker 1: two Masters champions because Ben and Julie Crenshaw were also invited.
Speaker 1: Ben Crenshaw a legend obviously in a Master's champ but
Speaker 1: sent us a beautiful gift that I will be posting
Speaker 1: because it was one of the greatest wedding gifts I've
Speaker 1: ever received.
Speaker 2: But uh, Sergeant Gift, were you happier about the watch
Speaker 2: I gave you? No?
Speaker 1: The Omega watch you gave me from.
Speaker 2: Mkay Because Ben Crenshaw sent something from Christen and arrived
Speaker 2: wrapped in like the Augusta National Golf Club like paper.
Speaker 1: Crenshaw sent me a gift from Augusta.
Speaker 2: I felt it was like watching a little kid on.
Speaker 1: Christmas morning and it came with a card from Augusta National.
Speaker 1: It's like it was. It was very, very very special.
Speaker 1: And so there were some you know, some other.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is the best dance moves in
Speaker 2: Bachelor Nation or even of any of our wedding games.
Speaker 1: You know, guys, I'm probably gonna go Bob Guiney. Bob
Speaker 1: Guinny because.
Speaker 2: You know, and it used to being a man rhythm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cheating a little bit. You know. If Andrew Firestone,
Speaker 1: we're there because we danced with Andrew at the Private Way.
Speaker 2: Andrew Firestone does not have good dance.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say Bob Guiney. That's why I was saying,
Speaker 1: Andrew puts the energy out there, but Bob Guiney is
Speaker 1: legit Andrew.
Speaker 2: Andrew's doing the robot, but Bob's really dancing ladies.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know who crushed it the most.
Speaker 2: Sarah Hyland was out there. Oh my god, Sarah did
Speaker 2: not stop either. Thank you, Sarah. You know you guys
Speaker 2: know we love Sarah and Wells. They always bring the party.
Speaker 2: And Sarah Hyland is in like so many of the pictures,
Speaker 2: just dancing so hard.
Speaker 1: I really to say about Sarah, I'll out her on
Speaker 1: this if you think someone like that is going to
Speaker 1: be like upp aty Hollywood and shy. Uh huh. She
Speaker 1: was out there mixing it, talks with everybody, talks to everybody.
Speaker 2: She is everybody. And all the Bachelor crew did there.
Speaker 2: You know, they're just wonderful people. Jojo dancing hard too.
Speaker 2: You know it was great everybody.
Speaker 1: Which Garry Patterson, former TCU legend, he was there. Appreciate
Speaker 1: him and uh maybe two of the most important people.
Speaker 1: Our lawyers were there. Shout out to Brian Friedman, who
Speaker 1: may have paid for that wedding. We appreciate you, pal.
Speaker 2: Wait did you make that joke too? I went up
Speaker 2: to and I said he was so cute. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's the sweetest man and the best attorney. And I said, Brian,
Speaker 2: we're so happy to be here and we probably maybe
Speaker 2: we couldn't have paid for this wedding without you, you know,
Speaker 2: we speaking of I think for some reason, we're always
Speaker 2: drama potential aware. Yeah we have Brian was your lawyer.
Speaker 2: He is your lawyer, but that was for sort of
Speaker 2: a period of time. We have another attorney and we
Speaker 2: put them at the same table. But we texted them
Speaker 2: both just to say, hey, like, do you guys know
Speaker 2: each other? We didn't know. You know, I don't know
Speaker 2: about lawyer drama. Maybe they've gone up against each other
Speaker 2: in court. But luckily they were good to go.
Speaker 1: And so we danced into the wee hours of the night. Again.
Speaker 1: The theme was they finally had to shut it down.
Speaker 2: There was you know, I guess, like any wedding, there
Speaker 2: was some raucous drama and I like when the guests
Speaker 2: all those stories keep petering in. There was one guy
Speaker 2: who we had a guest who got thrown out of
Speaker 2: a bathroom for smoking weed.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yes, we did hear that.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, breaking the news to you now. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: staff asked him to please. I don't know why he
Speaker 2: wasn't just outside, we were on a ranch.
Speaker 1: I can I give you another shout out. Here's what
Speaker 1: I love about Lauren about people attending our wedding. If
Speaker 1: you've been following her on social media, you know she
Speaker 1: is an Orange theorist. She loves Orange Theory. I do
Speaker 1: love and she goes there so often. She invited our
Speaker 1: Orange Theory coaches.
Speaker 2: I invited to both of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Montana and Sean came to our wedding. We had
Speaker 1: our Orange Theory coaches.
Speaker 2: I love them. I see them every day.
Speaker 1: This is Lauren Zema. If you come into her life,
Speaker 1: be careful. You are in our lives. You are family
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: I adore them. I see them every day. They're so supportive.
Speaker 2: Sean loves Harry Potter too.
Speaker 1: And Sean responsible for your wedding body.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, well, thank you to Orange Theory and Sean.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you to Orange Theory.
Speaker 2: Sean danced with my mom. It was very soon good.
Speaker 1: Your mom loves him.
Speaker 2: He's about six six five four, so it was very cute.
Speaker 1: And then maybe the best moment of the night. At
Speaker 1: the end of the night, we had one more sh wait.
Speaker 2: Wow, I don't know where you're going with this, we had.
Speaker 1: One more surprise for everybody. The truck rolled up. Oh well,
Speaker 1: this is just fun. Tifts Treats who we love. If
Speaker 1: you've seen us post about this too, Tifts Treats they
Speaker 1: deliver like warm cookies to your door with milk. We
Speaker 1: reached out and they said, we are gonna send the truck.
Speaker 1: They sent the TIFFs Treats truck. So as everybody was
Speaker 1: leaving and heading back to their cars or getting in
Speaker 1: the vans that we sent and the buses. So everybody
Speaker 1: get home safely and nobody drove. You got a warm
Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookie or double chocolate cookie and cold milk.
Speaker 2: What better way to end the night than by taking
Speaker 2: home a warm chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 1: Lost it.
Speaker 2: Another great part of the night the photo booth. Listen,
Speaker 2: I did know, you know, we have some people this
Speaker 2: wedding and like a good photo. We had to get
Speaker 2: the glam photo booth. So thank you to Oh Happy
Speaker 2: Day Photo booth for making everybody look beautiful. I said,
Speaker 2: I want that one where it's like black and white
Speaker 2: and the lighting is amazing and everybody looks press.
Speaker 1: I ask a question, Yeah, so whose idea was it? Not?
Speaker 1: Not the photo booth, but whose idea was it to
Speaker 1: print out an extra photo and that was our wedding book.
Speaker 1: So everybody got a photo of themselves in the photo booth,
Speaker 1: but then another picture would print out and you taped
Speaker 1: it into our book, and then everybody sign next to us.
Speaker 2: It was so awesome.
Speaker 1: I have no idea where that idea came from either.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was your wonderful assistant Karen. Maybe it's o
Speaker 2: happy photo booth, but that I don't think there's a
Speaker 2: better guest book because you have a picture to remember
Speaker 2: who wrote everything in case you're not friends with them
Speaker 2: In twenty years.
Speaker 1: I ended up jumping into a bunch of the photos
Speaker 1: with it was really.
Speaker 2: Maybe you jumped into photos. I can't believe it. You
Speaker 2: know what he tell me, you know, he told me
Speaker 2: this morning, guys, we're going, and we're now. We've been
Speaker 2: holding off all day Sunday. We did not post anything.
Speaker 2: We just shared People magazines breaking news story about the wedding,
Speaker 2: and thank you to People magazine for the beautiful coverage.
Speaker 2: They did a great job of sharing our wedding for
Speaker 2: the first time.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the solid journalism. That's something that means they.
Speaker 2: Really checked it with me a lot, and I really
Speaker 2: appreciated it. So then we we on Sunday, we had
Speaker 2: a family and friends brunch and I don't want to
Speaker 2: get ahead at myself, but we don't even need to
Speaker 2: get into that because it was just we were so exhausted,
Speaker 2: but it was great to see everyone. But so Sunday
Speaker 2: we didn't post anything. We go to post stuff on Monday,
Speaker 2: which is when we're filming this, and Chris tells me, oh, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I got to look through all my selfies. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. He's like, yeah, I took a bunch of
Speaker 2: selfies with everybody all night. I said I didn't. I
Speaker 2: was on the dance floor starting the party. Oh I
Speaker 2: so we's got all these great photos.
Speaker 1: But you know here's the thing. I didn't even have
Speaker 1: my phone in Napa. It was totally off limits. I
Speaker 1: didn't touch it, I didn't look at it. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to be one hundred percent present, and I knew
Speaker 1: people were videoing and taking pictures, but again the casual
Speaker 1: nature of wedding number two, I just I kept my
Speaker 1: phone on me, and all of a sudden, we just
Speaker 1: start popping some selfies. That's good, and I had friends there.
Speaker 2: You know, though, I probably in your defense, I would
Speaker 2: have taken more photos. The dress I was wearing didn't
Speaker 2: have a pocket. My wedding dress, my bigger ceremony dress
Speaker 2: had a pocket, so my phone all night love a
Speaker 2: dress with pockets.
Speaker 1: And Austin was great because I had friends there from
Speaker 1: high school, actually from grade school. You probably my oldest friend.
Speaker 1: You know, Brett and I have been friends since twelve
Speaker 1: years old. So my extended family cousins. You had extended
Speaker 1: family there. Again, the circle was big. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: Bachtero Nation people or major champions. It was this great
Speaker 1: blending of our new friends here in Austin are our
Speaker 1: neighborhood crew here that came and so it just it again.
Speaker 1: The atmosphere was perfect. Everybody just had a great time.
Speaker 2: We had such a great time that we were supposed
Speaker 2: to be done by eleven. We didn't.
Speaker 1: We got home at two.
Speaker 2: Well, we did not stop dancing until almost midnight. I
Speaker 2: actually was worried. I was relieved the next day because
Speaker 2: people told me, oh, no, I took the shuttle home.
Speaker 2: We had shuttles back to the hotels, but we were
Speaker 2: so late. I didn't know if people made it on
Speaker 2: the shuttles, some people didn't, some people had to get ubers,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I'll bring it back around and say,
Speaker 2: maybe it was the full circle moment of their healing journey.
Speaker 2: As we were walking out, Caitlin and Jason were there
Speaker 2: waiting for a uber together. Yeah, although I don't think
Speaker 2: the uber together. Trista was there too, but they were
Speaker 2: waiting together and talking and that made me happy.
Speaker 1: And again so it just it was a beautiful, cathartic,
Speaker 1: lovely event. And then start de finished and the.
Speaker 2: Bachelor folks held on. I think Jojo was there waiting
Speaker 2: for an uber. Nobody left early and that made me
Speaker 2: so happy. Everybody at the wedding was there till the end.
Speaker 1: Standing by my truck at the end of the night
Speaker 1: was Trista, Jojo and there was who else. There's one
Speaker 1: other I got And I should have taken a picture
Speaker 1: of this because we had one bottle of champagne left
Speaker 1: and so we're in the parking lot. We popped the
Speaker 1: bottle of champagne. We had TIFs treats cookies, and we
Speaker 1: were the four of us were just passing around a
Speaker 1: bottle of champagne.
Speaker 2: Where was I.
Speaker 1: You walked up and you wouldn't you? You kind of
Speaker 1: just I think I knew I was done. But we
Speaker 1: were just passing around the bottle, drinking straight from the bottle,
Speaker 1: eating cookies. And that's how the night ended. Was was
Speaker 1: with them, and you know, Trista would grabbed the bottle
Speaker 1: Jojo and we were just laughing and sharing stories and
Speaker 1: they were the last ones in the parking lot with
Speaker 1: me at two in the morning. We were just talking
Speaker 1: about the night and just talking about dancing and you know,
Speaker 1: and then reminiscing. And you know, Jordan unfortunately couldn't be
Speaker 1: there with Jojo because he's knee deep in football season.
Speaker 1: He's doing amazing coverage. Good job, Jordan, so he couldn't
Speaker 1: be there. So Jojo was solo along with Trista, so
Speaker 1: they were kind of hanging out. But it was just
Speaker 1: a cool way to end the night of you know,
Speaker 1: the bloom was off the roads, so to speak, and
Speaker 1: we were just kind of drinking straight from the bottle
Speaker 1: and having a great time.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the bloom being off the rose. Yes, let's
Speaker 2: out ourselves and see how we really ended the night.
Speaker 2: Chris Harrison and I cleaned.
Speaker 1: Up our own wedding we did.
Speaker 2: We went back in there, him in his suit, me
Speaker 2: and my dress and my boots, and we were putting
Speaker 2: flowers in the truck and and we were helping clear
Speaker 2: off the tables, and we had the kids were there
Speaker 2: helping us, My family was there helping us. This was
Speaker 2: a listen we wanted. I don't know's I'm a Midwestern
Speaker 2: and I wanted.
Speaker 1: To the left over alcohol. And by the way, not
Speaker 1: much of it, because the Peiju champagne went very quickly,
Speaker 1: as did the Catherine Hall wine. Our thanks to Catherine
Speaker 1: Hall and the crew over there at Hall who have
Speaker 1: been very good friends of ours, provided.
Speaker 2: The wine and great wine.
Speaker 1: And oh, everybody's like, are you kidding me? We're drinking
Speaker 1: Jack's masterpiece Haull Wines rich or wedding, Like what is.
Speaker 2: This Chris wine? Even in Austin, even though we had now,
Speaker 2: but he had to have good wine.
Speaker 1: My rule still applies, no matter even if it's a
Speaker 1: big event. Life's too short to drink crappy wine. So
Speaker 1: we were piling stuff in the back of my truck,
Speaker 1: all the flowers and all that stuff had to come home.
Speaker 1: But and then we we left as we came in
Speaker 1: my truck together.
Speaker 2: You know what else, Slave's too short for to not
Speaker 2: have a happy marriage.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 2: I love you too, and I could feel more confident,
Speaker 2: at peace, happy, overjoyed. It's so it's sort of weird
Speaker 2: to do these podcasts because I feel like in these episodes,
Speaker 2: I told Chris, I feel nervous. We're just going to
Speaker 2: be going on and on about ourselves for a while.
Speaker 2: But part of the reason we wanted to do this
Speaker 2: is we really wanted to share with you all just
Speaker 2: how grateful and happy we are, and to thank you
Speaker 2: for being supportive of our love story as you have
Speaker 2: been for the last five years, and now it's only
Speaker 2: just beginning. So I'm everything went so perfect in Napa
Speaker 2: and in Austin. I don't even really I feel so lucky.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I did to deserve these two
Speaker 2: beautiful experiences where nothing went wrong. I'm so grateful. But
Speaker 2: most importantly, and this is the rule I continue to
Speaker 2: go by, I would have married you in that back
Speaker 2: Ali where we were loading stuff into your pickup truck.
Speaker 2: I would have married you anywhere. But I'm so grateful
Speaker 2: that we had the weddings that we did.
Speaker 1: I love you and nothing more need be said than that.
Speaker 1: That's what we will end on. We love you all,
Speaker 1: Thank you for your support, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1: We are going to have one more wedding episode and
Speaker 1: it's your questions. What did you want to know about
Speaker 1: all of our weddings and the celebrations, So stick around.
Speaker 1: That'll be coming up in a future episode. But until then,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next time because we have a
Speaker 1: lot more to talk about. Thanks for listening. Follow us
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