WEBVTT - 5 Things Flex Will NOT Do At Her Wedding  😬 💒 👰

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>A few weeks ago, we spoke about Roman Empire core.

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<v Speaker 1>How like you've heard it already. Apparently straight men or

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<v Speaker 1>just men in general think about the Roman Empire heaps,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was baffling to a lot of people. But

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<v Speaker 1>then I did some self reflection and realized that Britney

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<v Speaker 1>Spis is my Roman Empire. I think about it all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. At the time, I didn't even realize that

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<v Speaker 1>she was my screen safer. You can see the video

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<v Speaker 1>on Frooms with three o's. Anyway, after I posted that

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<v Speaker 1>very successful fifty thousand view video, I got a DAN

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<v Speaker 1>from a woman called Ellen. She writes frooms and it's

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<v Speaker 1>just two oh, so you know she's a true fan.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry for the caps, but I think I solved the

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<v Speaker 1>universal female equivalent of the Roman Empire. The marriage wedding process.

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<v Speaker 2>Whoa she writes.

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<v Speaker 1>So this involves thinking about thinking about getting engaged, thinking

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<v Speaker 1>about what your wedding might look like, pop culture and

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<v Speaker 1>celebrity weddings, celebrity divorce and relationship changes, gossip about weddings,

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<v Speaker 1>either of friends you've been to or seen on social.

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<v Speaker 3>The whole cinematic universe is matrimonya because now that makes

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<v Speaker 3>a lot more sense.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, weddings, surely not.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, if your anti marriage and all that entails, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>she goes on, I would hazard. I guess that women

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<v Speaker 1>would think about marriage in some form or another in

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<v Speaker 1>the same range as men think about the Roman Empire.

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<v Speaker 2>Eg.

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<v Speaker 1>Some all the bloody time and others maybe not at all.

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<v Speaker 3>Isn't it ironic because like, women didn't really have rights

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<v Speaker 3>in the Roman Empire, so that didn't marry you to

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<v Speaker 3>like be considered people, and then women are thinking about marriage.

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<v Speaker 2>It's in sync.

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<v Speaker 1>Honestly. Yeah, it's quite poetic. Said thanks for coming to

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<v Speaker 1>my ted talk, and I said, thank you for giving

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<v Speaker 1>me content, thank you for my brain or show queen incredible. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So all growing up, I can't decide if I was

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<v Speaker 1>a really girly girl or not. It's so hard to

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<v Speaker 1>tell because you were funny.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so's like she's probably a tomboy.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah right, she was probably a tombo growing up, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think I was curler.

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<v Speaker 3>I was just what you've shown me is your adolescents.

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<v Speaker 3>You seemed quite hyper fam.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely maybe like when I

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<v Speaker 1>was a little baby, like toddler vibes, a bit grubby,

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<v Speaker 1>like I had horrible hair, like the thinnest hair, it's

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<v Speaker 1>little fuzzy, like I wasn't giving like classical girly vibes.

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<v Speaker 2>But you're also a toddlers a lot of pressure.

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<v Speaker 1>I just wasn't servenge when you could.

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<v Speaker 2>Dress yourself and be a sentient person.

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<v Speaker 1>Then we started to eat.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so yes, you've always been a girly girl. Please

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<v Speaker 2>continue to see the gay.

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<v Speaker 1>The one thing that I always thought about with weddings

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<v Speaker 1>was how I might have said this on the podcast

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<v Speaker 1>before Bama repeated how embarrassing, deeply embarrassing it would be

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<v Speaker 1>to have to kiss someone at the end of the

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<v Speaker 1>aisle in front of my parents.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the way this actually ate.

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<v Speaker 1>Me alive and keep me up at night, Like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna have to kiss someone in front of my parents,

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<v Speaker 1>And even now I think about if I'm thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>a wedding, I'm literally thinking about the kiss, kissing someone

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't even thought that I don't. Yeah, babe, let

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<v Speaker 1>it keep you up. I believe in no PDA around parents,

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<v Speaker 1>Like every time that I've had someone over, like, don't

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<v Speaker 1>touch my knee. Yeah, but like we're friends, truly, are

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<v Speaker 1>you the same? Get off me?

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, it's real appropriate. But to be fair, because I

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<v Speaker 3>love PDA generally. I think it's fun and funny, okay,

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<v Speaker 3>But so much about wedding culture I find really cringey

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<v Speaker 3>only because of my relationship to attention. I like feeling

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<v Speaker 3>like I've earned my attention, so I did something with

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<v Speaker 3>merit that warranted an applause, or I put a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of effort into how I look, therefore you can acknowledge

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<v Speaker 3>it and say you look good. Or I put a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of effort into articulating or deciding what I feel,

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<v Speaker 3>so when you commend me on.

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<v Speaker 2>That, that feels right. Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>But what I don't like is like I don't like

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<v Speaker 3>hosting a birthday party because I feel like I'm pulling

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<v Speaker 3>everybody here under duress against their will to ceprate. Weddings

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<v Speaker 3>feel like an amplified version of that, because in my experience,

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of the intimacy you share in relationships is private.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, like when you're really building with someone, it's private.

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<v Speaker 3>The conversations you have to get there, the romance, all

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<v Speaker 3>of that stuff. It's all private and then you have

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<v Speaker 3>a wedding and it's amplified times one thousand in the

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<v Speaker 3>most stereotypical way that lacks any kind of flavor. Most weddings,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not even trying to be shady, are copies and

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<v Speaker 3>paste of the last wedding. I don't think I've observed

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<v Speaker 3>or been to any wedding that felt truly so unique

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<v Speaker 3>and a proper representation of the people being married.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, and that's my issue.

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<v Speaker 3>You're going to go there do cosplay performance art of

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<v Speaker 3>your love and I don't know if it's a thing

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<v Speaker 3>that you experience, but when people really try and show

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<v Speaker 3>you that they're in love, it feels like they're trying

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<v Speaker 3>to conceal something out. I'm like, maybe you guys really

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<v Speaker 3>hate each other, because this can't be real.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe you. It's enough.

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<v Speaker 3>A paragraph vows to me seems so intimate that I

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<v Speaker 3>don't know why you'd want to do that in front

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<v Speaker 3>of strangers. If I'm really looking at the person that

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<v Speaker 3>I think that I love so much that I'm trying

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<v Speaker 3>to merge our lives together in the most permanent way possible,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't want to tell that really intimate story of

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<v Speaker 3>when I knew.

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<v Speaker 1>That's true, but like I think, when you love someone

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<v Speaker 1>so much you want to share it, there's like this

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<v Speaker 1>desire to like hard post vibes absolutely launch.

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<v Speaker 3>There definitely is a desire to hard launch, but you

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<v Speaker 3>recognize I feel like weddings are really good at recognizing

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<v Speaker 3>the superficiality of love, but not the stuff that the

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<v Speaker 3>real stuff, like the the blood, sweat and tears type

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<v Speaker 3>vibe of love when it's like, Okay, we didn't actually

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<v Speaker 3>just like roll over and decide that we're good partners.

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<v Speaker 3>It actually took a bit of conflict to get here,

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<v Speaker 3>and so I feel like weddings don't acknowledge that. And

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like that's why the divorce rate is so high,

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<v Speaker 3>because people really start buying the lies they're selling to

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<v Speaker 3>curate this perfect wedding. I know a ton of people

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<v Speaker 3>who are really embarrassed by their ring, embarrassed by the

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<v Speaker 3>way they were proposed to, embarrassed by the trials and

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<v Speaker 3>tribulations they had to get to to get to the

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<v Speaker 3>point of marriage, and pretend those things don't exist when

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<v Speaker 3>it comes time to having a wedding, because it doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>suit the narrative, and for the first six months you're

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<v Speaker 3>on the high of the fairy tale. It's like the

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<v Speaker 3>honeymoon stage times too, but in this period, it's not

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<v Speaker 3>just you and your partner trying to make sure you're

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<v Speaker 3>keeping the story straight. You've gone and showed you're one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred nearest and dearest, how solid you are, and so

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<v Speaker 3>now when the facade starts showing, it's it's worse because

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<v Speaker 3>everyone's like, what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 2>I saw you you.

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<v Speaker 1>So love And that's what I think after weddings when

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<v Speaker 1>someone breaks up after I'm like, wait, but you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>legit seems so happy.

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<v Speaker 3>Exactly because that's what was caught of you for the moment,

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<v Speaker 3>and you're a performer. For me, I'm a performer. What

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<v Speaker 3>do we do when it's time to perform? We can't

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<v Speaker 3>get in a room without doing cheat chats. Literally, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>we can't even help ourselves. So imagine a wedding where

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<v Speaker 3>you put your hair in your makeup. You've spent ninety

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<v Speaker 3>k to get this down. You think I'm not gonna

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<v Speaker 3>put on a shine.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, that's why I need for the sake of myself.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm seeing like, Okay, the City Hall wedding has

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<v Speaker 1>really had a moment recently with like especially like the

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<v Speaker 1>woman in a suit type of viable, like the mini

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<v Speaker 1>dress moment, which I love.

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<v Speaker 2>I love it all. Personally, I wouldn't be wearing a

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<v Speaker 2>mini dress.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I'm gonna wear like Yeah, redacted.

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<v Speaker 3>That's I've got more to say. Speeches mostly so lame again.

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<v Speaker 3>You've got people who aren't good public speakers coming up

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<v Speaker 3>taking a copy and pasted Pinterest speech.

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<v Speaker 2>And they've done it before and they'll do it again.

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<v Speaker 3>Or they tell the most embarrassing story that makes you

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<v Speaker 3>look like a wilderbeast person making jokes at your expense

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<v Speaker 3>on your big day.

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<v Speaker 2>Hate it not on the big seating arrangements.

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<v Speaker 3>The amount of times I feel as though I've observed

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<v Speaker 3>people do seating arrangements and the logic behind, Oh, you

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<v Speaker 3>take your most social friend and put them on the

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<v Speaker 3>table with your most friends.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't do that. Everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody loses in that scenari everybody loses.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, don't make people mingle based on what you

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<v Speaker 3>perceive to be their strengths and weaknesses. Put them with

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<v Speaker 3>people they know.

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<v Speaker 1>Let them mingle on the d floor hundred percent, but

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<v Speaker 1>don't create co mingling.

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<v Speaker 3>Pre getting to know each other, so that sucks. Also

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<v Speaker 3>when you've got bridesmaids and groomsmen. So let's say, for example,

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<v Speaker 3>your you have eight friends, and so you have eight bridesmaids,

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<v Speaker 3>but your partner doesn't have a lot of friends. So

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<v Speaker 3>now you got Now your partner has to go find

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<v Speaker 3>seven more friends.

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<v Speaker 2>You have to so it's equal for the photos. Are

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<v Speaker 2>you kidding?

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<v Speaker 1>In that instance, you have to say sorry, you can

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<v Speaker 1>only have the same amount as me. That's that's what

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<v Speaker 1>I do.

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<v Speaker 3>But I'm really excited to see and experienced weddings that

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<v Speaker 3>feel like a really beautiful reflection of the people getting

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<v Speaker 3>married from not just from the music, not just from

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<v Speaker 3>their aesthetics, but the way they choose to do love

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<v Speaker 3>because it's all feeling like talent show pageant. I really

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<v Speaker 3>enjoyed getting that out. Thank you so much your.

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<v Speaker 2>Mum doing speech. I don't want any speeches. WHOA really,

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<v Speaker 2>I really don't.

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<v Speaker 3>If you have something to tell me, I would love

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<v Speaker 3>to hear it one on one. I would love take

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<v Speaker 3>me out for dinner and then talk to me and say, like,

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<v Speaker 3>this is really awesome. I'd love to see how you've evolved.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd love to see how you've grown. I don't need

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<v Speaker 3>the collapse of everybody else observing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, all right, I guess I won't be called

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<v Speaker 1>up then for a little comedy roast at your wedding.

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