Speaker 1: You are now entering the court of Judge Gina Leano.
Speaker 2: Weddings can create drama between the very people they're supposed
Speaker 2: to be uniting for life. If you have an argument
Speaker 2: with your fiance that you once settled, once and for all,
Speaker 2: you come to my courtroom. I am Judge Gina, and
Speaker 2: my decision is final. You better be ready to hear
Speaker 2: my ruling. A marriage is the union of two equals
Speaker 2: in love. But what happens when the planning of the
Speaker 2: wedding is unbalanced? Partners in love are not always partners
Speaker 2: in planning. Nicole has brought her fiance matt to Judge Gina,
Speaker 2: demanding that they hire a wedding planner for their upcoming nuptials.
Speaker 2: Nicole is seeking three thousand dollars to hire a wedding
Speaker 2: planner for their big day.
Speaker 3: My name is Nicole Shooter and I have come to
Speaker 3: Judge Gina today because I want a wedding planner. My fiance, Matthew,
Speaker 3: does not want a wedding planner. He is DIY saves
Speaker 3: money wherever he can.
Speaker 4: I want to spend the money elsewhere, like a honeymoon.
Speaker 4: We currently don't have a budget for a honeymoon.
Speaker 3: I like to get professional to do it and get
Speaker 3: it done and get it done properly.
Speaker 5: My relationship with Ni Carl has been a long one.
Speaker 4: We were dating for thirteen fourteen years before we got engaged.
Speaker 3: I met Matthew when I was in year ten, Matthew
Speaker 3: was in year eleven. He walked into the room and
Speaker 3: it was kind of love at first sight, and we.
Speaker 4: Are having a relatively short engagement, which is what we
Speaker 4: both want.
Speaker 3: I want a wedding planner because I want to take
Speaker 3: the stress off myself, a mental load. I want to
Speaker 3: have someone there to support us on this journey. I've
Speaker 3: never planned a wedding before, so I just need that
Speaker 3: extra support.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping the outcome today is that Gina realizes we
Speaker 4: don't need a wedding planner.
Speaker 5: You know, were mostly of the process.
Speaker 4: We've done most of the organizing ourselves.
Speaker 5: So hopefully the outcomes in my favorite that we don't
Speaker 5: need a wedding plan.
Speaker 1: Court is now in session. Please rise for Judge Gina.
Speaker 2: So, Nicole and Matt you're here today, and Nicole, you
Speaker 2: have a claim against matt who is your fiance. Is
Speaker 2: that correct?
Speaker 6: Correct?
Speaker 2: Okay? And you're wanting to be compensated one three hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty three dollars for three and a half weeks
Speaker 2: off work prior to your wedding? Is that right?
Speaker 6: Correct?
Speaker 2: Okay? So I'm going to start with you, Nicole, just
Speaker 2: because you are the applicant. How did you meet and
Speaker 2: how did your relationship with Matt begin?
Speaker 6: So? We met back in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 7: I was in year ten and I at that time
Speaker 7: decided that I wanted to be a sport teacher.
Speaker 6: I thought I wanted to be a sports teacher.
Speaker 2: Stick with the facts, please, okay?
Speaker 6: Im him in year ten? Matthew was in year eleven.
Speaker 2: Okay, in two thousand and eight. Correct, you met then?
Speaker 2: And when did you start dating?
Speaker 6: Four weeks later?
Speaker 2: Okay? And when did you get engaged?
Speaker 6: October?
Speaker 2: October twenty two. And are you living together?
Speaker 6: Yes, we are?
Speaker 2: And when did you move in together?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 6: Three years ago? Can we build a house? Dreams ago?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Three? Three? Four years ago?
Speaker 2: Okay? So you dated for twelve years before you moved
Speaker 2: in together.
Speaker 6: Correct. We did long distance for four and a half
Speaker 6: of those years.
Speaker 2: So, Matt you proposed Nicole in October last year. Tell
Speaker 2: me about the proposal. How did you do that? Did
Speaker 2: you buy a ring? First of all?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I bought him in Tasmania about a month
Speaker 4: before I met Nicolo over in La over there doing
Speaker 4: a bit of study for a little while, and I
Speaker 4: come over for a month.
Speaker 5: We went to Vegas for five days.
Speaker 2: That could have saved you a lot of money. You know,
Speaker 2: you could have just got married there.
Speaker 6: I know we're stupid.
Speaker 5: We should off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could have saved you a lot of money.
Speaker 3: But go on.
Speaker 5: We went to what do we do?
Speaker 4: We went to a circus, the Michael Jackson Show that
Speaker 4: finished at around eleven thirty or something at night, and
Speaker 4: I knew at midnight the Bellagio Hotel fountain fire works
Speaker 4: go off at midnight. So then I knew that if
Speaker 4: I could get there before midnight when the water fountains
Speaker 4: all went off, that would be a pretty good moment.
Speaker 4: So it started going off, and then I got down
Speaker 4: on one knee. I think Nicole turned around and noticed
Speaker 4: that I wasn't standing up and looked down. She looked shocked. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so she didn't. I don't think she was taking it
Speaker 4: seriously for a second. She thought it was all a
Speaker 4: joke because I joke around.
Speaker 2: Fair bit and then what did you say.
Speaker 5: Will you marry me? I didn't say a lot.
Speaker 2: And she obviously said yes because now you're planning your wedding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I said are you serious about twenty five? Fifty
Speaker 6: times before I actually said right.
Speaker 2: So he wasn't convincing his response to the first twenty
Speaker 2: five questions.
Speaker 6: I sometimes he would come home and like pretend he
Speaker 6: was going to do it and just like joke. So
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, it's actually like.
Speaker 2: You're amazing, Matt. That's a very mean thing.
Speaker 6: I saw the ring and I was just like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, is this a joke?
Speaker 2: So I just want to know what do you love
Speaker 2: about each other? Nicole? Three words to describe Matt? What
Speaker 2: do you love about Matt?
Speaker 6: His humor, he's kind and yeah, he's just he's just
Speaker 6: cuddly and he's like a big teddy there cudly, he's
Speaker 6: like a teddy bears.
Speaker 2: And what about you? Matt? Three words to describe Nicole?
Speaker 2: Why you love her?
Speaker 5: She follows a dreams. Yeah, I've never had the answer.
Speaker 2: That's there, you go. You never be married first time?
Speaker 2: For everything?
Speaker 5: We get along, We actually do get along with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what other word would you use? To describe her word. Yeah, passionate, passionate. Okay,
Speaker 2: there you go. So you love each other and this
Speaker 2: is going to be a beautiful thing, and you put
Speaker 2: money aside between the two of you for this wedding.
Speaker 2: Who's paying? You're saving for the wedding? Now? Trying to
Speaker 2: both and are you both working?
Speaker 6: Yes, we're both working?
Speaker 2: Okay, Nicole? What do you do?
Speaker 6: So I'm a hairdresser and a dance teacher.
Speaker 2: And what about you, Matt?
Speaker 5: I manage an aquatic center.
Speaker 2: And do you sort of earn the same income?
Speaker 6: Oh, you earn a bit more than me, Yeah, a
Speaker 6: little bit, a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Where are you getting married in Pasmania? All right? And
Speaker 2: how many guests? Eighty two, one hundred eighty two, one
Speaker 2: hundred guests? And how far off is your wedding?
Speaker 6: January twenty twenty?
Speaker 3: What's next year?
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2: What's your budget for the wedding?
Speaker 5: There was never really a budget. There's just a figure
Speaker 5: that it's come to and then that's how budget.
Speaker 2: What's it per head?
Speaker 5: Are we charging people per head?
Speaker 2: Are you charging possibly? Yeah, you're going to charge your
Speaker 2: guests to come to your wedding, But.
Speaker 4: We don't want gifts or nothing, because we don't need anything.
Speaker 2: You want to charge them? How much are you going
Speaker 2: to charge them per head?
Speaker 5: About fifty dollars ahead?
Speaker 2: Are you serious?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a new thing.
Speaker 5: It's in thing that is the normal thing in tasma.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, in gifts and stuff. Now you just charge
Speaker 6: it per head at the wedding because everything's so goddamn.
Speaker 2: Expensive, So you're thinking about fifty works ahead, okay, just.
Speaker 6: To cover a little portion. I mean we're putting on everything, food, wine.
Speaker 2: Drink, fifty dollars ahead. It's only going to be five grand.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but that covers the food, so it's just.
Speaker 2: Like a token contribution.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, this is a gift in that, like, we
Speaker 8: don't need gifts that we'd rather have a little bit
Speaker 8: of money come off the wedding because we're obviously trying
Speaker 8: to save it.
Speaker 2: Have you had a quote from a wedding planner or coordinate?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: And what do they want to charge you?
Speaker 6: Three thousand dollars okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So tell me what you've organized so far. Have
Speaker 2: you got your photographer yes? And you've got your.
Speaker 6: Music yes, music's the most important.
Speaker 2: And you've got your flowers no? So you need flowers.
Speaker 2: Have you got your celebrant?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: What is there left to do now that a wedding
Speaker 2: planner would do.
Speaker 6: The color, the style?
Speaker 2: Well, no, you're going to pick the color. You're going
Speaker 2: to pick the style. Have you got bridesmaids?
Speaker 6: Yes, I've got to do brides I've got seven, stupid
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 2: But that's just one dress and you buy seven of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't think I really want to do that. I
Speaker 6: think we want to do different styles because we've got
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but your wedding plan is not going to do that.
Speaker 6: No, she's not going to do that.
Speaker 2: Have you got cars?
Speaker 6: No, we don't have cars.
Speaker 2: So you need flowers, a celebrant and cars.
Speaker 5: We don't need cars.
Speaker 6: We need signs, signings like welcome to the wedding, welcome
Speaker 6: to the bar.
Speaker 2: And Matt, what do you say about a wedding planner.
Speaker 4: Well, I say it's getting to the point where it's
Speaker 4: getting a little bit expensive and we need to probably
Speaker 4: have the hard conversation and where to cut things.
Speaker 5: And for me, this is the first to go.
Speaker 2: All right. What about the question of who should organize
Speaker 2: the wedding? Matt, you say that Nicole should do it
Speaker 2: not a wedding planner.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, we should both do it. But if
Speaker 5: we're both equally doing it, you don't need a.
Speaker 2: Wedding planner, Okay, But are you equally doing it? Is
Speaker 2: the question.
Speaker 5: I'd say, I work more, she's got more time.
Speaker 2: No, that's not what I'm asked on the laptop. No,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you, are you equally doing it? Your answer
Speaker 2: is no, In.
Speaker 5: Terms of what free time we have, i'd say, ye.
Speaker 2: No, that's not what I asked you, because then you're
Speaker 2: just pardoning off some of them, some of the responsibility
Speaker 2: to someone else because you think that she's got the
Speaker 2: time to do it. So my question to you is,
Speaker 2: are you sharing the risk on's ability of the wedding
Speaker 2: planning equally.
Speaker 5: The stuff I'm allowed to do?
Speaker 2: Yes, what does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 4: I don't think there'd be there'd be no trust there
Speaker 4: to let me pick flowers or decorations, colors, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Right like that, But it's not something you would discuss together. Go, oh,
Speaker 2: the bridesmaids, maybe they can wear green? What color all
Speaker 2: that sort of thing? What colors are you referring to?
Speaker 2: Like the decor in the venue.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever decorations.
Speaker 2: Did you choose the venue together?
Speaker 5: Ye? Yes?
Speaker 2: And what about all the other plans that you have
Speaker 2: in your life, buying a car, buying a house, did
Speaker 2: you do all those things together together?
Speaker 5: Yeah? We just we designed and built our house together.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay? So what do you want Matt to do?
Speaker 6: Support me?
Speaker 5: Have done?
Speaker 2: And I wanted to organize it, organize what?
Speaker 5: There's nothing to organize as you lock.
Speaker 6: Them in, like you know when I like doing the research,
Speaker 6: but then as for actually like making a decision, a
Speaker 6: final decision and then have like having the back and
Speaker 6: forth email. Can you get me a quote? Can you
Speaker 6: get this? How much do you call?
Speaker 2: Are you sharing this information with Matt?
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay? And Matt, do you feel like you've been left
Speaker 2: out of the loop at all in relation to these decisions?
Speaker 4: No, I feel like we've been doing it pretty well
Speaker 4: and then and then all of a sudden, Oh, there's
Speaker 4: a third party we have to pay to do the
Speaker 4: two percenters?
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Matt. So I'm not convinced that you equally
Speaker 2: sharing the responsibility of this wedding planning. So, Nicole, what
Speaker 2: sort of thing have you done so far? And what
Speaker 2: sort of thing has Matt contributed so far. I want
Speaker 2: to know a breakdown, all.
Speaker 6: Right, So I've done the budget plan. So I've done
Speaker 6: a detailed budget.
Speaker 2: I contacted vendor caterers. Yeah, okay, not a vendor like
Speaker 2: zin you're going to have a caravan out the front
Speaker 2: and everyone can queue up and get a sevlaki. Not
Speaker 2: that sort of vendor. We're kind of going to do
Speaker 2: wood five semi okay. So this is a casual kickup
Speaker 2: with heels affair.
Speaker 5: It's a casual cocktails.
Speaker 6: It's a casual, well planned out wedding. It's very detailed,
Speaker 6: but casual.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the dress code. Let's get the vibe here.
Speaker 2: What's the dress code?
Speaker 6: The dress code is like a little bit beach here,
Speaker 6: a little bit cocktailly, but like have a good.
Speaker 2: Time, like bikinis with a high heel. No, is that
Speaker 2: the sort of thing?
Speaker 6: Absolutely not cover up?
Speaker 2: What's a beach in a cocktail? I have been to
Speaker 2: the beach in High Hills, by the way, just for
Speaker 2: the record.
Speaker 6: It's cut. It's like in this estate where there's the
Speaker 6: beach down the road and it's a little bit rustick
Speaker 6: and a bit edgy, and it's got like a Byrony
Speaker 6: Bay kind of vibe.
Speaker 2: And will the ceremony happen at the venue or do
Speaker 2: guests have to move?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's an open air chapel at the venue where
Speaker 6: we will be getting having a ceremony.
Speaker 2: So you'll have this ceremony there and then everybody kicks
Speaker 2: on and has pizzas on the beach with high heels
Speaker 2: and a cocktail dress.
Speaker 6: On at the venue and not in a bikini. Absolutely
Speaker 6: not right?
Speaker 2: Okay, So you've got musicians, photographers of your organized music music.
Speaker 6: I've been doing mood board after mood board, getting colors, designs,
Speaker 6: making sure everything matches in what's and.
Speaker 2: You're enjoying that? Is that something that you in your element?
Speaker 2: Do you feel that you're in your element doing this?
Speaker 6: I enjoy the creative side and I love doing colors
Speaker 6: and pitying and this and that.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I think in most situations there's got
Speaker 2: to be a driver. Would you agree with that? Someone's
Speaker 2: got to sort of, you know, manage it. So even
Speaker 2: if you did get a wedding plan, someone would have
Speaker 2: to instruct her or him. Yes, would you agree with that? Yes?
Speaker 2: Who would do that? Would you do that? Naturally?
Speaker 8: Nicole I'm happy to instruct, but as for like actually
Speaker 8: like making the decision, having that support someone that is necessary.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you were to instruct a wedding planner,
Speaker 2: you would tell them who the vendors were, the florist,
Speaker 2: the flowers, you like, what music, the type of photographer.
Speaker 2: So you would be actually giving them the information.
Speaker 6: Giving them the vibe and the tone.
Speaker 2: Sounds a little bit like the horse might have bolted.
Speaker 8: Here, no, no, because she feels in the gaps.
Speaker 6: And then she's going to say no, that's a stupid idea,
Speaker 6: or that's a good idea, or you're missing this, or
Speaker 6: that's not going to work, or that's not going to gel.
Speaker 2: And so you want some professional feedback.
Speaker 6: I want the professional. I can't hear I'm a professional
Speaker 6: at that, and someone comes to me because I'm the professional.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm there for. I'm planning an event, or
Speaker 6: we're planning an event for eighty two hundred people. I
Speaker 6: need the professional to lead the way because I've never
Speaker 6: done it.
Speaker 2: So you're about a third of the way, though it
Speaker 2: sounds like to me when you're planning already.
Speaker 5: Two thirds No. On the day stuff is probably what
Speaker 5: you're concerned about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's also too on the day, Like she comes
Speaker 8: and runs the day and sets up and does everything.
Speaker 6: So I can just relax and I don't have to
Speaker 6: chase up the people.
Speaker 2: But don't you have isn't there someone at the venue
Speaker 2: who does that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? No, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: No, you're not going to do that, Matt. So you're
Speaker 2: the groom. You've got to be part of the wedding.
Speaker 2: Is there not someone? Is there not a matre d
Speaker 2: or a manager at the venue. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know this, but I am actually a marriage celebrant
Speaker 2: and I do many weddings. I've done about eighty weddings
Speaker 2: since twenty eighteen, and so I know how these things work.
Speaker 2: So usually we would have someone at a venue who
Speaker 2: coordinates things so that they don't need to worry about it.
Speaker 2: You're not getting that support from the venue.
Speaker 6: I don't think we are, because I emailed and there's
Speaker 6: she was very blasse, and I was like, she's not,
Speaker 6: Like she's not the profession here, Like at least if
Speaker 6: I get the wedding planner, I know that she's going
Speaker 6: to set it up. She's going to be down at
Speaker 6: the Sarah money and she's going to know what I
Speaker 6: actually want or we want, or I shouldn't say I
Speaker 6: what we want, and she's going to make sure it
Speaker 6: goes to a planned The wedding people there just for themselves.
Speaker 6: They're getting their money for their venue, and they're like.
Speaker 2: WHOA, all right? So currently your claim is that you've
Speaker 2: spent on one hundred and thirty three hours ye preparing
Speaker 2: this absolutely? Yeah today over what period of time? Is
Speaker 2: it like eight hour days or.
Speaker 5: A bit excess in October?
Speaker 2: Hang on, Matt, I'll get to you, Nicole. I just
Speaker 2: want to hear, and then I'm going to get Matt's feedback.
Speaker 6: Been October since we got engaged. The next day, I
Speaker 6: was on the laptop looking at a venue.
Speaker 2: And so have you been sort of keeping a running
Speaker 2: tally here of how many hours? How did you work
Speaker 2: that out?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I'm averaging at least an hour a day on wedding stuff.
Speaker 2: One hour a day, yep, whether it's a.
Speaker 6: Yeah, actually pretty much is my lunch Breakay.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you spend an hour a day talking to a
Speaker 2: wedding plan or I mean, she's not just going to
Speaker 2: miraculously come up with these or the flowers or you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to talk to it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have to chat to it obviously. Yeah, we'd
Speaker 6: have to have a conversation.
Speaker 2: I'm going to come over to you, Matt now, So
Speaker 2: what do you say about the cost? Why have you
Speaker 2: said no? Why are you leaving all this work up
Speaker 2: to Nicole?
Speaker 5: Well, half the value in a wedding planner has we've
Speaker 5: done ourselves. That's why I think we've done three quarters
Speaker 5: of the work.
Speaker 2: But that's because you said no in the first place.
Speaker 5: No, it this was an afterthought, right, this was down the.
Speaker 2: Journey, right that you've talked about getting a wedding planner.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that. Somehow, I can't imagine that it
Speaker 2: would just be a revelation. Nichole's woken up one morning gone,
Speaker 2: oh bloody hell, this is too hard. I should have
Speaker 2: had a wedding plan And Matt, what do you think?
Speaker 2: And you said no.
Speaker 4: She had a breakdown after a couple of months of
Speaker 4: doing this, right after booking a venue.
Speaker 2: I can see her laughing. Somehow, I don't think it
Speaker 2: was a breakdown, but go on, oh.
Speaker 6: No, it was absolutely breaking. I said, there's no walking
Speaker 6: down this eye if I don't get a wedding planner.
Speaker 6: I need one.
Speaker 2: So you say it was halfway through Nichole's had a
Speaker 2: bit of a break down, so she's thought, okay, we
Speaker 2: should get a wedding planner, and you said, well, you've
Speaker 2: done half or three quarters of the work. There's no
Speaker 2: point now we're trying to keep the costs down. Is
Speaker 2: that would that be fair to say?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay? So I want to know out of the photographer,
Speaker 2: the music, the flowers, the venue, what have you done?
Speaker 5: I picked and spoke to the photographer. Yeah, that was
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 6: That's a videographer.
Speaker 5: Videographer? Sorry?
Speaker 2: Will you have a DJ or someone playing music?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a we have a two piece band,
Speaker 5: who does a DJ set?
Speaker 2: Who organized that?
Speaker 5: We both did?
Speaker 2: You both did?
Speaker 5: I'll come on, we both picked it.
Speaker 6: Okay. When you say pick, I do all the research
Speaker 6: and come to you with things and then you just go, yep,
Speaker 6: book it after I've done a Will.
Speaker 5: You do all this when I'm at work?
Speaker 2: Okay? Is this usual for you to to not see
Speaker 2: eye to eye or is this an unusual thing?
Speaker 6: Depends on the topic.
Speaker 4: When it's cost saving stuff, yeah, I push it pretty.
Speaker 6: Hard, and I think just pay the professional and get
Speaker 6: it done.
Speaker 2: If you don't want a wedding planet to organize at
Speaker 2: least the day, who's going to make sure everything runs
Speaker 2: smoothly so that you two can focus on your wedding,
Speaker 2: on exchanging vals and having fun.
Speaker 5: Well, if I thought maybe the job of an MC
Speaker 5: could do that as well. All they're going to do
Speaker 5: is point the food truck in the right direction and
Speaker 5: the band and.
Speaker 2: It sounds to me like you've taken control of the
Speaker 2: whole thing. Would that be fair to say, Matt, that
Speaker 2: Nicole's actually the driver here her ideas? I think it's
Speaker 2: not unusual. There's usually one person who's doing it, and
Speaker 2: even if it's a shared load, someone will take on
Speaker 2: the mental load. Would that be u, Nicole?
Speaker 6: Yes? I think so the mental loads yet, because I
Speaker 6: care about lots of details and things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt, do you agree with that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Speaker 2: And so the purpose of the wedding planner would be
Speaker 2: to share that load, would that be right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I just have that support person that has that professional
Speaker 7: advice so that I know that I'm speaking with someone
Speaker 7: that's going to give me real, honest advice and has
Speaker 7: been through it before, so I know that the day's
Speaker 7: going to be less stressed for both of us, because
Speaker 7: I know how stressed I get in sitch like certain situations.
Speaker 6: So on the day, I just want to enjoy it
Speaker 6: with Matthe you'll not have to stress about anything and
Speaker 6: know that if anything does go wrong or anything, someone's
Speaker 6: taking care of it.
Speaker 2: But you're saying in your claim you want three and
Speaker 2: a half weeks off prior to the wedding yep, and
Speaker 2: you want a total of three hundred and thirty three dollars.
Speaker 2: So how did you come up with that?
Speaker 6: I just thought it's hard for both of us at
Speaker 6: the moment, like we're both trying and work ours off
Speaker 6: to have the best day we can have. So if
Speaker 6: I can get a week or two weeks off before
Speaker 6: the wedding and that covers my expenses, I'm a happy chat.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm going to make my decision.
Speaker 1: Judge Gina is deliberating and will soon hand down her verdict.
Speaker 1: Please do not leave the.
Speaker 2: Courtroom, Okay. So I've had to think about it and
Speaker 2: I've made my decision. So Nicole and Matt, you both
Speaker 2: met at high school and you've been together ever since.
Speaker 2: You both engage and you're getting married January of next year.
Speaker 2: Your budget for your wedding is forty thousand dollars? Is
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 6: Which it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Ye and Nicole, you've brought Matt to me today because
Speaker 2: you believe you need a wedding planner, and Matt you
Speaker 2: believe that you don't and you can do it yourselves.
Speaker 2: I've made a decision, and what I say is that
Speaker 2: you're about I would say two thirds already planned into
Speaker 2: the wedding. Two thirds, and you've got a quote for
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars. So I would suggest you go back
Speaker 2: to the wedding planner, ask her to do the final
Speaker 2: third of your wedding planning, and I will award you
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars towards the wedding planner for that final
Speaker 2: part of your wedding planning. And that's my decision.
Speaker 6: I think the outcome today has been awesome.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited now that we can actually like get
Speaker 3: a wedding planner. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it's a fair outcome.
Speaker 3: To being that we sort of asked two thirds of
Speaker 3: the way and this is really going to us this
Speaker 3: stuff in.
Speaker 6: Like getting us across the line and knowing that someone's going.
Speaker 3: To be there on the day so we can have
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 4: I think Gina gave us, or myself in particular, what
Speaker 4: I think we needed, and the outcome we got is
Speaker 4: probably what we were after.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel Gina was very fair, straight to the point,
Speaker 3: beck to the fact.
Speaker 5: She was great. I feel like I did get a
Speaker 5: fair trial today.
Speaker 4: She was fair, She did hear us out, and it's
Speaker 4: good for both of us.
Speaker 3: I definitely think the wedding plan will have a really positive.
Speaker 6: Impact on our relationship moving forward.
Speaker 3: Knowing that Nicole is not going to be stressed anymore
Speaker 3: and we can just enjoy the process.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be a good positive thing for us.
Speaker 4: It sounds like Nicole needed that mental rest from planning
Speaker 4: a wedding, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Glad she got at least a part of that. I
Speaker 5: feel as though this is settled and we shouldn't have
Speaker 5: to talk about it anymore.
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