Hi guys.

Welcome back to another episode of, here Comes The Drama.

I'm your host Christa, or if you can see me right now, Jules, if you can't see me, I am wearing the outfit from the I don't crew.

the character Jewels.

So that's the problem sometimes with, between these skits is then I associate these shirts with different characters and.

I like, every time I like pick it up, I'm like, oh, that's that one character from that skit.

That's how I feel about the Ferris and Sloan shirt.

Like I've barely worn it outside of that skit now, because I feel like if I wear it somewhere, it feels like I'm, I don't know, secretly like promoting the book and I'm not trying to, it's funny how I just connect it anyways.

What a way to start the episode.

kind of just jump in right in like that.

Welcome back for another episode of some crazy stories that we are gonna get into in just a minute.

Try to switch things up because I like to keep things interesting.

We're gonna start off this week with we're gonna call them wedding 9 1 1 Situations that people have sent me as a new segment.

And, from time to time people send me, on social media some things they're going through.

Maybe they're in a wedding, maybe it's a friend situation.

And I'm no expert, but I'm just gonna give you my own personal advice, from the hot seat here, I guess.

So if you wanna send me any of your own wedding 9 1 1, you can email me at hello@christainnis.com and use the subject line wedding 9 1 1.

So let's dive into these.

This first one says, "My bride friend just announced she wants the bridal party to chip in to cover her honeymoon.

What?

As a gift on top of dresses, travel, and the shower.

This feels like too much.

I just wanna be supportive, but I also don't wanna go broke." Yeah, that's pretty, it's pretty normal.

" How do I set a boundary without causing a fallout?" Okay.

I feel like we've talked about this a lot of times before on the podcast.

If a friend is asking you to do too much, like having you pay for the honeymoon is not a normal thing for a bridesmaid.

You should not have to pay anything for the wedding.

Yes.

You know, if you wanna go to a bachelorette party, sure.

Depending on the person.

Sometimes the dress you'll pay for shoes.

But those should be communicated ahead of time.

The honeymoon you are not even a part of this is the new bride in groom.

This is their trip to handle and take care of.

If they can't afford it, they shouldn't go on one.

Now if they do one of those like honeymoon funds and you wanna chip in on that, sure.

If you give 'em a gift of the wedding and they use part of that, sure.

But it should not be a standard.

It should not be like you have to as a bridesmaid, pay for this if she doesn't understand and.

She tells you like, this is what you have to do.

I'd say, okay, well I'm gonna set this one out and if she says, don't come to my wedding, then you say, all right, well we had a good run.

again, it's always easier from the outside, but that is a ridiculous request for someone to have.

Okay.

Next.

Dress drama.

"The bride picked a bridesmaid dress color that looks terrible on me.

It completely washes me out.

I asked if I could wear the same dress in a slightly different shade, but she said no, because she wants perfectly matching pictures.

Do I just suck it up for one day or is it fair to Pushback.

Okay.

It's gonna ultimately depend on your relationship and how important this person is to you?

Me, personally, I would just suck it up.

I've worn so many dresses that wash me out.

I'm a very pale person.

I don't do spray tan.

I don't do tanning anymore.

So I'm pale.

I've had to wear dresses that were like.

Really, really light pink.

I've had to wear dresses that were like a taupe and they end up looking, they look fine.

Like once you get your hair and makeup done, it works.

It's fine.

I would never tell a bride to pick a different bridesmaid dress.

That's me personally.

if you're not super close, maybe just be like, this isn't for me.

But if you agreed to be in their wedding because you care about them and they care about you.

I'd say just suck it up for a day.

If you're gonna match all the other girls, it's gonna look fine.

it'll be great.

I think dress color is one thing where like I'd be like, suck it up.

If it's a style, maybe that makes you uncomfortable, maybe it's like a backless dress or really low cutting or form fitting, and you're like, I don't like that for my body, then that's something I think I could push back a little more on and be like, "Hey, I'm not comfortable in that dress." A color?

I don't know.

Tell me what you guys think, but for me, I wouldn't push back.

Okay.

Like I said, we're gonna start doing these from time to time, so if you have a dilemma or something that you want addressed, email me.

hello@kristaennis.com and use the subject line wedding 9 1 1.

You can also use my same Google form and just select, there's a different option there.

You can, filter it through.

\ I do get dms on social media.

It's just like, it's so hard because they're not filtered through.

So if I read it and I'm like, it's a busy day and I don't forget to unmark it or mark it up, then I lose the story and then it's gone.

I'll be like, oh my gosh.

Someone sent me a really good story and I just completely forget.

So if I see one in there, I'll send you guys the link and I'll be like, "Hey, this is a great story.

Can you just send it to me in the Google form?" Okay.

Next up, this next segment is going to be called.

Red flag versus green flag wedding edition.

So we've been doing the hot takes lately on the rapid fire.

So this is like a new kind of style of that.

" Bride asked bridesmaids to dye their hair for the wedding." That's a red flag.

No, we don't need to do that.

This is quick, quick, quick, quick.

" Mother-in-law insists on wearing white because it's her son's day too." No red flag.

"Couple charges?

Yes.

For drinks at a cash bar?" Well, a cash bar is charge.

So are we just saying, is it cash bar, red flag?

I wouldn't say that's a red flag.

It's not my favorite flag, but I wouldn't say it's red.

It's not a green flag though.

Okay.

"A groom's friend proposes during the reception." Red flag.

" Couple doesn't allow plus ones unless you're engaged or married." I get it, but I'm gonna lean more towards red flag because an engagement or marriage does not determine the relationship.

I could see maybe like if you're like long-term relationships, you've been together over a year.

But you could be together for a week and get engaged.

So I just, I'm not someone that's like, engagement means they're like solid.

I mean, marriage doesn't always mean that either.

So yeah, I would say that's a red flag.

"Bridesmaid drops out a week before the wedding because of cost that's a green flag I think.

I don't know if should be a green or a red flag.

It's not a red flag because if she cannot afford something, like maybe just too many things are adding up.

She felt empowered enough or strong enough to be able to drop out.

I think that's a green flag.

Hopefully it doesn't affect the bride and they're just, they can move on past it and they're okay.

but.

I wouldn't say that's a red flag at all.

If someone came to me and they're like, I can't afford to be in your wedding, I would be like, what can I do to keep you in the wedding?

Let's nix this.

How can I help with this?

I just want you to be a part of it.

I don't care about the cost.

" Couple has a phone free ceremony and locks up guest phones." That's a red flag.

Phone free ceremony.

Yes, absolutely.

Put the phones away.

They have professional photographers.

Just don't have it out.

Please, listen.

But locking up a guest phone is a red flag because here's the thing, as a mom, and just in case of emergency, I feel like people should be able to have their phones on them.

That just sounds to me like you don't trust someone that's coming to your wedding you are like, we're locking up everybody's phone.

Like, no, let's not do that.

" Parents of the bride invite extra guests without telling the couple." Red flag.

" Best man roasts the bride in his speech." Red flag, unless he's equally roasting.

Yeah, that's a red flag.

And you're like, good friends.

" Couple serves fast food like Taco Bell or Chick-fil-A as a late night snack." That's a green flag.

I love when I'm at a wedding and they have a late night snack and it's like Wendy's or Pizza or Taco Bell.

I went to one one time and it was in this really cool, like old, I don't even remember what it was, not a museum.

I just remember the structure was so cool.

Like there was up the stairs and then like the different like rooms or the different, I'm describing this so poorly.

It was in Ohio.

The different rooms were like had different things in it.

So like one room would have a late night snack, one would have dancing, then there was dancing downstairs.

It was just like a cool old building.

And I remember them mentioning a late night snack and I kept trying to find where it was and I ended up missing it.

And I was like, what was the late night snack?

And they were like, it was curly fries and like Wendy's frosties.

And I was like, oh, that sounds amazing.

Right now I'm all for late snack.

Whoever came up with it and started doing that.

Thank you.

I remember the first wedding I was at that had one.

I was like, what?

What's happening right now?

What are, why are we getting late night food?

Okay.

I don't always finish my dinner.

Like, it depends on what's going on, but like, there's so much going on that day, so I just get hungry later on.

So late night snacks good.

One more thing I forgot to mention earlier.

If you guys didn't know, I now post these all on YouTube and I know like I'm not one to sit and watch a full video on YouTube that's like, over.

10 minutes.

But it's a great place to go for discussion.

So if I ever like, bring something up in the conversation here, or you wanna give some feedback on something, or you have a question about something or you wanna like add more to the discussion, please go to YouTube and comment, because I feel like there's so many times when I'm listening to podcasts that I'm like, where can I like say my thoughts on the matter?

And like talk to other people about it.

So please do that.

I love seeing the discourse.

I pop in the comments all the time to see what's going on, and I love seeing what you guys have to say.

All right, guys, we've got two stories today, so let's get into them before I ble too much, because these are wild.

Okay.

Story #1.

" My fiancé and I had been together for four years when he proposed.

Since my dad passed away, he moved in with me less than a year into our relationship.

So we were serious about building a life together from the start.

My relationship with his mom was okay.

At first, we're just different people.

Personality wise, she's loud and extroverted, and I'm more introverted and struggle with loud environments.

About a year before he proposed, she kept making more passive aggressive comments towards me.

I brought this up to my fiancé and when things got worse, he asked her about it.

Her only explanation was that I was rude because I looked at my phone while playing a 1980s Trivial Pursuit game.

She insisted we play.

Wait, what?

She got mad 'cause you looked at your phone.

She forced me to join so the teams would be even I hadn't wanted to play.

So during the long turns, I scrolled social media and did some online shopping." So she considers that rude.

That's like a generational thing too, though.

Like the judgment for being on the phone.

I know it's hard sometimes, like you pick up your phone, you wanna like scroll social media, different generations see that as rude.

I personally don't like when I'm somewhere with someone and they start picking up their phone.

I'm like, excuse me, I'll keep talking when you're done.

it's kind of awkward, but if there's a big group of people and you just pick up your phone here and there and look at it.

Sure.

Again, I'm not criticizing this person.

I'm just saying personally, if I was playing and I kept noticing someone look at their phone, I'd be like, am I boring you?

" Most of her comments revolved around me making him do things that we already had mutually agreed on.

At first, I just ignored it.

When he proposed, we were so excited to start planning because of my dad's passing, I had some inheritance money.

We decided, I used part of it for the wedding, so it'd feel like my dad was helping pay and we cover the rest ourselves.

We never asked anyone for money, nor did we share this detail with our families.

We toured a local event center.

With my mom and his parents.

The venue handled tables, chairs, linens, food, and bartending, a perfect low stress package.

We signed the contract and put down a deposit." I love, lemme just say, I love when a venue is like, we're gonna do this, this, this, and this.

You don't have to like go to a hundred different vendors.

" A few weeks later, my fiance came home after visiting his parents.

His mom had told him, just so you know, we're not putting any money down for the wedding, so don't expect us to." Don't you love that, like aggressive, coming at you?

Like I have seen this happen so many times in these stories, where people just go after somebody.

And it's wild because it's like.

They're thinking, they're expecting them to give them money and it's like they haven't said one thing about that.

" He explained that we're paying for everything ourselves and had never asked them for anything.

His dad chimed in saying they just wanted him to be aware.

Weird, but we shrugged it off.

Okay.

I later found a bridal expo and thought it would be a great chance to explore vendors.

Since my maid of honor lived outta state, I invited my mom and my two other bridesmaids, my fiance and his mom to help her feel included." See, this is where I'm always like.

I feel bad for these brides 'cause I get it.

That's gotta be really uncomfortable.

'cause you're like, I want her to feel included.

This is a special time.

But if she's already making weird comments to you and about the wedding, I don't have high hopes for her coming to your dress shopping, that's all.

Okay.

"We drove into cars, my bridesmaids road with my mom.

I went with my fiance and his mom." Wait.

Oh, this is a bridal expo.

Okay, got it.

I don't know why I was thinking it was like a dress fitting.

Okay.

" On the way she started grilling him about who he planned to invite from his side.

When he mentioned a cousin he recently connected with, she snapped.

You can't invite him.

Take him off the list.

I told my fiancé he should be able to fight who he wants.

But to appease his mom, he agreed to leave the cousin out." they already said straight up, they're not helping with anything.

They're not paying for anything, so they cannot dictate who you're inviting to the wedding.

And if you are close to someone, you should be able to invite them.

that's ridiculous.

At the expo, she immediately grew annoyed at how slow we were moving through the crowded rows.

She kept rushing ahead, arms crossed, waiting against the walls.

My fiancé went to stand with her so she wouldn't be alone, which forced my bridesmaids to drag him back whenever I was mid-conversation with vendors." because then she's making it all about her, so now they're not even focusing on their wedding and the vendors, she's just being Annoyed We found some promising vendors, silk flowers, rentals, and hair and makeup team.

When I mentioned these, she loudly criticized them.

' I don't know why people wear makeup anyway, I didn't at my wedding, and it was such a waste of money to hire someone.'" This is someone that's just gonna find something negative about everything.

Either she doesn't support their marriage or their relationship, she's unhappy with her own wedding, or she's just unhappy with her life in general.

So she's gonna critique every single thing that she does.

" For context, I have eczema and acne, so I rarely wear more than concealer and foundation for my wedding.

I wanted to feel extra special." As you should, girl.

" She also dismissed the silk flowers as cheap.

Even after my fiance reminded her, she hadn't seen the particular booth we liked." Just making judgements again.

" On the way to lunch afterwards, she called his younger brother and bribed him with a free meal to join.

The moment he arrived, she focused entirely on him ignoring my bridesmaids and any vendor talk." So she's like just shutting them out.

This is such common behavior in these stories.

I see.

both with shutting out the wedding planning, critiquing anything that they don't like.

It is making the bride feel bad or awkward about ever bringing up the wedding.

And then on the other side of things, the sibling picking favorites.

I just read another story about this last week where it was sisters and they were picking favorites and then the famous me and Tina skit, and now it's doing the same thing.

Oh, own invite brother to our lunch.

And I'm just gonna completely ignore you guys now.

" Months later, I scheduled wedding dress shopping for when my sister would be in town.

I texted his mom and my mom the details.

His mom replied that she added it to her calendar, so I didn't send a reminder.

The day arrived and after our family vacation." I know this going and I'm trying not to laugh.

" My bridesmaid's mom and I headed to the boutique soon after my fiance called his dad, told him his mom had skipped it to take his brother's graduation pictures.

My fiance gently scolded me for not reminding her, even though she said she had it on her calendar." That hurt.

Yeah, she's an adult.

it's also the relationship thing.

for example, like I told my mom and my mother-in-law like, Hey, this is the date.

For dress shopping?

Are you guys both free?

They both were.

They put it on their calendar, but I talked to them multiple times before then, so it would come up.

My mother-in-law would call me like we would talk about it.

Same with my mom.

so like it would come up in conversation, but if it's somebody I don't talk to a lot, they are adults.

if she said, Hey, I put it in my calendar, trust that.

If she had a question about it, she can ask.

For her to then be like, oh, I'm taking your brother's graduation photos.

Mm, I don't know.

I think it was on purpose.

"We ended up finding the dress I dunno why I said it like that, the dress at the first shop, but kept a second appointment just in case.

To our shock, his mom showed up at the second boutique, even though she previously said she wasn't coming." So she knew .She either knew or the fiance, because I'm wondering if he scolded the bride later or if he like called her and was like, my mom's not there.

You needed to call her, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So maybe he gave the address and was like, you need to go.

But to me it sounds like the mom just didn't wanna go to the first appointment.

she immediately criticized the gowns as cheap and called my favorite one plain." Ew.

I don't like that at all.

Again, she's being so rude during this whole engagement, stop inviting her to things.

" My bridal party was furious." I wonder if anyone like stood up for her and said something.

'cause I feel like my friends would not be able to bite their tongue.

Again, I've talked about before.

I have an amazing mother-in-law.

She would never, but I'm just trying to picture like if there was a scenario where one of my, or one of my friend's mother-in-laws said something, I think we would say something.

I don't think we could just stand there and be like, watch it happen.

That would be terrible.

" My bridal party was furious Afterwards, she declined our dinner invitation, telling my fiance later she wasn't invited at all." Of course, she's gonna be the victim.

" My sister planned my bridal shower and we invited his mom's friends too.

Only one RSVP." Yes, which upset her.

" A week before the shower, my fiance told me his mom complained.

I had excluded her from planning.

I reminded him that my sister was handling everything.

When he relayed that to his mom, she suddenly claimed she was too busy to help anyway." This is that victim mentality.

They're gonna find something wrong or find like a way to whine or cry about everything.

she's putting her, son, the fiance in the middle of everything, saying like, oh, they didn't include me when they actually did.

And then when he says that, he's like, oh, I'm way too busy for that.

Come on.

" On the day she and her mother sat in their car until five minutes before the party.

During the shower, she kept mostly to herself.

Her gift to me was a Yelp printout for a quirky nail boutique specializing in anime designs.

Interesting, sweet in theory, but not at all practical since we were leaving for our honeymoon the next day." This is wild.

" Later, she scheduled a nail appointment for just the two of us without asking me.

Then backed out saying she'd bring a friend instead." What?

So she gets you a nail gift certificate for your bridal shower?

Then she says, here, I booked a nail appointment for us, and now she can't go.

This woman is wild.

I don't know how people deal with this.

" His parents agreed to pay for the rehearsal dinner, but his mom still complained about the officiant not attending.

He was never supposed to per contract." I don't think they typically do.

" At the restaurant, she boasted about the very expensive cookies she brought on the wedding day things escalated.

She barged into the bridal suite demanding the photographer document a gift from the groom, which delayed our timeline." I am shaking my head if you're listening.

" Later, she wandered around with her own DSLR camera." No.

Why?

Why does she think she's a photographer now?

" Taking photos during our first dance and other moments, even though we had professionals hired." And you don't wanna do that either because your flash can throw out the other photographer's flash.

You could be in the background, you could be in the way, like leave it to the professionals.

" Our photographer cropped her out whenever possible, but the videographer couldn't avoid her." Also, doesn't she wanna like interact with people while she had a camera?

" She also camped out at her reception table with plastic water bottles and spent much of the night at the photo booth with her friends rather than celebrating with us.

The next day, I logged into Facebook to see that she'd already posted dozens of wedding photos.

Most of them were herself.

Out of nearly 50 pictures, I appeared in about seven." I am laughing 'cause this is just so ridiculous.

you're telling me she makes this big stink about the whole wedding.

Has to make the whole thing about her.

Then on the wedding day, instead of actually just enjoying it and being present, she's carrying around this huge DSLR camera, taking all these photos as if she's a second hired photographer, and then posting it all to Facebook without the bride.

It's wild.

Oh my gosh.

" Looking back, his mom's need for attention overshadowed so many parts of the process.

My fiance often excused it, wanting to keep her happy, but it left me feeling excluded and disrespected at multiple points." I've said this before and I'll say it again.

If it comes to the point where your mom is making you choose between the two and you can't choose your new wife.

You're more concerned about making her happy than you've already lost.

You're already not choosing your wife, so why are you marrying her?

I don't get that, the mom wants this battle to happen.

She wants to like see that her son is still loyal to her, but at the end of the day, like he chose to marry this new person.

That's terrible.

" The wedding itself was beautiful, but her behavior is something I will never forget." I'm so sorry to this bride and it sucks when you like.

Those are the memories then that you have of your wedding day, and I'm sure it hasn't gotten better now that they're married.

I'm sure it has not gotten better.

This mother-in-law is going to still be doing things to be passive aggressive, to be rude, to put her down.

All because the girl was scrolling on her phone during game night.

these needs to be researched in a lab somewhere.

I don't know, like I don't know where this comes from that they get so up in arms or so offended when their son finds someone to marry.

I don't know where this comes from.

We need another therapist to come on here and talk about it.

Okay, next one.

Oh gosh.

Okay.

Three weddings, one family drama.

This story actually involves three weddings.

"I grew up in the same neighborhood as this family and was close friends with the youngest daughter.

She and her older sister split their time between their dad and stepmom's house and their mom's.

The stepmom also had two kids from a previous relationship, so it was a blended household.

about a year and a half ago, the older sister got engaged around the same time it came out that their dad was cheating on the stepmom, which led to a nasty divorce." Okay.

The stepmom and her kids all cut him off, and so did the older sister.

" The younger sister was the only one still trying to keep some peace, and that's the one that's friends with the op." A lot of characters here.

And this is why, sorry, this is a side note, but this is why like when I do skits and people are like, I need the next part, I need the next part.

I'm like, I don't wanna complicate it too much by adding all these other characters.

'Cause I did that before and people were like, who's who?

Who's that?

It's hard in these skits and this is why I need to read this one first.

Okay.

"Originally, the dad was invited to the older sister's wedding, but he threw a fit when he found out the stepmom might be there and demanded to bring his new partner instead." God, hopefully it wasn't the one that he cheated with.

I mean, it's awkward either way 'cause it was a nasty divorce.

But if he is like, Hey, this is the mistress.

Like what are we doing here?

" When the bride told him his new partner wasn't welcome, he refused to attend." So you're choosing this new partner over your stepdaughter's wedding.

" She finally uninvited him altogether at the wedding, their mom walked.

The bride down the aisle, and both the younger sister and the former stepsister were bridesmaids.

Afterward, the dad had the audacity to send the bride a venmo request asking for reimbursement for the venue deposit.

He contributed she ignored it." This dad is something else.

We need a skit about that because I feel like too many times, like these skits are focused on moms and mothers in-law.

I'm sorry guys.

I am really sorry for that because I don't mean it to be that way.

I just get, most of the stories are about moms and I don't mean for it.

So I need a dad story.

We need to skit about this because this is a really shitty thing to do.

Really shitty thing to do.

He ultimately chose his new girlfriend over his wife and kids.

I get the divorce was nasty, but you need to put your kids first.

He is like, pay me back for the venue.

I'm it's not her fault.

You didn't show up.

" A month later, the dad married the woman he cheated with.

The divorce papers from the second marriage were finalized only 24 hours before his wedding." So it was the woman he cheated with that he wanted to bring to the wedding.

Can you imagine the audacity to not even see how badly you screwed up?

You ripped apart your family by cheating on your, wife, of how many years and then wanting to bring her to your daughter's wedding.

Actually, stepdaughter's wedding.

What?

This guy's lost his mind.

The only guests were two of her kids.

The younger daughter wasn't invited, which upset her, but her dad brushed it off by saying she lived too far away about four hours and he didn't think she could make it.

Okay.

Wedding #3.

" Just this past weekend was the younger sister's wedding.

I was in the bridal party along with her fiance's sister, her biological sister.

Two new stepsisters from the dad's third marriage and a cousin." Okay.

So we're talking, oh wow.

This is like a nice, okay, that like biological sister, the peacekeeper, we'll call her.

I don't have names for her.

So really nice to include her dad's mistress kids.

I mean, I guess this his new wife now, but that's wild to include them.

Okay.

" The bride had invited her former stepmom and step siblings, but they weren't a part of the bridal party." So she included, and unless I'm understanding incorrectly, she included the new stepsisters from the dad's third marriage, but not the former.

Step siblings who she's known a lot longer.

Okay.

I guess it's all about relationship and you choose who you want in your wedding.

It's ultimately up to you, but that's wild.

Okay.

"Her mom and her mom's partner were also there.

Her biological sister serving as maid of honor, still wasn't speaking to their dad.

It was out of question, the most awkward wedding I've ever attended.

The dad walked the bride down the aisle, but the former stepmom and step-siblings weren't included in photos and left after cocktail hour.

I later heard this was prearranged.

The bride wouldn't be upset." Oh, that sucks.

That's really sad.

" During family photos, the division was almost comical.

Bride and groom were in the center mom with her partner and their son, and the older sister with her husband on one side, dad and his new wife and her kids on the other.

The older sister was treated as part of mom's side, and there were no photos of both sisters with their dad.

He and the older sister still don't speak to this day and they didn't speak the entire day.

The dad's new wife seemed to be scrambling to play catch up socially, meeting extended family for the first time, while also trying to coexist with his ex-wife's families." I wanna hear our story, I want her to send in what happened here, if my head, it feels like scrambled eggs right now from all of this, I can only imagine.

What actually happened and, and you guys listening like, are, am I too confused?

Are you guys confused?

There are so many people here.

Okay.

" She ends with the bride, looked happy at the end of it all, which is the most important thing.

But from the outside, the balancing act of divorce, parents, ex stepparents, half siblings and new partners made it painfully awkward to witness." I hate that.

I hate when you hear about these messy divorces and the parents then make it more about themselves.

It sounds like the, ex like stepmother, sounded like she was willing to like, make it work, but the dad just, sounds terrible.

I've been in multiple weddings where there's children of divorce and they make it work.

They're still hugging, they're friends.

They get along, they, and it's not like they're hanging out outside of it.

They just make it work for the sake of their kids in a beautiful day.

It's not that hard to brush it aside for one day.

It's not about you, it's about the bride and groom.

And that's it.

The couple getting married.

All right, guys.

Well, those were two completely wild stories.

Thanks for listening, and hopefully, I mean, we might need a family tree after this.

I don't know, but this was wild.

All right, let's end this episode with some confessions that you guys sent me over on Instagram again.

Every single Friday we ask you guys to send us your confessions.

They have to do.

All kinds of things.

Engagements, dating, uh, relationships, weddings, proposals, honeymoons, you name it.

So send them to us.

Okay.

This first one says.

" My mother-in-law would invite his ex over or go on vacation with her after we got engaged." Oh, no.

This is the one that needs to let go of the past.

This, I would, I don't think I would do well with that.

I don't think most people would.

I need to know now.

Where are you guys?

Are you guys engaged still?

Are you married?

Does his ex still come around?

What is his relationship with the ex?

What is his relationship with his mom?

Is, is he like setting up a boundary?

Because that's weird to me that the mother-in-law's going on vacation with her.

That's, very inappropriate to me.

Okay.

Mother-in-law started a group chat telling everyone we were engaged, but didn't include me, only my groom.

Was that intentional or was that like an accident?

Because there's been times where like my husband's included in a group chat or I am and the other isn't included, and you talk to them later and they either are like, oh, I didn't mean to do that.

Or, it was for a different reason.

Or, I don't know, like, maybe it's not that deep, but maybe it is that deep.

I don't know.

It is weird to not include the bride in a text about her wedding.

That's like the one where the mother-in-law posted photos.

I think it was from their engagement and then, purposely like, what was it?

She, I think either cropped out the bride.

No, she cropped out the bride and then only tagged the son in the photos, so that was intentional.

Okay.

This last one says, I knew he was going to propose, but he still doesn't know that.

Married for four years with two kids." Okay.

Why was I, okay, tell me why I read that.

Like he doesn't know that I've been married for four years with two kids.

I've been reading too many like crazy confessions that I was literally thought she was confessing to us a deep, dark secret that she's been married for four years with two kids.

Okay.

She knew that he was going to propose, like she, somehow the secret was out.

She knew that he was gonna propose and she's not telling him four years later with two kids, all right, I got you.

I got you.

That's not that wild.

I think that probably happens a lot.

You want them to feel good about their surprise, so you're not gonna say anything.

like I've talked about before, I knew like we were gonna get engaged soon.

I didn't know when it was gonna happen, so I was completely surprised when it did happen.

But I wasn't like, whoa, we've never talked about marriage before.

This is weird.

So I knew it was kind of coming.

yeah.

Well, thanks guys.

Those were some pretty wild stories today.

As always, if you want more content or more crazy stories, join my email newsletter We send out emails every single Thursday and we like to call them stories from the Vault.

So you'll get some other stories that we don't share anywhere else.

'cause I get so many stories, every single week.

Like now there's probably 400 plus.

I don't even know, I haven't looked at the full doc in a long time.

stories and situations and segments and questions that have been sent to me, we're just working on their way out.

So, lots of different.

Ways and places that I'm sharing them right now.

So thank you guys for listening.

And you guys, I think I just had like a complete, like brain burst.

I've been like, I feel like I've been pulled in so many directions.

I think we all feel that.

I don't know what's going on, but there's just so much going on right now that my brain sometimes is just like, I completely just had a brain pause.

I don't even know what you wanna call it, All right guys.

That's all I have this week.

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