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August 29, 2025 18 mins

The crew tackles the tricky etiquette of split wedding gifts before diving into a hilarious debate over just how many decorative pillows are too many. Spoiler: it’s a lot.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, wait a minute. If you're going to a two
part wedding, so they're having a wedding a now and
a wedding b later in the year. Yeah, Elvis, this
is a growing trend.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I noticed this is now the third wedding I've been
invited to where there's part one is happening now.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's just a wedding. It's a kind of wedding junior.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
And then the big celebration is going to be next
year when when.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
They can do it. Yeah, no fun, there's going to
be a lot. They're anxious, they're ready to go, they're
ready to get married. Well, I just don't like the idea.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's like, wait a second, you're going through the whole
process twice, and where everyone's going to do the dress
up thing twice, and I.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Give them two gifts.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's where I'm having different No, no, no, I hope not.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
You don't give a You don't give a gift for
a party. You give a gift for a wedding. They're
getting married one time, that's what the gifts are.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I mean, if they're having an engagement party first, then
I understand another gift, but there's no engagement party and
it's just two. It's too wet's.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Wedding, wedding. It's like they're anxious, they want to get
it started. Yeah, yeah, go have fun. You give half half?
Would I give all of it up front? Or but
the thing is? And then I look like an idiot
if I wait till the second wedding, because I think
you're overthinking it. They're getting married once. It's just one wedding.
It's one union at a time for these people. So

(01:24):
when they get married, you can give them a gift
now or give them a gift later. Does I mean,
I don't. I don't think anyone's gonna worry about it.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I compare it to like tipping the bartender up front.
Give them all the money upfront, show them that you
made the effort, and then the number two you could
skate by.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I know, but okay, are you let me ask you
a weird question? Are you happy for them? I mean, god, yeah,
I got so excited. Focus on that part, like focus
on that.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Look, I'm going to be worried how I'm they're gonna
think about me if I only give If I do
half care and they're gonna be like, oh my god, carried.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really in the whole scheme of things in their lives.
I don't think you, you and what you do are
going to keep them away at night. I think you're okay.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
They get judging when they open the envelopes and they
write that stuff down in the ledger.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm telling you, wait, now, here's what do you think
that they're going to go like, if you gave something
nice at the first wedding, then the second wedding comes,
they're going to go, oh, where's Scary's gift. I mean,
they should have it written in the ledger that you
gave it the last wedding.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
And yeah, but didn't you keep like track like an
accountant of everything that came in and who gave.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
What I mean for they do that, yes, yes they do. Yeah,
they do. Thanks for the thank you right for the
thank you cards exactly.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
But a ledger makes it sound like there's a dollar
value attached to it.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, most people, I guess it depends on where you live.
Where we live, they give money. That's what you get
at weddings, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
But I wouldn't worry about it. The whole point is
you have friends who are getting married. You want to
help them celebrate. They've decided they're going to celebrate twice
because they cannot be fully open now, but they want
to get it started. Go go play with them, Go
have some fun. I'm going to. Okay, just don't judge
on the gift. But here's the thing. Now, let's say
God forbid, they have this the first wedding, right, and

(03:01):
you decided, well, I'm gonna give the gift on the
second wedding. Yeah, they don't. They don't make it to
the second wedding. Oh oh, that's a problem. That's a problem.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I have another question.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
What's that say?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
You're you give somebody a nice gift for their birthday
because they're turning like a big number or whatever, and
then you have a party later. Do you have to
give them another gift or you already gave them a gift,
so you're you know whatever, what do you think you
a gift? Okay, that's what I think too, But other
people are telling me no, I'm just saying I think

(03:31):
if that's what I say.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow, people, do people really get that wrapped up in
the gift?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Unfortunately I told you I did.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, go ahead, gandhi.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Well, I have a friend who got married not too
long ago, and she had a bachelorette party. The bachelorette
party ended up getting canceled, so I heard from another
friend that she then expected everybody to roll the money
from the bachelorette party that they didn't spend into her
wedding gift.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
So she wanted to collect both.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
I didn't do that, So I don't know if I'm
the terrible friend or I know. I was like, that's
a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
And I screwed everything up where I I We were writing,
we were trying to keep tabs on what people get.
We first of all, we said, please do not give
a gift, we do not need anything. We appreciated donate money,
to contribute money to this organization whatever. But people gave
gifts anyway because they're they're they're lovely people and they
wanted they wanted to give a gift. I get it.

(04:26):
We cannot find the list. We don't know where. We
don't know who gave us what. I've got this beautiful
ash tray up there. I don't know who gave it
to me.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I did it was me?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Is okay? Take claim friends out there going, oh my god,
you didn't even say thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I don't know who to think.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, I think you.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
You were very clear, very clear about not wanting gifts
and specifically telling us if you do want to give
me a gift, here's where you can donate the money
for that gift.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
So if people chose to go.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Around that and give it to you, I don't think
you really owe back the thank you. Oh my gosh,
you're so amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is just a nice thing to do.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
It is, Yeah, of course it is.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
The phones are going crazy. I got Karen on one five.
Karen her solution for the two part wedding. It was
a two part wedding, just like Scaries, right, Karen.

Speaker 8 (05:12):
Yes, this past weekend. I just went on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Was this part one or part two?

Speaker 8 (05:17):
This is part one? This was the bride and groom.
My name is Kara from Santa Pus, New York, Long Island.
I love her well you guys, and I've listened to
for twelve years going to work.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
So anyway, so you went to part.

Speaker 8 (05:28):
Wedding, the beautiful wedding. She had the old Royce, she
had the whole nine yards the makeup orders that everybody
was done. This church was full the wedding cards, you know,
the the invitation said the wedding of these two kids.
So everybody, a ton of people came to the church.
And I gave my full envelope to the wedding, and
the little card was inside. The invitation said the reception

(05:50):
will follow next year. And so it's really Part two
was really reception. It's not a wedding wedding. It's a
wedding and a reception.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a party. And right exactly, Okay, where did the
gift go, Karen?

Speaker 8 (06:01):
I just handed it to the broad mother, you know,
just to give everything envelope and everybody kind of do that.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
You do if you gave the gift of radio, what
if you give half now and half later?

Speaker 8 (06:14):
Like no, it's that's ridiculous. No I.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Like it.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
That's kind of stupid.

Speaker 8 (06:20):
I think that's done because it's a party. It's a party.
I mean, I don't know if she's gonna put that
gorgeous wedding gown on again this year. She might be pregnant.
I have another friend whose son got married. Let she
didn't want to wait. They left in Texas they're coming.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Up talking about it. It's just it's giving me. I
got blood pressure flying up my eyes. Oh okay, thank you, Karen,
best of luck to you. You sound like you did
the right thing though, to give them a gift an
ear over. It's done, The gift is done. I don't
know you anything else.

Speaker 9 (06:43):
See, I wouldn't give a gift until part two because
if they don't make it to part two, I don't
want to have wasted my gift on part one. See
what I'm saying, Well, if you can't make it to
a reception, you don't deserve the gift.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wow, you were so emphatic. There's a lot of people
that don't. Their marriage doesn't even last six and I
were saying that I know, but you have a gift
in hope that things will be fine. Jenny's online six
Hello Jenny, Hi guys. Well hello, you went to a
two part wedding and you gave a gift at each
part two gifts? Totally.

Speaker 7 (07:13):
I did so. My friend's wedding was last year, but
it was canceled, so last weekend they had the church
ceremony and a small luncheon just for a few friends
and family. So I did bring a small gift and
then the actual reception and big party will be next year.
But they're also doing like a vow renewal, so I'm

(07:36):
going to give the actual gift, you know, the card
some money at that time.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, look, pressure, there's no pressure. You do exactly what
you want to do. But if someone else decides just
to give one gift, you don't think they're a schmuck,
do you. I mean they're okay.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
I mean it's like, yeah, I mean I was just
brought up never you know, arrived somewhere without something, you know,
So that's why it was just small gifts. But I
need to have something, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I got you, I got you.

Speaker 9 (08:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's however you want to do it. It's totally fine.
I don't think there should be a rule rules. Schmool
with you, all right, thank you so much, Jenny. Yeah,
what's scary.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
There is this thought though, that if you're if the
host is paying for two parties and shelling out cash,
then you have to give a gift for both parties
to help cover that cost.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
So there is there there is that.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
That is playing out in my head right now, which
is why I'm wrestling with the one gift versus two gift.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I see, I've never understood that logic. Yeah, to throw
a party, to throw a party, and I needn't. I
don't know. It's weird to me to throw a party
and expect you to compensate me for it. I don't know.
I don't know it's weird for me.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, but that's what people do.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
They go, Okay, it's two fifty a plate or three
fifty a plate, So how much I got to cover
my plate and my guest's plate. That's how people think
it's crazy.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
And I'm telling you what, Single people with no kids
really get screwed over in this whole game because we
spend our lives going to baby showers, engagement parties, whatever,
paying for all of these different things. But not only
do we get screwed over by the government without being
married and having kids. Then your friends never get you
all these gifts back that you're getting all of them.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
So just keep that in mind.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go
back to my wedding and I'm going to divide it
up and I'm gonna send you all an then voice,
get out.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Here, please, don't exactly.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Please don't you should have a part two, Elvis, just
a part. We're gonna call it Part two, the payof Hey.
By the way, I don't need you pillow shaming me, Nate.
I don't know how you sleep in that bed, man,
I don't. Okay, Well, first of all, you're not invited,
so it doesn't matter. Okay, fine, go fair enough, Okay.
Why where did you see my bed? I was watching

(09:46):
on Instagram. You gave Max a treat apparently, and then
you filmed him followed him into your bedroom, which I
know what that looks like because it was your apartment. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
And he goes into this bed and he barely even
gets onto the bed because there's so many decorative pillows
act from the back leading towards the foot of the bed.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
So it's a video of my dog grabbing a little chip.
We call it mister chippy. Yeah. And he runs into
the bedroom and he goes to my bed to hide
the chippy. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (10:11):
And then he goes over one layer of pillows, then
another layer of pillows, then a third layer, and then
finally gets to I think the fourth layer of pillows deep.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Four pillows deep.

Speaker 9 (10:19):
Right, how do you have that many decorative pillow How
do you get into bed at night?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
What do you care?

Speaker 9 (10:25):
Am I the only person here? Like, there's no way
you can possibly sleep without spending forty five minutes taking
those pillows off and stacking them.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
So dramatic.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
No, I'm seriously I hate pillow You act like with
so much drama, the kind of guy who had have
a lot of pillows. No, I'm an anti anti decorative.
I can't stand you're a drama queen.

Speaker 10 (10:45):
No.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
I think Danielle will agree that we had this in
our guest room. Danielle, when you come and stay at
my house, yeh, is there not seventeen decorative pillows on
the guest pend There are?

Speaker 4 (10:53):
There are, and I have to take them all off?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Who cares?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Who cares? Put it back on?

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Because when you go to bed, you're tired. It's a
fifteen minute job to get same.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
In my house, my husband hates them. He does not
let me if I put too many. He's like, take
them off. We don't need them.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
The same as decorative hand towels that you can't dry
your hands on in the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Why have them because they're pretty?

Speaker 9 (11:13):
Yeah, but these pillows, where do you put them, You
put them on the floor, it's all dusty and dirty. No, No,
you stack them on the on the top of the dresser.
I mean I still I have like fourteen pillows stacked
on my dresser. They've been there for like three months
because I refused to let Heather put them on the bed.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Here's my point. I don't know if you want to
bitch about my pillows on my bed or how I
put ketchup on the side of my fries rather than
on top of it. It's none of your business. Yeah,
but why do you get you get all but hurt
about my pillows. I'm just I'm judging because I saw
it on your Instagram.

Speaker 9 (11:44):
So I said, boy, you've got a lot of decorative
pillows there, because you really do. But how long does it? Seriously,
can I ask a serious question? How long does it
take you to take them off of the bed rudders?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Ten seconds at the most?

Speaker 9 (11:56):
What do you do, like jump on there and just
bounce around and have them fly off the bad Again?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Let me ask you, why do you care? Because I'm curious.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
I want to know why people have so many decorative
pillows getting.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's for decoration, They're beautiful, you too, shut.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Up bare What about the throws?

Speaker 3 (12:16):
You don't need throws to add the decorative pillows you
need to throw and it's the long, long chilinder.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
I don't have a body pillow.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Those pillows are for bitingate that's why.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
They but on the same token. So my boyfriend hates
on my throw pillows too. I go to his house.
He has like two pillows, and I'm like, what do
we do with this?

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Can we give some more? That's all you need?

Speaker 6 (12:41):
I need more than one pillow. I like to have
little like forts and be able to hold one.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okay, I think I think you're missing my point. My
point is what does it matter? Why? Why do you
have to give me crap because of my pillows?

Speaker 9 (12:53):
I'm not giving you crap as a by product, but
I was curious.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
But yeah, here's the video.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
People are going to be expecting something.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Just count the layers of pillows. It's probably three or four.
Who cares? What brody, what's your philosophy? What's your pillows philosophy?
And the question, I'm sure if you decorated a bed
it would be really beautiful. I decorated with my body.
That's all I need.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Oh boy, I want to know if row one is
there to decorate row two one?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
That is road two there to decorate row three? Is
that the thought process? Get away from me.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
You have four rows here, four rows, pillow. I like
your four rows. I think it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You're a pillow. By the way, I have a whole
new a whole new bed coming soon and all unveil
no no, all new pillows, all new everything. We love
front Gate. You're a pillow hoarder, you know what. And
you're a pillow bier.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think he looks nice.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I don't know. I just again, what business is it
of yours? It's not my business. I was just curious.
I'm like observing the wild here.

Speaker 9 (13:55):
I'm like watching some sort of animal digits, dig its,
burrow or something. I just want to know how you
get those off of the bed. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Held on, Michael, Michael, are you calling to scrutinize my pillows?
Because if so, I got you know, I'm bad man.

Speaker 10 (14:10):
Anyway, go, I have pillows to my bed. So my
friend I have decorative pillows and decorative hand towels are cute,
but my friend has decorative candles. So like she doesn't
light them, she just lets them sit around her house.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
You know, I don't know how to feel about decorative candles.
I mean there are some there is what they call
candle art. Yeah, where it is a candle, it's wax,
and they say you.

Speaker 10 (14:30):
Have to like light it to smell it and like
make your helm smell good.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Sometimes they just smell good on their own.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Though.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Did you guys see the candle that Lady Gaga gave me?

Speaker 6 (14:40):
That thing needed to be like opened with some type
of security tool.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's weird. It's like a droopy face, Michael. And then
when you light the candle on the top, you light
it on the top, the wax drips down into her
eyes and form and then drips down her cheeks. And
so the wax, the wax drips down and forms like
like tears.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, I did not see that.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
You can see you can see what it's going to
do if you light it, but you dare not light it.
I mean, okay, so let's move back to your decorative
hand towels. Michael. Now, now I'm getting all that.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Why can't I wipe my hands on those when I'm
done washing my name?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Because they're decorative right, right, yeah, okay, we'll leave all right, Well, listen,
thank you?

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Your initials on them? What do they have your initials
on them? Because usually it has like your first initial
on the towel.

Speaker 10 (15:30):
They're palm trees, my whole bathrooms palm trees.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Of course it is thank you, Michael. Have a great day,
you in your hand towels? What decorators? Decorative pillows are
a sham. That's stupid. It's it's so stupid, it's kind
of cute. Take a victory SIPs theory. Yeah, please do. Hello, Lindy, Hi,

(15:58):
are you as passionate about hating decorative pillows as straight Nate?

Speaker 7 (16:02):
I can't stand them.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
I'm sorry, they're the worst.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Okay, So what do you have one little pillow in
your bed?

Speaker 3 (16:09):
No?

Speaker 8 (16:09):
I have two.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
I can't sleep with just one pillow?

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Right, So okay, but I like decorative pillows. Can't we
just agree to get along here? Why do you? Why
do you? Are you gonna get a hard on for
a decorative pillows too? I mean, seriously, but Lindy, I
will like them, so you don't judge me? Are you
judging me because I have decorative pillows?

Speaker 5 (16:32):
No?

Speaker 8 (16:32):
You just won't catch me sleeping on a bed with them.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay, well, guess what show you I didn't invite you.
Guess what? I can't come to yours. You don't have
enough pillows anyway, Thank you, Lindy. Have a good day.
People give me crap up on my pillows.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Where do beds look though? If you walk in and
it's just two.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Pillows, it does look like a prison.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's your pad type of thing. You need the decoration
to be an adult?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Whatever? Adult? What's scary, Elvis? How do you feel about
bed skirts? I think some beds need them, some beds don't.
It depends on the frame of the bed. If you
have a nice, cool frame, you don't need a bed skirt.
You don't want to cover it up. Why do you
have a problem with bedskirts?

Speaker 4 (17:08):
They get a dust They look so nice because if not,
then you see the ugly you.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Know, in front of the bed, and you can cramp
stuff under the bed and.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
This is just in. You can clean them. Yes, this
is just in and they're called dust ruffles. Get out
of here, Jack asked.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Hey, take work.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
They need to stem them when they come out of
the thing.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Scary. You hire someone to come over every week. Don't
get started with me. I will you boogie butthole.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
One of the problem.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Because they get dusty. I couldn't ask my cleaning woman
to clean them but butthole.

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