May 4, 2025 • 21 mins
We talk about demanding brides, farting flower girls and cheap transport!
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Welcome to this bonus episode ofThe Bridal Brief, where Ruth and
myself, Steph, will share with you a mix of funny wedding
stories, mishaps, craziness, andfunny gifts.
You never know what you're goingto get.
Today on our first bonus episode, we wanted to do
something fun. Yep.
We are going to share some funnywedding stories and crazy
demands that we've that we've seen from around the world.
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Yeah, I'm pretty excited about doing this, Ruth.
Yeah, something different to ourlists.
That's right. Yep, it's.
Gonna be fun that's. Right.
Nobody needs to hear all about budgets all the time, no.
Not all the time, you have to have fun times too.
That's right. So we found a couple of good
ones, some from Reddit and some that people have told us so.
It's gonna be a shorter one, butit's gonna be a good.
Yep, that's right, Steph, you'vegot the first one.
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I do. So I found this one on Reddit.
OK, Right. And it's OK.
I'll just, I'll just read it andthen we'll see what you think.
All right, Right. I was a bridesmaid for a friend.
Her four or five year old niece was the flower girl.
The whole affair was pretty big,loads of people, typical
wedding. Everyone was standing in their
places as the wedding was in progress.
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For some damn reason they had the flower girl standing at the
front of the church with the wedding party after she'd done
her flower thing. There was a slideshow with some
cheesy country song playing as the bride and groom stood there
staring into each other's eye. God, it went forever.
It's kind of cute. Love a long.
Slideshow at a wedding. Yeah.
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All right. Right.
Yeah. So I believe there were five of
us bridesmaids. We stood at the front, but the
maid of honour and her best man stood up on the stage like a
platform during the ceremony. So did the flower girl.
OK, yeah, I can see this going poorly.
Yeah, the. Little flower girl was getting
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antsy during the slide joke because it was so long.
Probably fair enough, but a glare from the bride's mum got
her back to focus. The vows started, Kid gets bored
again and starts taking tiny steps backwards while kind of
swinging her little basket that had flower petals in it.
She backs up, backs up, her heels reach the edge of the
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platform, and she begins wildly rotating her arms to maintain
her balance, all the while scattering battles and remaining
silence. Ah, right, right, right.
We were instructed to maintain asolemn face because the whole
thing was being taped. Ah God, I started to crack up.
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This little girl is flailing andnobody's going to her aid.
I can imagine it in my head. I can imagine what's happening.
Yeah, this. Step up was only about 6 inches.
She wasn't in danger of getting hurt.
So I'm trying so hard not to laugh.
I held my breath. My shoulders were shaking.
No one else in my view seemed toeven notice what was happening.
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Despite my best efforts, I couldn't control it.
I made this awful set noise and tried to cover it with a cough.
Oh. No.
Our bridesmaid turned and glaredat me.
It made things so much worse. The kid is still flailing her
arms, but she's abandoned her flower girl basket and his back
just starting to. Her back is starting to arch and
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I knew she was just about to fall over when suddenly she got
her footing. She bent down to pick up the
basket and farted with the capacity of a man's size of
Jason, my Mama. Oh Lord, the acoustics of the
auditorium were exquisite. How the F was no one else dying
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over this? I could never convey a situation
well enough to pass on the absolute hilarity, and I think
she conveyed it really well. I think that's funny.
It's a. Very good story, well written
actually too It's. Really well written.
Yeah, well. Done Funny, yeah.
It's a good. One could you imagine the I
could just imagine the acousticsof that, but God.
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I could, it's just a. Little girl.
Imagine watching it back later, yeah?
Yeah, that's gonna be forever. I hope they're right be able to
edit that one out. That girl on her 21st as the
best. Video.
You can make a song out of that.Make it a beat.
Right. Yeah, They should have been
released somewhere publicly. The funny things that happen at
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weddings. Funny things.
OK, your turn. Rude.
I do. So I've got 1 here.
An unknown redditor posted this sad little story about how only
one person actually brought foodto a potluck wedding.
Oh no. So for anyone who doesn't know
what a potluck wedding, it's basically a bring your own dish.
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And it's a dish that's meant to be shared.
Yes, among people. Right.
So you know, you might bring a large salad or or something like
that. Something that can be shared
with quite a few people. Yeah, that's right.
OK, all right. I went to an entire DIY wedding,
but the bride didn't really careand got others to do it.
The worst bit was that it was a potluck meal.
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That's a DIY kind of meal, but only one person brought a dish
as that's the only person that the bride told on.
So for 200 plus people, there's one tray of chicken.
She kept inviting heaps of people the whole time.
It was like open on Facebook. Plus, the wedding was in the
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middle of nowhere, so it's not like you could just, you know,
pop down to Domino's and get some pizzas like.
Oh my God. 200 people, one plateof chicken.
I did go to a wedding one time that like they had alcohol and
stuff, but they hadn't really catered for the amount of
people, right? And so they came around with a
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hat to put money in to go to thebottle to get more booze.
No food. No, there was food.
There was great food. They had a big, like, pig on a
spit. Yeah, but like, just they ran
out of alcohol so early. And then they're passing this
hat around because they go to the bottle to get more, to get
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more alcohol. Wow, I just really don't have
any words. For that I know I think for my
wedding I like overboard. Yeah, overbuy.
Yeah, always overbuy overboard with alcohol.
Like you can come home with you.Yeah, that's right.
You know, you can use that alcohol for a couple of years to
come. Many Christmases will be spent
at your place with plenty of alcohol.
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Oh, but to have one plate of chicken at a potluck?
I mean that's terrible. Imagine how hungry that there
was. Probably plenty of booze though.
Do not tell people Yeah, I. Think if you're gonna have a
potluck, then you really need totell everyone it's potluck.
Then Yep. Yep.
Like how can you forget to tell them that they need to bring a
dish anyway? Important one, but anyway, I've
got another one. Yep, after trying to cut corners
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by sending out email invites instead of paper ones, one
couple on Reddit loomed. Just wire one of a kind.
Printed invites might be the best route.
Yeah, here's their story. We emailed our guests a link to
our wedding web page, making it clear that the only that's the
only invitation that they would be receiving.
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Only parents, siblings, and close friends were invited.
Imagine my surprise when we started getting RSVPS from
people I didn't know. My fiance's family was so
excited about our wedding that they've forwarded our invitation
to aunts and uncles I've never met before.
No. Oh, I have to be more auditable
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because right now my jury is just on the ground.
Oh. OK, be so stressful.
How do you then uninvite them? You haven't even met them yet.
That's. Just so awkward.
Oh, I hope they're gonna bring good gifts.
You know, there's extra kind of invite people they don't that's
the. Thing they don't they don't
press the leggy if they bring. No.
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Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.
OK, so that's probably a good idea to do some paper invite,
put names on. Them.
Yeah. Put names on them.
I don't know. Yeah, yeah.
But the fact that you would evenhave to make it clear this is
not just an invite that you thenshare.
With whoever you like. Yeah, I'm a bit puzzled by that
picture. Yeah.
All right. I've got 1 here.
OK, a wedding I shot around 10. Oh, this is me by the way, so
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I'll just make that clear. This isn't new.
Yeah, no. Yeah, this is.
I've gotten this story from someone.
Yeah. A wedding I shot around 10 years
ago. All went as planned, and it was
beautiful. No drama.
July day. Then came the receptions. 10
seconds into the first dance thegroom went to dramatically dip
the bride and all of a sudden she fell on the floor.
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At first everyone thought she was laughing and then we
realised she was screaming. He had taken out her knee,
busted her MCL. Oh my God.
Music stopped, all on pause while guests ran to help her.
Within 20 minutes, the paramedics had picked them up.
They were off to the hospital. This is better.
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Better or for worse, right? The father of the bride
insisted. I keep on photographing.
I ran a photo booth that night and was a very drunken guest,
fell through my paper roll and smashed his head on the brick
wall behind it. At that point I couldn't wait to
pack up. They were back at 10:00 PM as I
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was leaving the bride with her new set of crutches.
It was quite the evening. The couple was so lovely and
ended up very grateful I was there to capture what they had
missed. They loved their photos.
Moral of the story? Save the dramatic dips for
another time. Oh, so many people.
Do the dramatic. Dips yeah and it's it's
beautiful, but well practise it a lot beforehand.
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Make sure that you both have thestrength to pull that off She.
Took it out. Can you imagine the pain?
Yes. Right, and she'll be on a fair
few painkillers, probably for quite a while.
I know that she's. Going to love.
Her wedding, A great honeymoon. Yeah, that's right.
Lots of relaxing. Don't mix that with the
champagne though, please. Well, I can't wait for you to
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hear the next one. All right?
You need to. Yeah, I I can't wait to get your
reaction here. So this is a bride who sent this
letter to her prospective bridalparty.
Oh, no, I can just. Oh no.
Yes. OK, I can't wait to get your
response after each one here. OK, Are you ready?
Yep. OK, she this is exactly what the
text said. Anyway, to secure your spot in
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our wedding party, the followingthings will be required.
A promise to host a party must be couples at a venue other than
someone's house. So everyone has to do this
right? OK, next, next.
Your wedding gift must be a cashcheque of at least $500.
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Oh, my eyebrows are just. They're so raised right now.
Next. You must buy me or the groom.
Yep, depending on which side you're on a day of gift of at
least $100. What's a day of?
Gift so something you give them I guess while you're getting
ready. Oh, OK, so.
On top of your 500 dollar chequethat you're already giving them,
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you have to get them a gift of $100.
Right, right next. Like a fancy set of pyjamas to
wear in the morning or something.
Or a gift. Card or something like that.
Right. Maybe nice pair of slippers,
right? OK, the next you must attend
every shower party we have and will be required to purchase a
gift card for each one with A atleast a value of $50.
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Oh wow, there's a lot of gifts happening.
Here it's the demand though, that's the thing.
Yes, wait for it, because the last thing you will sign a
contract that will hold you legally responsible for meeting
all of our requirements and saysthat if you don't, you will be
legally held to reimbursing us for the time we wasted and the
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stress of causing problems. No.
I'm out. I'm out of the bridal party at
this point. I receive it.
I know I'm, I'm out. I'm like, thank you very much.
I, I, I'll I decline to be part of the wedding party.
That's that's just. Anyone said yes?
I don't know who. Who is this person?
Who does she think she? Is I just was shocked.
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I was. I mean.
I. No, just I have no words.
There's absolutely no situation that I could think of when this
would be a good idea. No, I don't.
You know, you could be Kate Middleton, and I still don't
think you could send out this kind of I.
Was having this conversation with Jody at work today because
I was saying to her, I feel likewhen the girls I asked said yes
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to being my bridesmaids, I feel privileged that they wanted to
stand up to be with me. It shouldn't be the other way
around. No, it's not the other way
around. Yeah, like you shouldn't.
Oh wow, you're so special. Don't you want to be in my
bridal? Party no like it's a.
Privilege. Thank you.
Oh wow, yeah. Just yeah, I.
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Mean I don't really have a huge amount of words for that.
I don't. No, no, I don't want to be part
of the wedding. Yeah, I'll pass.
Thanks, but no you. Probably don't even need to come
as a guest either. Yeah, I'm good.
That's for the bridesmaids. I wonder what kind of
restrictions the guests will get.
That's right. You know, you're probably not
allowed to wear certain colours.Maybe you're not allowed to.
You know, you've got to get a gift over a certain amount.
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Oh God Can. You imagine if someone wear wore
white to the wedding. Wow, banished for life.
Spanish. That's right.
All right, I've got another one here.
This is about Ubering. Oh, on a wedding day?
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess it'sif if nobody's seeing you get in
the car or getting out of the car, you know?
But you're relying on an Uber. Then you are relying on an Uber,
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but you know each turn. All right, so here's the story.
This was on Twitter. I was just in an Uber pool with
a couple going to their wedding and they had the audacity to be
mad at me for joining their Uberpool even though they had chose
to Uber pool on their wedding day.
I love how cheap. Man at this person for joining
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their Uber. Pool but.
Don't choose Uber. Pool like don't get a normal
Uber you're already being tight.I mean come on, what was the
difference like 5 bucks here? Come on, people.
That's just because and there. Ever is a day to splurge.
Today, I mean you could do is there Uber premium?
I feel like that's. It splurge just.
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Spend a little bit, stop being so.
Stingy. Yeah, seriously.
OK, I've got one. This one.
Yeah, this one you'll find funny.
It's about who's paying for dinner.
Yeah. The wedding dinner.
You'll find out. OK, OK.
OK, I contemplated posting on this but as time passes I grow
more inclined to do so and I seriously need your thoughts on
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this. Not for a friend but for me as
I'm completely stupefied by thishappening.
We received the most beautiful wedding invitations by the mail
and have responded well before the deadline with our choice of
dinner and space for two days. Later we received a sweet
voicemail of thanks for responding, followed by a
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request for $150.00 to cover dinner at $75 per person.
OK, what? Has anyone heard of this
happening? What in all of creation of
planet Earth? By the way, this is not a
destination wedding and even forthose we've attended, we've
never had to pay for a plate. You cannot send an invitation
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out and not be very clear beforepeople respond that they'll be
paying for their own meal. Yeah, that's right.
And I mean, you know, a lot of people do ask people to cover
the their own plate and that's, I think there's nothing really
wrong with that. I don't have a problem.
With those people. Probably don't ask for a gift as
well. That's right.
You know, if, if they're paying for their own plate, that's the
gift. All right, yes, but to send out
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an invite and not? Say you'll be.
Paying for your own and then? Oh, the audacity.
I know, I know. I was just, I was, I was a bit
dumbfounded myself. That's.
Just crazy. Absolutely crazy.
Absolutely. So you've got one more here.
What's this one about? Oh yes, OK, I've asked my friend
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to make the wedding cake for me for 75 plus people and she's
come back asking if I'm contributing to the cost for the
cake as it's going to cost her $300.00 plus to make it.
Am I wrong to be offended that she's not gifting me the cake as
part of my wedding present? I want to ask you about this
one, Ruth, because obviously you're a photographer and do you
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think that you have people who just expect for you to do their
wedding? Yes, yeah, definitely.
And I don't think a lot of the time, I mean, obviously it's
different for you, but a lot of the time people don't realise
that, you know, I charge, you know, a couple $1000 for a
wedding. That's a huge present.
That's a big. Present because it's not just
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the day. I'm also missing out on the
wedding. Like I don't get to enjoy myself
if I'm photographing. That's right.
All day, everyone else looks beautiful.
And I end up looking, you know, like a sweaty drowned rat by the
end of it. Yeah.
It's also the, you know, the weeks of editing afterwards as
well. And it's a lot, right?
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And also my gear is expensive. That's right, they.
Don't I think they don't always realise that they're asking me
to contribute a couple of $1000.It is the same for us because,
like, for me, if we do a wedding, I have the team
prepping it. There's wages involved.
Yeah. And charges, even labour costs
involved in that. Yeah.
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And I don't think people realisethat.
Yeah. Like it's, it's bigger than
just, oh, you've got that business, you can do that for
me. Yeah.
I mean, cakes take hours and hours.
That's the gift. Yeah.
The hours. Yeah.
I was blessed to have a friend of ours make the cake for me,
and she covered all the costs ofthe ingredients.
But I offered. Yeah, because I didn't want her
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to have that outlay. That's crazy.
I unless they're prepared. Unless they're prepared to cover
that. It depends how good the friend
is. Oh.
Doesn't it? Yeah, yeah.
Am I wrong to be offended there?I feel like you have a right
actually to say, well, my gift to you is the labour.
Yep, Yep. But I might need you to cover
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the cost of the. Eggs, right?
Everyone wants to give a $300.00gift.
Not everyone can afford that. No, that's right.
Yeah, that's right. All right.
I have this one and this one waskind of more specifically for
you. Steph Oh, OK.
All right, small fish in inadequate glass containers as
cent pieces. So let's just let that title
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sink in. Yes, I can imagine this because.
I've seen it. Oh, no.
All right. So we walk into the hall and
find our tables, each with a belly up, totally dead, bloated
guppy floating in its little glass coffin.
Lots of people lost their appetites.
The marriage didn't last a year.Who is doing?
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Are people really putting live fish into their glass?
I have not seen it for. A while but.
It went around for a while, OK, and it was really common for the
fish to die because people do think fighting fish, Japanese
fighting fish, for example. Right.
They get really stressed out. Yeah.
I mean, that's when they flare up, right, To make them pretty.
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So they get very stressed out and they can die from that
stress sitting in the table, right.
And people tend to be a bit silly and have a few drinks and
might pour beer or something like that into the water.
Yeah. And and also.
A lot of the time this water, you know, they're just getting
water probably out of the tap and it's not.
It's amazing for these fish, yes, that's just heartbreaking.
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So it is very sad. It is.
I feel like it's a really bad omen.
Well, clearly the marriage didn't last a year.
That's. Right I.
Mean it's a good side. Is it you?
Wanna have life around your wedding?
Not, not little dead fish. That's right.
That's all the fish. I definitely think it's
something that, yeah, I know. That's so sad.
It's horrible. I probably would have lost my
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appetite too. It's like, please could you
remove the centrepiece and then I'd feel guilty.
Yeah, that's very sad. I think I I I do think it's
something to be avoided. Yeah.
So when the decorating episode comes along, I feel like maybe
we should just. Bring that mention there, just
say no. I'd like to know to do
centrepieces. I mean, it would have to be
known that these fish are not going to survive.
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I feel like it was definitely more a thing that people were
doing about 12 or 13 years ago. OK, not some reason.
No. Yeah, even 1213 years ago.
What were they doing back? Then I know and I, I did a few
where those were the centrepieces.
We weren't doing them and those were the centrepieces.
Yeah, it's heartbreaking. And it's heartbreaking, so.
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Sport, Wow. I think we've done pretty good
with some of our our episodes orour yes talks today.
We have. That was fun.
Yeah, it was just a little different.
Little bonus episode for everyone so.
It won't even carry down normal streaming, no.
We're still gonna do it fortnightly, still gonna have
our episodes up. That's right, we're just gonna
add these little bonus ones in for those of you who want to
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listen to a little bit more. Yep, sounds good.
Ah well, thanks again Ruth. Another fun day.
Thank you, Steph. OK, Ciao for now.
Bye. That's all for today.
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Welcome to this bonus episode ofThe Bridal Brief, where Ruth and
myself, Steph, will share with you a mix of funny wedding
stories, mishaps, craziness, andfunny gifts.
You never know what you're goingto get.
Today on our first bonus episode, we wanted to do
something fun. Yep.
We are going to share some funnywedding stories and crazy
demands that we've that we've seen from around the world.
(00:22):
Yeah, I'm pretty excited about doing this, Ruth.
Yeah, something different to ourlists.
That's right. Yep, it's.
Gonna be fun that's. Right.
Nobody needs to hear all about budgets all the time, no.
Not all the time, you have to have fun times too.
That's right. So we found a couple of good
ones, some from Reddit and some that people have told us so.
It's gonna be a shorter one, butit's gonna be a good.
Yep, that's right, Steph, you'vegot the first one.
(00:44):
I do. So I found this one on Reddit.
OK, Right. And it's OK.
I'll just, I'll just read it andthen we'll see what you think.
All right, Right. I was a bridesmaid for a friend.
Her four or five year old niece was the flower girl.
The whole affair was pretty big,loads of people, typical
wedding. Everyone was standing in their
places as the wedding was in progress.
(01:05):
For some damn reason they had the flower girl standing at the
front of the church with the wedding party after she'd done
her flower thing. There was a slideshow with some
cheesy country song playing as the bride and groom stood there
staring into each other's eye. God, it went forever.
It's kind of cute. Love a long.
Slideshow at a wedding. Yeah.
(01:25):
All right. Right.
Yeah. So I believe there were five of
us bridesmaids. We stood at the front, but the
maid of honour and her best man stood up on the stage like a
platform during the ceremony. So did the flower girl.
OK, yeah, I can see this going poorly.
Yeah, the. Little flower girl was getting
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antsy during the slide joke because it was so long.
Probably fair enough, but a glare from the bride's mum got
her back to focus. The vows started, Kid gets bored
again and starts taking tiny steps backwards while kind of
swinging her little basket that had flower petals in it.
She backs up, backs up, her heels reach the edge of the
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platform, and she begins wildly rotating her arms to maintain
her balance, all the while scattering battles and remaining
silence. Ah, right, right, right.
We were instructed to maintain asolemn face because the whole
thing was being taped. Ah God, I started to crack up.
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This little girl is flailing andnobody's going to her aid.
I can imagine it in my head. I can imagine what's happening.
Yeah, this. Step up was only about 6 inches.
She wasn't in danger of getting hurt.
So I'm trying so hard not to laugh.
I held my breath. My shoulders were shaking.
No one else in my view seemed toeven notice what was happening.
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Despite my best efforts, I couldn't control it.
I made this awful set noise and tried to cover it with a cough.
Oh. No.
Our bridesmaid turned and glaredat me.
It made things so much worse. The kid is still flailing her
arms, but she's abandoned her flower girl basket and his back
just starting to. Her back is starting to arch and
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I knew she was just about to fall over when suddenly she got
her footing. She bent down to pick up the
basket and farted with the capacity of a man's size of
Jason, my Mama. Oh Lord, the acoustics of the
auditorium were exquisite. How the F was no one else dying
(03:32):
over this? I could never convey a situation
well enough to pass on the absolute hilarity, and I think
she conveyed it really well. I think that's funny.
It's a. Very good story, well written
actually too It's. Really well written.
Yeah, well. Done Funny, yeah.
It's a good. One could you imagine the I
could just imagine the acousticsof that, but God.
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I could, it's just a. Little girl.
Imagine watching it back later, yeah?
Yeah, that's gonna be forever. I hope they're right be able to
edit that one out. That girl on her 21st as the
best. Video.
You can make a song out of that.Make it a beat.
Right. Yeah, They should have been
released somewhere publicly. The funny things that happen at
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weddings. Funny things.
OK, your turn. Rude.
I do. So I've got 1 here.
An unknown redditor posted this sad little story about how only
one person actually brought foodto a potluck wedding.
Oh no. So for anyone who doesn't know
what a potluck wedding, it's basically a bring your own dish.
(04:36):
And it's a dish that's meant to be shared.
Yes, among people. Right.
So you know, you might bring a large salad or or something like
that. Something that can be shared
with quite a few people. Yeah, that's right.
OK, all right. I went to an entire DIY wedding,
but the bride didn't really careand got others to do it.
The worst bit was that it was a potluck meal.
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That's a DIY kind of meal, but only one person brought a dish
as that's the only person that the bride told on.
So for 200 plus people, there's one tray of chicken.
She kept inviting heaps of people the whole time.
It was like open on Facebook. Plus, the wedding was in the
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middle of nowhere, so it's not like you could just, you know,
pop down to Domino's and get some pizzas like.
Oh my God. 200 people, one plateof chicken.
I did go to a wedding one time that like they had alcohol and
stuff, but they hadn't really catered for the amount of
people, right? And so they came around with a
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hat to put money in to go to thebottle to get more booze.
No food. No, there was food.
There was great food. They had a big, like, pig on a
spit. Yeah, but like, just they ran
out of alcohol so early. And then they're passing this
hat around because they go to the bottle to get more, to get
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more alcohol. Wow, I just really don't have
any words. For that I know I think for my
wedding I like overboard. Yeah, overbuy.
Yeah, always overbuy overboard with alcohol.
Like you can come home with you.Yeah, that's right.
You know, you can use that alcohol for a couple of years to
come. Many Christmases will be spent
at your place with plenty of alcohol.
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Oh, but to have one plate of chicken at a potluck?
I mean that's terrible. Imagine how hungry that there
was. Probably plenty of booze though.
Do not tell people Yeah, I. Think if you're gonna have a
potluck, then you really need totell everyone it's potluck.
Then Yep. Yep.
Like how can you forget to tell them that they need to bring a
dish anyway? Important one, but anyway, I've
got another one. Yep, after trying to cut corners
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by sending out email invites instead of paper ones, one
couple on Reddit loomed. Just wire one of a kind.
Printed invites might be the best route.
Yeah, here's their story. We emailed our guests a link to
our wedding web page, making it clear that the only that's the
only invitation that they would be receiving.
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Only parents, siblings, and close friends were invited.
Imagine my surprise when we started getting RSVPS from
people I didn't know. My fiance's family was so
excited about our wedding that they've forwarded our invitation
to aunts and uncles I've never met before.
No. Oh, I have to be more auditable
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because right now my jury is just on the ground.
Oh. OK, be so stressful.
How do you then uninvite them? You haven't even met them yet.
That's. Just so awkward.
Oh, I hope they're gonna bring good gifts.
You know, there's extra kind of invite people they don't that's
the. Thing they don't they don't
press the leggy if they bring. No.
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Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.
OK, so that's probably a good idea to do some paper invite,
put names on. Them.
Yeah. Put names on them.
I don't know. Yeah, yeah.
But the fact that you would evenhave to make it clear this is
not just an invite that you thenshare.
With whoever you like. Yeah, I'm a bit puzzled by that
picture. Yeah.
All right. I've got 1 here.
OK, a wedding I shot around 10. Oh, this is me by the way, so
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I'll just make that clear. This isn't new.
Yeah, no. Yeah, this is.
I've gotten this story from someone.
Yeah. A wedding I shot around 10 years
ago. All went as planned, and it was
beautiful. No drama.
July day. Then came the receptions. 10
seconds into the first dance thegroom went to dramatically dip
the bride and all of a sudden she fell on the floor.
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At first everyone thought she was laughing and then we
realised she was screaming. He had taken out her knee,
busted her MCL. Oh my God.
Music stopped, all on pause while guests ran to help her.
Within 20 minutes, the paramedics had picked them up.
They were off to the hospital. This is better.
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Better or for worse, right? The father of the bride
insisted. I keep on photographing.
I ran a photo booth that night and was a very drunken guest,
fell through my paper roll and smashed his head on the brick
wall behind it. At that point I couldn't wait to
pack up. They were back at 10:00 PM as I
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was leaving the bride with her new set of crutches.
It was quite the evening. The couple was so lovely and
ended up very grateful I was there to capture what they had
missed. They loved their photos.
Moral of the story? Save the dramatic dips for
another time. Oh, so many people.
Do the dramatic. Dips yeah and it's it's
beautiful, but well practise it a lot beforehand.
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Make sure that you both have thestrength to pull that off She.
Took it out. Can you imagine the pain?
Yes. Right, and she'll be on a fair
few painkillers, probably for quite a while.
I know that she's. Going to love.
Her wedding, A great honeymoon. Yeah, that's right.
Lots of relaxing. Don't mix that with the
champagne though, please. Well, I can't wait for you to
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hear the next one. All right?
You need to. Yeah, I I can't wait to get your
reaction here. So this is a bride who sent this
letter to her prospective bridalparty.
Oh, no, I can just. Oh no.
Yes. OK, I can't wait to get your
response after each one here. OK, Are you ready?
Yep. OK, she this is exactly what the
text said. Anyway, to secure your spot in
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our wedding party, the followingthings will be required.
A promise to host a party must be couples at a venue other than
someone's house. So everyone has to do this
right? OK, next, next.
Your wedding gift must be a cashcheque of at least $500.
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Oh, my eyebrows are just. They're so raised right now.
Next. You must buy me or the groom.
Yep, depending on which side you're on a day of gift of at
least $100. What's a day of?
Gift so something you give them I guess while you're getting
ready. Oh, OK, so.
On top of your 500 dollar chequethat you're already giving them,
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you have to get them a gift of $100.
Right, right next. Like a fancy set of pyjamas to
wear in the morning or something.
Or a gift. Card or something like that.
Right. Maybe nice pair of slippers,
right? OK, the next you must attend
every shower party we have and will be required to purchase a
gift card for each one with A atleast a value of $50.
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Oh wow, there's a lot of gifts happening.
Here it's the demand though, that's the thing.
Yes, wait for it, because the last thing you will sign a
contract that will hold you legally responsible for meeting
all of our requirements and saysthat if you don't, you will be
legally held to reimbursing us for the time we wasted and the
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stress of causing problems. No.
I'm out. I'm out of the bridal party at
this point. I receive it.
I know I'm, I'm out. I'm like, thank you very much.
I, I, I'll I decline to be part of the wedding party.
That's that's just. Anyone said yes?
I don't know who. Who is this person?
Who does she think she? Is I just was shocked.
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I was. I mean.
I. No, just I have no words.
There's absolutely no situation that I could think of when this
would be a good idea. No, I don't.
You know, you could be Kate Middleton, and I still don't
think you could send out this kind of I.
Was having this conversation with Jody at work today because
I was saying to her, I feel likewhen the girls I asked said yes
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to being my bridesmaids, I feel privileged that they wanted to
stand up to be with me. It shouldn't be the other way
around. No, it's not the other way
around. Yeah, like you shouldn't.
Oh wow, you're so special. Don't you want to be in my
bridal? Party no like it's a.
Privilege. Thank you.
Oh wow, yeah. Just yeah, I.
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Mean I don't really have a huge amount of words for that.
I don't. No, no, I don't want to be part
of the wedding. Yeah, I'll pass.
Thanks, but no you. Probably don't even need to come
as a guest either. Yeah, I'm good.
That's for the bridesmaids. I wonder what kind of
restrictions the guests will get.
That's right. You know, you're probably not
allowed to wear certain colours.Maybe you're not allowed to.
You know, you've got to get a gift over a certain amount.
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Oh God Can. You imagine if someone wear wore
white to the wedding. Wow, banished for life.
Spanish. That's right.
All right, I've got another one here.
This is about Ubering. Oh, on a wedding day?
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess it'sif if nobody's seeing you get in
the car or getting out of the car, you know?
But you're relying on an Uber. Then you are relying on an Uber,
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but you know each turn. All right, so here's the story.
This was on Twitter. I was just in an Uber pool with
a couple going to their wedding and they had the audacity to be
mad at me for joining their Uberpool even though they had chose
to Uber pool on their wedding day.
I love how cheap. Man at this person for joining
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their Uber. Pool but.
Don't choose Uber. Pool like don't get a normal
Uber you're already being tight.I mean come on, what was the
difference like 5 bucks here? Come on, people.
That's just because and there. Ever is a day to splurge.
Today, I mean you could do is there Uber premium?
I feel like that's. It splurge just.
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Spend a little bit, stop being so.
Stingy. Yeah, seriously.
OK, I've got one. This one.
Yeah, this one you'll find funny.
It's about who's paying for dinner.
Yeah. The wedding dinner.
You'll find out. OK, OK.
OK, I contemplated posting on this but as time passes I grow
more inclined to do so and I seriously need your thoughts on
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this. Not for a friend but for me as
I'm completely stupefied by thishappening.
We received the most beautiful wedding invitations by the mail
and have responded well before the deadline with our choice of
dinner and space for two days. Later we received a sweet
voicemail of thanks for responding, followed by a
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request for $150.00 to cover dinner at $75 per person.
OK, what? Has anyone heard of this
happening? What in all of creation of
planet Earth? By the way, this is not a
destination wedding and even forthose we've attended, we've
never had to pay for a plate. You cannot send an invitation
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out and not be very clear beforepeople respond that they'll be
paying for their own meal. Yeah, that's right.
And I mean, you know, a lot of people do ask people to cover
the their own plate and that's, I think there's nothing really
wrong with that. I don't have a problem.
With those people. Probably don't ask for a gift as
well. That's right.
You know, if, if they're paying for their own plate, that's the
gift. All right, yes, but to send out
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an invite and not? Say you'll be.
Paying for your own and then? Oh, the audacity.
I know, I know. I was just, I was, I was a bit
dumbfounded myself. That's.
Just crazy. Absolutely crazy.
Absolutely. So you've got one more here.
What's this one about? Oh yes, OK, I've asked my friend
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to make the wedding cake for me for 75 plus people and she's
come back asking if I'm contributing to the cost for the
cake as it's going to cost her $300.00 plus to make it.
Am I wrong to be offended that she's not gifting me the cake as
part of my wedding present? I want to ask you about this
one, Ruth, because obviously you're a photographer and do you
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think that you have people who just expect for you to do their
wedding? Yes, yeah, definitely.
And I don't think a lot of the time, I mean, obviously it's
different for you, but a lot of the time people don't realise
that, you know, I charge, you know, a couple $1000 for a
wedding. That's a huge present.
That's a big. Present because it's not just
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the day. I'm also missing out on the
wedding. Like I don't get to enjoy myself
if I'm photographing. That's right.
All day, everyone else looks beautiful.
And I end up looking, you know, like a sweaty drowned rat by the
end of it. Yeah.
It's also the, you know, the weeks of editing afterwards as
well. And it's a lot, right?
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And also my gear is expensive. That's right, they.
Don't I think they don't always realise that they're asking me
to contribute a couple of $1000.It is the same for us because,
like, for me, if we do a wedding, I have the team
prepping it. There's wages involved.
Yeah. And charges, even labour costs
involved in that. Yeah.
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And I don't think people realisethat.
Yeah. Like it's, it's bigger than
just, oh, you've got that business, you can do that for
me. Yeah.
I mean, cakes take hours and hours.
That's the gift. Yeah.
The hours. Yeah.
I was blessed to have a friend of ours make the cake for me,
and she covered all the costs ofthe ingredients.
But I offered. Yeah, because I didn't want her
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to have that outlay. That's crazy.
I unless they're prepared. Unless they're prepared to cover
that. It depends how good the friend
is. Oh.
Doesn't it? Yeah, yeah.
Am I wrong to be offended there?I feel like you have a right
actually to say, well, my gift to you is the labour.
Yep, Yep. But I might need you to cover
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the cost of the. Eggs, right?
Everyone wants to give a $300.00gift.
Not everyone can afford that. No, that's right.
Yeah, that's right. All right.
I have this one and this one waskind of more specifically for
you. Steph Oh, OK.
All right, small fish in inadequate glass containers as
cent pieces. So let's just let that title
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sink in. Yes, I can imagine this because.
I've seen it. Oh, no.
All right. So we walk into the hall and
find our tables, each with a belly up, totally dead, bloated
guppy floating in its little glass coffin.
Lots of people lost their appetites.
The marriage didn't last a year.Who is doing?
(19:16):
Are people really putting live fish into their glass?
I have not seen it for. A while but.
It went around for a while, OK, and it was really common for the
fish to die because people do think fighting fish, Japanese
fighting fish, for example. Right.
They get really stressed out. Yeah.
I mean, that's when they flare up, right, To make them pretty.
(19:36):
So they get very stressed out and they can die from that
stress sitting in the table, right.
And people tend to be a bit silly and have a few drinks and
might pour beer or something like that into the water.
Yeah. And and also.
A lot of the time this water, you know, they're just getting
water probably out of the tap and it's not.
It's amazing for these fish, yes, that's just heartbreaking.
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So it is very sad. It is.
I feel like it's a really bad omen.
Well, clearly the marriage didn't last a year.
That's. Right I.
Mean it's a good side. Is it you?
Wanna have life around your wedding?
Not, not little dead fish. That's right.
That's all the fish. I definitely think it's
something that, yeah, I know. That's so sad.
It's horrible. I probably would have lost my
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appetite too. It's like, please could you
remove the centrepiece and then I'd feel guilty.
Yeah, that's very sad. I think I I I do think it's
something to be avoided. Yeah.
So when the decorating episode comes along, I feel like maybe
we should just. Bring that mention there, just
say no. I'd like to know to do
centrepieces. I mean, it would have to be
known that these fish are not going to survive.
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I feel like it was definitely more a thing that people were
doing about 12 or 13 years ago. OK, not some reason.
No. Yeah, even 1213 years ago.
What were they doing back? Then I know and I, I did a few
where those were the centrepieces.
We weren't doing them and those were the centrepieces.
Yeah, it's heartbreaking. And it's heartbreaking, so.
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Sport, Wow. I think we've done pretty good
with some of our our episodes orour yes talks today.
We have. That was fun.
Yeah, it was just a little different.
Little bonus episode for everyone so.
It won't even carry down normal streaming, no.
We're still gonna do it fortnightly, still gonna have
our episodes up. That's right, we're just gonna
add these little bonus ones in for those of you who want to
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listen to a little bit more. Yep, sounds good.
Ah well, thanks again Ruth. Another fun day.
Thank you, Steph. OK, Ciao for now.
Bye. That's all for today.
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