This woman's wedding hack involving Chili's is brilliant!

This woman's wedding hack involving Chili's is brilliant!

Episode Transcript

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The Morning Breeze on Demand Carolyn McCardellCourt Johnson. With the cost of weddings
going up just pretty much constantly,so it seems when someone comes up with
a wedding hack to save money,I think so many of us are like,
what did you do? How didyou do that? Well, there's
a woman on social media, Courtwho's going viral. She's got over a

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million views on this video because shespent just over nineteen hundred dollars on food
at her wedding for ninety nine people. In the way that she did it,
yea is she had chilies. Therestaurant cater the dinner, so she
had chips, salsa, egg rolls, chicken tenders, sliders. I mean

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it's this long, Carolyn. Didshe have the skillet caso? Oh,
that's my favorite thing at Chili.It is the best thing at Chili.
I don't know if she had that. I did not see that on here.
But you know what fail on herpart at this well she did not
having that, correct, But no, she had all these things, even
special emails for her guests that havelike dietary restrictions. She went all out
and it costs her just over nineteenhundred dollars and then she offset the cost

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of the food. They went andpicked it up themselves instead of paying for
delivery. She said, people wereraving about the food, so it was
total hack and to the point wherea guest at the wedding was or a
guest who watched her video was soinspired by what she did that that person
had Olive Garden cater their wedding andsaid, oh man, you're so right.
This was so brilliant. It issomething interesting to think about. I'm

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the father of two daughters. Oneday I will be the person paying paying
for this, so I'm thinking aboutthis all the time. How am I
going to pay for college? Howam I gonna pay for weddings? Yes,
Chilies, it is Chilies is sogood, and make sure you get
the caso about this morning. I'dbe curious to know some of the other
things people might do to save money, like wedding hacks, right right,

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I'm sure. I mean it couldbe. You know, if you know
somebody that bakes, like you hireto bake the cake for you, or
what if somebody can do the sewingfor you for the for your dress.
It's kind of tough because you know, I've heard this said to me multiple
times. People who have had bigweddings they regret them afterwards. They're like,
we could have taken that money andmaybe had a down payment on a

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house. Totally, We're gone ona bigger honeymoon than there. It's all
about memories rather than or experiences,rather that. You know, a wedding
is an experience, and sometimes youkind of want that it is