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003- Raise Your Glass: A Bartender's Guide to Not Ruining Your Big Day
We have Chance, the owner of Dashing Spirits mobile bartending on today's episode. She shares shocking wedding stories and expert advice on creating the perfect wedding bar experience while keeping guests safe and happy.
Episode Highlights:
• Started Dashing Spirits in August 2020 after 18 years of bartending experience
• Safety should be the primary concern when planning alcohol service at weddings
• One bartender per 75-100 guests ensures proper service and monitoring
• Strongly advises against serving shots at weddings to prevent over-intoxication
• Recommends focusing on personalized signature drinks rather than a fully stocked bar
• Signature drinks should reflect the couple's personalities and preferences
• Current trending drinks include dirty martinis and classic Manhattans
• For families with substance abuse concerns, suggests beer/wine only with sophisticated mocktails
• Advises couples to maintain control and not get excessively intoxicated at their own wedding
• Stresses the importance of finding a bartender whose personality matches your wedding vibe
• Shares horror stories including a groom caught with a bridesmaid and a Malort-induced disaster
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But it's so funny Chance. What's one of the craziest stories you've ever had while bartending at a wedding?
Speaker 2:You guys the one that comes up all the time. Venues always want the alcohol out while walking down ceremony. You know, just that helps the self-service vibe to nix it. And I'm going up there with the venue owner and you know her and I are chatting and all the vibes are great and we notice that there's like a trail of alcohol to the restroom. So we're like collecting all the bottles of booze along the way and we hear water running and we're literally like what the heck is going on in there. And we walk in there and it's literally a groom and a bridesmaid doing their thing. No, they should not be doing.
Speaker 3:Hey Queens, it's Kelsey and grace back with the wedding high pipe giving you the tea and all the buzz in the wedding world.
Speaker 2:Let's jump right in. Yes, yes, our face wait, like you like. Walked in on them.
Speaker 3:Walked in on them like walked like all the way like, like, did they make it to home base? Things were happening, things were like moving and grooving Things that were happening that shouldn't have been happening.
Speaker 1:There was motion in the ocean, the noises that got our attention is what we're like.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that is happening. Where was the bride. Yeah, the craziest thing is me and the venue owner thought that ceremony was already rocking and rolling at that point. Yeah, so we were just astonished that the groom was actually in the shower Banging the bridesmaid.
Speaker 1:What Did you end up telling her? Oh man.
Speaker 2:You told the bride no, no, no, no, we had to make it the bridesmaid's job. We're like. You have got to let your bestie know what you just did On the wedding day. Yeah, we're like what. So did they cancel the wedding? No it, it went through. It was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, and every time that dude walked up to the bar, you guys lock eyes and I was like ugh.
Speaker 3:Every single time. I would have been like here's your watered-down drink with no vodka. Literally.
Speaker 1:Here's your Sprite Ugh, oh my, how can people even do that?
Speaker 2:That's insane. I felt so disgusted and I wasn't even the one that did the naughty no literally, and it's like then all night.
Speaker 1:it's so awkward for you just like seeing him and thinking, okay, like that, he actually did that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and your brain's warped while they're dancing on the floor. You're like, oh the monster.
Speaker 1:They're doing all the first dances and all the-.
Speaker 2:And the speeches, the parents. Yeah, the parents are like my dude's so good and great, Shut up, You're like he's a piece of shit. Scholarly man.
Speaker 1:And I'm all scholarly man You're like it's actually, he's a piece of shit. So that is literally terrible. It was awful, that's awful.
Speaker 3:All righty Well. Welcome back to another episode at the Wedding Hive podcast. We have Chance, owner of Dashing Spirits, here with us today.
Speaker 1:Chance- we are so excited for you to be here.
Speaker 3:We're going to talk all things, bar obviously the good the bad the ugly like grooms banging bridesmaids on Wednesday.
Speaker 1:I mean that's a great way to start off because, geez, I've never heard that before. Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 3:No, that's the first, so I have known you since 2022. We did a wedding together a few years back. You I have known you since 2022. We did a wedding together a few years back. You have always been amazing. You're an incredible bartender. You have so much knowledge and wisdom and I'm excited for you to share that with all of our listeners. So tell us a little bit about yourself. You, dashing Spirits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I am the owner of Dashing Spirits, which is a mobile bartending business here in lovely Arizona, and we totally cater to all of the state of Arizona because we love traveling and there's just so many unique places we like to go and we've loved slinging drinks in the wild, and I literally joke about that all the time, but we really do.
Speaker 2:I started Dashing Spirits in the middle of COVID, august 2020. I have bartended at 18 years before that and the whole pressure vibe of getting your big girl job was like super, super there. So I was in nursing school prior to COVID and when COVID happened I literally wigged out.
Speaker 1:It was like oh, yeah, not even the healthcare system knew what they were doing.
Speaker 2:So I was like, why am I trusting this? And I just saw so much that didn't align with my vibe. So I was like, well, I'm going to actually pivot. And I always say, like the cheesiest line is I got perfect vision in 2020 and started Dashing Spirits. That's so awesome. I'm my own boss and I have some of the most amazing staff possible and they keep me thrilled to keep doing this. And then the clients, of course and networking with vendors everybody's awesome.
Speaker 2:So I just keep rocking and rolling on the bar side of things and yeah, yay, we're excited to like, dive more into, like your story and advice.
Speaker 1:That's why we have you on here, because we know you know all the knowledge we want to start off with like a fun little game of this or that almost. We had a poll on Instagram. We'll tell you what the poll came in, but when it comes to, would you rather have a margarita or a glass of champagne?
Speaker 2:would I? Yeah, oh, um, omg, it depends on the time of the day.
Speaker 3:That's what I was saying I think you can have a margarita any time of the day. Yeah, true, I mean, it's 5 o'clock somewhere, at any point. Come on, jimmy Buffett. He promised us for it, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's true. Bubbly seemed to fit the morning for me completely Like. I'm just like wow, if this is what we're doing, let's go. It's brunch vibes. Yep, like champagne all the way Prosecco champagne, but then that always pivots into a damn good margarita. Always your brain's like okay, well, it's 3.30. Let's get a margarita now.
Speaker 1:Right, I know, and I hate the champagne hangover, so I always like to have a little bit of champagne and then pivot into the next drink.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's a must.
Speaker 1:I love that, but it's funny. On the Instagram poll we had 61% say margarita and only 39% said champagne. Yeah, so I mean, I think that's. I feel like it just depends on the time of the day. Yeah, and then we'll do one more Would you rather have whiskey or beer?
Speaker 2:Beer, yeah, I'm not a whiskey fan.
Speaker 1:I know, Me too. I do not like what's your favorite beer to drink.
Speaker 2:Oh, so my comfortable beer is migalob ultras with a lemon. Oh yeah, it is actually so refreshing and so fantastic. Okay, um, and it's like the same thing as drinking a miller lighter coors light, but your calorie intake is a little down more, you know uh, yeah, I act like I know anything about beer I don't even drink beer, I know I well, I forced myself into liking beer because once you started, once you started going out and you go to these events, concerts, you go to sporting events, even though it's still insanely expensive.
Speaker 1:beer is just cheaper. So I basically forced myself to start liking beer. The first beer I ever liked was Dos Equis, and then now I just pretty much drink Pickle Vulture. But what?
Speaker 3:about seltzers. Hard seltzers are a huge thing now.
Speaker 1:Exactly, I would pick a. Would you pick a seltzer or a beer? A seltzer, yeah, I would go.
Speaker 2:However, I know where I'm going when I start drinking seltzers.
Speaker 1:I feel like everybody knows.
Speaker 3:They're like, oh, time to get that buzz anymore um.
Speaker 1:I drank too many on the lake once um and I had truly's, and so everybody refers to it as my truly good time. Yeah, those are truly not okay. Yeah, I was truly unwell. Yeah, I was truly deathly ill that's funny, I know it's crazy how big the like seltzer, like companies, have blown up oh yeah, I'm glad I know, I remember the first time I had a white cloud was with my brother and sister-in-law and she's like they just dropped these new drinks. I'm like what is this?
Speaker 2:And then, years later, everyone has them and they're just so big now, yeah, they're great and, honestly, for our clients we are always like don't forget your seltzers, because I'm going to tell you at 4 to 30 in the afternoon that is what everybody's going to want.
Speaker 3:That's very true.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:So what got you into the industry? You said you started as a bartender. You bartended for 18 years. Yeah, what made you go? Aha, starting this mobile bartending business is the thing. So in 2015,.
Speaker 2:I gave a hand at coordinating wedding coordinating. It was a wild and risky choice and I just figured out. It just wasn't my vibe, just plain and simple. And then I started bartending at a wedding venue and it was awesome. Like I was like, oh, this is perfect, this is somebody's dream. I want to rock and roll in the weddings, like this is great. I'm also never home late, like when I was bartending the 18 years prior.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh hey, 4.30 in the morning, I will get home by six, Like that was literally the vibes, and that is not the case for weddings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to be out a certain time, yeah it's perfect and then.
Speaker 2:So I just love the thrill. I loved watching everybody kind of do their thing and their setup, the takedown, making sure everybody is vibing. On my side of the end too. Drinks are perfect, service is perfect. We got into that and then, like I said, was in the nursing school situation Hand in hand with that, and when COVID happened, I was like, oh, actually, this is just the best time to make this a full-time thing, and I had so many supporters at that venue.
Speaker 3:What did your husband think when you said, like, hey, babe, this is what I'm going to do?
Speaker 2:Listen, he loves my risky vibe Like. He's like oh, this is what you're into. Here we go, we are going to like lock and load it and see how it does. And when I came to him with like the mobile bar situation, he was like, oh, how are we going to do that? And I was like, well, I don't know, but I'll figure it out. And then, you know, I'm talking to like my chef, friends and locals and people that own things that I thought would maybe correspond with it, and I heard a whole bunch of no chance, you can't do that, and I hate being told no, so it literally fuels you.
Speaker 1:I will show you. Okay, I can do this. Yep Boss, babe, I love that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the husband and I kind of just like started redoing furniture as bars at first. Oh cute, yeah, like a dresser, a huge dresser. You just pull all the drawers out and there's all your hidden stuff. And people love that quirky, fun-like stuff, especially if it was honky tonk, because that was the vibe then.
Speaker 3:They said girl that looks like a farm. They love you.
Speaker 2:So they loved it. Then we did the horse trailer thing and that really blew up, especially during COVID. People were like, oh, you are so far away from people that this could probably be allowed. Oh true, it was great for me because it was just my little shop, just packed up and rolling on wheels. So, yeah, my husband was so on board with it. He worked his hands and back and neck into this mobile bar situation and he's the most underpaid employee I have.
Speaker 1:Thank you, husband. Thank you, babe, love you the husbands always know it's like, whatever job you're doing, like you're just you're an unpaid employee.
Speaker 2:Totally.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Totally, I love it. Yeah, what other events do you do besides weddings?
Speaker 2:We. I like to tell people we do like all life events, I don't care if you think you need a bartender there, you need to hire us. But secondary to weddings, bachelorette parties are one of our biggest things, which works out really perfect for the mobile bar industry in Arizona, because Arizona has so many seasons Like the people on the East Coast, don't get that at all. They're snowed in 60% of the time and if I'm wrong, don't come at me.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's crazy. I see so many TikToks or videos of girls from different states being like oh, I'm going to Scottsdale for my bachelorette party. The weather's always great, and so that's so true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like I also have an upper hand, because I'm helping them pregame and then I send them to my son, who bartends in Old Town, and he always, always, I always tell them go see my son, this is who he is, you can't miss him. He looks like a dude version of me. Go find him you know like. And he treats them like gold and takes care of them the whole time.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and I love that yeah, and it's fun.
Speaker 2:We're there for two hours. We help them pre-game. It's typically poolside, um yeah, and we're making.
Speaker 1:They have signature drinks too oh, is that part of your. So what includes in, like your package, or what do you think is a good if someone's trying to start a mobile bartending business? What would you like suggest?
Speaker 2:I'm always like you need to guide your clients. They're just going to be like their big, bright and shiny eyes are like bartender and they just don't think about anything else after that. And a lot of people think you need to have a fully stocked situation, like if you go sit at your favorite bar. They think that that's what they need to have and that's not ever the case Can you say it louder for the people in the back.
Speaker 3:Because I repeat this all the time and nobody believes me.
Speaker 2:You don't. And I mean like, imagine your poor sweet father trucking along, 75 years old in the Arizona heat, that a lot of people aren't used to All the alcohol that you think that you needed to the site. No, friends, that's just not what we do. Wow, yeah. So batch parties. We tell them you need signature drinks. Your friends are just going to be so stoked and overwhelmed by the whole weekend. Signature drinks, weddings you need signature drinks. Everybody's mind is not there to pick what they drink. You know parties always. We're like is it somebody's birthday party? What's their fave drink? Let's put it on the menu. They need to show them their world.
Speaker 2:you know they get personalized Totally Dinners even we bartend so many like chef-catered dinners, like where the chef is there cooking up a storm and making you starve to death, you feel like, because you smell everything wonderful.
Speaker 3:Right, you're like mm.
Speaker 2:wow, I'm like my old fashions are great, but I need some of that shrimp man Right, Exactly Literally. We tell them too, like oh, do you want vino for the night? Let's pick a certain vino, let's pick a certain vino. So everybody just doesn't even have to be like, oh, what do you have.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So when you're working with clients and you're trying to put together like their bar menu, do you tell them and I'm sure I sound crazy, but this is me being a crazy person saying, well, I need 10 wines and I need 10 beers and I need every soda you can possibly imagine and then my two signature drinks? What is your response to that?
Speaker 2:then my two signature drinks. What is your response to that? I'm like hey, simmer down now Again. Let's think about what your budget is to purchase your alcohol first and foremost. You know, if you're on a tight budget, I strongly suggest sticking with two signature drinks, a couple beers and one of each type of wine, and when I say one of each, I mean one red, one white. Everybody pivots. Everyone has to understand. Oh, we're in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2:My options are probably going to be limited and everyone's just happy that they have an option. But it's well-controlled and again, we do not want to be trucking 18 boxes of tequila that only four hours of service are going to happen and you only needed four bottles of it and now you're all just ticked off that this all has to go back home you know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like you're anti, like large bar menu or like what do you think? Just, like a small concise, like to the point, so you're not having to like deal with all of that.
Speaker 2:Other mobile bartenders. Don't come after me on this, guys. Yeah, I'm super limited. Keep it limited Again. Your 75 year old father does not need to be trucking alcohol back and forth. And the reason why I keep saying that is because legally in Arizona I cannot have anything to do with the alcohol and that's most mobile bartenders unless they have a liquor store that they own or a bar that they use their series six with. But that's most mobile bartenders. They cannot have hands on the alcohol until the client brings it to them and says this is our alcohol serving for us.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, yeah. What's your favorite thing about bartending and like being in this like industry?
Speaker 2:Like the wedding industry for certain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the wedding industry or like what. Like you bartended for 18 years and then you went to nursing, was it were? Like you bartended for 18 years and then you went to nursing? Was it were you like over bartending and then you wanted to try something different and then you came back to like bartending.
Speaker 2:So, like the generation I was in prior to nursing school, like everyone was like you need an eight to five, you're not a proper part of society until you get out of your measly bartending job. And to me I was like, wow, I'm making so much more money than you and you're very miserable, so I don't know, and you have to.
Speaker 1:You're like I'm so sorry and you're going into debt. So who really has the problem? Yeah, so I was just like, just so.
Speaker 2:Much of that happened where I was like okay. And then the reason why I chose nursing is because my husband has a labor intensive job, so I want to be able to take care of them at some point and also match the income that he brings in too. Yeah, um, don't know if that was ever like really the scenario, especially after COVID. Our poor, uh, healthcare providers are very underpaid in my eyes, but for sure, um, so I kind of just flew away from that. I was like, nope, sorry, I just literally love bartending, I love corresponding with people, I love chatting, I love making bomb bomb drinks and people sipping it and look back and say, oh girl, that was bomb. That part, right there is so amazing.
Speaker 1:You love the customer service aspect of it, making people's days and things like that.
Speaker 2:And beautiful places, you guys. Oh, I bet you've seen some my eyes have seen some beautiful, beautiful, beautiful places. What's?
Speaker 1:your favorite spot you've ever bartended at, or maybe top.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this is before wedding industry vibes. I bartended at a place called Tonic in New York City, in Times Square.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because that's right.
Speaker 2:I know, I'm like wait, I'm like oh my gosh Got to be there for six weeks because I was helping train staff on the point of sale system that a friend of mine owned here in Arizona and he got lucky enough to get an account in New York and he said you're my girl, please go train for me, Okay.
Speaker 3:Sure, okay, bye, no problem, okay, rich yeah.
Speaker 2:So that wasn't a problem. And then they were like Chance, you're just very good at what you do, do you mind staying back and making sure the staff is capably rolled out? And I said oh, you got it. But here's the stipulation Let me work Friday, saturday nights, please. And they're like oh yeah, of course that was the number one. I saw so many stinking different type of people and the vibe was always fast and crazy and fun. It's just you walk into work and you blink and you're like oh, I'm done six o'clock in the morning, okay, fine, yeah one.
Speaker 1:It's like you like bartending is. You know, I've been in the restaurant industry for so long and I did bartend and it's crazy like how much money you can make. You know just how you said, you know society. I think we've since then drifted away like there's so many more other ways you can make money now, yep, and it's like you make so much money bartending serving that's why I was kind of in it for so long. It's hard to go and then you make like $300 in one night and you're like this is like half of someone's paycheck for like hours of work. And you know my husband's still in the restaurant industry and he's like, oh, I worked a double and I made $500.
Speaker 2:And I'm like that's insane. So it's crazy and you learn a lot morally and ethically being in the service industry too. Some people are freaking my poor husband has never been in that industry and I'm like, oh, that's showing.
Speaker 1:You don't get it.
Speaker 2:It's showing stuff.
Speaker 3:I know literally.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:When working with couples. What advice would you want everybody to have when coming to um, choosing their drinks, their specialty drinks, anything that has to do with their bartending? If you had any advice to give couples, what would it be?
Speaker 2:um, my first piece is, as my first piece of advice is boring and I'm so sorry but it's literally the case. I always want to make sure that my couple's ideas and and thought process when having their bar is that safety is first and foremost. There's so much that can go behind that. You know like we've had clients that were like, oh, I want to do shots all night long and I want to have a bottle of brandy on each table for my family to self-serve. And in your head you're like okay, 130 people for six hours sipping on brandy and doing shots, and we're out in the middle of nowhere and I watch 65% of them drive in. That right, there is like guys, let me educate you a little bit and this is going to guide you. You and this also will align with a perfect budget.
Speaker 2:But safety has to be considered first and foremost. I love that, yeah, and I know it's a big buzzkill, but listen, that's just where my heart is and in my career I have seen and heard about families getting smeared by drunk drivers. I have had to be in court before because I was somebody that was a part of an investigation In dram shop law. It means they visit every single facility if something horrendous has happened from a drunk driver and I've seen all aspects of it. So the safety aspect has to be in your mind number one.
Speaker 2:Number two again, it goes back to the purchasing of your alcohol. You do not need a full, full bar situation. That is going to again align with your budget. And then at that point you feel awesome because you thought you were going to have to spend 5K on alcohol and then come to find out you only had to spend 1,200 on your alcohol and everybody was still super happy. And then the third part is the fun part. Your bartender needs to be fun. You need to align with their vibe and one phone call, one email, you will know right off the bat if they're your vibe and if I'm not your vibe. That's totally cool. I know someone that is a vibe for you and I will send you their direction, and that's cool, that's great. That's the freedom of this.
Speaker 2:And then, your drinks need to 1000% be you, you their direction, and that's cool, that's great, that's the freedom of this, you know. And then your drinks need to 1000% be you. I don't care if Aunt Susie drinks Chablis. Okay, you're like, it's not about you, yeah, so make your drinks about you. If your honey is a I need to get off of work and mix an old fashioned, that should 1000% be his drink and we will do it how he does it on his bar counter. You know, I love that. And then if you, if the wifey or the second partner is rocking and rolling on just an easy Michelob Ultra, put that bad boy on the menu as your drink, because that is your drink. Yes, it's about you guys, so that's the biggest thing. And it's about you guys, so that's, that's the biggest thing. That's why we constantly remind oh well, is this for you guys, or is Aunt Susie again putting her in point? You know in, yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:I love signature drinks. I'm I did them at my wedding. We did Jameson and Ginger, and then I love Espresso Martini. So we did an Espresso Martini and everyone was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you had those. That was so cool and so fun, and I think they're a fun way to also make it personalized and incorporate the couples too.
Speaker 3:I'm sure you've watched the trends with drinks signature drinks, I feel like prickly pear margaritas were super hot here in Arizona.
Speaker 2:Now the espresso martinis are in. Do you see any?
Speaker 3:upcoming trend.
Speaker 2:Totally Dirty. Martinis are a thing right now. Those are also going to probably be moving along.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're going to.
Speaker 2:And the towers, the dirty martini towers, I know last season we did two and they were stunning, gorgeous and, oh my gosh, I would have been over there next to that tower if I was a guest the whole time, but they're awesome too. That's so fun. Yeah, so those, yeah, so those are making a comeback, manhattan's are making a comeback and those have not been around for like 20 to 25 years you guys, those have been demoted for quite some time, but now they're doing a. Thing.
Speaker 3:Just like the style. Yeah, how we repeat fashion. Totally, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1:I just never let Lowe's or Ice Jeans come back ever again.
Speaker 2:Okay, stop. Oh my God, my daughter wears those.
Speaker 3:I, my daughter wears those.
Speaker 1:I can't. I love those. Anyways, back to alcohol.
Speaker 3:We can agree to disagree. Yes, we'll agree to disagree on that one.
Speaker 1:Maybe one day I'll be a low-rise jean lover, but right now I'm all about the high-waisted look. I love that. Comfort is for me, obviously. Talking about weddings, how much if there's a big guest count? What's your limit for bartenders? Do you think there should always be two? If you have a small guest count, is one fine. Does it depend on what kind of drinks you're serving?
Speaker 2:I love this question so much and I kind of really try to help clients gauge this too. Everybody. So a huge thing for Dashing Spirits is like it's literally a policy of ours. Like I literally asked my bartenders are you capable of handling this amount solo bolo? Because you need to blow through a line. There's no lines at our cocktail hour. I do not love those. Now here's where the fault comes in the client, and I won't even say fault because a lot goes into this. Again, budget is huge. You know, did they factor in two bartenders, three bartenders for their event? I say you need one bartender every 100 people. If you want insanely sleek service, one bartender every 75 people. But for weddings I always suggest a second bartender over 100 guests. And why? Hello, the line's gone. Everything stays clean, easily, more easily. It's just cohesive service. When there's more eyes on the prize, then it just happens and it is literally. It's like watching ice skating. It's actually so beautiful from my perspective. You're like yes, my beautiful bartenders, you are handling the head of that group.
Speaker 1:You know like so it really.
Speaker 2:And then I've heard a million comments, weddings. I have never been to a wedding that I didn't see a line at cocktail hour. That is literally. I could cry. Anytime somebody tells me that, give me a hug, you know. So that's a big deal for us and that's why we always suggest a second bartender after a certain amount. Um, is there an event that we won't take? That has a large amount? No way. We have a two-day event coming up for a huge, huge electric company that we are contracted with and they have like 5 000 people, so it's gonna be seven bartenders that day, like that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1:So do you think it's like better, if there's like large guest counts, to have two bartenders for like safety reasons too? If you're like, oh, absolutely watching out on people, yeah, you know, and how do you I think a big thing, that is hard with alcohol and what we've talked about safety, um, and how do you deal with if you're at, even if it's not even just a wedding, like at an event, cutting people off?
Speaker 2:yeah, you go about that to make it not so um, so if I was like giving a class on how to do this, which I have totally thought a million times, but it's so silly to even try to think about that. But I, first and foremost, we have to remind ourselves that we have to give these adults their dignity first. You can't just walk up and be like you don't know how to control yourself and you've downed too many. You know vodka sodas.
Speaker 2:I always try to be like oh you know, sweetness needs to come out of it too. They need to know that I care about their safety the most, and they need to know that there's been disclaimers that have given me a reason to want to have this chat with them. And the sweet way to do it is like oh you know, are you driving today? How are you getting home? And once they and they're always honest. I have never ran into a situation where the person's like no, I'm not driving home today, but I know you saw my car keys in my pocket.
Speaker 2:You know, like you know they're like oh no, I'm getting an Uber Waymo's taking me home or something like that, you know so Uber Waymo's taking me home or something like that, you know. So you find that out and then you're like okay, well, we're going to zebra drink and that's literally a new term water to one alcoholic bevy, love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow. And most people are like, okay, okay, okay, to get my drink, I'll have that water, and they literally will stand in front of us and drink it. That's just how feisty people are, you know, and I they don't know that. I actually really appreciated them showing me that they drank that water, okay. But if you get to a point where somebody is like sloshed and you're like wow, this is spooky and we have definitely ran into that because people are sneaky and will take their own little, you know grocery store shooters and get their self, get themselves to a point where it's just not safe for them.
Speaker 2:It's always like, hey, I really need to get you home to your family. The choices that you could be potentially making will end up bad. You will get a DUI. You will not get home to your family. Please don't make us go through this. Let me get you an Uber, let me call you a taxi. Let's find a family member that's willing to take you home, and it's. You always have to be charismatic. You can't be like dude, you're totally wasted. What were you thinking?
Speaker 2:Cause then people will get yeah, and I mean I've had a huge dude swing on me one time because he thought that I wasn't allowing him to have dignity while being wasted, but he couldn't even stand up and walk, like he was falling into walls and slide on there. Yeah, like very spooky situations. Yeah, but if you give them dignity and you're sweet and you act like you care about them which I do, really do care about these people for a while they were my family for the last six hours, you know. So that's just, that's how I tell everybody how to cut off someone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that like approach of going in, because it's like when you're already drinking, then I feel like your sense is already like heightened and you're like, well, do they say that rude? And then it just creates more strife and more like tension to like go in and say, you know, hey, we really care about your safety. You know, and that's the biggest concern, of course, is getting home safely. I think that helps a lot, cause I think I'm sure there's plenty of people in your, your industry, or even in the restaurant industry, where it's like it's. It's always a tough situation I've had to do before and it's never fun. You know you don't want to, you know, like you said, degrade people or make them feel like, oh, you can't handle it. But I mean, safety is the biggest concern at the end of the day, and here's like a whole other thing.
Speaker 2:For example, like at a restaurant you have like there's a like a chain reaction. Pretty much you have to notify your manager on point that, hey, I'm about to cut this person off, I'm going to need your support. In the mobile bar world we don't have that because either the owner is on another job site or you know, or your head bartender is there to support you, but you both are in it together because that's the person you both have been serving.
Speaker 2:So, it gets a little bit shakier in the mobile bar industry because you don't have that managerial support at that point you know, that's very true.
Speaker 3:How do you feel about shots at weddings? Okay, and again, mobile bartenders don't have that managerial support at that point. Yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 2:How do?
Speaker 2:you feel about shots at weddings. Okay, and again, mobile bartenders don't come after me. I hate them. I will not Like at weddings, and this is specifically at weddings. This poor couple has spent so much money to make sure that every little idea that they had and every vibe that they had goes into this one day for all of you to enjoy. Right? Why is Uncle Tom sloshed laying down on that beautiful bouquet that probably cost that sweetie pie $3,200 to walk around with? You know, because he's taking shots Like that's just, that's crazy. It's the bigger again.
Speaker 2:Hello, safety. I know that's so boring to be so safe, but I don't want him to drive home, I don't want to be the reason that he is tanked or there's a horror story at your beautiful wedding. So I say absolutely not. If the bride and groom maybe want to have a ceremonial shot, I'm all for it, but that is it. And most of the time the venue is behind me on it too. They're like oh, even the coordinator of the venue will take the shot or I will take the shot with them. We're all there, everybody's on the same page, you know, not with them. To them, hello.
Speaker 2:You're like we're all taking a shot.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yes, we're done, careful you'll shot all of us Well it's like funny, because I think people like want the vibe and it's like, oh, we're partying, we're drinking, like I remember I was in, you know, at the venue and they had shots and the guys working. I'm like, no, I know you guys are trying to like, oh, have it fun, but no, that's not going to happen for a second.
Speaker 2:I don't love them and it's literally in our contracts. We do not serve shots.
Speaker 1:What do you think about that, kelsey, with being a wedding coordinator? Do you think that shots are no shots? Oh no.
Speaker 3:I think it goes south so fast. And everyone wants to have fun, everyone wants to have a good time, people want to drink, but once shots come out, everything just goes downhill.
Speaker 1:I tell people all the time.
Speaker 3:I do not clean up grown man puke. Grown man puke is you're out of your mind if you think I'm going to be cleaning it up. So, in relationship to the conversations with families and couples, how do you navigate conversations when it comes to family members with substance abuse issues? Maybe a couple comes to you and says we are so excited, we want alcohol at our wedding, but we have a history of substance abuse. We have certain family members. How do you find that happy balance of being able to have alcohol at the wedding but still being able to protect those family members Totally?
Speaker 2:And more frequently this does come up. You guys, I've had clients send me pictures of a family member where they're like if you see this guy, absolutely do not serve him, or make sure my auntie only gets three drinks, because after that it's chaos. Auntie only gets three drinks because after that it's chaos. You know, also, again, we have to go into allowing these people to have dignity.
Speaker 2:That's such a huge thing because, first of all, I support it. I support me needing to know and, in true honesty, I feel like I'm one of the best people in the world that you could have as your bartender If you have a lot of recovered people. Not only I am recovered myself, to be quite honest, so that's why I have a lot of empathy when it goes into it too. The hard answer to this is if this is a huge concern of yours, I think maybe we should not serve liquor and I know that seems a little wild because, hey, everybody can still get tanked on beer and wine, right, yeah, but that also takes so many options offhand for somebody that used to chug a gallon of rum every day.
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 2:I'm saying and then too, we also maybe need to glorify mocktails as a thing, and I love that today mocktails are a thing, because 10 years ago you got a Shirley Temple dropped in front of you, but you can have these mocktails on your menu and it's supporting the message for your family member. So beer, wine and mocktails why not? They're going to see those mocktails, first and foremost because it's beautiful on a menu and they're going to be like oh, those look great. I'm going to try those, and I have seen it time and time again.
Speaker 1:And then they feel like they're included.
Speaker 2:A hundred percent and they're not getting pinpointed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like oh, I can't drink Like where I'm like.
Speaker 2:I know you and also friend. I'm so sorry. I've been warned not to serve you. Can you imagine having that conversation with somebody at their nieces their favorite nieces wedding? It's so uncomfortable and have had those conversations had to be had before. Yes, I have had to do it. Hence the reason why I now like have this vibe of like, hey, don't, don't knock this idea, but let's make some beautiful mocktails for your wedding and only serve beer and wine. And the beer and wine always gets overlooked by that one person because they're so enamored by what's on the menu for mocktails, you know.
Speaker 2:And then everybody else. It's like well, I wish I could have a beer.
Speaker 3:We're like oh well, you know, you have Michelob, ultra and Hus and you know like global drill and hosts and you know like all that other stuff sitting there for that person. Yeah, um, I love. Uh. People have asked about having dry weddings. Yeah, um well, do I still need a bartender if I have a dry wedding? And I encourage it? Yeah, because even though bartender's not serving alcohol, they're still serving those delicious mocktails and it's still providing that service to your guests, even if it is sodas or the delicious mocktails. Would you pass up a couple if they reached out to you and said hey, will you do a dry wedding for us? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:I would not tell them to get lost, absolutely not. We literally have a whole package that focuses on that in our pricing and what's available to clients. We do mocktail weddings all the time, and dry weddings are okay too, and again, this goes to the budget If you do not want to pay for your whole family to get schnockered and or your family could be like a typical family and everybody gets messed up and starts fighting and Christmas is never normal again you know, like nobody wants that you know, so I always think that is just such a good vibe to run with that and the level of hospitality the couple that's getting married are, who has everybody there to mingle, but it's not their job to make sure the cooler's full of juice or cans of soda are getting popped, which that's a whole other avenue that's so tacky to me.
Speaker 2:I feel like coolers should never be filled self-service vibe. I feel like there should be a human there with a smile and an urgency to hand over those bomb, bomb leveled out mocktails. I think it's a thing, it needs to be a thing. I love that.
Speaker 3:What's your least favorite request from couples? Is there like a drink you absolutely loathe making?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, okay. And then I want to know what it is. Oh yeah, I'm going to tell you she's like I got a few. I'm sorry we're going to have to bleep it Right. An Adios, motherfucker, get out of here. Oh my gosh, they're disgusting, yes, and I'm also like are you 13 years old, trying to find your adult juicy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that really is like a 20, like I feel like a 21 drink, Like oh, I'm going to go to the bar and get like an AMF and it's like ew.
Speaker 2:Don't get me wrong, that's how I totally got my husband. I got him so wasted to make him fall in love with me on those things.
Speaker 1:Why did I also do that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm so dead. Yeah, I hate those and I will tell you, in all my years of own dashing spirits, I will not and I refuse. And I'm so sorry if you were the client looking into us and you really wanted an adios, bestie, we are not doing it.
Speaker 3:I'm so sorry, oh my gosh, it's about Long Island that's exactly what it is with Blue Carousel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay yeah, it's the same. You just switch instead of Coke. Yes, it's Blue Carousel.
Speaker 2:Yep, okay, yeah, so no, we're not doing Long Island.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's almost like that drink's also like very strong. In my opinion, exactly, it's like four different liquors and it's just.
Speaker 3:It's the fastest way to black out, literally.
Speaker 1:I would not have that at my wedding either. Yep, I think that would lead to disaster. Yep, yeah, not a fan, that's amazing. Yeah, With you being in your business and you're talking to couples. Is there anything that you feel like couples forget about when it comes to the bartending side of it or alcohol, or is there anything that you're just like? Oh my gosh, brides and grooms always forget this.
Speaker 2:Like to provide or just in general, anything that I'm just like. Oh, they always forget.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, in general.
Speaker 2:They forget to follow the shopping list. Oh my gosh, I'm so serious. Yeah, that's it. And again, I know family members have so much to say about it and I know they're expecting a shopping list to be like you need 35 cases of this beer. They're not going to get that from us. Yeah, cases of this beer. They're not going to get that from us. We have done, I think I want to say like easily, 800 weddings. Okay, and knock on wood, I have not been short yet when these suggestions have happened and they stick to it. Like I've even had a little bit of a nervous dad come around and be like are we good on alcohol? Are we good? Because that shopping list was little? And I was like, yeah, we're great. And guess what, he tipped me the next day for being so good about the count.
Speaker 1:Oh, because he probably, I'm sure, because that's like for my wedding we got, we had a different bartender and they were great, but their counts were definitely off because we I got married six months ago and we still, oh yeah, have alcohol, beer, leftover stuff from the asbestos, martini, yep, and I just remember coming I know, literally please.
Speaker 1:I'm like I need to get rid of it. I've had it for six months and you know it's, and I don't think I don't know if a lot of people know this, but if you buy your alcohol at Costco and you don't open it, you can return it Totally so fun, budget-friendly.
Speaker 2:My clients do that. Okay, see, exactly you can go. Same thing with Total Wine. You know these, and those are literally the only two places I tell my clients to go shop at, because, first of all, I have a rapport with both companies which is very cool. In my area more so, which is in Tempe, but me and this one over here, we are getting to be buddies too, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:You're like, hey, what's up? And I was like, well, I even at one point had a client like email me, like, hey, just so you know, your information wasn't correct, costco didn't take our alcohol back. And I'm like, which Costco did you go to? And then she told me and I called them I'm like B and C, non-tarnish labels, it was not in the heat Like we are good, it needs to go back. And then guess what, she got her money back, like cause I know they were full of it.
Speaker 1:See, this is what we like. Good business owner.
Speaker 2:I love that you take the time to like go out of Bartenders are so careful about ripping through products Like they will not, we want them to get money back, you know. So that's a big deal to us.
Speaker 1:That's why I love that, save that money.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 1:Save that clean. I think a big thing that me and Kelsey were talking about and being it's so cool that you're your own boss and you started your business. How did that look? Was it a struggle? Did it take you a few years to get to where you want? Do you have any advice for future entrepreneurs or people who want to own their own business? Because I think that's just like we talked about. The nine to five has gone away A lot of people. There's so many more ways to make money and I think people will love if you have any advice.
Speaker 2:First money and I think people will love. If you have any advice, yeah, first do it. Do whatever your mind says is going to make you some money and if you love it more, so do it. I never really saw myself as an entrepreneur. I knew that I was feisty enough to do something cool and I've always thought I mean, when I was 16, I thought I was going to be a famous drummer. No one could ever tell me that.
Speaker 1:You got Travis Barker I wanted him to train me. You're like.
Speaker 3:Travis, where are you? I need all my Travis to train me. Can we be real?
Speaker 2:Let's bring Travis in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the feistiness never stopped. I knew I was going to do something cool At what level, I never knew, but no one could ever tell me no to it. Like I'm just like, actually, this is what's gonna help me provide for my crazy family and make sure my husband gets some slack taken off of him too, and I always want to be a hundred percent of a provider to him as he's a hundred percent of provider to me. And that made me more feisty about it too. And once I did start it, I always wanted to remind people I am a very humble person.
Speaker 2:I come from very, very humble background, okay, and I have always wanted to be grateful to anyone, to any client we have ever had. I'm like, you don't even know what you're doing for me, you have no clue, but I love you and I thank you and I appreciate you always and forever. And then the growth of dashing spirits. That's where it's gotten weird. Okay, I'm going to tell you why. Cause I'm like, oh, I'm humble, I'm sweet, I love you, I appreciate you. And people are like Chance, you're so cool, and I'm like, oh, oh, am I?
Speaker 2:And they're like we want you back. You have to come back and be our bartender. You're just so awesome. And I'm like thanks, guys. And then you're like, what do I say after that? You know, then my business has won a couple of awards in a magazine and every single time in my brain there was somebody I was against that was going to win it. And I was like, why, us Like, why you know? And everyone's like dude, are you serious? You're literally going to get this. And boom one, boom one again. And I was going up against some serious pros 25 years in the Valley. These pros were and I was like, wow, how did that happen? And I want to say thank you so much. But now I'm at the point like, who am I saying thank you to? To?
Speaker 2:everybody I love you all, thank you.
Speaker 2:You know like. Thank you to the venues that trust us, thank you to the people that have hired us, thank you to my bartenders my beautiful, bad-ass bartenders and so all of that. And I think another thing that was a huge headliner in owning Dashing Spirits is I always wanted to be that boss that had very happy bartenders. I want to pay them. Well, I want them. Yes, our jobs are very hard. You guys Like we don't show up bright and shiny. We were literally sweating our ass off 45 minutes before you saw us and we had to literally toss our hair around and try to look hot, you know, but they're still happy and stoked to be there, even if they had a rough night. And then in the background they're like Chance dude, you rock as a boss. Like I love you. I love working for Dashing Spirits. Like that's all I've ever wanted. So all that in this weird little bowl that I'm mixing is the vibe of me being a business owner.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, and it's scary, but yeah, I bet and I think it's awesome see so many companies and like see, I mean you're, you're a CEO of your own company, essentially, you know, and they just don't treat their employees with like care. And then they wonder why their business doesn't succeed. And it's you have to have that owner who you know wants to take care of their employees, who wants to give good service. You know, I think since 2020, a lot of places restaurants, businesses have gone downhill because they don't have that customer service aspect anymore.
Speaker 2:That is so gone, yeah.
Speaker 1:People are just like I want to make money, I want to make it fast, and like I don't care if I'm here, like I just want to make money. But to have a company like yours, where you know you have employees who are happy to work there and who want to come there and make happy and clients, I think is amazing yeah it's just so.
Speaker 2:It's very important to me for my bartenders to be happy and, in all honesty, I send my bartenders out to all the best gigs Me. I get the ones that I know have been a tough client to plan with or their wedding or their event is going to be very tough because they were tedious about their planning. I'll go do those and give the gals the other awesome, bright and shiny weddings or parties and just so I know they're vibing their hearts out.
Speaker 1:I love that. Yeah, I just thought of something and I don't think you might know, but how did you come up with the name Dashing Spirits? This is funny.
Speaker 2:Okay, no one knows this, by the way.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was like do you know? I was like, because I know you guys have known each other longer, I'm like do?
Speaker 2:you know? I wonder if I've ever told you. I don't think I know, okay. Okay, so that whole little 2015 coordinating situation yeah, I had a business called Dashing Events by Chance. Okay, so I had the LLC to dashing, like all that type of stuff. But then when I decided to start the mobile bar business, I'm like, well, what am I going to call this? I'm like I already have this LLC, Great, so I'll use dashing. And then I'm like, well, what's going to go with that? What's going to make sense? You guys, we even had like a little poll in my family and there's like 10,000 of us, so they really all kind of helped out. I love that. I put spirits, so it can kind of go three different ways Spirits for liquor, right yeah. Spirits for, like, joy and good spirit. And then me, I'm a spooky bitch and I love stuff like that. So spirits, oh my God. So when Halloween comes around, I am vibing.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that? And everybody was like, oh yeah, that's definitely it.
Speaker 1:I love that, yeah, so that's cool. Dashing spirits. Yeah, that's super cute.
Speaker 3:That's so cool. I love all the different. I didn't know that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm like.
Speaker 3:I really haven't told anyone that, because I was literally. I love working with you, your team, you are a phenomenal leader, so thank you from our side and for any clients that I've worked with in the past. In the future, yes, I am thankful for you. Thank you, you're a company um last question, and I'm still hooked on the groom of banging.
Speaker 1:I cannot believe that even happened.
Speaker 3:I'm still, still like in my head processing.
Speaker 1:I would like instant, like can you wait? I guess that's an annulment, like cause they just got married. I feel like we're going to the courthouse Like right now everyone leave and I'll take a bottle of vodka on the car ride there.
Speaker 3:Do you have any other good juicy stories, cause we are all about the tea.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I so in, it's all about the tea, okay. So in my head I'm kind of weighing on this one and I don't know how juicy it is, but it's just like something that I feel like we really need to like. Let people know not to do this. Let's hear it. I had a wedding in Prescott. Okay, very beautiful historical property, the clients were just amazing to plan with, and this is just something that never crossed my mind. Where people come from do actually mean a lot. Okay, because when they're coming to Arizona and doing this beautiful, like you know, bring our whole family here, this whole vibe destination weddings awesome, but they want to bring home with them too.
Speaker 2:So if anyone knows what Malort is, do you? Have you guys ever heard of this? No, okay, this is a and if I'm wrong, I'm so sorry, but this is a cordial almost, I think, and it is very. Is it thick? It's gross, it's herbally it's thick, and I've noticed a lot of people from the East Coast love the heck out of Malort. Well, this groom marching around all over the place constantly reminding him hey, bestie, we cannot be self-serving. Give me that damn Malort, okay, okay, and any time a bartender, unless the bartender is a mad mixologist and they know exactly what to do with the malort, which I am a mixologist and I would love to work with malort. But I cannot handle how this poor gentleman handled this and this is typically, 95 of the time how anybody handles it when they drink malort.
Speaker 2:Okay, he was bottomings up to it and in the middle of a speech thanking all his guests, he throws up on the microphone all over it and as a bartender, you're like no, no, I know what that's from. It's from the damn Malort. The Malort did it. And then you're like, okay, he got it all out. Okay, let's give him some ginger ale, let's chill for a bit. He's got it.
Speaker 2:Well. Then you're like walking around and making sure you know my other bartenders behind the bar and I and I love to pick up cups and stuff to come first of all, keep eyes on everybody. If you've ever seen me picking up cups, that's why I'm checking everyone out, okay. And uh, I'm looking and he has a little micro malort stuffed in his shirt and I'm like, okay, what's happening? You're like put it down. Yeah, and I go and I'm like I will take that for you and I will serve you, yeah. Then at dinner barfs all over the dinner table, his poor beautiful wife, the most patient little tiny goddess I've ever seen in my life. He, he just would not lay off the malort, and that is a trauma story for me. On that one, oh my gosh, I don't now.
Speaker 1:I don't ever want to drink it. No, don't, I didn't even want to to begin with. Can you just try to tell me how?
Speaker 2:disgusting it was, because it's horrible Again, don't come after me, yeah.
Speaker 3:Fascinating. Okay, so I do have one other random question, since we're speaking about a groom drinking. Do you think couples should get sloshed on their wedding, or do you think they should not?
Speaker 2:Long story short. No, I think you should definitely have a beautiful buzz, but I still think you should be very coherent for what's after your big wedding day.
Speaker 3:I always get so sad when I send people off and I'm like you're going to pass out in this limo.
Speaker 2:You're like dude's butt is going to be in the air and nose in the pillow immediately.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's funny because I remember when I was planning my wedding I kept saying and a lot of people gave me this advice do not get drunk on your wedding day. I already had that in my mind. I was like I don't want to get drunk, like a beautiful buzz, like I want to have fun, have like a few white claws, but I'm like I'm not spending $30,000 on a wedding to literally wake up the next day and be like what even happened. Can you imagine that I would literally die? I see people like in the back or like that. He was probably. He probably doesn't even remember his wedding.
Speaker 2:He probably doesn't even remember his wedding. That story you said there's no way. You know, I think he even got shuffled up to his hotel room. At that point I was like, oh we— there's no way. Ooh, everything's going to go soft now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You can't consummate that marriage.
Speaker 2:No, somebody's head's in the toilet, and also, I don't need a bride pissed off at me because her dude's done Literally that damn bartender.
Speaker 1:I know. Well, it's like jeez, I know and I feel like, yeah, by the time you're at the end of the day, you're so tired and you just, yeah, that's another thing that people don't place into that either.
Speaker 2:First of all, yes, we try to feed the bride and groom. I see it constantly where people make the bride and groom their plates and then they're there to rock and roll, play social hour which, please, you paid for all this. Do it, but they don't get to eat. They're exhausted because they've been up since six o'clock in the morning doing hair and makeup and who knows what the?
Speaker 2:dude was doing, maybe golf, who knows? That is a thing. They're exhausted. So no food being exhausted trying to have bevies. That all goes very hand in hand on how your body is going to tolerate it. So just know your limit and know when your like fun buzz vibe is going and then, oh, I'm getting a little close to my ears are burning so I need to chill out.
Speaker 1:You know my legs are tingling. Yeah, everything's getting hot. Yeah, I know. Yeah, because then by the end of the night you're done for yeah, and you're tired. Actually, person to ask this question. We talked about it. You, uh, you got. You've been married for 12 years, yeah, correct, and you guys had like a whole wedding and everything. Yeah, okay, did you get drunk on your wedding night?
Speaker 2:six months pregnant when we got married. But you know who did get drunk?
Speaker 1:my mother-in-law my mom was drunk by the time we did toast. I was like what have you been doing the past hour and a half?
Speaker 2:she was supposed to have her kids for the wedding. You guys, yeah, the kids came home with us.
Speaker 1:I said well, we cannot leave them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So my real question is there's always the one thing that everyone talks about, like Kelsey said consummating the marriage the night. Did you do it on your wedding night?
Speaker 2:No, Next morning, sure Wedding night. No, there was five kids all over a damn hotel room. No, it was not happening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I think people always and then that goes into alcohol Like people, if you do end up drinking all night by the time. Like me and my husband, we didn't do it the night of our wedding. We went out to the club and came home at 2 am and I was like I barely, I will say I wasn't drunk at my wedding by the time I got to the after party, which I mean at the club I was, and then came home and passed out. So did not do it. See, that's a beautiful thing, though.
Speaker 2:Like the couples, like anyone that plans an after party already, you know their vibe. At that point you're like, oh, they're in it for the buzz, yeah you know like they, but also too, at the wedding.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna get you so, so shitty because I need you to go handle that club that I know you spent hella money on to get everybody into and shuttled there. Yeah, like no, we are gonna gradually make sure you are a happy little camper, and him too, you know like, and make it to the after party and and then after that my hands are washed, bestie you go have fun, you do your thing, yeah, you do your thing. Yeah, I love that Well awesome.
Speaker 3:Thank you for joining us at the Wedding.
Speaker 1:High podcast.
Speaker 3:This is so fun. If anybody is looking to find Chance Dashing Spirits their Instagram handle is dashing underscore spirits Go check them out, all their amazing drinks. I don't know what you posted this morning, but the drinks it's the pink flight with the pink sugar. I was like, screw my coffee.
Speaker 1:I want that for breakfast. We need one of those we're like. Actually, can you bring us some of those on your way here?
Speaker 3:I don't know what it is, but we're interested, so you can totally find Chance. Be sure to follow us on all of our social media platforms TikTok, Instagram and we will see you next time. Bye, guys, Bye.