It’s Wedding Season! | Ep 15

In this episode, Maxine and Isabelle are talking weddings. They both had multiple weddings to their husbands but had totally opposite honeymoons! They take a hilarious walk down wedding memory aisle and discuss how alcohol shaped the whole experience in Ireland, Montreal, NYC, The Maldives and The Himalayas! No corner of the world is safe! Not to mention an excommunicated priest, and one of them still can’t pronounce the names of religions. You don’t want to miss this one!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hi everybody, I'm Maxine. I am happy alcohol free. I am Isabel and I'm the happy as fuck. And we are here today to talk about. This is gonna be a fun one because we're coming into wedding season. Wedding season. So we want to talk about weddings, hilarity, disasters, all of the stuff that goes along with weddings and their relationship to alcohol. Um, but first off, I mean, this is a perfect choice for an episode about wedding season. This is Society Delarsi. Uh this is a fantastic. I've not had it, so I can't wait to learn this thing. So uh Wesley, um who is uh uh the founder of this brand, I met a couple of weeks ago in New York. She is fantastic. The way they're doing this brand, it's the branding of the brand. And it's a rose, by the way. This is a rose. They they've it's really chic, it's really elegant. Look, fine bubbles, and we are drinking these in your gorgeous glasses. So Isabel brought these pink, pink.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Um I say riedels, but you said it's supposed to be Riddle. Riedl, I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:19

I don't know if there's any listeners out there. Americans say Riedel, but I'm sure. Ridl, Riedl. It's German, so whoever's a German expert will tell us. They'll be able to tell us. But but their glasses are amazing and they are perfectly designed for different things.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

And this is a champagne glass.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

This is a champagne glass, but I love a stemless glass. Shears. Oh, I'm excited about it. Hold on. It's very good. It's good. It's very clean. It's very clean. It's very light. Very fine bubbles, yeah. Very light. Yeah. Um, very different to the pictoir.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Yeah, very yeasty. It's more like if you like the biggie, this is not it. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

It's very elegant, but um I really like this. The bubbles are super fine. The bottles are very fine. Enjoying that a lot. So Society Della Rassi. Yeah, and there's very little sugar. Um very little sugar in this.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

For those that are like concerned about the sugar, it's like one gram of sugar per glass. Like the whole bottle is is like a sixth of a Coca-Cola bottle. I mean, three sips of coke, the whole bottle of this. Uh so it's really little sugar. So yeah, but look at the like the label is so beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

It's really nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

And it's from Provence, by the way. And I like that they made the the label screams Provence. Yes. And uh it is a Provenceal grape. That's what it says in the back, and I believe it, because it got that taste. Yeah. Um, so they're really going for that rose, that French saffre French rose.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

Yeah, and I feel like they've they've really nailed it. They've really nailed it. I enjoy that a lot. So cheers. All right. Wedding season is upon us. Um gosh, I mean, uh, throughout our friendship, I don't think we've ever talked about our respective weddings.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

No, my to be honest with you, mine was not super eventful like the honeymoon. No, but it was. No, no, no. And I'm not saying by the way, I got married twice to Brooks without a divorce. Okay. We got married in Brooklyn, uh, so that I would then apply for my papers. And in Brooklyn was only my sister and his brother, but we went to a protot Protestant church. Brooks is Episcopalian. And uh it was we were both second, it's not Episcopalian, but you know, the pro like my dad used to say Episcopalian. What it's Episcopalian. Those. So my dad used to say, my dad was like, well, they're like Catholics who got it right. They know the virgin ain't virgin.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Oh gosh, here's me. I don't even know the difference.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Yeah, this is this is Protestant as for my dad. Okay, my dad used to say, Well, first of all, this guy wanted to get a divorce, Henry. Somebody, yes, yes, no, I know about King Henry. He's like, they got it straight. He's like, You can get a divorce, priests can get married, they don't they know the virgin wasn't a virgin, which my dad was like, What kind of an imbecile thinks she's a virgin? And so he thought that they got it straight. And they were like, they're like a liberal version, anyways, Episcopalian are of Catholics.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Them too. They're just so it's a branch of Protestantism. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. They're like very close to Catholic. So in Ireland, they're called Church of England. Oh, they were you there you go. Because it was King Henry who had killed all of his fucking wives. Right. And that guy. And and and it's really like I don't know what that makes him a better head of the church.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

But it's it's very close to Catholicism, so they have all the same like gesturing and sings and stuff like that. Um, so we went, and it's funny, so we got married in Brooklyn so that we I could do my papers, and then nine months later we got married in Canada, you know, in Quebec at the big party, right? Okay. So, but the one in Brooklyn, we because we did it in a church, we needed to have two witnesses. So my sister and his brother came, and we got married the day after Brooks's birthday. So I was gonna say my wedding was not eventful booze-wise, but the first one was him and I were so hungover because the night before was his birthday. Brooklyn wedding. Yeah, got it. So hungover that um that uh when it was time to say my vows, not only was like I was so emotional and hungover that I was ugly crying. And I couldn't say when everyone thought it was the love, but it was the hangover. It was all of it. It was the love and the hangover. And I remember I looked at the priest and I was like, can I just say yes? And he was like, No, I is about it, made me say the whole thing. Um, so that bets on me that I was gonna cry at the Montreal wedding, but I'd got it all out, so I was fine.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Oh, but so was the Montreal wedding also in a religious establishment? Yeah, but because it culturally. So, what is your family's? I don't have a camera, but I don't know this much. My dad is an atheist. And but it's culturally, listen, listen. First of all, we need a total sidebar off camera someday where we're gonna teach you how to say all the religions because they're all wrong. Okay, got it. Everything is wrong. They're not episcopalians, they are not catholicists, they are not atheists. Like these are all the wrong pronunciations of those words. Um, so it's gonna, we're gonna do a special. I'm gonna do a special in teaching. Okay, so no, your dad is an atheist. Yeah, but but so what what before he was an atheist? What was your family's Catholics? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

So culturally we're like the Irish, so that's what we've got in the church. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But so uh, so there was no big booze incident. You tell me yours, but my honeymoon was loads of funny booze story on the honeymoon. But I will say that before our real wedding, like the Montreal one, where sorry I have allergies, but there was like a lot of people, well, a lot 90, you know, it was like yeah, yeah, but it was the party versus it. Yeah, I was at my parents' condo in Montreal, and it was three o'clock, and we're getting at married like at 4:30, and I was already all dressed up. I have short hair, so it wasn't that hard. And I was like, Well, mom, you got some rose laying out around somewhere. And she's like, Yeah, go to the so I was drinking rose in my full-on, like I was drinking before I got married. Now I wasn't drunk because it takes me more than a couple of glasses to get, but you know, uh, but thankfully I love dancing, so the wedding itself was a lot of music and dancing, and when I'm busy dancing, then I don't drink as much. Uh-huh. So I didn't, you know, there was no bad drinking incident. But a honeymoon is where it'll get funny. But you tell me, what was yours? Oh, okay. So, first of all, same thing.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

We had two weddings. Um, we were supposed to have that. Okay. We were supposed to have three weddings, but I got pregnant. So it was like, mm-hmm that ship has sailed. Um we uh but our first wedding was in Ireland. Right. And someday I'm actually gonna write a play about or a TV show about my wedding because like it had all kinds of it had everything. It had everything. It like meaning what? Everything meaning it had it had hilarity, it had newsworthy stuff. The Irish Times came to cover our wedding. Oh my god. I got married in the ruins of a church. So my family's Catholic, Andrew's family is Jewish, we couldn't get married in the Catholic Church because you're not allowed to. We ended up getting an excommunicated priest that we had to fly in from England because because there is one in Ireland, right? Believe it or not, there is one, but he's so fucking busy marrying people outside the Catholic Church that you have to book him like five years later.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

So our priest, so Quebec is so Catholic, non-Catholic that our priest, even though Brooks and like he's Protestant and stuff, he's like, eh, you know, like fuck it, right? Basically, let me ask you, what had he done to like to get excommunicated?

SPEAKER_01 9:09

I'm like, show No, I'm sorry, you get excommunicated if you want to not be celibate. So he basically didn't want to be Protestant. Got it. He didn't want to be Protestant, but he wanted to my daddy wanted to like get married. So he had like six kids. Got it. And um, also, I mean, again, he could write just a just a solo play about that guy. He's we have a very, very famous TV show in Ireland called Father Ted, which is a total mockery of the Irish Catholic Church. Yeah, right. Just the and in a hilarious way. It's a it's a situation comedy about these priests that live on a very remote island, and and they're it is side-splittingly funny. It is iconic in Father Ted. So if you were Irish, if you are Irish listening to this, you'll know what I'm talking about, Father Ted. Anyway, the priest was called Father Ted. So that was that was the beginning of the comic that was gonna be our wedding room. Everyone was like, shut the fuck up. He's called Father Ted. I'm like, yes, yes, he's called Father Ted. That's right. Anyway, we flew in Father Ted because the other guy that was in Ireland was he was so busy, he was so booked out, he was like, I can't marry you for years. Oh my god. I'm like, is that supply and demand? Is anybody paying attention to this? Please, that's I was just gonna say, Catholic, wake the fuck up. No, or by the way, a couple more of you excommunicate. Please pick this guy out.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

I might frock just to be able to marry people. I did it in reverse. I get married, then I I joined the ranks, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Wow, so funny. Yeah, so Father Ted came in um from Ireland from England for the wedding, and we did um we did a hybrid wedding. Which is some ju some Jewish traditions and some Irish Catholic traditions. Right. I mean, Andrew and I were probably a little more religious at that. I mean, not religious, but I understand what you mean. You know, now we're like full-on signed up, you know, a atheist. You have to admit mine is sexy. It sounds it sounds way better. Atheist, I am an atheist. Um then people would be like, what the fuck did she say? I'm like, I'm an atheist. In fact, I'm never ever saying it the old way, though. You're not gonna be involved, I'm never, I'm only ever gonna be like, oh, what is you? I'm an atheist. Okay. I want to join it too. Yes, we're starting our own church.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

Oh, we are, man, the church of a theist.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

May I remind everybody though? Man, there's no booze in here.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

We're not from our promise.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

Um so yeah, my wedding was that blend, our wedding, since Andrew's sitting on the other side of the glass there. And it was, you know, it was one of those, it was first of all, when it comes to booze, it was an Irish wedding. So, you know, we're open, bar.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Same, you know, first thing in the morning. And good stuff. Like we were like, don't serve that fucking bottom shelf picked from a cell.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

Well, let me tell you, we flew in. We had to have one of Andrew's group's men. Oh my god, it's all coming back to me. I can't even remember where he had to get the uh the champagne we wanted, which was they don't make it anymore. It was a moet and a chandel, um, and it was called nectar.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

And you couldn't get it in Ireland. I couldn't get it in Ireland.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

It was it was very, it was not very common. It wasn't very um widely available, but we found it somewhere in in England, in London, maybe, and one of Andrew's groomsmen just brought it over with him, like on a boat. It was that was how adamant we were about having that particular champagne for cocktail hour. Right. Then our actual champagne was B écart salmon, which is that used to be my go-to. It was one of my favorites, and the rose we had for Andrew and I, and then everybody else has a regular one.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Oh I do that all the time. Oh my god, I keep the good stuff for me and I give everybody else. Yes, yes, yes, yes. My dad was like, I fucking admire that. He caught me at birthday. We had people over, and I'm like giving myself great champagne. Everybody's drinking like fucking cheap chabli, like the chip. Oh, we used to do that all the time, right? I'm like, they're not appreciated anyway.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

No, and it's and actually we have a couple of friends who when they when they come to one of our big parties at our house, we tell we we tell them. Tell them where the stash is the good stuff is because if we're pouring like a case of champagne, oh my god, I'm like, but we're like, a lot of people don't make the difference anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, so the wedding, so our wedding was was fraught with kinds of my my father was dying from the first. So that made it very, very hard. My father died of ALS, I remember neuron disease, and he was very near the end at that time. In fact, he died six weeks after we got married, and there's something in me that that believes that he was he was waiting around for that. Yeah, yeah. So that he could be like, all right, and can peace out now. Um, but it was crazy because the hospice wouldn't let him come to the wedding because they said for legal reasons, and I'm like, he's weeks away from that. Like, what are you talking about? But we had to sign a whole special thing, right? My amazing mother-in-law organized a private ambulance because they wouldn't they wouldn't transport him, but he really, really wanted to be there, and I'm so glad we made it happen because it was actually the last day I saw my father. So it was like the last time I saw him was standing in the ruins of this church. We got married in the ruins of a church that is like all my friends from New York were like, it's a fucking art-directed movie. Like it was ridiculous. Gorgeous ruins where the stained glass window used to be, you look out and it's the Atlantic Ocean up on a hill. It's the most magical place, but it's where my family have been buried for generations. That's where we used to go up to visit my grandparents' graves. It's where my father is now buried, and um so morbid, right? The whole thing. Anyway, everyone was like, half my getting morbid. So people in my town kept calling it the graveyard wedding. I was like, stop calling it that.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

She said I can't imagine you like the way you just said it, like that sounded like the person who was drinking too much like like the mascara coming down the fence. Stop calling it the graveyard wedding.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

But here's the funny thing about my wedding. I did not drank. I drank, but I drank little maybe two glasses of shampoo. I didn't get a waste of the eye. I did not, I did not, I was super on edge the whole time. Okay. Um and yeah, we can go to my uh the honeymoon story too, because that was we were able to completely decompress, but the the wedding was weddings are weddings are fucking stressful because you know why yours wasn't. Well, typically because it's family. Everybody, I think it's family, family, family. So I just ignore it. My father's.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

I didn't invite most family, it was mainly friends, handful of family. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

See, I was in my 30s, so like freaking large, large.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

Because you were pregnant, so you're horrible. You weren't pregnant yet? Oh no, number three, you were pregnant. Third, third wedding.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

No, the third wedding didn't happen because I was yes, and we'd been married twice at that point. We're all good.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

There's no shotguns. You should put away a shotgun.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

There's a it was like a year later, right? It was like no fun. Um, but uh yeah, so I didn't drink a lot at my wedding because of all of the things that kept me on edge. Um, it alcohol impacted my wedding in a big way. My my one of my brothers who I've talked about many times, who is um an addict, and he went on one of his famous bender, three, four-week benders.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

Oh, Jesus, three, four weeks.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Oh, yes, sometimes they would last for weeks. How can you pay for that? Um, anyway, um, he uh told us a couple of weeks before the wedding that he would not be making it and he was a groomsman. So, like that became a whole thing. Right. Then at my wedding, my other brother got so hammered, like we're like people were worried about him. Oh no. He was having a whole meltdown because my bridesmaid gave this speech talking about how amazing I was, and he and he got all mad about it, and I was like trying to calm him down. It was like it was it was just like it was so much stuff. Then, oh my god, that I had uninvited guests, like extended family. My mother is one of 13, my father is one of nine. We could not invite everybody and their first cousin and all my first cousin. So we tried to keep it small to like 90 people, 85 people. Anyway, a bunch of not invited showed up and my mother-in-law, who's like the calmest, kindest, sophisticated woman, she was like, Who are they? And they're in these fascinators, they were so drunk by the end of the wedding. They were sitting. I have a photo of one of them on each of the priests' knees.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

They're excuminated. Mine is excuminated, right? Is excommunicated. Oh, you do decide a C on this one? Sweet too. All right. Excommunicated. He's excommunicated.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

He didn't care. But like then, I mean, could could you just hear all the pieces of my wedding? Oh my god. How crazy it was. And I don't even, I don't even have time to tell the story about the flowers in the wedding, where the the the local guy who was selling me the flowers was telling me I was spending too much money on flowers. He was like, Maxine, that's too they're fair. Andrew loves the phrase saucy, meaning expensive. Oh shit. He was like, they're awful saucy now. You could just cut the hydrangeas around in the neighbors' houses the day before. Selling you the flowers. Why does he And he's telling me to go grab some scissors and cut the flowers for my own wedding the day before the wedding? He was like, they'll cost you nothing. Just go into the neighbor's gardens. I'm like, we're not gonna do that. We're not gonna do that. I'm gonna buy the flowers as planned, and it's business for you, so you could stop like doing yourself out of the job. I don't know. Anyway, so cut to the end of the night, we got through it all. Andrew and I laughed our way through the ceremony because the priest, Father Ted, turned out to be crazy. Oh no. Like he had we, I think now looking back, I think maybe he had some kind of no, like maybe early onset dementia. Oh no, something like he didn't remember. He said multiple things that made no sense multiple times. No, it's like, and I had told him at the beginning of the day when we met him the day before, making a joke, I said, you know, you you could do this whole wedding Catholic light. Right. And he was like, What does that mean? And I was like, Well, my my husband's family are Jewish, right? So let's not lean too heavily on the whole Jesus Christ thing. I was like, listen, we they all believe the same thing in God, yada yada. But Jesus is a sticky thing. So like maybe don't say too much about Jesus. Right, right. But I'm making a joke. Right, right. So you were going on and on about Jesus. No, he he didn't ever say Jesus. So every time he came to the word Jesus in the Catholic Mass, which by the way is many, many fucking times. There's a lot of Jesus. And in the name of Jesus And then he would look at me and I'm like, You should have And my back is to the congregation. You should have told him to replace it by bubble gum. You could have said say anything in the name of Lord, in the name of God, any anything you want. And but then he would get to it. And Andrew and I, we have video of us, and all you all the people in the back could see was our shoulders. Oh my god. Just because we're we're like holding each other's hands so tight because it is so funny. And then the son of the Lord and and then he would go, music, and we're like, what? And the string quartet is like, we don't have music here. Whoops, and they're like, and my god, and then we have that is really funny. We have the video camera of that looking at my family and my my lovely sweet aunt, who's like so religious, and she's like this. What's going on? What's and then I'm like, and then the poor Jewish family are like, these people are crazy. I mean, so this was the ceremony. That's revived. Then all the shit happens, various things happen, people are drunk. It was it was it was a bit messy, the actual wedding. Did your brother who suffers? Uh, alcohol doesn't ever show up. Oh, no, no, no. He told me he was like, I'm not coming. I'm not coming. He's like, I'm gonna be drunk for like three weeks. I was like, okay, fair enough. Um uh so I'm glad it didn't happen on the day. Right. Um that's happened plenty of times, but not on my wedding day. Uh so la the late part of that was the best part of the wedding because because I didn't drink, I remember every single moment of my wedding day. Every every single minute. And I remember you just talked about dancing. Right. At the end, and I had the most beautiful wedding dress, this gorgeous, gorgeous princess gown, covered in tiny little white flowers. And at the end of the night, I remember dancing with one of my favorite cousins, and we were dancing to Simple Minds YouTube. Yeah. And just like going crazy in my massive princess gown. I did not change. I was still in the gown. I just take it all changed. And we partied until three hours of the morning. Here's a hilarious other part of alcohol in my wedding is my husband. Sorry, Andrew, telling the story, got wasted.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

So, and that is one of, I would say, three times Andrew has been wasted since we've been married. Right. Uh, versus my 300 times. Right. Um, so he got wasted. And we have this very famous picture of him amongst our family and friends, where he's sitting at the end of the night in this. We got married in this Georgian, beautiful Georgian mansion that used to be derelict when I was going to school, and it got completely made over. And that's where we got married. It's so gorgeous. Called Cross Avon House. Um, and Andrew, we have a picture of Andrew, and he's sitting in one of the chairs in this big grand living room with his we had uh tuxedo. He had the thing, it's all open, and he is drinking BA carsamo from the bottle.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

At this point, you're gonna put anything in that bottle.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

No, he did not know, he did not care. Um, but so uh then then okay, he's gonna kill me for telling the story, but then he couldn't get my wedding dress off. Oh my god. It was one of those things. It was a beautiful and it got all the hooks in the bottom.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Yeah, but by the way, we all like, I mean, seriously, I I'm sure now I'm gonna look like an old fart, but we are not virgins now when we get married. I was, you know, of course you were, but I did not get married in white. Mine was off white because that girl had been around the block. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So my point is, you're 30-something. In my case, anyway, is not a virgin. Yeah. So, you know, you're I'm joking, by the way. I know that. I know that. You know, it's 2-3 in the morning. It's 2-3 in the morning. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. That you were gonna carry me in that set.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

I told you on the last episode, I just started watching Bridgerton. So the wedding night. Like they're they're doing it, but I don't know anyone in their right mind that actually. Anyway, so that was she was a two. So that was my wedding, hugely, hugely impacted by alcohol on so many fucking levels.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

That's funny. Mine wasn't too bad, but my honeymoon was uh so uh okay. So uh so no, there was I remember everything just like you. I did drink, but not for my account in excess, you know, and I was sweating and dancing, so you know, I remember like most things really. But um, on our honeymoon, I decided like most normal people usually go somewhere relaxing, right? But I'm like relaxing, fuck that. So I wanted to see the Himalayas. Oh my gosh. So and I'm like, I'm not seeing Mount Everest because that's gonna make me upset because everybody's trashing it. So, but we did go hiking in the Himalayas for um three weeks, then Tibet, and then we're coming out of Hong Kong. But the thing is, I had no So that's another place where there is a H. There is an H. In my head, I envisioned it like you stay in little villages, obviously, they're gonna be simple. I don't know Nepal to be very wealthy, but and then you go for hikes. That's in my brain how things were working, don't work out this way. Oh no, no, no. Like the roads are the hikes, like there's you take a little puddle plane from Kathmandu, they fly you at 11,000 feet at their lowest village because there's no roads between these two things, really. And from there, you walk through villages hiking because there are no roads. The paths that you're hiking You're hiking to where where's your fucking luggage? So that's the thing. So that oh, great question. Because I'm going to head, I'm like, besides that's that's where the apple comes. So check this out. So, first of all, we're going to three weeks in the MLIS because I'm gonna go look at these mountains, right? And I'm gonna go hiking.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

That is a long time for mountains and hiking.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Listen, I'm 35. I'm like, like, I don't think about these things. And I remember we bought a hiking boot, and because obviously it's a travel agency that has to book you, you can't just go by yourself. I see. And we went, we're like, we need to practice, right? Someone tells we were like having cocktails in Brooklyn. Someone goes, You guys big hikers? I'm like, Yeah, not particularly. Like, you're going to the MLIs. And I'm like, Yeah. They're like, you might want to break in your boots. I'm like, good fucking point. So the next day we went to Bear Mountain, like right outside of New York. Same. We didn't even make it to the top. MLA is bearing. We did, we did an hour and we figured that's good. Boots don't hurt. We're good. You're like, I am ready. So then I started reading about it a little bit, and I'm like, shit, it looks pretty like, huh. It's pretty like simple living, right? They don't have they have electricity, but it's sort of like generators and shit. So I'm like, booze. So Bruce was like, I don't know, they might not have booze. He wasn't worried. I'm like, excuse me, what? So I got ordered in over 15. What the hell? Over 15 bottles, half bottles of good red wine. Okay. Because I thought we're good. So we I knew we're gonna have yaks, you know, to carry our shit with Sherpas, like big cows. Yes. Okay, but I didn't want them to carry our wine because I felt bad. So I was gonna carry it on my backpack. So we got there, like But you didn't want the yak to carry your wine. No, I didn't want the people. It turns out when we got there, we did not have yaks, Brooks and I, because we're just two people. So but we had a crew of 15 people carrying our shit. So they were carrying all my wine, yes, because you have to carry your food, what you're gonna cook with, everything. It's like a it's like a canoe trip in the mountains without a canoe. So everything you put in your mouth has to be carried out. And also, none of this is saying honeymoon to me, but go on. No, so so much so that it had, you know, it there's a lot of crazy hikers that like are doing their bucket list shit. It had gone around the trails that it was this crazy couple that were honeymooning in the Halayas. So one day we're like hiking, and some white guy walked by us, he goes, he heard us speak English and French. He goes, Wait a minute, you guys the honeymooners! Like it had gone around the circuit. There was these crazy assholes. Anyway, my point is we drank our way through the Halayas. People don't do that because we went all the way to 16,000 feet. It's very, very like you're wasted after one glass of wine. I wasn't. Oh. I was and I was so worried. Now we had we had a few events where we probably were playing with our life, like events where I couldn't breathe anymore because of the altitude, but you were drinking this really didn't know it's bad. And and sometimes we'd sleep in lodges where they had a little general store and they had booze, and I was so worried of losing like running through my stash of 15 half bottle of wines that I would still buy wine in the general store. And I was keeping my 15 half bottle as like emergency. Okay. Right? Wow. So we drag our way through it, and uh, you know, we we didn't die, but a couple of times it was like counterindicated, let's just say it was not the smartest thing, but I did it. Brooks a few times I was like, I can't drink, I don't even feel good sober in this fucking 16,000. Then I was like, I need something to forget where I'm at. And then what I did, which was ridiculous, at some point we get into this one little town. Again, you're just walking. There's no you're in the mountains, right? So from town to town is hiking. So I'm sorry, the people in the towns and the general store people, they don't have no when they want to get off the mountain, they walk for three or four days, and then they get to that town where we got we got brought in an airplane, and from that town you can hike down and catch a bus that's gonna take two days to go to Kathmandu. No, no, no, it's you're fucking remote. If you break something, you're fucked. I hadn't thought about any of this before we went. It's a good thing. Yes, because something happens to you, you're dying. Yeah, you're dying. We got airlifted out. Oh, that's another fun. No, we got stranded. Oh, in an helicopter, airlifted, an old Russian helicopter from the 60s. Brooks wanted to kill me. This is during the honeymoon. Yeah, this is the honeymoon. Oh, it started better because talking of booze, you have to get to Nepal, which is a faraway place. So there's no direct flight to Kathmandu. So we had several ways to go through it. A lot of the flights, I don't want people like sending you hate mail about what I'm gonna say. These are my personal feelings. Okay. A lot of the flights we're going to Bangkok in Thailand, and there's two reasons I didn't want to go there. Number one, I'm highly allergic to shellfish, shrimp, and everything's got shrimp in it. I don't want to deal with it. But most importantly, in my head, there's a lot of people that go there to have sex with young children, and it grosses me out. There's a big like, I know it happens in other countries. Like, people are like, get up. Yes, I know. But there's a commerce there, and like people like here go there for that, and I'm just disgusted. So I didn't want to go through Bangkok for that. So we're forced to go through the other way, and one of the ways was through Oman. Okay, yeah. And Brooks has lived there, you know. His parents were diplomats. So we went to Oman on our honeymoon in a five-star hotel. I mean, Oman is gorgeous, except it was a Ramadan. And you can't drink anywhere. So we were forced to drink in our hotel room. So I was like spending most of the time in our hotel room. So they thought we were having mad sex. No, I was just like drinking. You know, like so, because you can't drink in public during the Ramadan. So I didn't know that. But anywho, so my booze story during the honeymoon is that I slept the 15 bottles of wine through the Halayas, drank all of them and some. And uh then, that's not related to booze, but on our way out, after like two and a half weeks of hiking, we were gonna go to Tibet and we got stranded because the town that you can get out with a little Cessna plane is exactly where the clouds hang out, and they hang out a lot in that altitude. So for three days in a row, you were clouded in. So being the New Yorker, everybody was stranded. I like, and it's raining and it's mud, and like I'm going to town, like from our little hotel in mud every day, and I'm getting that fucking satellite, like that satellite um phone. I'm calling California, the people that book, and I'm like giving them shit. And I see the very rich Japanese people coming in in private helicopter. So after three days, I'm like, get me a fucking helicopter, like I'm going crazy. So and it was funny because in our inn there were other people there from California, and they were like, chill, peace out, man. And I'm like the New Yorker going nuts, like drinking booze, like non-stop. And but when I got that old Russian helicopter, like they were pushing me out of the way to get in there, and I was like, no, no, no, get that mama first. Now there's this big Russian helicopter that they went to war with. The year before it fell, everybody died. There was a diplomat from DC, okay, had made the news. Not the same helicopter, obviously. Same brand, okay, same era, same everything. Like she, as you flew, you saw the wreck. Oh my god. It was great. And so Brooks and they were filling gas, and the guy was had a cigarette in his mouth, the pilot, as he's supervising someone, filling gas. And I said to Brooks in English, I go, fuck, he's gonna blow us up. The guy's like, eh, no, don't worry, chicken curry. Don't worry, chicken curry, is what he said to me. I was like, Oh, I feel I'm I'm good then, you know. We get on the we get on the helicopter, Brooks closed his eyes, and like the helicopter was swaying like this. And I'm like, oh my god, Brooks, look, there's a funnel cloud over there. There's a funnel cloud, like a tornado cloud coming not far from us. And Brooks never gets mad, he's always so patient. Like, I could do no wrong. But that day, I'm like, Brooks, look. He's like, I kid you not. One more word from you. I kid you not.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

He's like, I need you. I need to be alive. And then he was like, What are we gonna talk about?

SPEAKER_00 34:31

He goes, What happened to fucking Bermuda, huh? What happened to Bermuda? He was so mad.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Well, so mad. Let me tell you, that is the craziest, awfulest honeymoon I could ever have dreamed up for me.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

I you wonder where we went. But let me just say, then we went to Tibet, which was not adventurous, and every night before we went to bed, even though it was just the two of us on a honeymoon, the lady downstairs would call Brooks and say, Mr. Wants Massage every night. And I was like, he's on his fucking honeymoon. Stop calling every night. Hello, Mr. Waltz Massage.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

But were you not getting offered the massage?

SPEAKER_00 35:08

No, just Brooks. It was a sex massage. Wait, what? I think so. At 10:30 at night, Mr. Wants Massage. What in the hotel? Yeah. That sounds crazy. It was 2007, different times. It was a weird, weird honeymoon.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

Wow. Um, I mean, so at least I get to tell you the super boring honeymoon that I've got. So where did you go? We went to the Maldives. Oh, I wanted to go before they sing. Incredible. Yeah. And because our wedding, for you know, destination wedding, the whole like getting people from America, organizing the excommunicated priest, all of that. And then, you know, my father, my family. Like it was so so the day after the wedding, we had a brunch, and Andrew and I got on a plane. We flew via Paris. Oh, nice. Um, we went to Paris and then from Paris to Dubai to the Maldives. So that was our Maldives is nice. It is the most one of the most beautiful places I've ever ever seen in my life. It was so amazing. And it was, I would say, as far on the opposite side of the spectrum to your honeymoon as one could possibly. Oh, I would imagine. We went into one of those water like huts that like jutted out into the and like our bathroom had a clear thing so you could like see the fish underneath you. And I will say the Irish girl in the Maldives struggled. Why? Uh it is so hot. Oh, is it that hot? I mean, there were days it was 105 degrees, like I couldn't even go outside. Okay. Like I had I had full-length linen things down to my wrists. Which people suffer too.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

I was at 55 degrees with high winds, but look at you, right? We're both living the same shit different situation.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

No, I will take my situation any any day of the week over that crazy helicopter, almost dying in shit.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

And you know what I did? And I know like you're not gonna believe this. I'm not trying to be setting funny. I kid you not, I Jesus, the one you're not allowed to talk about, is my witness. We hit a town that had a little like market, yeah, and that used books, right? And I picked up this book called Into Thin Air. I had no idea what it was about. It said it was about the Malayas. I'm like, I'm gonna great. Yeah. And Brooks sees that. He's like, You sure you want to read that? And I was like, it's about the Malayas. Do you know what into thin air is? No. I did okay, so it's not just me. I think it was like big in the US, but not outside the US. So it's a the book about a true story. This American guy went on an excursion to Mount Everest, and he's the only one that came back to say the story. Everybody fucking died. And I'm it's a true story, and I'm reading it, and I'm like having panic attacks. Like at night, like there's no electricity, and I'm like, Brooks, Brooks, please turn on the flashlight. He's like, You need to stop reading this, but I need to know what happened. He's like, they all died as about stop reading it. Like, and they're describing mountains that we're going to. I mean, he's like really freaky. It was really freaky. Oh my god. It was really freaky. But once you start reading it and you're there, you can stop, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:26

I I think, yeah. It was that was not good. Um, you made me think of when you mentioned Ramadan that I have another amazing wedding story. The Pakistani because I went to a wedding in Pakistan. Right. And that was, I mean, the most eye-opening. I'm the biggest fan of travel because I feel like there's no better education than going into someone else's culture and society and and seeing how they live and being a part of it. Um, so it was my I was in just out of law school, actually. So my friend, she was my best friend in law school, and she uh she had first an arranged marriage. Oh jeez. And and she called off the arranged marriage weeks before the wedding. Uh and then this was another marriage, and he had to convert from Catholicism uh to Islam. That's a big step. A very, very large step. That's a big step. This is not Catholicism to Episcopalian.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Episcopalian. That one was easy.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

No, that is not that. This is this is Catholicism to Islam. Islam. That's a big that was a big step. Anyway, very much a part of of this was uh her parents and her need. I mean, she was she was a practicing Muslim, but uh to a degree. I mean, we got wasted in law school together that she wasn't dry, right? But Pakistan is a dry state, so you're not allowed to drink, da da da. But then I learned all about how it depends on whether or not you're allowed to drink. So we got to the wedding and a whole group of us went from London, and uh it was the most extraordinary. We had she had all of our um traditional uh dress made. It was it was truly one of the most beautiful things. The colors, nothing is white. Right, like everything is bright, and the marigolds and the roses, like everything is just so incredibly vibrant. Um, anyway, the uh the we would go to all these events. We checked into a hotel, and when you check into the hotel, you have to declare your nationality and your religion. Are you kidding? So I would lie, I was well, as long as you weren't a Pakistani or a Muslim, they didn't give a shit. Oh, okay. Oh, they only cared about those. You were international. If you were an international guest, right, then you could, and we were just out of law school. I was a high-flying executive already. I had this like beautiful suite, and my boyfriend at the time, we had this gorgeous room. And you, when you got to, there's no alcohol in the room, right? But then if you signed in and showed your passport and signed a contract that you were not going to give the alcohol to any Muslims to any Muslims, they would fill your room with any alcohol you wanted. So we got up to our room. I did like a list like you do at an all-inclusive. I will be like, I'll have this, I'll have this, I'll have this. So they filled our room, and because we had this big room, our room became the pre-event party place. Right. So everyone would come to our room and have gin and tonics and champagne, and then go to the official wedding events where you were not allowed to drink. Except that at the end of each of these various different ceremonies, which were extraordinarily beautiful, um, the men got taken into another room. Of course they do. Brooks told me about that in Oman. So all of our boyfriends got taken into another room. Where they drink. Where they got absolutely fucking top-tier whiskey, wine, cigars. So the first can you imagine me? That's another reason. Can you imagine this being told to me? By the way, my boyfriend was at the time on like be I was taking care of him. Like he, I he I was paying for the rooms. I was paying for the flights. You're like, I was like, hold on a second. I paid for this whole goddamn excursion, and he gets to go in there and have wine and champagne. And he was like, I I can't not go. Like, I have to, all of our boyfriends were taken into these rooms. And I was like, this is I'm like, I was so horrified.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

Another reason to dislike alcohol, right? Whereas like, I thought you were gonna say, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 42:47

This is what I thought you were gonna say the religion, but oh, that's well done. But listen, I just I could not believe that the line there was a line in the sand, which was based on your gender. That's great. You can go in that room and you can drink all you want.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

And by the way, I don't blame Muslim religion for that. I be I play I blame the culture of these countries, which is completely different. Yes, you're absolutely I don't think Islam does that. I think culturally certain places are still misogynistic. Yes, and that's it. Yes, and they're not just Middle Eastern places. I can name a lot of other countries nowhere closer there, including ours. Do you want to talk about the one we're living in right now? That's what I was gonna say, right?

SPEAKER_01 43:24

So But it was such a crazy experience to be, and and of course, at that time, I was like, well, then I'm going back to my room because I'm tired where I'm gonna be having all the gin and that's what I would have done too. But I wouldn't know. And obviously, I couldn't leave certain ceremonies and things because I wanted to be there for my friend. But I was like, god damn it, it was so annoying. The other thing that was so amazing about that was I am, as you know and can see if you're watching, the white, freckly Irish girl. You're pretty white. I'm pretty white, and I'm really freckly. Right. And I've got this hair that is. Unusual in a lot of places. I was it was when I went in the pool back then in my freaking bikini. Um people were taking photos of me.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

Oh my god, that's funny.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

Like I was an as I was like a little thing in a zoo. Like it was so fucking weird. And people also, by the way, so the men were taking photos of me. The women thought I was ugly. Oh wow. Like a couple of the women, local women, had been like, oh my god, she's so like her boyfriend's so attractive, but she's like because these friends like not that. They were like in my light eyes and my pale skin. It was like they were like, ew, no.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

They said recessive genes.

SPEAKER_01 44:49

I'm like, yeah, yeah. So, but listen, I was talking to a wedding planner the other day, and she was telling me, and I actually wrote a few of the things down because it's kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_00 45:02

Um actually, I went my I went to my sister's wedding, and I was 19 days sober. Oh wow. Yeah. That was like that was it was fine, was a little different. Your sister just got married? Yeah. I did not know this. Yes, she just got married. She had as a kid from someone else. Okay, people in Quebec don't get married. Okay, by culture anymore. Okay. I'm the I'm the weirdo. I always wanted to get married. It was important to me. I remember my all my friends are like, getting married? Why? Like, people don't get married. And and my sister probably got the gene, you know, got passed down. She also wanted to get married to the right person. So she had a child, maybe not with the right person to marry, but the right person to have a child, a beautiful, fantastic father. Yeah. But found finally at 48, 49, 48 years old, like the perfect man and got married, like traditional, well, you know, like with the not a she wasn't wearing a dress, but in YATE. Yeah, yeah. A wedding wedding, right? Amazing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:03

So this happened 19 days sober. Wow. So how was your first? I haven't been to a wedding yet that hasn't had since I've quit drinking. It was oh, so I still have a first. I was like, I've done all my first.

SPEAKER_00 46:17

I was still, you know, I wasn't. I was it was either 19 or 29. There was a nine super early. Early. It was October, I quit in September. So that gives you an idea. Yeah, I quit the 9th of September. This was a 12th of October. Okay. Wow. So I think the appre I the actual event was completely fine. But the apprehension, like I, you know, there was some apprehension. Yeah. You know, because a Thanksgiving thing, you know, if nobody gassed, that happened with my sister, right? So I was a little apprehensive, like about not drinking at the wedding. Right. Like, what if again, like, what if I leave too early and then like that's the problem? Or I don't dance enough and that's the problem. And it was all in my head. But I'm saying that was the part that was the most uncomfortable. How did you do at the wedding? You were at the wedding, it was fine. It was completely different. Did you bring NA stuff? So, yes, at the time I was not introduced yet to non-alcoholic wines. I didn't discover them, but I discovered toast, okay, which is local here. So I'd brought some and they were so, and it's so funny because I've been complaining in Quebec about how ungracious restaurateurs have been. This was in a restaurant in a hotel. So same laws, and I could not tell you how gracious they were. Not only had my sister been gracious because she had come to me and she's like, I have options for you, right? And I was like, Oh my god, thank you so much. So without my asking her, she had already made provision. I can't remember what they were, but they had she had made provision for non-alcoholic stuff, which was so sweet. And I had also bought brought the toast with me, and I went to the bartender and he's like, Oh, no problem. I'm gonna stash it here for you in that bucket, right? And I'm amazing. Now that I'm telling that to you, I wonder. Toast is an adaptogen. Yeah, it's not NA1. No, no, it's not the same when you think about it in terms of alcohol level, it's the same shit. But it's but it's branded differently. Branded differently. They're not gonna drink society deliveration. I wonder if that was the reason the problem, right? If the it's an NA champagne, NA wine. I feel like it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 48:22

And I know, but I have to do it. Can you feel alcohol into restaurants in Quebec? Well, I'm not sure if you'd allow you.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Last time I checked, if you have a special bottle and they'll you have to pay a quirking fee. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 48:34

So then I don't know why you can't bring any of the things.

SPEAKER_00 48:36

But they were telling me, like, no, no, no, you can't do that either. It needs a special permit. I don't know. I'm not, but that's got alcohol in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, but anyway, so at that wedding it went fine, and there were my sister was so gracious about my needs, like, without my even bring it up, and then they were so awesome, and you know, you dance and and then things are fine. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Uh yeah, I haven't been to a wedding, but so I was just about to say my friend who's uh an event planner is doing two weddings this summer, one zero alcohol. Oh, Jesus. Like they have decided they don't want, and I said hot what what she was like, neither of them drink. Okay, and they don't want drinking to be the thing that is the center of attention at the wedding. That is like a huge wow. So I was then very curious, and I did a little research. So what yeah, did she so only six percent of people plan fully dry weddings, fully sober. But this is what she told me about the other wedding is that the bar is gonna be 50-50. And then I looked up that stat. They the zero-proof bar options are up 56% in weddings.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

I wonder that wedding that they decided to go dry. I wonder how the people are dealing with if if, like, excuse me, I have the burpees, excuse me, if when I was drinking, I'll be honest, if someone invited me to a wedding and it's not Muslim, so there's no religious excuse not to drink, I would have been really annoyed and I would have had booze in my room and I would have sussed. Yeah, that would have annoyed the shit out of me when I was drinking. Yeah. I'm admitting it. So I wonder how the other people are feeling.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

But but then, but so I had not that it matters, but I had a cousin get married last year or a couple of years ago to um uh a Muslim girl. Right, right. And they like so what what would you what's the difference, right? If someone says to you, my wedding is non-alcoholic, period. Right, would you you're saying you wouldn't be mad if it was because it was an Islamic.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

It would be the same thing. I wouldn't be mad, I would be annoyed in both cases. In both cases, I'd have booze in my room. In both cases, I'd go sauce myself for certain. In one case, I would be more annoyed because I'd be like, oh my god, you're so annoying. In the other case, I'd be like, She doesn't have a choice as a reason. Right, right, right. That's a difference, yeah. But listen, I mean here's the other thing back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 51:05

I mean, I get it. I uh you've been to all the parties at my house and all the dinners at my house. I have both. Like, I'm not on a mission to make everybody. I like the both, but I understand they don't want to pay for the shit. Yeah, well, and that is the other thing. Right. The cost to young couples is one of the big reasons. The cost of the bar, I thought I'd look that up. I got I wasn't down a research rabbit hole and like the cost of the alcohol at a wedding is often the highest percentage, more than the food, yeah, more than the flowers, more than the music. And so if you're making the choice because of budget, then you know, pre-party guys, I guess. But I I mean, I'm again, I feel like that's super extreme. Right. I love the fact that 56% of weddings, they're up 56%.

SPEAKER_00 51:54

I like that because I I think I do feel that there are a lot of people, like alcohol didn't bring anything to me anymore, and there's a lot of reason I don't want to drink at all. Um, but if I could drink two glasses a week, which I cannot, zero, I cannot, there's not a doubt in me. Like, but let's say I were my mother, right? Uh I would like my option, exactly. Like I feel that people like my mom, there's not a lot of them, but they are out there. There are people that can take it or leave it. Yes, and those people enjoy their celebratory glass of champagne at a wedding. So, per and by the way, the cost now, unless you're gonna have zero alternatives, just water, non-alcoholic wine is expensive too. Yeah, so um, I think I would go with I like the bar that's got both options.

SPEAKER_01 52:42

Yeah, I think, I mean, I really think, and and um my friend Tiffany, who works in the wedding industry or is doing weddings, like she said that that that's what they're seeing throughout the industry, is the option, right?

SPEAKER_00 52:57

And even people that drink who drink will like, for instance, my mother was like, I'll use her a lot better example because she's so cute. Uh, and my sister, too. She's like, she told me the other day she's about three days a week not drinking, and she loves our NA wine. Like she doesn't like the same I do, she has our Canadian brand. Yes, my point is a lot of people that are still drinking are drinking mindful. Yes, yeah, quantity.

SPEAKER_01 53:20

One of my friends the other day, she said the same thing to me. She was like, Oh, I love this oddbird, I keep it now in my fridge. And she's like, during the week, instead of having a martini, I'm having a glass of this. Right. And and it's it's reducing the amount that you're drinking.

SPEAKER_00 53:33

So that if you have a wedding and you have both options, presumably people that can drink in moderation have a glass or two and then they switch and they can switch.

SPEAKER_01 53:41

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 53:42

I like the option of both.

SPEAKER_01 53:43

Yeah. I love it. I love it. Well, those are our wedding stories. Um, I can't wait to go. I don't think I have any weddings coming up.

SPEAKER_00 53:52

I love a wedding. I'm a wedding whore. I love a wedding. I I'll befriend anyone that's getting married and having a party is just to go.

SPEAKER_01 53:57

Uh I yeah, well, I mean, I love a good party, as you know, and I love to get dressed up. But I didn't get to tell you about my our other two weddings. Our other one wedding, because we didn't get to have the big one. Our second wedding was because where was it? This is pretty funny. Where was it? It's because after the debacle of the wedding at the graveyard. Yeah. Um the graveyard wedding. The graveyard wedding, my mother-in-law, who, as you know, I adore, right? She got we got back to New York and she was like, I'm not sure you're married.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Oh no, no, no, no. I love that. That had not met the sniff desk for her. She was like, no, I I I'm not comfortable.

SPEAKER_01 54:35

This is really I don't think you guys have actually tied the knot. I don't think so. She's like, I have a really good friend who's a judge, and we're gonna make an appointment, and we're gonna go down to New York City Hall, and we're gonna get you properly married. Okay. So we seriously had a second wedding, right? Which was amazing. I was like, absolutely, I'm marrying my best friend. I'll have as many fucking parties as I want to brush two weddings. No problem. So I had a whole new dress, yeah, I had a hat. We did it just um a few of us in well, it was just four of us or six of us in in the judge's office. It was the most elegant affair. And then we went to um Bulu, Daniel Bulu down there, and we had actually we have we drank so much wine at that dinner. We they took all the labels off the bottles, and Daniel Bulu signed signed the menu. Oh, wow. That's how much money we spent in his restaurant that day. I think there was 10 of us for dinner. So that was that wedding. And then the third wedding that had been planned was because again, my darling mother-in-law was like, we need to have one more party because all of the New Yorkers that didn't go to Ireland should be allowed to celebrate this year. I mean, she was so happy we were getting married. Like it was like, let's make it. She was like, let's have one more big party. And I was like, absolutely. But then I booked this amazing job where I was in South Pacific with Lincoln Center and we went out on tour, and I said, Okay, I've got to do this job. And she was like, Absolutely, we'll do it when you come back off this contract. Right. However, during that contract, my husband was coming out and spending weekends with me all over the country. I got knocked up pregnant. So when I got pregnant and we came back to, I came back to New York on one of my breaks, and we took her for lunch. And uh, like having a grandchild obviously trumps everything. So I said, we have some news for you. And I told her, and I said, and now, and she was so happy, started crying, and then and then I was like, So, so we just we don't think we're gonna be doing another wedding because like we we're we've sealed the deal, there's a child coming, yeah. It's like that's we're done. So we never had the third wedding.

SPEAKER_00 56:40

Oh, well, yeah, but look at us like another thing we have in common two weddings, two weddings, the same kind of wedding, a big one, except we didn't reverse. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 56:48

Yeah, yeah, and we each respectively love our I love my husband, obviously. But I also love yours. So yeah, cheers to that. So if you're getting through wedding season, friends, um hopefully, yeah, invite us. And um, I mean, that's funny, given that you fucking hate Easter, but you're all about a wedding.

SPEAKER_00 57:06

Wedding. Well, first of all, unless they're Jewish, they're not on a Sunday, so you're not working the next day. Okay, you get to wear proper clothes, you get to dance on a dance floor with a DJ, food.

SPEAKER_01 57:18

All right, I need to just throw a different Easter party next year so that we can.

SPEAKER_00 57:21

If it's on a Sunday, if you have Oh, right, yes, yes. It's a Sunday basis. By the way, actually, one of my friends, we do Easter Eve. So, and by the way, at certain countries like Canada used to do it, and Europe used to have Monday off. That's a problem. Just talk to you about this. Yeah, like so.

SPEAKER_01 57:38

Do you remember? What do you think? So I've actually um I've actually blocked out Easter Monday on my calendar for 2027. Yeah. Because I forget and then stuff gets put on it, and I'm like, what? No, like it's like Good Friday. Listen, I don't like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, holidays. That's what that's why I uh We're doing that next week. Anyway. Thank you everybody for listening. Um that was fun. So yeah, if you're going out into if you're going out into the world for weddings this season, hopefully you're gonna have non-alcoholic options. Um, so thanks for listening to us again. We hope we've made you laugh. Um, I think those wedding stories are so diverse and so you're y'all never forget your honeymoon. Don't go to the MLIS. Don't go, no, apparently not. Um, and uh yeah, keep listening. Please share the episodes if if you've enjoyed them. Send us your questions and your comments. We're so grateful that we're resonating with so many of you, and we appreciate you tuning in. I'm Maxine, I am happy alcohol free. I'm Isabel, I'm happy as fuck. And we will see you on the next episode.

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Just wanna be happy.