A Wedding Weekend That Changed Hearts

What happens when love shows up… even when some people don’t?

In the final episode of the II Dope Podcast : The Wedding Mini-Series, we step inside a wedding weekend that challenged tradition, redefined support, and centered unity at every turn. From making every decision side by side to navigating vendor silence and online criticism with grace, this celebration became something much deeper than a party.

There were bold risks, unexpected hurdles, and moments that shifted hearts in the room including a surprise performance that almost didn’t happen and conversations that lingered long after the music ended.

This isn’t just about a wedding. It’s about choosing love publicly, intentionally, and without apology.

Stay until the end for the next chapter, including the story behind their custom fragrances, Deux and Deux Cœurs.

Press play. Love is the point.❤️💕

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:22

Welcome back. This is the final episode of the Two Dope Chicks Wedding Series podcast. And I am today with Party Life Productions, the wedding and event designer for the Two Dope Wedding. And I am joined by the Two Dope Chicks, Attorney Millicent Pride Daniels and Shantae Pride Daniels. Thank you so much for joining us again. I want to pick up uh where where we left off, that um the wedding reception and weekend um events had over nearly 200 guests. Um but literally just one was a family member of yours. Can you talk to me a little bit about that?

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Yeah. Um you know, very candidly, uh, Shantae had a lot of family there. I was super happy for her that her family came out and supported her um with this monumental move of marriage. Um, but uh my brother was there. Um you know, everyone is not privileged or blessed to have um the type of family that's supportive of uh this kind of decision of actually marrying a woman being in a same-sex relationship. Um, and of course I respect that, uh, but that was the choice and I respected their choice. Um, but I chose love over um you know their position. So it's it's it was tough, it was tough, but I had done enough preparation and and really making myself okay to be able to get through that moment, um, knowing that that was my reality. Um but I will tell you this is uh family is not always you know blood, it's it's the village that you create. And my sorority sisters, the women of Alpha Kappa, Alpha Sorority Incorporated, I mean, talk about came through. It was like 30 deep, surrounded by love, support, um, anything that they could do to help. Um, it was tremendous. And so I'm forever grateful. I'm forever grateful for my village uh that came out supported when you know other decisions were made.

SPEAKER_05 2:59

And I know this is something that you said you prepared yourself for, and you were ready for what that may feel like on wedding day. But just like anything that we've spoken about with the two of you before, what affects one also affects the other. And that reminds me of when I first learned, and it wasn't exactly a a number of guests that may be in attendance, but that there would be a lack of family in attendance. And and just to uh share a little bit, we were uh away on some tutop wedding business and just at dinner um talking about wedding logistics. And when one of the things that we uh typically discuss is who's walking down the aisle with who, and which you know, sister or cousin, or aunt, or uncle, or you know, whatever. Every every wedding and every couple is different. And getting deeper uh into that conversation sparked something that uh I don't think uh any of us saw coming that day. Um and uh surprisingly enough, the emotion that came from that moment wasn't mainly from Millicent, it was from Chanteig. So I just want to talk about what those moments mean to you, just to share more about how these types of decisions um, you know, from family especially affects everyone.

The Aisle-Walk Conversation Breakthrough

SPEAKER_04 4:51

Um it definitely affects everyone. I I remember the time that you were talking about. It was actually our first trip to New York. Um, you went with us, and we went to do the perfume and the our first dress fitting, and we went to dinner. We're sitting outside at um our favorite restaurant when we go to New York. Can't remember the name of it, but it's our favorite. Maestros. Maestros, there it is. And we're sitting out there and we're talking and you're asking all these questions. And I think a part of both of us is we can be kind of protective over each other. And although you were doing your job and asking the questions that you needed to have answered at that time, I did not want her to feel a certain type of way. And I just remember her looking at me and was like, are you okay? Are you crying? I was like, no, I'm not crying. And then you asked something else, and then within five seconds, and I was like, I guess I am crying. And I just burst out into tears because it was just uh anger, everything building up inside of me from start to now, of like, I just don't understand how you know you can have somebody so beautiful inside and out, so successful, um, such a given person, and you just hang your hat on one thing. And it was hard for me sometimes during the wedding planning to even talk about it, family avoided. It was a subject that was avoided, and I think it was avoided because I never wanted to make her feel as though I don't have anybody, like I'm by myself, because I knew my mom was gonna be there, my stepdad, my aunts, my cousins, my daughters. Um, so I wanted her to be surrounded by that same village, that same type of love. Although my family, for the most part, looks at her as family, um, it still hits differently with such a momentous event such as this. And so that hurt in the moment because I know Millicent and I know how she is. Um she can be very, I don't know, sterile and just block everything out. But on the inside, I know what she's feeling and I know what she's dealing with, and I know how it bothers her on a daily basis. And so it was hard.

SPEAKER_05 7:35

In that moment, I felt like if if if you could cry tears for someone else, if they couldn't, and it just felt like you wanted her to be able to have that emotion, and uh Millicent was very clear on you know where she's made peace. And that doesn't mean uh, you know, not disappointed. Oh yeah, and you know, so it didn't come across in that way, but just in a way where I'm handling it, even if I'm not finished handling it.

Parallel Wedding-Day Realities

SPEAKER_04 8:11

And but it's kind of like that thing, you know, when somebody says, I'm good, I'm good, but really and truly they're not good, and you know they're not good. What? The inside.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Yeah, and you know, it's it's and and I think, you know, just kind of looking back at it, there were some moments where it was just like, this is so, you know, is this complete? Your experience in your suite was completely different than my experience in my suite, where you had, you know, all of your family in there and it's buzzing and it's going, you know, all of this commotion and going back and forth, but it's still surrounding in love. Where for me it was just like, you know, I'm kind of solo dolo here, you know. Um love it that that that that my stylist is here, you know, makeup artist is here, love it that my wonderful sorority sisters uh couple are here, but it's just you know, those moments are missed where um you know your mom gives you something or imparts some type of um you know, word of wisdom to you is, you know, it ended up where my hairstylist is in the photo putting on, you know, they needed somebody to help me put on an earring, it's my hairstylist, and it's just like that's kind of that's kind of different. But um, you know, it's just it's it's it's one of those realities. I did feel I had a moment where after the ceremony and it was time to take pictures, and you had just the sea of all your family to take pictures with, and it was just like, okay, Millicent, who are you gonna take? You know, bring your family to take pictures. It's me and my brother, and it's just like that's it, wraps it up.

SPEAKER_04 10:00

You know, not to mention, even with him being there, it was like, yeah, you're here, but yeah, it was just here. It was, yeah, yeah. Um, and I think that's what I dealt with all day in my suite, and I kept having these moments where I would just burst into tears, and you would I'm looking back now and seeing videos and pictures, like my eyes was red pretty much the whole time because I'm in my suite just thinking about who's in there with her, who's helping her get dressed, who's helping her, you know, just feel comfortable on that day. If I didn't know if you wanted to cry, if you had. I mean, I knew um Lisa would be in there with you. I knew Lauren was gonna be in there because she was doing your hair, but I just felt like even though you were surrounded by love, is that I knew that that missing piece or missing pieces to the puzzle was there. And I think that's why even with the the wedding fitting, it was kind of like, no, we're gonna do our wedding fitting together. Um, I could have easily picked up the phone and told my mom, like, hey, let's go to New York, you know, we're gonna do the dress, which I it's no secret. I've been married before. This is marriage number two for me. So my mom didn't miss out on anything. She had that opportunity first go around. But this time I just felt like I had to put Millicent first. And if anybody was gonna go through that experience with her, although we didn't see each other, we were on separate sides, we still did it together, which is why, which is why everything pretty much about our wedding was it's it's you and me, kid. We walking down the aisle together. We doing our, we did all of our tastings. I mean, I know you probably noticed we didn't invite anybody, even to the many tastings that we had. It was us.

Centering The Couple In Every Choice

SPEAKER_05 12:05

And that was that rang true throughout so many other conversations, not just about family. Everything always went back to centering the two of you, which is, you know, very important. Um one of the things that I I wanted to mention is based on a situation like yours where the support isn't there, um, isn't where it should be, there's still something that can be gained from moments like that, things that can be learned. And there was something that you told me that a guest shared with you that I just wanted more people to hear.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Yeah, yeah, you know, for all of the lack of um support, is it was so wonderful hearing that our wedding and people seeing, and it's the whole weekend. I mean, it was two dope chicks event events that ended up culminating in a wedding, in our wedding, but um, you know, people really affected by seeing the two of us hearing our our love story, um, the fact that it was not always a perfect situation, um, that we've struggled and we've triumphed and we've been in the middle. Um, but you know, we had a uh one young lady came to us and said that she was gonna have a conversation with her husband um to really talk about really doing a better job of embracing their son um and his sexuality and and bringing his his partner around because a little more comfortable. Right, right, exactly, exactly. So, you know, that was one of the conversations that we we really enjoyed hearing that feedback because you know, we believe that love is love, and um just seeing it demonstrated through us, I guess made folks feel a little bit more comfortable with having those tougher conversations with their family members and being more accepting.

Impact On Guests And Their Families

SPEAKER_04 14:23

And not only that, I think even just we're not even just talking about being gay here and sexuality and gay couples, even heterocouples, uh, married couples that have been together for years came to our wedding. And let's just be honest and be real, we probably had more heterocouples there than gay couples. I mean, our diverse we have a very diverse circle, but they even went home with their spouses and had real conversations just based off of the love that was seen and felt and heard at our wedding. Like, wow, like it made us take a step back and say, we need to have some conversations, we need to celebrate ourselves, and not only that, we need to talk about some things that we heard today that we need to probably kind of talk about because most couples, most people in general talk on the surface level because it's easier, you don't get pulled out of your comfort zone. But when you go deep and really have those real conversations, that's when things get a little, yeah. So I think our wedding, our wedding did that, and not that we set out with that intention.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 15:42

Well, I think that's why.

SPEAKER_05 15:43

I think that's why it went that way because everything felt so natural. Yeah. Um, even, you know, I saw a lot of comments on social media with, you know, people who felt like it was, you know, a show and for other people, and I hope that you know, through these conversations, we've gotten people to understand this was more uh personal to you. And it was more about who you all are. And so once you know that, and these wedding guests who are friends and friends that have become family, um, to see it on display, it's still it still hits a little bit different. Like we talked about, I mean, it's sunset and we're on a rooftop and you know, center of downtown Orlando, and you're, you know, being staying down the aisle, and so all these things that people might see as theatrics, they were your story on display. So whether it was um, you know, guests who were deciding that they needed to embrace their child or friends or couples who realized that they needed to do more for themselves, it was a true display. And um, I can only hope for the people that missed it that they can even have a glimpse to understand what they truly missed, um, you know, beyond the surface that there was love in the house. Oh, absolutely. As they say. Um and there was an there was another aspect um that I want to talk about when it comes to dealing with same-sex couples. And I'll tell you, it was something that I was not prepared for. Um I just I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for some of the things that we would meet or comments that we would see. And the more you get to know you two as a couple, the harder it is to just understand the things that people would say or how they would feel. Um, but one of the more surprising ones, because I think from day-to-day life you've learned some of the things that were newer to me, but more surprising even for you all in this situation was some vendors. Um can you talk a little bit about that?

Beyond Spectacle: Story On Display

Vendor Silence And Hidden Bias

SPEAKER_04 18:15

Yeah, absolutely. We had some vendors even to this very day, to this very moment. Um and to know Melissa and I, let's just say that everyone that truly knows us, we give a lot back to our community. Um, we do toy drives, we have a 501c3, two dollars chicks who give a care. We do a lot. We support our local school district, Duval County Public Schools. So to go into this moment where we call ourselves supporting our people, the black and brown vendors, and we had more black and brown vendors, probably more brown vendors than all black and brown. All black and brown vendors, because we wanted to support our people. I give back to our community because I'm just gonna be real and everybody knows me. I'm very candid, I'm very transparent, um, transparent. Our two-dope wedding weekend stimulated the economy. I'm just gonna tell you that. Um, and so with that stimulation, uh there were stimulus package. Yes, the two dope stimulus package. Um, we wanted our people to be stimulated. But what we noticed is that it was our people that felt as though it's okay to take their money, but it's not, you know, I don't really want to put it out there. I really don't want to share it on my page. I really don't want to publicize it anyway, but they felt okay with stimulating their pocket with gay funds or whatever you want to call it. And so to this very moment, we have vendors that have not said a word about our wedding, have not shared anything on their page, have not, I've I've run into a couple and it's just been weird. And I would say to any um same-sex couple that's getting married, to really do a lot of research and pay attention to the people that you are patronizing and that you're asking to come aboard for your wedding. I mean, even going back to you, Sinee, um I remember when Melissa and I for years, we have followed you, we've talked about you, and we always said one day when we get married, we want her to do our wedding. In our mind, it never came to us like, oh, well, maybe we, you know, need to find out, you know, if she does same-sex weddings, you know, how does she feel about the LGBTQ? Because to know Melissa and I, we don't, it's not like we just wake up, yeah, we don't meet with that. And so we reached out to you and we didn't hear anything back for like over a week. No fault of yours. You just didn't get it. And meaning you didn't get it, you didn't receive that. Didn't get our email.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Yeah, our email.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

It caused Millison and I to have some conversation.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Like, hey, do you think she doesn't want to do that? Does she want to do our wedding?

SPEAKER_04 21:26

Like, do you think, you know, how does she feel about that? And that was the very first moment, I think, during this whole planning thing that we felt like, dang, we really do probably need to consider that we are same sex. Because we wake up every day and we don't think about the fact that we're a same sex couple. All I see is the person that I love. Um, so when you reach back out, we were like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 21:57

So you know, she good, she alright. And as many times as we've talked about that first you know miscommunication I never thought that it could have come across that way. Right. And I didn't I didn't even I didn't even think of it. So I'm even happier. Yeah. Well and and I would now now that I've you know been a part of this process and like you said I've I've learned to to lead with it and to just to expect things that I I wouldn't normally be looking out for um you know from vendor responses I would think about it differently.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

I remember even when we were looking into you know certain musicians and you know Millicent said well you better see if they want to do it and I'm I asked some silly question not understanding that she meant because it was a same-sex couple when we were we were thinking of a a gospel um situation and I just felt so naive over and over and over in the process when I'm just like oh my god yeah some people aren't okay with that and I had to keep reminding myself I don't have to keep reminding myself anymore because you know people the internet will remind you everybody yeah because you know it it's amazing to me is I look through some of our vendors that their pages and we have you know we had all of these moments that were shared and that were shared by perfect strangers and or shared by our guests um and some of our vendors I'm looking through their page expecting to see uh those same moments or their work on their social media because I see them posting other uh weddings that were uh not necessarily as grand or had those kinds of moments or had that type of viral reaction and and they were not there you know we I I saw a beautiful reel that one of the vendors made um that was not even on his page. So that was incredible for me. So um yeah you need to really do a good job of vetting who you patronize because ultimately you need to make sure that they support you full scale.

Vetting For Public Support

SPEAKER_05 24:22

And it's almost like if you you damned if you do damned if you don't because I know in our community everybody would always say oh my God they think you know they've made it and they didn't choose any they didn't support the black community any black and brown but when we try to support our community in return our community um some in the community did not reciprocate um the the same actions yeah and it's it's important to say that there's a lot that did okay a lot there was there was way more that did than than didn't and I think to Millicent's point or um you know as Shantae was saying it's important to vet and make sure that who you choose would also choose you as a client. That they'll publicly support and publicly support because you're publicly choosing them when you're stimulating uh the economy but making sure that they would publicly choose you it's because it's it's something that's hard to tell without research. You wouldn't know and it's also really important to note these feelings this type of discussion that we're having right now wasn't had about vendors who turn down um if if they just weren't interested this conversation is more so about um those who didn't turn down the opportunity but then didn't necessarily support the couple. Oh nobody turned down the money that's important to note because there's a difference.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Yeah um and it and it's easy to yeah it's easy to discern is you know we did a good job of making sure that we gave credit to uh the vendors that we patronized. And so it's just a function of looking at their pages and seeing if they then credited us, if we were worthy enough to make it on their page.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

And I mean just just thinking about all of it, I mean there have been some beautiful comments, some beautiful things that have been said and it's been going on on social media since our wedding went viral. We have dealt with people with the negative comments but I have thick skin so none of that really bothers me. Like I'm so and it's few and far between far between because most of the people that decide to come on there and say something negative, of course we're not going to respond but somebody else has already jumped in and in an attack mode on them like wait a minute but um it's so crazy because one lady she stood out to me because she sent me a message personally in my DM and the first one was she wanted to know um did we grow up in a church and going to church on Sunday morning because surely we knew we were going to hell and what a lot of people don't know that both Millicent and I are preachers' kids. I grew up in the church taught Sunday school directed the youth choir church is all I know and our relationship with God has nothing to do with who we choose to love. It's that kind of stuff and then it's the who are they well they must be you don't have to be a rapper you don't have to be an NFL player you don't have to be an NBA player you don't have to be on TV to have a nice wedding we work we own businesses we do very well people were very curious very curious how you know two ladies could have a wedding like this and it and it wasn't just because it was a same sex couple I think it was definitely because it was um because if it was two two men I don't think it would have been the same questions around or if it was a male how did they do this um you know so typically you know society is very used to seeing two you know same sex Caucasian males having grandiose weddings and no one blinks an eye um but for this one you know we're going through comments and guess who it was mostly us. Us our people absolutely yeah it was only us it was only us and we don't take and we don't take it I don't think we took personal offense at it.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

I mean it was just it was it was the observations is it was the observations. There were a couple of pages that you know are very well known for uh weddings and celebrations of you know unions and marriages and love and you know we saw we thought that we were going to be featured because of the viral nature of our wedding it was the others that featured us. Yeah it was others that featured us or they featured um weddings that were not as grandiose or not as um um as dope dope.

Faith, Trolls, And Giving Back

SPEAKER_04 29:32

So we were able to come on and say something negative as like all of those flowers they got to be fake uh nobody has that many flowers uh I'm sorry they all were real thank you punts they all were real and going back to who Millicent and I are and how we always patronize and give back to our community the very next day all of those flowers were where? Make sure to donate them yeah they were all donated to what senior citizen homes um and we're talking and we're talking trucks full of flowers so some senior citizens were happy and smelling all kinds of great florals on that Sunday because we made sure that those flowers went out into the city of Orlando we had people um from our teams that worked tirelessly after the wedding to get that done and to make sure that was handled. So you know the the stuff really don't bother us because we know what we do um we know who we belong to and I'm not talking about to each other I'm talking about we know that we both are children of the king and so while they sitting there and being keyboard bullies I'm rubbing my feet together in my home I'm I'm eating popcorn laughing at you because you're miserable you don't have anything else to do but to try to bully people because I mean we're good we're happy we're healthy health is wealth we're successful and we're grateful we're grateful and the wedding was dope too dope too and even with the speaking of the flowers um the truck full at least that was you know given away and donated um that was even after many of them were repurposed for our final event um which was just an amazing outcome um to be able to take small pieces from this you know platinum you know silver and white wedding day and turn it into this beautiful fall brunch and just by adding pops of color and just recreating this garden feel we totally changed the landscape of the weekend um just in one event in this very very good it looked so good and I just walked in I just saw the Tudo brunch to Dope Brunch Club Tudo Brunch Club and Miel and I walked in and our white and gold custom designs by Jay Bolin and Anthony Lamore. The girls looked beautiful I mean we felt our guests looked amazing our guests looked amazing and we had a good time the food was amazing um because you know of course we had a thousand and one tastings to make sure that our guests enjoyed all of the food throughout the entire two dope wedding weekend and it was excellent the entire time everybody lived up what they promised and what we had in our tastings.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

And let's not talk about soul in the game um oh yes let's talk about soul in the game soul aware our entertainment for Sunday uh we discussed many different options at first no special artist we thought we'd take easy on Sunday yeah just have a day today yeah Millens are take it easy person versus Shantae and I and she was ready to let's chill yeah let's have a day today until we had a DJ DJ sled we did um until much like this um video that I sent Shantae of the cake uh or of our baker um I're to blame the video I'm I'm I'm I'm partial it went exactly how it went with the cake and I don't know if you know about this message but it was when I sent them she said well are they available and the only reason why that uh sparked a little bit is because at the time I didn't realize they came from London. They were in London that they're based in London.

Repurposed Florals And Brunch Reset

SPEAKER_04 34:10

She got they're in Atlanta somewhere else they follow Soul in the game and I'm like okay are they available? So she knew about them I want them.

SPEAKER_05 34:18

And now it's time for us to tell Millicent something else.

SPEAKER_04 34:21

So and Millicent was like they're where so they're in London. But the kicker was that they may have not been in London that particular weekend because they were supposed to have been in what Dubai Dubai and we were like okay well we just gotta get them from Dubai to Orlando.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

Dubai to Orlando and so for a little while what your thoughts in the beginning looks you said a lot of this I thought I was I was you know it it it was important that that that we were happy with the decisions um but I thought how are we going to get these folks all the way from the UK to Orlando.

SPEAKER_04 35:06

And we're talking about a what it's like a seven piece band and this is a whole band. Yeah it was 10 10 piece band this is a whole band so my my travel spreadsheet uh between the 10 members uh from tidal wave band um that's 10 flights initially it was about seven or so from juvenile's team uh there's music to child's team and so all the transportation and the vehicles and picking everybody up from the airport and all of the not to mention we're in the middle of an entire we're in a whole shutdown government shutdown shutdown and so if you know juvenile's flight came in at five and someone else's was you know tidal waves comes in at six well both of their flights are delayed and so the van that was supposed to pick up juvenile has to return back at seven because they didn't get there it was it was fun um but I tell you we had probably the least flight issues with the international um flights uh beyond our lead singer which is something that the ladies didn't know until after well after the brunch um but he didn't arrive until mid-brunch he was in Orlando stuck in customs and the band held it down without him they held it down and when he showed up it's like the energy was so high I he couldn't have been there the whole time anyway it was just so amazing and he came in from all of that threw on that jacket and jumped right up to performance and we were like yeah never knew that he was coming from the airport and everything that he had gone through but they were so they were just phenomenal. They were crucial yeah I still think about Tennessee whiskey to this day the way that was everybody's favorite he sung that song so I had to get up and just snatch the microphone out of his hand give me this microphone I mean phenomenal and just having the opportunity to talk to them after and take pictures with them and just get to know them a little bit better and they were like hey we're we're here in the US for you know a couple of more days can you I can't do their um their British accent and we're come on come party with us and we're looking like we've been up since like last week we have not slept we cannot party not one more moment but they the energy was amazing.

Booking A London Band Against The Odds

SPEAKER_05 37:39

And it and it completely changed um where we were with at the Too Dope wedding weekend because we went from a rapper was you know Saturday night and a second line band to this totally different musical experience that Soul in the gang gives and it just goes back to like at first Mill was saying we can just have a DJ and a DJ is great. However um I also remember the moment um also in New York when Millicent pulled me to the side um in the little secret moment again girl and said just call them and see if they can still come and that's that's that's when we ended up because it was it was a lot to take on to decide to bring a band you know from from London. At that time they did end up coming from there for the most part except for I think one person still came from Dubai. But it was such a great decision and it's so memorable for your guests it's not something that they're gonna be able to bump into at another wedding very likely not going to happen. So um it's just another testament of you know besides the the very few things that we're talking about just great vendors great energy um and feedback has been crazy.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

I want to say it was like that night our guests like wouldn't leave us we were looking at them like okay it's our wedding night it's like four o'clock in the morning and they're all just there hanging around they would not leave and the the consensus that we continue to hear from everybody and and this is no shade on nobody else's wedding of weddings are weddings are canceled. Like this is it I'm not attending any more weddings like you all spoil weddings for me. That's what we heard throughout the entire weekend um so kudos to you for doing an amazing job pulling it all together. We know it was a lot and and Millicent is a lot because this started off being as she stated earlier very small we were on a we were doing a certain budget and then she called you back the day you called me to change it yes that's a whole episode that's a whole episode but it was I just want the record to show that throughout this I asked for maybe three things and everything else that you witnessed that you experienced that you're hearing about now was Millicent. And don't get me wrong because this is my second time around I wanted you to have the wedding of your dreams and we ended up having the wedding of the century but this was all for you. I'm gonna exercise my right to remain silent in this moment I think I think this is for you I asked for water 15 tier cake what else the people from London the people from Dubai I really didn't ask for them but but thank you.

Travel Chaos And Show-Stopping Performance

SPEAKER_05 41:05

All right guys I want to I want to thank you for being so transparent and um just just open about your story and how it became the Too Dope wedding weekend and um also selfishly I just want to take a moment to thank you for my role in the Too Dope wedding weekend. Obviously I've been doing this for nearly 15 years at the cake tier time. I'm right up there with the cake tier and um you know clients are clients and some you know many become you know more special than that and you have no idea how or who that will happen with and it's just something that you can't create um you can't you know wish it to happen it just happens and every day I'm planning with you all and having the opportunity to learn more about this love story that I'm I'm trying so hard to to help you tell has been such an awesome experience that I didn't plan for. I planned to work and to you know to plan and design your wedding and I learned so much um industry wise and you know professionally but just also just about people and about life and love and forgiveness and family and acceptance and even me wanting to beat up internet trolls and and and and you guys just having so much grace for people um and and being such hard workers which I I seems like it may not be related to the subject but it's why we're here. It's here because you work hard and in everyday our meetings, you know people I wouldn't I I wish we'd had the opportunity to just find out from a phone company how many hours we've spoken and how late um if even if Millicent went to sleep um she wakes up um how long this can go. But it's been um just monumental in my growth as a person and as Miss Party life and I'm just I'm thankful. And so if I learn this much I just feel like there's so much that others can learn from you all and I would love for you to just share from this experience and for And I know you can draw from over 15 years, but um what would you say if you you know had to choose that one thing about this person that's sitting across from you that has been fueled by this too dope wedding and this this weekend? What what can you say about each other and what this has taught you?

SPEAKER_04 44:27

It has definitely taught me that love can weather any storm. And we've had our share of storms and we are still here. Um I love this person sitting across from me. Um this wasn't just a production, this wasn't just uh a show. This was we waited 15 years to take this this jump, and if I had to do it all over again, I would. And we have great days, we have good days, we have bad days, but at the end of the day, it's still us. We still are the two dope family, we still have our family, and what a lot of people don't know, Millicent has the patience of Job. Um so her patience will make you love her because I'm not as patient, but she is easy to love, and because she's so easy to love, I can love you for the rest of my life. Um, even in the afterlife. And I know they say when we get to wherever we're going, um, they say you you forget about earth and you let go of earthly things and you probably won't remember those people. But I truly believe that if I were to meet you in the other place, whether that's heaven or hell, that my soul will still be connected to you. We'll find each other again. I love you.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

I love you too.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

I love you too. Yeah, I want I'm very, very certain. Oh, I don't want you to cry. I don't want you to cry.

SPEAKER_00 46:20

But I love you. You know I love you with my whole heart. All of me, all of me. And I'd always choose you tomorrow, the next day, and the next day, I'll choose you. And I'm very certain of that.

SPEAKER_01 46:41

I always say, I like to say, I hit the human lottery. Which I'm saying is uh I'm not no big lotto player, a powerball player, but I hit the human lottery of meeting such an incredible person um who just you know our our good days outweigh our bad days, and and we just enjoy each other, we can laugh together, we talk, we play, um, and naturally we're gonna fuss, but um still we love hard and we love each other hard.

SPEAKER_05 47:20

Now, with that said, um there's so much more that the two dupe chicks have to share with their community and with the world. Can you tell me a little bit about what's next?

Guests Wouldn’t Leave And Why

SPEAKER_04 47:37

Uh stay tuned. I mean, we're here, we're gonna continue to be in the community. We're still gonna, of course, Daniel's law firm, the people's attorney, two dope chicks, two dope chicks to give a care. Uh, we also have other surprises coming. We still looking forward to working with you in the future. Um we just wanna tell people out there just to just to love. Open up your heart to love, be genuine, be authentic. Um, don't worry about uh what others may think or perception and how you want to be perceived. Because at the end of the day, God knows your heart. God knows what we desire before we even know what we desire. So just follow your heart and develop your own relationship with um with God or or whoever it is that that you serve, and the rest will take care of itself. Amen. Amen. Anything and stay tuned, because we'll be back. And guess what, guys? We burnt out our nose. Uh okay, I'm fighting back my tears. Okay, bye. Um, we developed, we love perfume. We have this tradition that every holiday we will go into the stores and we sniff perfume all the time. Um, we buy a lot of perfume. We develop a perfume. Each of our guests went home with the bottle during the two dope wedding, either dough or douquis. Dough is French for two, and Do Croix is French for two hearts. Of course, we went the French route because New Orleans, and the smell is amazing. This is not something that you can just we literally sat down together and we sniffed for a while and put these fragrances together. It's unisex, you'll love it. So coming soon, you too will have the two dope experience. You will be able to experience dough or do qua. It's coming to you.

SPEAKER_05 49:49

Bye. Thank you guys so much for joining us for the two dope chicks podcast, the wedding series. Now, the two dope chicks have a little more. This is not the last of them that you've seen. So please follow us. Follow, like, subscribe to the video.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

We have a lot more. We have a lot more to share. So this is gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_04 50:09

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SPEAKER_05 50:17

So this has been the Two Dope Chicks followed um along with Miss Party Life at Party Life Pro. And we thank you for joining us.