Two Chairs No Filter
Real Beauty, real life, unfiltered conversations. Tune is weekly for fun chats, beauty advice, and a lot of laughs with Hollie & Sarah Kate.
Two Chairs No Filter
No Filter: Bridal Edition
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
This episode contains stories from a few weddings we have taken part in. Stories of brides, situations, and mishaps.
Hi, and welcome to Two Chairs No Filter with Sarah Kate and Holly, where we bring you real life, real beauty, and unfiltered conversation.
SPEAKER_03Good morning, and welcome to Two Chairs No Filter. With Sarah Kate and Holly, we are back for another edition of Two Chairs No Filter. Today's topic we have had zero prep in talking about, and we're just gonna dive right in. It is No Filter Bridal Edition. That means we are gonna tell you some of our behind the bridal chair stories of wedding days gone wild. Um so what do you think, Holly? Do we start off with um the good news or the bad news? Like what do we start off with?
SPEAKER_02Well, let's just start off with it's typically early. Yes. Early morning. Uh-huh. It requires a lot of packing. Uh-huh. Um because we've done this for several years, we have learned to just keep our suitcases packed for the road with just replenishing what's in the suitcases because that's a whole nother gone wild that we have had to the one time I showed up with no bobby pens. What about the time no hairspray? So, you know, back in the day when we started, we did have we eventually did a checklist. Uh-huh. And then we had some salon assistants over the years that were better at packing us, and some that weren't so good. Um, and then also just they're human. They're human, we're human. We all forget. So therefore, we just keep a bag packed.
SPEAKER_03Well, we have solid make-it-work moments. Polly and I have both made it work in different ways before, and it's fine. We have made it work, you know. We've never not been able to perform our job with what we had. So on the day I had no bobby pins, we had a lot of updos. We had a lot of everybody's hair and ponytails. Everybody did ponytails.
SPEAKER_02We used them rubber bands as bases for every style, and they love their hair. You know, it worked. So no hairspray. Oh, one event space I showed up at, you weren't with us that time. Um, we couldn't spray hairspray.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh, the whole place you couldn't spray hairspray. No. They're like, Did you bring something down for the floor? And you're like, uh no. It was some historical house. That should have been disclosed. For sure. Also, don't have a bridal suite there and just have a few.
SPEAKER_02No, there was no bridal suite. Oh, well, then why were people getting ready there? Because they were getting married there. We're in like some antique dining room situation. So, yes, we've had to recalibrate just out the gate with our supplies.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and so uh, we are telling some stories on us right now, too. Also, one time and this like Holly is traumatized from this. Traumatized. We once showed up at the wrong hotel, and we showed there are two Hilton hotels that were new that year, that were also new, and so the bride had said, Oh, we're at the new Hilton. Okay, that's great. Well, Holly in her head thought the new Hilton downtown in the city we're in. It meant not in the office park part of the city. So, but we did not realize that. So we went to this hotel and we get street park. We had to street park because we weren't balleting. We had a street park. Thank goodness it was early in the morning because there was street parking because later in the day there'd been no street parking. So let's start there. So we street park, we fully unpack the car with our suitcases, bags, chairs, all this blase blah with stuff that we need, okay. We go into the concierge and we're like, hi, we're here for a wedding. We're calling, you know, we're here for room, whatever the what, okay. Mind you, it was like 7, 7:30, possibly eight max, I would say. And so the concierge is like, okay, let me just call the room. Calls the room. Because they were in the penthouse. That's my tall. Were they really? Yeah, we're like so.
SPEAKER_02We told the concierge that.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so, anyways, concierge calls the room. In fact, we those people are not getting married that day. Um, and they are very pissed at us for waking them up early on a Saturday morning.
SPEAKER_02Oh, and the concierge also was so mad.
SPEAKER_03It was an honest mistake, honestly. But so we hop back in the car, pack everything back up, speed across town. We've got to call the bride and tell the bride, hi, we haven't forgot about your wedding. We're just late. Late, which is the never we would want to say those words in our lives. We don't even like running late at the salon, let alone on somebody's huge wedding day where like the pressure is on, and we're like, uh, sorry, we're running late. Anyways, we made it across town. We made it to the wedding, everything went off without a hitch. She was so sweet, she was so nice. Um, but Holly is very traumatized for it. So Holly rechecks the address that we're at. You know what?
SPEAKER_02You know what? Oh, I do. I I recheck, recheck, recheck, everything, recheck, make sure we're showing up at the right. Oh, that happened one time to me too, showing up at the wrong Airbnb. One map brought me to one GPS map brought me to one location. Oh, and then the other one brought me to another location.
SPEAKER_03It's probably like putting in southwest or northwest or whatever, and then it takes you to two completely different places.
SPEAKER_02Like, why does it do that? I don't know. But back to that wedding that we showed up at the wrong hotel, that particular bride thought she was gonna hire us for her for the bride's makeup, and then she had like 10 or 12 bridesmaids because we had Cricut helping us too, and I think M.
SPEAKER_03We might have to be a little bit more than a little bit. I think there were four of us.
SPEAKER_02So, in that case, she came in for a makeup trial, and she was gonna have her mom's best friend, who was a hairstylist, do her hair for the day of the wedding. So she went for her trial with her childhood hairstylist. The childhood hairstylist did not do what she had envisioned for her trial. So then she called us in a panic saying, Can I come in with you guys to have a trial? She ended up had going with us for hair and makeup. And then we had to add that on the time frame, right? Yes, but don't you remember? Because her mom was friends with the hairstylist, the hairstylist was there watching us do hair.
SPEAKER_03She was mean mugging us the whole time.
SPEAKER_02The whole time. So that was a whole nother added level of pressure.
SPEAKER_03Do you remember that wedding we did? Um, and I think no, it was not who I that's who I was. Do you remember another hairstylist coming? And we were like finishing up, and this was a few years. Oh, we did makeup only for that one. And the hairstylist came in and she was in a leopard. She was in leopard pants, like her hair was standing on in. Like, we were nearly done with our day, and she was just getting there, but she was late as could be. It was like she had come from way south Atlanta or something like that, and just I don't know, miscalculated the time completely. That would be our worst night. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02And her the ladies, that was a brunch wedding. Do you remember this? It was a brunch wedding. I feel like it was June, and it was a Sunday morning. Her wedding guests were outside sitting. Don't you remember looking out the bridal suite? If it wasn't, they were starting to arrive and get set up, and she was still getting her hair done.
SPEAKER_03That's a nightmare. That's an actual nightmare. That would be, I would not ever live that down. That would haunt me to no end.
SPEAKER_02Partially that's why, you know, not to be snooty or anything, why I really just prefer if we can do the hair and the makeup because we know our timing and I like to have predictability.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I don't like to have to work into anybody else's time frame because you and I work in our in our time frame. Our time frame is the same, and so we work in it. And if one of us is going slower, we pick we can pick up and and help and pivot. And yes, we can pivot very easily, whether that's you know, I start doing another makeup, you know, because you're really busy, I don't know, covering acne, who knows?
SPEAKER_01Whatever.
SPEAKER_03Um, I can pick up and start doing another makeup, or I can start doing another hair, or if I'm running slow at the hair, you can start handing me pins so I or curl or whatever. So um I I like that we can work together like that, but I don't really you're right, I don't really like to work with anybody else either. No, because I that messes up our time frame. So if we're only doing one or the other, I don't want anybody else there to have to be doing it either. Right. Not because I care about what anybody else thinks of our work, because I don't, but um yeah, I just don't like to have to run on anybody else's schedule. That makes me crazy.
SPEAKER_02Really, it's bad enough working with the photographers that we have to meet their timeline. So typically we always tell the brides we work backwards from the time that your photographer plans on starting to take pictures, even if they're doing getting ready photos. Um you want to have hair and makeup on for those gates, even if you're in your PJs doing you know, looks yeah, you don't want to be too fresh-faced for that.
SPEAKER_03Do you remember that one photographer that was so creepy? Oh, yeah, that was just last year. Gosh, that was recently.
SPEAKER_02He was so creepy. He was so into the mother of the groom. The mother of the groom was good looking, really pretty. She was like she was young. She's she told us I had my son. I can't even demonstrate her accent. She sounded like Sophia Vergara, like so and she kind of looked like her, very beautiful, beautiful kind of Miami in Miami, I think. And so, was it Royal Blue? Yes, okay, yes, she had a royal blue royal. Pretty typically what we come across is most mother of the grooms were navy. No, she wore royal royal blue, right, right, electric blue, had electric blue nails and earrings that wearing the jewelry all went with it, and it sounds probably tacky on your end.
SPEAKER_03Oh, didn't she have a BB W? Oh, she had her booty done for sure. Yeah, her booty was yeah, yeah. She had some plastic surgery, yes, for sure. She looked she looked pretty. I yeah, gorgeous. That's gonna sound like we're talking about, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02No, she was beautiful, she was very pretty, so and nice, and very nice. So we're just like going through our emotions, getting everybody ready, and um the photographer got there, got there, and the bride was a hundred percent opposite than the mother of the groom. She was so quiet and reserved, very quiet, very reserved. Um and then the the photographer is like, uh, have you seen the mother of the groom? Va va boom. He was so glad. He was like, va va boom, something like that, and he was like all into her, and then when he was taking the bridal photos of her us getting her ready, because you were doing her extensions, uh-huh, and I was working on her face, and she had that sweet little white satin robe on, and her hands were just placed in our lap, and he goes in and zooms in on her ring lap.
SPEAKER_03Yes, and then like rearranges her her hands and her the lace on her robe. Like it was just very invasive. It made us so uncomfortable. I wanted to like mama bear and be like, get out of here, leave this little girl alone. The little girl come to the next the actual little girl, the little flower girl. Remember her little niece? Or not niece, is it niece? No, her her little his sister, the groom's little sister. Um, he had a really little sister that was gonna be the flower girl. And because his mom was barely 40. Yeah, she was not, she was not old. He they were all everybody was young. Um, but that flower girl, he was creepy with the flower girl too, talking about how pretty she is and this, and just it just gave me the ick for sure. For sure.
SPEAKER_02I don't even know what his name was, but and then we had the photographer at so during COVID, COVID brought a lot of interesting situations for us as wedding stylists because A, we typically never do the bride twice, do two different weddings, and we were doing double weddings during that time because a lot of times brides had an at-home ceremony and then they postponed their wedding a year, and then we were going back and actually doing a wedding. I know I think that happened like twice. Um during that time, we also had the other hand where a lot of times the bridesmaids had or grooms men hadn't met the party of their best friend who they were marrying. So in this particular case, um I had done the bride trial. Sarah didn't get a chance to meet the bride ahead of time, and then we go to a venue in North Georgia and do the wedding, and then during the trial, we find out a lot, and her mom was there and talking about her sister, the bride's sister, who was the maid of honor in her in the wedding, that she was engaged to get married, but the bride's sister had been with this guy for years, so it was expected. So the bride that we were hired to do, she was basically because she was an older sister, a year, maybe two, not much, and she was in a race to the altar, being the oldest sister to try to get married before her baby sister. So we show up, start doing the hair, and we are finding out through the bridesmaids that nobody had met the groom until the rehearsal dinner the night before. And that's awkward for awkward, yeah. And then the sister that had a wedding coming up in the coming months wanted to put hair extensions in her hair, which she was more of a glam girl, and then the bride that we were doing very more of a plain, natural girl. Um, so therefore, the bride was having a fit because she felt like her sister was trying to steal her show. So she didn't want her sister putting the hair extensions in. And then um remember the bride was crying. Crying. She was crying, the bride was crying all of her makeup off as I was doing her makeup. And the groom, not the groom, excuse me, the photographer kept walking by and tapping his watch, like, come on, we need to get going. I'm like, who do you think you are? Then the sister went outside and she was outside crying, trying to calm her sister down. It was just a big old mess. And her sister's hair was frizzing. Yeah, it was raining that day, actually. It was yes, spit and rain that day. They were just that was really taking their SAT SATs to try to beat each other's score. They were very competitive. I don't know that I've ever met two people more competitive than I did. I did not like that wedding. I did not enjoy that wedding either. Yeah, it was just not that I didn't like the wedding, I didn't like the energy at the wedding because there was way too much friction going on.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh, yes. We all were feeling that. We were all ready to get out of there because that was so the energy was so heavy. Heavy, heavy, so heavy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then that I feel like that year too, we also went to the wedding venue that looks like it belongs in a horror movie in North Georgia. I don't even know the name of it. I couldn't tell you what the name of it was. And all I know is I blocked it out because we had two bad experiences there. One, we had the experience of the goth wedding, and then we had the experience of the bridezilla that cried her eyes out. She did not like her makeup, she had a fit over the roses, the roses. And so the groom's her best friend that was had to go to the Walmart. Walmart was all there is up there to get roses to substitute in her. Um, have white roses and she wanted them, I think maybe something because her Walmart to get flowers, and I was like, best of luck to you. And I have so much patience on the outside. I I really rarely do people ever, unless you really know me, you don't really know when I've had it. And I am my patience has left the building that day. My patience left the building, like spot. I mean, she was over the top so much. I I just said put the brush down. I said, I'm done. I put the my makeup brush down and I said, I'm done. And I walked over and just threw a bunch of bronzer on her face and called it a day.
SPEAKER_03And then Emmy ended up doing her all over hair. Yes. She, I don't know what her deal was. I don't know why.
SPEAKER_02She uh she was amazing. That was not a good one. That was not a good one either. Um those two come to mind, and I feel like they were all around the same time because I felt like we had a little rough patch there for a minute. That year we had we had three weddings that were not our people. That one, you know, the bridezilla, the what the oh. That she goes down in history as our worst bride ever. So this are you allergic to shellfish bride? She had off out of the gate, she had like three or four trials with us. Yes. And at that time we had a young um stylist apprentice that is no longer doing hair, but she's super artistic. Um, we even did her final trial with her, like all of us. So the good thing about having multiple stylists and makeup artists is if one of us doesn't read or have a good vibe with the bride, we have backup plans. Absolutely. So with this particular bride, Sarah Kate did her hair and makeup trial the first time. She wasn't happy. Fine. With the with one, she liked the makeup maybe, but not the hair. Right. And then so then you did the hair. And she didn't like the hair again. Right. And so after that time, I offered to give her a refund. Yeah, we tried to divorce her. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03We did tried to break up with her. And then she was not interested in that. No, not at all. And we were like, please, for the love of everything, br let us break up. She came back another time. She came back another time.
SPEAKER_02And what we weren't hitting we did it together that yeah, we did it together, and we ended up doing our hair the day of the wedding together as well. Because we were standing behind her. I did her makeup that day, the makeup for her wedding day. Yeah. And then you and I combined did her hair together because we were standing behind her after she made her best friend cry. And she her best friend was outside walking in the rain.
SPEAKER_03Her best friend was outside walking in the rain, crying off her makeup on the bride's wedding day. That was the the maid of honor was out there sobbing. Yes. So that was had to be fixed. And like we said, we're already on a tight time crunch.
SPEAKER_02Like, and then she we were doing her hair, and she had definitely been having drinks for three hours because we got there at 10 because that venue opens at 10 for us to come in. And so she looked at her friend after she politely asked me and Sarah Kate if we were allergic to shellfish, and we said no. She says, feed me a shrimp B B word. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Actually, I think she had her shrimp fed to her before she looked up and was like, Are y'all allergic to shellfish? Yeah. And we're like, well, no. But like, I feel like shrimp cocktail is an odd choice for bridal lunch. I'm gonna be honest. That's not what I would pick. Mine neither. But also don't pick subs. Um, lots of people pick subs. Yes, but lipstick. Yes, lipstick does tend to come off on those. Lots of people pick subs, though. Yeah, like a pub sub. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I'm always down for a pub sub, but but it's just there's a time. Eat it with a fork and knife. Like, just don't eat your lipstick off, please.
SPEAKER_03You know, um then that other the okay, the the worst bride in history. Okay, so she was already half lit by the time she sat down in our chair. So I was kind of wondering, is this gonna go her? Yes, the worst bride in yeah, the worst bride in history. So I was kind of wondering, is this gonna go better that she's drunk or worse that she's drunk? I couldn't figure out if she was gonna be like, oh, I don't care, it looks great, yeah, I love it, you know, or if she was gonna be like, I hate everything and I'm drunk and I'm mad and you know. So it did turn out that she was fine. She got better with more alcohol.
SPEAKER_02Um, and because let's preface the whole thing when we were setting up, we're gonna back up to setup time, like let's call it 9 45 a.m. We were getting there, setting up, and the owner or the manager of the farm property is consulting with the bride, just doing a run through of what to do, what not to do with the bridal suite. We're on a farm, people. She said. Where are the cats?
SPEAKER_03If I see a cat, I'm gonna they enraged. I'm gonna be enraged if she saw a cat. Okay, the whole place has cats all over the place. They're family animals, pets. And like they're wander dogs, cats, they're wandering the whole property the whole time. They're out on the like patio with the swinging bed where people take pictures. There's cat here on the swing because the cat curls up in the sun on the swing. And she said that cat's gonna enrage. She was enraged. It's like 9 45 in the morning. Like, ma'am, it's a touch early to be enraged. Over anything. Over anything. And and on your wedding day. Yeah. Like calm all the way down. The icing on the cake for this one, the icing on the cake for me was when her soon-to-be stepdaughter, sweet little, she was maybe six or six. Five, six. She was young. She was so so cute. She comes in. Oh, and and she's already the bride's already been mad the whole day because the um the ex-wife, the this little girl's mom, was like late bringing her, was having car trouble, or who knows what the what, but like couldn't get her there on time or this, that, and the other. So the bride to be is already furious at this little girl for no reason of her own. You know, no, she didn't obviously this little girl could not drive herself there. Okay. So the the new bridezilla is furious. This little girl walks in, and when I tell you, she looked like a deer in the headlights. And so scared. She was terrified to be in that room. Terrified. So, me being a mom of a sweet, little, sweet little girl, I looked directly at her and like, hi, are you so-and-so? And I'm so happy to meet you. Are you excited to get your hair done? Are you excited to get some makeup? And she warmed up a little bit, but she looked terrified. And I just thought, I cannot imagine being in a room full of women on my wedding day that would not rush over to my little girl to be to scoop her up and love on her and say, Hey, and are you excited? It's such a fun day. You're gonna look so pretty. Where's your dress? What are you gonna do with your hair? Like, just like gas my daughter up for this big day to be a part of. Not one of those women stood up and said anything to this little girl. She stood there like a deer in the headlights until I looked up and spoke to her. And I am a literal stranger. I cannot imagine a whole group of women that know me not knowing my daughter or my stepdaughter well enough to love on her when she walked in and looked like that. I was the vibe made me sick in there. Like we got out of there and we were like, what just we have all were upset by that whole day.
SPEAKER_02100%.
SPEAKER_03I would love to go back and look at their her Instagram and figure out if she's still married because I don't have high hopes on that one.
SPEAKER_02You know what's funny? I don't remember that bride's mom. I don't remember the girl's name either. I don't remember the mom. I don't remember the mother of the groom being there. I don't remember anything other than the drama with the best friend, the shellfish, the the little girl, the stepdaughter.
SPEAKER_03That's all I remember about that. Those were heavy things, honestly. I hated that wedding. I don't hate a whole bunch of anything, but I did not like that wedding. Um our other one. Oh, what was I? Oh man, I can't remember now. Was it recent? I can't remember.
SPEAKER_02It just went right out of my head. We had um a wedding not too long ago, and you know, family dynamics, I think my biggest learned learned lesson by doing weddings is the dynamics between mothers and daughters, sons and their moms, although we don't get to meet a lot of the grooms at all. Almost ever, yeah. Ever. But we get to meet a lot of times the moms, you know, the mother of the groom. So recently we did a wedding and the mother of the groom had very strong opinions about the stepmother of the groom. And she excluded the stepmother of the groom from the entire wedding.
SPEAKER_03Really all of life, though.
SPEAKER_02All of life. Because the stepmom had been in the kids' life since they were 13, I feel like. Yeah, it was like tweenage, and she couldn't come to the wedding, the stepmother.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like she didn't come to any of the wedding stuff, even though the groom had a great relationship with his stepmom. Close. Yeah. Like that is so crazy to me. Just get along for your children for one day.
SPEAKER_02It's one day. Two days. Two days.
SPEAKER_03You gotta do the rehearsal dinner and the wedding.
SPEAKER_02And that's it. That's it. And just be present and just I could totally do that with my ex. Yes, totally. Yes.
SPEAKER_03I mean, and we and honestly, I mean, my ex and my ex's parents they don't do a super good job. I mean, they do come, they would always come together, but like there was always just little like snippy side comments to the side and stuff like that. And so, like that don't love that, you know? Like, you could just shut your mouth and just not do that. But I don't know. I I thought that was really sad that the the stepmom could not come to the wedding because she was just truly not welcome, and the mom made it so terribly uncomfortable. I but didn't the mom have like a a substance abuse issue though? So I think maybe that was added on top of her feelings, yeah. Maybe they got a little amplified with substances, exactly. So we got that scoop on that one. Yeah, sometimes we get a good scoop, and I kind of like that. Yeah, what about the one with the uh sister of the groom who was secretly engaged? Oh remember that one? Yes, that one that was sort of was that the goth wedding? Yeah, that was the goth wedding. Yes, and the goth wedding. Well, it named it got named the goth wedding because there was a bridesmaid who wanted the darkest lipstick possible that was.
SPEAKER_02She was just an undertaker. She was a f she was in the funeral industry for sure. But that's different. My brother's in the funeral industry, he's all wearing black lipstick. He's not wearing black lipstick anywhere. So, and I don't believe that all people in the funeral business are weirdos. No, she was just obsessed with goth, and she's like, I like darkness. She liked dark everything.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she liked death, she liked dark everything. Everything. So she wanted the darkest lipstick possible. The bride would let her get away with uh that's what she said. But she did look pretty. I'll give her that. She did. She got a deep wine lipstick and it looked great. Um, the bride was so easygoing, and I remember doing her hair and being like, What's the story here? And like whispering to her to be like, give me the tea. What is happening here? And so she did give me the tea. So the groom's sister, the groom's younger sister, um, I think she's sort of free-spirited. Um she was had gotten engaged to her boyfriend who looked like a crackhead. Um she had gotten engaged to him and no one knew. No one in the family knew except for this bride that I'm doing her hair and makeup. And everybody hated this crackhead guy, obviously, um, and didn't like them together and they were terrible. Don't worry, crackhead was at the wedding.
SPEAKER_02So he posted a picture on Facebook with a firearm in his mouth. Like he was No, he didn't.
SPEAKER_03He posted it with a firearm in the picture. Okay. So, anyways, the this groom's sister says to her new fiance, Crackhead, Why don't you go hang out at the boys' cabin? Because she's at the girls' cabin getting her hair and makeup done. So he's like, Yeah, okay, you know, they don't really like me, but okay. So he goes and tries to hang out with them, and they're like, What are you doing here? You aren't part of our wedding party. We hate you. And that's when the aunt or uncle or whoever was like, Well, you should have just put that firearm in your mouth and taking care of things. So he is crackhead, is upset, just has his feelings hurt, rightfully so. That's a mean thing to say to somebody. So this isn't funny. I'm sorry, I'm laughing. It's not funny. It was the drama around. The drama is making me laugh. It's not funny. So he comes to the bridal suite, tells his new fiance, groom sister, what has just gone down. Was she pregnant? Why do I have a feeling she was pregnant? I mean, she probably was soon after. If she wasn't then, she probably was soon after. Anyways, so he tells her this. She is so upset that her family members have been making him feel so terrible. She's sobbing, crying off all the makeup we've already put on her face. She's sobbing. Her and him go lock themselves in the master bathroom and have a sob fest in there.
SPEAKER_01They wouldn't let anybody go. It was raining outside that day and gloomy to your words. It was like right at Christmas. It was a good one. Remember and we left. Okay, so we left our open hall and have a Christmas wedding.
SPEAKER_03I always wanted a Christmas wedding, and that was not it.
SPEAKER_01It was everything that Christmas didn't stand for.
SPEAKER_03It was so bad. Okay, but flash forward, tell them about our favorite Christmas wedding.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I love that wedding. You know, one thing that wedding was so sweet. That was like doing a Hallmark wedding.
SPEAKER_03It was truly a Hallmark movie. They did it on family property. They had this little cabin and it was on the lake. It was a little cottage movie. Yeah, it was like a very cottagey. Warm, just so warm. And it truly looked like Hallmark. Hallmark movie.
SPEAKER_02Every part of the decoration was Christmas and like trees and her dad and brothers built like this industrial size garage slash warehouse shed. And in they were doing it all on property, like we said. They created this shed, they decorated it inside for Christmas. Every guest got a parting gift with wrapping supplies. Like it had a little paper cutter. Cutter. I forgot about that. It had like a little tape something. Like a dispenser, tape, dispenser, something. Something tape or something. It was like a whole packaged little thing. And then outside they had blankets and they had some more. And the coffee or the hot cocoa bar. Hot cocoa bar. And then they had the fire pits and blankets, and you could make your own symbol.
SPEAKER_03Inside that warehouse, they had a bazillion-d artificial trees that they had decorated.
SPEAKER_02And their last name, she was marrying the gar a garland. Isn't that so cute? So up at where the head table was on the wall, done in garland, it said the garlands.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that was so cute. Gosh, I loved that wedding. And just like the nicest group of women. We had done her brother's wedding.
SPEAKER_02We did.
SPEAKER_03We had done her brother's wedding, and that was one of our first weddings. That was one of our first weddings, honestly. And that was such a such a great group of women. Like they're just so lovely. Um, so we were happy to do that one. And oh gosh, I that was my Christmas wedding. That was the Christmas wedding. The other one was did not hit. It was so bad. Terrible.
SPEAKER_02It was so bad. Terrible. Those are we did a beach, we went to the beach one time and did a client's wedding. Um down at the beach. And we didn't get to attend the wedding, but we did stay with the guests, and we that was a large wedding thing.
SPEAKER_03And such a fun group of women for that. Yeah. That was a good one. Let's see. What else did we do?
SPEAKER_02Well, fast forward, that particular client, the mother of the bride, um of the beach wedding we did, she attended our wedding as a guest recently. And so the bride that was getting married decided she wanted floating candles down the aisle at her wedding. And my client being the guest got up after the wedding was over and she was going to hug the bride and groom. I don't know what sequence or how this all pulled together, but she's like, I looked down and my dress was on fire. Her dress caught on fire from the floating votive candles, real votive candles, going down the aisle. And she said, as I'm looking over, after I got my dress extinguished, stop, drop, and roll. She said, a whole like horseshoe shape of my dress was burned.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02And the other kids were jumping over the candles in the aisle. Of course. I don't know who approved votives, floating votives down the aisle, but that's a venerable decision.
SPEAKER_03Let you have that, honestly. But I mean, on better the guest dress than the bride's dress, right?
SPEAKER_02100%.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh. If the bride's dress had caught on fire, that would be a nightmare. Nightmare. Nightmare. So just oh, what about the groom who got a black eye?
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, we had to do his makeup. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03They were like playing a very intense game the night before the bridal party was. And like one of the bridesmaids like launched over the table at this dude and hit him in the eye, or under the eye, I guess. And so he had a little black eye, and they were like, Can you do his makeup for him? Because he got a black eye last night. And we're like, uh, yeah, yes, that's an odd request. And we really didn't know what we were getting into. It was a very small Bruce, but I was afraid it was gonna be like full-on raccoon. Yeah. Black eye.
SPEAKER_02It was not good. It was not. Um, another one was when we were just saying yes. When we started doing bridal hair and makeup, um, we were hoping to just offer the hair piece until people were coming through um wedding wire or the knot, you know, at the time, seven years ago, eight years ago, that was really our main source of outside of word of mouth, was our main source of getting wedding leads. And so say it was well, let's call it like July, August, we took a wedding for the following June and agreed to do makeup when we hadn't even taken a makeup course yet.
SPEAKER_03So in fake it till you make it by Hollywood and Sarah.
SPEAKER_02We had a makeup course scheduled for later that fall because a lot of times in our industry, um, a lot of hair and makeup classes aren't offered during the summer because people are elsewhere doing other things. So we had to wait till like fall or winter. I think it was around Christmas time. So we go and sign up for a makeup course, and then we decide, okay, at the makeup course, it was like near our airport. It was in a hotel room, and it was crash course. And so the makeup teacher told us you need to do 50 to 100 faces to gain your confidence and skill level. We're like, oh my God. We're like, we're gonna have to have a makeup event and just get some clients of ours that come in and get their hair done, and we're just gonna have a makeup event. So we got some wine, we got some snacks, we just signed up people for free. I don't think we charged anybody for that. And we're like, come in, let us just know what the heck we were doing. We were like basically using CoverGirl to just try to do whatever we could do. We hadn't even taught ourselves airbrush foundation yet, nothing. So therefore, we have this night, we're like, okay, we could do better, and so we get better at we got better. We did, we did, and then we started figuring, then we had another crash course with the airbrush, and so all this to be said, we had only done like so we did not make our 50 to 100 before. We didn't, and then we only did like maybe two or three weddings hair and makeup before we did this big wedding that June wedding, and so we arrived to do the June wedding, and the June bride couldn't have been nicer. She was salt of the earth nice because she had a special needs brother, she was like marrying her high her college sweetheart, and all of her a lot of her sorority sisters were her bridesmaids. Little did we know all of her sorority sisters have been like married to NFL players, MLB players, yes, and so we were doing these girls makeup who have had makeup done legit professional makeup done, not by Holly and Sarah Kate, who are faking it until they are actual professionals.
SPEAKER_03Yes, it was it that one of the everything turned out great, everything did the mom forgot the veil, she forgot the veil, so we had to like drive to their house because it was far away.
SPEAKER_02It was like Roswell, and we were in North Georgia, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh that was another and the mom was crying, she was so upset because she wasn't like the bride was so sick too.
SPEAKER_02Remember, she couldn't get out of bed. She hung over. I was like, is she pregnant? She's hung over. Yeah, she wasn't over.
SPEAKER_03She was teeny tiny. She was teeny tiny, she was having a rough time. That was before Liquid Ivy was really on the scene.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because that was solid.
SPEAKER_032018, 17, 18, if I was to guess, 18. Yeah. She was having a rough day. Really? Fresh day. But everything came together on that too. It sure did. The moral of this story is everything comes together. Holidays arcade, we will figure it out. We will. We are responsible. When we show up, we show up.
SPEAKER_02We our timing is on point. We've never been late. Never. Except even the hotel.
SPEAKER_03Even the hotel, we weren't late finishing. No, she they were all ready on time. Everybody was ready on time. We've never put we've never made a bride late.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03For that.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03And even sometimes, like when the photographers are trying to rush us, we still get them done early on time. Yeah. For sure. Oh my gosh. Yeah, the moral of the story is you can rely on them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're reliable, we're easy to work with. And I know that we're gonna have another episode of wedding stories, but this was just one part one. So many clients are like, what's a wedding story? Tell us a wedding story.
SPEAKER_03Everybody wants to hear the wedding story. So this was part one. Part two will come eventually. This is not gonna be a two-part or week to week, but um, we'll we'll come up with another another one. We might even do uh another Oh no, she didn't.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, she didn't.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, she didn't. So it's gonna be called. So thanks for joining us on Two Chairs, No Filter. We will be back with you next week. Please like, share us, share us with your friends, tell everybody about us, and keep listening. We love having you with us. We're having the best time doing this, and we hope you're enjoying it with us. Cheers, bye.
