Samantha, the mastermind behind Silk and Champagne Wedding and Events, joins us to sprinkle some of her planning magic and wisdom. Samantha, ensures that by the end of our chat, you’ll see wedding planning in a whole new light, whether you're pondering a full-on fairy tale orchestration, a partial planning partnership, or just that reassuring day-of coordination.
Family dynamics take center stage, as Samantha regales us with her transition from daughter to business owner, and how family support—particularly from her once-spectator-now-associate mother—plays a crucial role in her enterprise. Our conversation then reveals the not-so-glamorous side of wedding planning, the infamous 'wedding hangover,' and the personal rituals that save us from exhaustion after those long, festive hours.
Wrapping things up, we delve into some wedding day escapades that prove the best stories often come with a side of last-minute chaos. From ushers quitting right before the ceremony to keeping your cool amidst family feuds, we share a hearty laugh over the unpredictable nature of our beloved profession. Samantha's personal life isn't off-limits either, as we veer into a heartwarming discussion about her adorable mini wiener dog, Poppy, and engage in spirited banter about man's best friend. Before you go, make sure to jot down how to connect with Samantha for your own event planning adventures—and if you're here for the delightful mix of wedding wisdom and personal anecdotes, hit that subscribe button for more episodes that promise to be anything but your average walk down the aisle.
Samantha, the mastermind behind Silk and Champagne Wedding and Events, joins us to sprinkle some of her planning magic and wisdom. Samantha, ensures that by the end of our chat, you’ll see wedding planning in a whole new light, whether you're pondering a full-on fairy tale orchestration, a partial planning partnership, or just that reassuring day-of coordination.
Family dynamics take center stage, as Samantha regales us with her transition from daughter to business owner, and how family support—particularly from her once-spectator-now-associate mother—plays a crucial role in her enterprise. Our conversation then reveals the not-so-glamorous side of wedding planning, the infamous 'wedding hangover,' and the personal rituals that save us from exhaustion after those long, festive hours.
Wrapping things up, we delve into some wedding day escapades that prove the best stories often come with a side of last-minute chaos. From ushers quitting right before the ceremony to keeping your cool amidst family feuds, we share a hearty laugh over the unpredictable nature of our beloved profession. Samantha's personal life isn't off-limits either, as we veer into a heartwarming discussion about her adorable mini wiener dog, Poppy, and engage in spirited banter about man's best friend. Before you go, make sure to jot down how to connect with Samantha for your own event planning adventures—and if you're here for the delightful mix of wedding wisdom and personal anecdotes, hit that subscribe button for more episodes that promise to be anything but your average walk down the aisle.
Welcome to Metropolitan Weddings. I'm Meg, I'm Dawn, and we are here to educate couples with information from wedding professionals in the industry.
Speaker 2:Our goal is to make the wedding planning process as seamless as possible by providing you with insight from industry professionals.
Speaker 1:Okay, couples, let's get this party started. Good morning listeners. We're here today with Samantha. Would you like to introduce yourself and your business?
Speaker 3:Yeah, my name is Samantha Rochan and I am the owner of Silken Champagne Wedding and Events.
Speaker 1:And what do you do over there at Silken Champagne, wedding and Events?
Speaker 3:Mostly coordinating weddings. I do a few events, but for the most part just wedding coordinating. Day of partial planning and full planning.
Speaker 1:Ooh, there's a lot of different, a lot of different things in there.
Speaker 4:So I have to say this because she doesn't know, you're literally wearing her sweatshirt.
Speaker 2:I know I was going to say that.
Speaker 1:I was getting dressed this morning and I was like I'm going to represent.
Speaker 4:It's like I'm sitting here staring at Silken Champagne while talking to Silken Champagne.
Speaker 1:She's much cuter than me, don't? Very comfortable sweatshirt, that's right, I'm over here representing. Thank you for the sweatshirt, by the way. Okay, yes, so you. Okay, let's start with, like, full wedding planning. Okay, what is what does that? What does that include? What does that process? Like Herding cats, yep.
Speaker 3:Basically herding cats. No, it starts to finish planning. Right now I have a full plan. He just kind of booked with me. So we last week kind of started and talked about budget. So we sit down together and create a budget and talk about what their vision is for their wedding and what they are hoping to get out of everything, and then my job basically is to make that happen. And so the best way I describe it to my brides is I'm helping you by, like giving you all of the options and all you have to do is pick them and pay for them. Obviously, but it's just an easier way. I actually had one bride book me for full planning and thought that I was paying for everything. So I've now had to explain that no, you're paying for it, I'm just making, or helping you make, the decisions and making sure it all flows smoothly.
Speaker 4:So bless her heart.
Speaker 3:I know, when we had that conversation I was like oh honey how do I have this conversation?
Speaker 1:I my heart's broken for her. She was. She was expecting something very different, but yeah that would not be the traditional wedding planner role in ever.
Speaker 3:I don't know if that would be the traditional wedding vendor role. Well, and she, she had such a huge budget too, and I was like I, I'm not paying for this for you because she's like so, um, I've actually already picked my vendors and um, so when are you going to make the deposits for them? I was like what, what do you mean? When am I going to make the deposit?
Speaker 4:She wanted you to be just like her money manager and everything.
Speaker 3:Yes, and I was like I mean, I can make your deposits if you guys need to make like, but that doesn't make sense either, you know. Then it's just adding in an extra person. So yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just still trying to wrap my head around. She made herself a big budget. Yeah that you were on the hook, for I was like my budget would have been big too.
Speaker 3:It did decrease significantly when we when she realized I'm not paying for it I did foot packages, and so I think they moved to like partial planning.
Speaker 4:So, um, a little bit less stress for me at least, All a part of the education process. It is. It is yes.
Speaker 3:And so I've got to change my contract a little bit to you know. Make sure people understand that. Hey, I'm not the one paying for this, you are. And um good, it seems self-explanatory, but maybe not, honestly in weddings.
Speaker 1:You know people. They usually haven't done it before, so a lot of the things are an educational process of just like kind of figuring it out.
Speaker 1:We do have to spend a lot of time educating our couples as to, hey, what's traditional, or do you want to break tradition, or how do you want to do it. But you know, all of these things are are definitely conversations that they need to have and we all have to just be open and ask questions. And so, yeah, well, I'm glad that you got through that with your, with your girl, and she's still using you.
Speaker 3:So all my it was actually a wedding I had a few years ago, so Nice Um okay.
Speaker 1:So that was your first. Package is like full wedding planning. And then what was the second thing? You, there was like three or four. You said yeah.
Speaker 3:So also, partial planning is one of them, and so that one yeah, basically is like helping them create a timeline for the day of and then like a wedding planning checklist, so what they need to do each week, month, whatever you know, leading up to the wedding, as well as like six consultations, and so I would meet with them and if they wanted to work on wedding DIYs together or they want to meet to go to like a bridal consultation, that would be included in those consultations. It's just kind of whatever they want to do, as well as budget management, bi-weekly reminders and to-do lists, vendor recommendations, contract reviews, and then attending those final vendor meetings, as well as, obviously, being there the day after wedding okay, so it's full, partial and then day of.
Speaker 3:So I actually have two different day of packages. One of them is just a more basic package. It's just me there for eight hours and not there for rehearsal, and so it really is like subbear not their minimum, but I'm still gonna give everything I have. But it's just a lesser package because some people just don't necessarily need the full thing. I guess I've had a lot of people interested in that and I was kind of shocked because that's a newer thing that I just added this year and then day of. So that would include like a month out meeting as well as like I would create their timeline for them with the more upgraded, I guess, day of package and then coming for rehearsal and being there the entire day. So with my regular day of package I don't really have a timeline. I show up at six or seven or whenever they want me, and I stay until the very end.
Speaker 3:So well that one's a more popular one.
Speaker 1:It's a lot more work, obviously, but it's a lot more fun too so, speaking of fun, how did you end up in the wedding industry and as a coordinator?
Speaker 3:okay. So originally, like in high school, I wanted to own a cupcake business and had all of my dreams of, you know, being cupcake gunner. And then I realized I, I can't bake so that I could get employees. I was like no, I, I should know how to do everything. And so, kind of my junior year of high school, I was like you know what I kind of want to be a wedding planner. Like I love planning and organizing. I love like the fantasy and the magic that's just around the wedding day. And my parents and siblings were like this is just like another cupcake business, it's gonna go away in a year or two.
Speaker 3:And so my freshman year of college, I started wedding planning and I just called it weddings by Sam and I did a lot of events and weddings for the church that I was working for, I did their hundred and fiftieth birthday party and also just for, like, college friends who were getting married, just kind of to build a portfolio, and so that's kind of how it started. And then, in 2021, I was like I'm kind of tired of weddings by Sam, like the name of it, I don't really want my name in it anymore and I was like I need to actually create this business and get like an official name. And so I was at my in-laws house and we're just like discussing it with my husband's parents and I was like I love the name to the confetti, which is a like wedding coordinator in Springfield. I was like I love their name. I need something with a similar vibe that's just like easy to remember but unique and not my name in it.
Speaker 3:And my father-in-law actually came up with a silk and champagne. So he's like what about the name silk and champagne? I was like no, that's kind of dumb and but obviously I really like it now. So it we've gone with it and it just kind of gives me the same to the confetti, like I don't know, it's kind of visual thing for me, I guess is your father-in-law fancy.
Speaker 3:He is not that fancy actually. They own a farm in Vichy, Missouri, so very small town.
Speaker 4:How do you say it? Vichy, oh, my name, the name of my company, that that, thank God, because I always see it when there's school closings up and I never know how to say that town.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Vichy.
Speaker 4:Vichy yeah.
Speaker 2:Vichy. I'm from Vichy what's?
Speaker 4:everything Italian to you now.
Speaker 2:You're all about the Italians.
Speaker 4:I don't know. It's an Italian day.
Speaker 1:Also OK. How do you spell Vichy Apparently? I haven't seen it on the school.
Speaker 4:The ICHY.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Vichy.
Speaker 1:Is it Italian Sounds?
Speaker 4:Italian, is it?
Speaker 1:French.
Speaker 3:I don't know what it is. I think it's just some big town, to be honest.
Speaker 2:I'm from Vichy. Where are you from?
Speaker 3:There's like not very many people that live in the town. I don't even think there's a Walmart.
Speaker 2:What Is there? A dollar general? There is a dollar general.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. That's a DG, that's a real Midwest question Is there a dollar general?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, it's such a Midwest question. Is there two dollar generals?
Speaker 3:There's only one.
Speaker 1:It's a one DG town.
Speaker 2:Because we have two here, correct?
Speaker 1:Nixa has two.
Speaker 2:At least Maybe three.
Speaker 1:Who's our Is our couple? Springfield probably has like a dozen, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, so many DGs.
Speaker 1:They're everywhere.
Speaker 2:That's not very Soak in Champagne, Mike. Let's go back to Soak in Champagne.
Speaker 4:We really got on, I'm glad you said where the name came from, because I was. That was curious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my father-in-law. I was really shocked, honestly.
Speaker 4:What's your father-in-law's name?
Speaker 3:His name is DJ.
Speaker 4:DJ. Yeah, shout out to DJ. Dj in Vichy.
Speaker 3:Now I'm going to make him listen to this podcast, just for the shout out there.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:DJ in Vichy. Good job DJ.
Speaker 1:OK, let's reel this back in. So what is it? So he told your family you did the thing. They renamed your business. And now, so you've been in. You've been doing this since 2018. 2018.
Speaker 4:I'm staring at it on your chest.
Speaker 3:Yes, about five years.
Speaker 4:Established 2018.
Speaker 3:That's what my shirt says Yep, but now, like my family's obviously really supported, my mom has come to every Expo with me. She has done some coordinating for me as well, and she loves party planning, which I think is where I got it too. When we were kids she would do extravagant birthday parties, and even now I have a six-year-old little sister and she always goes above and beyond with the balloons and the cake and the decorations. So I think that that's honestly where I got a lot of wanting to do this with from her, and so it's been really cool having her come to Expo's and trying to teach her.
Speaker 3:This is also your part of this, and you're not just my mom. Like you are, like you do your own event too. So she'd be like, oh my gosh, this is my daughter and she's so great, and like mom quit saying I'm your daughter, I love you so much, but you also do events too, and I'm not going to be like, oh yeah, this is my mom, you have to do, you have to book with her, but it's been fun doing something with her as an adult.
Speaker 1:Moms are the best they are. But I get it. What's your name? Let's compare it.
Speaker 4:You got to switch out of my child's and honor roll student moment.
Speaker 3:Yes, More of more like we.
Speaker 4:We are so concerned yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm like you're my associate, like we are partners, Like go with that, because she's like I, just when I do events, I don't know what to say. And I'm like that you are an employee of Silicon Champagne, like not that your daughter owns this company, like they don't care, not to be rude, but I mean, today is about them anyway.
Speaker 3:And so just trying to retrain that. But and then my husband's also super supportive too and he'll come and help me set up for events, not very willingly, but because he loves me, so and those are the best He'll take, you know, the behind the scenes photos, which is really nice.
Speaker 2:But Aw, that's a good guy.
Speaker 1:What's the first thing you do when you get home from like a I'm assuming over eight hour day at a wedding?
Speaker 3:Shower and just not talk to anybody. I am very much like, when I'm at an event, a very extroverted person and like I love talking to people, I love being there for you, but then I need about a week without talking to anybody. I just need to like hide and be in my shell for a little bit with no communication.
Speaker 4:So we get it when we, when we shot weddings, we the next day we would call it the wedding hangover.
Speaker 3:Yep, yes, yes. One time I had a double header wedding. I did two in one weekend, which is a terrible idea. But I came home and that was like the peak of COVID and I was like, oh my gosh, I think I have COVID. Like I had the body aches like good chills and just like exhaustion and nope, no COVID. Just yeah, the wedding hangover it's a real thing.
Speaker 2:It is a real thing.
Speaker 4:I do have to say, though, I'm impressed when you say as soon as you get home, you take a shower. Most of the time, we're both like we stink, but we're going to bed.
Speaker 2:So tired.
Speaker 4:No, it's more of the conversation is do you want me to take a shower before you go to bed? I'm not taking one. Oh, thank God.
Speaker 3:I'm just a little bit like to OCD that I'm like if I don't shower them, I have to change the sheets in the morning and I'm going to add extra work.
Speaker 2:We're so lazy whenever we get. I shouldn't say lazy, we're just exhausted and we're like I'll change the sheets, I don't care.
Speaker 4:And then we don't change the sheets.
Speaker 2:That's not true. That's where the lazy actually does come in, then.
Speaker 3:Well, I also. I live in Rola, missouri, and so I do a lot of events and bring Dilda Branson, and so the wedding ends at 11 and I have to still drive home because I'm too lazy to get a hotel room. So that's what sucks is to drive back and so then at that point I'm like I've been in the car, I just need to like I need a shower.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get that for sure.
Speaker 1:So OK. So now, when you first get there, like what is, what does the day look like for a wedding planner?
Speaker 3:Yeah, when I first get there, my first test. Most of the time when I get there, brights have me get there like after they've arrived, which I like because then I can have communication with them first. But if they're not there, then I usually just check out the building and make sure it's unlocked and everything for the bridal party and turn on all the lights and typically I'll start decorating right away. If they don't already have somebody like if they hire an event place they're going to decorate for them. But if they don't have that, then I like to start on the decorations and get those done first.
Speaker 3:But if the bride is there, I go in and check on her and see if she needs anything coffee, breakfast or anything and sometimes I'll go pick up my bride's coffee before I even get there, if I've had time to talk to them and get their coffee order, which is really fun and then getting the dresses out, seen in them, making sure that they're ready to go, and so the day, honestly, is really busy. Until the photographers get there, and that's kind of when my day starts to slow down a little bit for like about an hour or two. Just the morning is mostly like set up and making sure everything is ready, and then photographer arrives and we take all the photos and ceremony is quickly approaching after photographers arrive, and then it's just a party. So it's just a party, just a party, which is the best part.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Tell me about your best part. Tell me about the best part, sorry.
Speaker 3:Honestly, my like favorite part of the wedding day is kind of being able to hang out with the couples and like get to know them, and a lot of the times I'll talk to the brighter crew like one on one and ask them like what they're excited for and most of the time it's being their significant other. But also I like hearing the vows, especially when couples write them their cells, and usually I cry through them. Even though I've like known these people you know for just a couple of months, I feel like they become like friends or family, you know. So just kind of seeing the day unfold and like just seeing the love that each of these couples have for each other and being a part of probably their most important day that they've had together is really the best part.
Speaker 1:Have you had any weddings where you and the aesthetic of the wedding were polar opposites? You were like I don't know about it.
Speaker 3:I really haven't. Honestly. A lot of my couples have had aesthetics that are close to mine. I do have one girl that just spoke with me, actually, and hers is Completely opposite of my style and she's doing a full plan. So that one's a little bit more challenging, I guess, for me, just because and I have more of a girly personality and her personality is more like Black and dark colors, which is fine, so that one probably will be a little bit more of a challenge for me.
Speaker 1:But It'll broaden your horizons. Yes, she's gonna teach you some things.
Speaker 3:I have some crazy things happening at weddings, but we love it.
Speaker 2:Dish it out. We want to hear it. Okay, don't use any names.
Speaker 3:The very first one I did was at the church that I worked at and the night of the wedding. So they had their reception kind of in like the gym ish area, which don't recommend using a church gym for your wedding because it's gonna still look like a gym no matter how much you decorate it. But somebody decided to shoot through the reception area. They shot through the door and broke the glass and, like, broke into the church. So that day was trying to. The next day was trying to decide if we were gonna be able to have the wedding there, because we didn't know If the guy was still in the church oh my god, pretty big and so Luckily my stepdad's a police officer and so I kind of got to go in and check and make sure everything was okay while they were evaluating the crime scene.
Speaker 4:Wait, paint this picture for me when your stepdad went in, because here's what I see. I see your stepdad gun drawn. It kicks the door open. You behind him, gun drawn oh.
Speaker 1:Champagne in one hand.
Speaker 4:Clear and you're going clear. Is that what happened?
Speaker 3:No, so actually I am. I was 18 and I was still living with my parents, and so my stepdad, since he's a detective, he had to go check it out with other officers. But my mom was like don't sort of the church, you're not allowed to go. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna go for a drive. And I went to the church because I'm like no, I have a bride there, I'm going to have to go check this out. So, also, if my mom hears this, I went to the church, I got to walk inside and there was broken glass everywhere because they broke through a glass door. So no, I did not have a gun drawn and I did not have a bottle of champagne with me.
Speaker 3:I went in like after the fact, after they had searched the building in nature, that the guy was there.
Speaker 4:So okay, so next time, next time you tell the story your dad, has his gun drawn, you're holding a bottle of champagne and you're ready to pop the cork as your weapon.
Speaker 3:Alrighty, that is the story.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 3:Then this happened at a wedding Um, the bridal party. There's like ten people on each side, plus the brighter, taking pictures, and one of the ushers comes running out To where we're taking photos and throws his jacket on the ground. He's like I quit, I'm done. He's like my dad just punched me in the face and I'm leaving, and he's like a grown adult. I'm like what the heck is happening. And so I grabbed the deck and I followed him inside, because he's just storming off, that it's like starting the spiral and, um, I don't even, honestly, I think I've blocked out of my memory. Don't even know if they fought again, but, um, I had to call the police and have them come take a report 30 minutes before the ceremony started. So that was A lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Did the usher in the dad makeup?
Speaker 3:So they didn't um, and so my job then the rest of the night was to keep them apart from each other during the reception, so Not fun. And then the bride's brother Was talking about how he knew me when I was in preschool as he was hitting on me. So it was very it was a very uncomfortable wedding, um Was. The crazy thing is the bride is now one of my best friends so and we didn't know each other very well back then. So it's just kind of we laugh about it now and you have a trauma bond.
Speaker 3:I have the trauma, but she, she just doesn't like to talk about it. Oh my god, was there a lot of drinking At that time there wasn't At the reception, there was, and so-.
Speaker 1:I mean that checks out. They're like we've had a rough day.
Speaker 2:It does.
Speaker 3:I didn't need a beer. I actually think that, like the reception, like the venue was like, do you want to drink? Like to me, and I'm like no, I'm working. And they're like you've had a long day, I know, but I can't drink. I'm a job, oh my gosh. Oh man, that's I think you have like the amazing couples who don't have any drama, and we love those. What I do, yeah.
Speaker 1:But they're not as fun to talk about.
Speaker 3:They are as fun to talk about.
Speaker 2:They're just beautiful. They're just fun to look at their pictures.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How funny. All right, I like those two stories. Thank you for sharing those are pretty good they are I gotta say.
Speaker 4:Father said-.
Speaker 3:I've been a while to talk about them because I was like I don't want it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:You know the bride and groom to hear about this and be like, oh, what the hell is this? It's been now a few years, so it's fine.
Speaker 1:It's yeah, they're probably laughing about it.
Speaker 2:Yep, they're definitely laughing about it.
Speaker 4:They've got to well, maybe. We hope, maybe Hopefully that. Hopefully that rift has been taken care of.
Speaker 1:Do we need to put in some like call if numbers Like? If you're still upset at your father and you need help, please call. I'm still in the face of this one, yeah.
Speaker 3:Not something I thought I'd have to deal with. I'm also like five, two and a hundred and ten pounds, so there's not much that I can really do for that situation, yeah.
Speaker 2:You keeping them apart from each other, you really don't make a very good bouncer, not at all.
Speaker 3:That is true. Even if you have the small things that happen, such as, like you know, pan-tripping and stuff like that. That's not usually too crazy.
Speaker 2:So probably Like falling off with a few ladders, but You've fallen off ladders.
Speaker 3:Yes, because I don't ask for help and just think that I can do it all, and I can't.
Speaker 2:She asks for help now, though, I'm sure, of course.
Speaker 3:Oh no, if my husband died in like a wedding with me, he'll get on the ladder, but if not I'm an independent woman I'll get up there If you can handle it. Oh my goodness, yeah, give me some good times.
Speaker 4:So, going through all of this and talking about all these stories and everything, what would be the one thing that you would hope that all couples would walk away with with working with you, like what would be something that you would hope that they would say about their experience working with you?
Speaker 3:I would hope that they would enjoy their experience with me. I honestly haven't had any brides that have complained or grooms, I guess, to have complained about anything that I've done, and my goal from the very beginning is just to make sure that things run as smoothly as possible and that they don't notice any of the things that have gone wrong, like my couple that the gym was like shot through. They didn't know, and so I kind of kept everything away from there and moved them to different parts of the building when things were happening, so they weren't really aware of it until the end of the night. And so I mean my job is just to make everything run as smooth as possible, and I'm there for the bride and groom, not really the family. I know that that sounds kind of harsh, but I mean they're the ones paying me and it's their day, so I do everything in my power to make sure that the two of them have the best day ever.
Speaker 2:That's perfect.
Speaker 1:It's very nice. You're a nice person, thank you, I tried to be.
Speaker 3:I heard more mom's zillas than bride zillas. That is the word on the screen. That the mom's. I just go in with the motto of like I'm never going to see you again. Like I'm going to be respectful and kind yes, I'm Like, you're not gonna be rude to me, I'm not gonna allow that. So yeah, as far as like family goes the bride and groom I'm like If you need to yell your frustrations, that means they're okay. I'll just go cry later, you know.
Speaker 1:I'll work that out over the wedding. Well, anybody have any further questions for Samantha today?
Speaker 2:Let the she's like, given the site she's, she's done very well. I mean, I've got like full visuals and past.
Speaker 4:Present sounds like. No matter what gets thrown at her, she can handle it.
Speaker 1:I mean, if nothing else she's got like all these family members that can, she can call in yeah, we got ladder climbers. We got room clearers room clearers.
Speaker 3:I have a few interns to that. They can. They can do it all too.
Speaker 4:She has a room clearer. I know I don't have that. I don't have that. I mean I play one sometimes. A nerf gun in my hand. I'm like I'm clearing this room.
Speaker 1:Of what dogs?
Speaker 4:That's with water guns dust.
Speaker 1:Oh, I see Poor dogs Do you have any pets?
Speaker 3:I Do. I have a miniature wiener dog. Oh oh, that sounds cute.
Speaker 4:What's name? What color is it?
Speaker 3:She is like a honey color.
Speaker 1:And what's her name?
Speaker 3:Her name's Poppy, Although I call her honey more than I call her Poppy. But I Actually kind of forced my husband to go take her on a walk while I took this call he's like standing in the window.
Speaker 4:I don't want to deal with either of you, can I come in? He's like are you done yet?
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, I'll call you when.
Speaker 3:I'm done.
Speaker 1:You're gonna wait another half hour.
Speaker 4:Are you guys gonna have another dog? Are you guys gonna have another dog?
Speaker 3:He really wants a lab, but we live in an apartment and it was hard enough to get just a seven pound miniature wiener dog, so he's gonna have to wait a little bit.
Speaker 4:Have you guys ever looked at Chihuahuas?
Speaker 2:Do not to know so he's gonna try to make you take the one we have.
Speaker 3:So just I really wish you could see my facial expression. It's not the nicest one.
Speaker 4:That's completely okay. What do you think about pugs?
Speaker 3:I think hugs are honestly the worst dog ever. I would take a toawa over a program so sorry.
Speaker 2:Wow, I have two pugs in my lap right now.
Speaker 4:I don't know that I disagree with her.
Speaker 3:See, I just had a bad experience of pugs, though. My stepdad the detective rescued one that was a few years old, but he he claims as a puppy, and it just peed and pooped over her house and they just like they can't breathe, and so then he's just flabbering everywhere. It just I can't.
Speaker 4:Okay, what else do we have? We got plenty dogs. What other one?
Speaker 1:If a couple would like to reach out to you and find out more about letting planning in your process.
Speaker 3:How would they do that? So you can either go to my Instagram or I have a website that people can go to but what is your Instagram on your website? So I think my website is linked on my Instagram, but my Instagram is silk dot E T dot champagne.
Speaker 1:Silk dot E T dot champagne. Yeah, all right, it's a good start. That's how to start. Thank you for hanging out with us today. I guess you can let your husband back in.
Speaker 2:He can bring Poppy home now, little honey. All right it was good talking to you.
Speaker 1:Good talking to you guys too. Adam's trying to get the Chihuahua to howl right now but she's not.
Speaker 2:I mean I should take a picture of this and just send it to you. She's literally has her little face in the microphone. Okay, okay, I'll have to send this to you. That's so funny.
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