Transcript of Sinders Sisters Podcast
E3: Wedding crasher-why we go to our brides
In this episode, we dive into the multifaceted world of weddings, exploring the experiences of attending as guests, providing personal assistance, and even leading the festivities. Join us as we unpack one of the most significant aspects of our business—the exhilarating, stressful, fun, and rewarding journey of working with brides. Our mission is to alleviate stress for our clients, and in this episode, we share stories, memories, and insights gleaned from our experiences managing various situations. Tune in for an engaging discussion filled with laughter, heartfelt moments, and perhaps even some valuable tips for your own special day.
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Stacey
On today's episode, we are going to be chatting about going to weddings. I like attending, but I'm an attending like as a guest. We actually go as your personal assistant for the wedding.
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Meghan
All the crazy stories that we have. Yes. the fun time.
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Stacey
Yes. It's been great.
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Stacey
Welcome to the Chronicles of Caffeine and Ambition, hosted by the Sinders Sisters. I'm Stacey.
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Meghan
And I'm Megan. And what we are here to do on our podcast is tell you about business, life, families. Essentially everything that we do. We want to share with you because.
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Meghan
we have A lot of self-confidence. We’ve learned a lot of self-confidence over the years. We sure have, and we want to share that with you. We want to show you how.
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Stacey
Let's do this.
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Meghan
All right. We did our lead in we did our, like, jump around hyper selves up. So we are ready. We want to talk about one of the biggest aspects of what we do at Sinders
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Stacey
It is it's also one of the most exhilarating, stressful fun when also rewarding parts of the job.
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Meghan
Yeah, and one of the things that sets us apart too, because there are so many places that have white dresses or you could just not wear a white dress to your wedding, but what you will almost guaranteed have on the wedding is stress, or anxiety or feelings that you don't need to have.
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Stacey
Correct.
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Meghan
And what we do, what we want to do, and it is our entire goal through all of these Sinders experience. When you're looking for your wedding gown or finding your gown with us, or through alterations on your wedding day, everything. Our goal is to take the stress away. So that's where this came from.
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Stacey
It did. It's a long story to which I did a post on TikTok about it, talking about the how this whole idea came to fruition. And it was fun. And this was a long time ago. This is probably like about ten. No how old my kids probably 12 years ago, if not more. Yeah. we have the honor, the privilege to actually go to your wedding.
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Stacey
And like you said, it all started like 12 years ago. We got a phone call to come and fix a dress, but this was like, we're just outside of Ottawa, Ontario. And this was a West.
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Meghan
A west like Albert. Albert. Like, this is a flight.
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Stacey
Yeah. Yeah. Had to hop on a plane that same day and go fix a dress. And the wedding was the next day. but if you want to hear that whole story, it is on TikTok. along with those stories of the weddings we've been to, because it's so much fun. I mean, you know, your family and you know what's going to happen in your family and, you know, like what your wedding is going to be like.
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Stacey
But we don't but we don't, and that's fun
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Meghan
So we're kind of like the outsider one. Our job is to take care of you because often there's so much there's so much happening that day and there's so much stress. There's so many pieces in the works.
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Stacey
Yeah.
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Meghan
If you don't have somebody planning that day, then it's up to you or your party members, your bridesmaids, your groomsmen, whatever to take care of those pieces that they're trying to enjoy the day to. Or they might just not be organized people.
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Stacey
Yeah, and.
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Meghan
That's totally fine. One of the things that we believe is that everybody should actually enjoy that day, the day for the couple to get married, to celebrate that marriage. But you invited your friends and family to celebrate with you. So it's not always like the bridesmaids are going to be on task and exactly when you need them, because they're trying to enjoy the day just like you are.
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Stacey
That's true.
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Meghan
So we're there to do that.
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Stacey
Even I would say half of the weddings that we've been to had an event planner or day of planner to help out with everything that a planner does, but the amount of help that you need, and it's just silly little things of, you know, where did I put my veil? There's a wrinkle on my dress. My bridesmaids dresses are have watermark.
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Stacey
So I've done that one where something happens and I got a watermark on the dress and I was able to get it out.
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Meghan
The zipper broke.
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Stacey
The zipper broke. I had to sew a bridesmaid into her dress, which worked and it was great, but I mean, I was there to sew. Were into the dress.
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Meghan
My father can't get her bow His boat, tide on up did that.
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Stacey
Yeah, it's things like that where I mean, at that point the planner was already gone and at the church that the first spot before, even when the reception, we were just getting dressed.
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Meghan
Because their job is to be ready before you're ready, which means that they're not with you. Correct. They're not with the bride. They're not with the bridesmaids. They're not actually getting ready with you. It's like a personal assistant, essentially.
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Stacey
Essentially, yes. That's essentially what it.
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Meghan
Is for the bride's personal assistant, which kind of outreaches to making sure that the bridesmaids are taken care of, and the groom's men and the. And the father and mother of the bride and groom, and, yes, is taking care of everything. Yes. The craziest thing the people are like, oh my God, really? We have to make sure that the bride goes to the bathroom.
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Stacey
That blew my mind the first time we had to do that, where I was like, okay, have you drank anything? And she was. No. Have you been to the bathroom? No. Like, just. Have you eaten anything? No. Oh my gosh.
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Meghan
Taking care of yourself in any way whatsoever today? No, no, the stress levels are so high and the excitement levels are so high. Like there's so much adrenaline.
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Stacey
And, you know, so many questions by so many people because you're the one like it's your day. So like, what do you want? How do you want this? And everyone else is trying to help. But there's so many questions on you. You were then are the last thing on your mind? Yep. So we're here for you.
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Meghan
We've been in this industry for, what.
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Stacey
Almost three decades
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Meghan
Almost three decades. It's a lot of weddings to see. It's a lot of background understanding of how the wedding day works. And it's not to cause like fear, anxiety ahead of time, but being prepared for those things, being prepared for knowing that you will probably face some stress and anxiety on the day of if people were prepared for that knowledge, then they we do watch solid def more than we are ready because it's so much nicer.
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Meghan
It's so much calmer to enjoy the day and enjoy what you've planned. You've spent a year planning this.
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Stacey
Exactly.
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Meghan
And then be able to enjoy it, because we are there to answer that question over there to help with that thing. Yeah, we're we're there to you take care of you in any way that you need. Totally. So what was the craziest thing that we've seen in a wedding or, like, top three? Let's do top three.
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Stacey
Oh, tops. Three. A missed giving the corsages to the groom's men. So we're still back at the house. and the the mother in law? no, I think it was the bride's mom gives me the corsage and said, do you mind? You're heading to the church first, to which we were like, we are, and we're waiting for the bride to get into her car, and then we're going to the church.
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Stacey
But sure, I can 100% take those for you and give them to the the groomsmen. No problem. So at this point, luckily one of our other team members was with me because this was in Montreal. We got there and this was our first Lebanese wedding, so there was a decent amount of unknowns. And like side note, probably one of the best weddings we've ever been to.
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Stacey
It was insane. It was so much fun.
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Meghan
But one of the most hype high.
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Stacey
Holy smokes hype. It was so great. but. So we got the bride into the car. It was pouring rain and at this point said both Amanda, who's the other girl with me, had to get umbrellas to get her out into the car, and Jeff was following us along, and the drums are going in and people are outside complete chaos and everyone's screaming and all the women are doing the I don't want to mess it up, but it's like, la la la la la la la la la la.
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Stacey
The street is making that noise. It's it was phenomenal. I still get goosebumps thinking about it. So we get her in the car and she's okay. Everything's great. And so I said, Amanda, now run to our car because we have to beat the limo. So, Amanda and I both are in huge heels. Of course I'm all dressed up, so run to my car, get in, and we have to make it there before the limo gets there.
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Stacey
That's a story I'm going to tell you another time, because that's a just a great story on its own. How is that to drive that drive, trying to get there through Montreal. Crazy. So that was one of them.
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Meghan
The food at the other Montreal one.
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Stacey
Oh my goodness. I have never seen spread like that in my entire life. Like you name it. I think it was there, like the food. It was absolutely from a seafood platter to like pasta platter to like, I couldn't even fit enough on my plate. And I'm like, I know I'm not. I'm going to eat this. I don't eat a lot at one city, but I wanted to.
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Stacey
We shoved ourselves so forth, and this was just appetizers like, this wasn't even like the main courses that we sat down for. That wedding was fun. That was great. She was the sweetest, sweetest. The two of them are so lovely. Oh my gosh.
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Meghan
And her family was lovely.
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Stacey
Her family was so nice. Oh my God, that was a great wedding. That one was fun and the party was great and the people were great. One of the first ones probably will stick in my head too, because we had to actually got a phone call on the Friday because the dress was was it ruined? It was ruined to her.
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Stacey
To her it was. They messed it up in steam in it and iron in it. And so I got on a plane on noon on the Friday, made it out to her place that night. I guess you could say fix the dress all night. And then she got married the next day
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Meghan
To me I did, and I was not that one, but the memory of like, you telling us when you got back, and she wouldn't let anybody else touch her. No. No one was allowed in the car with her. No. You were the savior of everything. Yeah, and nobody touched me but Stacey. Yeah, nobody go near me. Don't. Don't pick up my train.
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Meghan
And nothing.
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Stacey
Nobody gets to do anything. And I walked around all of the pictures with them, which is what we do now. And that was made me realize or made us realize at that point that this was needed because you just need somebody just to be there and Meg is right, like the bridesmaids, the friends, everybody was there at the wedding.
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Stacey
Want to go party? It's a party. They celebrate. It's a big celebration. The last thing they want to do is cater to you all day. Because you're so upset about something, you want to make sure it's perfect for everybody, perfect for yourself, everything you were looking for. So nobody needs to do that. Everybody can enjoy themselves including the bride.
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Stacey
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Meghan
I think and that's one of the hardest things to explain because when people hear it, some people hear that the people that they've chosen to be there with them on the day are not actually going to be there for them. And that's not what is meant by it. It's just that until you're in that situation, you don't realize how many decisions will have to be made in the moment.
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Meghan
You don't realize how many pieces are moving at one time. And literal fact of the matter is, it is a party. It's a celebration.
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Stacey
Absolutely.
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Meghan
And you brought all those people there together to celebrate, so they might be the most incredible best friend. They might be your person in life besides your partner, but they cannot think ahead in a situation they've never been in before because we've done weddings for so long. If this is their first wedding, even if it's their fifth wedding, they've been a part of it.
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Meghan
They haven't been in weddings for 30 years. Exactly. So that's where this all came about.
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Stacey
Like because we just and also because we just it's a job at that point. We're there for you. I don't need to will do I enjoy it I love it, enjoy it, I enjoy the people. It's bunch of amazing people sitting because of course, if we end up staying for the reception, we sit at the gas table. I guess you could say so.
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Stacey
The amount of people we've met at those tables. Fantastic. A great story, isn't that those tables? But it's we don't need to be there to enjoy. We need to be able to be there to help you to make your day. Absolutely. flawless or is flawless as it can be.
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Meghan
Well, and I suppose too, that's a good point because I'm not positive it will ever be flawless. No it's true. Things happen. somebody gets sick, something's forgotten. Something will happen. Yeah. But we can minimize or distract or de-stress. Yeah. Because we're not emotionally invested in that thing.
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Stacey
That's very true.
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Meghan
Finding a solution is a lot easier.
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Stacey
And we've been so, like, so many years of, like, problem solving and quick thinking on your feet of issues just from being in business of. All right. That doesn't work. What are we gonna do? We need to know right now.
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Meghan
Yeah. Pivoting in business has has worked out well for a lot of these things because the emotions are so high, there's so much happening. And pivot right this second the veil was forgotten. What are we going to do?
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Stacey
That was another story that actually happened. Meg and I thank goodness magazine NASCAR driver because the veil was forgotten at the hotel. So we had to turn around. We were almost at the venue, made to turn around and I was getting ready to watch for the place to be like, you don't understand. You have no idea.
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Meghan
It's so important to get the end. Which is crazy too, because that's how high the emotions get. That this like you forgot this one thing and somebody would be like, oh.
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Stacey
So yeah, but it's someone's day.
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Meghan
They've planned for a year, year and a half. God knows how long they planned for this thing. They have so much riding on this, so many emotions invested in this and that. One thing could be the thing that they remember for the rest of their lives that that went wrong. And I hope it's never that.
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Stacey
I hope not
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Meghan
Many good things that come on that day as well. But the veils forgotten. What are we going to do? We're going to immediately think of a solution or five.
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Stacey
Yeah.
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Meghan
Choose the best one. Yeah. Turn around, drive like crazy. Yes. Ask for a police escort if we have.
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Stacey
If we have to. You can ticket me when we get back to the church to give. At that point, I will pay that. Fine. Yeah.
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Meghan
I just I need this escort right now. I would do it. And I am halfway convinced that I might actually be able to convince them to get us out.
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Meghan
It's incredible. It's a lot of fun.
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Stacey
It is a lot of fun. There's a lot of stories to go with. All the times we've been to these weddings.
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Meghan
And the things that we learned them to. Yeah, like the year. I like the you talked about the first Lebanese wedding that we went to and like the just the high of that.
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Stacey
Man, I don't think I couldn't even explain when we got back because everybody, Chris get it back to the shop. And there was like, how was it? And I both Amanda and I couldn't explain how amazing it was and how much of, the energy changes. It was just phenomenal. So that life changing experiences for us going to your wedding, I like it's it's a big deal.
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Stacey
So that's why I think it's one of my favorite parts of the job. but it also one of my favorite parts because it's like we started from the beginning of your planning of your wedding. We've talked to you for the past year since, you know, the dress has been in for trying, for alterations, for everything, all the problems, the ups and downs.
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Stacey
Your bridesmaids left the party like we know all. Everything. Because you talked to us about it the whole time. And then to get to the end and finally see everything put together. Yeah, that feels so good.
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Meghan
I totally agree. Like we asked for pictures back and when they send the pictures, I that's always my response. Thank you so much for sending those because we never get to see the end result of your hair done, your makeup done, you and your partner standing there. We don't get to see that unless you send us pictures or we get to go be there.
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Meghan
Yeah, it's like a completion of what we've invested in this. Yes, the completion of what we've put so much time and effort into, and each person's wedding, into each person's dress and into our business.
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Stacey
Which is kind of funny because people are like, if if we just said to somebody they were like, well, what do you do for a living? Be like, I sell wedding gowns, but it's so much more than that. Like, it's not even remotely that, like, we're so invested in your wedding and what you do for your wedding. You have no idea.
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Meghan
I don't even know that I could answer that question. What do you do for a living? I don't know, I'm addicted to dopamine.
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Stacey
I 100%, hundred percent.
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Meghan
So those are some of the largest weddings. And we've been to small weddings like I did one that was just to laser up. We both done one of these because it was an older bride and they had grown children like teenage to grown.
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Stacey
Yes. Kids of their own. Correct.
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Meghan
and they had a corset style back. So they knew it's interesting because they were older women and they knew that at the wedding they wanted their children to enjoy. They didn't want their kids to stress about getting them done up, getting the dress done up.
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Stacey
That's that's fair.
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Meghan
And so that's why they.
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Stacey
Asked, because it is a process depending on how the dress fits and it needs to be done up properly.
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Meghan
To get the right pictures to, to make the look right, to fit you properly technically. But not everyone would notice. But some people will.
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Stacey
Yeah I think the bride will also notice if it doesn't fit the same like it needs to be able to fit. Not super tight at the top, a tight at the waist but not super tight because then it ends up bulging like it. It's a process. So yes, I can understand not wanting to burden anybody else with that.
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Stacey
especially if your kids are unsure about it.
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Meghan
Yes. Well, and that was the one that I went to. The daughter was uncomfortable. Yeah. Being in the spot of having to do that herself and making sure it was done right, and she, she was nervous.
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Stacey
Yeah.
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Meghan
So those are the more minimal ones that we've done there. Like there's no party that we're involved in. There's no other aspects going on at the same time. I don't know about yours, but there was nothing that like there's nothing that went wrong. I helped her in a couple little aspects of like, take this here or do this, or I'll prepare her shoes on.
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Meghan
And like, she didn't expect me to stay, but I was like, I'm making sure that you're ready for this.
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Stacey
Exactly.
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Meghan
so anything that you need while I'm here. But I just love that it's so flexible, so malleable. This piece that we offer. Because the goal really is just to make your day that much.
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Stacey
Whatever you want as your day.
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Meghan
Yeah. So the small ones, the large ones, the in between the middle, all of them. It doesn't matter how big the wedding is, we love it.
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Stacey
Media love it because it's all different in love. So yeah, I guess it's just the love of people. And I love that to see your wedding go your way and how you want it. And I think that just makes me feel good and.
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Meghan
See how people celebrate. Yes, we joke about the dopamine, but so true. It's so true. And then even just like the littlest things, if you, you know when you're emotional and you get that like you get choked up by a commercial or something, if we're at someone else's wedding, I said earlier, we're not emotionally invested. So it's easier in some ways.
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Meghan
But on the flip side of that coin is that we are still emotional beings. We're in the wedding industry as one of our businesses. We have emotions. We are emotional is our job.
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Stacey
Yeah.
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Meghan
So watching the bride interact with her family and the emotions that they're feeling, we feel that too, because we're in the room and we're helping. And like, it's like you talked about the feeling of the Lebanese wedding and it's just so it's so huge. It is feeling their emotions is it means something to us as well.
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Stacey
Absolutely.
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Meghan
And then they let us be involved in it.
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Stacey
Our personal part. That whole journey of your wedding doesn't ever get old. I mean if it did I don't think we could do this for 30 years now.
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Meghan
That's a good point actually.
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Stacey
Yeah. Just because you get bored after a bit I mean yeah that journey's also changed a lot from when I started. It wasn't it was a come in, find your dress, take it with you kind of thing. It wasn't anything crazy. And now it is a full start to finish. Pretty much. You call us right after you get engaged because yourself said find a dress and then.
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Meghan
We become your best friend helper organize or everything. Exactly. For the next year. Yeah. Answer all the questions that you have because after 30 years you learn, you learn a little bit about the industry and you learn. We get asked for recommendations all the time.
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Stacey
All the time, my gosh, all the time.
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Meghan
Becomes your life. Yeah, yeah. And you are 100% right. If we didn't drink the Kool-Aid of weddings, then we do. We probably wouldn't be doing it at this point.
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Stacey
That's true, that's true.
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Meghan
No, actually, I have a related question. Then how did it go for you? Because you were just on the flip side of this. You just got married a few months ago.
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Stacey
You know what still stressed in my head. There was two people. There was one who was like losing her mind because it's not right. And I want it this way, and this isn't it. And there is the other person who's like, calm it. It's like, you're fine. It's going to be wonderful. Stop worrying about it. And, you know, I guess I wish I could have enjoyed the day a little bit more.
00:19:19:08 - 00:19:36:12
Stacey
And not that it was. It was. No, we did not have a big I mean went after people, but it wasn't insane. Crazy. We just had a big party and a get together and but I wish I could have enjoyed watching them put my flowers up. It was quite like I remember at one point of the day it was like, quite actually, we got to LA.
00:19:36:13 - 00:19:55:17
Stacey
I often lay on my floor and put my legs up, but I actually got to do that that day and it felt weird, like as if I should have been doing something else. But I know that it was a good thing to just enjoy. But like I said, some parts where I just didn't enjoy as much as I could have, but I don't know of anybody being there like you were there doing a decent amount.
00:19:55:17 - 00:20:04:27
Stacey
And so we're good friends and I don't know, it would have been handy, I think, to have somebody else just do some of the things for me.
00:20:04:29 - 00:20:14:01
Meghan
Because I can speak from the opposite perspective. Amanda and I were both there, almost content. Britney we were there. You guys were constantly with you.
00:20:14:01 - 00:20:14:18
Stacey
Yes you were.
00:20:14:19 - 00:20:20:12
Meghan
The amount of questions that we answered in, the amount of things that we took care of and trying to manage the day. Definitely.
00:20:20:12 - 00:20:35:17
Stacey
That's a really you're actually 100% right. But I'm thinking before you guys showed up because it was just us and the kids, because everybody was at our house. So it was just asking the kids. And then when you guys showed up and then a few more people started showing up. And you're right, you guys did. You guys fielded all the questions.
00:20:35:17 - 00:20:54:28
Meghan
But I am also going to add on to that that we where is this piece of your wedding that we that where we go and we're not related to you. We're it's our job. At that point it wasn't exactly the same thing. Like, I'm not saying you're wrong. You are right. It was 100% all of that. It's just that because we had all of our own things going on, and I had my kids there to take care of.
00:20:54:28 - 00:21:08:10
Meghan
And I'm thinking in my head, this is poor planning. I shouldn't have brought them. They should have come later and so on and so on and so on. And sure, we feel that a lot of the things for you. But even though it's our job on a daily and even though we do this for other people, we were still trying to enjoy your day.
00:21:08:12 - 00:21:12:09
Meghan
Yes. Just like we talked about bridesmaids being wanting to enjoy your day.
00:21:12:09 - 00:21:12:29
Stacey
So true.
00:21:12:29 - 00:21:16:01
Meghan
It was kind of a pull on both sides for you and for us.
00:21:16:01 - 00:21:16:18
Stacey
Yeah.
00:21:16:21 - 00:21:22:11
Meghan
We get to see the other side. We get to see the other perspective and that's kind of lived through both at the same time. That's so.
00:21:22:11 - 00:21:23:15
Stacey
True.
00:21:23:18 - 00:21:24:12
Meghan
It was hard.
00:21:24:14 - 00:21:46:18
Stacey
It was hard. It was and it was hard to stay present. Like I can understand the poor brides because it was hard to stay present and enjoy and be like get my makeup done. This is so cool. Like oh like those flowers are beautiful. And then being able to like soak everything in or like, I mean, we had a massive shift in that the weather wasn't good and it started to rain and it was cold.
00:21:46:20 - 00:21:54:03
Stacey
So everybody gets shoved inside. That's a bit of a stress. But then like, it's not a big deal. It's meant to happen that way. Everything's okay and it's fine.
00:21:54:06 - 00:21:57:17
Meghan
And everybody picked up a chair and moved at everybody.
00:21:57:21 - 00:22:00:24
Stacey
They did. Everybody was phenomenal. But, you know.
00:22:00:27 - 00:22:04:29
Meghan
Through all of this, I think we can, easily say that we love what we do.
00:22:05:02 - 00:22:05:19
Stacey
Agree?
00:22:05:21 - 00:22:12:05
Meghan
Wedding business. I mean, we might complain a lot about our families, but we still love them.
00:22:12:07 - 00:22:14:10
Stacey
No doubt on that one. They put up with us.
00:22:14:12 - 00:22:30:18
Meghan
They put up with us. We are peaches. We're just peachy, peachy people. yeah. No, we love what we do. And going to weddings is like a topper on that cake for us. But so, I mean, if if you're in our area, we'd love to.
00:22:30:20 - 00:22:50:04
Stacey
Even if you're not in our area, that's a good idea for us. For the 100%. Yeah. I mean, we've been asked on cruises. We've been asked to go for, I mean, like a broad set down so many times to do things. Never. It never ended up, you know, happening. But yeah, this is a service you want. It doesn't even have to be one of our dresses.
00:22:50:06 - 00:22:51:14
Meghan
Now, we've done lots that are.
00:22:51:15 - 00:22:52:09
Stacey
Yeah.
00:22:52:11 - 00:22:54:21
Meghan
So it's really just about the bride and about the day.
00:22:54:21 - 00:22:56:27
Stacey
So something you want to do. Hit us up.
00:22:57:03 - 00:23:16:06
Meghan
Hit us up. Let us know. Yeah. and I mean for the podcast itself hopefully you like our stories. We like to tell stories. So fallow along like comment whatever. These podcasty buttons are happy. Tap tap tap tap the buttons. here's some more stories. We I mean, there are a lot we can go in-depth about these stories.
00:23:16:06 - 00:23:24:16
Meghan
We can also, if you've listened to our others, we talk about business. We talk about the other pieces of business, our family, all that kind of stuff. So if you like we are here.
00:23:24:18 - 00:23:27:17
Stacey
Subscribe. Follow along. Yeah. Until next time, guys.