The Preferred Vendor Podcast
From High School Sweethearts to Homeowners: A Newlywed Adventure
What if you had a front-row seat to the candid, heartfelt, and sometimes hilarious journey of two newlyweds navigating their way through wedding planning, family drama, and house hunting? Join us for an unforgettable chat with Allea + Will Sheriff, a delightful duo who share their tale of love, from high school sweethearts to happily married homeowners. In the midst of navigating a complex wedding dress debacle, managing an impressive guest list of 350, and carefully balancing family traditions with their own desires, they have plenty of wisdom, laughter, and love to share.
Step into the whirlwind of Allea + Will Sheriff's wedding experience, complete with the decision to get dressed at an Airbnb and the role that timing played in creating a picture-perfect ambiance. From the complexities of the dress that led to a slight delay in the ceremony to the pressure of managing a vintage Cinderella themed reception for 350 guests, this lively pair gives us a real insight into the hustle and bustle of wedding planning. As they share their day's highs and lows, they also reveal the importance of having the dress designer present on the big day, a tip that future brides might find particularly useful.
That's not all! As the confetti settles, Allea + Will Sheriff take us through their exciting journey of selecting and settling into their first home together. They discuss the challenges, excitement, and emotions of transitioning from being engaged to being married, while also reflecting on the values and traditions that influenced their decision to not live together before tying the knot. Whether you're a couple planning your wedding, on the hunt for your dream home, or just eager to hear a heartwarming love story, this episode will have you hooked. So tune in, sit back, and enjoy the conversation!
What if you had a front-row seat to the candid, heartfelt, and sometimes hilarious journey of two newlyweds navigating their way through wedding planning, family drama, and house hunting? Join us for an unforgettable chat with Allea + Will Sheriff, a delightful duo who share their tale of love, from high school sweethearts to happily married homeowners. In the midst of navigating a complex wedding dress debacle, managing an impressive guest list of 350, and carefully balancing family traditions with their own desires, they have plenty of wisdom, laughter, and love to share.
Step into the whirlwind of Allea + Will Sheriff's wedding experience, complete with the decision to get dressed at an Airbnb and the role that timing played in creating a picture-perfect ambiance. From the complexities of the dress that led to a slight delay in the ceremony to the pressure of managing a vintage Cinderella themed reception for 350 guests, this lively pair gives us a real insight into the hustle and bustle of wedding planning. As they share their day's highs and lows, they also reveal the importance of having the dress designer present on the big day, a tip that future brides might find particularly useful.
That's not all! As the confetti settles, Allea + Will Sheriff take us through their exciting journey of selecting and settling into their first home together. They discuss the challenges, excitement, and emotions of transitioning from being engaged to being married, while also reflecting on the values and traditions that influenced their decision to not live together before tying the knot. Whether you're a couple planning your wedding, on the hunt for your dream home, or just eager to hear a heartwarming love story, this episode will have you hooked. So tune in, sit back, and enjoy the conversation!
Yo, yo yo. What's up, everybody, what's up. Welcome back to the Preferred Vendor podcast. I got a very special couple here with me today. I'm gonna let y'all introduce yourselves.
Speaker 1:Hey, my name is Aliyah. Now I'm Sheriff.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:What's up. We're Sheriff Joey, that's what's up. That's what's up. And these are some newlyweds guys. So, like I told y'all, we're gonna have, you know, talk to everybody. We're gonna talk to them, we're wedding vendors, but also gonna talk to people that's been married, just got married, and this lovely couple just got married. So I guess they're gonna hop off in there. If you guys just had to talk about your wedding, like explain it, what was your thoughts about the whole day?
Speaker 1:My thoughts about the entire wedding was, I think for me I was more so like thinking about time stamps, like making sure that this was done at this time, like our makeup was done at this time, hair done at this time, because we did not get dressed at our venue so we had to drive there. So I was trying to count that in, just making sure that everything was done and we can start the wedding on time, Like that was. My main goal is to let's start on time. All of that did not go as planned, but I would not regret on, or I wouldn't take away the time that I went and actually started because, honestly, it did start an hour after. But looking back on it, I was like I feel as if there was a perfect timing. Because I say that? Because by the time the wedding ceremony was over and we were going into the reception hall, it was starting to get dark outside, so around that time it made the inside, the lighting and everything that she had for the decorations like it pops.
Speaker 2:It did.
Speaker 1:It made it look exactly like what we wanted to look like like a castle. So I felt as if, like we're us having the reception like at night time. On how it did. I think that planned out really good.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's what's up. What about you Will?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't think that far on it. I was a little upset that we started late. But yeah the timing everything.
Speaker 2:End up working out. Good for you. Yeah, you're working out turning around. That's what's up. I heard that you got dressed at a different place other than a venue. What was that for?
Speaker 1:So we actually got dressed at an Airbnb, probably about 20, 25 miles from the venue, and I did that because the venue that we chose for the wedding their bridal suite was not as big as I expected it to be, and I guess it was for like I was looking for, like all of my bridesmaids to get dressed, including myself, moms, grandparents, everyone and with the photographer and the hair people and the makeup people in there, so it was very small for me. So I ended up finding an Airbnb. There was a house that was big enough, so we just did everything there and once we got to the venue, just slipped on our dresses and we were ready.
Speaker 2:That's what that. So you said you got started a little late. What did you think? The main reason before that?
Speaker 1:The main reason why our wedding was so late was because, honestly, we got to the venue on time. We got there, I think, at a very good time, an hour before the wedding actually started so they gave enough time for, like, the girls to take pictures you know, will and the guys to take pictures, all of that but the main dilemma that held everything back was my wedding dress.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:So I put on like so my dress was like a two in one type of deal. So I put on the dress that I had for the reception, I mean for the reception, and so I had like a poofy thing for the wedding ceremony.
Speaker 1:But it was like so many different avenues to it, like I had to put it on inside out and have to button it up from this side and this side so I don't know Will took like five people out there to help me come and put that dress on. So that's pretty much what held everything back.
Speaker 2:So if you would go back, would you get a dress similar to that? Would you try to get something a little bit more easier to get into?
Speaker 1:Yeah, if I was to go back, I would possibly either.
Speaker 3:I go through the lady.
Speaker 1:You got the dress from. Well, yeah, that too.
Speaker 3:She was supposed to be there.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, and I have heard that a lot too. I have heard that a lot too. I did a few wedges where, like, the person that designed the dress didn't show up to help put the dress in, and stuff like that. So that was like the main thing.
Speaker 1:That was the main thing Because, yeah, he right, I was told, like when I bought the dress, that she would be there to help me put it on, all of that. But she wasn't. So you know, it was just me and my family trying to get it together. So I would say, just to make sure you know, like whoever you go with with your dresses, that they follow up with everything that they told you that you know that your price is going to be covering. But, yeah, other than that, if you don't have anyone like the person that's going to be there to help you put your dress on, I would just say, make sure that you have time, give time a lot of it for that, just for your, you know dress.
Speaker 1:Make sure that you look in 10 to 10 before you walk it down. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 2:What's your first time trying it on?
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't my first time trying it on. I tried it on at the another bridal shop that I went to and that was the thing. Like me and my mom could put it on easily, like it would then took us five to two minutes. But I don't know, like the day of the wedding, I don't know if everybody was just nervous. I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 2:That's probably it we could not get it together. That's probably it People be scared to like kind of you don't want to break nothing or rip anything or nothing like that. So you kind of kind of like shooting weddings. I don't like. I used to take dresses outside and stuff and everything, but I just stopped all of that together Like okay, nothing's really happened to this dress. You know what I'm saying. So everybody kind of just cautious around the dress and everything yeah.
Speaker 2:So what about you? Did you like buy tux? Did you rent a suit? Like what, how? What route you all went?
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I had to follow what she said, bro. If it was up to me I would have went to Tuxedo Jackson or something like that To make it easier on my guys' pockets. But being able to get custom suits through it and her.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, but, and they weren't smooth, everything was good, that's what's up. That's what's up.
Speaker 1:No, it's a piggyback on what he's saying I would not have like let the guys go out of all this money for the for a tux. No, I wouldn't have done that. But the only reason why I did not go with Tuxedo, Junction or Men's Warehouse because they didn't have the color that we were looking for? Oh, gotcha, gotcha, that's why it went to custom.
Speaker 2:Gotcha, gotcha. Now I will say now we're shooting weddings, like I was in a wedding a few years ago before I actually started taking pictures, right, and it's a funny story because me and the guy we used to be like childhood friends. Imagine you were like a guy you knew in elementary school, right, and he just hit you like hey, you want to be in my wedding.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying I'm like what.
Speaker 2:I ain't talked to you in years. But I was like all right cool, whatever man. But so you know he sent me this stuff had to go buy the tux. You know, I got to I think it was at Men's Warehouse and the tux you know, the posa was like $75 or something. I'm like all right cool. So I'm thinking you know it's gonna be like $150. So, like that, I get that. I'm like all right, final balance $500. I'm like what, I'm bringing it back, what the world. Bro, they charge $500.
Speaker 2:Bro, I paid like $600 for that tux for a day rental, bro, like real tux at Men's Warehouse. You know what I'm saying. So that's why I was like. You know it came with the shoes and everything, but I was like man. So I ain't gonna lie. I tell all, especially my guys, like for sure, like if you're going to spend that money anyway, you might as well get something that you're going to keep. You know what I'm saying. So, yeah, so I think y'all did the right you know the good right with that for sure.
Speaker 1:And definitely like, because Will kept saying it to me he was like these guys not going to wear these tux no more. Like they not going to wear no more. Come to find out. Wait about two weeks after the wedding right, you see people in it posting pics and all that Wait, it was.
Speaker 2:I'm with him on that, for real, for real. But no, that's what's up. But y'all had a, you know, a beautiful wedding. I mean y'all even made a magazine, you know. So how was that? How that feel? Because it's a lot of weddings every day, you know, being a wedding photographer, so many weddings that happen Like it, probably another hundred weddings on y'all same day. You feel what I'm saying. I can't imagine all over the country and stuff. So for y'all to make a magazine, I mean how that feel.
Speaker 1:That was very I don't know. That was an honor for me. I was very proud to see that and it also made me feel as if, like my hard work that I put into planning the wedding, everything that I did for the wedding, like that it didn't go unnoticed.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I just felt you know good about it that they actually did feature us. So yes, if any one of you all have not seen it, blackbrydecom has featured us on their wedding website, so we're happy about that.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up.
Speaker 3:I'm definitely happy for her bro, because she definitely put in the work.
Speaker 2:Man, it's straight for so long.
Speaker 3:All the time.
Speaker 2:You planned it. You planned the wedding.
Speaker 1:Yes, I planned the entire wedding. Well, I can say, with the help, some assistance with Ms Delbra Palmer, ms DP, she did give me some assistance on like telephone numbers and like some people who she recommended, but like the whole layout of everything and how I wanted it. Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. So would you recommend that for brides to do, or would you recommend them kind of getting a planner and kind of working with the planner on it?
Speaker 1:I would say it depends on the person's number one, their creativity, how you know, how will they plan things like that, because, you know, it was not just a little party, it's like a big wedding and something that you want everyone to see, but I will also say, for creativity and if they have the time for that, because, like I said, it was a lot of time being spent like calling this person, calling that person, so it was just a lot to waste. But, you know, like they do have, you know, wedding coordinators that you can go and hire. It just wasn't just in the budget that I wanted to spend, but basically because, like, I knew that I could do it. So, yeah, I mean, it's really just the that person's preference. If they want to go through all of that and don't mind, you know, go for it. But if not, you know, if you're not that with that planner type of person, then I wouldn't forget about side effects.
Speaker 1:Oh, definitely. Um, it was crazy, especially like towards the end, close to the end of the well, close to closer to the wedding day, there was so many, so much stuff going on and I think what, well I know overall, we were so like stressed about the my wedding dress. Um, the person that I went through to get my wedding dress was pretty much I don't know. Just I don't know. Everything just kind of fell through her.
Speaker 1:And it was terrible and I did not get to see my dress. I didn't see my dress until the Tuesday of the wedding and then, like, when I got it, it was in a box so it wasn't steamed. It wasn't like everything had even come with it that I paid for. Like I didn't get a veil with it.
Speaker 1:I didn't get my shoes or anything like that, and so I think just stressing about my wedding dress took a toll on me. So bad um, towards the end, to the point where, like I was getting these major headaches that I could not get rid of at all, like I kept, I went to like three different doctors we pretty much was saying the same thing, that it was just a stress headache, but it was just hurting so bad to the point like, oh, I gotta go see someone else.
Speaker 1:Like it felt like I was just walking with my body turned upside down. It was. It was bad.
Speaker 3:That was before she got on my insurance. Bro man, Right Beal still rolling in man wow.
Speaker 2:That's wild, man. But with you, um so with you planning the wedding, right and everything being beautiful, y'all made a magazine and ended up working out. Would you ever consider, like getting into a plan and stuff like that? I mean it turned out great yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, honestly, I would not mind uh becoming a wedding planner. Um, I have like since my wedding, I have assisted like two other uh upcoming brides is getting married this year, like on some things. Um, so I really do not mind doing it Like I love it. I love everything about it. Um, especially being that like I have the connectors already on like you know, who for decorating or who for cake and all of that and like I mean it'd be no problem.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's up. You should think about it, you should think about that. For sure, for sure, so okay. So, once you know you finally got the dress on that day, you know wedding, family, family, family family get started. You know a ceremony time. So what was going through y'all minds at the time? Okay, we finally finished, get this started. So what, what, what were you going to get? Butterflies? Were you nervous? Were you excited?
Speaker 1:Oh, for me I was not nervous at all. You can ask the ladies in the back. Um, like I was literally running down to get to the house, like I was at that point. I was just first of all At that point. First of all, I was already like in a frantic with the whole dress situation and I knew like our time was so pushed back and everything.
Speaker 2:So I was just like, let, I'm ready, like let me be right, ready to get to show the spot, let's get it on.
Speaker 1:So I mean, honestly, I didn't have any butterflies. I was good, um, I wasn't nervous about anything, I wasn't nervous about my bowels, like I mean, I had said what I wanted to say, you know, had it together, um, so yeah, I mean I was excited.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. What about you? Yeah?
Speaker 3:I was ready bro.
Speaker 2:Excited? Yeah, I was, that's what's up. That's what's up. So y'all had a really, really big way, all right, so, um so I guess my question is, what made y'all want to go dead route, so to say, instead of doing something, maybe smiling into me or even a destination wedding, like what were the options? This was the only option, like we going big da da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
Speaker 3:So you really had no choice, because I big my family is right Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 2:So you got a big family. Yeah, got da, gotcha, gotcha, that's what. But was it good? Those are like family contributing anyways, like get me done.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dad.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, to pick a parent.
Speaker 3:No, you can get my parents To piggyback on what he was saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I definitely agree, like we pretty much had no choice because both of our families were big. Yeah, dad, um, it was our parents first waiting like for their kids. Oh, that's what's up so it just had to be like all the family had to be there. So destination was out the question, small was out the question.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we kind of bump heads on that part, because I talk a lot more than her and I know a lot more people than her, and you know. I was taking up a lot of the guest list.
Speaker 1:The wedding guest list where I thought was going to be so simple was one of the hardest things.
Speaker 2:It was difficult for me and I'm just like it's not easy. So what was your final count for the guest list? Well, what was your final count? That I put on paper because I love that you know more people go in on coming. So, initially, what did y'all want? Like we're going to have 200 guests. We're going to have 250. Like what should I say?
Speaker 1:It was 350.
Speaker 2:350. I don't count, that is a lot of people. 300, that's a lot of people.
Speaker 3:What the list was.
Speaker 1:It was, yeah, it was 350.
Speaker 3:This was 200, I think. What's the two?
Speaker 1:Well, you remember, we extended it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, man man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was tough though, bro 300 people, that's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. Y'all gotta feed 300 people, right, man? So how was that though?
Speaker 3:So that whole process and that thing, so just I didn't care, bro, I wanted everybody, everybody, yeah at that point, it was like just forget it Whatever and she didn't care. Cause up people came in the first 60, 75.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up, man. So both of y'all have big families.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up. That's good damn. Well, I know the reception definitely was a party, though that's how y'all wanted it.
Speaker 1:Oh, definitely definitely Like I told right and I told Will. Like. After the wedding I was like if there's one thing that I could go back to our wedding to do, I would really want to go back to our wedding and be like the guest, like see it as the guest standpoint Because. I feel as if I didn't get to see everything that I planned, especially like for the cocktail hour. I did not really get to see that part didn't get to get engaged with the live band.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true, you know things like that, and so, yeah, that is one thing I would do, but, yeah, the reception part was definitely party, party, how we wanted it to be, but I honestly would say that I feel as if it wasn't long enough for me.
Speaker 2:For real.
Speaker 1:It was like, I guess, for a bride. It was during the reception. After you cut the cake, throw the gardener all of that. Like you have to go and mingle with like, even if you don't go and find them.
Speaker 2:They coming for you Like, pulling you here and there, taking pictures.
Speaker 1:So that took up a lot of my time to actually enjoy dancing and all of that. And by the time that was over we probably I probably was on dance for maybe a good 20, 25 minutes and then our rental car was out to come and get us.
Speaker 2:So I was just like so what time did it end then? What time did the rental car show up?
Speaker 1:He showed up about 10. So I think we live probably about 10 30.
Speaker 2:And then the reception started around 6.
Speaker 1:No, if the wedding started at 6, the reception probably started good about 7, 7, 7.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, about 12.
Speaker 1:No, we had the building until 12. But the guy came pick this up like at 10 30.
Speaker 2:Man. So that's something you wish. You could go back and kind of enjoy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely, I would just extend the pickup time like enjoy more of the reception, reception hour. So that is one thing.
Speaker 3:Or see the thing that you put together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get to see everything, yeah definitely man, man.
Speaker 2:So what was the thing with y'all?
Speaker 1:So our theme for the wedding was vintage Cinderella.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 1:And, honestly, like me and Will have been dating for a long time well, since high school, and so, of course, like wedding planning was like always in the air for me, or like I was planning it, whether it was keeping notes in my phone or whatever but I never did come up with a theme. So I really didn't come up with a theme until I actually got engaged in playing my own wedding, and the only reason why it came around the Cinderella theme was because I ended up asking Will one day what kind of dress would he want to see me in? And so I asked him the Cinderella dress or the mermaid dress? Like what style? And he pretty much said Cinderella. So I went around it.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. And then you said you're a decorator, brought it to life, though.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2:So you were pleased with all of that. So the core, everything, oh yeah, everything you imagined.
Speaker 1:Everything was 10-10. Yeah, I mean I really wouldn't take anything back I guess if I was to add anything, because I was telling talking to Will about I wanted to do like to come out in the whole horse and carriage thing.
Speaker 2:I know, call me extra, but so what made you hold back from that? What made you hold back?
Speaker 1:The only reason why I didn't was because, OK, so the horse and carriage that I had vision for me to come out in was the one like they had on the movie, but like the one that's closed then, and so the one that I actually found for rent like local around here, their carriages wasn't closed.
Speaker 2:So it was more open.
Speaker 1:So, I was like do I want to spend the extra 2000 on, like something that I don't really want? That's not exactly how I wanted it. So I was just like I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 2:I feel you If.
Speaker 1:I could add, I would definitely have used the original horse and carriage.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up. And I know the venue that you guys got married at has that very long walk from the start to finish. How was that? What was your thought through that? Because I'd be so nervous for Brice. Just all eyes on you at that moment, like so you was nervous at all making that walk, or anything.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I loved the long out way.
Speaker 2:That was one of the reasons why.
Speaker 1:I even chose the venue was because of the long out way, because it gave me my time to shine, or not just mine. We'll shine, and shine when you walk down.
Speaker 3:Your time, by the way, oh which your granddad.
Speaker 2:But happy life, man Right.
Speaker 1:That's it, but no, I enjoyed it, my only thing.
Speaker 1:I did tell myself, though, that I was wearing flats under my dress, because I didn't want the the whole scares on me, tripping or whatever, because I do know like it was like a small hill. But the only thing that got me when coming down the aisle was my dress. Walking in the reception, the venue, I was like gliding on their floor. But soon as I went out to the concrete that dress was catching everything. So it took me a minute to get down there and I kept like stumbling, like my dad had to come and, just you know, meet me to help me pick up my dress. But other than that, the long aisle way was everything for me.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up Now. Did y'all do like a first look or anything?
Speaker 1:We did not, and that also came into play with the time.
Speaker 2:I thought y'all wanted to do a first look though.
Speaker 1:Well, we honestly did not even talk about it. But if it was like you know, if the photographer would have came to and asked, you know, I definitely would have done it.
Speaker 3:That's true. What's?
Speaker 2:your first look, so when you guys see each other for the first time before the wedding, oh, to my like, the whole hand, yeah, and all of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, behind the door or something like that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so that's the first touch right there. So when you hold hands they're like y'all don't see each other, Y'all just touch each other. That's the first touch. And then the first look is just y'all two, nobody else in the room, and then y'all, kind of you know, get to spend that time together before the wedding?
Speaker 3:I ain't never heard of that bro.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, now I do, I gotta tell you something because I do kind of push for I mean, you know it all goes on time and everything, though but I do kind of push for that, not only for, like you know, thinking photo and video wise. Like you know, it's the intimate moment, you know what I'm saying With just y'all two look really good on camera, but, you know, saving time while too, because we might get some of y'all shots out the way right there and there too, you feel what I'm saying. But but I know like a lot, of a lot of couples are like traditional. Would y'all call yourself more traditional couple? Or, you know, would y'all go on for none? Traditional, just, you know, just going with the flow.
Speaker 1:I think it probably was a little traditional for us.
Speaker 2:Now I wanted to ask you, because your, your dad, is Hispanic, hispanic, so was there any Hispanic tradition or any Hispanic foods or anything that you know he may want to include anything in there?
Speaker 1:We actually did not do that. Honestly, what did he even think about that? But I would say, no, we didn't, and mostly because I guess, like my dad side of the family yeah, although he is Hispanic, they pretty much they do a lot of things.
Speaker 2:I have a lot of things you want to put in here From just knowing you know, looking, looking, looking outside, there I definitely see it like you know what I'm saying. That's why I'm like, yeah, I wonder you know. I mean look at it in white bro.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm gonna say yeah, we never would have thought about that because, like you said, I mean they like black to us.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up. So tell me, how does it feel being newlywed? So is it. Does it feel different because I'm not married or whatever? And so does it a female car? I have had talks with people before. Like I know some women think like you know, you hear, like well, I'm a wife, I'm gonna start doing this. Is that like a switch that happened when you become a wife versus a girlfriend? And like is it a different feeling being a wife and a husband versus boyfriend, girlfriend or fiance?
Speaker 1:Well, you can.
Speaker 3:Oh I'll say, bro, it's basically just coaching each other into each other's needs.
Speaker 2:Got you, got you, got you.
Speaker 3:Just not being quiet and letting the other person know how you feel about something.
Speaker 2:That's a communication, the main thing.
Speaker 1:And I will also say well, your question was like is it different? I would definitely say that I'm not going to say it's totally different Because, like I said, we've been together since high school like 12 plus years, so we know each other. But of course, when living with someone, that can become different. But a lot of people don't know this. But men will have never like lived together since dating. Yeah after the marriage was our first time like living together.
Speaker 2:Wow, so was that an adjustment? Like is an adjustment now Like?
Speaker 1:I would say it's not a bad adjustment, Definitely Like I would say like being married or yeah definitely. But I can say the one word that I use every time that I'd like talk to someone about marriage is sacrifice. Like it takes a lot of sacrifice. You know it's not just about you and like the ways that, how you were doing things and you know what you like, but you also have to like taking consideration that you have.
Speaker 2:you know that your other, have right another human.
Speaker 1:And I say that because, like I said, we wasn't living together. So, like me living with my parents, it was different for me because, like a lot of times, I probably didn't cook for myself Like my parents you know, I ate with my parents cooked or if I thought about cooking, I was like I'm just going, I'm just cooking for me, so I ain't going to do it, you know. So it was sometimes where I probably didn't do certain things. But now, like living with my husband or whatever, like you have to do those things, like it's not no, let's put it off, or let's not eat or whatever Like we're going to have to. I have to make sure that something is there for him to have, like when he gets home, like all of that. So it's definitely an adjustment, but I wouldn't say that it's in a bad how you feel about that.
Speaker 2:So, like you know, making sure you know you got somebody that got your back.
Speaker 3:You feel what I'm saying so how's that?
Speaker 2:How's that feeling?
Speaker 3:Well, like I say, bro, like she said, I mean, we ain't moving in together in both, our first time really being out on our own, you know, and I won't go and let her do it by herself, far as things around the house. So I just put you in the help, bro, make things a lot smoother.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up. So what was the reason for not living together prior to getting married you?
Speaker 3:know, you know couple, especially couple, yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. Yeah, the Bible, yeah.
Speaker 1:Definitely our parents was behind it, like there is no way, I guess, like our, our background on what we was brought up to, yeah, like we didn't even think about doing it. Like the whole shacking thing was not in the picture at all.
Speaker 2:Would you recommend that for couples now, because I ain't gonna lie coming from.
Speaker 3:I would say one thing wrong with it, bro, even though I think our parents would have not minded if we stayed together, because we had been together so long even talks of having a baby they would try to force upon us. Yeah, even with the baby, we want to wait till marriage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so are they still pressing on that right now, like I hear? Like hey man, come on now. Yes, yes, everyone, everyone is man, especially in the baby situation.
Speaker 1:Man, I tell you, I gotta try, y'all gotta enjoy it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Y'all see, y'all sales first, before it comes out. Man I can't imagine bringing a baby in.
Speaker 1:But you know, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2:But I can say, coming from like my perspective, I have lived with someone before and I regretted it. You feel what I'm saying, but I don't think it was more of me. I think it was more the person wasn't really ready for that and everything. So that's like she would kind of like. She would kind of like in a similar situation where like grew up in the church and everything, so her family didn't care or none at all, but you could tell she really didn't want to do it, but she did it. You feel what I'm saying. And then it kind of like you know, she really didn't give her all in the relationship because she always had that skepticism in the back. Yeah, so, and so that's why I like that you guys said that, because you know some people may feel pressured to have to do that. You know what I'm saying, so you know that's something that you don't want to do.
Speaker 3:Then you can do a relationship on doing something that she weren't ready to do, right there, right there, right there.
Speaker 2:So what would you say to pros and cons for that? Do you think there were any cons if not living together? They say, if you guys were living together, maybe y'all be in rhythm already of living together. Or did y'all just fall right in rhythm Like wasn't any cons, bro, it's pretty smooth yeah.
Speaker 1:I was about to say. It really did fall just right in the rhythm of things. I guess I can say marriage counseling, we did that.
Speaker 3:Okay, and that helps a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that helped a whole lot.
Speaker 2:Do you recommend that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I definitely do recommend counseling. That's the Dexter, morden man. Yeah, he did he did really good.
Speaker 1:So he just made it like for us to see what we're about to walk ourselves into. So I mean we just took hold of like everything that he was teaching us and told us and we just put it into play and I mean it just feels, yeah, it feels so smoothly. So I wouldn't think I don't think I would say there's any cons of doing it. I do know that some people think or say, you know, like I think we should just kind of like move in before we get married just to see how it is. You know, some people do do that and I think to me I can't wholly solely say do it or don't do it. I really just think it's how the person is.
Speaker 1:I mean whether it's going to work or it's not going to work. I mean, that's just what it is.
Speaker 3:And I mean even before marriage. Sometimes they could benefit a couple of them going in the movie and together and helping each other. That's what comes with it, you know.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up. So newlyweds, being newlyweds, are what you say great feeling, great. You know what I'm saying? I'm still on cloud nine, all of that.
Speaker 1:I would definitely say, like being newlyweds, it feels amazing. And I say that because it's like light, it's like having that lifetime partner with you through everything.
Speaker 2:That's what's up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean just in and everything, even the good things or the bad things you know like, or whether you're going through something like individually or collectively together, you know like you always have that person that you can call on, rely on, talk to you know. So I think it's I know nothing, but I know like it's a very good feeling just to have that lifetime partner.
Speaker 3:It's kind of like, bro, you know, back in the day when your parents used to go out of town and your boyfriend and girlfriend sneak over your house and stay with you for the weekend but you know it's only lasting a weekend. It's a lifetime bro.
Speaker 2:That's exactly it. That's what's up For real, that's what's up, that's what's up. Yeah, I love our house, bro man. Yeah, cause y'all got a new bill, right? New bill, that's what's up. That's what's up. Bless him, bro. So when the first night standing.
Speaker 3:There was the wedding night.
Speaker 2:For real.
Speaker 3:Wow, we closed the month before the wedding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we closed August. Yeah, we closed August. The wedding was the 10th.
Speaker 2:Now, that's amazing.
Speaker 3:That's crazy. A lot of things felt in a place like that.
Speaker 2:Wow. So y'all went to y'all new house.
Speaker 3:Y'all didn't have to get in a hotel and I'm sitting there like that.
Speaker 2:Y'all went to y'all brand new house, Brand new house.
Speaker 1:They have nothing in it but a bed. Hey, right there man.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine how that felt man Like for real.
Speaker 3:She asked her where we going for the honeymoon baby. We here, Right. We went to the house tonight we at the honeymoon.
Speaker 2:Man, that's what's up, man, that's nice. So when did that process of y'all start to get together? After the proposal, stuff like that y'all started looking Definitely Right.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know right after, but after the proposal is when we started looking for a home, because, of course, we knew like there was going to be something that we needed to do, like we said that we wasn't living together already. So we knew, like once we got married, that we wanted to live together. So we had a lot of time to do that. We had a lot of time to do that, and then we got married that we wanted to live together, so we really didn't want to do the apartment route.
Speaker 3:So I had no problem with it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I honestly didn't have a problem with it either, Like when I was living in an apartment. I could still say to this day like there was some of the best living for me Like I enjoyed apartment living, but I think it was just solely on like what our parents were saying to us, you know like apartments can be waste of money, you know like things like that. So we ended up Um Trying to think how did the house start?
Speaker 3:She was pressuring me the whole time to go and start looking, but I wasn't ready. Yeah, I wouldn't start looking until a year later. Well, you was looking, but I wasn't by an end.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. So I was. I stayed on like Realisticcom and all of this. I stayed on there for a long time and then, yeah, up until probably about the beginning of the year we got married. So what was it?
Speaker 2:Probably like January.
Speaker 1:February, sometime we ended up starting to look, may have been March.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it could have been.
Speaker 1:It could have been, may have been March that we started to look. He found a homeboy if he had told him about a neighborhood that was doing new homes. So we went to look. We ended up finding the realtor who was over. There was the realtor of my mom who sold both of our houses to her. So we knew her like she, you know, fit us in. We went to talk with her and April 2nd we were like we had our home.
Speaker 3:Let's do it, bro. I went to get a ballpark on how things were going to go. We like she, like you know what I'm saying Went straight into the house. I'm like I ain't ready, what the hell you doing.
Speaker 1:Man. So y'all had a lot going on there like at once.
Speaker 2:So like planning a wedding and making sure all that right and trying to look for a house and getting the house and everything.
Speaker 3:That's a lot. That's a lot. The house really just fell in our lap though, bro man. Wow, yeah it really did.
Speaker 1:It was the style that we wanted. We didn't have to make too many like adjustments or changes.
Speaker 2:Everything was just done and we were pleased with it.
Speaker 1:You know, of course some things that we went in and picked out, like the countertop stuff like that. But overall it was like it was just for us.
Speaker 2:Man, man. So would you guys not mind living in an apartment and to move into a house? What would you say to pros and cons of that, like having your own house versus living in an apartment, because some couples may be going through that same thing. They're like you know we're going to get one apartment or something like that, versus gone head getting the house. So what would you say, the pros of having a house versus an apartment?
Speaker 1:The pros of having a house in an apartment, I would say would definitely be like the mortgage and rent of a home versus these apartments around here Ridiculous man. Yes, they are so expensive yeah. I mean when I hear my friends say how much their apartment is and I'm thinking in my head like I'm working too far from that.
Speaker 1:So that is one thing for me. I would definitely say our parents was right on the whole thing about you know like apartment can be a waste of money, because I truthfully I do agree it's how apartments are. They are just so expensive. It's like every year once you renew your lease it's like they go up. So, it's just. I would definitely recommend a house over an apartment for financial reasons.
Speaker 3:And with both side of our families, they be wanting to come over.
Speaker 2:So you'll be good luck.
Speaker 3:So y'all got a nice little yard and you have little barbecues and everything back there and when I was in apartment, bro, we were too lit man.
Speaker 2:Too lit for an apartment, man Too lit man?
Speaker 3:No man, you can't get it hey look, I just turned my bass knob back on in my speaker.
Speaker 2:For real.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's been off for years. Man, oh man.
Speaker 2:That's a lousy man. So last question about the house. So when y'all was looking for a house where y'all thinking like down the road for when y'all do have kids, like, oh, let's try to get a nice area where you know kids can go into.
Speaker 1:So we were definitely looking like long javidy as far as like kids and all of that. So we were definitely looking at the like where we was going to live. I was strongly on like the Madison route. And it was not going for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Madison, Brandon Pearl, all that. That's what you were on about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we ended up finding a space in Byron pretty much where we, you know, grew up, so we're familiar with the school districts around there and all of that so, and the neighborhood is wonderful, like I haven't had a problem, you know. So. I mean everything. Everything is good, and I can honestly see ourselves like raising a family in that house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what's up, that's what's up.
Speaker 3:It's beautiful bro. That's what's up. It feels good, it feels good. Definitely. Y'all saw Boston Property and Terry in Midway States later, when we want to build another one.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, okay. So you have two kids running around there. Time to go about it. That's what's up. That's what's up, man. So just tell me, how does that feel like now, like y'all sound like some real adults or ducks you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Like y'all you know. So what is that? Like you know what I'm saying Because you know, I see. You know you growing, you having a bill, paying bills, you're an adult and everything. But now I'm thinking about kids, and you know future kids no mind-landing for the future and having to have no business Like. How is that? You know what's that mentality like?
Speaker 3:I let her go after me, but uh guys, timing on everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, guys, timing on everything.
Speaker 1:And I let her land by right yeah definitely, um, because I mean truthfully, like I were playing, not guys playing, but our plan was to have kids right after the wedding and you know we wanted that or whatever. Um I mean, but like you said, we're just waiting and all in God's time and for that to come.
Speaker 1:Got you Um, but yeah, I mean, it was definitely a big um, definitely a big thing, definitely, like we're putting on big, big girl pants and big boy pants, um, for this, because I mean, like I said, I went from living with my parents for 26 years to not having these bills that I have now to like having a house. So it's, I mean it's, you could definitely feel the the grown-up in us, but, um, I can also say I don't. I still don't feel like, I still feel like a kid, like I still feel as if man Will are still like these high school sweethearts and we're just yeah. I don't really consider myself a grown-up, yeah.
Speaker 2:He hasn't.
Speaker 1:He hasn't hit us yet yeah. He hasn't hit us yet.
Speaker 2:Man, that's what's up. That's what's up, man. I say I cause I lived in my house for a while and I say the only con with a house is and it's not a bad thing, but it's always something. So, no matter where like y'all think, it'll never be just a completion, because once y'all get something like, well, I think I'm gonna add that on, I think I'm gonna repaint that, I think we're going to build that in the back or something like that. So it's just always something that you're going to be doing at a house for sure. So which?
Speaker 3:is a good thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Good thing you got the man cave, got your man cave.
Speaker 3:No, I ain't got to set up. I'm actually going to put it out back bro.
Speaker 2:We're going to add it out to the back. That's what's up. That's what's up. That's what's up. You got your space, got your little space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for me, honestly, that was like I feel like like my whole my side of the or I guess, the massive bedroom, he's, he's like giving me the entire thing.
Speaker 3:So I just feel like I just sleep there.
Speaker 2:You got. I'm saying you got another closet room in there. You got no closet. I know.
Speaker 3:Matter of fact, all of my clothes on the other side of the house. I don't even use a bathroom. I'm good bro.
Speaker 2:You got your own. All right, all of it is for me.
Speaker 3:That's one thing I have. I don't think I ever share a restroom or share a closet with a bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she got entirely too much. Too much.
Speaker 3:I don't want to be in there complaining because you know, I mean, I know women. A lot more things come.
Speaker 2:You know makeup and all that I don't, I'm giving it all out, Say I'm just saying you use this bathroom, right, that's what's up. That's what's up. So, getting back to y'all wedding and so on, you know, so y'all don't went through the whole process. Give me like three tips you'll give like a couple, y'all, both, y'all could give this. So three tips that you guys to give a couple maybe planning a wedding or getting ready to plan and stuff like that, some tips they should look out for.
Speaker 1:Okay, One thing I can say about wedding planning. I really can say a whole lot, but let me see where should I start.
Speaker 1:I will definitely say, like, the minute that you and your partner you know like, get engaged and y'all talk about the wedding planning, make sure that both of you all are aligned to the same thing. That's you Um far as, like, if y'all want a big wedding or a small wedding or destination wedding, whatever the case is, make sure that y'all both agree on that and make sure, most importantly, that y'all finances matches what you all are planning. Um, because I definitely do not recommend going into so much debt for a wedding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's expensive, it's expensive, yeah, it's definitely expensive and I feel as if it's only you know, just for that, those small amount of hours. And after that, that's really when the marriage starts. Like the wedding to me, and like I was telling him on the way here, like the wedding. A wedding to me is like an accessory. It's just, you know, you want to put on this fancy dress and you want to make the place look nice and all that, but once you leave the wedding and you go and start your life, like this when marriage actually hits you, and this when it starts. So I definitely would not recommend putting a whole, whole lot of money into a wedding. Um, I mean, of course, if you can have paid for it and you know that's what you like. Um, cause, honestly, me and will can both of us. If it wasn't for our families, like we wouldn't have done all of what we did.
Speaker 1:Truthfully we wouldn't have done that, um, but yeah, so we're very grateful and thankful for our support system for our families because they helped the whole lot. Um, but yeah, I would definitely say, you know, make the wedding you all stay like, make it centered around what you can afford, and you know, things like I wouldn't say, go into a whole lot of debt for a wedding.
Speaker 3:Definitely Baby. But if you could do it again, you would definitely do it again.
Speaker 1:No, I would not.
Speaker 3:And people ask me that I told you this before.
Speaker 1:So that's that's that's.
Speaker 2:that's something else, that's what we're getting into. So you could do it again. You wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1:I would not do it again. Yeah, If I would, if I, if I had the choice Lord forbid anything for us to happen and I had to, you know, get remarried or whatever.
Speaker 3:I would definitely Second time, but the first time oh if I would do it.
Speaker 2:Well, going back with what you know now, right, what you know now, and you could, let's say, y'all finna, get married, would you do it the exact same way? Would you go all out like you did?
Speaker 1:Yes, it, just it depends. It depends if, like, like I said, if we didn't have the help from our parents on, like, doing everything, I wouldn't do it. Yeah, but I mean being that they were willing to make it what I wanted to be, then yeah, but I mean that's what I'm saying, like I wouldn't if it was just me and you planning it. I would not have done all of that. There's no way we could have, we ain't gonna say we couldn't have, but it was just no.
Speaker 3:You're going to do a big, regardless of it, you're going to do a big no, I said I wouldn't have done it. Oh yeah no. Oh sure we can kick back anywhere. Oh, with that.
Speaker 2:Oh, with that, I don't know. I ain't got to have all that. Weddings are expensive. Like I tell you, weddings can add up quick and, like I said, I just like to be real. Like weddings are expensive, you feel what I'm saying?
Speaker 3:I told one of my home boys he's playing on purpose and getting married. This and that I said bro, it's basically like trying to buy and pay off a car in a year. Man man, $23,000 car in a year Wow. But of course the pin on the wedding, bro. But man, yes, for real.
Speaker 2:So when you look back at that you'd be like, damn, I kinda did, got that.
Speaker 1:Right, I look back at it on the now I'm sitting in our house and we ain't even got everything that wanted. I'm like let me go take that outfit with anything else so I can go buy me something for this house.
Speaker 2:But yeah, man, man, I know I do take, we're shooting weddings a lot. Like you know, it's a beautiful thing. Like I do try to tell my couples to enjoy it, you know, as much as they can because it is a job. Like I said, you gotta walk around, you gotta take pictures, you gotta greet everybody, especially with a big wedding, you know you gotta greet everybody. You know you gotta be ready at this time, you gotta go here and this time gotta go here and stuff like that. So I do try to tell couples to enjoy. But weddings are expensive, man, it's like it's crazy. And then basically a wedding is just showing other people how much y'all love each other. You know what I'm saying, you know that's why you know. But it seemed like the people that was coming to y'all with and everybody came, so it would have been messed up, like y'all paid a lot.
Speaker 1:And then you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Y'all got all this food and everything, but like what, where's everybody at? But did y'all like get you know y'all registry get filled? Like did y'all get a lot of gifts? And stuff like that? I would definitely. Yeah, I know I hate saying that when I go to a wedding and the gifts table got like one card in the box and stuff like that, I'd be like man, look at that man.
Speaker 1:Right, but we did learn from the wedding because we were one of those guests Like we would go to a wedding and not even bring a card. But after our wedding, like looking back on that, we was like we would never go to another wedding and not take something because I know I mean, it just never crossed our mind bro, yeah, I feel you, I feel you and then truthfully, like when you go to a wedding, you have to like go and you have to find the gift table.
Speaker 1:Like I never just seen one, that just stands out, you know. But yeah, definitely, they are very, very expensive.
Speaker 2:Man, what about you Will? What's some tips you'll give? You know Somebody getting ready to get married and stuff like that, like what to look out for. You know what to maybe you know try to get or try to include this what's the couple tips for you?
Speaker 3:For the guy, bro, just be ready to be controlled, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Is she around there? So it's date day it's date day. First of all, first of all, just tell me what time and place to be there.
Speaker 3:That'll be it. That's it, bro. Watch the other. Let you know why I'm here.
Speaker 1:But I do have another tip. For the brides of the women I would definitely say like picking your girls, your bridesmaids, is a number one factor. Yeah, get in touch, because I feel as if, like, if you have the crew that complains a lot or don't want to do these, don't want to do that, and like you know, like, don't have your back behind the hold, because it's not just the wedding, but you got to do the bridal shower, you got to do y'all take a trip like a whole nine, and so I just feel as if, with everything that I did go through with my wedding, like my girls was there 100%, it didn't matter Because, honestly, it wasn't just my dress they got all misconstrued, but theirs as well, and they paid money for it and they did not get it.
Speaker 1:So I never did hear like a complaint from them. I never, like they never did, come to me with just, oh well, you need to give my money back. You know that type of situation Like it was just understood that she messed us up all you know, all of us and they were down to do whatever. They ended up going on their own site to get a dress. Like it was. So I would definitely say like picking the right girls that stand behind you. Make sure that they are, you pick them precisely.
Speaker 3:That's what's up. Yeah, they didn't get. They were dressed right.
Speaker 1:Right, they didn't even get the dresses that they put.
Speaker 3:They had, they got their dress.
Speaker 1:What a day before the wedding, right? So yeah, that was a whole thing in itself too. So the bridesmaids didn't have a dress here it is Moms, mommas, neither.
Speaker 3:Right, Grandparents nobody, because we all went through the same lady.
Speaker 1:So the week of the wedding everybody is trying to like go and find things and I had came to the point where I was like I do not want nobody else like putting in more money for this wedding. I was even to the point where I was like I'm not going to have nobody to walk in the wedding. I was just going to have like reserve seating, you know, the girl sitting in the front and the guy sitting in front Me and we were just going to walk like he had gotten chaotic.
Speaker 2:But luckily, yeah, it was, it was so big, but God, right but God. So they was able also find like matching, like color dresses. That's the thing.
Speaker 1:So Thursday Thursday the week of the wedding I was over it. Like when I say over it, like I wasn't thinking about a wedding, all I was just I was like Saturday going to come and it's just going to be what it is, like we just have to give what we got. So I was literally in my bed like taking nap and everything, and my dad coming in and was like you're not going to go and find the girls to dress? And I'm like, go find it. We're like I'm not about to ask them to to buy anything else.
Speaker 1:So, he was like just go to David's writer and see, you know what you can find and let me know. So I ended up going to the one in Madison and they had a dress the color that I wanted, but they did not have every girl's dress size. So we ended up calling so many Davis brottles like locally, they didn't have it. They didn't have the sizes that we needed. So that same day my dad was actually headed to New Orleans and we ended up calling a brothel shower in New Orleans and they had it. Well, they had one in.
Speaker 1:New Orleans and one in Ben Rouge, and I called them and I told them and he like, made it happen. He went to the dress shop in New Orleans got their dresses. He stopped in Ben Rouge on the way back home, got theirs and on the way back he brought everybody's dress to the rehearsal.
Speaker 2:That's amazing, yeah it was. That's amazing how that worked out, man, because it could have went a number of ways, but the fact that y'all got it like that, See, everything felt like everything, Like you just fell into place.
Speaker 3:Wow, man, I kept telling them baby, don't wear it, everything, don't work yourself out man and it did.
Speaker 2:That's how you know it was meant to be.
Speaker 1:It was meant to be. It was meant to be.
Speaker 2:Man. So real quick and I will take a quick break, but what would you recommend? Would you recommend maybe going to you know you get your dress made somewhere and let another designer maybe make another dresses? Or would you recommend, like, going to a Davis brothel versus you know a person that make dresses Like what would you recommend to try not to go through that, because I know the person with just flaky? You know what I'm saying. Like you know, that's really bad business. You know what I'm saying Definitely, definitely. But what would you recommend on, like you know, trying to sort of not to go through that?
Speaker 1:Right, I would recommend really just finding a dress shop that is number one, just nationwide, like someone that you know, like this is a legit site, like, and then you can go in there and actually like, put your hands on the dress and see that was our problem with me.
Speaker 1:I ended up finding this lady and I went and, kid you not, her shop did have wedding dresses in them but of course, like I pretty much designed my dress that I wanted, and so it was just every time that we had a date scheduled to like meet and come and try it on, it got pushed back, it got pushed back like she was sick.
Speaker 1:So it got pushed back in this and it was like every excuse in the book. So my advice would I would definitely go to someone that you know like go to a dress shop, you know, don't make it hard on yourself, on, you know, trying to get it custom made and, honestly, like the dress shop that I ended up going to to get my veil and the accessories and all that she does custom.
Speaker 1:So you know, just outweigh your options with shops and see you know what they offer, because some people do do customs and if I would have known that at the time I would have went that route.
Speaker 3:Going to a dress shop, man that is wild, it was crazy, it was a roller coaster, can I say?
Speaker 2:that's both. I mean, it's her dress, but you know this wouldn't be your wife. So you know she stressed out. You stress that.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying so.
Speaker 2:It's like what's going on, man, and then what?
Speaker 1:made it so bad at the end was because the girls that have a dress and the guys had their tux. And so when I mentioned to him about listed in the wedding party down. He's like these guys then pay they're funny, you know like how we finna sit them down.
Speaker 3:So it was a whole lot and I think y'all had y'all dress paying a full before we even paid. I first paid them, right yeah.
Speaker 1:Number one red flag and which I mean I'm pretty sure a lot of people know, but I guess I don't know me at the time, just trying to do the right excited doing something. I ended up paying that lady in full, like for my dress, me and the girls, and it was just. It was just when that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's bad. That's bad, but did you you know you ain't got to, you know, say the name or not like that, but did you like put a review out there and make sure you know?
Speaker 1:I didn't, but some of my my bridesmaids did and, honestly, like I'm still fighting that case now, wow, with that whole.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cause I mean I'm sure that you sound like contract and stuff like that yeah, and everything. So, yeah, definitely man, that's, that's, that's serious, but that's not like it's.
Speaker 3:that's not expensive. Like I cannot believe it, I'm like man, it's a whole way.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why, man, how many bridesmaids did you have? I?
Speaker 1:had eight. So she had all of their eight, my dress and I had a grandparent. You have two grandparents and three moms. Yeah, all of them paid up front.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, that's man.
Speaker 3:And all of them had to get a new dress for the way.
Speaker 2:That is crazy man, godly man. So last question let's do a little quick line break, real quick. But so, like you said, we're picking your girls, picking your guys and stuff like that. Like, what went into that? So like, is it just like, oh, these my home girls going to pick them out? Like, did you really put deep thought into because I'm sure you got more than eight friends, you feel what I'm saying the family members and stuff like that. So how did that, like, how did you narrow it down to just do you know the girls you went with?
Speaker 1:OK, well, first of all, my friends that was in the wedding have been my friends since high school.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:So they were already. They were already like in the, in the making, like they were getting picked anyway. And I picked them still like for a very purposely reason, because of like how they are. You know, like I know how my friends are and and they, none of them are on that level to the, to the point where I knew they were going to aggravate me. Or you know like, make this whole about them or whatever.
Speaker 1:Now, actually like adding my cousins and family in. That was going to be so much to do, so I did not only had one cousin in the wedding, but everyone else was just, you know, like my friends. So, it was actually pretty easy for me picking them Because, like you said, I probably do got more than eight friends, but honestly, I don't have a whole lot of like friends, friends you know, like not to be putting in a wedding like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gotcha, gotcha so yeah, I circled this.
Speaker 1:You see my smile.
Speaker 2:That's what's up.
Speaker 1:I was like who was who I was rocking with.
Speaker 2:That's the best way. What about you Like? How do you, how do you narrow your guys? Now, man, it was tough. Yeah, you got some. I know you got some friends. I know you got some guys. You been rocking with for a while, right.
Speaker 3:I got some guys I've been rocking with for a while Of course they was already in. I got some guys that had you know fell off. My main thing is I rather, you know, hurt those people feeling that, hurt the people feeling that I'm still rocking with now. I feel that, I feel that I got on it over how many guys you had, how many I think 1211.
Speaker 1:I had to check it.
Speaker 3:I think it was like 12 or 13.
Speaker 2:So was that cool, though, Because I know sometimes you know everybody tries to, she does eight, you do eight stuff like that, so was it like I got 13. So I got this. This is my 13.
Speaker 3:I actually we found something right before because that was going to be a problem getting the numbers right, but we had went to a win where I never seen it before. All the girls walked out first day in the car.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then she was like okay, you good, you have no idea.
Speaker 2:I'm like, yeah, so you were cool with that. You like how that went, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:The way that they did it. It was nice and I feel as if I don't know like that looked good, like everyone had their time to shine. You know everybody I realized on you. You know that was the type of situation, so I liked it that way. And then when the minute that we seen it in the wedding. I texted and I was like you, good on your number, count, like we can do like that.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. Yeah, that's your kind of a new thing that I'm seeing now. Okay, Like it used to be, you know walk down together but yeah, I'm seeing that a lot more, like you know.
Speaker 1:God's fault.
Speaker 2:They was one thing. Yeah, you had the force five.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so God probably had to. You know what?
Speaker 2:I'm saying Been like, yeah, it would have been a lot, it would have been a lot to figure out, it would have been a lot to figure out. But, yeah, man, that's what's up. Though, man, I know I tell people this, I tell a story. That was I say was, especially with guys, it's important who you get to be, like your groomsman, right, cause I had a wedding in New Orleans, right, and I still talk to the groom about this to this day. So he cool with me talking about it. But so it was crazy, store man, I need to be your guys. Now, you feel what I'm saying. These are guys that you chose to be with you on your biggest day of your life. Right, you feel what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:So he was from Jackson and the bride she was from New Orleans or whatever. So they got married in New Orleans. So you know, I guess you know, between the pack and the restaurant and stuff like that, he forgot his jacket and his tie, or both ties, something like that, right? So you know, yeah, the groom, the groom now, but all the groomsmen got this stuff, Right, you feel what I'm saying? So you know, we in a room running different options, running different stuff, buying them and stuff like that with the, and so we kind of like all right, how about this? Y'all, nobody wear jackets. Give the groom the jacket and the tie you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Man you would have thought I told the guys not to be in the wedding at all. Man I'm talking about. They had the biggest problem, I mean, and it was just so crazy. I just had to walk out the room because one guy literally said I'll never forget this man. I told my girl I'm in the way, I'm a groomsman. How's she going to know I'm a groomsman if I ain't got my jacket in my tie?
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm like.
Speaker 2:I'm like Is this really what you worried about right now? Like your guy, it's finna, get mad bro.
Speaker 2:You feel what I'm saying. And I was like, and I'll tell him straight up, I'll tell him straight up, you need a better friend circle dog, like real top man, like these, your closest guys, bro. You need to reevaluate your friend circle man. So that's why I say it's very important. Then I saw what I loved about y'all wedding, not even on that side, but y'all had a fun group. You feel what I'm saying. Like you know, could I sing so many wedding?
Speaker 2:When you get to reception time they just sit down, especially guy. You know, guys like to be all cool. We pose up against the wall. You know what I'm saying. They chain clothes before we done taking pictures and everything. You know it's like bro, like what? And then like like say even with the ladies, like some ladies like get attitudes quick, like oh, I'm tired of standing on title walking, how long is it going to take? It's like y'all had a fun group, like they knew the assignment, they understood it and they you know they was with it. You feel what I'm saying. So I think that's important too, because I think groomsmen I mean like the wedding party actually makes a helps, makes a break. Well, especially reception side, you know, because they just sitting around, just kind of bored, just kind of, you know, sitting to the side, like you know that's kind of how everybody else going to do. But they get up and start dancing and you know having a good time they. You know everybody else going to follow lead.
Speaker 3:So I can't say about both our sides. Bro, it wasn't just people coming together that you would just grab, but, like you said, your friend from kindergarten called you by being his wedding. All of us on both side, her girls and my God we still kick it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah On the normal. That's what's up.
Speaker 3:Every weekend, you know, you know waking up.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. That's what's up.
Speaker 1:And I think that's pretty much like the benefit good benefit that came for us being that we have been together so long, Like all those people that were in our wedding grew up with us Like they was with us since we've been together too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it was everything I was telling them about what she wanted me to tell them to do.
Speaker 1:They already knew who she was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we pretty much had plenty of like gatherings with all of them together. You know things like that, so it wasn't nothing like. Who is that? You know, I ain't gonna dance over there by him. You know things like that. Like everybody knew each other, it was one big family. So, yeah, I think that was really a good benefit for us versus, you know, people who get married, and they may be one from Jackson and one may be from Florida and you trying to bring these people together that they ain't married.
Speaker 3:My family liked the party too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they liked the party we were talking about making a party bro. It was like the party part of the whole thing. That's what's up, man.
Speaker 3:Maybe shower kids, party, anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they coming, they, coming they got one thing on their mind we should have a good time what you see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should have a good time. All right, y'all. So to kind of wrap y'all up, I know I helped y'all's hotchess on this Sunday or whatever. So let's talk about y'all's proposal real fast. It was a surprise proposal. Now that you know how everything went, did you kind of know something? Did you feel something in the air that he might have been playing or something, or if he was going to do something? Because you know how people kind of act funny around you, because I'm sure you had a lot of moving parts involved with it. So he's like why are you acting weird today? Did you kind of suspect it or was it a total surprise?
Speaker 1:Honestly, I felt it, you felt it. Yes, there you go, the truth, and honestly, we were together the night before and I had no idea then, but it was like that morning of I don't know, like I just felt it.
Speaker 3:But we got into it in that night before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did, we actually did.
Speaker 3:We were like bro, what, in the deep of it, yeah, but no, like when we was at church and everything and what was it?
Speaker 1:Oh, I think after the service my mom had told me that because it was around my birthday time, and so she told me that she was going to take me somewhere, like after church, and so, like when service was over, she told me to go wait, like in my granddaddy's study. And so I was like I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I was like, ok, I'll go wait. And so the whole time I'm back down. That's all that came through my head. I was like, is he going to propose? I'm going to propose baby. Yeah, I don't know, like, I just felt it. And then, for some reason, like the music, I don't know who was over it, but played it maybe too early, but I started to hear it and I was like this is, and it was a song that he had been singing all the week and I was like he's been singing this song and so I don't know, I just put everything together. I don't know, I just felt these. So when I walked out, it wasn't so much of like I don't know, like I didn't cry, but I think I was more so just happy, like it was actually happening, you know, because, like I said, we had been together for so long.
Speaker 3:She was over it, bro. It took too long. Ha ha, ha ha About time.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So at that point I'm like Boy, help me get this all over it so I can play in that wing. That's funny. That's funny. It was crazy that you said that. Because, in your opinion, how long is how long? You think it's too long? Because to me personally I've dated someone for five years they're like wait, no, you know what I'm saying. But like to me, I always wanted to be like in a better position before.
Speaker 3:I took a next step. You know what I'm saying, and I mean there's every, guys, you know. Yeah, but then you hear the people say, why would they even call an excuse though?
Speaker 2:bro, yeah, To me it's not Honestly man. You feel the?
Speaker 3:take on the whole responsibility of doing it a whole other person bro, Then at the end of the day you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:You, the backbone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true. That's true, but as a guy, you're not going to never feel like you, just really really like you never feel like you made enough money.
Speaker 2:You know they want more, more, more Definitely, definitely, Definitely. So, when you got out there, when you got out your car, you knew like all right, this, it Like all right we here. You know what I'm saying, like you do it. Like what was running through your mind, Like one of the because that's a good question. This me personalized, that's a personal question, you know what I'm saying. Like what was running through your mind, Like at that moment, like, OK, I'm finna do this.
Speaker 3:I was scared bro, I was scared man. I kept high on that power man. That's why I'm going back and forth with them. Know the vision that I want to do. This is that. Oh, he just he's heard up.
Speaker 3:Oh man, listen, I already know I'm like bro, but I'm the one that got to do it. You going to be good, right? You going to be good, like man especially. I don't do the cameras, none of that, bro. Just, even with social media I don't post a lot of that man. She drugged me up here to do this man.
Speaker 2:So you were nervous, though All the way. So at what point did you like all right, it happened. Like. What point did you like stop being nervous, like when you saw something like that, like you just nervous the whole time?
Speaker 3:That's why I'm proud of when I got up, bro man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because even in his speech, like you could hear it, like his voice started crying, yeah, yeah yeah, I don't even cry.
Speaker 3:She the one cry all the time. That's why I was surprised she didn't cry when she carried him out, but yeah, I don't cry bro.
Speaker 2:Why, why, why do you think you didn't cry? Why I didn't cry yeah yeah, I was surprised that too. I was surprised that you didn't cry.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess, because I don't know, like I was just more so Excited. Yeah, I was excited. I was just happy that it was happening, like that was my whole I don't know, like I didn't have the I don't know.
Speaker 3:She didn't get harassing me bad. No, I don't know. I got harassed for a long time, a long time.
Speaker 1:Well, to each his own. Well, you know, you know, it was that.
Speaker 2:You know I was like what, coming from a women's perspective, like, so you know, you see, the, the, the, you know the Instagram posts and tweets and stuff like that, like, well, man, no, you know, no, four months you know you out of, out of, out of that, and I don't believe in that. You know what I'm saying Because people change and, like I say, like, not, people change, people grow. So the person you were when you was 22, you might not be when you 32.
Speaker 3:You feel what I'm saying. She definitely have seen my growth.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? Definitely Big time.
Speaker 3:So yeah, See if it in in like three, four, five years, yeah, appearance of we started dating at what? 16? Yeah, 16, 16.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean it's definitely, definitely big. But I can't say, like, I know some couples, like couples that has been married a long time, they, they pretty much was saying you know like normally, like a lot of them. Well, every one of them that I talked to got married like after that 10-year mark. So I guess, for us hitting at the 12,. I was, like you know, I don't feel so. You know so bad.
Speaker 2:Now that made me feel good.
Speaker 1:The 10-year mark, I was like.
Speaker 2:True, you know what I'm saying. I'm just five years. You know what I'm saying. Like you know, man.
Speaker 3:At least five, six years don't even count, cause we was so young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I agree, I agree, I agree, I agree. I feel like you should start that clock like around 24, something like that.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be 14. You know what I'm saying. I'm going to be 14. You know what I'm saying. You feel what I'm saying. See, that's not bad. That's not bad you know what I'm saying Like honestly, honestly you really just getting in your groove around the age.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. So much stuff changed from you know 18 at the end. Yeah, man, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean definitely that. So I can't say like we can knock off some years, because we were babies when we got together, like we didn't know what all you know they're consistent of, so we could. But then too, you know, like how people say, like women do mature more faster than men. So I feel as if, like, they come into play when a woman feels like more anxious and like OK, when are you going to do it? Like I know, you know, you know. So that's another reason you know why women made what he said, what you said I did to you.
Speaker 3:Like, how did you appreciate? You know like.
Speaker 1:I just feel as if that's kind of where that comes from, like a woman you know kind of knows.
Speaker 3:But things change quick there. Not more mature than us. You'll find that soon. Yeah, yeah, Bro, it'll change quick. Bro, It'll change quick. That's not true.
Speaker 2:Man, I know in my case, in my case I ain't gonna lie it kind of deterred me a little bit. You feel what I'm saying, because it was to the point where it was every day and then I ain't gonna lie. Just speaking of my case, you feel what I'm saying, like you know in a view party baby.
Speaker 2:Listen, listen, listen. I'm gonna be real on the podcast. You feel what I'm saying? Ok, they watch it or not. Ok, you know what I'm saying, but I ain't gonna lie. Like you know, her biggest thing was when I started doing this. When I become a wife, you feel what I'm saying, yeah, she got friends that do that.
Speaker 2:And my thing was you feel what I'm saying? You supposed to be doing stuff that makes me want to marry you. You feel what I'm saying? Like you supposed to be handling business, to be like, oh see, that's why I'm a married. You feel what I'm saying?
Speaker 3:If you ain't doing none of that, you feel what I'm saying With that, bro. If you saying you gonna wait till that time to do that, it's not natural. Naturally, that should be something you want to do, whatever it is you're talking about, even before marriage, naturally that should be something you want to do Right there, right there.
Speaker 2:See, that's what I'm with.
Speaker 1:And I also think that's kind of where that line is drawn with the whole shacking thing, Because some people move in with one another and they have that mindset Like I'm not going to do this because we're not married, Right, you're not married.
Speaker 2:Right there, that was my thing. That was the mess up right there, that was my thing. Can I tell you? I didn't make you move in here with me.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying this was your choice.
Speaker 2:You feel what I'm saying. You know you could have easily went out and did your own thing. You feel what I'm saying. But so I do. I'll just be honest why I agree with y'all. I do agree with that Because I do think us living together kind of hurt us, because you know, arguments are stuff that we occurred during that time. You know we wouldn't have went through until we were married. So we're like OK, we can't get no, you know ain't no breaking up you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Something like that. You feel what I'm saying. When you born for a girl, you know what All of them over this, bro you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:All of them over this. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:But I don't know, it's kind of like a good a give and take, because I'm kind of glad, because it's like maybe this wasn't the person you know what I'm saying I should have been doing this with. You know what I'm saying. So if I didn't live with this person, maybe I wouldn't have seen a certain side of that person Versus waiting. But you know, it's kind of good and bad and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But and true, like how I say all the time, like if it's meant to be, it'll be. So, whether y'all didn't work in that season you know, she may come back around, you know, and it may be you know better than, but to me, I just I'm all to. Everything is how it's going to be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, I would just change so much.
Speaker 2:Oh, you never know, man, that's true For the bell house. That's true, that's true. So were you kind of, you know, acting as his you know wife, as a good boyfriend, girlfriend, so like what's you helping him with things and handling business and stuff like that?
Speaker 1:Uh, for us? I don't think we actually did that.
Speaker 3:Well, you didn't. Yeah, because we didn't stay together. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was going to say us not living together. Um, he couldn't like. I didn't really show that side, Like the whole like wifey thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so all this is just brand new. So, like, all of what I go through is just brand new. Everything is brand new. It's fun. It's fun man that's good man Cause. That's good Cause you know how you out here the guys be like man once you married. It's always dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, all of that. But it's good to hear God saying it's fun man. Like that's good, it's fun, that's good, it's like we still playing house, that's good.
Speaker 1:We're in town.
Speaker 2:That's good. Yeah, like we playing house. I love to hear man, that is good, I love that, I love that. But yeah, man, like I said, I I love. My thing I love about weddings is I get to capture love for a living you feel what I'm saying and I get to see people at the happiest moments. You feel what I'm saying and like it's a beautiful thing. It never get all like don't get me wrong, every wedding is different. You know it got the same components and stuff like that. But you know I love couples that just you know you could see the love there. You feel what I'm saying, like them are the best ones. So I definitely love that. Man. Now, if I get married, I don't know if I'm going to have a big wedding.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. I don't have a big wedding.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. So I might do like some small, I might do a destination or something like that. But yeah, so as we close any final like advice, you'll give a couple that's, you know, planning about it. You feel what I'm saying? Anything that you like, hey, maybe you should do this. I think I, for that, you know, would you recommend a planner to help, even though you could do that on the creative side? Like, maybe a day of coordinator maybe, or something like that. Like, would you recommend something like that?
Speaker 1:Well, the date of coordinator, that's pretty much what I had, being that I was like planning everything, but I definitely do recommend a day of coordinator and I say that on the standpoint of, like the after the wedding situation. Like I didn't want my parents or his, like our families, to stay back and have to clean and all of that, so the coordinator that we hired had a cleaning crew, so she made sure that everything was intact with that venue before you know everyone leaving out.
Speaker 1:So that's pretty much what sold me with her. It's like finding someone that could do everything when it's over with and all of us can leave. You know when we want to leave, so definitely that. I mean. I like the whole coordinator and getting a wedding planner is totally up to you. However, your preference is you know how, how you, if you want the stress or you don't want the stress, you know like, if you want to put it all on them. Yeah, I mean, I do recommend it, although you know there's also a dollar amount that you got to come out of pocket to pay because it's not cheap.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, it's totally up to the person or the bride, you know, planning that wedding.
Speaker 2:I think another yeah, another advice.
Speaker 1:You got another advice for I'm good.
Speaker 3:I probably can name she. I mean, she did everything right, I didn't have to do nothing yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you recommend? How many makeup artists did you have?
Speaker 1:I actually had four.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, so that moved pretty quickly yeah.
Speaker 1:I had four makeup artists. I only had one hairstylist. That did everyone's. You recommend two. Yeah, I think I did, I think I did, I think I did, I think I did, I think I did, I think I did.
Speaker 2:I think I did, I think, I did, I think I did.
Speaker 1:I would recommend more just to make it like make sure that the you know once again that you're on the time and stamps, making sure that is that is going smoothly and that you're making the wedding. You know perfect timing.
Speaker 2:All right, so anything else you can think about to why for the bride?
Speaker 1:I would just say make sure definitely making sure that you pick in the right people to stand by your side. Making sure that everything that you want and plan, you know that you pick in the right vendors. So, like, even if you have to do your research on it, you know making sure that it's legit. Please don't go down the same road that I went down, because that was just terrible. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, cause I mean, like, your wedding dress is your main thing.
Speaker 2:Like how can you walk down without a?
Speaker 1:dress. You have everything else but no dress. So I mean just making sure that everything gets to your liking. Just do not go and get this whole big lump sum of money out If you don't have to just make it to what you can, you know, do within your finances. Cause I can say, like, once that wedding is over with you, do not want to keep paying on it, like that is not something that you want to have over your head, to keep paying on, because I mean, that's it Like you got other things to look forward to after the wedding, you know so.
Speaker 3:And for the brides and girls bro, you get chosen to be in the wedding. Okay, understand that money comes with it. Yeah, oh, you only paying, you only paying a poor shit. Say that, say it again, ok, please. A poor shit, that's a big one.
Speaker 2:A 1% for the ladies or the men?
Speaker 1:If you ever get asked to be in a wedding and you know you don't want to pay the necessary additional payments, whatever that the bride may be asking for, please just do not accept it. I'm pretty sure they won't be heard that you're not in it. Because no, please, Because that's a whole other thing and it's up to you.
Speaker 2:That's important, darryl. I'm glad y'all said that that's something I wouldn't even thought about, for sure, for sure. So yeah, that's very important Because I tell.
Speaker 1:Will all the time. I don't care if all the girls that I put in my wedding once they get married they never put me in there. I will be just fine man. It is expensive.
Speaker 2:Man, man, that's for sure, man, I'll be just fine, that's for sure. So y'all have to sum, y'all waiting up, in one word. Y'all can each say a different word. What would you say? Wonderful, amazing, what would you say? One word.
Speaker 3:Blessing, blessing.
Speaker 1:That's a good one, but my one word would be perfect.
Speaker 2:Perfect.
Speaker 1:Like I feel, like everything feels perfectly.
Speaker 2:Food was good.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, we got so many good reviews on the food, on the cake on the drink on the service. Even the weather came through for us. We had an outside wedding and everybody well, I'm going to say everyone but people that I talked with even said the sun was out, but it was not shining on them. It stopped right where the guests were sitting. So I mean everything about that time was perfect.
Speaker 1:Like I said, although we started our late, even the six o'clock time was perfect Because, like I said, the reception it filled in place. But yeah, I mean everything about it was everything.
Speaker 2:And I ain't going to lie, that outlet probably helped, because I mean just knowing people going to be late. You know what I'm saying. So the wedding post started five people. I see it so many times where people walking in at 5.15, 5.20, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But no lie. I was in the back outside of the venue putting on my dress and I see two people walking in that same thing.
Speaker 2:I'm like these people still trying to be here. You feel what I'm saying. Like you get some people like look at five o'clock, you outside, you not in here. By five o'clock it's over with. So that after I was, you know that's a great thing, that's what they say. You should tell people to come and have a phone anyway. You know what I'm saying. So that was good, that was good.
Speaker 1:But everything was good.
Speaker 2:That was good. That was good, that was good. Well, like I said, I appreciate y'all so much for coming on. Man, y'all did amazing. Y'all were nervous, but y'all killed it. Y'all killed it, man. Y'all asked it to the first couple that I did vendors, but y'all are the first couple that you know interviewed. So you know y'all got that. So when we blow up, make it big and everything. You know it's my first couple right here. Y'all you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So definitely, definitely so like I said, I really appreciate it bro. I really appreciate you Parti. I appreciate y'all I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2:Y'all had a beautiful wedding. Everything turned out perfect. Everything was perfect. Everything was perfect. Like you said, perfect it was a blessing. Honestly it was. It was.
Speaker 1:And I don't know if you had added it on your on the podcast tonight, but Parti was actually our photographer and videographer for the wedding, so we definitely thank him and Paul for the services, like dealing with us throughout the entire thing, because they was with us. Dealing with her Well, dealing with me Because they was with us literally from the engagement all the way to wedding day.
Speaker 2:So, like I loved it, I loved it, I loved it and I try to tell my couples. Like you know, I kind of look in my couples as family.
Speaker 1:You feel what I'm saying. So, if anything, I could do, I could be there you feel what I'm saying and everything.
Speaker 2:Like you know, of course I wasn't there, but I only was going to send the best of the best there.
Speaker 1:You feel what I'm saying, so you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So I was like you know, I was going to send the best of the best I sent Paul. Could Paul like do I need to come with you? I was like no, you got to go with them.
Speaker 1:Like you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:Like no, you know what I'm saying. I was like no, I made sure that all my guys were there I made sure we had like the top of the line people there for sure, for sure. So when I saw the picture, I mean you know, when I sent them in, I wasn't worried about it. You know what I'm saying but, like I said once, I saw the pictures and I saw, like the you know, especially when they made the magazine and when I was editing the video and everything. I was just like bro.
Speaker 1:This thing was lit Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Like it was lit. Man, I really hate I missed it, but it turned out. I was like where the fuck you been there? It turned out perfect though. It really turned out perfect though. So, like I said, I love being a part of the process. Like I said, I was able to see the love story. That's why I tried to add that little part into the video. Like you know what I'm saying From like the first dance to the proposal, to the product show, everything and everything, like we got to add that touch in there. So, yeah, it was perfect, man, I love being a part of the love story and I'm excited to see where this story grows. You feel what I'm saying? Like I'm excited to see where it goes and everything. Man, I think it's beautiful Kids and all bro.
Speaker 3:Kids and everything Like in that part. Oh man, listen, listen, I can't wait man, listen, I can't wait.
Speaker 2:I love doing like you know maternity shoots and everything. I'm like, yeah, I'm about this as a proposal. You know what I'm saying, like you know, but now it's good, man, y'all truly are an amazing couple. You feel what I'm saying and it shows you feel what I'm saying and, like I said, the way everything worked out. You know, through all the problems and everything that tried to occur, everything, like you said, end up working out and I think that just shows like the favor that you guys have on this show it's a favor, bro.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, so you know. So that just says a lot about y'all. You feel what I'm saying? So definitely, man, y'all, y'all, y'all doing it, y'all, y'all doing the damn thing, y'all doing it All right. So to end this, you know what I'm saying let's do a toast, you know toast, to the y'all. My first couple on here. You know what I'm saying Congratulations again. I appreciate y'all and, like I said, until next time. This is the preferred vendor podcast. These are the chefs. Y'all check them out. I'll post a link to their you know wedding video into the magazine spread and everything, so y'all can check them out. So make sure that I check them out and until next time. We'll see y'all later, Peace.