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I REFUSED to prank-propose to the groom… because I love him! | Reddit Stories | EP3079 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Riley.
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  Speaker 2: And this is Keon, your favorite OK Storytime host. And
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  Speaker 2: we've got some great stories coming up.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get to that, we have a quick
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to OK Storytime. I'm Sophia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Riley.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 3: And today we're covering the worst wedding stories that we've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, do not get me started on women
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  Speaker 1: wearing white to weddings or anyone in fact. I hate
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  Speaker 1: it when that happens.
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  Speaker 3: Have you had a really bad wedding story?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet. I was at a wedding once and I
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  Speaker 1: was a server helping out and everyone there, half the
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  Speaker 1: people were Hispanic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought I could speak Hispanic back to them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they did not like it. I was like, they
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  Speaker 1: had chicken and fish. I was like, oh, pollo, pescado.
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  Speaker 1: And they go, fish.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Felt melted.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what or was.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's pretty tough. But Riley, these stories are way
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  Speaker 3: crazier than that one.
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  Speaker 1: Mine's pretty tame, I guess. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Compared to these stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: We've got one groomsman who gets asked to fake propose
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  Speaker 3: to the groom during a pool noodle sword fight. But
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  Speaker 3: the problem is it wouldn't be fake for him.
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  Speaker 1: The sword fight or the proposal?
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  Speaker 3: I think just the love.
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  Speaker 1: And I see that we have another story. One groom
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  Speaker 1: vanishes the night before his wedding and comes back with
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  Speaker 1: no ring, no bride, and a story no one believes.
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  Speaker 3: Is this Gone Girl? I'm pretty sure we have labor
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  Speaker 3: laws for this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he might not be union.
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  Speaker 3: But we're going to find out, so let's get into it.
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  Speaker 3: I refuse to prank propose to the groom because I
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  Speaker 3: love him.
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  Speaker 1: As you should, diva.
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  Speaker 3: Trigger warning, grim ending. Oh, no. I, 23 male, am
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  Speaker 3: one of the groomsmen for my best friend's 35 male wedding.
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  Speaker 3: His fiancee, 33 female, is a known jokester and likes
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  Speaker 3: pulling pranks that don't affect anyone beyond making us laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Aw.
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  Speaker 3: Stupid funny things nothing harmful the farthest she's ever gone
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  Speaker 3: was accidentally destroying the groom's crappy Toshiba laptop and surprising
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  Speaker 3: him with a brand new Alienware one he's been saving
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  Speaker 3: for for two years.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy I mean the first half there finished off strong.
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  Speaker 3: She backed everything up so nothing was actually lost great
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  Speaker 3: my friend is the serious logician type so she balances
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  Speaker 3: him out a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot that was logical It's like a magician, but logical.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a logical magician. Well, it doesn't say logical.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 3: He finds her antics pretty amusing too. So neither of
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  Speaker 3: them really care for the ceremony aspect of a wedding.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to a courthouse wedding and save the money
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  Speaker 3: for a nice reception with only close family and friends.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be three witnesses. Me, the best man,
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  Speaker 3: and the maid of honor.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing there?
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  Speaker 3: OP's just a real one.
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  Speaker 1: But you had the best man and the maid of honor.
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  Speaker 1: You just need two signatures.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. I don't know why you're there.
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  Speaker 2: Just for fun.
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  Speaker 3: And the wedding will have at most four or five
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  Speaker 3: more friends and some of the groom's family. The bride
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  Speaker 3: was all for this and she gets anxious in big events,
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  Speaker 3: but she still feels like it's not something to really
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  Speaker 3: write home about. So she wants to pull a pretty
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  Speaker 3: notable prank by having a dramatic objection during the ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: I see now why you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I guess. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, well, I needed a third person. Since I'll
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  Speaker 3: be the only single one there, she wants me to
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  Speaker 3: do the objection thing. Seem like I'm going for her
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  Speaker 3: and then plot twist, a vibe for the groom. Then
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  Speaker 3: she wants us to do a sword fight for his hand.
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  Speaker 2: This is whimsical.
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  Speaker 3: This does sound really sick. I think I've seen a
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  Speaker 3: video of this exact thing.
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  Speaker 2: Like actual swords or lightsabers, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like someone objects and then does a sword fight. I've
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  Speaker 3: seen like you could probably find the video.
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  Speaker 2: This is not like done once, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Keon and I do that, but we don't usually object.
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  Speaker 1: We just sword fight.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I was joking, but she and the groom
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  Speaker 3: actually have a sizable sword collection, and she said she'd
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  Speaker 3: get her maid of honor to sneak two of the
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  Speaker 3: smaller ones in. Can you do that?
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother, as a magistrate, she worked as a magistrate,
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  Speaker 1: and every time you went to the courthouse, there were
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  Speaker 1: two police officers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a metal detector.
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  Speaker 1: And you had to take out everything in your pockets,
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  Speaker 1: and they had to cut you down.
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  Speaker 3: And when she says that they have a sword collection,
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  Speaker 3: I'm assuming these are either real swords or close to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so, you know what? You know what you say?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the sword is mightier than the pen, everyone. I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking this to the courthouse. I can't wait to be
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  Speaker 2: a dad.
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  Speaker 1: That was so cringe. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying! He's trying, right?
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to say yes and me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Riley.
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  Speaker 3: I laughed.
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  Speaker 1: I laughed.
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  Speaker 3: The maid of honor who was there while the bride
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  Speaker 3: was talking to me interjected and said it was a
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  Speaker 3: stupid idea. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Fair.
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  Speaker 4: Relief.
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  Speaker 3: She'd use fake swords since smuggling real ones could cause
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  Speaker 3: issues and said she'd run it by the officiant to
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  Speaker 3: make sure not too much of a commotion was created. Stress.
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  Speaker 3: That's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: There are still cops in the courthouse.
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  Speaker 3: That's hilarious, though.
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  Speaker 2: But they're foam swords.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, foam swords that you run by the officiant or something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. With these track records with these cops,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they'd see the difference.
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  Speaker 2: They'd see the sword and they'd put it down.
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  Speaker 1: Put it down!
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  Speaker 2: Put it down!
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  Speaker 3: I love that OP was talking to the bride and
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  Speaker 3: she was like, yeah, I want to do these real swords. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my maid of honor is going to bring them.
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  Speaker 3: And the maid of honor is like, whoa, that's a
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  Speaker 3: terrible idea. I'll bring fake swords.
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  Speaker 1: That's why she's the maid of honor.
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  Speaker 3: I'm admittedly a bit of a doormat and didn't outright
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  Speaker 3: say no at first, hoping the maid of honor would
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  Speaker 3: say something instead. Then I realized I needed to pull
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  Speaker 3: my big boy pants on and say no, which I did.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't happy about it, not in an angry way,
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  Speaker 3: but in a way that made me feel immediately guilty.
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  Speaker 3: I stupidly offered to think of a different joke to
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  Speaker 3: pull instead. They've added me to a group chat where
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  Speaker 3: I've kept trying to reiterate that I'm not comfortable with
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  Speaker 3: the prank and they keep trying to reassure me into reconsidering.
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  Speaker 1: Him to fight the groom?
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  Speaker 3: They want OP to fight the bride.
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  Speaker 1: With fake swords.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready to be whimsical.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Practice your sword moves.
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  Speaker 3: The maid of honor is calling me an a-hole for
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  Speaker 3: not following the bride's wishes, as is one other mutual
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  Speaker 3: friend the bride talked to about this. It's getting harder
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  Speaker 3: and harder to stick to my no. So am I
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  Speaker 3: the a-hole? And we've got comments, but what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: He's just uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Just doing a sword fight, like fighting for his hand. Like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I won't let you marry him. I object.
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  Speaker 1: If he's uncomfortable with that, then he must have some
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  Speaker 1: sort of feelings for him.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like this is too fun thing to do
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  Speaker 3: for there not to be another reason why Opie's saying no.
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  Speaker 3: So I think I'm on your side.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, show me someone who's in
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  Speaker 2: the theater. Theater.
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  Speaker 3: This sounds fun. So I feel like OP's got some
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  Speaker 3: other reasons.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like they asked him because he would
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  Speaker 2: commit to the bit because they only have so many
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  Speaker 2: people as witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: Are you guys going to have a part in your
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  Speaker 1: wedding where you object?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: I think you can also just take that out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep it in there. So make sure
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  Speaker 1: if there's anyone else out there that may have had
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  Speaker 1: a crush on me.
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  Speaker 2: Angie's just writing notes. I'm keeping them.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it open so we know who to keep on
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  Speaker 1: our crap list. Honestly, you should add that in there.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it nice to know that someone has a crush
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  Speaker 1: on you? Even if you don't feel that way and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, I'm not looking for anyone, but it's nice
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  Speaker 1: to know, oh, that person has a crush on me.
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  Speaker 4: Great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know if I would want them
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  Speaker 3: to object at my wedding.
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  Speaker 1: How else are you supposed to know?
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  Speaker 2: Dang, I'm going to have so many objections.
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  Speaker 3: Comments.
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  Speaker 1: But for real, how else are you supposed to know
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  Speaker 1: if someone has a crush on you? They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're booed up. I always know.
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  Speaker 1: You always know?
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: Why does the groom seem comfortable with the bride's pranks?
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  Speaker 3: He often says he loves her sense of humor and
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  Speaker 3: has made his boundaries on them clear, which he's dutifully kept.
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  Speaker 3: The groom, being Dutch, sees the wedding more as a
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  Speaker 3: legal matter than a major life step. He said before
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  Speaker 3: he didn't really care if they got married or not.
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  Speaker 3: It was more her wants that encouraged him to propose
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  Speaker 3: in the first place. Why is the bride so determined
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  Speaker 3: to make the wedding prank happen? It's mostly for the story.
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  Speaker 3: The bride's Italian and has always been to glamorous Italian weddings.
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  Speaker 3: She knows a wedding like that isn't in their budget,
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  Speaker 3: but she still wants something to make hers special and
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  Speaker 3: finds objection pranks funny.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally the joke of, A Dutch person and an
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  Speaker 2: Italian person get married.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a sword fight.
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: Why are you so personally uncomfortable with playing the groom's
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: romantic rival? The groom is Pan and no one really
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: knows my identity since I still don't know what it
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  Speaker 3: is either.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's 23. The bride assumes I am aro
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  Speaker 3: ace since I'm apparently showed no interest in anyone beyond
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  Speaker 3: an aesthetic approach. She believes since I have little to
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  Speaker 3: no chance of being attracted to the groom, there's no
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  Speaker 3: harm in me pulling the choke.
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  Speaker 1: Time out. Bro.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like you maybe have a little crush on him.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, this is not just a whimsy thing. This
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  Speaker 2: is me actually being serious.
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  Speaker 1: And is the reason you won't do this is because
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  Speaker 1: the approach you would have on the husband isn't that
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic or you're pleasing to your aesthetic? Also, what does
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic approach mean?
• 8:19
  Speaker 3: I think OP is just saying, like, I usually just
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  Speaker 3: appreciate if someone is attractive, but I'm not interested. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not attracted to them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not buying that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What does aesthetic approach mean?
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  Speaker 3: It seems a little presumptuous that the bride is assuming
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: that you are arrogant. It seems like you're very unsure.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: She seems like a person that just throws out assumptions.
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  Speaker 3: That's you. So you're going to object. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you're going to help me out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: I have a fun conspiracy theory. I think if OP
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: does do this, it's going to get serious. You know
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: when it's like play fighting and then he starts like
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  Speaker 2: getting aggressive like, no, no, I want him.
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  Speaker 1: I want him.
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  Speaker 3: I want him. It's actually going to become an all
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  Speaker 3: out sword fight and they're going to find out that
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: they actually brought the real swords and it's going to
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: get dangerous. OP has another comment that says, why can't
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: the maid of honor simply do the prank instead? She
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: would have asked her, but she's into women with a
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: bit of a toxic girlfriend who'd hound her for pulling
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: a stunt like that. The bride assumes I have zero
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  Speaker 3: feelings involved, so I'd be the best option. The best
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: man is also in a committed relationship and is a
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  Speaker 3: bit more like the groom in being less inclined to
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: pull pranks. What would the fake swords actually be? She
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: clarified in the group chat, pool noodles cut and colored
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  Speaker 3: to look like swords.
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  Speaker 1: Cute.
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  Speaker 3: Since the bride and I are crafty with our hands,
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: we could do it, but I'm not going to, or
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  Speaker 3: even help out if she replaces me with someone else.
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: It now rings as sort of disrespectful to my friend.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: But Opie continues, what are the couple's plans for the
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: wedding and how far along is the prank planning? They
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: aren't Catholic. The idea was spawned from a short conversation
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  Speaker 3: a week ago. And since the wedding itself isn't happening
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: for at least another year while they save up, They
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: haven't done any real planning for the prank. Why might
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: the wedding take place in the Netherlands instead? The groom
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: is Dutch, but we're planning on doing it in America
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: since we all met here. The bride is considering the
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Netherlands instead, closer to where they want to settle down.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: The maid of honor and I are slowly learning Dutch anyways,
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: just in case they change their minds. And what is
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: the financial situation for the wedding? The groom and bride
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: aren't well off and all of us are pitching in
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: to make their reception at least halfway to the bride's dream.
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: I'm making most of the food. Two of the bride's
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: friends are helping her thrift and alter a dress by hand.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: And the groom's most well-off friend is paying for their
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: honeymoon as a gift. Wow, that's very nice. The limited
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: funds we'll be able to scrounge up going to waste
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: should probably convince the bride not to do this.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: He's still fine in it.
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's really against it.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: He's still fine in it. It's not that expensive to
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: do because you already have the swords.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't understand. Maybe he's saying if groom hated
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: it and called off the wedding. I don't know.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a little strange.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: If he's getting this extra to make something playful and
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: whimsical to this extent, don't even do it.
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: Why are you still committed to attending the wedding despite
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: your issues with the bride's antics? I want to support
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: my best friend. He's been there for me through it all.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: I may not be the biggest fan of the bride's antics,
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: but I'm not going to abandon my friend over it.
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: Why do you and the groom have such a close
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: relationship despite the age gap? We met in a mixed
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: age online community for those 18 and older. He had
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: sort of a moderator-like position and became like an older
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: brother figure to me. It wasn't until recently I realized
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: I'd crushed on him.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is. There it is.
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  Speaker 3: He's kept age-appropriate boundaries with me and warns me when
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: it seems like I've accidentally crossed one. What is the
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: bride's history with pranks and why do you think she
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: does them? She's genuinely thoughtful and sweet. She isn't the
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: type others would call conventionally hot. Very cute with a
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: brilliant smile, but average all around. Dang.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: That could be hot.
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  Speaker 1: Dang.
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  Speaker 3: OP is just roasting this girl.
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  Speaker 2: OP said, aesthetically, average.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: They were long distance for a long time since she
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: traveled a lot for humanitarian work. She doesn't have any
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: family left that's alive or not a harmful prick she's
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: cut out. And we do have an update, folks. But
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: any new thoughts or feelings after that discovery?
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  Speaker 1: Makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 3: It sure does.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Why you don't feel comfortable?
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, it's too real.
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: It's too real.
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  Speaker 1: I would still go through with this prank.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You have a real sword.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: You get rid of her. Now you can have him
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  Speaker 1: for all for yourself. Oh, okay. It's true.
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  Speaker 2: So we're really going with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's called real love, Keon.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta fight for your love.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: You're telling me if my wife-to-be and some crush that
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: I have go sword fighting and my wife loses, she
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: wasn't meant to be with me.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: She wasn't meant to be my wife.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: Wow. Survival of the fittest.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, real love would have won. And the person that
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: won that, I guess I gotta marry him now.
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: That's my real love. Update. Holy crap, there's a lot
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: of you in here.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: You reached out to the internet.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is an interesting one.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: I've DM'd the bride and maid of honor everything Reddit
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: advised me to do. I told them very firmly that
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: I did not want to do any sort of prank
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: during the ceremony, nor any prank that have me seemingly
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: disrespect the newly wedded couple. I didn't mention any feelings
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: I had, but did use the fact she assumes I'm
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: hero ace to explain how uncomfortable this made me.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: You made it very easy to know who you are.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you gave everything. The swords. If she has a Reddit,
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: she's found you. Yeah.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming they're on Discord because he said a moderator
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: type role.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: They're definitely going to.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Come across this. Yeah. You said exactly all the details
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: we needed.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: The buzzwords.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: It was quiet for a while, even though I knew
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: they'd probably read it since they were active on Discord. Boom!
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: You put on your thinking cap today.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I just read ahead. There it is. Well, no,
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: not actually, but like.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: You think ahead.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Think ahead. There we go.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: Soon the bride DM'd asking if I could meet up
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: with her and the maid of honor later in the
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: evening to talk. I'm very nervous at physical confrontations. Are
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: you guys going to be sword fighting?
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: How many times have you sword fighted?
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: How many times have you had a physical... Confrontation?
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: And felt like they might use that to their advantage
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: to shoehorn me into an agreement. Plus, whatever we'd say,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be able to screenshot. Then she said we
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: could meet at my favorite tattoo. Well, a piece like
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: four to make sure I have proof of everything and
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: then recount it all on Reddit.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Whatever she says, IRL, I can't screenshot it.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: I cannot.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: That's a problem for me.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: I have to remember it. Then she said we could
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: meet at my favorite Thai place halfway between where we
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: lived and she'd pay.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Free food.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: I go, what's the catch?
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: Bribe. Bribery.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: I'm taking it.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for free Thai food? Yeah.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: So right now I'm getting ready to leave and our
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: reservation's in an hour. We'll update once it's over. Edit.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: One of the bride's huskies needs to be rushed to
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: the emergency vet. So the talk didn't end up happening.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: We might talk tomorrow or Saturday instead. Messed up. No Thai.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: No free tie, bro.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: That's... Over the dog? I hope the dog's fine.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, me too.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: No, there's no free tie. The dog's fine.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Update two. She probably just didn't want to pay for
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: the free tie.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, she doesn't even have a husky.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lie. Update two. No one is
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: reading this anymore, probably.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: A lie.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: But this is the mini final update. There will be
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: no wedding ceremony. The bride was diagnosed with terminal illness
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: and due to the hospital effing up and her not
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: having insurance, her prognosis is poor.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: That took a turn.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: The groom is going to elope with her as quickly
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: as fathomably possible in the next three months, just to
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: make sure she won't pass along with her parents' horrible
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: last name. Oh, boy.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: What a left turn. So maybe you should have did it.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a sign that you should have went through
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: with it.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like, she's got the trump cards of
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: all trump cards there. She just goes, now will you
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: do this sort of thing?
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: My final wish.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Damn it. I actually have to.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: To anyone seeing this in the future, I just have
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: one request. Please keep it respectful to the bride now.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: As far as I'm aware, she didn't recognize she had
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: the terminal illness, but I wouldn't be surprised if she
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: was hiding it just to not burden us. I have
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: a slight suspicion her strong desire to leave a lasting
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: prank during the ceremony was her coming to terms with
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: all of this beforehand. I will not be answering any
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: more questions about the bride nor the diagnosis. nor further theories.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: This is not a prank. It's 100% true, and I
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: will not be tolerating anything against my best friend's wife-to-be.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, Billy Tom says, maybe she's pranking OP to guilt
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: him into it.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Truly diabolical. That was really sad.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Take a turn.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: But we have another story. Maybe it's less sad.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Let's get out of this one.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, whoa.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: My friend vanished days before his wedding. but his fiance
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: refused to cancel the party.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Who are we throwing the party for?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: My buddy Kalen was supposed to get married to his
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: ex-fiance Haley next weekend. They were together like four to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: five years and seemed like a perfect couple in love, happy,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: always doing sweet things for one another. We always joke
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that they were relationship goals. So everyone was shocked when
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Haley called us last week, frantically asking if we knew
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: where Kalen was.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Amber alert.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Amber alert.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Amber alert.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Where's Kaylin?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yes. It's spelled like Jalen, but with a K.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Kaylin.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Why are there so many Jalens in the NBA?
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: True.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: It's a song. You would love it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: You played it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: He just didn't come home from work that day. No warning.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: No nothing.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: That's actually kind of scary.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: That's like a very concerning.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know what all went down, but a couple
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: of days ago, Haley makes a post that the wedding
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: is off, but there is still going to be an
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: unwedding party slash reception because it's too late to get
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: most of the refunds.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, the only way this is acceptable, she found Kaylin
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: and Kaylin said, I don't want to marry you. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: wanted to walk out on you. That is the only
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: way that having an unwedding party is acceptable.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: If Kalen is still missing.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: And no one knows what happened to him, it is
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: not appropriate to throw a party.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe Kalen's doing a surprise party.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Time out, time out.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Kalen's gonna be there. We throw a search party where
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: we get all fueled up.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: And then we go looking for him.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And then we go look for Kalen. Okay.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Was it Haley? Haley's just Slurms McKenzie. You guys who
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: know that?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yes? No idea.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Children.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I just didn't have TV growing up.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Immediately after, Kaylin starts messaging all of us upset, asking
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: if we're going. Okay.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Kaylin is okay. Kaylin is okay. Which immediately, I'm like, Kaylin, dude,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: you just walked out on your fiancee?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Apparently, he was going through something but wanted to stay
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: together and Haley broke up with him instead. Now he's devastated.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Is that something a girl?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay. There are very few things that you can
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: go through and just vanish off the face of the
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: earth and it'd be okay.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We're going through something or through someone?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: He's furious that we're thinking of partying when that will
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: be just a hard day for him. And he needs support.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Our friends are split. By the way, this comes from 3454324.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And if you want to submit your own stories, go
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to the r slash OKStoryTime subreddit. OPCS, the way I
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: see it. I already took time off for the wedding,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: our cabins are already booked, and I don't know if
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: we can get refunds. We already bought new clothes for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the wedding, and we were looking forward to a romantic
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: weekend away in the mountains. It sucks that Kalen is heartbroken,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: but he kind of brought it on himself yes plus
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: hayley has upgraded the cash bar to an open bar.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Sick we're partying i'm at the party i'm like yo
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: kaylin sorry buddy but it's open bar time.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: My friendship with kaylin open bar open bar my friendship
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: with kaylin i can't even see it anymore it's.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Gone beautiful things i have seen someone do whenever they
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: cancel their wedding was claire yeah She did this theatrical
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: one-woman show where she talked about why she broke up
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: with Beyonce. It was absolutely amazing. I love that. And
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: we haven't had her on the show since.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It's hard it's hard to contact her how to pin
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: her down but my other friends think that since we're
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: his friends first we should be there for him when
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: he's going through a hard time even if his own
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: dumb butt fault and that we will be responsible if
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: he harms himself while we're partying and drinking.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: That's, that's very incredibly dramatic. And if they think that,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: then they should call, you know, a wellness check or something.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Cause you can't stop. That is not, that's ridiculous.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Yikes.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I think you should go OP. Yeah. You already booked
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: all this. Kalen did it to himself.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: You can't just vanish. You got responsibilities as a person.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Especially right before your wedding.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: They say we should use the time off to do
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: something nice with him instead. Am I the a-hole? We
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: have an update. You can plan another time to be
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: with Kaylin.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: You can say, hey, Kaylin, we already have all this
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: booked and my partner and I were looking forward to
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a nice romantic weekend. I would love to do something
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: with you when I get back.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And Hayley's your friend too, Opie. Yeah. So you
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: got to kind of go on both sides here.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: And she was like basically, you know, stood up.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, Billy time. Just go to Kaylin and say she's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: up the ante and ask what Kaylin can offer you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll stay home, Kaylin. I'll stay home. What are
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: you giving me though?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Katie says that's a massive guilt trip.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Sofa King, party like a rock star, Opie.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Party party.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Kimberly fine. Next thing we know, Kaylin's going to throw
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: his own funeral and make everyone who went to the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: party give a speech about how much he means to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: them to make up for this. What if I threw
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a birthday party and it was a funeral?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: We're acting like I'm dead. What would you say as
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a speech for me?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Like you're like in a little coffin like this.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Are you okay?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: So you just want like little eulogies?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, little eulogies like a funeral. And I talk about
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: my will and what people are going to get.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know why. It just sounds very deep and dark.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I think it would be a comedic fun thing.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Like you want people to say nice things about you?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Say nice things about me. They can like roast me
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But then I talk about the will
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and there'd be a will party. Everyone that shows up
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to my party gets 1% of my will. And that 1%
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: is split up amongst everyone.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah. If there's a will, there's a way.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Take that deal.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You would get the 1% of it, but you'd get like,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: if 200 people show up.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd get 1% of, I get 200. I get 1, 200.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: You get 0.5% of the 1%.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Of the 1%, yeah. Yeah, what if your will says
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I get like 5%? Of the 1%?
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Dang.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And we play games and whoever gets what gets like
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a percentage of that 1%.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: You'd still be in the coffin.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Riley just wants everyone to say how much they love him.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: But he's doing a roast.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I am doing a roast for my birthday. A honey roast. Update!
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Though I didn't make it clear in the first post,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I do consider both Hayley and Kaylin to be good friends.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And wanted to support them both. So girlfriend and I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: decided to take the advice for her to go to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the unwedding and I would stay and hang out with
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Kalen as long as we stay in town. Can't afford
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: that expense on top of what we spent on the wedding.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Kalen didn't want to stay in though because he's too depressing,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: which I get.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: So he's not going anymore?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: No, not on that. Lame. I'd rather go road tripping
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: with buddies than sit at home thinking about my broken
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: heart too. But that would leave me sitting at home
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: alone on a long weekend, which doesn't really help him anyway.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Long story short, girlfriend went up Friday night with friends.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I hung out with Kaylin and the guys until they
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: headed out on Saturday afternoon, then drove up to join her.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: He wasn't thrilled, but seems to understand. The party itself
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't as awkward as I worried it would be.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Of course it wasn't.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: But.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's an open bar.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Not a crazy shindig either.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: You win, Sam, you lose, Sam.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: What is that? I'll never forget when Sam says he
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: wants his friends to boof him. What does that mean?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: It was more.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Do you know what it is?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Like smoke his ashes?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: No.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Smoke his ashes? Yeah. Oh, gosh.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: That's not what boofing is.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It was more like a family reunion for her family
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and also a bunch of our friends. Just a chill
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: long weekend vibe. Kaylee never mentioned Kaylin, the wedding, or
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: any of the drama. But of course, everyone was gossiping.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Kaylee's sister, Lisa, filled my girlfriend in a lot of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the details. The condensed stripped-down version is that Kalen did
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: admit to spending at least part of his missing weekend
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: in town with a female co-worker or former co-worker, but
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: says nothing happened.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So I called it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I knew that's something.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Kalen, Kalen, Kalen, was there really an emergency that you had?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Were you really going through something? Or maybe there was
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: a girl.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: He was going through someone. Honestly.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: He told Haley he was nervous about the wedding and
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: she's a good friend. The co-worker confirms they never hooked up,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but she also said that he never told her he
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't single, which he said is a lie slash mistake.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to believe. Kalen still won't talk
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: about it, which... That's all his business, but it doesn't
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: make him look good. Girlfriend and I dipped out early
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and spent the next couple of days just hiking, chilling,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and not putting out any fires for the first time
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: since mid-2020. It sounds like you needed this trip, honestly.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like you had a good time just,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: you know, hanging out. Because, well, like, clearly OP didn't
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: have to stay with the friend group the whole time. Like,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: most of it was just, we have a cabin and
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: we have a place to stay in this pretty Area.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I wonder if it was Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, or this
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is like a mountain area.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Mountain area?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Mammoth.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: The Appalachians.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: That's the update. Not a lot of drama. The closest
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: we came to drama was when I got texts from
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the other group warning that Kaylin wanted to drive up
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to the party and drunkenly confront... Kaylee. They calmed him
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: down quickly. He's a mopey, docile, wasted. And wasted.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I can picture that. Like, he just says it and
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: all the guys go, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: don't do that.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Don't do that. Don't do that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it right now.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Are you sure? Don't do that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: He's gonna drive him there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna take an Uber.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I have my keys right here. No, no, no. Give
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: me the keys.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Sorry, it's not more exciting, but people message me asking
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: how it went and I didn't want to leave you hanging.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you for your service.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: That is the end of that update and story, but
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: we got another one.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Sure do.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: That was fun. That was a good one.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I deleted all their wedding photos. Because they wouldn't feed me.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Should have eaten the wedding photos. I'm not really a photographer.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I'm a dog groomer. Okay.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I don't even know what to.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Say to that. I don't know anything about you yet, dude.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: This means nothing to me.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So why did you take the job?
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I take lots of photos of dogs all day to
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: put on my Facebook and Instagram.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: It's my thing, if that makes sense.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: This is like me when I come up with like
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: something and then I say it and then Riley's like,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: that has nothing to do with the story.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, it does. I promise. Just wait.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: This may be the big thing, but like I'm over
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: here and eventually it will be like.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, So eventually we'll understand why this is important.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Cut and a photo with every appointment. I very seldom
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: shoot things other than dogs, even if I have a
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: nice setup. Friend got married a few days ago and
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: wanted to save money.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Asked if I'd shoot it for them.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I told him it's not really my forte, but he
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: convinced me by saying he didn't care if they were perfect.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: They were on a shoestring budget, and I agreed to
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: shoot it for $ 250, which is nothing for a 10-hour event.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's insane. That's actually crazy.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they're not professionals.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but even still, for a 10-hour event, you should
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: still at least pay them just for the time. time
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: that they were there.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's 25 an hour yeah maybe for a friends
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: and family fee i guess.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: So i guess that's not that crazy probably at least do.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: 300 on the day of i'm driving around following the
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: bride as she goes from appointment to appointment before the
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: ceremony taking photos along the way they better be paying
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: for your gas that's all i'm saying ka-chow.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Yes they better be paying for that gas.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I shoot the ceremony itself, and during the reception, I'm
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: shooting speeches and people mingling. I started around 11am and
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: was due to finish around 7.30pm. Around 5pm, food is
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: being served and I was told I cannot stop to
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: eat because I need to be the photographer. In fact,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: they didn't save me a spot at any table. I'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: getting tired and at this point kind of regretting doing
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: this for next to nothing. It's also unfortunate.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Unbelievably hot.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: The venue is in an old Veterans Legion and it's
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: 110 degrees Fahrenheit and there's no AC.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: $ 2.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: 50 was not worth it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Ooh, I would hate that. The only thing I would
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: advise you is... Actually, I'll wait. I'll advise you after
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: this next sentence.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: By the way, this comes from Icy Reserve. $ 69. 95.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: And if you want to spend your own stories, go!
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: To the r slash okay story time subreddit as op
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: says i told the groom i need to take off
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: for 20 minutes to get something to eat and drink
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: there's no open bar or anything i can't even get
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: water and my two water bottles are long empty he
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: tells me i need to either be the photographer or
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: leave without pay wow i do leave that's actually wild
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: this is your friend I don't even care. Whenever people
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: even come to the gardeners and stuff, we come to
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: the house, we give them drinks, we give them lemonade.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: We're like, hey, we made an extra sandwich.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: You want it?
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Never have I ever just been like, no taking breaks.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Get up off your lazy butt and start taking pictures.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: That's insane. How do you do that? Especially to a friend? No.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I asked if he was sure and he said yes.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: So I deleted all the photos I took in front
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: of him and took off saying I'm not his photographer anymore.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: He's like, wait, no, I thought you could do the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: other option.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: No, wait, no, that's not what I wanted.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Was I the a-hole? They went right on their honeymoon
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: and they've been off of social media, but a lot
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: of people have been posting on their wall about asking
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: about photos with zero responses.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: You can't just expect to work without any breaks. One
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: without any breaks.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Also, no water.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Water.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Can I can I use can I get a snack?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, 10 hours on your feet, like really focusing
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: on these things. And you're not even like if they
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: hired a professional and.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: OP already worked six hours, which now I guess they're
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: not being paid for.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Even if it was 250 bucks, I'd block a
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: long time ago. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I'd be like, uh, bye. Yeah, I'd be like, this
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: is actually horrific. I guess I'll just leave. I guess
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I'm out of here.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Update.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Four weeks later.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Riley, your favorite Southern belle. We're going
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to get back to these stories, but here's three minutes
• 30:04
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• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Immediately after the wedding, they went off for their honeymoon.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: They went to a cottage up north and didn't use
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: social media for a week. In that time, they got
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: lots of requests for photos on Facebook and I didn't
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: reply to anyone because to me, this was done and
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I didn't want the headache of dealing with the fallout.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know a lot of these people. It's their
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: circle of friends. So I thought it was best.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: They handled it.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: The bride contacted me when they returned and asked me
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: my side of the story. I don't know when the
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: groom spilled the beans, but he wasn't truthful about it, obviously.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Unsurprised.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: He told her I had camera problems and.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Lost the photos. Oh, is that what happened? Actually, that's
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: not what happens at all. Unless you like completely destroy
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: the memory card. Yeah, unless you break the camera. Yeah,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: unless it just like flew away.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there go the photos.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: But no, I told her plainly what happened and told
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: her that while I felt guilty, there's no way to
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: treat someone doing them a favor.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, you do say to her? Your husband literally
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: gave me two options.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Continue to be the photographer until I pass out or
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I go. I took the latter.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: She wasn't in the know about any of this and
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: asked if there was any way we could mend this.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: We got to talking and I've agreed to do a
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: reshoot for some photos later in the season. She wants
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: some photos of just them in an outdoor shoot. Photos
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: of the rings, some artsy fartsy shots.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: And that's it. She offered me the original.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: $ 250 and I agreed under the condition I bail at
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: word one of crap from either of them.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I would also put, can I get water and food
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: in that?
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't do this. I would say pay me
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: my original price. What I'm wondering is, because that was
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: somewhat unclear to me, is OP getting the original $ 250
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: plus more money or just original $ 250?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Probably the original $ 250.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I would not accept that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I would just respond, hey, not a photographer, by the way.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Maybe hire someone.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: If you are upset with my work, then you don't
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: get my work.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: As for the original photos, I offered to bring my
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: SD card to a place that could attempt to recover them,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: but at their cost, and she declined. Word did get
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: out on social media about some of this, and we
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: agreed to sweep it under the rug and try to
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: diffuse or downplay what happened. Of the few comments I
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: did read, they were wholly against me because the story
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: is twisted with the her camera passed away narrative, the
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: groom spun.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I'm upset, but not enough to make a big deal
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: None of them even know my name. I did make
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: two interesting connections, though.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: The DJ was privy to the situation.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: He was the person I vented to originally, and he
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: asked if I'd shoot their band at an upcoming event.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Look at you, P. You keep getting photography jobs.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: The legit photographers are getting pissed off. This dog groomer
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: is doing better than me?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Imagine Christian hearing that.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Additionally, the minister asked if I'd like to shoot some
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: promotional images of his church and choir.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, how did you get two jobs out
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: of this? They're like, hey. No, has anyone even seen
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: your work? I don't understand. I know, yeah, I would
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: ask for.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: They saw Opie do her six hours and like just
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: like working to the bone. Yeah. She's so good. She
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: commits to the bit.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Getting low, getting high.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: She's all over the place.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Hilarious though because again they haven't seen any of the photos.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: They're all just like overexposed let me connect the dots
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: wait but it's hilarious Update two.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Seven weeks later. Seven weeks later.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: A common sentiment in the previous thread was I was
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: a doormat. And I know that.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I guess for taking back the job. Yeah, for taking
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the second offer.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: But if I can justify it just one time, this
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: was never about the money. I'm experienced with photography, but
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: only really in one subject area.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Pet portraits.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: And I would gladly jump at any opportunity to practice
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: and gain more experience and exposure in other areas of photography.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Even if they offered me nothing, I would have gladly
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: accepted the opportunity just so I can practice more and
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: try new things. Plus, it was under the assumption they
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: didn't care. They were perfect photos. I got the bride
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: to correct the record on Facebook that there was a
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: disagreement between her husband and I. A lot of people
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: were upset and actually taking my side for once. The
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: bride said we... All worked it out, which sort of happened,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: and would have some photos to post soon. For my update,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I bailed on the shoot. It was meant to be
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: later in November, so they could have snowy photos, but
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: a few nights ago, they asked if I could do
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: it the day before yesterday. I wasn't doing anything, so
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I agreed. I picked out a location I thought was nice.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: as there's lots of wineries and vineyards in our area. Plus,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: it was relatively close to me. I meet them there
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: and they're both prettied up and ready to go. We
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: congregate around my car while I'm unloading my lights and
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: gear bag and I talk about how the shoot is
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: going to go. I laid out the specific shots I
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: was going to take, then where the lights would be,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: the poses, etc. I asked the husband if he could
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: help me carry sandbags and he declined, saying my.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Job is photographer, not him. Okay, buddy. And then we
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: don't actually have to carry the sandbags anywhere because I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: packing everything else.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Remember, wife said, once they say one thing that's out
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: of line.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: You said your one thing.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: I can understand if it was like something that was
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: going to get you dirty.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Sure. Like a sand. I mean, sandbags are heavy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: It's going to take a while to lug them around
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: with just one person doing it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: It's just going to take longer with you being in
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: the cold. Everyone being in the cold.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's definitely the type of guy of just like, hey,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: can you help me out? No.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: No, it's not my job.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: It's not my job.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: No, I don't work here.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Something in me snapped and I just started loading my
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: stuff up again and got into my car despite their protests.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: I remarked that when they both get married a second time,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: don't contact me to shoot it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Leave me out of it.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Rolled my windows up, locked my doors, and off I went.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: First thing I did when I got home was block everyone.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: All told, my investment in this shoot was maybe 30
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: minutes making a game plan on what shoots and what
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: to bring and a five minute drive each way. As well,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: I'm learning I'm not really cut out for this stuff.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I need more experience, in particular, dealing with clients, before
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I take on this kind of work.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: But I mean, the only way to, you know, to
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: get that experience is to do it. Yeah, it's true.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: But I don't know. I don't think you have to
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: deal with people's crap. Like, that's the thing. Like, especially
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: not for a favor.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: You think Gordon Ramsay is taking crap from anyone? He's
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: not taking crap from anyone.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: He's taking crap from no one. He's putting people's heads
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: into bits of sandwiches.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: What are you?
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: An idiot sandwich.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Actually, we should do like a one word story. I
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: feel like we could come up with a good one.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: I went to my house and saw my mother eating
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: a drink. I thought that it was strange that she
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: was doing that.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: So I exclaimed, stop, you monster.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: What's in that cup?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: To her left, she saw my daddy and other daddy.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: That's two words.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Other daddy. He was very shocked.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, one more story, go.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I went to the store and found my daddy.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: My family excluded my fiance from every wedding photo out
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: of jealousy.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I'm just jealous of her hair, that's why.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: My stepsister invited my fiance and I to her wedding
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: when she heard she was going to be in town
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: to spend time with me. We were long distance and
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: before she flew, she asked me if there was a
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: theme or color or dress code because sometimes people require
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: you to wear something specific. and she wanted to be prepared.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I texted my stepsister and her fiance, and they sent
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: me their wedding website, so I forwarded that to my fiance.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: The website invite said that the vibe was fairy flower
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: forest or camping theme. Those are so different.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, fairy flower forest, triple F.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Camping theme what does that mean if i were a
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: girl and my partner said i said hey what's the
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: dress code and my partner said fairy flower forest or
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: camping theme i would say what.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: The heck does that mean i'm wearing full-on leaves.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah am i doing ren fair fairy outfit or am
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: i like am i supposed to wear like ears or
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: do i yeah or.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Am i bringing a backpack yeah.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Am i bringing a tent Camping fairy.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: You could wear what you felt most comfortable in and
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: bright and fun colors were encouraged. My fiance was still unsure,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: so we FaceTimed and she put on different dresses and
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: asked me which one I thought was the most appropriate.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I told her I liked the gold sparkly dress she
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: wore to her high school friend's wedding the best. That
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: honestly sounds like not the right pick. Any of the
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: themes that were mentioned. She asked me if maybe it
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: was too formal and if she should bring a backup.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: And I told her that to me it looked good
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: because she looked like a fairy with no wings.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Where's the whimsy then?
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I fear that you have led her astray. And there
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: we go. You're done for.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Just go Tinkerbell.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: When she was finally here, every time we visited my family,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: she would ask them what they would be wearing to
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the wedding because she was still worried. And we had
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: time to buy a backup dress since we were buying
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: me a dress shirt to match hers anyway. By the way,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: this comes from Prestigious Focus 63. And if you want
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: to submit your own stories, go to the r slash
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: showcase story time subreddit and op says, My mom told
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: her she would be wearing a sparkly long dress. My
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: stepdad said he was wearing a button up with a
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: matching vest and pants. My cousin said she was wearing
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: a long bright pink dress and my other stepsister said
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: she was wearing a flowery cardigan. Okay, so other people
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: agree with it. So it's not just your fault. It's
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: not just your fault. She finally eased up. So that day,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: we just bought me a dress shirt so we could
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: be matchy. Matchies! Matchy matchies! On the day of the wedding,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: we arrived a little late, but we got there in
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: time for the vows. When the ceremony ended and they
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: were taking pictures, we got to say hi to my
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: mom and stepdad and other family and friends. I noticed
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: straight away that when people saw my fiance, their eyes
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: widened or they gave a weird expression. She noticed this too.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: and she squeezed my hand twice to signal she was
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: getting anxious. When the photographer asked our side of the
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: family for photos, I took my fiancé' s hand to include her,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: but the photographer said, family only.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Uh, she's my fiancé?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I go, she is family. What makes you think that, huh?
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: I told him, she is family.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: She's my fiancé, but he still said no.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: Why is the photographer, is this.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Really annoying and like probably bride's doing of not letting
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: fiance be in the picture? But if like good photographer,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: because you kind of don't want to have to deal
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: with that. You know, you don't want to be the
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: one to kick people out of the photos. You get
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: the photographer's doing his job. All of this nastiness aside,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: the photographer's doing a good job. It's just to have
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: an upside. Is that all you wanted to say? Yeah,
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: it's just kind of like a guy would hire him.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: The photographer's in the right. He's being a jerk, but
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: he's being a right jerk. Yeah, I mean, yeah. He's
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: doing his job. What more can you say? She gently
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: let go of my hand and mouthed to me that
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: it was okay and smiled that I knew she was hurt.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: After taking photos, I asked my stepsister, who was the
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: maid of honor, if we could take a picture with
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: the family and my fiance in it. She said she
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: was sorry and it wasn't up to her. Who is
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: it up to?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: The photographer.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the photographer.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: It's in the, it's in their vision.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Oh wait, she asked who the bridesmaid or who the
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: maid of honor was. She asked the bride.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: She asked the stepsister, my stepsister, who was the maid
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: of honor. Okay.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: So she asked the maid of honor and she said, oh,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not in charge, which.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Which is, I mean, she isn't.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I found my fiance at the bar area by herself
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: and I told her what happened and she said it
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: was okay and we should just try and have a
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: good time. Throughout the party, every time the family would
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: take pictures, the photographer would say that my fiancé couldn't join,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: even when it was a group picture that included both
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: the bride's and groom's families. I also noticed that people
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: would ask her to stand somewhere else if she was
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: seen in photos.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Aww. Being punked right now? What's going on?
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: She kept squeezing my hand and whispering to me that
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: it was okay, or that she understood, or that she
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: was okay. But I was getting more and more bothered
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: by how judgmental people were looking at my fiancé. and
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: how everyone was excluding her from being photographed. When my
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: fiance went to the restroom, I walked up to my
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: family and just asked why they were excluding her from everything.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: And they said it was her dress. They said it
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: looked like she was upstaging the bride. Wow. I told
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: them that wasn't her fault, and she wasn't doing it
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: on purpose, and that we thought this dress was okay,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: and that she even wore it to her friend's wedding,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: who had a similar fairy flower garden theme. They said
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: that they understood that she couldn't have known, but if
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: she wanted to be included in wedding activities, she should change.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: But like, are any of the family members who are
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: saying this right now, any of the ones who looked
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: at the picture and said that it was okay? Because
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: if they are, that's so stupid.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if they're the ones that were like, yeah, this
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: looks so good. And then they get there like, why
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: would you wear that?
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I just say, if she's not included, then I won't
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: be included.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: And I throw stuff. Yeah.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: And then I throw a tantrum and food at the bride.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Look at this photo.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Look at this graph. I like that one. I told
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: them that was impossible since the venue was miles away
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: from anywhere we could buy a dress and my apartment
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: is a three hour drive from the venue. When my
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: fiance came looking for me, she heard a little bit
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: of the conversation and said that she was very sorry
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: and she would try to find a way to dress
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: it down so it would be less problematic for everyone.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Everyone gave her a look and walked away.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: She's doing what she wanted. What do you mean?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Everyone gave her a look.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: I looked right back. Yeah, she's just freaking pretty. She's
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: just gorgeous. Sorry.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Sorry my beauty is like hurting you guys.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Sorry that I'm a beauty and you're a beast.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Ooh, take that. She took off all her jewelry except
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: her engagement ring, let her hair down, braided it, changed
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: her shoes to the sneakers. we brought in the car
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: and washed off her makeup. Wow. Throughout the party, people
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: were still looking at her and treating her weird. And
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: even when everyone was on the dance floor, my family
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: told me she couldn't dance because she might be caught
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: on camera in the back.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: What?
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: This is insane.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: That's actually wild. I couldn't take it anymore. I took
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: my fiance and told her I wanted memories with her
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: and took her to all the spots where the bride
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: and groom and wedding party had their pictures taken. And
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: we took pictures and videos of us.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: It's so sad that she took off all her makeup
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: and jewelry though. I'm sure she's very pretty, but like
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: to have to now take pictures when she's not all
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: dolled up and her hair's not all, you know, nicely done.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Like that's so rude.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: It's just why, like this is all, it all stems
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: from just insecurity. Yeah.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with this girl.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: And this girl has to like feel bad about being herself.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Literally. That's insane. We were dancing and laughing and I
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: told her that I couldn't wait to marry her and
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: that I loved her so much. And she told me
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: the same. I was ready to go home, but she
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: told me we should at least say goodbye. So we did,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: but only to the bride and groom. When we were
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: on the car ride home, I received so many missed
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: calls and angry texts from my family telling me that
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: what my fiance and I did was rude and disrespectful.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: I told them that we already tried to respect their wishes,
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: but they still excluded her and treated her like crap.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: So I'm not apologizing for anything. They said I was
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: overreacting and that she was trying to upstage the bride
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: and that was hurtful. I was going to try and
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: reason with them again, but I just stopped responding because
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to end the night like this. So
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: I told her that I would deal with this tomorrow
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: and told her to put her playlist on. We partied
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: in the car like we were at a rave. And
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: when we got home, we danced. We spent the night
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: together and she's now asleep. Yeah, your family sucks. They're
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: the worst.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: That actually like pisses me off to the max. I
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: hate when other when it's like jealousy like that. Just like, oh,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: my God. Like I've been like jealous of people, but
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: jealous and like, oh, my gosh, like I'm so like
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: it's like happy. Like I'm happy that you get to experience.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: I wish I could as well. But like, oh, my gosh,
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: someone gets to like that's amazing. Like I'm not like
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: one of my friends like got like a part in
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: like a movie and like I didn't like that's just,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: you know, I'd be like, oh, my God, that's freaking sick.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Exactly. Like, that's amazing.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: And I'm not going to be like, oh, well, maybe
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: they just, you know, didn't see me.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like like that is just so rude to do.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Why would you why do you have to downplay? You know, like,
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: who are you?
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, I hate those people.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Jealousy turning saints into the sea swimming through.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: Uh lullaby oh yeah choking on their alibi i love
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: my family and i didn't want to create trauma or
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: take attention away from my stepsister's wedding i understand maybe
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: my fiance overdressed but how they treated and excluded was
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: not okay my family says i overreacted and owe them
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: an apology you overreacted.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: You literally said verbatim she can't be in any of the.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Shots like how is that not an overreaction Like, I mean,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I get because we always have this argument of like, okay,
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: they're wetting their rolls, but that's just blatantly disrespectful.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just bullying.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: Like, why even invite them? Yeah. You know, like, I
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: don't know. Or give a better description of what to wear.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Yes. I don't know.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Don't say fairy flower forest or camping.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Camping. What does that mean? Like, give us like a
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: tones of like colors or something. Like, I don't know.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Be more descriptive if you're looking for something specific.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: I feel like I was just standing up for the
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: person I love. Am I really overreacting?
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: No.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: Not at all. Stand up for your girl.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Your family sucks. Go dance in the car with your girl. Yeah,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: and also dance on the dance floor. And who gives
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: a crap? She's probably more comfortable in her sneakers anyway.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: I'd be like, thank you for making me more comfortable.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: Now I don't have to take off my makeup later.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now I'm all clean. Now I'm all nice and
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: in like whatever. Like comfortable for dancing.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, Keon here. We're going to get back to the stories,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: but here's three minutes of ads from our sponsors. Edit.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: I'm going to start by clarifying some things that I
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: didn't get to put in my original post and try
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: to explain in the comments. I have three stepsisters. I mean,
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: I guess they're all evil. The oldest one is the bride.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: The second is the maid of honor. And the third
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: is a bride's maid. I was never close with my stepsisters.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: I never grew up with them and only saw them
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: on holidays. My stepsister, the bride, asked me a year
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: ago if my fiance was coming to her wedding. I
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: told her I didn't know because we didn't know when
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: she would be back in town. So when she sent
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: out their RSVPs, my fiance didn't receive any. Why wouldn't
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: you just receive a plus one? Yeah, that's exactly what
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I thought. But when we bought her ticket two months
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: ago and she would be here in time for the wedding,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: I asked my stepsister, the bride, and she told me,
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: of course, my fiance is invited. My fiance and I
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: have been to several weddings together and separately before we met.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: We both have never brought a backup outfit. We would
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: only bring a pair of comfortable shoes or a jacket
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: for her because she gets cold easily. My stepsister, the bride,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: and my brother-in-law told my fiance and I that they
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: didn't mind that we were late. They said lots of
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: people were late, even grandparents and one bridesmaid and groomsman.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: It didn't ruin their ceremony. They actually got to take
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: extra photos together before it started, so they're not mad
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: at anyone. It seems like the bride and the brother-in-law
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: weren't part of the photo stuff. I mean, I don't
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: know if that was what other people got from that.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: Because they were like, oh, we want you to, you know, blah, blah, blah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Maybe other people said that she was... I wonder if
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: someone else told the photographer don't include.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Someone paid the photographer to be like, Yeah. Op, don't
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: put her in any of the photos. I guarantee you, bride.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know because she like invited her and... Update.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: I texted my stepsister to the bride to ask if
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: we could call and talk about what happened at the wedding.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: We got on FaceTime and I explained everything. She told
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: me she had no clue.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: That my fiance was excluded in photos.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: And that the family was treating her poorly and people
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: gave weird looks to her dress.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm wrong. Okay.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: She said she thought she looked beautiful and loved her
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: dress and was just happy we attended and is now
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: really bummed we didn't have a great time. Yeah, that is.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: So who gave the photographer all those directions?
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: I really hope it didn't turn out to be one
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: of the people that was.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: Like, oh, that's a great dress.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: It has to be someone that knew about the dress.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Because it seems like it was someone ahead of time.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Family member or like a bridesmaid, maid of honor. It
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: has to be someone high up in the wedding to
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: make a call.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Truthfully, yeah.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking it's maid of honor because she was like,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not the one in charge.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: You know. I told her I was relieved because I
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: thought she was the one telling the family to treat
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: her that way. She said she understands how it could
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: seem and she's both bothered and curious herself as to
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: who started the brigade of hate towards my fiancee. She
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: told me that we're clearing things up tonight because she
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: doesn't want this to linger, especially since she and her
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: husband are preparing for their honeymoon soon. She added her
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: sisters to the call and asked them. My stepsister, the
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: maid of honor, said they were just trying to protect
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: the bride because my fiance was trying to upstage her.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: That is such- Oh, my God. Like, OK, tell me
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: you're jealous without telling me you're jealous.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: My stepsister, the bride, said the same thing. She told
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: me that she thought my fiance was beautiful and loved
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: her dress and that she is disappointed that they assume
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: things and that they could act on her behalf and
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: treat someone like crap. without confirming with her first if
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: she actually felt some type of way or not. The
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: maid of honor said they didn't want to bother her
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: and ask because they didn't want to ruin her mood
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: and they wanted her to not have to worry about anything.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure that's why you asked.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure, bud. Because you'd make yourself look like a fool.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: That's why, you idiot.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: The bride said that if they had told her it
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have ruined anything because then things would have been
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: cleared up and everyone would be happy and have a
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: great time and there wouldn't be this issue that we're
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: having right now.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Wait, and then so the rest of the family just
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: took that?
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the rest of the family just went along with it.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Which is crazy.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: And then probably went around to everyone and were like,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: oh my God, I can't believe she wore that.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: That's just like, why? Why start drama at the wedding?
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kim Pryce says, whoever cut the check for the photographer.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering who paid because this is no longer a
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: good photographer if bride and groom hired them and then
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: he did this.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Well, if like maid of honor or like best man
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: came up to the photographer and said, hey, the bride
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: told me to tell you this.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: Check with the bride. That's always check with the bride.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: But in the height of like wedding and you're like, ah.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: That's the photographer's job.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Check with the bride.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: It's whoever's paying me. Check with them.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: I'm just surprised like the rumors spread around the entire wedding,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: but somehow didn't get back to the bride and or groom.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Well, they said they didn't want to bug her. So yeah,
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: they didn't.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I could see it because, you know, they're doing so
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: many other different things.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: Like they're greeting people.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: They're eating. They're getting ready for the next thing. They're
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: doing this. They're doing that.
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: You know, like they're doing everything.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: It's all their day.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: So they have many things to worry about other than
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: like who's in the pictures and who's not.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: OP continues, my stepsister the bride asked them what the
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: heck they said to people like the photographer for them
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: to exclude my fiance. They both didn't answer and my
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: stepsister the bride got so frustrated that she ended the call.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: She messaged me after a couple minutes and told me
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: she'll get to the bottom of this because she's really
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: hurt that my fiance had a horrible experience.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, out of the three, but yeah, good successor.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: She told me she'll give me a call once she
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: finds answers. After a couple hours, my stepsister, the bride,
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: called me back and told me the maid of honor
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: said she was just protecting our younger sister, the bride's maid.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: What?
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Since her dress was a similar color, she was jealous
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: that my fiance's looked prettier.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: So it.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Well, so now it has nothing to do with the
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: bride at all.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: Weird how that story just went to ashes.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: She felt insecure and told her older sister... So the
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: maid of honor started telling people that my fiance was
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: trying to upstage the bride and that the bride told
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: her this. This would severely damage my relationship with my
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: sister in a way that I don't know if I
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: could fix that.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no way. You knew it.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you knew it was bad.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: To lie on my behalf? That's why the photographer, a
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: lot of the guests, and our family treated my fiance
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: so badly. My stepsister, the bride, said she was so sorry.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: And to make up for it, she wants to do
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: a little photo shoot with my fiance and I wearing
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: our outfits to her wedding and them in their wedding outfits.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: They want her to be in the wedding book to
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  Speaker 3: post that she was there and for her to feel
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  Speaker 3: like she's family. That's so sweet. i told her i
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  Speaker 3: really appreciated this and that i'm really glad she had
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do with it op continues she said that
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  Speaker 3: she understands that it's hard to accept a new family
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  Speaker 3: member especially if you're so used to the people you
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  Speaker 3: had your whole life she thought that way too with
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  Speaker 3: my mom marrying their dad when we were all teenagers
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  Speaker 3: she said it took a really long time for her
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  Speaker 3: to accept my mom as her stepmom and to accept
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  Speaker 3: that her dad was happy and in love with someone
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't her her mom she said she doesn't think
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  Speaker 3: it's hopeless and i shouldn't give up on the family
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  Speaker 3: yet about them accepting my fiance she's been amazing throughout
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  Speaker 3: this whole thing and the more she gets to know
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  Speaker 3: her the more she sees why i love her i
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  Speaker 3: told my stepsister thank you and that i'm grateful to
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  Speaker 3: have her as a sister we said our goodbyes and
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  Speaker 3: hung up and now what i assume you all wanted
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  Speaker 3: to see the dress oh dress tax dress tax i
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  Speaker 3: posted the dress.
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  Speaker 2: In the comments You guys ready? Yeah. But again, it's
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  Speaker 2: not even about the white dress. It's about Third Step
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  Speaker 2: Sister's dress.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the same color.
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  Speaker 2: Same color.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Third Step Sister's dress is quite white. That one I
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  Speaker 4: would say is Fairy Flower Forest.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: But you obviously like that's the bridesmaids dresses, though. They're
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  Speaker 4: all different styles and different colors, which actually they kind
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  Speaker 4: of look like the same style. No, they're different.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing I would say is that it just
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  Speaker 3: looks a little white. OP isn't pictured there, I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: OP is not in the photo.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, is OP a guy?
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  Speaker 2: OP's a guy.
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  Speaker 3: OP's a guy?
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  Speaker 4: I thought OP was a girl.
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  Speaker 3: This whole time. I don't know why you said that
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  Speaker 3: earlier and I was confused. Well, thanks for correcting me.
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  Speaker 4: Now I went that whole time thinking it was a
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  Speaker 4: gay story.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's not. Now my dreams are crushed. Thanks!
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  Speaker 2: Because if OP was a girl, she would have been
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  Speaker 2: a bridesmaid.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I thought! I literally was like, why didn't
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  Speaker 3: they have her? Now I get it, guys. All coming together.
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  Speaker 1: Now I get it.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the end of that story. And the end
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  Speaker 2: of this episode.
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  Speaker 3: So if you love us, make sure to subscribe. We
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  Speaker 3: love you. And see you tomorrow.