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57. big sister chat... engagement party recap, travel needs + how to deal with burnout · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello you guys, welcome back to another episode of the Hawkgirl Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kaylee, and this is your weekly reminder that it's a
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new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day for
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you to become the hawk orl energy you want to attract. I am now
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officially realizing that my voice is still not fully back from this past weekend.
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Oh my goodness, Happy Wednesday, guys. I am uploading this day late,
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but the reason being is because I'm actually editing this podcast episode on my
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flight to our wedding destination. So anyways, happy to have you here.
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I would assume you guys follow me on social media at this point if you
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guys have been listening to my podcast for a while, and you would know
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that I had my engagement party this past weekend, and I wanted to give
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you guys a bit of a recap because it was such a fun weekend,
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like, oh my goodness, what a way to start the party before the
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wedding, just getting the bridesmaids together, the groomsmen, parents, all that
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and just all of our close immediate friends. What a freaking time it was.
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And I just thought it'd be fun to do a little recap because obviously
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you see in photos, you see in videos everything that's going on. But
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I feel like with the podcast, I can really give you guys all the
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details behind the scenes as to what exactly happened, what went wrong, all
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that. So yeah, I'm gonna give guys a bit of a recap.
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So on Friday, it was September fifteenth, We woke up super early that
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morning Trent and Brodie, so you guys know Trend, hosts of the Wellness
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Cafe. My girl, she flew in from Vancouver literally just for the weekend
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to come to my engagement party, her and her boyfriend Brody, which was
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so sweet of them to do that. So they showed up at two o'clock
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in the morning. So Zach and I the Thursday night, like, we're
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up all night basically cleaning the house, making sure the guest bedroom was all
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set up for Trend and Brody, also just making sure everything was set up
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for us to grab Friday morning when we left for the weekend and all that.
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So it literally took us till midnight to clean and organize everything, and
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then Zach and I were kind of like in a half nap, half awake
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situation, just because we wanted to make sure that Trend and Brody got to
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our house safely since it was their first time coming here. So we were
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in and out of sleep for two hours. Basically, they showed up at
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I think one forty five, and didn't really give them a tour at this
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point of the house, just because we were like, hi, like it's
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two o'clock in the morning, we're exhausted, Like, welcome to our home.
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We're going to go to bed. We'll see you in the morning.
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So that's basically what happened. And then we woke up and I gave Trent
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a bit of a tour. She met Freddie. Freddie loved Trenan Brody and
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I'm trying to convince Funds again a cockapoo because we just love we loved dogs
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here. So anyways, they loved Freddie so much and Freddie loved them,
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so that was super fun. And we went to Starbucks, had to get
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some caffeine in us some food before heading out, and I had some last
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minute packing to do obviously the Friday morning, packing up my clothes all that.
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Like I didn't pack at all until the morning of Like I was so
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focused on making sure like all the decor was packed all, like just everything
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else was just organized because we were doing all the decor everything, Like we
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planned this entire weekend ourselves, so we had to pick up like rentals and
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all that the night before as well. So just pure chaos obviously, Like
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that's just the reality of like hosting big events like that. And I packed
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the morning of, and I made Trend go with Alissa, which you guys
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know I talked about all the time. She's my best friend, because Trent
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and Land were my bridesmaids, Like I didn't want them to know that I
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was setting up this bridemaid's proposal thing. So basically Trent went with Alissa and
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Alyssa actually picked up Land at the airport because Land was flying in later on
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the Friday and I had to be at the guest house to set up the
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whole proposals. So anyways, Alissa was picking up all the bridesmaids. That
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way we can all show up together and they could see the surprise. So
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Zach and Brody went together, and my sister and I went in a car.
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We drove up in separate vehicles but together, and it's about an hour
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away from our home, and so we got to the guest house. We
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showed Brody and Madison like where to put their stuff, and they were just
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in so much awe of the place. Like the guest house was insane.
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It was so nice. It sleeps twenty five people, so it was just
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like a massive cottage basically in the middle of nowhere, Like it was so
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cool. And as soon as we got there, Alyssa text me and she's
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like, yeah, we're twenty minutes out. I'm like, oh my god,
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I'm You're gonna have to stall for probably ten more minutes because we needed
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to set up the whole proposal thing. And then when we got there,
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the girl that owned the venue wanted to give us a tour and making sure
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we knew where like everything was, how to work the barbecue, how to
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work the fridge, whatever, like just like little things like that. So
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I had to do that for ten minutes. And then after that we ran
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back to the car, grabbed all the rentals, set everything up, make
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sure everything looks perfect. I then went back in the guest house put my
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makeup on. All that literally took me like ten minutes to do my makeup,
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like I'd never done such fast makeup ever. But anyways, we got
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or done and then Alyssa was like, hey, we're here, and I
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didn't have my dress on, so I closed the door. And then I
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realized this is the like scary part. I forgot the dress that I was
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supposed to wear for the bridesmaid proposal and I was breaking out. Thankfully,
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my sister was with me, and I like, I didn't cry, but
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I had a full on panic attack. I was like, oh my god,
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like, where's the dress? And I didn't pack it so big.
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Basically I put it on my suitcase like the morning of before we left,
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and I think Tren or someone picked it up and hanged it up because Freddy
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was running on it, so they didn't want Freddie to get dirt on it,
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which makes sense. It's a white dress and I forgot to pack it.
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So I'm freaking out. I'm like, oh my god, like I
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don't know what I'm gonna do, but I remember it. I packed a
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backup dress. Ladies, this is your signed to always have a backup.
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I had a backup dress for the engagement party. Like, I had two
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dresses that I really liked, didn't know what one I was going to pick.
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So basically, in that moment, I had to make the decision of
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one am I wearing to the engagement party and what one am I wearing for
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the proposal, because that's all I had at that point. It completely just
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changed the game plan. So I decided to go for the one that I
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wore, which was like an open back pearl dress. And honestly, guys,
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everyone was saying, I truly believed that it was meant to be for
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you to wear this dress for the proposal because it just totally fit with the
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vibe and everything. Like I had a whole garden party set up, and
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the dress was just so so beautiful and it just matched the vibe completely.
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And honestly, I look back at it and I'm like, yeah, this
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dress is actually better than the other dress I had. And the good thing
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about this situation is that I still have so many more bridle you know,
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things that I have to do, like the bacherette, the bridle shower,
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the wedding, Like, there's so many opportunities for me to still wear white.
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So it's not like I wasted my money and was never able to wear
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that dress that I had planned for the proposal. So it was definitely not
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the end of the world. But obviously you girls know that there's always a
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panic when you have a plan and things change in a lot, But that's
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totally fine. I honestly preferred the dress that I wore to the proposal anyways,
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And if you guys didn't see, you guys need to go on Instagram.
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You have to see the garden party I put together for the proposal boxes.
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It was literally a dream come true. It was better than my Pinterest
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board, honestly, Like the venue already was so stunning, and then just
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adding the gift boxes and just the flowers, the nuts, just like those
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little accents. It just made the space so perfect. And the girls didn't
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even want to touch it. They were like, oh my god, it's
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so pretty, Like I don't even want to open my box, Like Trn
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was like, oh my god, Killy, Like Tren was freaking out.
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She was like, I can't open this, like it's too pretty. I
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don't want to touch it. Like anyways, So yeah, it was so
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fun to see the reactions and see how happy they were, and also just
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like for all of them to say yes and want to come to our wedding
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is also so special, and you know, yeah, it's just nice to
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see all the girls together, and all the girls that have been a part
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of my life for so long and who means so much to me, I'll
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be in one space together and made it so much more exciting for the wedding.
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And so they opened the boxes and I got them a bunch of really
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cute goodies. I will do a TikTok on everything I got them that way,
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you guys can see a full detailed video on everything I got them,
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So I'll make sure to do that. But yeah, a lot of it
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was like travel themed and just like products I personally love that. I like
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brandsercise support One item I will say in that basket that was my favorite was
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the custom l Labo candle. It's the scent Santel sixteen smells amazing and I
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actually got our wedding destination customized on the candle. That way the girls can
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get excited about where we're going, and it's just something to have in your
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home. I always love having a good candle. And yeah, you guys
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know about home decor and all that. For me, I'm very passionate about
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home decor, so I really wanted to get something that was related to the
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wedding but also something that the girls could use in their home. So I
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tried to make everything in the box like usable and travel themed and all that.
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So I think the girls really loved what I put together for them,
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and yeah, I personally loved every single item in that basket. I tried
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not to order things for myself. I did order my own candle because I
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was so obsessed with it, and I did order one more thing for myself.
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I think, as well, I can't number what out of the box
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I got, but anyways, I couldn't not order one more unit for myself
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just because I loved so many of the things. So yeah, so that's
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how we kicked up our Friday, was proposing to the bridesmaids and getting them
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excited for the wedding. And then after that, that's when the guests started
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to show up. Like my parents are close immediate friends, Zack's groomsman,
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all that, we had about twenty five people that slept in the house,
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so it made it so much more fun, like having a whole weekend thing,
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and we wanted to do a little intimate dinner with everybody, so we
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did a really cute set up outside during the sunset, and we had like
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a little dinner. We had sausage, we had passa, we had salad,
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a Greek salad, like just like so many random things. People brought
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some appetizers, we had champagne, just all good stuff, and yeah,
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it was just so so perfect and so so magical and just having that intimate
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dinner was so fun. And then after that we had a bonfire and again
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just very chill vibes because we knew Saturday was going to be obviously very busy,
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and yeah, it was just super chill vibes. And then on the
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Saturday, we all woke up and our parents made brunch, so we had
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a really nice feast in the morning, and then we were just starting to
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talk about like how we were going to set up the engagement party. And
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we did this all ourselves, like we planned everything, We coordinated everything.
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Like I did not hire a planner or anything, just because I knew we
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had a planner for our weddings, so financially, I didn't want to put
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the finances towards that. When I felt like I could do it myself and
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I have no party planning experience or anything. I just have a vision and
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I know how to execute on that. And honestly, the engagement party was
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everything I dreamed of and more like the white umbrellas, the white bar,
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the white cocktail tables, just being in a garden, like that's what I
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wanted. I just wanted a garden outdoor like party all weekend basically. So
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we had everyone that was staying at the guest house help us set up.
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Everything basically went on Canda. I took pictures of the venue. This is
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all before obviously setting all up, and I literally made cartoon characters of where
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I wanted things like that's how crazy I am. I literally made like cartoon
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umbrellas, cartoon cocktail tables, cartoon bar like that way people know, Okay,
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the bar is gonna go here, Okay, the cocktail tables are gonna
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hear, Okay, the couches are going to go over there. So people
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knew where everything was going to be. And yeah, so anyways, it
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was so funny how everyone's like kill you put so much, like little like
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so much effort into like these little details, but it made it so much
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easier to execute on and get everything out. So yeah, and a lot
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of the things we ordered was from Amazon, so there's some things that you
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can't rent that we just had to purchase, and a lot of the custom
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things, like we made Freddie napkins, so you had Freddie's space on it
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that said cheers, Love Freddy, and then we also had stir six that
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said Kay and Zed. The whole theme was Kay and Z for Kaylee and
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Zachary for the engagement party, so we had like a little custom signage all
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that. I'm going to post actual professional photos once a photographer gets those two
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us. We had a photographer there. She took stunning photos. I'm waiting
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to post them though, just to see all the photos that she took.
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But I really want to post some detail shots of just everything we did because
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obviously, like I feel so proud of everything we did that I just want
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to show off what we did because the hard work was so worth it,
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I think, and it came out so beautifully. So I really want to
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post those little details that we thought of for the party and also just give
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you guys some inspo for your future wedding or future engagement party or anything like
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that. At the end of the day, I feel like what I love
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to do is just create inspo and inspirational content for people and yeah, be
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able to use it for future events for themselves. So we set everything up,
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but probably took about two hours, and then at that point I wanted
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to start getting ready, because you guys know, getting ready for an event
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could take two hours, three hours. It really just depends on how long
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your hair and makeup will take. But obviously for me, I'm thinking,
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Okay, I'm going to start getting ready at this time. I'll be done
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at this time, which gives me enough time to film TikTok's you know,
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do this, do that whatever. Of course I say that, and I
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finish literally thirty minutes before the party starts, so I'm stressing out, like
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I have no time to film a TikTok whatever. I made time to film
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one before the party started, thankfully, and I then ran out to the
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photographer because she wanted to take some solo shots of Zach and I, and
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then eventually people started to show up and we had to take some like intimate
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family photos. We took some photos with the bridesmaids, some with the groomsman,
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all that, just some like really nice professional photos and yeah, so
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that was kind of like the first hour and then the whole evening. It
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was just celebrating, Like we had open bar all night, we had a
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live band come, we had a champagne wall, a champagne tower, just
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trying to chat with everybody. Like one thing I will say is that any
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kind of big event like that, you have such a hard time actually spending
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the time with your our spouse. Like I literally barely saw Zach that night.
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I felt like we were both so busy just trying to make sure our
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guests saw us and felt welcomed and felt you know, that they were having
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a good time and all that. We obviously tried our best to make time
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for us, but I felt like the only time we were with each other
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was you know, okay, we got to go pour the champagne tower,
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Okay, we got to go do a speech. Okay, like let's go
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cut the cake. Like that was really like the only times I feel like
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we were together. But that's okay. We know for the wedding, we're
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going to be better at making more time together but still make our guests a
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priority, but maybe doing it together instead of individually. But yeah, there
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were so many people just to make sure that you know, we wanted to
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make sure they felt included and just wanted to say thank you obviously for coming
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to our party and all that and making the time to do so. So
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anyways, that's kind of the reality behind a greasy event. But yeah,
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it was so fun just dancing all night and the live band was such a
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nice touch. I feel like everybody loved that. And yeah, we went
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to bed at like probably two am, woke up the next morning. I
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felt so sick and so just pure exhausted from hosting an event, and you
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know, knowing that we had to clean up the entire event and get out
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of the house by a certain time, and knowing that Sack and I were
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leaving for a trip within twenty four hours after that party was even more stressful,
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but within good reason, Like we know that we're going to see wedding
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venues and that we're excited about it, so you know, we were trying
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to like not be stressed about it. But obviously, traveling in general,
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it's like you have to pack, you have to think of last minty of
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things, you have to buy, all that. So anyways, the next
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morning we tried to be calm and just clean everything up, making sure all
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the rental equipment was ready for pickup and all that, and then yeah,
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the Sunday, we literally did nothing, like we just couldn't do anything.
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Trend and Brody were here land. We dropped off at the airport pretty soon
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after we left the guest house just because she had an early flight, and
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then Trend and Brody left that evening, but we were able to just kind
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of sit down and go through photos and videos. Oh my god, I
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had no time to post anything on the weekend, and I honestly wanted to
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be more present obviously during the weekend. I didn't want to be editing my
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videos, posting my videos, like I really wanted to just make sure I
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was present during every moment of the weekend. And now I'm starting to post
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things on TikTok in Instagram now that I have the time to actually go through
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everything and edit and all that. So I apologize if you didn't see anything
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this weekend and I wasn't that active, but it's because I'd rather create good
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content for you guys and wait a few days after and also again be present
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in the moment of everything that happened this weekend. And I totally like I'm
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so happy I made that decision instead of like putting work first and you know,
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just being in my room editing and not mingling with anybody or anything like
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that. So I feel like I did a really good job balancing that out.
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But yeah, so we had a bunch of last minute things to do
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before our trip, obviously, so we literally went to the mall. And
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I don't remember the last time I went to the mall and did like a
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big shopping hall. Like I feel like every time I go to the mall,
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it's like, Okay, I'll go to Sephora pick up last minute like
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make up things that I need or whatever. No, like Zach and I,
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we went to Zara, We went to lu Lemon, We went to
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a Ritzia, and like went hardcore because I ordered stuff before like because I
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know, we've known about this trip for three weeks now, so I did
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order a few things for the trip beforehand. But there were certain things that
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I really wanted, like a denim jean skirt like a Maxi one that I
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wanted to try on at Aritzia, a jacket potentially, like you know what
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I mean. Like there's just certain things where I wanted to try on in
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person verse ordering. So I found a maxi skirt from a Ritzia. I
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got a jacket from Zara. So there was a few things that I got
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for the trip, and Zach more than me. Actually, I know you
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guys messaged me on Instagram saying like, Kaylee, do a hole, like
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you got so much because I posted a story of everything we got at the
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mall, but honestly, majority of it was actually Zach's, not mine.
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Zach went hardcore. Zach literally bought a full on track suit from Lulu Lemon,
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which Zach does not own one single thing from Lulu Lemon. So it
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was so funny and made me laugh just because I'm like, oh my god,
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you're turning into a lu Lemon boy. But yeah, totally did not,
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Like I didn't even tell him to go in that store. He literally
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came into me at a ritzyam was like, yeah, I think I'm gonna
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buy a lu Lemon track suit. I was like what. I was like,
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totally thrown off guard. I'm like, you don't even have a profile
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there, like you've never bought these. Yeah, I just want to get
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this gray hoodie and gray sweatpants for the plane. Right there, I'm like
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okay, you do that. So anyways, and I love the outfit he
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picked, so I was like, wow, I'm proud of you. Like
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he's getting really good at pick NEOs on stuff now, and yeah, like
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he I just like to help him out when we shop, right Obviously,
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girls know if you have a boyfriend or husband, you like to, you
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know, help them out with their fashion and all that. And I feel
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like, now I really don't, like I don't do anything. Like he's
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really good at like figuring out what he likes and he always asked for my
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opinion obviously, but now he's like really mastered his own style now, which
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makes me happy. And yeah, so he got like a bunch of stuff
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from Zara, a bunch of stuff from lul Lemon, he got a new
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suitcase. Like I'm like, oh my goodness, Like, here's us spending
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all this money on this engagement party. He wants to spend more money on
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clothes, but hey, you do use Zach's. So anyways, I didn't
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do a haul just because the majority of the stuff was his, but we
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had to get a lot of like travel necessities because you guys know, whenever
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you're traveling, you always have to get those like last minute things that are
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like non negotiables. And one thing that Zach and I had to get before
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we left is the Apple air tags, because you guys know, AirTags are
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so crucial, especially when you're traveling to make sure that your baggage is actually
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going to arrive in your destination. And you know, when you wait around
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at the baggage claim, it could be hours and then you realize, oh,
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my baggage isn't here, and you just wasted two hours just standing in
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the airport. Whereas if you have an AirTag, if you find out that
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your baggage isn't at your destination, then you can immediately just go to baggage
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claim and be like, yeah, my bag is in Toronto or Ottawa or
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whatever. It is so highly highly recommend getting an AirTag. It's like forty
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bucks. It's not that much. And yeah, Zach and I got one
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each. And then we also got the chargers for the airplane. There's different
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adapters on the plane just because they're older, right, so they don't have
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the newer iPhone chargers, so we got the older ones from Apple. That
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way we could use it on the plane and charge your phones and not have
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any issues with that. So Apple I find is always essential to go to
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before trips. I feel like they always have like little travel things that you
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don't think about. Another thing Zach got, which was actually kind of smart,
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was these iPhone stands, So it's almost like a mini tripod that you
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can put on the table tray if you're watching something on Netflix or YouTube,
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or even like me, when I'm filming a TikTok, I could like put
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the little stand up so I can film me doing something on the plane for
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an example. So that was really crucial. Another thing we got was blue
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tooth adapters. This thing is so so crucial when it comes to traveling because
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you know, when you want to watch a movie on the flight and on
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the TV screen, they only have the chord headphones that you have to use,
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and then typically if you don't remember your cord headphones, you have to
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buy them from the airplane, which is these crappy ones that are like fifteen
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dollars. Obviously airplanes just chuck up the price about everything, right, So
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anyways, we ended up getting these Bluetooth adapters that way we can plug it
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in and it connects to our Bluetooth headphones that way we can watch a movie
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with our air pods or yeah, just Bluetooth headphones. So I got it
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from Amazon. I think it's like thirty bucks. It's so so worth it
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if you're going on a long flight too, so highly recommend that. And
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then another thing we got was a bag weight scale. But it's like a
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one that you put on your hand, so we can actually bring it to
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our trip and then we can weigh our bags before we come home, seeing
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if they're overweight or not, which I think is so important to get.
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I didn't even know these were things. So basically, it's a scale that
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you could just grab with your hand and you hook it to the bag and
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you lift it up and it tells you how much of the bag ways,
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because I think I plan to do a bit of shopping on there, probably
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not too much, but I mean you might as well, right, get
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some the necessity things that we got. The rest of the things were really
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just clothing. I got some fall pieces. I mean, it's kind of
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a weird time of the year. I find Septembers always very warm, but
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at night it's really really cold and in the mornings as well, So it's
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kind of an awkward time to buy clothes, I find. But I know
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it's going to start getting colder by October, so I'll be able to wear
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more fall clothes over on that period of time. So I kind of packed
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a bit of summer things, a bit of fall things, a bit of
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you know, a mix of both. I really wanted to pack my platform
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ugs, but I know those are going to weigh way too much in my
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suitcase and I'll sweat my butt off if I wear those at the airport,
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so we decided not to bring the uggs. Unfortunately, Zach looked at me
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like I was a crazy person. He's like, you are not bringing your
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ugs to the destination. I'm like, fair enough. So basically that's been
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the past five days for me is just pure chaos, and I'm not gonna
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lie. I am feeling extremely overwhelmed. I'm feeling extremely exhausted. I'm feeling
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honestly a little sick to my stomach just because there's been so much going on
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in such a short period of time. And I really feel like I haven't
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had any time to myself except right now, I guess recording this podcast episode.
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Like I would have loved to do a workout for like twenty minutes,
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or just like do a bit of meditation or something like that, you know
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what I mean, Like just take time to myself. But I honestly really
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haven't had the time because of just planning for a trip and planning the party.
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So I'm trying not to beat myself up for it, because you know,
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obviously being exhausted as well. It's hard to push yourself to get a
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workout in when it's not going to be a good workout because I am just
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so tired and so beat up that I don't have the energy to even do
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a workout, no matter how many energy drinks I drink, no matter how
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many coffees I have, I just don't have the physical energy to do a
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workout. And I definitely think traveling it's always hard to get workouts in.
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But I know I'm going to be walking a lot. I know I'm going
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to be moving my body, so I'm trying to just not beat myself up.
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And you guys know how much I always talk about just how much working
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out makes me feel so good and just makes my mental health feel so good.
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And I know I'm going to be off routine while traveling, But you
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know, I'm not beating myself up for it's going to be such an amazing
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trip. We're going for such an amazing reason, which is finding our dream
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wedding venue and It's going to be so worth it. And then when I
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get home, I'll get back into routine and I'll start to feel like myself
27:25
again. It's just been a bit of a chaotic few days, and like
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I said, it's just pure exhaustion. And I think once we get to
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the country that we're traveling to, a definitely I'm going to make it a
27:36
priority to at least take twenty minutes to myself, whether it's in the morning
27:40
or at night, doing either meditation or a mini workout, just something that
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makes me feel good going into each day or ending the day off, just
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because I think it's so important to take breaks when you're feeling extremely overwhelmed.
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It's important just to take time to yourself and just really try and relax your
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body. Another thing I find helps is a physical touch. I feel like
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this whole weekend, I felt so overwhelmed and the one thing that always made
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me feel better is hugging Zach Like I you know, we would be doing
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things like for let's say like four hours at this point, and then we
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would reconnect and I'd be like, we go have a moment and we would
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just go in the bedroom or would go in the bathroom and just close the
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door and we'd literally just hug for like five minutes, not even saying anything
28:25
to each other, just like hugging. And there was literally no better feeling
28:29
than just hugging Zach and just like reconnecting with him. And it's been like,
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Okay, let's go back out and let's get this done. Like you
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know what I mean, everything was so worth it, and it was so
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perfect and it was so amazing, but we needed those like breaks where we
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just like needed to hug each other and just like you know, know that
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like there's no worries, there's nothing to be overwhelmed about, Like we are
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having such a fun weekend, and like we wouldn't change anything for the world,
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and you know, taking those many breaks was just what we needed and
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just hugging each other. It was just something that felt like home right.
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And then another thing that I find helps when I'm feeling overwhelmed is just having
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the mindset where you can only focus on what you can control. Obviously,
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like the situation with the dress, I couldn't control the situation of me forgetting
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my dress at my house, Like it is what it is, so no
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matter how many hiccups, there were you know, throughout the weekend. You
29:22
know, there was some hiccups with the setup as well, like the umbrellas.
29:25
We didn't think we're going to fit in the umbrella stance that we ordered
29:27
from Amazon, so that was pretty stressful. We ended up finding a tool
29:32
that was able to cut the umbrella ends that we were able to shove in
29:37
the umbrella stand so it ended up working out. But you just have to
29:41
kind of tell yourself that, like, it is what it is, and
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what's meant to be is what's meant to be, and you can only control
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certain situations. And yeah, so I'm very much a believer in what's meant
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to be is what's meant to be, and that's what I always try and
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put in my mindset. And I feel like that's really helped me become a
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very calm person. Obviously, Like there's times where I'm not always calm,
30:04
but I do feel like in busy situations like that, I can really calm
30:10
myself down and just understand, like, Okay, it is what it is,
30:12
and we need to move past this, and what are we going to
30:15
do about it? What can we control and what can we do about the
30:18
situation? So I try and always put myself in that mindset. But that's
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kind of like what I do to help me feel a little less overwhelmed.
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It is just taking those little steps into the situation. So yeah, all
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in all, as I said, like these past five days have been amazing,
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I don't regret anything. Just feeling a little beat up and tired right
30:40
now, but I know like I'm going to get back into it eventually.
30:42
Even like getting extra sleep on this trip, I think it's going to be
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one big priority. Like I don't want to force myself to wake up early.
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I really just want to go to bed early, wake up whenever we
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feel like we need to wake up. We don't have anything rushed for these
30:55
venue appointments. There's no like six am wake up caller, and it's like
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that's all very chill and honestly, we have so much time to relax as
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well and just enjoy a nice dinner or enjoy a nice lunch and just like
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have a chill time as well. So there's a really good balance between travels
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and venue searching. We also have like a weekend trip as well. I'm
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having such a hard time not saying the destination, but you guys are going
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to find out literally in a few days, which is exciting. So but
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yeah, we're traveling to different parts of this place, so on the weekend,
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we don't see any venues, so we'll be able to like tour that
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city and just enjoy a bit of travel time as well. So I'm very,
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very excited to finally be at this destination tomorrow. And yeah, so
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I think I'm going to end the episode off here, but thank you guys
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so much for listening to a little girl chat episode about our engagement party recap.
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It was so amazing and also just you know, some travel necessities and
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just things I do when I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. But thank you guys
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so so much for listening to another episode. You guys know, I love
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you all so much. If you guys are new, definitely make sure to
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There will unfortunately not be another episode next week due to me being out of
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the country. So unfortunately, there'll be no episode next week, but make
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sure to stay tuned for the following week as there will be a new one
32:24
the following week. Love you guys, and I'll see you guys in a few weeks