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Getting hitched, there's a podcast for that, and you're listening to it.

The Save the Date Wedding Podcast, the number one podcast about all things wedding-y.

You're not supposed to laugh beforehand, but I love that we're laughing already.

I featured lots of guests on this podcast so far, wedding bloggers, financial experts, planners,

authors, breathe Alicia.

But there is one guest that I have yet to feature, or should I say a real life person,

someone that has been there and done that, an actual bride.

And this lady, well, she has been there and done that.

I'm not technically allowed to say that I have favourite listeners because you're all my children.

But today, I'm featuring, get this, Melissa, the OG of the Save the Date wedding podcast.

Last January, only a couple of months into my wedding planning podcast adventures,

I received an email from Melissa.

She's today's guest in, it was somewhat an amazing piece of correspondence, I will have to say,

where she revealed that she and her fiancé Brandon were struggling to find a rabbi in Northern California.

She had dressed dramas with her seven bridesmaids.

Gosh, I've got so many questions.

A close family friend wanted to bring his mistress instead of his wife.

How could I not invite this lovely lady on to talk about her wedding day, how it all turned out?

Melissa, welcome to the show

hi that's the longest intro I've ever done for anyone but I'm so excited I'm so

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