#22 Wedding Planning

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.1 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week: It's awesome in the sacred sense - but stressful in the practical sense. The Facts Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Additional music came from Kyle Morton, Sex Life, and Xolo We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Rikki Novetsky. Our field producers were Sylvie Douglis and Nick Fountain. Production Assistance came from Jacob Cruz, Emily Kennedy, Melanie Kruvelis, Jessica Langley, Sarah Melton, and Sarah Stodder. Thank you to Meg Keene at A Practical Wedding, Erin Boll, proprietrix of the Instagram account Pisces Bride, Stevie Lane who designed our wedding invitation, and for helping us find Sue and Austin. Learn More Source for the inverse relationship between the cost of weddings and duration of marriages: ‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration. At one point this was the most downloaded paper on SSRN, the database we found it on. Here's the link to Tamara Sniezek's paper, Is It Our Day or the Bride’s Day? The Division of Wedding Labor and Its Meaning for Couples. You'll never look at invitations the same way again. Several years ago, Slate did a great, concise post about wedding averages and how they're reported, The Wedding Industry's Pricey Little Secret. Rebecca Mead's book is called One Perfect Day, and you can check it out at the library, like we did, or get it... you know where. (Amazon, you can buy books on Amazon.) Our Sponsors eero - For free overnight shipping, visit eero.com and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter “awesome" to make it free Hello Fresh - To get $35 off your first week of deliveries visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code "AWESOME" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5	no we think that we're gonna about the mauch pit? No.
0:32.5	We think that we're going to close the night out
0:34.5	with a late night mauch pit at like 10 o'clock.
0:37.5	10 o'clock.
0:38.0	We asked two friends to make a mauch pit
0:39.3	playlist for us.
0:41.6	So by that time your clothes are all messed up and everything anyway.
0:44.0	Yeah. Yeah.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:46.0	Sue and Austin were never going to get married.
0:49.0	We've been together for almost seven years and neither of us really wanted to get married until
0:56.5	like for me I didn't want to get married until I met him and then I was like oh I
1:00.4	want to have this experience with you but we were both a little hesitant because our parents are both
1:06.9	divorced and yet we are like a little under three weeks away from the wedding on
1:12.2	September 17th.
1:14.3	That's crazy. We picked Sue in Austin out of more than 200 couples
1:19.2	that volunteered to have us come record their wedding. We were looking for someone who was having a
1:23.7	standard secular American wedding, so vows, dinner, friends, family. Sue and Austin's
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