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You're listening to the Bride Chilla podcast, helping Bride Chillas and Grum Chillas plan their

wedding minus the bullshit.

One podcast at a time with your host, Alicia McCormack.

Well, good day to you. It's Alicia here, founder of Bride Chiller, host of the Brad Chiller podcast,

this year podcast that you're listening to. This is all about planning your wedding minus

the insanity and or bullshit.

And this episode, well, it's a requested topic by multiple members of the Bridechilla

community, specifically Steph, she started the thread and then it went off, it went sick.

In non-idiot terms, people were really into this conversation because I think a lot of times

we entered the holiday season. I'm talking about Christmas, New Year Americans celebrate

and Canadians, different times of year, Thanksgiving, when we have an almost obligation to

attend certain family events that a lot of us do not want to

fucking attend. And I don't want you to think I'm shitting on family events. That's

not the intention behind this episode. But I do realize that a lot of people are in situations

where you have combinations of family members, additional family members that are idiots. We've all got them.

And then for many people trying to work out a balance between what you want to do in your

relationship and then what all of the extra people in your life want to do when it comes to

celebrating the holiday season. I'm going to share with you a bunch of great responses from the

Bridechilla community, but I just want to leave this here with you. Rich and I have been in the

UK for six years, and we have gone home for a couple of Christmas holidays, but it's really expensive

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