You're listening to the Bride Chilla podcast, helping Bride Chilas and Grum Chilas plan their wedding minus the bullshit.

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

Hello, this is Alicia.

Hello.

It was like a weird possessed, Alicia.

I am sitting in a very weird position because I'm recording the podcast on the road.

You've got to find quiet spots, places that you can precariously balance a microphone

and hopefully that are quiet enough.

That doesn't sound like you're in some sort of shopping centre.

Because, you know, unless you're sort of shopping centre because, you know,

unless you're doing the shopping centre podcast, probably not that good, especially for the Bride Chiller podcast. This is a wedding planning podcast. I'm Alicia, the founder of this show. I've

been doing this for five years now, five years. Why don't I say it like that? It's five years. It's a long time

to be talking about weddings. A lot of people think I'm mad, but I bloody love it. And you,

the listener, you seem to find new ways to challenge me in topics, and I mean this positively.

I don't mean challenge me like dad's parents are like, I'm just challenging my

kids to see how far I can push them. Not what I mean at all. But it's always great to find new

topics, find new things to explore, especially about all the other stuff that happens in

wedding planning. The peripheral stuff that a lot of the times wedding magazines and blogs sort of ignore,

but these are the things that generally stress us out, make us freak out and not want to do it anymore.

This is a Q&A episode.

I love these episodes.

It's when you send me a voice message or an email and I provide some sort of answer,

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