Hello, Chillas! Welcome to the Bride Chilla podcast where we celebrate love and help you plan your wedding day.

I'm your new host, Leah Hasledge, and I'm

thrilled to be here with you. For all you veteran chillas, you know this podcast is all about

keeping it real and having fun, and I'm here to continue the good times with occasional check-ins

with Alicia. Whether you're just starting to plan or counting down the days, we're here to help

you stay calm, cool, and collected throughout down the days. We're here to help you stay calm,

cool, and collected throughout the wedding journey. We've got amazing guests and expert tips for you,

so let's get this wedding party started and embrace your inner bride chila. Hey, Chillas, I'm so excited.

I'm here with an OG Chilla guest, Leah Weinberg, who is an author, and she is the

co-founder and partner of Oderberg Law, and the book, The Wedding Roller Coaster, is so, so good.

Thank you for sharing it with me. And even though I'm not in the wedding planning process right now,

I've been there before. Maybe I'll do it again in the future. Who knows? But it really spoke to me. And I love that you're so inclusive and so open and just like,

you're so warm. Thank you. Thank you so much. What inspired you to write the book?

Well, I had the book idea originally in 20, back in 2017 after a conversation I had with one of my clients that sort of spurred me to kind of think about all the weird behavior I saw in terms of wedding planning, not only from like the couple's perspective, but all the people around them.

So whether it was the family, the wedding party,

friends, guests, I really, and I'm kind of nerdy, obviously. So I really wanted to understand

the psychology behind it and why people were doing what they were doing. And it took a while to get

the book off the ground in COVID. Obviously, 2020 happened. I wasn't planning

wedding, so I figured this is a great time to finish writing this book. So I call the book my

COVID silver lining because I got to write the bulk of it in 2020, pushed it out in April

of 2021. And so yeah, yeah, here we are. So for those not familiar with you, can you just

give us a brief background about your history introductory with weddings and you have a law firm

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