Ashley Hesseltine | Your Husband Isn't Your BFF & Other Wedding Hot Takes!
Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe
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🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
#953. Fresh off her wedding and the release of her comedy special Here Comes the Bride, Ashley Hesseltine joins Kaitlyn for a full girl-chat deep dive on wedding hot takes, marriage after 40, and the unexpected way she met her husband at a Girls Gotta Eat live show.
The two unpack the viral moment from Ashley's vows where she said her husband is not her best friend, why she's chosen not to have children, and how getting married at 42 gave her a completely different perspective on relationships. They also debate relationship comfort levels: Is a little toot toot in front of your partner acceptable? Should some things stay a mystery? And does your husband really need to be your BFF?
Plus, Ashley opens up about turning her real life into comedy material, moving to Los Angeles at 40, starting over in a new city, and why making a big life change might be a lot less scary than people think!
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| 0:36.1 | You're listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. Hey, everybody, welcome to Off the Vine podcast. I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow. And today I am, I'm always excited to talk to anyone from Girls Got to eat, whether it's Raina or Ashley. We all know her from the pod. And she just got married, released a comedy special. Here comes the bride. So we get into all of that what actually changes |
| 0:54.9 | after you get married what she thinks are like hot takes to do at weddings or not do and we also talk |
| 1:00.2 | about her viral moment this video from her vows that went viral it's so funny but she's just like |
| 1:05.3 | someone that you feel like your best friends with even though you maybe only know her from the |
| 1:09.1 | internet so that's what i hope this conversation feels like today that you're just hanging out with a couple besties. We also learn something that everyone's probably dying to know is does she fart in front of her husband? Okay. Let's bring it, Ashley. I always think this is so cool when you can say you have a special. Yeah. Isn't that like as a comedian, isn't that like such a big deal? Yeah. |
| 1:28.1 | You had a special. Our first special. That's awesome. How did it come to be? So I shot it in |
| 1:35.9 | October. This was material that I'd been developing over the last three and a half years. It's really |
| 1:43.3 | focused on moving to L.A., wanting to |
| 1:46.4 | find a partner and dating in L.A. manifesting, and I talk about that. And then meeting my now husband, |
| 1:55.0 | and then planning the wedding and moving in together and being long distance and a lot about him |
| 2:00.6 | and who he is and his dick and |
| 2:02.4 | like all the things you know and then I've gone naturally like not wanting to get married |
| 2:05.8 | not really thinking it was for me right coming around to it and then all the things I did you know |
| 2:10.1 | untraditionally in my wedding there's things about my family and stories just you know about |
| 2:16.4 | growing up and who I am yeah And that's why it's called Here |
| 2:20.2 | Comes the Bride. So it's really just about that whole journey. And I mean, I've been doing comedy |
| 2:25.6 | for 12 years. And who doesn't want a special? But I never felt compelled to material-wise that I had like this full hour |
| 2:37.6 | that I was super proud of. I toured in 2022 and I liked my material, but this all came together |
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