Batches Media presents The Batches Brides Podcast, a show for the wedding

obsessed and the brides who are stressed. Because after all, it's only one day of your life.

Hello everyone and welcome back to The Batches Brides Podcast. I'm your host Nicole Pellegrino

and today I have with me Lauren K. She's the executive editor and wedding expert from the

Not Lauren. Thank you so so much for being here. We're so excited to have you on.

It's so great to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

Yes and this is actually we're we like to call it an emergency episode of the podcast if you

will. So thank you for coming on with short notice. Basically with Delta variant cases

arising every day, you know, there's a lot of couples that are planning weddings for right now

or late fall late summer into fall and winter that are, you know, starting to panic and they've

been coming at us with questions left and right. So we decided to give them this episode to kind of

help, you know, ease some of those worries. And you know, we wanted an expert on to talk to this

because truthfully I'm no expert. So I'm so excited to have you from the not on just to jump right

into it. I know you guys just did a recent study with your audience about, you know, how people

are feeling and how couples are feeling about COVID. Can you tell us a little bit about that study

and what were the results? Absolutely. And I mean, I just say once again, my heart goes out to all

these couples. If you'll go a little like deja vu from 2020, you know, a lot of it is the waiting

and the guessing game that really, you know, just tickles that anxiety inside you a bit. So

I don't envy anyone, but I want to tell you that that is absolutely here to help. We recognize

that this is unprecedented in some ways, but precedented by what we went through in 2020. So

like you said, we went out to our audience of 2B beds and surveyed in to see how is the

Delta variant impacting their plans for their weddings. So as you know, this is gearing up to be a

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