Welcome back happy hour listeners. I'm one of your co-host back at Kufrey and I am your guest co-host for the day. Serena Pitt.

Yeah, it's so good to see your face again. So good to have you back on happy hour. It's always a pleasure when you're around, but we are so excited to be back with you this week to talk all about how life has been after paradise for the two cute love birds, Michael and Danielle.

I am so excited that they are guests today. We have so many questions for them after the reunion and I just can't wait to hear how they're doing life beyond paradise, you know, those trips to the grocery store, date night at the restaurant, all the little things that all the couples look forward to once the season ends.

Just being able to walk down the street holding hands in public and no one understands it better than you. Obviously you and Joe lived this last year. You are now happily married, which I'm so I think this is the first time I've seen you since you've like officially tied the knot.

Yeah, I think it is. That's crazy. We had Joe on a couple of weeks ago to give his side of things, but how have you been? How's Mary life treating you anything new or different?

I think good. I feel like everything in my life feels the same. You know, everyone, someone said to me, I think it was Chelsea the other day was like, it's like on your birthday and everyone's like, do you feel different because you're a whole year older and it's like, I feel the same.

Our relationship feels the same, but it definitely was very spontaneous and exciting and I'm definitely still getting used to calling him my husband. That still feels and sounds so weird to me, but yeah, it's been it's been good and we're still busy wedding planning, which back I'm sure you can relate to the stresses of that.

Oh my god, do I ever well you and I had a separate little text thread happening a few weeks ago when we were talking about wedding planning, it is crazy and I'm sure some women and men, I'm sure just some couples in general love wedding planning.

I for one find it just so stressful so anxiety written, I mean, like you would joke did it right, honestly, going to the courthouse and just having to be the two of you in this like very intimate private ceremony, like very secret, I think was so smart.

Yeah, we have no regrets on the way we did it. I mean, we're still obviously having the wedding, but it definitely takes some of, I don't want to say the pressure off because it wasn't like the pressure of planning a wedding like the actual marriage component, but it's just like, all right, check.

We're married and now we can just deal with like the fun of celebrating that with our family and friends, but like, I feel like it's one of those things like you just don't know until you get into wedding planning, like how many components there are, it's just a lot, it's it's both fun, but also very overwhelming and stressful at the same time.

So overwhelming, you're only going to do it once, so we're trying to enjoy it. I know, I know, that's like you telling myself it's like it's going to be one in john.

Yeah, one more thing I know we have to bring Michael and Danielle on very soon. One more thing I wanted to ask you, have you started wedding dress shopping.

Actually, I got my wedding dress. Yeah, I just from a shop in New York. No, so I went home for a few days to Toronto after we spent US Thanksgiving with Joe,

I was just sitting with Joe, so I went to Chicago, and I knew that I wanted to do shopping with like my mom, my sister, my dad wanted to like come by and see a few like some friends when I was home. And the first story went into because our wedding is early September, they were like, you need to get your dress, like you need to get your dress. I'm sorry, but like it takes six to eight months to order a dress plus like two months for alterations is like the real estate timeline.

Yeah, because I already had two appointments booked. I'm pretty like decisive and was like, I went to one, I went to the next and I got my dress the second one and I'm obsessed with it. And I'm very relieved that that decision's done. So yeah, look at you. Okay, well, I definitely want to get more details. I don't want to share everything. I'm like, you know, I'm blast here.

I'm not even our wedding planning challenge. Yes. Okay, definitely sounds good. Well, I love just chatting with you, but of course we do have our guests of the hour, Michael and Danielle. So I think it's just time to bring them on. Everyone, please welcome them to patch their happy hour.

Well, welcome to happy hour you two. It's so good to see you side by side. Finally, I used to see you guys too. Michael was happy. It was a short time ago that we had just you on happy hour. And I knew I had a feeling. I didn't know any spoilers, but I was like, I think we're going to see him back very soon. And so Danielle welcome. I think this is your first time unhappy hour. Correct. Yeah, my first time on happy hour.

The first chance to actually get to talk. I know. I mean, I got to meet serena. Well, FaceTime. And we met at the. And Joe's at Wells is wedding with both of you. He's in that photo where you tour next to each other. I like zoom in and Joe and it's like, Danielle, Michael and like Joe's head in between them.

I know. Oh my God, that's so that's so funny. Serena real quick. They had a photo booth that Wells is wedding. And since you were sick and you didn't actually go. Joe took a bunch of like photos in the photo booth by himself. And I actually picked one up and I have one in my bedroom, not like on my night stand with a bunch of other polar.

Yeah, I was like, who's the real person in your life? It's Joe.

Yeah, right. It's Joe. Oh my gosh. I saw, I mean, I saw the pictures from Wells and Sarah's wedding. And so you both had obviously at that point already filmed paradise. You were together. You weren't technically supposed to be seen, but like you're not going to say no to your friends wedding. Right. So, I'm like, I'm sorry.

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