You're going to. Hey guys welcome back to thick and thin with me Katie Biladi. Welcome. I'm so

happier here. I'm happy that you have come in for this episode because it's going to be a really good one.

I'm very proud of the research I gathered for this episode and overall just what we're about to learn. It's so honestly so fun. But before I get into the

meat and potatoes of today's episode which is all about the history of the wedding industry and all of these things that even as a single woman here sitting with no romantic

prospects I was so interested in what I was learning and I stayed up till like 2 a.m. last night reading old accounts and things and looking into old fashion trends and it's really interesting stuff so definitely stick with

us but before I get into that I do want to just kind of be honest with you guys and level with you

a bit so I sat down to record this episode an hour ago and I sat down with my tea. I was all ready to go.

Things were going great. I was recording and usually a rule of thumb for podcasting is I put all my devices on silent

put them away from me but for some reason just in the shuffle of things my phone

was sitting right next to me as I was recording and as I was recording I got a text from a friend of

mine that I'm not going to tell you details of what was in the text and whatnot but it just

kind of

kind of a fomo sort of sad, you know,

you know, Foma being the fear of missing out

and reading it, I felt kind of, I was like, like whoa I feel really excluded right now I feel kind of sad

reading this text and I was sitting here you know mid like in the middle of a sentence like mid train of thought and I was like whoa I am feeling very sad all of a sudden and I can't keep talking like I'm my mood has been deflated I need to I don't know what I need to do I was like very very

conflicted in that moment but I was like I can't record I can't keep talking and

pretending like everything's okay because I am really devastated right now and so I kind of you

know took a deep breath before reacting because that is something that I've learned

in my adulthood don't react when you're in the heat of feeling.

Give yourself a moment to, you know, process things and decide how you want to react.

And what I did was I, you know, responded in a way that I am proud of and then I got up and I went for a walk with my mom.

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