My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

Freedom! Freedom. Freedom.

Freedom.

You know, I've been doing a lot of traveling for business and for clients, but I was actually really excited recently to do some travel for family because we had a wedding in our network of friends and family.

And I was actually really excited to go take a couple of days off, spend time with my wife and

my kids, and celebrate. Celebrate a very special day to a very special person in our lives.

And the reason I'm telling you about it is because I wish I had a

chance to come here and tell you how awesome their wedding was, how everything went perfectly,

how all the providers provided on time and to standards, and everything was spectacular.

And now there's one more happy married couple in the world.

But as you can probably tell, that is not the story that I get to share today. Now, the wedding was

beautiful in its own right. And we had lots of good things happen. But we also had some absolute

disasters happen. And what was shocking to me is that when the disaster

happened, the people who were most invested in the weekend, right? The mother, the father,

the new mother, the new father, bride and groom sides, plus, you know, all the family and even the

bride and grooms themselves. When all hell broke loose during their special weekend,

what was surprising to me was how often they did not feel confident or capable to complain

about what was happening to them. Instead, they felt like they had to just

kind of suck it up. They had to accept the situation and they had to just move forward. Now, I

understand that there is absolutely an element of having to adapt. And I'm not saying anything bad

about adaptation or about being graceful when bad things happen.

But let's also remember that there is a very valid, very real set of circumstances

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