We're Officiants! Officiating Nick & Natalie Joy Viall's Wedding - Ep 305
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a surprise all around because Shandy had absolutely zero intention of recapping their experience officiating their friends' wedding. However, on Instagram you requested this with a fiery passion that couldn't be ignored! So today is all about Shandy as WEDDING OFFICIANTS!
As you may know, on Saturday April 26th, 2024, Shandy officiated the wedding of Nick Viall and Natalie Joy, their longtime friends. This episode will contain reflections on the experience, tips (and regrets!) for those planning their own weddings/officiant speeches, unexpected moments, and overall takeaways! Listen on for this unique Dear Shandy episode!
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0:00 - Introduction
2:37 - How/When Did Nick & Natalie Ask You To Be Officiants?
5:58 - How Did You Make The Decision To Officiate As A Couple?
6:10 - Was One Of You The “Official” Officiant?
8:13 - Would You Have Accepted For Any Couple In Your Life Or Only A “Special” Couple?
9:05 - How Did You Prepare?
11:27 - What Sort Of Planning Did You Do With The Couple?
14:50 - Humor
17:20 - How Much Did You Share With The Couple Beforehand?
17:43 - Have Either Of You Ever Officiated A Wedding Before?
17:47 - Since You’ve Known Nick Longer Was It Difficult To Make It Feel Equally Personal For Natalie?
18:59 - Were You Nervous? Who Was More Nervous?
22:55 - Overall Tips/Regrets
25:31 - Did It Make You Nostalgic For Your Own Wedding?
28:58 - Do You Feel More Responsible To Stay Together Now?
29:38 - Can Shandy Officiate My Wedding?
30:40 - How Did You Enter The Ceremony?
30:58 - The Couple’s Vows
31:07 - Unexpected Moment
33:05 - Was The Baby A Part Of The Ceremony?
33:23 - Did Nick Cry?
34:08 - Did You Cry?
35:06 - How Are You Friends With Nick?
38:28 - Did You Ride The Mechanical Bull?
39:09 - Was There Anyone Who Made You Starstruck?
40:22 - Did They Tell You What To Wear?
40:47 - Sharleen’s Looks
44:04 - Did You Bring Ruby?
44:50 - People Article Misspellings
46:44 - What Was Your Favorite Things About Savannah?
48:02 - Overall Thoughts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Until we finish this officiating, I was actually planning on asking you for a divorce. |
| 0:04.4 | Oh, shucks. But now we're good. |
| 0:08.4 | Dear Shandy. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. Hello, Andy. How are you today? A little tired, but |
| 0:18.2 | feeling good, feeling relieved. |
| 0:21.2 | Yes, yeah. |
| 0:22.2 | We are a little pooped. |
| 0:23.9 | We just arrived back from Savannah last night. |
| 0:26.7 | We're recording this on Tuesday morning. |
| 0:28.6 | This will come out on Thursday morning. |
| 0:30.4 | The wedding we officiated, which is what this episode is all about, was on Saturday evening. |
| 0:34.9 | Nick Vyle and Natalie Joy now Vyle's wedding. |
| 0:38.5 | And it was such an honor. |
| 0:40.1 | And we truly had never intended to make an episode about this. |
| 0:45.5 | Like, it actually feels weird. |
| 0:46.8 | In fact, yeah, I felt kind of when people first started asking, |
| 0:50.0 | I was like, why would we do that? |
| 0:51.6 | And then it was just like, people would not stop asking for |
| 0:54.6 | this type of episode. So we just succumbed. I mean, the fact of the matter is, we could have had a caller episode in this slot. It was supposed to be a caller episode. People would be like, hey, you're not too many caller episodes. So now you've got one less caller episode. Well, no, that color episode's getting bumped. |
| 1:09.4 | It will still come out. |
| 1:11.0 | But it's funny. |
| 1:12.3 | Like it was supposed to be a color episode. |
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