Wedding Bonus: Bringing Your Own Food, Skipping Thank You Notes, Inviting Yourself, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this bonus wedding-themed episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about paying for weddings, scheduling mid-week ceremonies, skipping thank you notes, bringing your own food, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- Who pays for a wedding?
- Is it rude to have your wedding on a holiday or on a day other than Saturday?
- I'm a bridesmaid and am feeling under-appreciated by the bride...what should do I do?
- What do I do about people who are inviting themselves to my daughter's wedding?
- Is it OK to donate to charity in lieu of sending written thank you notes for wedding gifts?
- Do you have to give a gift for someone's fifth wedding?
- Is it OK to bring your own food to a wedding reception?
- If a reception takes place a year after the wedding, when should you send the gift?
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- Average cost of weddings
- Style Guide: The name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Vegan wedding guest shamed for being 'rude,' bringing her own food
- AirCal
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
TRANSCRIPT
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there's Nick and it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, please |
| 0:03.7 | subscribe to our show and follow it in whatever platform you're listening to us |
| 0:07.8 | on. Yes, whatever app you're using right now there's probably a plus button |
| 0:11.2 | or a little bell or it says subscribe. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, tap that please. |
| 0:15.4 | Just a quick little and it makes such a big difference for us. |
| 0:18.4 | We would really appreciate it. |
| 0:20.1 | We really would. |
| 0:20.7 | So please do that and thank you. Thank you. And now let's start the show. |
| 0:24.7 | Yay! |
| 0:25.9 | Hey everybody it's Nick Leighton and I'm Leobonema. |
| 0:31.2 | And we're in New York today and we got so many more questions about weddings that we have an extra wedding |
| 0:37.7 | bonus episode. |
| 0:38.7 | Extra wedding episode. |
| 0:39.7 | It's kind of like a second wedding. |
| 0:41.7 | Do you have to give us a gift for a second wedding? |
| 0:43.6 | Good question. We'll talk about it in a minute. So our first question though is who pays for a wedding? |
| 0:50.1 | I believe historically it has been the father of the bride yeah because it was sort of a |
| 0:57.1 | paying off of properties I believe is what it was right? Thank you so much for taking this off our hands. |
| 1:02.6 | Yes. |
| 1:03.6 | They were investing in the next man who is going to take care of the daughter. |
| 1:08.4 | Right, right. |
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