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Dear Sugars

Wedding Drama, Part 1: Great Expectations

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's wedding season, and the Sugars have been getting all kinds of letters that reflect the anxiety and expectation that accompany preparations for the big day — from a difficult in-law demanding extra invitations to a homophobic mom at a gay wedding to a dramatic friend of the bride who's making it all about herself.

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0:00.0

Dear Sugar is supported by...

0:06.0

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

0:10.0

Sugar is here.

0:12.0

The both of us, speaking straight into your ears.

0:16.0

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

0:18.0

I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

0:22.0

Oh dear, don't you please.

0:27.0

There's some little sweet days we've been.

0:37.0

I check my bedbugs every day.

0:45.0

Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.

0:53.0

Hi Cheryl.

0:55.0

I'm Steve.

0:57.0

It's wedding season and we have so many interesting and juicy and complicated letters.

1:03.0

We say they're about weddings, but honestly, once a wedding starts, it's like a ball rolling down a hill.

1:09.0

It's really the drama is the lead up to the wedding.

1:13.0

And we find that so many people have struggles with their fiancés and their relatives and their friends.

1:19.0

And we're going to do rapid fire questions today all about weddings.

1:23.0

Next week, I'm really excited. We're going to be talking to Lois Smith Brady, who is of course the founding columnist of the Vows column in the New York Times.

1:31.0

As an outside observer, she's probably witnessed more weddings than anyone else, and certainly lots of wedding drama.

1:37.0

And exactly, that's it, because you're right. It's not just the wedding itself.

1:41.0

It is the drama that's attended that begins really literally almost at the moment of engagement.

1:45.0

Did you have any wedding drama?

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