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🗓️ 10 June 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Most of the questions the Sugars receive about weddings are about the drama that precedes them — the expectations in the build up to the big day. But that doesn't mean Wedding Day is drama-free. There just isn't much to be done about it at that point. As Cheryl says, it's like a ball rolling down a hill. The Sugars bring in the ultimate witness to wedding-day drama: Lois Smith Brady, the founding columnist of the Vows section in The New York Times.
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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 | Yeah, some little sweet days we've been. |
0:35.0 | I check my bedbugs every day. |
0:41.0 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
0:51.0 | Hi, Cheryl. |
0:57.0 | Hi, Steve. Welcome to part two of our series on weddings and questions around weddings and getting ready for weddings. |
1:05.0 | Yeah, people who listen last week would have known that a lot of our rapid fire questions were about the run up to the wedding. |
1:11.0 | Yes. The squabbling, the invite list who gets invited, who doesn't. |
1:15.0 | And this week's letter is going to be very much more about the event and the aftermath. |
1:19.0 | Yes. Did you have any eventful events? |
1:23.0 | You know, one of the things so many of those letters we answered last week were about people who were being challenged during this sort of wedding planning time. |
1:33.0 | And I have to say, I love to organize things. I really do. |
1:37.0 | And my friends gave me so much crap because in the months before the wedding, my entire house, the walls of my house were lined with butcher paper. |
1:47.0 | And on it, I had done these like color coded lists and charts and graphs and maps and I planned everything with an int of its life. |
1:57.0 | You know, my wedding day was going to go exactly the way I wanted it. |
2:01.0 | People were going to sit here and then they were going to go there. |
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