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The Brian Lehrer Show

What are the Worst Wedding Traditions?

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

News, News Commentary, New, Wnyc, Radio, Daily News, Bryan, Public, Politics, York, Lerer, Arts, Media, Nyc, Npr

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to share the wedding traditions -- or new trends -- that they want to get rid of.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we're going to go from college to the wedding, to close the show today.

0:14.1

We're inviting you in our last 15 minutes to call in with the best and worst of wedding

0:19.6

traditions or trends that you've been experiencing recently, two, one, two, four, three, three,

0:26.0

WNYC. Why? We are in the middle of wedding season, as it's called, that time between June

0:30.8

and October when you drag that one nice pair of shoes from the back of your closet and

0:35.8

try to remember if it matters which side of the aisle you sit on, right? And while the

0:40.2

number of traditional weddings plummeted during COVID lockdowns, last year they came roaring

0:46.1

back. So have you been to a wedding recently or maybe it's not just the wedding, but rather

0:50.8

one of the 10,000 events that go along with the wedding, engagement parties, bridal showers,

0:57.2

bachelor and bachelor at parties, welcome drinks, goodbye brunches, the list goes on. What

1:02.8

are you tired of sitting through or alternatively? What parts of a wedding bring you joy even

1:09.7

if you're not one of the spouses or one of the parents? Two, one, two, four, three,

1:15.0

WNYC. Two, one, two, four, three, nine, six, nine, two. For those of you who feel like you've

1:23.8

gone to, you know, like 12 weddings since Memorial Day weekend, tell us what wedding traditions

1:30.6

or trends we should keep that you have been subjected to and what it's time to let go

1:36.6

of. Two, one, two, four, three, three, WNYC. To some traditions just rub you the wrong way,

1:44.3

whether they're new or they're old, have you ever watched a father, daughter, dance and thought,

1:48.6

why do we do this? And as much as you might love the idea of a couple writing their own wedding

1:53.8

vows, have you found yourself wishing that maybe they were just stick to the traditional

2:00.0

I do? Or maybe you're a fan of the way some people have altered traditions, including

2:06.0

individual vows, or someone having both their parents walked them down the aisle instead

2:11.7

of the one of the opposite sex or have a friend officiate. Have you gone to a ceremony

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