When Everyone's Getting Married (Except You) & Why That's Okay
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jen Glantz (@jenglantz) has stood beside hundreds of brides—literally. As the founder of Bridesmaid for Hire and author of three books, she’s seen everything from dream weddings to full-on meltdowns. In this episode, she opens up about her own love story, what finally made her feel ready to say “I do,” and why she and her husband chose to elope after living out of suitcases and hopping cities. We get into the messy, emotional side of weddings: cold feet, pre-wedding panic, and what it really means when you’re not sure if you want to go through with it. Jen shares what she's learned from being behind the scenes on the most intense day of people's lives—and how those lessons shaped her own relationship. Plus, we read some relatable listener scenarios about relationship doubts, wedding stress, and feeling left behind when you’re the only single one in the group.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:08.1 | Jen Glanz, welcome back to seeing other people. |
| 0:11.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:12.6 | It has been four years. |
| 0:14.8 | No, no way. |
| 0:16.0 | You're lying. |
| 0:17.6 | How is that possible? |
| 0:19.1 | 2021. |
| 0:20.7 | I don't even believe it. I feel like I don't even understand time anymore, but that's wild. I don't even believe it. |
| 0:21.8 | I feel like I don't even understand time anymore, but that's wild. |
| 0:24.1 | I know. |
| 0:24.6 | That is so crazy. |
| 0:25.7 | And it has been so cool to watch your journey, watch your marriage, watch your now motherhood. |
| 0:33.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:34.3 | Your, I can't speak, your business. |
| 0:37.3 | Like, watch everything just like unfold in such a beautiful way. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm so happy for you. And I feel, like, honored to have gotten to witness it all these years. I can't believe all that happened in four years. Because when I look back, I'm like, nothing really changed. I'm still the same person. But like when you say it like that, I'm like, okay, yeah, I had major life changes. |
| 0:54.4 | But that's how it works in our brains. |
| 0:56.7 | We don't always process it as we're living it. |
| 1:06.6 | Right, exactly. like when you say it like that I'm like okay yeah I had major life changes but that's how it works in our brains we don't always process it as we're living it right exactly okay so you are the host of one 800 bridesmaid yes you have the company bridesmaid for hire and You have the company Bridesmaid for Hire. And you have an amazing love story. God, the love story is probably the most interesting part because like you, I feel like in my 20s, I went on thousands of dates. I met nobody. I was convinced that I was going to be single forever. Like, I was one of those girls that was like, you're just going to live alone in |
| 1:27.7 | Murray Hill and you're going to have a roommate till you're 80 and that's it. Where in Murray Hill did you live? 31st and third. Windsor Tower. Oh my God. Yes. I was, I was 28th and second. We probably like past each other a lot back in those days. But I just was like, you know what? It's not going to happened for me. I could never get past a second date, like, ever. And I think it was because I was scared of being myself. I was so nervous. So I worked, I'm working as a bridesmae for hire. And one of my clients says to me that she met her husband because she went on like 30 dates in a month. She had an Excel spreadsheet. She would |
| 2:01.4 | like write comments about these people. And she was like, it's a numbers game. And I was like, |
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