Why get married in Paris?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Hi guys,
Today's episode is an interview with The Reverend Michelle Wahila, a New Yorker who has called Paris home for six years.
Perhaps better known by the moniker Ruffled By Grace, she whips around Paris in lace and Converse sneakers giving blessings to people who want to live out their dreams of a wedding in the City of Light.
She was in The Earful Tower studio to discuss just why people are obsessed with Paris - and also the best practices for if YOU want to get married here. And of course, we talk a whole lot about Paris too, as always.
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, it is a massive milestone today, the biggest ever. As of today, literally |
| 0:05.6 | today, Monday, the Earful Tower podcast has had over 200,000 downloads. Now that, for me anyway, |
| 0:13.5 | is mind-blowing. I mean, honestly, it's just amazing to think how many people there are out there. |
| 0:18.3 | Or, if it is just you, mum, pressing repeat 200,000 times, I'm really |
| 0:24.3 | impressed by your perseverance in making this show grow. If, as I suspect, it's not just |
| 0:29.5 | mum, thanks to all you guys out there listening. It really means a lot to me. And I mean, yeah, |
| 0:35.3 | without you guys, we wouldn't have a show show so as a thank you to all you listeners |
| 0:38.0 | I'm going to open up the closed and secret Facebook group for the rest of the month anyone who |
| 0:42.5 | wants to see what goes on behind the scenes you are welcome to there is more information about that |
| 0:47.9 | at the end of the episode anyway on with the show as some of you regular listeners may know |
| 0:52.2 | I'm getting married soon so I've got wedding bells chiming in my ears even when I'm asleep. So it's perhaps no surprise they came |
| 0:58.4 | across an interesting woman called Michelle, who's a pastor in Paris, a pastor. She's not an Italian |
| 1:04.2 | dish. She's a reverent, and she basically, she blesses people at their weddings when they come from |
| 1:09.2 | around the world to Paris to tie the knot. |
| 1:12.5 | That's for me, I'm getting married abroad, but this idea of Paris as a magical wedding setting |
| 1:17.1 | was really intriguing to me, so I had Michelle in the studio to talk about it. |
| 1:20.8 | So, and excuse the pun in advance, without further I do, here's Michelle. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, and don't forget to hang around at the end for info on how to get |
| 1:27.6 | that free bonus material for the rest of the month. Anyway, on with the show. One man, one country, |
| 1:34.8 | one red scooter. Here's the Earful Tower with Oliver G. Michelle, welcome to the studio. |
| 1:42.6 | Thank you. Great to be here. Michelle Wahila. |
| 1:45.1 | It's just like tequila. |
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