Vows, Chaos, and Mother-in-Law Mayhem with Lucette Brown
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever witnessed at a wedding?
From mother-in-law meltdowns to guests causing a scene on the dance floor, weddings are full of unforgettable moments—and sometimes, outright chaos!
In this episode, Christa sits down with TikTok creator and former event planner Lucette Brown, the creative force behind the viral skits at “Events and Affairs.” Lucette shares her journey from behind-the-scenes wedding planning to creating hilarious content inspired by the quirky and dramatic world of weddings.
Tune in as they chat about cultural differences in wedding traditions, hilarious stories that inspired Lucette’s skits, and tips for keeping the dance floor packed. Whether you’re planning your big day or just love a good laugh, this episode will have you hooked!
Listen now and prepare for a fun dive into the world of wedding chaos and creativity.
Episode Chapter Markers
00:00 Introduction and Greetings
01:28 Getting to Know the Guest
03:42 Crazy Wedding Stories
07:35 Wedding Traditions and Hot Takes
26:55 Shocking Wedding Drama Unfolds
27:28 Family Tensions and Broken Promises
31:18 Uninvited Guests and Unexpected Chaos
40:37 Confessions and Final Thoughts
Must-Hear Insights and Key Moments
- Lucette’s transition from event planning to creating viral TikTok skits.
- Why she thinks wedding favors are outdated and unnecessary.
- Hilarious and jaw-dropping mother-in-law stories, including one with armed security!
- Differences between Australian and American wedding traditions.
- Tips for keeping the dance floor packed at weddings.
- The rise of cocktail-style receptions and their benefits.
- How family dynamics can shape—and sometimes derail—a wedding day.
- The importance of staying true to your vision for your wedding.
Words of Wisdom: Standout Quotes from This Episode
- “There’s always going to be opinions no matter what you do, so you might as well just do what you want because you’re never going to make everyone happy.” – Lucette Brown
- “I think the hardest thing with weddings is to get everyone to the dance floor. Once you’ve got them, they tend not to leave.” – Lucette Brown
- “I do think they’re nice to have that intimate moment with just the photographer and the couple.” – Lucette Brown
- “Weddings bring out true colors—whether that’s friends or family.” – Christa Innis
- “If you don’t want people to come, then don’t invite them.” – Christa Innis
About Lucette
Lucette Brown is a marketing professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry, focusing on digital and interactive channels. She has worked with senior staff members to achieve record sales, company growth, and strategic objectives. Lucette has extensive experience in wedding and event planning, which she translates into creative content through her TikTok and Instagram account.
She also has training from Second City and iO Theater in Chicago, where she developed her storytelling skills. Currently based in Australia, Lucette continues to work in marketing and create content about the wedding and events industry.
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Blog Transcript:
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Christa Innis: Hi, Lucette. Thank you so much for joining me today. I’m so happy and excited to talk to you. After seeing your videos, I feel like I know part of your story.
Lucette Brown: Lots of characters, which I kind of like.
Christa Innis: Yeah. I’m riding in the same boat with you. It’s fun to play characters because you can act certain ways, and yeah, it’s like your safe space.
Lucette Brown: Exactly.
Christa Innis: And you are in Australia right now, so what’s the time difference? I don’t even…
Lucette Brown: It’s one o’clock on the 5th of December, so Thursday. Thursday, one o’clock.
Christa Innis: Okay. I’m glad we found a time that worked out for us. Well, I’m so excited to have you. Like I said, I feel like we’re very similar in what we do on social media. So I had to have you on. I know when I posted about doing a podcast, so many people tagged you because they just love your content. That was so cool.
Before we get started, can you share a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in making content and so much more?
Creative Beginnings
Lucette Brown: Yeah, so I got started in the industry a long time ago. I was in the industry for about 13 years, and then I had my daughter, who’s now three. Work-life balance didn’t quite align with it at the time, so I’ve since kind of left the industry.
It was probably seven months ago now that I decided to make a TikTok skit. The idea behind Events and Affairs has been there since 2016 when I lived in Chicago. I went to Second City and iO Theater and came up with the concept, which was like a TV series. I created the characters, and it just sat there waiting to do something with it.
Then I finally got the courage to make a TikTok. I thought, if people like it, they like it. If they don’t, I’ll just make it for myself. And yeah, the rest is history.
Christa Innis: I love that. That’s the best way to do it. Someone was just asking me recently about TikTok, and I said, at some point, you have to make the jump and just be like, “You know what? I’m gonna do it and not care what people think.”
If they watch it and like it, cool—that’s awesome. If they don’t, then it was fun to experiment with, you know?
Lucette Brown: A hundred percent. It was just a fun, creative outlet. Thankfully, it seems people are enjoying it.
Christa Innis: People love the skits. They love those skits.
Lucette Brown: It’s fun. As you would know, there are so many stories in the industry and so many chaotic moments that you experience.
Christa Innis: Exactly, yeah, definitely. So, talking about chaotic moments and hot topics, let’s hear any crazy stories that you have. People love to listen to those crazy stories. What’s probably one of the craziest or most outlandish things that you’ve seen or heard before?
When Chaos Takes Center Stage
Christa Innis: What’s probably one of the craziest or most outlandish things that you’ve seen or heard before?
Lucette Brown: As you would know, there are a lot. But the one that always springs to mind is the mother-in-law who had security at her daughter’s wedding.
She asked for armed security, which in Australia, especially Melbourne, is just not a thing. It was a big no, absolutely not. She wanted security at her wedding, and that raised alarm bells for us. We were like, why is she wanting security for your wedding?
It turns out she was a bit of an attention seeker. There wasn’t any real reason why she would want them. The more we got to know the couple and the family, the more we realized it was what they had been telling us. Her ex-husband was bringing his new girlfriend, and she didn’t like that. So, she wanted security on the day. She also came dressed head-to-toe in a white, very bridal suit and had her own flowers.
Christa Innis: So it starts bad and keeps getting worse.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, and then she left probably an hour into the wedding.
Christa Innis: Wait, and then she left early too? So she just wanted to make this grand appearance, make it all about her, and then leave?
Lucette Brown: Yeah, I’m out.
Christa Innis: So what was the audience waiting for?
Lucette Brown: It was so awkward. She said she needed to be protected from certain family members, which, as we said, was alarming for us. But they assured us it was literally just her wanting to create the day about herself, which she did. It was hard to miss her walking around the venue with two security guards hovering behind her.
Christa Innis: Wait, so these security guards were following her to protect her? Was the bride okay with it?
Lucette Brown: The bride was like, whatever, it is what it is. The husband was not. I think his exact words were, “You do not feed them. They do not get drinks. We did not pay for them to be here.”
As soon as she and the guards left, it was a different wedding. The stress was gone. Everyone was relaxed and enjoying themselves. But while she was there, it was tense.
Christa Innis: Oh my gosh. These stories are just shocking. I’ve only seen or heard some crazy things in person, but this is insane. And to leave early at your own daughter’s wedding?
Lucette Brown: So many people thought there must be a reason why. After meeting her and the family, it was evident she just wanted the attention, especially coming dressed head-to-toe in a white bridal suit with flowers.
Christa Innis: Wow. And her own flowers? Unreal. Oh my gosh. Okay.
So I want to jump into some wedding hot takes and I was kind of thinking it’d be interesting to know too, like the, I hear a lot of times, like people comment, like differences between countries and cold, like customs when it comes to weddings. Yeah. So I’m curious, as you lived in the States for a little bit too.
Wedding Differences
Christa Innis: Are there any major differences you see between American weddings and Australian weddings?
Lucette Brown: I think the biggest thing, and especially when people comment, is probably the timings of weddings. I don’t know if it’s necessarily an American thing, but in Australia, our weddings typically have a four o’clock arrival time, 4:30 ceremony, and they typically wrap up around 11 at a licensed venue. A lot of people are kind of shocked by the timings of our weddings.
Another thing—and correct me if I’m wrong—but we’re big on cocktail or feasting-style weddings. We don’t necessarily do the alternate drop anymore. Things change frequently, but that was probably my experience then. Now, cocktail-style weddings are definitely favored at some venues. People are going to attack me for saying that, like, “No, they’re not.”
Christa Innis: Right. It’s funny because even in the comments, I’ll post something like a skit about no kids at a wedding, and people will say, “Oh, that’s so American.” But then I hear from other countries saying, “Oh no, we do it here.” I feel like every country has areas where they do things differently, and families have their own traditions, no matter what country.
In Australia, you’re talking about timing. Our wedding was at 3:30 PM and went until midnight, or maybe 11. A lot of weddings I go to aren’t until five. So it’s kind of all over the place.
Lucette Brown: And then in some countries, they start weddings at 11 AM and don’t wrap up until 3 AM. I could not cope.
Christa Innis: That sounds exhausting. A friend of mine—her husband is from Spain—they’ve gone to a lot of weddings in Spain. She said they party until five o’clock in the morning. Just hearing that sounds exhausting. On my wedding night, we were ready for bed at midnight.
Lucette Brown: It’s a long day. I hightailed out of my wedding. I was standing there, and I was like, “I’m done. Can I go?” I think there was like half an hour left, but we got married overseas, and I just wanted to go back to our room.
Christa Innis: Yeah. You’re like, “Thanks. Had fun. Bye, guys.”
One Wedding Traditions Lucette Secretly Hates
What is one wedding tradition that you secretly hate?
Lucette Brown: Oh, I’m probably going to get a lot of hype for this, but wedding favors.
Christa Innis: Okay, and why is that?
Lucette Brown: My personal take on it—especially when you work so many weddings—is you just see so many left behind. People don’t take them; they’re thrown away. You think about how much thought, effort, and money goes into those gifts.
Plus, now with the price tag that people pay for weddings—the price per person to be there—I don’t think they need a thank-you gift. That’s just my opinion. In Melbourne, at the venues I’ve worked at, the favors are being phased out. It’s very rare to see wedding favors now, purely because of the amount of money that couples are spending. That’s probably my number one.
Christa Innis: No, and I don’t think that’s an unpopular take because I’ve been hearing that more and more. Even at our wedding, we ended up doing decks of cards with a label because I thought, “Oh, people use cards.” But we had so many left over.
It’s one of those things where you spend all this time researching a favor, and it’s like, does it really matter? Do most people notice it? Probably not.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, that’s probably my one. Everyone’s like, “What’s the one thing you can get rid of?” I’m like, “Wedding favors.”
Christa Innis: Done.
Lucette Brown: Take them off the list.
Reinventing the Wedding Experience
Christa Innis: Okay, if you could reinvent one aspect of weddings to make them more fun or meaningful, what would you do? Or what would it be?
Lucette Brown: I suppose getting people on the dance floor. I don’t know how you would reinvent that, but I feel like the best weddings are the ones where everyone’s on the dance floor, dancing, singing, and laughing. Sometimes, it’s hard for certain people to get on the dance floor. Maybe you could remove the stigma around dancing or something, but it really changes the vibe of the wedding.
Christa Innis: Yeah, I totally agree. If you go to a wedding and the dance floor is empty, it’s like, “Is it time to go?” There’s a vibe that’s just off.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, it changes the whole feel of the wedding.
Christa Innis: Some of the best weddings I’ve been to had dancing all night long. The DJ was playing great music, and the dance floor was packed. That’s what you want.
Lucette Brown: For our wedding, we flew a musician I worked with frequently. It was so important for us to have good music and a packed dance floor. I don’t think there was ever a moment when people weren’t dancing. It really made the wedding.
Christa Innis: That’s amazing. Two things I’ve seen at weddings that I thought were awesome: one was at my best friend’s wedding. They only played the most popular parts of songs—just up until an exciting point. When it started to slow down, they switched to another song. People were running out to the dance floor. It kept it packed the entire night because no one wanted to miss a song.
Lucette Brown: That’s funny you say that. The musician we flew in did something similar. He mashed up songs, so he’d be singing one and then seamlessly move into another. You’d be like, “Wait, how are we into this song now?” It kept everyone engaged.
Christa Innis: You don’t even notice you’ve started singing along to the next song. You’re just already part of it. I love that idea. Another thing I saw—and we ended up using it at our wedding—was getting everyone on the dance floor for a group photo. The photographer would say they needed a group shot, and then right after, they’d start playing music so everyone was already there and started dancing. It’s a clever way to get people on the floor.
Lucette Brown: That’s such a smart idea. The hardest part is getting people to the dance floor. Once they’re there, they tend not to leave, but getting them there can be a challenge.
Christa Innis: That’s always the challenge.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, exactly.
Wedding Drama Debates and Hot Takes
Christa Innis: Awesome. I love it. Okay, this next segment is called pick a side wedding drama debates. So I started sharing on social media, having people share with me their unpopular opinions when it comes to weddings and events. So I’m going to read it and then pick a side on the debate. Okay, this person said, “I feel like the vows should always be private before the ceremony.” What’s your take on that?
Lucette Brown: I think it’s a couple dependent. I know some friends who have done that and haven’t had vows at their wedding because they felt it was too personal and just wanted it between them. Then there are people who love having it in front of everyone to share stories and make it a public declaration. I know I’m sitting on the fence, but I do think it’s very couple-specific. There’s no one-size-fits-all in that scenario.
Christa Innis: Yeah, I totally agree with you. I’m all for making it your own. If you’re not comfortable, keep it private—that’s absolutely fine. But it’s funny because I did a skit about a mother-in-law sneaking in to see private vows, and people in the comments were made. They were saying, “If you want private vows, why are you even getting married?” or “Why have a wedding?” People took it so extreme. It’s like, they still have a ceremony and do all the normal stuff; you wouldn’t even realize the vows were private. Oh my gosh, I still see comments like that. It’s like, come on, we’re all different—let’s be okay with that.
Lucette Brown: A hundred percent. That’s always my big thing. Everyone’s going to have an opinion no matter what you do, so you might as well just do what you want. You’re never going to make everyone happy. You’re going to annoy someone.
Christa Innis: Exactly.
Christa Innis: I don’t like the idea of a first look. My husband had to wait to see me until I came down the aisle. What’s your take?
Lucette Brown: I like a first look. I’ve seen them done really well, and the good thing is, you can get all the bridal party photos done before the ceremony, so you’re not taken off to do them afterward. Personally, I didn’t do a first look because it wasn’t for me—I wanted that aisle moment. But I do like the first look because it’s a nice, intimate moment with just the photographer and wedding party. The fun, stressful part is trying to keep the couple hidden while the guests arrive!
Christa Innis: Hide them away. Yeah, I feel like that’s definitely a newer thing that’s becoming more and more common. I didn’t do it either, but a few of my friends have done it for scheduling purposes and all of that. Just making sure they were able to fit photos in, but I always knew I wanted to have that aisle moment. I wanted the aisle moment.
Lucette Brown: However, in that specific moment, when it hit me, I kind of regretted my decision because I was like, “Oh my God, now everyone’s going to be looking at me.”
Christa Innis: You’re like, wait a second. Yeah.
Lucette Brown: I kind of regret it a bit, but I’m happy I had it.
Christa Innis: Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. Last one. “Having to invite people because they’re family.” Oh, the way she worded it: “Having to invite people because they’re family, but I haven’t spoken to them in five years.”
Lucette Brown: My big thing is that if we hadn’t seen them—obviously there are certain cases where this doesn’t apply—but if I hadn’t spoken or seen you in six months, you won’t come to my wedding. That’s kind of how we did it. Because obviously, if people are interstate or anything like that, it’s a little different. But yeah, my take is you don’t get a seat at my table purely because you’re family, which I know is controversial.
Christa Innis: Yeah.
Lucette Brown: That’s my take.
Christa Innis: I feel like that’s one of those things that has changed with generations. I feel like our generation is better at saying, “No, that doesn’t make sense to have Great Aunt So-and-So, who I’ve never spoken to or who has never met my husband,” you know?
Lucette Brown: Yeah, literally. I feel like the previous generation was about inviting everyone to come together, and they invited every person in town. It doesn’t make sense anymore.
Christa Innis: No. Well…
Lucette Brown: And you know, if you were paying $10 a person, then maybe, but people are paying $200-plus now. The venue I just worked at—some of our weddings were $350, $400 per person. So if I’m paying that much for you to come, you need to be important to me. There’s none of this, “Oh, you have a certain title, so therefore you get to come.”
Christa Innis: Exactly. My thing, too, is I’m such an introvert, which I know is going to sound funny to a lot of people. You have to remember, I film at home in a bathroom. It’s just myself, and I’m good at one-on-one. But I wanted people there that I was comfortable with and had a relationship with. If I have a 500-person wedding, I’m going to feel so uncomfortable. I don’t want to have to introduce myself to someone at my wedding or have an awkward conversation.
Lucette Brown: When you’re looking back at wedding photos, you’ve got all these plus ones, all these people where you’re like, “I don’t know who that is.”
Christa Innis: Exactly! Yeah, and if it’s like a new girlfriend or boyfriend of a cousin or something that you’ve never met and then they break up a week later, you’re like, why are they in this family photo?
Lucette Brown: Yeah, literally. Yeah, yeah.
Christa Innis: Okay. So now we’re going to get to this wedding submission story. So I’m going to read this story, and we’ll just react as it comes through. I’ve not read it yet. My husband actually helps me put together the show notes, so he puts them in here. So we’ll react together. Oh, so lovely.
Okay, here we go. “My mother, who I cut out of my life 15 years ago, stole our wedding money.” Oh, that’s a great start. “Refused to let my husband’s great-grandma park close to the venue. She was in a walker, so she’d park on the other side of the street. She screamed at me in the middle of the dance floor, promised to help pay for my flowers, the mix for the booze, and the hotel room but a month before, she said she could not pay for it.”
She spent money on decorations and stuff that I never wanted for the wedding. Okay, I’ve just stopped right there because—you cut this person out 15 years ago, and now she’s back. Why is she coming to your wedding?
Lucette Brown: Yes, that was my fault!
Christa Innis: I would never trust someone who all of a sudden came back. I would never trust them to pay for things. I’d be like, I don’t want your money. I don’t want you to pay for it.
Lucette Brown: Nope. Don’t want your money, don’t want your opinion, don’t want your advice.
Christa Innis: Yeah, that would be like a last-minute invite if, like, I was feeling friendly, I think.
Lucette Brown: I was feeling the love.
Christa Innis: Exactly. Okay, let’s see what she said next. “Husband and I just wanted a simple ceremony, then a party. She got angry and called me every name in the book. Oh my gosh. When I asked my dad and stepmom for help, she said they should be giving her money instead of me.” Wait, what? Why? I’m shocked by this story. Like, why? I feel like there’s a lot missing, like did she come back, you know, right when they got engaged?
Lucette Brown: Yeah, because this is like, I feel like she’s a background story.
Christa Innis: Yeah, I’m like, I feel like the mom’s coming in full force. Like, okay, cool. I’m back in your life after not being in your life for 15 years. Yeah, this is what I need—give me that money for the wedding or whatever. She also said she would help find people to set up the midnight lunch, lied, and then said she did. But when it came time for help, she yelled at me and said my husband’s family was selfish and they should just do it. By the way, his family cooked and served our whole meal. It was their gift, and they wanted to enjoy the wedding, which they never got to because my mother was selfish.
She then started tearing down the decorations at 9 PM, and people thought the wedding was over and started to leave. Why does this woman have so much free range? Like, after not doing the things she promised, and then she’s coming in and—
Lucette Brown: She needs a wedding redo.
Christa Innis: Yes!
Lucette Brown: She needs to get rid of that one.
Christa Innis: Yeah. Like, I think we’re at a point where it’s like, we keep them as a distant relative at this point, maybe.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, yeah. They don’t come to the wedding, let alone have a say in the wedding.
Christa Innis: Oh my gosh. I feel like so many times brides want to just keep the peace and have everyone get along.
Lucette Brown: It would be hard, yeah, especially with a mom, because I feel like you’d want your mom to be at your wedding. You’d probably think, “No, it’ll be fine. She’ll be different. It’ll be fine.” And then, as history serves, it never usually is.
Christa Innis: I know. It’s like, I always say, if you have a gut feeling about it, it’s probably right. I hate that for this bride, too, because like you said, she was probably just like the little girl being excited, like, “Mom’s coming back. She really wants to be involved,” and then it’s just one thing after another. It’s so easy to read from our perspective and think, “Why?” But for her, it’s her mom, and you want them to be a part of it.
Lucette Brown: That’s the hard thing with weddings, too. So many people have those reactions, but it’s like, you’ve got to understand that you are dealing with families, emotions, usually years and years or generational trauma. There’s so much that goes into it. A lot of the time, it’s just people trying to have the idea of what they want and hope for that. But most of the time, it doesn’t work—like the mother-in-law with her armed security and white dress.
Christa Innis: Yes, like that. Oh my gosh. It never ends—the craziness, it says she got mad at me when she saw me have a shot with the bridal party and she got mad that I asked my dad to walk me down the aisle and said it should have been one of my brothers.
So this really sounds like, It was maybe a nasty divorce or something.
And, because why would you suggest, if the dad is still in your daughter’s life, why would you suggest a brother over her father?
So it sounds like some, I don’t know, some, something bad happened and now she’s taking it out on the father or something.
Christa Innis: Okay, this next segment is called Wedding Submission Story: Family Drama Unveiled. I’m going to read this story, and we’ll just react as it comes through. My husband actually helps me put together the show notes, so he puts them in here. So, let’s react together.
“My mother, who I cut out of my life 15 years ago, stole our wedding money.” Oh, that’s a great start. “She refused to let my husband’s great-grandma park close to the venue. She was in a walker, so she had to park on the other side of the street. She screamed at me in the middle of the dance floor, promised to help pay for my flowers, the mix for the booze, and our hotel room, but a month before, she said she could not pay for it. She spent money on decorations and stuff I never wanted for the wedding.”
Okay, let’s stop right there. You cut this person out 15 years ago, and now she’s back. Why is she coming to your wedding?
Lucette Brown: Yes, that was my fault!
Christa Innis: I would never trust someone who all of a sudden came back. I would never trust them to pay for things. I’d be like, I don’t want your money. I don’t want you to pay for it.
Lucette Brown: Nope. Don’t want your money, don’t want your opinion, don’t want your advice.
Christa Innis: Exactly. That would be a last-minute invite if I was feeling friendly, maybe.
Lucette Brown: If I was feeling the love.
Christa Innis: Exactly. Okay, let’s keep going. “My husband and I just wanted a simple ceremony, then a party. She got angry and called me every name in the book. She asked my dad and stepmom for help, saying they should give her money instead of me. She said she’d help find people to set up the midnight lunch, but she lied. When it came time for help, she yelled at me and said my husband’s family was selfish and they should just do it. By the way, his family cooked and served our whole meal—it was their gift—and they wanted to enjoy the wedding, which they never got to because my mother was selfish.”
She then started tearing down the decorations at 9 PM, and people thought the wedding was over and started leaving.
Lucette Brown: She needs a wedding redo.
Christa Innis: Yes! She needs to get rid of that one.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, keep them as a distant relative at this point.
Christa Innis: Definitely. I feel like so many brides just want to keep the peace and have everyone get along.
Lucette Brown: It would be hard, especially with a mom. You’d probably think, No, it’ll be fine. She’ll be different, and then, as history shows, it never usually is.
Christa Innis: Right? It’s like if you have a gut feeling about it, you’re probably right. I hate that for this bride. She was probably just excited, like, Mom’s coming back! She really wants to be involved. And then it’s just one thing after another.
Lucette Brown: And that’s the hard thing with weddings. There’s so much generational trauma and family baggage. People just want their ideal wedding day, but a lot of the time, it doesn’t work—like the mother-in-law with her armed security and white dress!
Christa Innis: Yes, that never ends. The craziness! Okay, this last part gets even wilder. “My ex-father-in-law caught my ex-brother-in-law and ex-sister-in-law having sex in the bathroom. I had to tell them to get out because they were caught.”
Lucette Brown: Wait… not siblings?
Christa Innis: No! I read it as her husband’s brother and his wife.
Lucette Brown: Oh, okay. You’re like, “What’s happened with this family?” I’m like, “Oh god!”
Christa Innis: You’re like, “Wait, what is happening? It was already bad, but—”
Lucette Brown: Okay.
Christa Innis: I’m glad we clarified. That’s how I read it. I’m just hoping that’s what it was.
Lucette Brown: Yes, let’s, let’s go with that. Let’s go with that one because it’s—
Christa Innis: It’s better. Yeah, that’s way better. Still bad, but way better. Um, yeah, she said there was so much more, but I’ll leave it with all of this to start. That is enough for a full-on novel. I can’t believe there’s more. Geez.
Lucette Brown: Yep. I feel like she needs to, she needs to do something like, I don’t know, wedding redo or I don’t know, go overseas, get away from all of that. All of that.
Christa Innis: Cause that drama, that’s like immediate family drama where that’s going to follow you. You know, like if they were to do that on her best day, they’re going to follow her with that. So I’m wondering if it was, it sounds like it was like she’s divorced from this family.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, definitely. That’s what I’m guessing.
Christa Innis: So maybe she realized all this, like—
Lucette Brown: Yeah, well, she—yeah, ex-father-in-law and—
Christa Innis: Yeah, I’m guessing. Well, I’m glad she was able to get away from that family. But the mom stuff, that’s, that’s a whole other thing.
Lucette Brown: Yeah. Hopefully, either they’ve reconciled for a good reason, or they, uh, separated.
Christa Innis: Separated. Yeah. Like, they always say too, like, weddings bring out the true colors of people, whether that’s friends or family. And so unfortunately, you’ll either be closer to some people, or you’ll just distance yourself from some people, which—
Lucette Brown: Is—
Christa Innis: Unfortunate and fortunate.
Lucette Brown: Yeah. Yeah, a hundred percent. And I think the types of people who aren’t comfortable with not having the attention on them—they’re the ones that are gonna create the biggest amount of drama for you because they will naturally just need that attention. I’ve found, you know, with the weddings where I’ve experienced that, it is, yeah, the people who, and you can just kind of tell—they’re not probably necessarily subconsciously doing it, but they just, yeah, they’re the ones that can’t handle not having the attention on them.
Christa Innis: Yeah. I definitely see that as a common theme in the stories that are sent to me.
Lucette Brown: Yeah.
Christa Innis: Yeah, a lot of times they’re harmless, where it’s like they’re just doing little things, but then it kind of starts adding up or it can be like your story, where the mother comes in and has the bridal suit, you know.
Lucette Brown: And that was like—and the security! That was the last kind of thing that she did. Like, all throughout, there were little bits that she would do, and she would call us up and all that kind of stuff. Like, there were just all these little moments. And then, yeah, that last day—it was just, yeah, it was interesting. It was like, the couple was so lovely, and I just felt so bad that this will forever kind of also be part of their wedding. Yeah and something that people will remember because, like I said, you couldn’t not. She made it very well known that she had her security.
Christa Innis: Right.
Lucette Brown: So, yeah. I remember trying to, like, sneakily take a photo to send to my sister because I was just like, “You will not believe what is happening right now.”
Christa Innis: It’s insane. You’re like, “You’ll only believe it if I have a picture because it’s so insane.”
Lucette Brown: And I think because of how she looked, like she looked like a bride. Like, if you didn’t know who the bride was, you would walk into this wedding and think she was the bride.
Christa Innis: And she knew exactly what she was doing.
Lucette Brown: Oh, she—
Christa Innis: Hundred percent. That makes my blood boil because it’s like, you can’t let your daughter have this one day. Just make it about her, please.
Lucette Brown: Yeah, I think that’s like, you hear sisters and cousins and that, but like when you hear mother-in-law or the mother or like the father, it’s just like, Oh, come on. Like just let them have their day.
Christa Innis: Yeah. Like, you are the parent. Like, let’s be a little—literally—you are the parent. Oh my gosh.
Christa Innis: Okay, so I know we’re getting towards the end of time. I want to end this with—it’s called a weekly confessions game—where I’m going to read people’s confessions that they send me on Instagram, and I’m going to ask you to rate it from one. One means mild tea, and ten is absolute chaos.
Lucette Brown: Two? I don’t know. I’m like, wow, that’s your decision. That’s your life. So good for you, I suppose, if that’s how you want to do it.
Christa Innis: Yeah. Yeah. I say go for it.
Lucette Brown: Yeah. Right.
Christa Innis: Okay. I feel like that’s… I mean, to secretly do it—I mean, I’d be wanting to tell people, but I think that’s awesome.
Christa Innis: Okay, my mother-in-law forgot the rings on purpose on our wedding day in hopes her son would change his mind.
Lucette Brown: She needs to get a new mother-in-law. Um, I’d say that’s… See, it’s so hard to, because like, kind of knowing what I know with what has happened at weddings, it’s just like, I know of much worse things that have happened, but like on a normal scale, that’s pretty high. That would be like, like a seven or eight.
Christa Innis: You’re just so used to it, you’re like, it doesn’t even phase you anymore. Perfect.
Lucette Brown: I’m like, yeah, that sounds right.
Christa Innis: That checks all the boxes.
Lucette Brown: Yeah.
Christa Innis: My thought is, when I first see this, I’m like, I wonder if all along, the mother-in-law was pretending to be a fan of hers. Cause I’m like, if you knew the mother-in-law didn’t like you or was acting some way, I would never in a million years trust the mother-in-law to have the rings. You know what I’m saying?
Lucette Brown: Yeah, unless she actually stole them.
Christa Innis: Yeah, oh yeah, like got them from someone, like took them from the best man, who’s like, “I’ll just hold on to these.”
Lucette Brown: Then that does bump it up a notch.
Christa Innis: Yeah. I read a story once where the mother-in-law—or the grandma—wanted to hold on to the ring for a photo and then forgot where she put them. So they didn’t have it for the ceremony.
Lucette Brown: Did they find them though?
Christa Innis: I think they ended up finding them later. Like, it fell on the ground somewhere. And it was so traumatic because everyone was ready for pictures, and they were just like, “We can’t find it anywhere.” The grandma—or mother-in-law—was like, “I need it for a photo,” and they didn’t find it until after the ceremony.
Lucette Brown: I was going to say, never give anyone the rings, but looking back, we gave our photographer the rings to get photos with them beforehand. And I’m like, oh God, it could so easily happen.
Christa Innis: I know. You’d hope a photographer would be really careful or do it often enough that they’d know, “This is like gold. I can’t lose this—literally gold.”
Christa Innis: Okay, last one: not sending out save-the-dates because “I don’t want people to save the date.”
Lucette Brown: My question would be, why are they invited?
Christa Innis: I know. If everyone could see my face, I’m just like, what?
Lucette Brown: Why? If you don’t want them to save the date, then don’t invite them.
Christa Innis: Yeah. I’m wondering if it’s one of those situations where her parents are pushing her to have a big wedding and she doesn’t want a wedding. Or maybe she’s not excited to get married?
Lucette Brown: Yeah. Because if you don’t want people to save the date, then don’t do it. Like, don’t have the wedding. It’s so odd. If you don’t want people to have that, then they shouldn’t be coming to the wedding.
Christa Innis: That would be my first clue that you don’t want to get married or you don’t want the wedding you’re having. If you don’t want people to come, then, like you said, don’t invite them. Just do a small wedding. No one has to have a big wedding.
Lucette Brown: No, literally. You can literally do whatever you want.
Christa Innis: Oh my gosh. It’s crazy, the number of people—and I’m sure you have stories too—but it’s crazy how many people get bribed in some way by their parents. Like, “If you don’t do this…” I’ve heard of parents saying, “If you don’t get married in this church, we’re not going to pay for it,” or “If you don’t invite so-and-so, we’re not going to do this.”
Lucette Brown: A hundred percent. We even had it, to some degree, with our wedding because we had a destination wedding. People expected certain things because we had a destination wedding.
Christa Innis: Yeah.
Lucette Brown: My response was, “Well, you don’t have to come. You’re more than welcome not to buy the ticket and fly over. If you choose to, then you’re here for us. Have a great holiday. Have a fun day.”
Christa Innis: Right.
Lucette Brown: We did a cocktail-style wedding, and that was a bit of an issue. People were like, “If you’re flying people over, they need to have a seated meal.” And I was like, “They’ll probably end up with more food the way we’re doing it.” I flew out to the company I used to work for to cater my wedding. They’re going to end up with more food this way. But there’s always going to be opinions, no matter what you do.
Christa Innis: Oh yeah. I never get why people have opinions or get mad about how someone else chooses to do their wedding. I’ve seen comments about destination weddings saying, “Oh, it’s ridiculous, it’s so expensive.” You don’t have to go. Just say no.
Lucette Brown: Exactly.
Christa Innis: This is how the couple wants to do their wedding.
Lucette Brown: Yeah. People are like, “Well, you should have a wedding here.” And I’m like, “No, that’s what you want to do. So you should do that. We wanted to go overseas, so that’s what we did. Figure it out. Come, don’t come, have fun.”
Christa Innis: Yeah, exactly. Well, this was awesome. Thank you so much for coming on. I loved hearing your hot takes, and you have so many great stories. Can you tell everybody where they can follow your stories and hear more of your craziness and your awesome skits?
Lucette Brown: Yes, so, the handle is just Events and Affairs. I think if you search Lucette, I sometimes come up, but I think there are also some other creators with my name. But yeah, Events and Affairs is how you’ll find me, even though my tagline is weddings and events. So it’s confusing.
Christa Innis: No, it totally works because it makes sense. I think it still will come up with the name, and, uh, yeah, you do amazing skits.
Lucette Brown: Thank you.
Christa Innis: Oh, you cut out for a second there. Okay, you’re back. Um, yeah, you do great skits.
Lucette Brown: We’re back.
Christa Innis: I’m going to blame it on the time difference or something. But, uh, yeah, no, you do amazing skits. Everyone, go check out Lucette. Thank you so much for coming on. It was so great meeting you officially and hearing all your hot takes.
Lucette Brown: No, thank you so much for having me too. And like I said, likewise, your skits and stories are amazing. I’ve become a fan of Sloan and kind of got into that drama. So yeah, it’s really cool to meet and connect with people who do similar things. It’s been a lot of fun.
Christa Innis: Love it.
Can You Handle These Momzilla Wedding Day Meltdowns?
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Welcome to my very first episode of Here Comes the Drama where I’m sharing a bit about myself, the story behind my viral skits loved by almost 700,000 followers, and why I’m so excited to bring you even more drama, laughter, and lessons.
This week, I’m reacting live to an unbelievable wedding tale sent in by one of you! It’s packed with family drama, new relationships, and the ultimate boundary-setting showdown. Trust me, your jaw is going to drop.
Stick around for my candid takes, a little humor, and maybe even some life lessons you didn’t see coming.
Don’t forget—new episodes drop every Thursday!
Episode Chapter Markers
00:00 Meet Your Host, Christa Innis
01:20 The Birth of the Podcast
04:23 Diving into the Drama: First Story
06:28 Mother’s New Boyfriend Causes Chaos
09:26 Setting Boundaries and Standing Up
15:18 Follower Confessions: Juicy Stories
17:19 Wrapping Up: What’s Next?
Must-Hear Insights and Key Moments
- My journey from social media and event planning to launching this podcast—it’s been a wild ride!
- My viral skits blew up thanks to you all, and your engagement keeps fueling my passion for storytelling.
- Jaw-dropping listener story about a boyfriend stirring up drama at a family wedding—total chaos!
- Setting boundaries and standing firm when things get messy (and trust me, they do)
- My live reactions to the boyfriend’s inappropriate behavior? Let’s just say, jaw = dropped
- How family dynamics and unresolved tension can complicate life’s biggest moments
- Reflecting on self-love and the courage it takes to advocate for yourself, especially in tough situations.
Words of Wisdom: Standout Quotes from This Episode
- “You can’t just brush off someone’s feelings and pretend things didn’t happen—that’s where the real hurt starts.”
- “Seeing these stories play out helps us realize how important self-love and respect are, even when it’s hard to enforce them.”
- “You should be more excited to be there for your daughter’s wedding than care about having a date.”
- “I’m so proud of this girl for setting boundaries and standing up for herself—it’s not easy, but it’s worth it.”
- “You can’t apologize and then negate it—it’s like saying, ‘I’m sorry, but…’ which really means you’re not sorry at all.”
- “Writing it out can be therapeutic, even if it’s just to see the situation more clearly and stand your ground.”
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The Birth of Here Comes the Drama
Christa Innis: Hi guys, welcome to my very first episode of Here Comes the Drama, the podcast that dies into the chaos, hilarity, and unforgettable moments of weddings, events, and beyond.
I’m your host, Christa Innis from Party Planning by Christa. And today’s episode is packed with some juicy stories and hot takes. But before we get to all that, I just want to do a brief introduction of who I am in case you’re new to my community.
why I started this whole thing and I’m kind of going off the cuff here because I find when I like to type things out, it just doesn’t sound as natural to me. So I apologize in advance if it doesn’t run as smoothly as possible. but basically I’ve worked in social media marketing for the last 12-plus years now.
And so I’ve always created content online for different brands I’ve worked with and I’ve really enjoyed doing it. However, over those last 10-plus years also, I’ve been involved in so many weddings and events. So whether that was my own wedding and planning that being a maid of honor, a couple of times being a bridesmaid, I think eight times, hired for a day of coordinator.
Many times and helped with different events along the way, whether it was a distant friend or family member, planning some different events as well. I just love being involved in wedding planning and event planning. It’s just so much fun for me. I love being able to create a long story short.
So last year, about a year and a half ago, I was on maternity leave and I started just to start making some different content. It started with just sharing some wedding planning tips or party planning tips. And then I realized the content that I really like on social media is like interactions between two people.
So I started sharing some different things that I’ve seen at weddings before or heard about, and that’s when it all started blowing up. And you guys just really love the stories and the skits. And that’s when I started getting more stories sent to me from you guys saying like, Hey, can you share this?
Like, this is what happened to me, or I saw this in a story. Can you share this? And before I knew it, it just started blowing up more and more. And, I thought just the next step would be to create a podcast to kind of dive into the drama a little bit more, talk about boundaries, and talk about different ways to deal with drama or different scenarios.
And, I currently have hundreds and hundreds of stories that I haven’t even touched the surface on. So, I thought it’d be a fun way to invite guests on and react together to these crazy stories. And even invite some guests who have submitted these stories to me so we can ask questions that they maybe didn’t share, or maybe they have updates for us.
And I thought it’d be kind of a fun way to dive in because I’m constantly hearing how much you guys love the drama. So with this channel growing and the support for it, which I’m so grateful for, I want to give you guys even more. So these episodes are going to come out weekly and we’ve got a lot of fun stuff planned for you.
In addition to that, I am a wife, as I mentioned, I planned my own wedding and I’m a mom to a baby girl, a toddler girl, always be my baby. and so this has been a lot of fun for me to grow and share these different crazy stories that you guys send me. And I’ll be honest when I first started doing this, I was like, what am I doing for people by sharing these stories?
And I’m someone that likes to work on impact. Like if I know I’m helping someone or I know I’m making an impact in some way, I find the work is much more meaningful. And so I was really questioning myself in the beginning. I’m like, what am I doing? Am I just spreading drama? But so many messages have been sent to me, for sharing this.
Now I know how to talk to my daughter. Now I know how to talk to my mother-in-law. you sharing this story, I now can talk to my partner and get on the same page about this drama we are dealing with. And that’s really helped me see that sharing stories like this, whether they’re crazy or not, has really impacted people and helped people to know how to set boundaries and how to stand up for themselves and also seeing things.
It’s kind of like a reflection of being like, wait. I don’t like how that person is being treated. I shouldn’t like how I’m being treated. So a little bit of self-love there. So that’s a little or a lot about me.
Sorry if that went on a little long, but I just thought being the first episode, I wanted to give you guys the full scoop of how this brand has grown.
And I’m so excited for more sharing. it would not be a party plan by Chris, a podcast. If I didn’t mention the love for Ferris and Sloan, and if you’ve not watched it, we’ll put it in the show notes, you guys can check it out. But, that is one of the most loved skits, and I have so much fun creating so much fun with that.
That cast the characters and there’s more to come with that as well. Without further ado, let’s just jump into my blind reaction to this wedding submission.
When Mom’s New Boyfriend Brings the Drama to the Wedding
Like I said, I’ve hundreds and hundreds that I’ve not even touched the service on. When we have guests come on in the future for future episodes, we’re going to be going through more confessions and wedding hot takes.
And, I’m excited to share this with you. So let’s get into this. My sister and I both have weddings this year. Shockingly, the drama has nothing to do with her. We have a great relationship and I’ve really enjoyed sharing the season. I love that. I think that’s great. My mom, on the other hand, has been quite the pill.
Let’s take it all the way back to last year around the holidays when my mom let us know she broke up with her boyfriend of over a decade.
We were very fond of him. He celebrated my and my fiance’s engagement with us. He was there. And my fiance asked my mom for her blessing to propose. My dad passed away a few years ago and we had a kind of a strange relationship. Henry, my mom’s ex-boyfriend, even taught me how to drive.
Anyways, she broke up with him right before Christmas. I wanted to support her, but it was a real bummer. I was anxious about the lonely version of her. If I’m being honest, nervous, nervous. She would be very clingy. Henry kept her very occupied and he really put up with her.
To my surprise, she wasn’t acting this way at all. And so my suspicions grew. She’s never really been alone. I told my sister, I suspected there was someone new. I was right. She had started seeing someone that September. Yep, the math is in fact not matching and there was an overlap there. I didn’t and don’t have much respect for that, but that’s not my life.
Anyway, my mom plans for my sister Lane and me to meet him at her house. It was very awkward because it was an intimate gathering of only my sister, me, and our fiancés. She even had him there the next morning, Christmas morning, for the gift exchange. Okay, that’s really awkward. Of course, my mom and her new beau, Nick, only exchanged with each other.
Okay, that’s really awkward. I can picture it. While this was very awkward, there was nothing but polite pleasantries and small talk exchanged. This continued over the next three other times I was around Nick leading up to my sister’s wedding in May. So imagine, to my surprise, when this man creates so much drama during my sister’s wedding day that weekend.
My mom arrived at the area of the venue a few days before the wedding and told my sister she’d be around to help him in any way. And help was needed when the weather forecast changed to heavy rain three days before the big day. Instead, my mom was unreachable two days before and arrived late the day before, knowing my sister really needed all hands on deck.
Okay, so we hear this happens when it comes to family members and bridesmaids, sure. And Believe me, that sucks too. But when it’s your own mom that you’re expecting to be there to help you, like I’m shocked she was not acting herself. She loves to talk and she was a muted shell of herself all day.
Weird. Anyways, while my fiancé and my cousin’s boyfriend busted their butts both days to make the event happen, they gave Nick some direction and asked him to help with a few simple tasks, which he completely ignored. Can you imagine going to your new girlfriend’s daughter’s wedding, they’re asking you for help, and you’re just like, Yeah, no, I’m not gonna do that.
Like, what? Cut to the wedding reception. I gave my maid of honor speech.
It goes very well, and I’m relieved. I head across the reception floor straight to my mom to ask her how I did, and while she is mid-sentence, Nick pulls her away from me by the back of her dress. Guys, if you could see me right now, my jaw would drop. I was so thrown off and offended.
She did not look disturbed or confused by this behavior, nor did she try to rejoin our conversation. It was bizarre. Like, what power does this guy have over her? I later confronted both of them about it directly, assertively, and politely. Nick was rude looking around anywhere but at me, pretending he couldn’t hear me.
How old is this guy to be acting so rude like this? Ugh. So I repeated my question, why did you pull my mom away from me like that while we were talking? To which she replies with a lot of attitude, well maybe I needed to tell her something really important. I kind of stormed off after that. I headed to help my sister fix her hair and change into her party dress.
I tell her what happened. And then she tells me the same thing happened to her that morning in the glam room while they were talking. Also, why is this new boyfriend in the glam room? Like I feel like that’s kind of inappropriate. Cause you know, you’re kind of getting dressed, getting ready.
Why do you want your mom’s new boyfriend there?
I said that and then I looked at her thing and she said, why was he even in the glam room? While we’re getting her rained-on updo fixed, and refreshed, she tells me that Henry sent her a sweet text that morning.
Henry, if you guys don’t remember, is the mom’s ex-boyfriend. and she’d been too busy to reply. So she asked me to send him a text from the both of us. So I do, I say we love him and that he’s missing from this day. He replies immediately that he loves us and my mom very much, and wishes us a lovely celebration.
Aw, that’s gotta be so sad. I should add that when my sister asked if she could still invite Henry, my mom’s response was a quick and cold no. And she still speaks to him herself. Interesting. After the night ended, I confronted my mom in the kitchen again.
I was upset that she never tried to rejoin the conversation after I pulled her away, and she was totally dismissing my frustration and hurt. I started getting reactive and upset asking her why she was even with this guy while I knew he was in earshot. The next thing you know, he’s yelling in my face not to speak to my mother like that.
No, he didn’t. Oh my gosh. a basically random new boyfriend who is 61. There we go. Answered my question. 61 never married. No kids getting in my face and scolding me. A 28-year-old adult who admittedly is the one to say everything that everyone else is thinking.
This was not going to end well. I later found out he was speaking negatively about my sister and me the night prior after the rehearsal dinner to my cousin, saying we were disrespectful and even insinuating that we didn’t appreciate a gift cousin had gone out of her way to obtain, which was an old necklace of my dad’s that she made into bracelets for us.
Why is this guy getting involved? Oh my gosh. Guys, this is juicy. Okay. At this point, this man is dead to me. His colors are blinding, and I’ve seen and heard enough. Oh, I like that phrase. I’ve never heard that before. He’s uninvited to my wedding. I couldn’t understand what would generate such a negative opinion of us prior to any altercation whatsoever.
I still don’t. The two other times I’ve been in the same room as him since the wedding, he’s completely avoided me and made zero attempt to make the situation right. As you can imagine, there’s unresolved tension with my mom now, too. I try to talk to her about it and she brushes it off, claiming not to remember.
See, that would make me more mad than this guy. So this guy’s new. He has no attachment, no affiliation. Okay, fine. I mean, it sucks, but fine. The mom, though, acting like it didn’t happen or couldn’t remember, that’s where I would be really hurt and really upset. Oh my gosh. This is terrible. Beyond frustrating.
Anyway, I’m a hairstylist and two weeks later, my mom has an appointment. While I’m half done applying her highlights, she mentions, I heard what you texted Henry. That was very mean of you. And he called our mutual friend the next day in tears. I was livid. It took everything in me to finish her service.
But I do. Things between us are not good at this point. I was very upset that she would pin emotions on me that she was responsible for. A week or so later, I checked the mailbox and my mom wrote me a letter. What? She wrote you a letter. Okay. So dramatic. Anyways, an included apology followed by completely retracting them.
What do we call those? I think we call them butt sentences. I think a therapist can come on here and tell me but it’s like, if you’re like, Oh, you know, I’m really sorry for the way I treated you, but it’s basically excusing your behavior. It’s an excuse for your apology.
It’s saying, I’m not really sorry. So it negates everything you said before that. Again, I’m not a therapist, but I think we can have a therapist on here who can explain that a little bit better. So yeah, you can’t apologize and then negate it.
She says she respects my decision and does not want Nick to be at my wedding. My wedding’s in a few short months and my in-laws want to host my aunt and uncle and mom for dinner to meet my aunt and uncle for the first time. They’ve both met my mom twice, both times with Henry.
My mom asked me if only she was invited or if Nick was invited as well. Okay, if you’re not invited to the wedding, your boyfriend’s not invited to the wedding, why would you think he’d be invited to this dinner to meet your in-laws? What are we not putting together here? I reply I would appreciate it if you didn’t bring him.
My mom says, okay, sweetie, the dinner is going well with my aunt and uncle and in-laws, but my mom is being off and quiet. I even noticed she was on the verge of tears at a few points. This isn’t uncommon for her. The wedding is in Cabo and the family will be down there for a full week.
We’re discussing plans excitedly while everyone is saying goodbye. I, and everyone else, notice my mom is in a full sob. I walk her outside and ask what’s wrong. She replies as if you don’t know. I say I have no idea what you’re talking about. She says, do you think I’m excited to go to your wedding by myself and be here tonight alone?
Oh my gosh. I am flabbergasted by her behavior. This is the girl saying I am not, although I am also very flabbergasted by her behavior. I brush it off and say goodbye. I’ve been given no reason to reconsider and I’m supported by all I’ve confided in with this decision.
I considered caving and letting him come this past week only because I don’t know what’s worse. And my mom will be difficult alone. But my fiancé even expressed that he didn’t want that and he feels strongly about Nick not being in attendance as well. Here, here. But he’d support my decision regardless.
Pretty much this is where things stand at this point, and how it plays out, to be honest. The wedding is in nine weeks. Writing this all out has been therapeutic, whether you use it or not. Oh my gosh, girl!
I want an update. Maybe I’ll reach out to you and try to get an update. I’m not sure I have to look at the date when you submitted this, but this is insane. It always complicates things when there are new boyfriends that come in, especially if you have parents. I’ve never luckily had to deal with that.
So I can’t say from personal experience, but I can only imagine how stressful that is. But I cannot, from an outside perspective, understand how if you’ve annoyed your new boyfriend coming in, they treat your daughter that way and you’re going to allow them to stay around and you’re not going to understand why they’re not invited to a wedding.
You should be more excited and be there for your daughter for her wedding than care about having a date or not. That is a crazy story. Oh my gosh, you guys your jaw has dropped eyes as open as mine because I’m that insane to me. Okay, guys. I don’t even know what to say. Actually, I know what I want to say.
I’m very proud of this girl. She was so good at setting boundaries and standing up for herself because so many times I think we want to appease other people. So like she said, she almost caved, but then she was like, no, do I really want to deal with him at my wedding? He’s going to make me cry. He’s going to treat my mom a certain way.
No, you put your foot down and you stuck with it. And I’m very proud of you for that. So Props to you.
Rating Wedding Day Drama
Okay, guys, the last segment of my podcast is going to be reading some follower confessions, and this is gonna be a little bit short since it’s just me today, but when you leave guests on, I’m gonna have them rate them. So I’m gonna read a couple here that are kind of crazy.
I’m going to open up these confessions, and I’m going to rate them from 0 to 10. 0 being, not that crazy of a confession, and 10 being, I’m completely shocked. Alright, ready?
Here’s one. My bridesmaid from another state didn’t even bother to show up to anything. Just the wedding. Okay. I’m going to give that a four because that one really does suck. But I’m curious, like why did she just not show up? Did she say she was going to come and then cancel at the last minute?
There’s a lot more to that story, but either way, when you have a bridesmaid that you want to be in the wedding and be a part of things, they don’t show up and that’s terrible. Okay guys, this one, my jaw’s already dropping. My cousin, the bridesmaid, slept with a groomsman who just got married two weeks prior.
That is a 12. That is a 1, 200 plus. My jaw dropped. What do we do? How did that happen? Did that happen at the wedding? Was his wife there? I have so many questions for you. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay, I’m gonna do one more. You guys send me such juicy ones. Okay. The bride’s mom said I’m glad she finally found someone willing to marry her. On her wedding day. Oh, no, no, no, no That’s like a nine. That’s like a nine you guys. I just did a YouTube video about this, but don’t make comments about people on their wedding day, especially somebody like that who is willing to marry her.
That’s terrible. That’s terrible. Do you think she’s not lovable? That’s just horrible, especially coming from her mom herself. Like that’s awful All right, guys, I get so many confessions every week.
So we’re going to start doing confessions every single week More drama coming up soon, and I have a very special guest joining me next week I want to tell you guys so bad, but you’re gonna see a sneak peek pretty soon in a couple of weeks And I cannot wait for their reactions to another crazy story If you are following me on the socials you’ve maybe have seen Seen her and see some of the content she puts out, but we’ll get to that in a bit.
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