The Pre Nup: A Wedding Planning Podcast

Forget the photo booth — the real key to a wedding your guests will never forget comes down to comfort and logistics. Host Adriana breaks down the guest experience essentials most couples overlook: parking and shuttles, greeters, temperature, seating, bathrooms, and why a surprise cash bar is a hard no.

She also covers the top wedding day regrets (skipping the hair/makeup trial, missing cocktail hour, no day-of coordinator, no weather plan B) and the growing tension between wedding day content creators and traditional photo/video vendors.

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Have you heard about "Broccoli Gate"? A bride swapped her bridal bouquet for an actual bunch of broccoli — and Adriana has thoughts.

In this solo episode of The Pre Nup, host Adriana Brauckmann breaks down the bridal bouquet alternatives that miss the mark (hello, book bouquets and baby's breath boas) versus the ones actually worth trying, like the single stem and the parasol.

Then she gets into the influencer-ification of bridal parties — why those $5,000 bridesmaid proposal boxes you're seeing online are PR gifting, not a standard to chase — plus real bachelorette party safety tips, honeymoon and venue security (including what to do with your cash gifts), and a full breakdown of why a micro wedding might be the move for your guest list and your budget. She closes with an afterparty rapid-fire round covering the most overrated wedding tradition, the one splurge that's worth it, and how to handle a destination wedding gift.

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Welcome back to The Pre Nup, the wedding-obsessed podcast designed to help you plan your dream day! I’m your host, Adriana, and each week, I’m joined by the industry’s top professionals, celebs, influencers, and friends who are sharing their best tips, advice, and the mistakes they’ve made so you don’t have to. In this episode, host Adriana is joined by attorney Nicole Noonan, affectionately known as the “Divorce Fairy Godmother,” to tackle everything you didn’t know you needed to about prenups, postnups, and the dreaded “dirty D-word”—divorce. While these topics may not feel glamorous, Nicole reframes the conversation, showing how these agreements are actually acts of love and planning for a secure future. Nicole shares real-life stories about the surprising things couples fight over, from airline miles to family farms, and explains why having a prenup is like wearing a seatbelt—you don’t plan to crash, but it’s better to be prepared. Adriana and Nicole also dive into postnups, estate planning, and how to approach tricky conversations with your partner while keeping the romance alive. 💍 Episode Highlights:

Nicole also shares her favorite honeymoon hotspot (hint: it’s exotic and Instagram-worthy!), her go-to wedding dance floor song, and why a shrimp cocktail is the ultimate wedding hors d’oeuvre. Whether you’re deep in wedding planning or just curious about the legal side of marriage, this episode is packed with advice to help you feel empowered, informed, and ready for whatever the future holds. We love hearing from you! Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your feedback or suggestions for the next episode.

Welcome back to The Pre Nup, the podcast where we talk honestly about love, weddings, and everything in between.

This week, we're joined by the hilarious Brendan Donegan for a no-holds-barred breakdown of the one part of the wedding day everyone fears and no one prepares for: the speeches. As a comic who's spent years on stage (and survived more than a few bachelor parties, engagement parties, and "surprise, we hired a comedian" disasters), Brendan knows exactly why most wedding toasts flop and how to actually land one.

From the best man speech so inappropriate it became a cautionary tale, to the maid-of-honor opener you need to retire immediately, to why you should never, EVER let ChatGPT write your toast, Brendan holds nothing back. We get into the genuine-vs-funny rule that instantly makes any speech better, the real reason brides wear wigs to their bachelorette, the great garter toss debate, and the father-daughter dance song guaranteed to wreck you. Then we close it out with a brutally honest Rom Com Rewatch of Bride Wars (which Brendan may or may not call one of the worst wedding movies ever made).

Whether you're writing a speech, terrified of giving one, or just want the funniest, most honest take on wedding-day chaos, this episode is for you.

Episode Highlights:

• Why you should never let ChatGPT write your wedding speech (and what it can't do for you)

• The one-line rule that instantly makes any toast better  

• The best man speech so inappropriate it became a cautionary tale (with the in-laws sitting right there)

• The maid-of-honor opener you need to stop using

• Exactly how long your speech should be (and the number that makes guests mentally check out)

• Why hiring a comedian for your wedding or bachelor party almost always backfires

• The real reason brides and bridesmaids wear wigs to the bachelorette 

• The garter toss debate: keep the tradition or retire it for good?

• The father-daughter dance song that will absolutely make you sob

• A genius hack to stop stage-hungry guests from hijacking your reception

• The Bride Wars rewatch: is it really one of the worst wedding movies ever made?

Find Brendan: Instagram: @brendandonegancomedy

Welcome back to The Pre Nup, the podcast where we talk honestly about love, weddings, and everything in between.

This week, we're joined by the one and only Nina Beck — wedding fashion and lifestyle influencer, nurse practitioner, and now a married woman — for the ultimate recap of her dreamy Lake Maggiore destination wedding. Last time Nina was here, she was deep in the planning trenches. Today, she's giving us the full, unfiltered truth: what she'd do a thousand times over, what she'd never do again, and everything no one could have prepared her for.

Whether you're dreaming of an Italian destination wedding or just want the real, honest truth about what it's actually like to pull one off — this episode is for you.

Episode Highlights

• The $4,500 surprise that stole the show — and why she'd pay double

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