From strip club-triggered engagement to how to uninvite an uncle who is fighting with dad, we hear lots from you guys, our listeners this week!

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A listener writes in asking for advice about smoker relatives being invited to a non-smoking venue in a forest. We chat about why you should never guilt-invite someone to be a part of your wedding party. In Double Ds we hear about forbidden coma love that’s SUPER messed up!

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This week we debate the latest in tacky wedding photo trends, tips on how to save for your wedding day, insider security guard stories, dating an Underwear Gnome and tons more!

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A very uncomfortable wedding where a gross & rude groom keeps disappearing - for cigarettes and gambling - so classy. A longtime married photographer couple goes AWOL after shooting a listener’s wedding … find out what happened next!

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A listener sends us an S.O.S. email asking for help because she doesn’t like her engagement photos and wants to know if she should look for a different photographer for the wedding day. We hear about a horrible ex-boyfriend-turned-best-man in a listener’s best friend’s wedding! Following these stories is a listener’s experience with a caterer from hell and in Double Ds we hear about a guy called Creepy Benny who is WAYYYYY too into a relationship way too soon and sends up all kinds of red flags. Finally, we hear Rebecca’s popular trend predictions for 2020 weddings!

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There is so much to unpack with this extra dirty episode of The Secret Life of Weddings Podcast! Let’s just say it’s about everything from bachelor parties, ex-gfs showing up to the wedding ceremony, strip clubs, cheating spouses and more that we can’t write in this description without our post getting flagged for inappropriate content! You’ll just have to listen to find out more ;)

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A bride and her mom is super ungrateful to her MIL-to-be even when she buys them manicures. A guy’s New Year’s Eve marriage proposal to his girlfriend is deliberately ruined by his own brother and future sister-in-law. We also hear an update on our listener and her crazy bride friend Amber on The Nightmare Before Christmas Saga Part 2!

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To DJ or Playlist? On the F**k It Bucket this week we argue both sides and discuss when it a playlist could work and when it could fail spectacularly. A couple getting married over the holidays get surprised when they are expecting a big beautiful decorated tree and get a massive gingerbread house instead! Someone tries to “reserve” an entire year for their wedding and tons more drama on this holiday themed episode of The Secret Life of Weddings podcast.

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This week we’ve got listener mail about the wedding venue plantation problem. In the F**k It Bucket is dieting to fit into a wedding dress. We also hear about an ignorant venue owner who is convinced the world revolves around his existence, a man who marries a doll (yeah there’s a lot more to this …), Lisa almost got run-over by a car after a rainy wedding and so much more!

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We give some first kiss advice (especially what we don’t want to see), we hear about the saltiest speech ever given at a wedding reception, and about a bridesmaid who mooches from her friend and doesn’t like it when her friend calls out the bad behaviour!

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