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Well , hello , guys , Welcome again to

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the one and only Flower

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Files Podcast .

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As I was saying that I wanted to do a different intro

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on that topic . Today

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we are going to talk about the infamous

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candles and

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we're just kind of going to take

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our time and we're going to actually link it back

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to a once-was-thought-of

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blog post , to a article

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, catalog guide on candles

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, because I'm sure you can find

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it somewhere somehow online

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. But we're going to give it to you

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, but you have to find it on the website

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, so it's gonna be free . Um , we're just gonna have

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it as a collective like link

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thing for you guys . We have so much information

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about wax and

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candles and what to do and

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how to do them , so we're actually going to

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go through , um , the

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uh , oh

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, we're gonna go through the candles catalog and

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kind of just talk amongst ourselves

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about what's going on with all

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the candles , why are they important ? What's

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the big deal ? Why is light so

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expensive ? Um

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, so yeah , uh

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, the first one , it's

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just the intro . What's it about ? What's

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the big deal ? But the biggest

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point I think that we always talk to customers

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about and what you guys sometimes

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don't think of is what are the venue's

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rules ? Like

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who ? Like Hazelwood in

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Pennsylvania ? They do not allow

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any type of unholded

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, unopened flame

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, maybe

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uncovered , there you go . Maybe

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uncover , there you go , flame kennel

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, which is understandable because they're a barn

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and things catch on fire outside a

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little bit different , clearly , um

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, unless you have crazy amounts of wind . But

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, mom , because you talk to venue

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people and customers , what

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do you run into ?

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um , there's a lot of logistics behind it

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. Each venue has their own

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process . Each venue has their own

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rule . Some of them allow

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taper candles . Some of them allow

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votive candles

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. Some of them allow a combination

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. Most of the time , they do have to be

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enclosed in some form

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of chimney or glass , which is

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more expensive it

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is because there's a lot more logistics

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to it . You know you have the actual

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glass , you have the

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, the little stand

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thing that you stick it in the holders

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, the votive holders .

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Yeah , the . You actually

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have the taper itself .

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Yeah , the tapers and

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people ask like , oh gosh , why are they

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so expensive ? Um , because

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when the night is over and everything is done

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, we are scrubbed out . Wax and

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that burn and all that stuff

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out of there with our microfiber

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towels .

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That we wash , for sure

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, for sure , for sure , yeah , and

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I I feel like they , like candles

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, give off a vibe 100%

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like and each specific

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candle gives off a vibe , 100%

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um . But yeah , with venues

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you've got to check with your , with your people

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. You have to check especially inside . Um

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tapers , the next best

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thing for candles . I

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feel like that's a good like .

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When I think of tapers , I think of harry

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potter I think of

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bergerton , I think of

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I think of the fancy like

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tapered candles that people can like peel

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and twirl them and they're colorful

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and pretty and yeah

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, broken .

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No , the best taper candle ever

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is moon year , yeah from

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duty of the beast , um , but

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there's so many different things that you can do

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with tapers . Well , the holders for one are

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infinite in itself

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. You've got gold , silver

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, your typical colonial

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, vintage la-la-la , shiny

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stuff that actually gets dirty very fast

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you have

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wood , I feel like the older

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it's like glass sets

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the tone .

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Oh yeah totally the short ones . You can have the long

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candle .

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What are the ones ? Is it a candelabra ?

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Where it has multiples on there .

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Yeah , candelabra , okay , that's what lumiere is . Okay

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, see , um , but

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and we haven't worked with them . Yet I

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haven't had to work with them because they're just like we haven't worked

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with lumiere . How

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do we do that ? But they're expensive , like

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that's an expensive piece unless you

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find it in like goodwill and

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it's more than likely going to be dirty and you might have to

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spray paint it again or just

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spray paint over it , like so , yeah , like

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some of that stuff . They

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get pretty tricky to find and

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if they're renting you might as well buy

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it at that point . Yeah , like you

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, just it's part of it and

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there's centered , centered

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, scented taper

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candles and those are

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some of the strongest candles I think

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I've ever smelled in my life . Well

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, like you take them out of the box and you're like

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, oh , my God , it smells like candy

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or like bubblegum or it's

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so insanely sweet , like specifically

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the pink and purple ones , because we did a styled shoot

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at Hazelwood . She's like , oh , yeah , the candles are scented

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and you walked halfway across the room and

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the scented ones were in the corner and she had three

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and the whole

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room just filled up with these candles . So imagine

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you have 50 of

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these taper candles that you've spent money on

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your whole , entire , you

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might as well not wear perfume like

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, yeah , it's just , it's ridiculous

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you won't talk about a

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, something that the guests

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are gonna remember . It's not the food , it's not the music

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, it's gonna be that smell yeah , because whenever

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we've been to weddings , you remember , remember the

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food , the weather and if

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the music was good , Like in reality

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, like if people , if you don't know unless

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you're , if you have

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a different class of people than what we have

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, you know you get different perspectives

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and it just it's

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a lot . Candles can be a lot . The

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next one that we always work with pretty decently

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enough are floating cables .

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They've been huge this year .

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Yeah , and the amount of time that it takes to

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set them up .

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Well and let's clarify floating is not like

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suspended from the ceiling floating .

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No , not Harry Potter .

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Cylinders ? No , these are cylinders with water

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. They're a disc-shaped

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candle . They're pretty flat . They're about four

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or five inches wide .

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They come in yeah

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, and colors too , yeah

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, which is pretty cool , yeah , and they're I mean

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, they're beautiful , anything with water involved

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. Well , you've hit all your five senses

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, that's true , like you hit your

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sight , like , or like the senses

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, or your your elements , sorry . You

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got florals with the earth . You've got your candles

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with the fire . You've got your water

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water , yeah , because

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sometimes you have bubbles in it from

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filling them up in the sink . Um

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, you know , you , you create

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a different feel when you have that

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.

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So we did a wedding where

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the

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bride wanted things suspended in the

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water and trying

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to make sure you and I actually set that up they

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were not floating or pushing

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things out or any of that kind of stuff .

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And at three separate sizes . Yes , so

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I was like let's cut the Ruscus and

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you have three different sizes to fit into

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three different sized candles , because

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the stem can't be long enough to push up the candle to make

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it tip over , to make the flame go out , and you could

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never use something that is going to change

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the color of the water .

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Imagine using celosia . Oh yeah , that immediately

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changes the color of the water . So you have

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to be really , really careful with whatever

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you submerge . That it's also not

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going to get gross .

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Mm-hmm . Yeah

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, it's a lot .

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They come for the cart that day , yeah

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, so

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the next question question can you combine the types of candles ? 100

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yes , 100 we often please do it

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adds a different textural element

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. It adds a different elegance . You

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can have , you know , pillars

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, you can have tapers , you can have photos , you

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can have floaters , candelabras , all

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of the things .

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And it tells the story and I

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mean the one picture I'm looking at here . It was

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a pink and white and like greenery

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kind of wedding . Um , she

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just wanted tapers but her

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cylinders were short but

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her candles were beautiful , but she wanted

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different shades of pink , of taper

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candles . That was like you and I

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did and she had . Her

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vases were doubled , so I think she had

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like 14

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phases per farm

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table , which is beautiful , loved it

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. Um , it's definitely more full with still being

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like minimal .

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Yeah , with scattered bases .

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Yeah , little scattered pieces yeah , um

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, and I'm looking at sammy's she

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had one , two , three , four

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. She had five different kinds of

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candles . She had little

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square gold votives

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she had round and the

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square ones were speckled . Her

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round old votives were just

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flat gold like glass . Um

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, she had little teeny like

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fishbowl floaters which

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were they're so adorable , um

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, and then she had a couple floaters down the center and

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then she had like

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a larger size of a different design

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with speckled on them . So she had five

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different kinds of candles on there . Like

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it was pretty cool .

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It was very romantic .

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Yeah , it was really really cool , and especially

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in a big place , like sometimes , you don't realize

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how much one little flame

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can give off so much light

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.

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Oh yeah , it's warm light .

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Yeah , so warm , it's welcoming

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, it's

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more natural , not that , oh , and battery powered

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, powered candles or so doesn't

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allow for real flames .

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Well , their barn is very , very

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old , it's historic

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. I mean that's gonna be horrifying

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.

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So they that way ?

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you still have that look

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and there are a lot of different battery operated

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that actually last and look good

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and liquor , I mean there's there's

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a lot of different things you can use that actually the science

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of battery powered candles has come

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a long way yeah , yeah

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, even something like the little motive

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guys like they have to be battery powered , yeah

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, and then we hear the bride .

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She's like , yeah , I put all the batteries and all the candles and I

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was like , oh my god , that's a lot of batteries , like

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those little teeny tiny silver , yeah

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, like key batteries you gotta put in there

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. No thanks , I'll find it

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.

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I think they're called button batteries um

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, so the next thing burn time

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burn time is influenced by

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the quality of the candle yeah so

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it's not just the length

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of the candle . Yes , that definitely has

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an impact , but you could have a super cheap

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taper candle that is going to

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burn and drop wax and

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smoke everywhere yeah , bms , um

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or a really good high quality . It's

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about the wick and about the quality of

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the wax the soy candles are really good and

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they're really really clean , really

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clean .

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Oh , it's interesting to see , like when we get stuff back

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like because we have our candles rented

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our tables , we get back and we've

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been able to figure out ways to donate them , um

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, for wax and projects and things like that

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but seeing how

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the different candles burn , like the good ones

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they just burn down , the

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cheap ones burn like uh

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off , like they like

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they dribble off of each other yeah , it's gross

12:26

, like for two candles that you have in the dining

12:28

room from williamsburg . We've

12:30

had them for how many years , like how many

12:32

times have we let them for Thanksgiving dinner ? They're

12:35

finally getting a little short .

12:36

They were a little shorter this year

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.

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They were a little bit longer last year

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, but it was . They

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also don't sputter . That's

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another thing . No , they don't likespack Spark

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. I can't speak tonight . Spack

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, yeah , youck , yeah , you

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get the

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idea , but yeah , it's a lot

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. And if you have big , tall , like pillar

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candles in glassware , like

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thick candles , not just with a holder but

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like thick ones , they burn for a long time .

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Yeah , the trick is getting those suckers out .

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Yeah , oh , my God , yeah oh

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my God , yeah .

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So one tip that I will share is

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make sure that when you are renting

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your pillar candle vases

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that you have

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very clear direction from the

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rental company if the candle is included

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. We set up a wedding . We had

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everything all set up . They asked us to help

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with the candles . Not a problem , because

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sometimes , realistically , it's a pain in the

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ass getting the plastic off the

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candles if they're shipped with that

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plastic on them . So it takes a

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lot of time . But

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she had

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all of her pillar bottoms . None

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of the candles were there , not a single

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candle , because it wasn't included

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as part of the rental . So

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we quick thank god we were

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close by that day we quick raced home

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and had a whole bunch of things that

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were . They were close

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to pillars , yeah , um , but

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we were able to make it work for her .

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She didn't notice until we told her

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like wildly native , coming in clutch that

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was yikes .

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But again , that wasn't even like

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part of our . That wasn't part of our

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contract . That was something that they had rented and brought

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in and yeah they were running a little behind and they were

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like oh my gosh , can you help ? And we're like yeah , sure , we

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don't mind . And I was like just hand us the candles . I'm

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like what ? I was like well , these are the

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bases , where's the tops ? So

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that's one of those little tiny detail

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things that , when you're like , do I

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need ?

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a planner . Yes , yeah , yeah , definitely

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um

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. So the next , or I guess the

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last thing on the um

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oh

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, lord on the catalog , specifically

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um is how do we reuse them

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? We honestly just take them to art classes

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. I don't know if you guys have heard of it , but it's a

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. There's a certain kind of art project that's called batiking

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. It's hot wax and

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it's colored and you have

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paintbrushes and you've got to work quickly because

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the wax dries . It's like a whole thing

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I remember I did in high school with my art teacher , but

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you know , we've found ways

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to to to

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reuse them .

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Yeah , I , I mean , if you think about thousands

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of weddings and thousands of candles

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, those poor bees , oh my gosh

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, they're just thrown away

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. I , I am the environmental

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person , I totally get that . But

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it really bothered me . The one

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day I was looking , because we had an event , I was

15:37

like what are we going to do with this ? So

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I tried to find a place to recycle them . We

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are in a rural area so it wasn't super

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easy . And then the cost

15:45

of shipping them they're heavy . I

15:47

was like this just doesn't make sense from a

15:50

financial standpoint . So we

15:52

started to really look and then I started

15:54

to really dig into if

15:56

we did want to recycle them . You know we collect

15:58

them for a year and we take a field trip somewhere

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and maybe we deliver them . But

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then it was . We had to sort them by

16:04

the different kinds , where the

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wax included . Like what kind of wax

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was it ? So it got

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to be this cumbersome thing and I was

16:13

like this is dumb , we're trying to do a good thing

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and it's a messy thing and it's

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a messy thing . So I actually

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commented on it . And our local

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high school art teacher was the one

16:24

who was like , oh my God , we never have enough

16:26

wax . And

16:29

I was like , girl , we got you . So there's a lot of different

16:32

ways that you could still

16:34

use them and help others

16:37

with them . Does

16:40

that make sense ?

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Yeah , wax is expensive and people need it .

16:46

and if you're gonna have candles at your wedding , donate it to art schools because they

16:48

need it well , and some people

16:50

were like , I mean , you

16:52

can come up with lists of things that you can do with

16:54

extra wax . And somebody was like

16:56

, oh , you can make your own wax seals and all of

16:58

that . I was like I do not need another

17:01

project . No , I was like please

17:03

do not give us another project to do . So

17:06

yeah

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, there's a lot of logistics behind

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candles , a lot of logistics behind them

17:14

.

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Yeah , so many options , so many things to

17:16

think about . Do places allow

17:20

them ? Do you want them scented ? What color

17:22

do you want them scented ? What color do you want , not only ? What color candle

17:24

do you want ? What color holder do you want ?

17:27

yeah , it's . There's a lot of little pieces

17:29

to it and I'm sure pinterest can be overwhelming

17:32

sometimes oh , and , by the way

17:34

, who's lighting them ?

17:37

sometimes it's the planner .

17:38

Most of the time , I think it's the planner or

17:40

us , yeah , and that's if we really

17:43

like you one of

17:45

the things .

17:46

That's one of the things that we have found

17:48

, too that we always make sure , when we

17:50

drop the candles in , all of the wicks are standing

17:53

up . Yes , because I

17:55

can't imagine , you know , think

17:57

about the logistics of the table You're meeting over , people

17:59

who are eating , or something like that . No

18:02

, no , we want it to be as efficient as possible

18:04

.

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Absolutely .

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Yeah , yeah , for sure , for

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sure , for sure , all right . Well

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scenes info to make your event absolutely magical

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this has been a very quick recap

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, candle options , and

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