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Hey guys , welcome to the Flower Files

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. A little bit of a different setup tonight . You

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just get me . We

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want to try something a little different . We want to talk

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a little bit about wedding

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setups that are specific

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to a certain place

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. Just do a real quick , short

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pop in once in a while and be like , hey , this

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happened and it was really cool . Or hey , this happened

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and I was really panicked . Or hey , this

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happened and I really fucked it up . It

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could be any of those things . Today

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is just a real quick pop in to chat

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a little bit about our wedding setup this past

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weekend . I

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really want this podcast

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to be a place where things are open

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and honest and I

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feel like so many times in the

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Instagram world , the Facebook world , the TikTok

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, the YouTube

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, the whatever any of the social media

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is , everything is shiny and pretty and

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I want a place where we can talk

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about , sometimes , things that aren't always

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shiny and pretty . This

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past weekend , really excited to go

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to the Tidewater Inn down in

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Easton , pretty close to us . Very

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small wedding , very intimate . That

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bride actually had asked us

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to step outside her box a little bit . It

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was the first moment of the season and I was like we can

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be more flexible . She was

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budget conscious and concerned

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, which absolutely everybody

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is , and I understand that she

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actually used some fake florals . What

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we did is we did live florals

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for all of her personals

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. She had a petite bridal bouquet

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for her . She had seven

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petite bridesmaid bouquets for

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her I'm going to say team

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, but it's not her team for the rest of her

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bridal party Three

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corsages , a boutonniere

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and a couple other boutonniers

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and that was all she had as far as live

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flowers went . Start with her planner

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to make sure everything was

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going to be set up . Props

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to her for some of the best communication

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. There have been many times where

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, if there's just a day off planner , a

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bride is like , hey , this is what I want , and things

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are shoved in a box and you kind

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of have to sort through and figure out what

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the heck goes where . She had things

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color coordinated . There were squares

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on the squares that

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went with a specific room because she had three

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different rooms . She had the ceremony space

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. She had cocktail hour , which , by

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the way , she had a macaroni and cheese bar . I

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walked past that and was smelling

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it as they were cooking it . Not going

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to lie , I was like how do I taste

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? Test this . Then

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they started baking bread and my stomach growled the

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entire time . I had

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eaten lunch , but a whole different story . Then

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, in the last room , which was her ballroom

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, in her clear reception space , she

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had everything organized there

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. She had bins organized , Everything

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was bubble wrapped , Everything was ready to go . There

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was a little more to it

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than what I thought it was going

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to be . When I walked in it

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felt like when I had read

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everything and looked at all of the emails

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and all of that kind of stuff , I was like , oh , that'll be no problem

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, but trying to make

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sure I had everything exactly as

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she wanted it I

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always stress about that . She

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had her fake florals from Ling's

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florals . She had

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a centerpiece down her runner

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. So she had her three

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rectangle tables pushed together for

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her entire bridal party and

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then everything else was rounds . She

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reused her bridal bouquets and

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used them as centerpieces

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and then had floating candles in a couple

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of the others . In order for

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everything to fit , she

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had the three cylinders tucked inside

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each other and

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it was table two . It was table four

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, it was table seven two , four

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, seven , nine , 13 , 11

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, and 12 . And

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just the way that the room was laid out . Those

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were all of the floating candles and the kitchen

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was there and always fascinating

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. We get to see some of those behind the scenes things

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, of things happening in the kitchen with the chefs

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. Sometimes the chefs are what you see

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on TV and they're yelling and there's all of this stuff

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going on . And then there's other kitchens

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where the chefs are a little more I

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don't want to say normal , but like they're

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normal humans . They're not these great big

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, huge , like loud people . The

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great big , huge , loud people . I'm always like , oh my

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God , I don't want to be in your way . But this guy , I walked

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in and , oh my God , watching him chop was

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just mesmerizing because

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he just he chopped and chopped and chopped and chopped

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. It was fascinating . But I had to go back and

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forth with pictures to be able to

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fill all of the vases for

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not vases but the floating candles

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. But she had them tucked

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inside each other . I had everything

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set up in the cocktail room . I had

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everything set up for the ceremony . I

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was finishing up table 13

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, last one , I picked up the

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bunch of vases

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that were all nestled together and they

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proceeded to slide out and shatter all

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over the floor . So kind

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of panicked , super glad she had

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massive extras . It wasn't like

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she had one extra , she had like five

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extra of everything . So

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it was really cool . I was able to kind of

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pick and choose through things . If

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something was a little crushed , it was able to kind of fluff

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it . If it didn't fluff correctly , I just traded it

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for something else . The

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garland on that

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rectangle table with the whole

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guest party One garland

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was perfect . The other garland was about

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a foot short . It

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really stressed

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me . But when I looked at the planner she's like

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ah , we're just gonna shift this and we'll move the pepper here

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and we'll do this and we'll do that . And she

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didn't even blink an eye about it . So there was teeny

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, tiny details that kind of freaked

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me out . I guess don't freak

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other people out , I

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will say walking into the tide water , everybody

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was absolutely so amazing

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, so inviting , so welcoming

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. What can we do ? Hold the door . Here's

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the elevator . I'll take you to exactly where

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you need to be and nine times

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out of 10 , as you're walking up to a room

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where everybody's getting ready , you

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can find the bridal suite just by

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following your nose and the smell of the hairspray

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, Because it was wow

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. But you walk in and it's

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so cool to see all of the girls together

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, everybody chatting , there's

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always that kind of like leader in

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the girl group who's like oh , I'll take the

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boutonniers to the guys because they know what room

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they're in . Sometimes I think

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those are the girls who also need a break from all the

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girlness . So

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sometimes they run out and take care of that

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. The photographer popped in and he

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was like hey , can I talk to the bride

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? And I was like I'm not the planner , I'm

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the florist . And he's like but I'm

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a guy and I don't wanna knock on the door . So it

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was really kind of I would say

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it was funny . But it was kind of funny

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watching the photographer be a little nervous about

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like there's all these women , what do I

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do ? And you walk in and

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such a flurry of activity

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with the steamer getting the last

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minute wrinkles out , the fine

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details , with the earrings going in

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the heels , the hey

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, do you have a bandaid ? I have a blister , Like all

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of these little things that are happening

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last minute that just pull

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everybody together and it's such

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togetherness . It's

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always really fun to see that stuff . The

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tide water is an absolutely

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beautiful property , the

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, as I said earlier , the staff

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are absolutely amazing

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, from the front desk to when

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I have to like wiggle my way around

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, there was one of their staff members who had

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just come back from an extended break

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. She's a full-time teacher through

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the week and she had had some

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health things . So she had just come back

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and everybody was like , oh my gosh

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, it's so good to see you . So the

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camaraderie that was there was

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just amazing . I

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didn't wanna wait with armfuls of flowers

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for the elevator and be in the way of the guests , so

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I actually got to walk up and down in a great big

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, grand staircase . So

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I felt like such a geek that I was like this

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is so cool . But

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then I was like , oh my God , what happens if I trip and fall

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? It was definitely

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one of those moments where it was really

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really neat . It was cool to see , but

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it was definitely a space

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where it's

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a one-of-a-kind space because it's historic

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and has the great big fireplaces and

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all of that kind of stuff . So a

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really cool kickoff to our season . Really

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sorry and sad that I broke

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vases I've only done that one

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other time and it was only one vase and these

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just and the staff again

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, staff was great . They were actually really funny

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. They were like , yeah , at least it wasn't a full tray of

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full glasses , so

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that's no big deal . Yeah

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, so first kickoff for the season

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Tidewater Eastern . Really

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cool personal little

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wedding there . So

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that's it for our first one . There's

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no other juicy details

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on this one . I'm

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saying I'm a lot , I've got to work on that , so

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we will continue

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to bring you little

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tips and snippets and things

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like that . Where can you find

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us ? Well , I'm not sure at platform

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, and Patreon is actually

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a way for us to be able to cover

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the cost of some of the pieces

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that are behind the scenes and

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do some of the cool

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things that we actually get to do . Would

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love some feedback . Hit me up

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with some of your comments , questions , ideas

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, anything else you'd love to hear about

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, and I hope your grocery run

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to the store is great

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. See you soon . See

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you soon . You

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.