27 Stresses
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate resurrects the Bride Tribe series to offer her updated perspective (and updated listener stories) about participating in weddings and/or being a bridesmaid, just in time for wedding season. This episode is narrated via a 27-point list Kate once made about how stressed she was attending friends’ weddings around age 27, when she was left wondering if the most accurate wedding rom-com this whole time was the depiction of glorified girlfriend martyrdom in 27 Dresses. Enjoy & come back next week for part 2 feat. Caroline Moss!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host, similar to how time is divided by after death and before |
| 0:24.3 | Christ, my experience, pop culture taught young millennials like me to split my timeline |
| 0:32.7 | into two eras before and after the best day of your life, TM. |
| 0:39.9 | Even though I spent a lot of my adolescence watching movies like my best friends wedding, |
| 0:45.6 | going into my mid-twenties, I was not ready for the politics of being asked to participate |
| 0:51.1 | in some of my own best friends' weddings. |
| 0:54.1 | And I've often theorized that the 90s and 2000s wedding romcom industrial complex, delivering |
| 1:02.0 | one predictable wedding movie after the next is what gave many of us a complex about how |
| 1:07.2 | much significance we place on a singular day, a singular event. |
| 1:12.1 | This was compounded by popular wedding-related TV programming like, say, yes, the dress, a |
| 1:18.0 | wedding story, bride, silas, countless other specials and reality shows that overemphasize |
| 1:23.9 | the role of the dresses, the drama, and fleeting details of a wedding, you know, while |
| 1:30.4 | hard they ever mentioning the outcome, which is a marriage, but I didn't care. |
| 1:34.5 | I wanted to be prepared for what I was told was the most prestigious title a woman could |
| 1:39.3 | have and for one day hold, which is of course the bride. |
| 1:44.6 | Besides TV programming, the wedding-related romantic comedy was a category I took so seriously |
| 1:52.2 | and that I think profoundly molded my expectations for what a wedding and surrounding events should |
| 1:59.4 | be like. |
| 2:00.7 | This was only made worse with the invention of Pinterest, which is a great tool that |
| 2:07.2 | many brides myself included heavily used to play in their day, but it also in addition |
| 2:14.1 | to the social media era of wedding hashtags and sharing batch-sarett parties and bridal |
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