April 25, 2025 • 15 mins
Caelynn Bell is taking over the Almost Famous podcast and hanging out with Zach Shallcross and Kaity Biggar! The happy couple gives us an update on their wedding plans, and they explain the moment they decided to elope instead of a big elaborate ceremony!
Plus, how would Bachelor stars handle being trapped in an avalanche or an erupting volcano??
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello, everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. This is
not Ben nor Ashley. I'm Caitlyn Bell and I am
taking over for Ben and Ashley. We are in NAPO
with iHeart and we're here for Live in the Vineyard
with a bunch of other Bachelor Nation members, including Katie
and Zach.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome. Hello, Hello there.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Great to have you guys, Yeah on my podcast. I'm
excited to chat about weddings and your lives and everything
you guys are up to.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Same.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, wait, I'm sure all of your followers know this,
but I don't particularly know this. Where are you guys
living right now?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We're in Austin, Texas, and we've been in Austin since
we wrapped up everything with the show ever since.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Do you feel like that's permanent.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
For now?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think we will definitely like raise our first kid
in Texas and kind of just like feel it out
from there. But I know, I think we were telling
some of Bachelor Nation, or at least on my platform,
that we were thinking about moving to the Carolinas, whether
it was like north or South, but that hurricane came
through and kind of just like made me like really
(01:14):
iffy about it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So yeah, what he laughed about.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
No, nothing, because we we were like kind of dead
set on North Carolina, both of us have never been
before and were it just sounds and feels right. Yeah,
and then you know, things change and we're like, no,
we're sticking in Austin. We're gonna buy here, we can
see a future here.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it just felt good and we were like, I mean,
at least me, you already had a community, but I
was like building like friendships and it just finally felt good.
So yeah, and it's yeah, I think Texas is great
for now, but who knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. I lived in North Carolina for
a bit. It is a beautiful state.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I hear, I hear.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's amazing that oh in the mountains, you get the season,
it's and it's also closer.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
To my home, like my family in Canada.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So that's why many reasons why we gravitated towards that.
But I think right now we're just kind of center
our ways in Austin.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And yeah, okay, I have a question before I get
into the list of questions I have. I was talking
about this with a friend, what natural disaster do you
think you can live through? Earthquakes? Fires? What are the
mall you first, Well, there's earthquakes, fires, What else are.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh, hurricanes, hurricane.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Lava, lava la?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Okay, okay, what do we think we could like?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Everyone has to pick one, you know, because like North
Carolina hurricanes, Texas, Tonada's.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, I just feel like that the least fatal would
be an earthquake because there's different degrees to it.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Hmm, yeah, so earthquakes. I was gonna say earthquakes by far,
because like in California, I grew up in California, tons
of earthquakes all the time. They're like kind of a
natural occurrence. It doesn't like spook you too much until
they say, oh, the big one's coming. But I'd say.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I've never experienced up in Cana.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Probably the worst would be lava because.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The worst Yeah, I've never heard someone bring up lava
in this conversation. But fair point, I feel like lava
is just a thing, not a natural disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Why would you say that?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, So basically because it's like it's a volcano erupting,
that's a natural disaster, which leads to lava, so.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Okay, so we take it back volcano eruption, okay with lava.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, so you have to pick one. You have to
pick one natural disaster and that's what you're sticking with
that we can live through. Yeah, and it is it earthquakes?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I feel like that's the least fatal, right or do
you want to My friends and I talk about this
all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Or we can risk it and think that we could
live through lava.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
We're not living through lava. Earth takes a great one
and I think hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So okay, this settles it. North Carolina or California for
where you should live. Oh oh yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Sit on that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So you're saying we should move to California because they
have earthquakes. North Carolina had the hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Guys, we're moving. It's a good game.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Where should we move? You know?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Zactis needs to become a billionaire before we moved California.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, So let's chat about weddings. Do you guys have
a wedding update? Are you still eloping?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
We are still eloping?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How small do you think it would be with an elopement? Literally,
there is in people that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, very intimate, very personal, and that's it just fits
our personality so well.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And I feel like, you know, we.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Had the big contract, we had the big wedding venue,
the you know, the all of it was big, and
it was I think we were quoted like eighty k
for the wedding, and we had the contract in our
hands and it was like, this doesn't feel right. It
doesn't feel like us, like you know what I mean.
So we just kind of like looked at each other
and it was just like, you know what, let's not
(05:29):
sign this and just like take a step back. And
we ended up deciding on a looping And honestly, we
when did we think of the date, Like back in January,
we were like, hey, should we get married this day?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
This makes sense? And we're like, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh wow, And then it all just kind of fell
into place till it be pressure off.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh I can imagine. Would it be abroad or in
the States?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Austin?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Austin nice, We're staying in Austin, amazing. So you have
a date, you have a location.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, it's like thirty minutes away from our home. Our
family's flying in. It's gonna be an hour ceremony if that, yeah,
and call it a day, go for dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, very chill.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You guys are very smart someone who got mad a
year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That we keep hearing that it was a great day.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But it's just the cost, doesn't it's it's it's crazy.
But I do want to know who had more opinions
about the wedding vibe between the two of you, who
had more like opinions on the wedding, like the vibe
of the wedding like everything.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Me, yeah, yeah, me for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Doak is so amazing. He was like, baby, if you
want the big wedding, let's do it. If you want
the small wedding, let's do it. You want to go
to Italy, We'll make it work. Like he's so amazing.
But I think, yeah, when it at the end of
the day, like the eloping just was just perfect for us,
and just it's our vibe and we're so like chill
(06:56):
and just like we don't need the limeline or anything
like that. We don't need like a big wedding, we
don't need the attention. We've had it and it's honestly,
this is just perfect. For us, and we're not telling
anybody the date because we just we want to just
like soak it in ourselves, Like I don't want anybody
to know until we're ready to like let people know
and we can share about it. But like.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think that's why people are so drawn to you guys,
is because some people from this show are drawn to
that spotlight, you know, and drawn to the limelight and
drawn to whatever it may be. And you guys just
feel very real and natural and like natural as a
couple too. This is my only second time spending time
with you guys, but you guys do feel like real.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I appreciate that. We get that a lot too, and
it's such a huge compliment. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah. Like one thing like we always like focus on
is like what we did was crazy, what you've done
is crazy, Like we all lived through it. But what's
most important that we find for each other is like
all right, let's just let's focus on each other and
like that this all this extra stuff, it's it's so fun.
You never know like when it's gonna change, but like
(08:17):
what at the end of the day, that Kate's all
that matters, and like our relationship is all that matters,
and that kind of transpired into like how we view
when we get married. Just keep it simple and yeah
about our love. That's it in our family.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, that's like the healthiest approach that you can have.
And yeah, I'm just so happy for you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Thank you. I appreciate that. We're so excited.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Like literally every day I'll look at him and I'll
be like, I cannot wait to marry you.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And I'm not even I'm not even lying. I literally
do it so probably more than once a day, no,
at least once.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Every time I look at him, I just like see
my husband in my future, I see everything, and I
just get so excited.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I just have to tell him, like, I cannot wait
to marry you.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Honestly, the best feeling when you're like, I'm marrying my
best friend. Yeah, and we're doing it the way we
want to do it, and we're having fun with it.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And it's been two years, right, two and a half
and a half and a half years. That's a really
good amount of time. And again, I don't know when
you're getting married, but that's that's a good amount of
time where you can really feel out the relationship outside
of the show too, Oh totally yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, living together and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, and we're buying our first home this year.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah this year.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, we got to start house hunting. Audit to the
list of things.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Wedding planning and house hunting is a lot on your plate.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But that's crazy. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, okay back to the wedding. Are there any non
negotiables for the wedding, Yeah, for either of.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You, like things that need to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, like I must have this or I can't have this,
or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Honestly, Okay, not really, because like we were originally gonna
have a courthouse wedding, literally just go in, no videographer, nothing.
We were gonna go inside the paper and just like maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Do like a family like some photos.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Here and there, and then go for dinner. And then
my mom was like, hey, have you thought about a
chapel And.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I was like no, no, no. And literally it wasn't
until like I want.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
To say, four or three weeks ago where I was like,
wait a second, I think the chapels a great idea.
I want a videographer. I do want to document this.
And then it's kind of transpired into something bigger. But
to answer your question, there really isn't any because it
(10:48):
all started so yeah, we were just like we were
just gonna go to the courthouse. There was no floorals,
there was no big wedding dress, there was nothing. So
I mean we've just kind of worked our way up
to like make it a little bit more elevated in
a chapel setting. But like I'm not like, baby, we
need this. It's just kind of like, hey, does.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
This sound like a fun idea or not? Or is
this like a dumb idea? And then we'll wait this,
we'll like spit it back and forth, and sometimes we'll
be like, yeah, I'm probably not worth it, or yeah
that's a good idea, let's run with it. But like overall,
it's a small.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It's so small.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But I will say I'm really adamant on getting like
a vintage car. Yeah, I really want like kind of
like old money vibes to it.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So I'm trying to like hone in on that. But yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
We're in a good like photographer and videographer just like
having that moment for life, like you want to look
back on that. Yeah, that isn't really important.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, so it's all like long winded answer, but like
it's all just kind of escalated a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
But at the same time, it's like, no, not really,
it's seven people.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
That's really something. So yeah, house wedding.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah no, I mean there is really no non negotiables.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm really fascinated by this. Were you guys both like
growing up? Because I was, I don't know, obsessed with
princesses and like my wedding day obsessed over it. Did
you guys have that period of your life or not? Really?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean I always dreamed of like having a wedding,
and I think as I got older and since meeting Zach,
i'd like thought about more of like a wedding day.
But my mom never got married, so like I think
growing up, I was like, oh, like, you know, if
I get married, that's awesome. If it doesn't happen for me,
I know, I'll be okay. Like, I never really fantasized
(12:45):
about having a wedding. Honestly, what I fantasized about was
having a good man in my life, not an extravagant wedding,
nor like what my dress was going to look like.
But yeah, yeah, I never really for that.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, I mean I don't know, like I don't want
to like pun it off to like the typical I guess,
like maybe a typical guy answer, but it's like for me,
it no, Like I didn't ever think like, oh I
need to have a big wedding and et cetera. Like
for me, what was most important at the end of
the day is like the person I marry, the person
I want to wake up to every morning, Like that
(13:24):
matters so much more than like this day that costs
a lot of money. Like in my mind, like that
was like like a high priority. Was more like I
just want to find that person to where we make
it official and you know we're going to the end
of days with Yeah, so that's that was more important
than even thinking of like what kind of florals am
(13:45):
I going to have? Or was the color of my
suit or tucks? Like I never actually ever thought of that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah. Ever, the way that you guys talk about marriage
and like the wedding, not marriage. The wedding is so
impressive compared to I don't know, it's like people don't
talk about weddings or marriage or anything like the way
that you guys do. So it's really special because it's
so much focus on like, oh, the dress was really stressful,
the guest list was really stressful, and it's like stress, stress, stress,
(14:11):
and you guys feel very like calm and at peace.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh we are, And it's cause we're not, like you
said this perfectly the other day. It's like we aren't
doing this for other people. It's not like, hey, we
should get this type of catering because these people are
coming or you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's not about that, like you know what I mean,
it's just like it's just for us. We're doing what
is for us exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And like that's to say, like we did meet with
a planner, you know, months ago, and we went through
you know, a lot of the the loops to try
to figure out like what could this look like, and
we were seeing that stress that like you know a
lot of people go through, and we're like, we don't
need to do this because like at the end of
the day, it's not about that, And then we reminded ourselves, yeah,
(14:51):
what it is. Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, I'm so happy Dean isn't here. When you guys
are talking, I'm like, thank god, he's not here.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Because he'd be.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Like, we should have eloped.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
This sounds so beautiful. Honestly, I'm really happy for you guys.
It's crazy how much money goes into that wedding industry.
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, no, it's really disgusting, and you guys are so smart.
But seriously, like, I really do mean it. The way
that you guys speak about this, it's so beautiful and
that's what marriage should be and that's what a wedding
should be about. So I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Thank you, thank you. We're so excited, and.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Thank you guys for coming on the Almost Famous podcast
without Ben and Ashley. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Of course, thanks for having us
This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello, everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. This is
not Ben nor Ashley. I'm Caitlyn Bell and I am
taking over for Ben and Ashley. We are in NAPO
with iHeart and we're here for Live in the Vineyard
with a bunch of other Bachelor Nation members, including Katie
and Zach.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome. Hello, Hello there.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Great to have you guys, Yeah on my podcast. I'm
excited to chat about weddings and your lives and everything
you guys are up to.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Same.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, wait, I'm sure all of your followers know this,
but I don't particularly know this. Where are you guys
living right now?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We're in Austin, Texas, and we've been in Austin since
we wrapped up everything with the show ever since.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Do you feel like that's permanent.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
For now?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think we will definitely like raise our first kid
in Texas and kind of just like feel it out
from there. But I know, I think we were telling
some of Bachelor Nation, or at least on my platform,
that we were thinking about moving to the Carolinas, whether
it was like north or South, but that hurricane came
through and kind of just like made me like really
(01:14):
iffy about it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So yeah, what he laughed about.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
No, nothing, because we we were like kind of dead
set on North Carolina, both of us have never been
before and were it just sounds and feels right. Yeah,
and then you know, things change and we're like, no,
we're sticking in Austin. We're gonna buy here, we can
see a future here.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it just felt good and we were like, I mean,
at least me, you already had a community, but I
was like building like friendships and it just finally felt good.
So yeah, and it's yeah, I think Texas is great
for now, but who knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. I lived in North Carolina for
a bit. It is a beautiful state.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I hear, I hear.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's amazing that oh in the mountains, you get the season,
it's and it's also closer.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
To my home, like my family in Canada.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So that's why many reasons why we gravitated towards that.
But I think right now we're just kind of center
our ways in Austin.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And yeah, okay, I have a question before I get
into the list of questions I have. I was talking
about this with a friend, what natural disaster do you
think you can live through? Earthquakes? Fires? What are the
mall you first, Well, there's earthquakes, fires, What else are.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh, hurricanes, hurricane.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Lava, lava la?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Okay, okay, what do we think we could like?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Everyone has to pick one, you know, because like North
Carolina hurricanes, Texas, Tonada's.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, I just feel like that the least fatal would
be an earthquake because there's different degrees to it.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Hmm, yeah, so earthquakes. I was gonna say earthquakes by far,
because like in California, I grew up in California, tons
of earthquakes all the time. They're like kind of a
natural occurrence. It doesn't like spook you too much until
they say, oh, the big one's coming. But I'd say.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I've never experienced up in Cana.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Probably the worst would be lava because.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The worst Yeah, I've never heard someone bring up lava
in this conversation. But fair point, I feel like lava
is just a thing, not a natural disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Why would you say that?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, So basically because it's like it's a volcano erupting,
that's a natural disaster, which leads to lava, so.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Okay, so we take it back volcano eruption, okay with lava.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, so you have to pick one. You have to
pick one natural disaster and that's what you're sticking with
that we can live through. Yeah, and it is it earthquakes?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I feel like that's the least fatal, right or do
you want to My friends and I talk about this
all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Or we can risk it and think that we could
live through lava.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
We're not living through lava. Earth takes a great one
and I think hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So okay, this settles it. North Carolina or California for
where you should live. Oh oh yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Sit on that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So you're saying we should move to California because they
have earthquakes. North Carolina had the hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Guys, we're moving. It's a good game.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Where should we move? You know?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Zactis needs to become a billionaire before we moved California.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, So let's chat about weddings. Do you guys have
a wedding update? Are you still eloping?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
We are still eloping?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How small do you think it would be with an elopement? Literally,
there is in people that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, very intimate, very personal, and that's it just fits
our personality so well.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And I feel like, you know, we.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Had the big contract, we had the big wedding venue,
the you know, the all of it was big, and
it was I think we were quoted like eighty k
for the wedding, and we had the contract in our
hands and it was like, this doesn't feel right. It
doesn't feel like us, like you know what I mean.
So we just kind of like looked at each other
and it was just like, you know what, let's not
(05:29):
sign this and just like take a step back. And
we ended up deciding on a looping And honestly, we
when did we think of the date, Like back in January,
we were like, hey, should we get married this day?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
This makes sense? And we're like, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh wow, And then it all just kind of fell
into place till it be pressure off.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh I can imagine. Would it be abroad or in
the States?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Austin?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Austin nice, We're staying in Austin, amazing. So you have
a date, you have a location.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, it's like thirty minutes away from our home. Our
family's flying in. It's gonna be an hour ceremony if that, yeah,
and call it a day, go for dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, very chill.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You guys are very smart someone who got mad a
year and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That we keep hearing that it was a great day.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But it's just the cost, doesn't it's it's it's crazy.
But I do want to know who had more opinions
about the wedding vibe between the two of you, who
had more like opinions on the wedding, like the vibe
of the wedding like everything.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Me, yeah, yeah, me for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Doak is so amazing. He was like, baby, if you
want the big wedding, let's do it. If you want
the small wedding, let's do it. You want to go
to Italy, We'll make it work. Like he's so amazing.
But I think, yeah, when it at the end of
the day, like the eloping just was just perfect for us,
and just it's our vibe and we're so like chill
(06:56):
and just like we don't need the limeline or anything
like that. We don't need like a big wedding, we
don't need the attention. We've had it and it's honestly,
this is just perfect. For us, and we're not telling
anybody the date because we just we want to just
like soak it in ourselves, Like I don't want anybody
to know until we're ready to like let people know
and we can share about it. But like.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think that's why people are so drawn to you guys,
is because some people from this show are drawn to
that spotlight, you know, and drawn to the limelight and
drawn to whatever it may be. And you guys just
feel very real and natural and like natural as a
couple too. This is my only second time spending time
with you guys, but you guys do feel like real.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I appreciate that. We get that a lot too, and
it's such a huge compliment. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah. Like one thing like we always like focus on
is like what we did was crazy, what you've done
is crazy, Like we all lived through it. But what's
most important that we find for each other is like
all right, let's just let's focus on each other and
like that this all this extra stuff, it's it's so fun.
You never know like when it's gonna change, but like
(08:17):
what at the end of the day, that Kate's all
that matters, and like our relationship is all that matters,
and that kind of transpired into like how we view
when we get married. Just keep it simple and yeah
about our love. That's it in our family.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, that's like the healthiest approach that you can have.
And yeah, I'm just so happy for you.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Thank you. I appreciate that. We're so excited.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Like literally every day I'll look at him and I'll
be like, I cannot wait to marry you.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And I'm not even I'm not even lying. I literally
do it so probably more than once a day, no,
at least once.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Every time I look at him, I just like see
my husband in my future, I see everything, and I
just get so excited.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I just have to tell him, like, I cannot wait
to marry you.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Honestly, the best feeling when you're like, I'm marrying my
best friend. Yeah, and we're doing it the way we
want to do it, and we're having fun with it.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And it's been two years, right, two and a half
and a half and a half years. That's a really
good amount of time. And again, I don't know when
you're getting married, but that's that's a good amount of
time where you can really feel out the relationship outside
of the show too, Oh totally yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, living together and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, and we're buying our first home this year.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah this year.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, we got to start house hunting. Audit to the
list of things.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Wedding planning and house hunting is a lot on your plate.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But that's crazy. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, okay back to the wedding. Are there any non
negotiables for the wedding, Yeah, for either of.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You, like things that need to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, like I must have this or I can't have this,
or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Honestly, Okay, not really, because like we were originally gonna
have a courthouse wedding, literally just go in, no videographer, nothing.
We were gonna go inside the paper and just like maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Do like a family like some photos.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Here and there, and then go for dinner. And then
my mom was like, hey, have you thought about a
chapel And.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I was like no, no, no. And literally it wasn't
until like I want.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
To say, four or three weeks ago where I was like,
wait a second, I think the chapels a great idea.
I want a videographer. I do want to document this.
And then it's kind of transpired into something bigger. But
to answer your question, there really isn't any because it
(10:48):
all started so yeah, we were just like we were
just gonna go to the courthouse. There was no floorals,
there was no big wedding dress, there was nothing. So
I mean we've just kind of worked our way up
to like make it a little bit more elevated in
a chapel setting. But like I'm not like, baby, we
need this. It's just kind of like, hey, does.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
This sound like a fun idea or not? Or is
this like a dumb idea? And then we'll wait this,
we'll like spit it back and forth, and sometimes we'll
be like, yeah, I'm probably not worth it, or yeah
that's a good idea, let's run with it. But like overall,
it's a small.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It's so small.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But I will say I'm really adamant on getting like
a vintage car. Yeah, I really want like kind of
like old money vibes to it.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So I'm trying to like hone in on that. But yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
We're in a good like photographer and videographer just like
having that moment for life, like you want to look
back on that. Yeah, that isn't really important.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, so it's all like long winded answer, but like
it's all just kind of escalated a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
But at the same time, it's like, no, not really,
it's seven people.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
That's really something. So yeah, house wedding.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah no, I mean there is really no non negotiables.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm really fascinated by this. Were you guys both like
growing up? Because I was, I don't know, obsessed with
princesses and like my wedding day obsessed over it. Did
you guys have that period of your life or not? Really?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean I always dreamed of like having a wedding,
and I think as I got older and since meeting Zach,
i'd like thought about more of like a wedding day.
But my mom never got married, so like I think
growing up, I was like, oh, like, you know, if
I get married, that's awesome. If it doesn't happen for me,
I know, I'll be okay. Like, I never really fantasized
(12:45):
about having a wedding. Honestly, what I fantasized about was
having a good man in my life, not an extravagant wedding,
nor like what my dress was going to look like.
But yeah, yeah, I never really for that.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, I mean I don't know, like I don't want
to like pun it off to like the typical I guess,
like maybe a typical guy answer, but it's like for me,
it no, Like I didn't ever think like, oh I
need to have a big wedding and et cetera. Like
for me, what was most important at the end of
the day is like the person I marry, the person
I want to wake up to every morning, Like that
(13:24):
matters so much more than like this day that costs
a lot of money. Like in my mind, like that
was like like a high priority. Was more like I
just want to find that person to where we make
it official and you know we're going to the end
of days with Yeah, so that's that was more important
than even thinking of like what kind of florals am
(13:45):
I going to have? Or was the color of my
suit or tucks? Like I never actually ever thought of that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah. Ever, the way that you guys talk about marriage
and like the wedding, not marriage. The wedding is so
impressive compared to I don't know, it's like people don't
talk about weddings or marriage or anything like the way
that you guys do. So it's really special because it's
so much focus on like, oh, the dress was really stressful,
the guest list was really stressful, and it's like stress, stress, stress,
(14:11):
and you guys feel very like calm and at peace.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh we are, And it's cause we're not, like you
said this perfectly the other day. It's like we aren't
doing this for other people. It's not like, hey, we
should get this type of catering because these people are
coming or you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's not about that, like you know what I mean,
it's just like it's just for us. We're doing what
is for us exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And like that's to say, like we did meet with
a planner, you know, months ago, and we went through
you know, a lot of the the loops to try
to figure out like what could this look like, and
we were seeing that stress that like you know a
lot of people go through, and we're like, we don't
need to do this because like at the end of
the day, it's not about that, And then we reminded ourselves, yeah,
(14:51):
what it is. Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, I'm so happy Dean isn't here. When you guys
are talking, I'm like, thank god, he's not here.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Because he'd be.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Like, we should have eloped.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
This sounds so beautiful. Honestly, I'm really happy for you guys.
It's crazy how much money goes into that wedding industry.
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, no, it's really disgusting, and you guys are so smart.
But seriously, like, I really do mean it. The way
that you guys speak about this, it's so beautiful and
that's what marriage should be and that's what a wedding
should be about. So I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Thank you, thank you. We're so excited, and.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Thank you guys for coming on the Almost Famous podcast
without Ben and Ashley. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Of course, thanks for having us
Hosts And Creators
Ben Higgins
Ashley Iaconetti
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.