November 20, 2023 • 27 mins
Ben and Ashley are having an after-party for one of Bachelor Nations newest newlyweds! Kenny Braasch and Mari Pepin are fresh from the aisle and ready to share every detail… the good and the bad!
Find out how Mari reacted when she thought her wedding dress was spoiled for Kenny… by Lauren Zima!
And hear what happened when the DJ played the wrong song during their first dance!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's a big week for the Almost Famous Podcast. Today
is an incredible episode. We are celebrating love. We got
the low down before the wedding, but now the wedding's happened.
Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Marian Kenney, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
You guys told us that you were going to have
two weddings. We saw the one that happened in Puerto
Rico this past weekend.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
One was the other.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
We haven't had it yet. It's not all. It'll be
in March of twenty twenty four here in Chicago. That
one's we figured more accessible for people to come to,
so that one will have a lot more people. And yeah,
it's going to be a good time.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You had like sixty five guests this past weekend. Everything
everything looked so pretty. So tell us about like the
inspiration behind it all.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I think, well, you know, this is kind of of.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
A me question.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, as I was indirectly referring to you.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
I think I just wanted it to be obviously very intimate,
with just sixty five guests, mostly just our families and
our venue. I think kind of lent itself to just
like Garden, very classic classy vibes, you know, So we
kept it more on the traditional side in terms of
the way we did it, but also the decor was
(01:28):
like white and gold and greenery, just kind of playing.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Off of what the venue already had to offer.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now, when we spoke last, Kenny, you were kind of
out of the loop on the wedding plans. Did that
increase over time or were you able to somehow strategically
navigate not planning it decreased?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I think actually over time I got less involved. I
had seen the venue we were out in Puerto Rico,
so that wasn't a surprise, but seeing everything else set
up and everything was like a surprise to me, just
as much as the guests, I think pretty much.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Right, Wow, are you going to have more say over
the Chicago wedding because Puerto Rico is you know, where
Mari's from, and then Chicago's were from, so it's kind
of like you each have your own or not.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, so Chicago's the venue is where I work, so
I'll be a little more involved, and this one's more
of like my speed. We're doing like an eighties dance party. Basically,
so it's like a retro theme party, and it's it's
more something that I have a handle on rather than
this other stuff. But it was it was a good
(02:46):
thing that I wasn't involved as much in Puerto Rico
because everything was very beautiful and it would not have
turned out that way if I tried to get involved.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's a good way to look at it. It's better
if we're not involved. Now there, let's dive into the
details a little bit about this wedding. There were some
non traditional things which I think are awesome. My wife
just posted a reel of non traditional things that we
did our wedding. We'll start out. I want to ask
about you all getting married on Veterans Day, and I
(03:15):
know that has a meeting behind it for you all.
Do you mind explaining that for us?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Yeah, So eleven eleven is obviously like an angel number.
It's supposed to mean good luck and good things. Obviously,
every time you see eleven eleven on the clock, you're
supposed to make a witness.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Every single time. I kind of use it as prayer time,
to be honest.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yes, yeah, they're not just like frivolous wishes, but yeah,
wishes but it's.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Just supposed to be like good luck and good things,
So that obviously was a part of it. But also
eleven eleven is Veterans Day every year, and my dad
is a twenty five year Army veteran. He served in
several different wars, was injured, and he's now retiredired, but unfortunately,
a lot of the negativity associated with his time in
(04:04):
the service, unfortunately really hits him hard, specifically on Veterans Day,
and he remembers and like looks back on all that
he had gone through. So I thought that this might
be a way for him to have a better association
with Betteran's Day and for him to look at it
as like, oh no, it's not something sad. This is
the day that my daughter, you know, my oldest child,
(04:26):
my firstborn, got married, and that he got to care
for that. So hopefully, you know, in the future it
will have more positive memories for him.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's absolutely amazing. Yeah, that's such an incredible thoughtful idea. Now,
the other one I really wanted to touch on is
you had can he sister officiate the wedding? How did
you ask her kind of how did you guys get
to the point of saying yes, I it's such a
big position. I feel like to officiate a wedding, and
and can He's sister kind of got the nod. Had
(04:56):
to happen.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, we we were going to that route from the beginning.
We were going to have somebody officiate, and my brother
was already the best man, and we were just trying
to involve our family as much as possible in the wedding.
So it made a lot of sense for my sister
to jump in and do that basically, you know, and
(05:20):
she was willing to do it. We were grateful for that.
We actually had some wells actually helped out and gave
us his notes and his He actually emailed me a
bunch of stuff to pass along to myself. Saw that
it actually really helped a lot, to be honest, So
I gave her all the stuff that he used sort
(05:43):
of for Joe and Serena's wedding and sort of like
broke it all down. So it actually made it a
little easier for her because she was freaking out.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Obviously, it's a big undertaking. You're like, where do I start.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Ben and I have both officiated weddings, and like I
dreaded for like four months and then of course it's.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
The week of the wedding and I'm writing it. But
like it's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
As soon as you get an outline and you really
start at the keyboard, it rolls, but it's just like
it's such an intimidating undertaking.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Anyway. So you guys had a ceremony.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
There, you did like the whole I'm assuming you did
the vow thing there, so you gotta do whole and
a whole there set of vows because this is what
we were wondering with Chris Harrison and Lauren's email last weekend.
We're like, you already did vows. How are you gonna
do them again? Is one gonna be the traditional vows
and one written vowels?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Tell us what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
No, I think what we'll do because we did have
a lot of family and friends who couldn't come to
Puerto Rico, so we still want to do something that's
kind of reminiscent of the ceremony, but obviously much smaller scale, because,
like you said, we already did it, so it's kind
of strange to like redo it in a sense. Yeah,
so I think what we'll do is we'll play a
video from our ceremony in Puerto Rico probably, and then
(07:00):
that will be the lead into like introducing the couple
and then we just party the rest of the night.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So you're not going to walk down the aisle again?
Speaker 8 (07:06):
No, okay, no, No, very casual on this one.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, last question really around the wedding. We do want
to talk to you a little bit about what's going
on in the Bachelor world, but we really want to
celebrate two of you because obviously this is a really
beautiful moment. You know, you've been planning this for a while, Mari.
You guys we talked about it months ago, kind of
this coming up. Obviously you met on Paradise, you know,
(07:42):
and you guys have I felt like, tell me if
I'm wrong. Since Paradise, you too have really been a
pretty clear on a clear path to get married, and
this is something you're both excited for. Did the wedding
in Puerto Rico live up to all your expectations? Like,
as you now sit back and you look back on
that day, can you just break it down kind of
how it felt, what you expected, all the goodness of it.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Yeah, it did. I think you know, a lot of
planning went into it a lot of details, a lot
of stress, if I'm being honest, but you know that's
the nature of wedding planning and to see it all,
you know, culminate into this beautiful day with all of
our closest family and friends there. Yeah, it definitely paid off.
I think everything turned out pretty perfect. I mean we
had a couple of little minor blunders happen, but nothing
(08:26):
that was you know, too detrimental. It did rain a
tiny bit the day of.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
The ceremonyally good luck.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah yeah, just before the ceremony. It was like a
three minute little shower and then it stopped.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
That's nothing.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, other than that, I would say
everything pretty much went to plan.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
For me. It was I thought it was fantastic. Just
the venue was perfect for the amount of people we had,
and so it felt obviously it was a small group,
but it felt like it was very intimate. Everybody was
close together and it was just like she said, it
was really just this was really about family for us,
(09:05):
this one and in our very close friends. So it
was very perfect. It was very non It didn't feel
very wedding. It was you know, we did everything, the dances,
everything happened right away, the speeches happened during dinner everything,
and then it just kind of jumped into the music
and stuff, and I just thought it. The wedding itself
(09:28):
flowed very well, and you know, it was just I
feel like everybody had a good time. I hope they did.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I don't know. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I didn't check in with everybody yet, since.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm sure that this wedding had the most on brand
Ashley I music, and so will the one in Chicago,
and I'm like.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That was a that's a wedding. That is a wedding.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
So the music was it was actually the DJ did
a really good job. We there was a lot of
eighties music and then there was a lot of Latin music.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Basically, so yeah, I was going to say it was
probably a lot of a lot of music, which is
also the greatest party music.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, Mari surprised pretty much all of us and had
like a band show up or I don't know what
you saw it, but they you explained.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
That it's called a batuka, which is like percussion instruments
pretty much, and it's a tradition to have them in
Puerto Rican weddings, and they showed up as a surprise.
I didn't even tell Kenny that I had booked this.
No one knew except for me and the planner. And yeah,
they showed up. They start playing and banging and everybody
had a good time. They got everybody back on the
(10:34):
dance floor. It was It was a lot of fun.
So I'm really glad that I did that.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
That's so fun.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Kenny, is there going to be a boy band like,
you know, like a boy band tribute at your other wedding?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So the guys are going to be there as guests.
So we're just going to have a DJ at the
Chicago one doing like It's like I said, it's going
to be all eighties music. Okay, So all the bands
that I deal with are going to be there as guests.
We didn't want anybody like working or anything that night.
So h no, no boy band?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Oh no boys? Interesting?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well Ashley so bombed. She's like, well you should reconsider
that for your wedding. You should have a boy van.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
When we get off the topic of the wedding, I
do have one boy band question for Kenny. But Mari,
how did you feel about Lauren Zema's dress being similar
to yours the week before. Did you see those people
magazine pictures and just have a meltdown.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
And I actually when I saw it, I like audibly gasped,
and Kenny was in the room and I was like, oh,
And I literally started to say, she has the same dress.
And he was in the room, and I was like, Oh,
he's gonna see these pictures, so let me not say that.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That's oh my gosh, oh my good catch can don't
don't respond to this yet.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You and I are gonna have a conversation once they're
done here.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
So I started to say that out loud. I'm like, oh,
you can hear me, and I'm sure this is going
to pop up on his speed.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
It was a little a little disappointing, but I mean
it's fine. I don't own the dress. It's not just mine.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
She looks stunning too, and it was a different dress.
It just looks very similar. But initially I did think
it was the same exact dress because when I was
working with Justin Alexander to pick out my dress, they
did mention Lauren Zema and they said that she was
gonna wear Justin Alexander. So as soon as I saw it,
I'm like, oh my god, of course, like it has
to be the same dress, but it wasn't. But yeah,
(12:28):
she looked great. I think I looked great too.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It was a little lace, id you'r lace?
Speaker 9 (12:33):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I added a little something different. So the dress, it's
it's quite a bit of a story. I initially was
having something completely custom made. And if you know me,
you know I'm a little bit extra. I love all
the bling, the glitter, you know pageant girl.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Well you know your pageant girl. Yeah, yes, So.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I had something like super unique, over the top, really
really beautiful, and unfortunately, like eight seven or eight weeks
before the wedding, I found out that, for reasons I
won't get into, that that dress was just not going
to happen anymore. So yeah, I had to completely like
scramble to find who's going to make my dress, like
a new designer, like who in.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Eight weeks It's usually needs to be ordered six months
in advance.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, so you can imagine I was completely freaking out
and I'm like, oh my gosh, what am I going
to do? I don't have time, Like I'm gonna have
to find something literally off the rack or something. But
my good friend Anita, she owns Hope Bridle in Wisconsin,
and I went through her. She hooked up with Justin
Alexander and they were like, oh, don't worry, we got you, like,
we'll get you a dress. So they literally saved me
(13:35):
in like less than two months time, thankfully. But yeah,
it was a whole process. I'll post eventually what my
dress was supposed to look like just so people can
see it. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
A do you get that for the Chicago wedding or
something in line.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
With that potentially. The only thing is like I wasn't
planning on wearing like something super super bright. Yeah, it
is more casual, more of a part. But I kind
of feel like, man, I missed out on what I
originally wanted, so maybe I will have to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Good Hairs, it's your wedding day, Okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Time for you and I talk. Let's be honest, and
I don't mean this to totally like get you in trouble,
but if you were to see Lauren Zema's dress, if
she were to show you it and then she comes
out in a dress at your wedding, would you have
any idea that it was anywhere close to the same dress,
and I.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Still I haven't even looked at Lauren's dress yet.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's it's it's something I would have never known. Like
I think Jessica could have literally showed me her dress, yeah,
and like this is the one I'm wearing and then
she puts it on like I don't remember, like yeah, cool,
Like it doesn't it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I don't see it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I don't remember it.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
You can't describe what her dress looks like right now?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No, I can't either.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I mean no, I could not. Like I know what
her face looked like, and like.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, her soul and what the person I love look like.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Like, here's the deal. I don't know if it's our role, Kenny. Now,
somebody's gonna get really upset about this. I think all
the people there that really care about that stuff are
gonna notice and be like, wow, she looks gorgeous. Here's
the thing I remember about my wife on our wedding day.
She looked absolutely beautiful. I can remember looking at her
and being absolutely shocked at just how gorgeous she looked
(15:29):
on that day. Could I tell you much of what
was she wearing. No, I can't.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
No, if it weren't for pictures around the house, and
we have a lot of wedding photos around the house,
then Jared probably couldn't recall it either.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, I mean she walked down. I'll always remember. Obviously
she came down with her dad and he was in
his military uniform, and you know, I'll remember all of that,
but not what the dress particularly look like.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think it's fair to admit, man, I just I
I I say this only to hopefully take some stress,
Like I remember those stressful times for my wife, you know,
picking out the dress, planning the dress and all those things.
I remember, like we went to a wedding, and this
wedding had another Like their first dance song with the
dad was the same as jessicause it was gonna be
(16:17):
and she broke down in tears. I'm like, honey, I
don't think it matters, like I really, I don't think
anybody's gonna even remember or say anything. But it mattered
to her. And so it was a wild time of
navigating conversations that I felt like I don't understand, but
yet they were affecting her deeply.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, now I get I do get that. I understand
where she's coming from or on these things. But I mean,
speaking of the first dance that they messed up our first,
they played the wrong song at first.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Did you stop them?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So we stopped it and he started playing the Little
John song that we entered to and you know, which
was that sucks, you know, And then we stopped that
and I went and talked to the DJ. I'm like,
I called the time out on the floor in front
of everybody. I said, call everybody time out. And then
(17:07):
we jumped into the father daughter dance and then I
talked to the DJ. We got it streamed out and
then we started over after that.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh isn't that great? That's just so frustrating. That would
have frustrated me deeply.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I think the same, bad and same. I'm like, good thing.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
You guys are apparently relaxed people, because I would have
been like.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean I think. I mean, in my head,
I was definitely like, are you freaking hitting me right now?
Like everyone's looking at me, like what am I supposed
to do? But like you can't freak out in front
of everybody either, So it's like it's fine, it's gonna
pass in ten minutes and then we're just gonna party
and drink and forget it happened. But yeah, definitely in
my head, I was like, this, this can't be happening, right.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That was the only thing that was kind of that
was messed up.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
A little bit. Really. Yeah, yeah, pretty much so.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And I get like, because we the that he's in
Puerto Rico and it's not like we sat down and
like had meeting him. So he actually did a very
good job considering that there was very little communication between
us and him, and it was kind of flowing through
the planet. And they played a song that I think
had the same title as ours, but it wasn't the
(18:18):
right song. So it got figured out.
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Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's also funny, Kenny, because you make the comment that's
like the only thing that went wrong at our wedding,
and I bet Mary's sitting there going no, there was
like ten other things that the way wrong, but you
have no idea about I only know that because I've
been in those shoes before. Now, as we kind of
close up with you guys here again, thanks for jumping on.
You know, the week after the wedding, we got to
(20:07):
talk about Paradise. So one of the things that we're
breaking down in Paradise right now is that we don't
feel cash and I don't feel like there is any
couples that are or are right now as strong as
you were on Paradise. You guys are obviously a very
strong couple. We could see a future between the two
of you. There was obviously a great connection going on,
and we were celebrating that we enjoyed it. Right now,
(20:29):
on Paradise, we don't have those couples that were necessarily
like celebrating yet because we don't really know who's dating
who and why they're dating each other. Do you two
feel the same way or could you maybe teach Ashley
and I what's going on behind the scenes that you
think is actually, you know, building these strong relationships.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I mean, I think you're right to an extent. I
feel like there is so much flip flopping right now,
and it seems like it's kind of late in the
season for that for people to not be a little
bit more solid. However, I will say I do think
that Aaron and Eliza, just because they off the bat,
you know, had this strong connection and they kind of
(21:05):
have coasted through up until now. They had a little
bit of drama recently, obviously, but so did we. So
I feel like as long as they had that connection
built on early and they kind of had that foundation
before the drama started happening, that they'll be able to
work through it.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, that's the couple that we think probably has the
best bat.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
They also you're also I mean you're probably there's a
lot with Aaron and Eliza that you're not seeing. Probably
that they're spending a lot of time together too, that's
not being shown, I would guess.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Right, yeah, most likely in the.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Blake just thing, I'm not sure where that's going now.
It's nowhere. Yeah, it was like it seemed like Blake
was all for it, but I just don't see it. Yeah,
just kind of I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah, like you said, there's just there's yeah, like a
lot of like flip flopping right now, and like you're
not too sure like will they won't? They are they
are not? They jumbled right now, there isn't clear like,
oh yeah this is in game, that's end game. They've
been together since the beginning. Yeah, I have thought.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Also Kylie and even like they maybe second Yeah, but
they're they're not, Like they haven't really shown much of
that developing.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
In the episode that will air tonight that we are
going to recap they do. They say, I'm falling for
you for the first time. Yeah, so we get a
little bit more of them. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'm not totally sold yet. I'm not sold.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I'm not sold in an engagement, but Kylie says she's
down for one. All right, before we let you go,
my boy bank. Question for Kenny, what's your take on
the whole in Sync thing? Did they do all this
teasing for trolls? Did Britney's memoir ruin everything?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
What was the the meme I saw was that now
now Justin has to get back with the Sync and
tour to repair himself.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
From It's like the only way of going about it now,
like the solo tour that he planned on embarking on
and then possibly an instant tour.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
No like no, you have to flip flop them.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
At this point. I mean, I it'd be a shame
for this not to happen at this point because they
went through all the trouble. Like you just said, it
can't be just for the Trolls movie.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I know, could.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I just can't see.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
It's rude. It's so rude, and Jared brings us up
like weekly. To me, he's just like Ashley, I would
be so pissed if I were you, Like I would
be angry if I saw that all this just led
to trolls and they fake you out the entire time.
He's more mad about it than I.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I agree, because there was like teasers of like possible
super Bowl boy band, super Bowl what not?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
What I'm amazing?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Now we have Usher, which is like fine, but like
on But.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I really do think at this point that Justin out
of all of them, needs not even with the Britney thing,
he needs a bounce back in general. I think he does.
The last couple the last album, like with Filthy, I
think was that was that The Man of the Woods.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Was that the last One Man in the Woods, And
it was like eight years No, it was it was
six years ago and that tour.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Didn't do great.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Went to that show.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
He have a tour for that.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
See, I didn't even know that.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
He toured that album and I went to it and
it wasn't great because you know that album wasn't great.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, no, like we couldn't even I listened to that
album maybe two or three times through and I was like,
it's just never going to come to me.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
It's never never going to get it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And he like, I know, like Timberland's back involved and stuff, and.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Really the Tato thing, like what do we we were
gonna something to have a good new song out there.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Kenny Ben thinks I'm wacky. Kenny gets it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Something's going on. I mean, you just have it has to.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I think. I think we'll see Lance when we are
doing our weekend in La Ben and you know, you'll
you'll find out with me if that means anything.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's always so it's always so awkward for me. But
Lance is so nice to Ashley, but it's always so
awkward for me when she really digs into this stuff
because I'm like, I feel like this is but he
handles it so well. He's such a sweet man. He
loves Ashley so much. But it's like she wants she's
gonna just like Bombard. This dude, he's going to like
walk in. She's going to be like Lance. All right,
let's talk, all.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Right, what's going on? Tell me everything's so kind anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, mari you have a fun man to just talk
about boy band stuff. And I loved seeing you guys
at the Jonahs concert this summer. That was That was
such a cute picture.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Jonahs was good. Jas was good.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
They're my favorite.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
They're of your age grange, you know, and I was
I was a little old, but like not too old
because Kevin's still older than me.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
So if Kevin's still older than me, then I'm allowed to,
you know, exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
All right, Mariy Kenny, we do celebrate your love so
much here on Almost Famous podcast. Thanks for coming on
months ago again and kind of giving us the teaser
to what was happening, and then congratulations on a beautiful
wedding in Puerto Rico with another wedding coming up in
March in Chicago. The two of you are a great
example of what this show can do for good, uh,
in terms of love and life and laughter and everything
(26:15):
else in between. So, Marian Kenny thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah, you guys are just adorbs and so beautiful together. Bye.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
This has been another episode of the Almost Famous podcast. Again,
congratulations to Marian Kenny on a beautiful love story, one
that we have gotten the witness and watch with their
own eyes. It's always cool to see, you know, these
couples who meet on a beach now or on the show,
you know, come around and get married and make this commitment.
It's really fun for us here on the podcast and
they've been great to us, but coming on now twice
(26:47):
in the last year. So hey with that, I've been Ben,
I've been Ashley.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
See you guys.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's a big week for the Almost Famous Podcast. Today
is an incredible episode. We are celebrating love. We got
the low down before the wedding, but now the wedding's happened.
Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Marian Kenney, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
You guys told us that you were going to have
two weddings. We saw the one that happened in Puerto
Rico this past weekend.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
One was the other.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
We haven't had it yet. It's not all. It'll be
in March of twenty twenty four here in Chicago. That
one's we figured more accessible for people to come to,
so that one will have a lot more people. And yeah,
it's going to be a good time.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You had like sixty five guests this past weekend. Everything
everything looked so pretty. So tell us about like the
inspiration behind it all.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I think, well, you know, this is kind of of.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
A me question.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, as I was indirectly referring to you.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
I think I just wanted it to be obviously very intimate,
with just sixty five guests, mostly just our families and
our venue. I think kind of lent itself to just
like Garden, very classic classy vibes, you know, So we
kept it more on the traditional side in terms of
the way we did it, but also the decor was
(01:28):
like white and gold and greenery, just kind of playing.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Off of what the venue already had to offer.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now, when we spoke last, Kenny, you were kind of
out of the loop on the wedding plans. Did that
increase over time or were you able to somehow strategically
navigate not planning it decreased?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I think actually over time I got less involved. I
had seen the venue we were out in Puerto Rico,
so that wasn't a surprise, but seeing everything else set
up and everything was like a surprise to me, just
as much as the guests, I think pretty much.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Right, Wow, are you going to have more say over
the Chicago wedding because Puerto Rico is you know, where
Mari's from, and then Chicago's were from, so it's kind
of like you each have your own or not.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, so Chicago's the venue is where I work, so
I'll be a little more involved, and this one's more
of like my speed. We're doing like an eighties dance party. Basically,
so it's like a retro theme party, and it's it's
more something that I have a handle on rather than
this other stuff. But it was it was a good
(02:46):
thing that I wasn't involved as much in Puerto Rico
because everything was very beautiful and it would not have
turned out that way if I tried to get involved.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's a good way to look at it. It's better
if we're not involved. Now there, let's dive into the
details a little bit about this wedding. There were some
non traditional things which I think are awesome. My wife
just posted a reel of non traditional things that we
did our wedding. We'll start out. I want to ask
about you all getting married on Veterans Day, and I
(03:15):
know that has a meeting behind it for you all.
Do you mind explaining that for us?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Yeah, So eleven eleven is obviously like an angel number.
It's supposed to mean good luck and good things. Obviously,
every time you see eleven eleven on the clock, you're
supposed to make a witness.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Every single time. I kind of use it as prayer time,
to be honest.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yes, yeah, they're not just like frivolous wishes, but yeah,
wishes but it's.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Just supposed to be like good luck and good things,
So that obviously was a part of it. But also
eleven eleven is Veterans Day every year, and my dad
is a twenty five year Army veteran. He served in
several different wars, was injured, and he's now retiredired, but unfortunately,
a lot of the negativity associated with his time in
(04:04):
the service, unfortunately really hits him hard, specifically on Veterans Day,
and he remembers and like looks back on all that
he had gone through. So I thought that this might
be a way for him to have a better association
with Betteran's Day and for him to look at it
as like, oh no, it's not something sad. This is
the day that my daughter, you know, my oldest child,
(04:26):
my firstborn, got married, and that he got to care
for that. So hopefully, you know, in the future it
will have more positive memories for him.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's absolutely amazing. Yeah, that's such an incredible thoughtful idea. Now,
the other one I really wanted to touch on is
you had can he sister officiate the wedding? How did
you ask her kind of how did you guys get
to the point of saying yes, I it's such a
big position. I feel like to officiate a wedding, and
and can He's sister kind of got the nod. Had
(04:56):
to happen.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, we we were going to that route from the beginning.
We were going to have somebody officiate, and my brother
was already the best man, and we were just trying
to involve our family as much as possible in the wedding.
So it made a lot of sense for my sister
to jump in and do that basically, you know, and
(05:20):
she was willing to do it. We were grateful for that.
We actually had some wells actually helped out and gave
us his notes and his He actually emailed me a
bunch of stuff to pass along to myself. Saw that
it actually really helped a lot, to be honest, So
I gave her all the stuff that he used sort
(05:43):
of for Joe and Serena's wedding and sort of like
broke it all down. So it actually made it a
little easier for her because she was freaking out.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Obviously, it's a big undertaking. You're like, where do I start.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Ben and I have both officiated weddings, and like I
dreaded for like four months and then of course it's.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
The week of the wedding and I'm writing it. But
like it's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
As soon as you get an outline and you really
start at the keyboard, it rolls, but it's just like
it's such an intimidating undertaking.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Anyway. So you guys had a ceremony.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
There, you did like the whole I'm assuming you did
the vow thing there, so you gotta do whole and
a whole there set of vows because this is what
we were wondering with Chris Harrison and Lauren's email last weekend.
We're like, you already did vows. How are you gonna
do them again? Is one gonna be the traditional vows
and one written vowels?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Tell us what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
No, I think what we'll do because we did have
a lot of family and friends who couldn't come to
Puerto Rico, so we still want to do something that's
kind of reminiscent of the ceremony, but obviously much smaller scale, because,
like you said, we already did it, so it's kind
of strange to like redo it in a sense. Yeah,
so I think what we'll do is we'll play a
video from our ceremony in Puerto Rico probably, and then
(07:00):
that will be the lead into like introducing the couple
and then we just party the rest of the night.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So you're not going to walk down the aisle again?
Speaker 8 (07:06):
No, okay, no, No, very casual on this one.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, last question really around the wedding. We do want
to talk to you a little bit about what's going
on in the Bachelor world, but we really want to
celebrate two of you because obviously this is a really
beautiful moment. You know, you've been planning this for a while, Mari.
You guys we talked about it months ago, kind of
this coming up. Obviously you met on Paradise, you know,
(07:42):
and you guys have I felt like, tell me if
I'm wrong. Since Paradise, you too have really been a
pretty clear on a clear path to get married, and
this is something you're both excited for. Did the wedding
in Puerto Rico live up to all your expectations? Like,
as you now sit back and you look back on
that day, can you just break it down kind of
how it felt, what you expected, all the goodness of it.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Yeah, it did. I think you know, a lot of
planning went into it a lot of details, a lot
of stress, if I'm being honest, but you know that's
the nature of wedding planning and to see it all,
you know, culminate into this beautiful day with all of
our closest family and friends there. Yeah, it definitely paid off.
I think everything turned out pretty perfect. I mean we
had a couple of little minor blunders happen, but nothing
(08:26):
that was you know, too detrimental. It did rain a
tiny bit the day of.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
The ceremonyally good luck.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah yeah, just before the ceremony. It was like a
three minute little shower and then it stopped.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
That's nothing.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, other than that, I would say
everything pretty much went to plan.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
For me. It was I thought it was fantastic. Just
the venue was perfect for the amount of people we had,
and so it felt obviously it was a small group,
but it felt like it was very intimate. Everybody was
close together and it was just like she said, it
was really just this was really about family for us,
(09:05):
this one and in our very close friends. So it
was very perfect. It was very non It didn't feel
very wedding. It was you know, we did everything, the dances,
everything happened right away, the speeches happened during dinner everything,
and then it just kind of jumped into the music
and stuff, and I just thought it. The wedding itself
(09:28):
flowed very well, and you know, it was just I
feel like everybody had a good time. I hope they did.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I don't know. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I didn't check in with everybody yet, since.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm sure that this wedding had the most on brand
Ashley I music, and so will the one in Chicago,
and I'm like.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That was a that's a wedding. That is a wedding.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
So the music was it was actually the DJ did
a really good job. We there was a lot of
eighties music and then there was a lot of Latin music.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Basically, so yeah, I was going to say it was
probably a lot of a lot of music, which is
also the greatest party music.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, Mari surprised pretty much all of us and had
like a band show up or I don't know what
you saw it, but they you explained.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
That it's called a batuka, which is like percussion instruments
pretty much, and it's a tradition to have them in
Puerto Rican weddings, and they showed up as a surprise.
I didn't even tell Kenny that I had booked this.
No one knew except for me and the planner. And yeah,
they showed up. They start playing and banging and everybody
had a good time. They got everybody back on the
(10:34):
dance floor. It was It was a lot of fun.
So I'm really glad that I did that.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
That's so fun.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Kenny, is there going to be a boy band like,
you know, like a boy band tribute at your other wedding?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So the guys are going to be there as guests.
So we're just going to have a DJ at the
Chicago one doing like It's like I said, it's going
to be all eighties music. Okay, So all the bands
that I deal with are going to be there as guests.
We didn't want anybody like working or anything that night.
So h no, no boy band?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Oh no boys? Interesting?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well Ashley so bombed. She's like, well you should reconsider
that for your wedding. You should have a boy van.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
When we get off the topic of the wedding, I
do have one boy band question for Kenny. But Mari,
how did you feel about Lauren Zema's dress being similar
to yours the week before. Did you see those people
magazine pictures and just have a meltdown.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
And I actually when I saw it, I like audibly gasped,
and Kenny was in the room and I was like, oh,
And I literally started to say, she has the same dress.
And he was in the room, and I was like, Oh,
he's gonna see these pictures, so let me not say that.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That's oh my gosh, oh my good catch can don't
don't respond to this yet.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You and I are gonna have a conversation once they're
done here.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
So I started to say that out loud. I'm like, oh,
you can hear me, and I'm sure this is going
to pop up on his speed.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
It was a little a little disappointing, but I mean
it's fine. I don't own the dress. It's not just mine.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
She looks stunning too, and it was a different dress.
It just looks very similar. But initially I did think
it was the same exact dress because when I was
working with Justin Alexander to pick out my dress, they
did mention Lauren Zema and they said that she was
gonna wear Justin Alexander. So as soon as I saw it,
I'm like, oh my god, of course, like it has
to be the same dress, but it wasn't. But yeah,
(12:28):
she looked great. I think I looked great too.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It was a little lace, id you'r lace?
Speaker 9 (12:33):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I added a little something different. So the dress, it's
it's quite a bit of a story. I initially was
having something completely custom made. And if you know me,
you know I'm a little bit extra. I love all
the bling, the glitter, you know pageant girl.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Well you know your pageant girl. Yeah, yes, So.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
I had something like super unique, over the top, really
really beautiful, and unfortunately, like eight seven or eight weeks
before the wedding, I found out that, for reasons I
won't get into, that that dress was just not going
to happen anymore. So yeah, I had to completely like
scramble to find who's going to make my dress, like
a new designer, like who in.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Eight weeks It's usually needs to be ordered six months
in advance.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, so you can imagine I was completely freaking out
and I'm like, oh my gosh, what am I going
to do? I don't have time, Like I'm gonna have
to find something literally off the rack or something. But
my good friend Anita, she owns Hope Bridle in Wisconsin,
and I went through her. She hooked up with Justin
Alexander and they were like, oh, don't worry, we got you, like,
we'll get you a dress. So they literally saved me
(13:35):
in like less than two months time, thankfully. But yeah,
it was a whole process. I'll post eventually what my
dress was supposed to look like just so people can
see it. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
A do you get that for the Chicago wedding or
something in line.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
With that potentially. The only thing is like I wasn't
planning on wearing like something super super bright. Yeah, it
is more casual, more of a part. But I kind
of feel like, man, I missed out on what I
originally wanted, so maybe I will have to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Good Hairs, it's your wedding day, Okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Time for you and I talk. Let's be honest, and
I don't mean this to totally like get you in trouble,
but if you were to see Lauren Zema's dress, if
she were to show you it and then she comes
out in a dress at your wedding, would you have
any idea that it was anywhere close to the same dress,
and I.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Still I haven't even looked at Lauren's dress yet.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's it's it's something I would have never known. Like
I think Jessica could have literally showed me her dress, yeah,
and like this is the one I'm wearing and then
she puts it on like I don't remember, like yeah, cool,
Like it doesn't it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I don't see it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I don't remember it.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
You can't describe what her dress looks like right now?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No, I can't either.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I mean no, I could not. Like I know what
her face looked like, and like.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, her soul and what the person I love look like.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Like, here's the deal. I don't know if it's our role, Kenny. Now,
somebody's gonna get really upset about this. I think all
the people there that really care about that stuff are
gonna notice and be like, wow, she looks gorgeous. Here's
the thing I remember about my wife on our wedding day.
She looked absolutely beautiful. I can remember looking at her
and being absolutely shocked at just how gorgeous she looked
(15:29):
on that day. Could I tell you much of what
was she wearing. No, I can't.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
No, if it weren't for pictures around the house, and
we have a lot of wedding photos around the house,
then Jared probably couldn't recall it either.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, I mean she walked down. I'll always remember. Obviously
she came down with her dad and he was in
his military uniform, and you know, I'll remember all of that,
but not what the dress particularly look like.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think it's fair to admit, man, I just I
I I say this only to hopefully take some stress,
Like I remember those stressful times for my wife, you know,
picking out the dress, planning the dress and all those things.
I remember, like we went to a wedding, and this
wedding had another Like their first dance song with the
dad was the same as jessicause it was gonna be
(16:17):
and she broke down in tears. I'm like, honey, I
don't think it matters, like I really, I don't think
anybody's gonna even remember or say anything. But it mattered
to her. And so it was a wild time of
navigating conversations that I felt like I don't understand, but
yet they were affecting her deeply.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, now I get I do get that. I understand
where she's coming from or on these things. But I mean,
speaking of the first dance that they messed up our first,
they played the wrong song at first.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Did you stop them?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So we stopped it and he started playing the Little
John song that we entered to and you know, which
was that sucks, you know, And then we stopped that
and I went and talked to the DJ. I'm like,
I called the time out on the floor in front
of everybody. I said, call everybody time out. And then
(17:07):
we jumped into the father daughter dance and then I
talked to the DJ. We got it streamed out and
then we started over after that.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh isn't that great? That's just so frustrating. That would
have frustrated me deeply.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I think the same, bad and same. I'm like, good thing.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
You guys are apparently relaxed people, because I would have
been like.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean I think. I mean, in my head,
I was definitely like, are you freaking hitting me right now?
Like everyone's looking at me, like what am I supposed
to do? But like you can't freak out in front
of everybody either, So it's like it's fine, it's gonna
pass in ten minutes and then we're just gonna party
and drink and forget it happened. But yeah, definitely in
my head, I was like, this, this can't be happening, right.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That was the only thing that was kind of that
was messed up.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
A little bit. Really. Yeah, yeah, pretty much so.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And I get like, because we the that he's in
Puerto Rico and it's not like we sat down and
like had meeting him. So he actually did a very
good job considering that there was very little communication between
us and him, and it was kind of flowing through
the planet. And they played a song that I think
had the same title as ours, but it wasn't the
(18:18):
right song. So it got figured out.
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Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's also funny, Kenny, because you make the comment that's
like the only thing that went wrong at our wedding,
and I bet Mary's sitting there going no, there was
like ten other things that the way wrong, but you
have no idea about I only know that because I've
been in those shoes before. Now, as we kind of
close up with you guys here again, thanks for jumping on.
You know, the week after the wedding, we got to
(20:07):
talk about Paradise. So one of the things that we're
breaking down in Paradise right now is that we don't
feel cash and I don't feel like there is any
couples that are or are right now as strong as
you were on Paradise. You guys are obviously a very
strong couple. We could see a future between the two
of you. There was obviously a great connection going on,
and we were celebrating that we enjoyed it. Right now,
(20:29):
on Paradise, we don't have those couples that were necessarily
like celebrating yet because we don't really know who's dating
who and why they're dating each other. Do you two
feel the same way or could you maybe teach Ashley
and I what's going on behind the scenes that you
think is actually, you know, building these strong relationships.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I mean, I think you're right to an extent. I
feel like there is so much flip flopping right now,
and it seems like it's kind of late in the
season for that for people to not be a little
bit more solid. However, I will say I do think
that Aaron and Eliza, just because they off the bat,
you know, had this strong connection and they kind of
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have coasted through up until now. They had a little
bit of drama recently, obviously, but so did we. So
I feel like as long as they had that connection
built on early and they kind of had that foundation
before the drama started happening, that they'll be able to
work through it.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, that's the couple that we think probably has the
best bat.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
They also you're also I mean you're probably there's a
lot with Aaron and Eliza that you're not seeing. Probably
that they're spending a lot of time together too, that's
not being shown, I would guess.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Right, yeah, most likely in the.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Blake just thing, I'm not sure where that's going now.
It's nowhere. Yeah, it was like it seemed like Blake
was all for it, but I just don't see it. Yeah,
just kind of I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah, like you said, there's just there's yeah, like a
lot of like flip flopping right now, and like you're
not too sure like will they won't? They are they
are not? They jumbled right now, there isn't clear like,
oh yeah this is in game, that's end game. They've
been together since the beginning. Yeah, I have thought.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Also Kylie and even like they maybe second Yeah, but
they're they're not, Like they haven't really shown much of
that developing.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
In the episode that will air tonight that we are
going to recap they do. They say, I'm falling for
you for the first time. Yeah, so we get a
little bit more of them. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'm not totally sold yet. I'm not sold.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I'm not sold in an engagement, but Kylie says she's
down for one. All right, before we let you go,
my boy bank. Question for Kenny, what's your take on
the whole in Sync thing? Did they do all this
teasing for trolls? Did Britney's memoir ruin everything?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
What was the the meme I saw was that now
now Justin has to get back with the Sync and
tour to repair himself.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
From It's like the only way of going about it now,
like the solo tour that he planned on embarking on
and then possibly an instant tour.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
No like no, you have to flip flop them.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
At this point. I mean, I it'd be a shame
for this not to happen at this point because they
went through all the trouble. Like you just said, it
can't be just for the Trolls movie.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I know, could.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I just can't see.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
It's rude. It's so rude, and Jared brings us up
like weekly. To me, he's just like Ashley, I would
be so pissed if I were you, Like I would
be angry if I saw that all this just led
to trolls and they fake you out the entire time.
He's more mad about it than I.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I agree, because there was like teasers of like possible
super Bowl boy band, super Bowl what not?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
What I'm amazing?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Now we have Usher, which is like fine, but like
on But.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I really do think at this point that Justin out
of all of them, needs not even with the Britney thing,
he needs a bounce back in general. I think he does.
The last couple the last album, like with Filthy, I
think was that was that The Man of the Woods.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Was that the last One Man in the Woods, And
it was like eight years No, it was it was
six years ago and that tour.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Didn't do great.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Went to that show.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
He have a tour for that.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
See, I didn't even know that.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
He toured that album and I went to it and
it wasn't great because you know that album wasn't great.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, no, like we couldn't even I listened to that
album maybe two or three times through and I was like,
it's just never going to come to me.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
It's never never going to get it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And he like, I know, like Timberland's back involved and stuff, and.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Really the Tato thing, like what do we we were
gonna something to have a good new song out there.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Kenny Ben thinks I'm wacky. Kenny gets it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Something's going on. I mean, you just have it has to.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I think. I think we'll see Lance when we are
doing our weekend in La Ben and you know, you'll
you'll find out with me if that means anything.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's always so it's always so awkward for me. But
Lance is so nice to Ashley, but it's always so
awkward for me when she really digs into this stuff
because I'm like, I feel like this is but he
handles it so well. He's such a sweet man. He
loves Ashley so much. But it's like she wants she's
gonna just like Bombard. This dude, he's going to like
walk in. She's going to be like Lance. All right,
let's talk, all.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Right, what's going on? Tell me everything's so kind anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, mari you have a fun man to just talk
about boy band stuff. And I loved seeing you guys
at the Jonahs concert this summer. That was That was
such a cute picture.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Jonahs was good. Jas was good.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
They're my favorite.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
They're of your age grange, you know, and I was
I was a little old, but like not too old
because Kevin's still older than me.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
So if Kevin's still older than me, then I'm allowed to,
you know, exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
All right, Mariy Kenny, we do celebrate your love so
much here on Almost Famous podcast. Thanks for coming on
months ago again and kind of giving us the teaser
to what was happening, and then congratulations on a beautiful
wedding in Puerto Rico with another wedding coming up in
March in Chicago. The two of you are a great
example of what this show can do for good, uh,
in terms of love and life and laughter and everything
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else in between. So, Marian Kenny thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah, you guys are just adorbs and so beautiful together. Bye.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
This has been another episode of the Almost Famous podcast. Again,
congratulations to Marian Kenny on a beautiful love story, one
that we have gotten the witness and watch with their
own eyes. It's always cool to see, you know, these
couples who meet on a beach now or on the show,
you know, come around and get married and make this commitment.
It's really fun for us here on the podcast and
they've been great to us, but coming on now twice
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in the last year. So hey with that, I've been Ben,
I've been Ashley.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
See you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
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