Fathers of the Bride: A Yuletide Wedding Comedy (2025)

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast. Hi, I'm Bran and I love Christmas comedies. I'm Dan and I despise Christmas comedies. I'm Alonzo and did someone say party planning? And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. Friends host this podcast. Hello everybody, it is great to be here today. I believe, what was it?

[00:00:52] We have like five, five more festive Fridays, I believe. Yeah. We had a conversation last week or two weeks ago. My ideas get mixed up about how we were really in the doldrums and I felt like over the next few weeks you were supposed to try and fix that for us. Well, I'll see what I can do. We're talking about Fathers of the Bride, colon, a Yuletide wedding comedy today. What a subtitle. What a subtitle. We will get to it.

[00:01:21] But also, pretty excited, Alonzo, if history is any indication, we are within a week of knowing the Hallmark Christmas breakdown. We'll be talking about it together sometime next week, hopefully. I'm going to change my prediction to this Thursday, 31 new movies. Next Thursday. Yeah, this coming Thursday. The very next Thursday we have. That's right. Okay. That's right. 31 new ones. Yes. Wow. Okay.

[00:01:50] Yep. This Thursday, 31 movies. Why 31? Why not the 34 that they- Because they've already released three and there's only 31 sleepies. They released four. They released- Oh, no, but one of them had already been released. No, he means they've announced three. They released four in July is what you're saying. I- All I know is this, is that 34 number, I believe, is the three ones that had not aired yet and the 30 and 31 that they're going to- So you believe that's kind of- Well, there was four new to Hallmark. Yeah. Christmas movies. Yes. So that's why that math wouldn't matter. I don't know.

[00:02:20] I just know Sleepy Kitty Paws at this point in the game has only found 31. Yeah. And so I'm- That always happens, though. There's always a few that- You're right. I'm just going to go- Listen, I want to keep my expectations low. And if for some reason we end up with 40 and I have to deal with you that day, it'll be worth it. Because I- You know what I mean? Like I'll have kept- I'll have set the bar at 31. Do you think the 30- 31 including rum raisin. Do you think the 34, Alonzo, in that Vulture article, do you think that's the number?

[00:02:48] You know, I mean, that number had been bandied about before. Bandied? Bandied. And I think that Sleepy Kitty Paws was saying that- Originally that number was based on the idea of the proportion of total Hallmark movies for the whole year, which is less than it used to be. But then, yeah, now coming the second time with 34, and it seems like it came from a source.

[00:03:10] So, yeah, I don't know if they're counting the four Christmas in July acquisitions in that, or they mean 34 in addition to those, or what? We'll see. So, what's crazy is it's hearkening back to our first year when they announced there were 34 new movies, and then by the time the season started, there were 37. So, you know, it all comes back full circle.

[00:03:34] I will say, well, I mean, everything could change Vickery's back, but they had been better about numbers and dates meaning things. Sticking to the schedule once it's announced. We'll see. True. We'll see. We'll know this time next week. Maybe we'll talk about it. I would say let's talk about it live when it happens, and then next Festive Friday, let's ignore it altogether. I love that point. I think that's a really great idea. Because we wouldn't want to inundate folks with the same course. We don't want to overdo it.

[00:04:04] So, next Festive Friday, right now we promise, next Festive Friday, we don't mention it. We won't say a thing about it. I love that. We won't say a thing about it. I wish we could not say a thing about Fathers of the Bride. But there's something we can do. Here's this. Here's this, okay? Here's this. We're going to do Fathers of the Bride this week. We're going to do the new, our first 2026 movie, our newest JPR joint. God almighty. Which is Christmas in Romance Town. Evening Romance Town, something like that, yep. There was an extra word there somewhere. Yep.

[00:04:34] Yes. And then our final three weeks, let's do some scaries. Let's do some scaries. Let's do some Christmas scaries. I love that. Spooky season. That's right. Spooky season is upon us. All right. Fathers of the Bride, a Yuletide wedding comedy. Would it surprise anyone to find out that this Christmas movie dropped in May? Nope. Why not? May 27th, 2025 is when it premiered. And it went a little something like this.

[00:05:02] Michelle and Mark are in love and they just got engaged. Hey. Woo. So Michelle FaceTimes her dads, Leo and Rich. And at first they're excited about this. But then they find out that they aren't going to have a big wedding ceremony. And, you know, they're a little bummed by that. But they get over it pretty quickly when they remember the fact that they didn't even have a big wedding ceremony. So who are they to judge?

[00:05:29] Well, maybe not them, but everybody else is going to judge pretty hard. Everybody that finds out that they're not going to have a big wedding ceremony is really mad. And Leo and Rich are talking about this and how they didn't have a big wedding ceremony. And Rich kind of regrets it. So he calls Michelle and says that he'd be happy to plan and pay for the whole thing. You're not going to have to do anything. He just doesn't want her to regret not having a wedding.

[00:05:59] So she reluctantly agrees and quickly regrets it. It's a lot. And they, you know, that whole like you're not going to have to do anything thing. It's a lie. She does have to make decisions. And Mark, the to be groomed, groomed to be. I said to be groomed. To be groomed. Yes. Is somehow simultaneously not interested in helping but also eager to give his opinions on things. So typical groom, actually.

[00:06:28] While all this is going on, Leo and Rich are also planning the company Christmas party. And it's looking like they might have to cancel this year, which leads to a massive fight between the two of them at a friend's party. And then they get into a huge argument with old Aunt Angela because she's being a little too overbearing when it comes to the wedding planning.

[00:06:56] And, of course, that leads to her feelings being heard. And then Leo and Rich end up getting in a fight, too. And everybody is mad at each other. They're able to get over it, though. They got good news. Got a new client. So another year. Another dollar. They decide to actually listen to Michelle and Mark and just have a small, intimate ceremony at their house.

[00:07:23] And while they're at it, Leo and Rich are going to have a wedding, too. They're going to have a ceremony, too. A little joint wedding. Why the heck not? Why the heck not? Both couples kiss and they celebrate together. And that, my friends, was Fathers of the Bride, a Yuletide wedding comedy. And we did it. And more. And more. Yeah. A Yuletide wedding comedy. Yeah. You say a wedding? I said wedding. I thought it was a Yuletide Christmas comedy.

[00:07:53] I don't know why I thought that. That would just be repeated. That's too much. That's repetitive and redundant. So dumb. This movie would never. Would never. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll break this movie down with four segments. Here on Deck the Hallmark. Hi, everybody. We're talking Fathers of the Bride today. Very excited, I guess, to break this movie down. We're going to start with the hot take. We're going to do four segments all together.

[00:08:23] I love that. We're going to start with the hot take so we're going to share exactly how he felt about this movie. Do you want to hold back? Alonzo, this movie came to your attention, I believe, somehow, and then you sent it my way. So I actually can't get blamed for this. Okay. All right. Now, Alonzo did give me the out. He said, you know, do this what you will. But I... I was scrolling on Tubi. I think maybe I was watching one of the earlier Festive Fridays and it was suggested. Yeah. And I was like, huh, I haven't heard of this. We've watched plenty of movies of this ilk.

[00:08:52] So it's not outside of the realm of consideration. Absolutely. I just want it to be known I can't fully take responsibility. Yes. I will. I'll take part of that hit. Yeah. God. This movie is... It's a party planning movie with two parties that you know are going to become one party eventually. And neither sounds like a party you want to go to.

[00:09:17] You know, I will give the movie some props for including some specifics about the dynamics of having two dads and or being part of a queer couple that is married in 21st century America that would be glommed over elsewhere perhaps. But everything else is so kind of clunky and obvious and poorly performed that I didn't care about any of it. Yeah. Poorly performed is the key there. Yeah.

[00:09:47] I think this is an interesting thing, a type of movie that we don't get to see very often where it's not about the couple that's getting married. No. Which it takes... It took me like a little while to realize, oh, this is the Rich and Leo movie. Fathers of the Rock. It's called Fathers of the Rock. You're right. You're right. This movie is as much about Christmas as it is about the straight couple getting married. No, it is. But what I thought, like, you know... Just to say, barely. Yeah. Barely just a little skosh. I thought... A question of Christmas.

[00:10:18] Stupid me, though, thought that it would be more like a classic, like... Father of the Bride. Father of the Bride. Like where the actual wedding couple is more a part of it. But they're not. And I don't know. I found that to be interesting. Interesting. I found it interesting, Dan, that we stumbled upon Dr. Christmas. Did you recognize Dr. Christmas, Alonzo? No.

[00:10:52] Did you recognize Dr. Christmas, Alonzo? I did it and everything. Back in, what was that, 2019? 2019. 2019. Out in LA. That's right. Had a wonderful time at the Christmasland experience. It was so great. I wish it would come back. And Dr. Christmas did a swell job decorating it. It looked good. So shout out Dr. Christmas. Shout out. I never thought I'd see him again. So it was a little bit when he came on...

[00:11:20] What was great is, is I was watching this separately from Bran. Bran and I had two different schedules this week. And I'm watching it. And he rolled in to grab something. And maybe his keys. And Dr. Christmas was on screen. And he goes, I know him. Where do I know him from? And I was like, Bran, that's Dr. Christmas. That's Dr. Christmas. So yeah, that was wild. Yeah, the movie is... It's an interesting movie. You're so kind. It's an interesting movie. It isn't. It's so boring. No, no, no. I don't know. I don't know.

[00:11:48] Do you mean the actual movie or its premise and creation? That's a different... The premise and creation of this movie is interesting. Okay. Everything else about it is... You're right. It is boring. It is boring. But the idea behind it and the thought behind it, I do find interesting. And let's say, hypothetically, we did watch a JPR's movie for next week. Already. Already. Which we would never, but let's say... For instance.

[00:12:16] This movie looked like watching The Odyssey on IMAX compared to JPR. Like, this movie, like, it's still not great. There's still, like, stuff that's like, whoa, what an interesting choice to make visually. But it does, by and large... At least choices were made. Yeah. It does, by and large, look like a made-for-TV movie that I've seen before. Unlike whatever the heck JPR is doing out there. So, I don't know. Kudos, I guess. Dan? I mean, I hate it.

[00:12:46] It's insufferable. The silences in this movie are just brutal. And it's so poorly performed, it's crazy. I think what you're saying, and I would agree with you, is that literally learning from my dear friend Alonzo, who got married three different times to Dave White, if I'm not mistaken. At least, yeah. Just because of the legality. One more time. One more time. Like, the legality of, like, queer people getting married was up in the air.

[00:13:16] And then it was like, not... Like, the idea that everyone didn't have access to something as basically governmental as marriage was crazy. And so, the idea that this older gay couple, one of them having a kid, they're getting married, and then them wanting to... Like, the idea of a double wedding here makes a lot of sense. Like, if you pitch me the movie, I would say, this is great. You could really, like, pull some heartstrings. You could do a lot right in this movie.

[00:13:44] Unfortunately, none of that happens. It sucks. Like, what in the world? Like, the performances are so bad across the board. Just everything. Like, time just stands still in every scene. Like, there's no forward momentum. If we were to have watched a JPR, JPR, like, makes the public domain music insufferable. Like, drowning out the dialogue. This is the opposite of that in every way.

[00:14:13] Hey, it's like you can hear the air-conditioned fan running. Like, there's so much silence for a dual-party planning movie. I just... And no one ever actually feels mad or stressed or anything, which is the vibe that I think they're going for. So, yeah. Real unfortunate. Real bad. Thankful it's done. But I guess I do see what you're saying from a... Like, the idea of it, I guess. I guess. Yes.

[00:14:43] Let's get to all the fields. This is where we talk about what in this movie gave us fields. Let's start with you, Alonzo. Yeah. Again, I think this is one of those things where I had feelings about the idea of what they were trying to pursue and, you know, portray. And I just wish that the portrayals had been better pandered. So, yeah. That's kind of it.

[00:15:08] I mean, I did get mad feels by the title of this movie because it's just a lie. It is barely a Yuletide movie. Yeah. It is a wedding movie. More like a wedding planning movie. But, yes. Definitely not a comedy. You can't just say things. You can't... Putting it in the title is egregious. It's egregious to tell me that it is a Christmas comedy in the title of the movie.

[00:15:37] We're getting into false advertising territory here. Yeah. Fathers of the Bride, you can get from that that it's a wedding movie. You don't need to put that in there. A Yuletide wedding comedy is offensive. I mean, you can't copyright a title, but were they worried that the Father of the Bride people were going to come after them? Maybe, but then just title it something else. It's Fathers of the Bride. It's a different movie. Right. Right. I don't know.

[00:16:06] That was a crazy title. And it is just... It's so loosey-goosey with Christmas. It's just not really about that. And then to call it a comedy is wild. It's truly wild. Dan? Yeah. No, I don't have anything. Okay. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get to the Wait What and the What the Hallmark here on... Deck the Hallmark. The Hallmark. My God.

[00:16:39] We're back. Hi, everyone. We're talking Fathers of the Bride today. Let's get to the Wait What. I love it. We'll talk about the things in this movie that made us go Wait What. I'll start with you, Alonzo. Yeah. Well, yeah. We open with the happy couple calling the dads to let them know that they've gotten engaged. Where's the ring? Yeah. Like, that is the moment where the young lady will traditionally sort of hold up the hand and, like, show the rock.

[00:17:06] And I know Generation Avocado Toast is not buying diamonds anymore, and that's fine. I got him. But, like, you know... Old, crusty, conservative Alonzo. There he is. There he is. Save your money. You can afford a house. A nice ruby, you know, a sapphire... Invest in gold. Come on. Invest in gold. This movie, for a movie that wants you to believe that every character cares deeply about the trappings of a traditional wedding ceremony, they don't have any of them. Like, they don't do any of them right. None of them.

[00:17:36] Yeah, and for a movie in which money is never an object until it is. Yeah. It seems like the dads are, like, here to pay for everything, and then they're like, well... They're here to pay for everything while simultaneously being stressed that they're going to lose the business. Right, and they keep talking about having to, like, either scale down or cancel the Christmas party, but then whenever they meet with Dr. Christmas, they get steamrolled and, like, can never say the words, like, oh, yeah. That's Dr. Christmas for you, though. I guess. They'll roll you right over there. He cast a spell. I got really... I got really nervous.

[00:18:06] When they were talking about doing, like, a luau Hawaii-themed wedding. Oh, no. Because the opening credits give you this almost sort of, like, tiki bar version of... Islands, yeah. Of, yeah, the steel drum of the Christmas carols and the wedding march. And I thought, oh, my God, please, someone consult with the Asian American groom before you have a kitsch Hawaii wedding. This is not going to work out, but thankfully, we did not go down that trail.

[00:18:32] Well, you have a lot of straight women in your audience and bless them. And so I just want to put this out there as a public service announcement. Mams, never tell two gay wedding planners that it needs a woman's touch. It was one of the worst things I've ever seen on film. It's not going to end well. I legitimately heard her go, don't... She didn't say it needs... She said, don't you think it needs a woman's touch?

[00:19:01] I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. I was like, that is... You are going to get your topsy tail handed to you. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, just... They... Dr. Christmas is talking to them about the Christmas party, and he makes the comment about how they're getting an early start because the party's in a month. That is not an early start for planning a party at all.

[00:19:31] Like, no. No, a month, like a month you need to... You better have, like... You're, like, looking at the calendar every day for what's supposed to arrive and what's supposed to be, you know, taken care of. You don't start a month out. It is a long time by Hallmark standards. I... This is true, I suppose. But... More than three days? Yeah. All right. I think actual Dr. Christmas would laugh in your face if you... 100%. He's a professional. Yeah. He's a doctor of Christmas. Of Christmas. Exactly. Yes. He's an MD.

[00:20:01] That's right. They keep saying how, like, oh, we're going to give you this wedding. It's our gift to you. And all I kept thinking was, how about you give me the cash equivalent and I can put a down payment on the house? That's right. Yeah. You know. Or go on a honeymoon or something. Like, yeah. Both these couples have... They both have jobs. They both seem very financially secure. But nonetheless, this just seems like for a thing they don't particularly want, it seems like a really pricey thing. And then to say, oh, no, no, no, we're doing it all for you. It's like, no, you're not. Yeah, I think that is... Go ahead.

[00:20:31] No, no, no. You. Is in Father of the Bride, Steve Martin is overwhelmed by all of the charges that are racking up when Martin Short comes in and all of these things that the bride wants to add to the wedding. He wants a backyard barbecue. That's right. This is flipped. She doesn't want any of this. Right. Like, stop saying that you have to do all these things when she doesn't want... She wanted to just go to Vegas. Exactly.

[00:21:01] Like, that's the problem with the conceit of the movie is like... I mean, yeah, cop to the fact that you're doing it for you. But if you keep saying it's a gift to you, it's like, no, no, it's not. Yeah. Like, but if she grew up lamenting that her dads didn't have a ceremony or couldn't get married and then they pitch, what if we did a double... And she probably would... That would be like, she'd probably be like, yeah, let's do that. That's not what happens here. No. They're just like, we're doing it for you. We'll take it from here. Also, there's no reason why they couldn't have a double wedding in Vegas. No kidding. But that's a whole other thing.

[00:21:31] We get a discount. There's the whole thing where she has this big opportunity to fly to England to meet with some pop star who wants to write a tell-all memoir, but it's going to overlap with the wedding, so she can't do it. And so the whole thing is going to get canceled. And I'm like, you can reschedule things. You can reschedule the pop star. You can... All is not lost here. They make way too big a deal of that. The idea of them having this knockdown drag out fight at their friend's anniversary party

[00:21:59] at the moment where they're being pointed to as the role models for their relationship is a very funny idea. The execution does not come off, unfortunately. But I at least thought, yes, this is a glimpse of where this movie might have gone right if they'd known how to land this plane among all the other planes that they don't know how to land. You mean them suddenly being able to hear them yelling? Like on a... Where it just goes...

[00:22:29] Just the music stops? Right. But that's a funny bit in a movie where you're having a heated conversation and then suddenly the room gets quiet and you're still yelling and then everybody turns. That's right. But that requires some, you know, choreography. They try. Yeah, that's tough. I got a kick out of the bride-to-be. She's talking to... Is it Rich that is... Not her dad. Not biological. Daddy Rich. Leo.

[00:22:58] So talking to Leo and Leo's like... She's wearing her mom's earrings and Leo's like, why don't you walk down the aisle wearing those earrings? And she goes, boy, this wedding's getting complicated. That's like the least complicated thing you've had to do with. You're going to wear jewelry now too? What? The idea of you wearing your mom's earrings is the easiest decision you'll have to make.

[00:23:24] It was such a funny response to that very simple recommendation. Yeah, that whole back and forth that their friends were having at that party that you just talked about was so funny to me. It was like really bad improv because the one guy's telling the story and then the other guy's doing like... He's yes-anding everything in the worst possible way. But then he goes, you made five years feel like five minutes.

[00:23:53] It's, I'm sorry, I'm not a speech writer. It was just like no one groaned or anything at it. He just... Just went on. No. And then I got a kick out of the fact that those were the... And also, thankful, the shortest vows ever. Of all time. In that they weren't really vows. They were just things. It was like her turn and she's like, you're my rock. Great. We did it.

[00:24:21] I mean, that's not really a vow. That's just a thing about him. But whatever. That's fine. It's fine. Whatever. It doesn't matter. 84 minutes. 84 minutes. You're my rock. That's right. It's not... She could have said, I promise that I'll always be your rock. That's right. Then we're talking vows. But that's either. It doesn't matter. You should wear your mom's earrings. Yeah. What? What? This wedding is getting complicated. Earrings? Dana?

[00:24:52] How have people found out about this wedding so quickly? They FaceTime the dads and then they get off the phone and the dad, Leo, calls... That's his sister, right? The woman... Angela, yes. The dad, Leo, calls. She picks up the phone and he goes, so I guess you heard. And she's like, yep, sure did. What happened there? Were the dads like the last to know about this? I just didn't. And then he calls and he calls his mom and we just hear like a squealy voice on the other end.

[00:25:20] And he doesn't actually say, guess what? We're engaged. She just starts going, getting excited. But very weird way to do this where we told the dads last, I believe. They say officiator of the wedding in this movie, which is just fundamentally not a thing. Like it's an efficient. Yes. Or there are officials and there's a wedding efficient. You cannot be the wedding officiator. But they said it in this movie.

[00:25:49] It's their special magical day, Daniel. They can call it whatever they want. Sure they can. The wedding gown fitting and trying on wedding gown scene that we've seen in thousands of movies where she's picking out a wedding gown in this movie includes the groom and the wedding planner. And guys, I know you can do whatever you want to do, but for the life of me, I've never seen those two people included in that particular activity. Like the wedding planner, maybe.

[00:26:18] But yeah, the groom, I mean, there are actual superstitions about this. Yeah, like the groom sitting there going, eh, not that one. What? That's insane. That's an insane thing. One of my favorite, and when I say favorite, one of the most hysterical parts of this movie is when they're all arguing and Leo decides to tell his husband, Rich, that you're not really her father. He basically is like, I'm her real father. For the record, she's my daughter. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:26:48] That's right. Which, first of all, fighting words, and they treat them as such, and I get that. But the best part about this scene is right after it ends, he storms off, or one of them storms, Rich storms off in his car. And Leo is in his car, and he's trying to reminisce about helping raise this girl that he was just accused of not being her father, right? That's the point of the scene. And he has his phone out, and he's trying to tear up, but he's a bad actor.

[00:27:18] And he's looking at his phone, and he wants to reminisce about raising this girl. But all of the pictures of his daughter are just the actor's headshots. So it's just like headshot, headshot, just glamour shot. There are three or four, that's it. It's a four picture reel. None of her as a kid. None of her growing up. No candids. Just three headshots of the actor.

[00:27:46] And then we see the other guy, Leo, and he's thinking through what he said, and we get to watch the scene we just watched. We just watched it. We just watched him say, well, I'm really her father. And we see it again. The whole scene. Again. Yeah, but this time it had a little echo on it. They had echo, and it went black and white. Yeah. That's how you got out. So nice, we had to run it twice.

[00:28:13] Like, it's one of those things where, you know, anytime a Hallmark movie gives a montage of what happened in the first 30 minutes and the last 10 minutes, I'm always like, am I having a stroke? But this was like next level. Like, oh my goodness, we just watched this, everyone. Like, you didn't have this. You could have had just pictures of someone that was not the same actor as a kid growing up. Yeah. In a high school graduation gown or whatever. And it's literally your IMDb picture. Like, you can go find it. Remember that casting session?

[00:28:44] This is the thing they always accuse Netflix of, of like, accusing people of not paying attention because you have to keep reminding them of the stories. Oh my goodness. We're getting a sandwich. 15 seconds ago is nice. It really is. They do a gown fitting scene and then they do a tux fitting scene. And for some reason, they decide for the only time in this movie at the end of the tux fitting scene to end it with a freeze frame. They freeze it.

[00:29:14] Everyone's frozen. And then they transition to like the end of a sitcom theme song. It doesn't happen the rest of the movie. But in this one time, they just decide, what if we put a little sauce on this? What if we did a freeze frame? That's what we should do. Yeah. When the wedding planner is talking through reception and people and rehearsal and everything, he was like, well, a hundred guests is how many you can invite. And this bride-to-be says, I don't even think we know a hundred people. What?

[00:29:43] You don't know a hundred people? I will say the movie is consistent about that because apart from her shower, which has a bunch of women who are never identified, we have her best friend and that's it. Like these two exist in this social bubble where they don't seem to have any kind of friends or work friends or peer group or whatever. I feel like- Yeah. It's ridiculous. But at the same time, it is consistent. That's true. With the lack of background actors. Yeah.

[00:30:09] They never bother to show us them interacting with the many people with whom they would be interacting as they're getting ready to get married. Yeah. That's fair. And my last one is Dr. Christmas in this movie is not Dr. Christmas. He's playing a different, he's not playing Dr. Christmas, but he is playing a decorator party planner. I hate for it to be too long. Who only does Christmas. So he decorates for Christmas and officiates weddings, but would never decorate a wedding

[00:30:38] that took place during Christmas time. Well, it sounded like he doesn't do anything that isn't specifically Christmas. And so it's not until the wedding becomes part of the Christmas party that it can then come under the umbrella- But he still didn't decorate it, right? He just officiated. He was the officiator, as they say. No, there's a scene where he's like ogling the dudes hanging wreaths on the wall. Oh, I thought that was in somebody's house. That was at the wedding? It is. The wedding is in their house. Oh, that's right. The wedding is in their house. I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:31:08] So he does decorate their living room. What about Dr. Christmas? Great. Shout out Dr. Christmas, obviously. Wander and I, is that guy. All right, let's get to what the Hallmark questions we still have that we would like some answers to. Alonzo? Yeah, part of the big happy ending of the end of the film is that awful Aunt Angela gets to fall in love with a wedding planner who is surprisingly heterosexual. And my question is, when a wedding planner gets married, do they just go bare bones?

[00:31:36] Or is it like, can you see it from space? I don't know what the choices are here. Yeah, I was, you know, on another podcast we do called Gilmore the Marrier, shout out. When Suki gets married and she's making her own cake, and doing all of the food, Bram was like, this is who she is. And I was like, I just, there's just no way. And I think both are accurate, to be fair. She wouldn't relinquish control of this to anyone.

[00:32:03] Yeah, but I think at some point, you just have to know that there's no way she's going to be able to do both. Like, the food is being cooked, typically, while the ceremony's happening. Right. So there's something she has to give at some point. But I think she would rather give... She's in there with a gown and veil. All right, fireball! She'd rather give up... Fire 10 salmons, 12 short ribs. She'd rather give up being a part of her own wedding. That's right. Than the food not being cooked. Absolutely.

[00:32:34] Yeah, I want to know, so how far along did they get in the inviting the people? Because clearly, they scaled way down. It's now just at the house. We're not inviting 100 people. Did they end up calling people and being like, hey... I think it's the people who came to the Christmas party get a bonus wedding thrown in. Okay, so what does everybody else think? Did they get an invite and then have to call people and be like, hey, actually, we're not doing that anymore?

[00:33:02] Have you ever been uninvited to a wedding? Man. Again, if these people existed in any kind of peer group or social setting, that would be an issue. But because they are an island, who knows? I guess if no one... They didn't know anybody anyway. It's fine. They didn't know anybody to invite, and so therefore, you don't have the takesie-backsies. So honestly, it worked out really great because it just would have been an empty room if they actually went through with the venue. So it worked out fine. Dan?

[00:33:28] Yeah, so there is one of the members of the father's friend circle is a police officer, and he pulls them over when they're trying to leave town to elope, and then the dads are trying to catch them. And they're like, you're not going to write us a ticket. And he says, I'm writing you a fix-it ticket, which is his way of saying, you need to go back and fix this. Family's too important. Amazing. But he actually writes them a ticket. And he rips it off of his notepad, and he hands it to him.

[00:33:58] What is on that ticket? What could possibly be written on that ticket? What is happening here? When you let somebody off with a warning, is there a written ticket involved? Sometimes. I don't know how that goes. I got pulled over on the way back from Florida. No one's writing hand tickets anymore. No, it's printed. It's top printed. Oh, that's true. Yeah. By the way, wait, what is that car chase? They are yelling at each other from moving cars at a distance. Wait, wait, wait. They're going eight miles an hour. Yeah, minimum. Maximum. Whatever. What is this?

[00:34:28] Fast X? Are you kidding me right now? Slow X. Slow X. All right. We did it, everybody. Congratulations to us. We're back next week with Christmas in Romance Town. Or Romance in Christmas Town. Evening Romance in Christmas Town. Evening Romance in Christmas Town. Whatever. Yeah. Depending. I think if you look it up on Prime and stuff, it's just, now it's just, there's no evening romance. No. It's just Romance in Christmas Town. Christmas Town. Yes. Look forward to that, I guess. Until then, maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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