Colleen
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30 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5 Feb
Colleen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nobody that I have worked with in 27 plus years has done what Saskia has done, has been the social worker for these teens in care with such optimism and joy and encouragement as Saskia.
This period of time was definitely the first time that I saw Saskia as not a bubbly, joyful person.
She had gotten quieter.
She did share with me that she had been drinking more and she was concerned about that.
Thank you so much, Sean. I'm excited to be here.
So I work for a university out here in LA. I've been here for about two years. Before that, I was working in entertainment, but I made the switch to academics two years ago for a little more work-life balance, and it's been incredible. My fiance and I met three and a half-ish years ago. A typical dating app story. We met on Bumble, and I just knew he was special from the first date, so...
We are a little more complicated than like a lot of our friends because we're getting married. Our ceremony is in a church and then our reception is in a restaurant up the road, like 20 minute drive away. So we'll have our family in town for it. I'm from Texas. He's from Maryland. So a lot of our wedding is flying in. It's going to be a pretty big family event.
But like all of our friends are in L.A. and our life is in L.A. where we met in L.A. And either way, a lot of the people are going to have to travel no matter where we had it. So we decided to have our wedding where we live.
What we think we'll end up with is about 150.
So we got engaged in August, September-ish last year. He proposed to me on our trip to Japan at the top of Mount Fuji. So romantic. At sunrise. It was great. Maybe we waited two weeks after we got engaged before we started planning, but it definitely happened a lot faster.
September 12th.
Yeah. Well, no, it's a little more than a year from our engagement, but a little less than a year from when we started planning.
We are very fortunate. We have parental help from both sides. So we very quickly created the Google spreadsheet of tracking. Here's how much we're receiving. And we started with our fixed costs. Since we're getting married in a church, that's not a negotiable price. And I'm not willing to negotiate on not getting married in a church. So we knew that was going to cost X amount.
And then there's an efficient fee and there's a premarital counseling fee as well. And then we looked at what was left, which luckily those things are not very big. But the venue was our first biggest cost. We wanted a place that had a lot of the chairs and tables and linens and glasses. And so we didn't have to individually price out all of that. So we found a place that does this whole package.
And that was a huge part of our budget. So then from there, we've been trying to calculate budgets. well, what do we have left? And figuring out what my non-negotiables are and his non-negotiables, like I'm okay without a videographer, but my fiance is not. And so we had to bake that in.
And the way that we managed that was by getting someone who is both our photographer and videographer and did a Black Friday deal in November. So we booked it really early because we wanted to get the best deal possible money wise so that we could keep putting the rest towards everything else. I am fully planning on using Costco sheet cake.
Well, I'm gluten-free, so I will have to have a small gluten-free cake just for, you know, the cutting and me and my groom eating. But everybody else, I think, will like Costco. And Costco does flowers. And we're trying to be as economical as possible because we are fortunate to have help. And we're trying our best not to...
go past what they're offering because then we have to pay for whatever we go over. I recognize that's a reality for a lot of people, but we're trying to also save for a lot of other things, not just our wedding.
The way that I was raised was with the understanding of if someone owns their own business, they set their prices. And that's what they've agreed to work for. So you don't tip. But if someone is an employee of a company, then someone else has set the prices and you tip them. So what I'm finding a lot in the vendor business is... People who we're hiring own their own businesses.
But every piece of advice I'm getting is that you tip for like every single thing that you use for the wedding. So these two different pieces of advice of what I was raised believing about tipping culture and what I'm seeing all online are in direct contrast. And obviously, we're setting our budget for And the tipping will take us over, which I recognize.
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