Emma Levine

Thank you so much for having me.

It's great to be here.

Yes.

My wonderful grandfather, who loves me very, very much, wanted to celebrate my big day with all of his friends.

The only problem was we had run out of invitations and space at our venue.

Yeah, I was pretty stressed, not only because I was planning the wedding and had to deal with this tension between hurting his feelings and telling him his friends couldn't come or telling the truth.

But I was also studying for my qualifying exam.

This is my first year of graduate school.

Well, my mother was actually an integral part of all this.

She was helping me plan my hometown wedding in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she lived and still lives.

And she basically took over.

She said, you know what?

I'm going to take care of this.

I won't let my dad, who was my grandfather, bring his friends to the wedding.

I don't want you to sweat it.

I don't want you to worry at all.

Yeah, it was great.

I was very relieved.

I was very grateful.

The wedding was amazing.