today.

To wrap up the first season of my podcast, here’s an episode all about the song I surprised Ben with during our first dance on our wedding day! On the surface, this song might seem like a grand romantic gesture (which it was!) but it actually began as a coping mechanism for dealing with the silly nonsense that is wedding “planning” (let’s be honest, I barely planned any of that ceremony). I talk about the circumstances that led to the song’s creation, the extreme lengths I went to in order to keep the recording a secret from Ben, why the lead switched from acoustic to electric guitar in the final version, and why the song was played at our reception instead of our wedding ceremony. I also talk about why I greatly dislike wedding culture, what frustrated me the most about our engagement period, and why we never celebrate our wedding anniversary to this day. And as a special bonus, I interviewed Ben himself about his reaction when I surprised him with the song, and what it means to him today after almost 8 years of legal marriage.