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The Bert Show — Vault: The Bridal Party That Fired Its Own Girls. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
The virtue intern Joanna Rathbury. Yes, she's not a brother's wedding and somebody called up and made an interesting observation that In turn Joanna as we told you guys earlier used to be a hooters girl in general I think the general statement is if you're a hooters girl, you got to be pretty good looking So what interjoin is beautiful girl. She's very beautiful girl. So the Accusation was maybe she was left out because she's too good looking So I'm asking the question is there anybody bold enough to admit? We'll put you on the voice disguiser that you purposely left somebody out of your wedding Because they were either too good looking or not good looking enough. The final ones are a little I'm sad. We will call her brandy. Good morning. You're on Q100. Good morning. Good morning How are you all today? Good looking for some honesty. You about to give it to us. I do. I have a little bit It sounds so superficial, but I mean Well, it kind of is a little superficial. It's very superficial. Actually I left one girl out. I love her to death
But I wanted all of my bridesmaids to be Like a between a two and a six You mean that's why you're gonna out because you're gonna help us on two to six And then I left another girl out because she is way too pretty So you did both I did both One was too pretty and one was too ugly for you So you literally in the process of thinking who is gonna be in your wedding It wasn't who am I closest to who will I know for the next 20 years? It was literally They've got to be be between a two and a six and they have to be They have to look a certain way. They can't look too good. Can't be too fat. Can't look too good Exactly Are you friends still with any of the women that are we're in your bridal party? Yes All of them. What about the what about the two that you left out Uh-huh still I didn't I mean I wasn't like kind of it was a public knowledge
It was just I didn't I didn't even tell my husband sure they had to be skinny and average In order to get into your wedding She is not the only one wow good morning Aaron you're on the voice disguiser. Hello hello Um, I actually had a girl and I waited but I kicked her out after I thought about it Some because she was a lot older and Not so good-looking and was kind of not nice So you well the next thing is yeah you invited and then just invited her I did she was really really kind of a you ever met women. They're just kind of bullious She was kind of a bully and after I thought about it some more I was like I just don't like her and she's ugly And she's old so I kicked girl. Oh Wow How did she react to that and what did what did you use as the excuse? I just told her there was an incident where I had just she's been rude So there was finally like a straw that broke the camel's back or however you say it and I just got enough And I just told her I was like you're really mean and I don't want you around me on my special day
Well, okay, at least there was something a little bit more than just her being old and ugly had something personality like that held it a little bit That's a tough trifecta right there rude old and ugly Sorry, you can't be in my wedding how come well I've noticed that you're a little rude. Oh, all right. I'm sorry. I can come you're also old Okay, I get it. I'm not gonna mean you're an angel ugly. Oh my god Where's there a bridge I can jump off and you smell yeah Good morning, Sarah. I will call you. You're on the voice disguise or hi. Hi Hey, yeah, you sound like I like a dog would look with his tail between his legs like oh, no, I'm in trouble No, this has been I've got to have been almost almost 20 years This girl was my best friend supposedly we've known each other for about five years And I was asked to be in the wedding party and the dresses were being picked out and everything and then I got Pregnant and she told me it would not look right and kicked me out of the wedding party
Oh, you got pregnant and then got kicked out of the wedding party and she told her oh see I know women that have ducked out when they got pregnant because it was gonna be too close to their due date And if the baby came early then they might have missed the wedding anyway So I know women that have done that but never and I also know another woman who had to buy two bridesmaid dresses Because she bought one in a small size and she got pregnant while they were planning the wedding She had to buy a second one with more material But I've never heard of anybody being kicked out for having a baby. So we're the exact words she used Well, she was crying and she told me how much she cared about me and what a good friend I was and That it just wouldn't look right. Oh, I mean, we get a phone call For all intents and purposes isn't that why you get married to eventually have a family Yeah, yeah, but not at the altar I don't want any fat girls up at the altar I get married so I got good-looking wedding pictures We've got a whole bunch of these to go through including one call that I'll take from somebody We're gonna call Emily in a second whose mom is keeping the ugly ones out of her wedding
We got a phone call years ago. I don't know if you all remember this remember the girl wanted to kick somebody out of her wedding Because she got a tattoo on her shoulder or she learned of the tattoo on her shoulder And the way the wedding dress was cut it was like whatever it's called or it goes like that Yeah, and it would expose the tattoo and she's like, ah, that's a little too right for me So bye bye for that and and call us up to find out the proper way to boot her friend out of the wedding Hey, Stephanie good morning. You're on the voice disguiser Good morning I had all my vibes made for a pretty fined so as I Designed her gowns all strapless and the one girl was a size 28 They didn't make the gown in her signs and The other girl's run willing to change it and I was too But she's still one of my best friends. I love her to death, but I was really really she backed out of the wedding Oh, she backed out. Why because of them you couldn't find the dress in her that must have been so embarrassing for her what a hurtful day
Seriously You're lucky that she backed out I guess and you didn't have to have I guess though But I feel kind of rotten because she's been a part of every important moment in my life Three kids later and everything and she's still there and the other one kind of aren't Would you have told her that she couldn't be part of the wedding had she not backed out? Um, I wouldn't have told her I would have I don't know figured out a way to change the dress or something I was trying to talk to the the boutique that carried the gowns to see if it could have it made for her in time She was gonna lose weight and everything and she just finally said I don't think it's gonna happen I can't lose the weight and He hasn't ever lost the way and I don't know that's sad because that must have been like one of the lowest days of her life too when I have to come my best friend and say look They just don't make the dress of my size. I can't be part of this. That must be terrible I'd have about Emily here whose mom Is uh is filtering out who can be in the wedding and who can't be in the wedding. Hey Emily
Hello. Yes, she is. I recently got engaged and I haven't said a wedding date yet but I've got three best friends two from high school and one from college One two of the girls stay with each other. They're both tall and thin and long gone here And my other friend I've known her the longest. She's real short on heavier side and my mom just said well I'm paying for the pictures. I don't want her in it because it's interactive No part body is the girl that she wants to cake out. I was in her wedding. Oh my And and you don't feel like you can stand up to moms because she's paying for it, right? No I mean, I understand what she's saying She's like I'm paying for him. It's gonna be a moment in time that you know forever But I just feel so terrible. I don't even know where to start You have a momzilla on your hands. Wow Tomis that is what it is. Yeah so many different angles on this man How about somebody that drops out like volunteers because she doesn't think she's attractive enough. Oh
Nisa go ahead. You're on Q100 to get her to send us a picture Yeah, I got married a few years back and it was a small length. I only had two bridesmaids and I'm I'm kind of the key figure and one of my bridesmaids was also I mean she's like Peter She's like 5 11 blonde hair. She's a she's a knockout But then I had one other friend who's actually my maid of honor who is Very heavy set. She's not anymore actually but the time she was And she came to me crying a few days after we all went shopping for bridesmaids dresses and Told me how she just She couldn't stand a thought of having to stand up there beside me and my other friend And she's the maid of honor. Yeah, she was so She ended up dropping out. I felt so horrible and of course she was still a guest at the wedding But yeah, it was it was very sad. I felt so horrible for her
But I mean I wasn't I didn't I didn't harbor any hard feelings or anything because you know, I wanted her to What to be in it. So she's gonna feel bad about herself. Did you try to convince her to stay in it when she told you? Oh, of course I did. Yeah, if I told her that didn't matter that I thought she's I thought she was beautiful And that what mattered to me was you know, she was there and she just like this is just She's he's always been very so conscious about her weight and so it just it mattered too much. Sure Well, it's so sad. It is And here's Melissa. Good morning, Melissa. You're on Q100. Hi Hi, hey I was It was years back. I've been divorced and working on my second one The first one wasn't I had that I actually made them make sure that they were bigger than me and I looked better See you purposely chose the women that were larger than you to be in your wedding party. Yeah, yeah I was like real skinny. See, I'm from Florida. So I know that I can't hear this But yeah, oh I know I won't hear you. I'm real skinny. See so I'm from Florida
Yeah, George girls are fat Land of none of the bit skinny people So then everybody got in the cars and it's driving south if you're fat and you're from Florida give us a call right now You want to get one call We finally found the one topic Then we seriously could have done this for days. I was kicked out of the wedding because I'm not attractive enough Oh, man, I was kicked out of the wedding photo because they said I was too big. We could have done this forever Well to mama for them with the good news is for our intern Joanna She's too hot to be in her brother's wedding, right? So that's your story is stick to it nicely done The virtue
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