Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 15 Sadie Robertson + Christian Huff

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

This week, in episode 15 of Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew, we sit down with our friend Sadie Robertson & Christian Huff. These newlyweds walk us through how their first few months of marriage have been treating them and how they're keeping busy these days. These two speak their truth and speak it well. Sadie is one of the most inspirational speakers and her words have so much power and meaning to them. For a majority of the episode, you'll see that we are marveled by these two and the wisdom they share. It was an absolute pleasure to hear them share some much needed words of encouragement and give us a few laughs. Tune in for a fun one, Sadie & Christian Huff.   If you want to follow Sadie & Christian, you can find them on instagram as @legitsadierob and @christian_huff (where you can find their engagement video which we may or may not have watched 100 times). Also, make sure to give Sadie's podcast, WOAH That's Good, a listen. You can find it here! https://liveoriginal.com/podcast/. And you can find her brand new book, LIVE, on her website! https://liveoriginal.com/  If you haven't yet, please rate and subscribe to the show to hear more! And if you have suggestions/recommendations for the show, send us your ideas in a video format - we might just choose yours! Email us at [e-mail].  We are supported by the following AMAZING companies! Make sure to check them out using our special code & link below!  LiquidIV! Get 25% off when you go to https://www.LIQUIDIV.com and use code EASTFAM at checkout.  Abide! Get started now with 25% off a premium subscription by downloading the Abide app at https://www.abide.co/eastfam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

at the time and her sister and my younger brother were calling me asking if they could come on our first date. We dated for a long time with really no intention. We were just dating. The engagement is awkward. It's kind of like not waste time in a sense, oh, you're going to regret it because you shouldn't regret it, but you are wasting time in the midst of that if you know this is not the person I'm supposed to be with. There we go. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Couple Things. With Sean and Andrew.

Podcasts all about couples and the things they go through. We have a very special guest joining us today. Sadie Robertson and her newly beloved husband, Christian Huff. Yes. If you don't know about Sadie, Sadie is from Duck Dynasty where she originated. She went on to be the runner-up of Dancing with Star Season 19.

She has her own company, Live Original. She goes on tour. She is New York Times bestselling author. I mean, you could go on and on and on. She's great, and her husband, Christian, is also fantastic. We're happy to be introducing him to you all. If you guys want to find out more about Christian and Sadie,

their information is in the show notes down below. But today we talk about a lot of topics, including young love. They got married when she was 22 and he was 21. We talked about what a short engagement looks like, as well as a post that Sadie recently made that was trying to help the brides affected by the craziness going on, and it went viral, a lot of fun things happening. Yes, we absolutely love them.

But before we get started, please, if you haven't yet pressed that subscribe button. And give the show a rating on whatever platform you're listening to. So without further ado. Sadie and Christian. A lot's happened since we last talk, Sadie. Yeah. Yeah, for real.

A lot has happened. I don't think Christian was quite in the picture yet. I don't think he was. Congratulations on everything. Thank you. I'm in the picture. How is the quarantine life going? Oh, man.

Well, luckily nobody over here that we're close to you has gotten sick. So that's been such a blessing. And we happen to be able to be with our family. So we've had a pretty good quarantine. I can't lie. We've been playing a lot of games, a lot of spicy Uno. I don't know if y'all played that, but that is all. We played spicy Uno before.

Car Shell. Spicy Uno? Wait, Sadie, did you learn this from Car Show? Did I? No. Yeah, I think you talked about it. Funny. She got us hooked on it. That's so funny. No, we love spicy, you know. We played so much. Lots of tennis. Lots of tennis. Lots of ping pong.

We're very competitive. I can't see each other. So, yeah, we've had fun. We've worn each other out, but had fun. I am curious, though, newlyweds. Everyone keeps joking that the quarantine is going to take a toll on marriages. How is it spending every waking second together? What a bleak thing to say, Sean? I don't mean in a bleak way. What are you saying? What are you joking about it?

I got to say it has actually been so fun for us. And we are newlyweds. So, you know, it might be different for some people. But yesterday my Christian went and worked out outside with like, it was like at my cousin's house because we live right beside each other. And he was gone for two hours. And I was like, man, I really miss him. And I walked over there.

And I was like, hey, he's like, it was two hours. We've literally spent every second together. I'm like, that's the problem. We spent every second together. I missed you. So it's a bunch. Hey, so we were watching one of your Instagram videos, Sadie. Christian, I got to say the singing voice could use some work. But Sadie. And your day. Sadie, your pushups. We might need to practice those a little bit more. Oh dear. Let's tell you. That was alarming. I know. The only thing worse than my singing, though, is definitely my dancing so we have that in common I am curious which of you wins more of the ping pong matches oh man that's a touchy subject right now so we've been getting really into ping pong

I mean like I've never been like one to like sweat when I play ping pong until now we get so into it but um okay so we were on a pretty good track right here it was like he would win when I won he won't win when I would win one and then yesterday I just couldn't win like he just whipped me three times and I'm still kind of waking up coming off of that you know yeah it was fine we we she was wearing like a like a like a like a hoodie and I was like if we're playing ping pong you're not kind of want to be wearing a hoodie and she was like I'll be fine and won't be that hot and then after the first game she had to take it off to wear her shirt you and I still can't play ping pong with my husband he's you're pretty good and I

And I can't figure out how to hit the ball. Well, I had to. I can't keep it on the table. Ping pong is like the favorite activity in NFL locker rooms. And so I've really had to work on my game just to, you know, be able to walk in there with my guys. Yeah, it's hard. Like, Christian's really good. Guys can do like, I don't know, just hit it so hard in the spin.

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That's great. I'm curious if you guys could share how you first met. Oh, yes. We love this story. Our favorite story. It did. I love it. You give the details.

Yeah, Christian does not do well with the details, and I'm, like, so one for details. It was so funny, like, it was our first dinner with his parents, and his mom, like, mentioned that she had never heard how we had first met. And I was like, are you kidding me, Christian? Because this is, like, my favorite story. But it's kind of funny. I was actually at the beach with a lot of my girlfriends, and Christian's family lives at the place in Florida that my friends,

I go on vacation to the beach. And so kind of backstory, my sister had known Christian for a few years from going to the same spot. And so I knew of him, but we had never met or anything or never taught to each other. And I would always tell her younger sister to please tell her thing she's awesome. And she never did, of course. She never did. Thank you, Bella.

And so you know what? God's timing's perfect because it wouldn't have worked anyways. but Christian had a, you know, a couple cousins, girl cousins and stuff like that too. So there was kind of a big squad of them. And so my friends were at the beach and I was actually dating somebody and I broke up with this guy the day before me and Christian met, not because I knew I was going to meet him. Stop. Happened to break up.

Yes, like 100%. It was like an actual thing. He happened to be there too. We broke up. And then that night I do this video with my friends. Like they literally videoed me saying it because they wanted me to like hold to it. And I was like, you know what? like, I'm not going to date anybody for a while.

Like, I just need to, like, be with myself, like, all this stuff. I did this power video. And then the next day, Christian's cousin texted or Instagram message me. I shouldn't have an over. She has your message me and said, hey, I see you're down here at the beach. I would love to hang out with you. You know, I know your sister. And I was like, oh, yeah, come on, girl.

Like, we're going crab hunting tonight, which, you know, not like intense crab hunting life. We have a net and we're chasing sand crab hunting. And then we just throw them back. But with the flashlight. I have no idea what the difference between normal crab hunting and intense crab hunting is, but we'll roll with it. I've never heard of crab hunting.

I would imagine the intense crab hunters have like the headlamps and they're like legit. You know those like TV shows you see with like all the people on the boat like falling out of the water trying to catch that. Okay. We have a little sand net and we're catching sand crabs maybe if we can run fast enough. So they say, yeah, we would love to come, and she brings Christian. And I'm not kidding, like, my friends can tell you this is the truest thing. As soon as I saw him, I looked at them and I said, delete the video. Because I just missed when I saw him, I was like, he's too cute.

Like, we are totally going to date. Wow. And then they looked at me and they were like, no, like, seriously. Like, we had this little powwow right before we even like kind of came all together. Like, you said this, you need this. So I pretty much avoided Christian the whole night. And at the end of the night, he came up to me and he said, hey, you know, you follow everybody else in my family but me on Instagram.

And I was like, really. Which I don't remember saying that. I got this little like, DM. And I was like, dang, like, that was so fast. I don't know how he even DM me that fast. And then, right, like, whenever I clicked on it, I realized that his message he had sent me was actually from two years ago that I never saw. Wow.

Yeah, and so that's kind of what started our whole relationship. So it's a cool story. There's a lot of like hits and misses and just like perfect little timely things for us to me. And then, of course, we just started talking and then really just never stopped. We didn't really have a go. Went on our first day, I think two months after that in Nashville. Yeah. And then they just kind of started dating.

They just fell in love. It's kind of funny. You know, people a lot of times have like a day that they start. dating and I don't know that we really have a day we just kind of like organically from that moment kept talking and then eventually he came to Nashville we went on a date and then just kept dating and just then he asked me to marry like seven months later so dang Christian I'm curious from your side it doesn't sound like you're messing around like from the get-go it sounded like you you were trying to date say yeah well so it's funny because so actually the night that we were all

crab hunting, she had three of her friends with her and I like didn't want to seem desperate for an hour on the beach. I like was trying to like split my time like by walking next to her and then also walking next to her friends that way that come off as like super pushy I guess in a sense. And here I am thinking like shoot he's totally going to date my friend because like they're all pretty and I was like oh dang. So she's avoiding me and I'm avoiding her because I'm playing it cool which internally I was not playing it cool at all. And then after, that was when I said the comment, I guess, that she follows everyone of my family on Instagram, but me, I really don't remember saying that, but I guess I did.

We didn't have like a combined birthday party yet, just kind of as a joke, and that's when he ended up proposing to me. I don't know if you guys know this, but I guess both of us as couples share one thing in common, and that's that our first date was in Nashville. So a lot of good things happening in Nashville these days. What was the big first date? Christy, you planned it? Yeah, so the first date we went on, we went to this restaurant.

It was called Tupelo Honey. Didn't we go to 12 South after that? Went 12 South. Yeah, we went shopping around. We had a progressive date. We had a progressive date. We did Topgoth. Yeah.

Oh, wow. He drove like four hours to Nashville because he goes to Auburn, and so we had to make it really count. And then we were to top golf. And then, which is funny that night, we had a date planned. And my brother goes to Vanderbilt, and her sister was in town with her mom at the time. And her sister and my younger brother were calling me asking if they could come on our first date, on our date that night. And I, like, did not look at them to come at all.

But I thought that Sadie would think it was so sweet if I, like, was inviting. And, like, I said, yes, of course y'all can come. But she did not want them to come. And I did not know that. So she didn't tell her they could come. And they, like, show up to our dinner. And I was, like, looking at Bella. so madder. I was like, are you kidding me right now?

But I thought she was going to think it was so sweet because I was such like an inviting gentleman. But it was not good because me and my brother, when we get together, we can kind of bicker and argue and I guess we just, me and say it did not talk much that. We did not talk. It was me a tone. Oh my gosh. That's hilarious. Okay, so Christian, I was reading up on on you. I'm really impressed. First of all, you guys are both young, and I don't know if you guys get a lot of feedback like that.

Like, oh, you guys are so young to be married. But Sean and I got married when we were, what were we, 24? 23. Yeah. Have you guys had a lot of that feedback that, wow, you guys are so young to be getting married? Um, kind of.

When we first started talking, we first started talking about getting married last March. And my parents were, you know, kind of thought we were too young. and wanted me to graduate college before we got married. I mean, and I think just some other people kind of thought that we were a little too young, I guess, in a sense, but everyone in her family got married at 18 or 19. So, I mean, when we were 21 or 22 to them.

I was like the old one. That was the old one. And I think what's crazy to me is it was actually not as many people we were close to, but it would be like random people. Like I never get like in the airport. I mean, this woman was. like and the security out she's like wow your ring is so beautiful and I was like wow thank you that's so sweet she's like yeah but you're way too young to get married and I was like whoa okay

sorry like people just that you don't know and you didn't expect that was the things that was the most shocking just the opinions of people online or those kind of things but also telling people that were supportive and you know just seeing my family walk through it and seeing the beautiful side of getting married young you know it didn't make us afraid to step into that The Conjuring Last Rites, on September 5th. The Conjuring Last Rites, only on the theater September 5th. I'm curious your guys' opinion of that, though, because I remember it was the same for us. Our family was supportive.

Our friends were supportive. It's always the outside world. Why do you think people put such, I don't know, like intimidation and anxiety on young people to get married? Even though you find your person and you're like, I'm going to make this work and I want to marry this person, why are people encouraging, you know, the generations to get married later? for sure you know i think that one thing probably if i hadn't a guess is just when you look at the world as a whole and if you don't have a christian biblical point of like god created marriage and what it's for and the beautiful purpose of it and you're looking at from a worldly viewpoint then you see a lot of hard things you know i mean the divorce rate is so high and just the things

that um i think a lot of people from the world think man that's limiting you or you don't know what you don't know yet and all of those different things. And especially people think that you're young and you're dumb and different things. But I think whenever you walk with the Lord, it's such a different walk because you're walking with this intentionality to pursue something that God created to be so beautiful. And of course, you're using wisdom. You're using discern. You want to find somebody who's going to better your life and who's going to make you better and stronger and wiser. And when you find that person that you can trust, man, we know we don't have all the answers. We know we don't have it all figure it out, but we're committed to learning together and growing together and

the central focus of this marriage is God, then I think that's a totally different thing you're walking in than a worldly viewpoint of like, of maybe what people have seen or felt experience when it comes to just to marriage. I think when you're coming from a family of faith or a family that has seen marriage work or knows the importance of marriage or sees the beauty of marriage, even in some of the hard things, then you're like, oh, man, this is great, and they can help you through those hard times and get you to the right counseling and talk to you through the hard things, but also encourage the good things in marriage, then you don't have to listen to the world, but it doesn't mean the world's not going to comment based off of their perspective and what

they've seen and felt. But that's just my two cents from what I've gathered. Preach, Sadie. Because there is. She's preaching. Because there is a lot of comments here, and it is pretty crazy. I think my brother and Mary Kate went through it before I did. They were 19 and 20 or 18 and 19, something like that. And they got it a lot. And watching them walk through it, we were kind of a little bit more prepared for those outsider comments.

But just trying to have compassion for where they're at, I do think people are just seeing things that are hard and maybe haven't experienced what God's original design was for that. Yeah. And we also realized that like we had so many conversations just on like, how much better that we think that we make one another when we're together. So it's like, why would we want to wait another year or two just until we, you know, in the world, since of you that we're, quote, old enough to get married.

But it's like if we know now that, you know, you make me better, I feel like I make you better, we make one another better, like, why would we want to wait, you know, a year or two or three or whatever, like, until we're at that age to get married, we're like, we're going to do it now if we're trusting God and if ultimately, you know, he brought us. together in our stores as crazy as it is and um you know we're going to pursue him before we pursue before we pursue each other and we have wise counsel around us that can speak into us and you know i think and i also think that we weren't naive too in a sense of like you know we know we know that we know that we're young and getting married but we also know that we um that we are

gods and that we you know ultimately have a good support system yeah we get support system and ultimately respond to him and um so it was just really cool like just getting to see just getting to see that firsthand so being newlyweds i remember our first year of marriage was always it's just this interesting time of trying to figure each other out going from i feel like dating to engagement to marriage there's so many new things that you're trying to learn about one another how how you live in a house together how you do all the stuff what's been the hardest transition for you guys so far in the morning. So Christian used to be like an early riser, you know, get up, get it done type

person. I, you know, get up, get it done. But getting up is like more around 10 o'clock for me. I'm 30. I'm like, once I'm going to get it done. But I just got to get up first. Christian is always like kind of popped up. Well, when we got married, I kind of rubbed off on him. And now he's like, oh my gosh, how did I sleep till 10? And I'm like, man, this is like, not usual and so it's it's kind of funny those things have been I've been different and I'm like okay we're just gonna have to try going to bed earlier so trying to figure out my that has been has been funny it was actually I'm sorry it's actually so funny last night we were watching shark tank and it was like midnight and I was like we probably get we probably need to go to bed

soon because we had that podcast in the morning and then said the podcast is at noon and I was like yeah well if you wake up at 10 that's the morning that's funny I was saying not to rush you guys into kids but that'll all change i was the late riser i think we go to bed at 7 30 now and we wake up at 4 30 yeah yeah i know y'all i have been loving by the way watching y'all this little family grow it has been awesome um i love following you on instagram and uh it is funny that's why i tell a cushion though i'm like you know one day this is not going to be the case and i have to just soak in it while i can't wow now my siblings have kids And I see the early rise struggle.

So I got to get my name while I can. I, you guys verbalize the whole young marriage thing so well. I'm so impressed by both of you. And one of my mentors told me, and I think it touches on what you were speaking about, that the only thing that matters when you're looking for a spouse, you guys may or may not agree with this, is their heart for you and their heart for the love.

Lord and everything else is style and style can change. And so I think based off what I know about you guys and Christian, you said it's, I was reading a people article and it said that you were kind of pursuing Sabie for a little bit and you said the intention of me calling you and talking with you is so that I can take you out on a date. I'm curious that that perspective and that intentionality. Is that something that's in your family or is that something that you've practiced? Can you talk about that? Because I think, I think that's rare, but I think it's so valuable. Yeah. So I think really, just because, you know, throughout just high school, like, I did not have the right view in a sense on relationships. And I just, you know, just messed some

things up that I kind of wish that, you know, hindsight that I wish that I just kind of did some things differently than when I got to college and I really met Jesus and I kind of turned my life around and that was when I started really just, you know, spending time with the Lord and reading podcasts and books. And I really think Ben Stewart's single lady engaged marriage series really just kind of hit me and that really like just honoring women and like what it looks like to pursue, you know, a godly woman with intentionality and with just a strong pursuit just because, you know, you want to guard her heart and you want to guard your own heart and you want to guard her heart. And ultimately, just because, like I said earlier, we all, you know,

we're all gods and we're all his children. And, you know, I don't want to disrespect his daughter. And so really just with Sadie when we first started talking, we first started dating, It was just so, like, clear and it was so, like, just natural. It was funny because when we first started talking, we were Instagram DMing for, like, two weeks, and then I don't know how to get her number. So I was saying I asked her if I could send her a few podcasts, but I couldn't send it over Instagram, so I asked for her number.

And that was when I sent her the Ben Stewart's single dating engaged marriage series. His first text to me was married. I was like, whoa. I like it. I know, right? It really set it up for success. But I ended up getting the book, too, whenever he sent me that and he was reading it. And it was really funny because as I was reading it along, I was seeing like everything Christian was doing, like I was seeing all of his actions as I was reading the pages.

So I knew, obviously, he's learning from this book. But I actually found that so cool because, you know, there's a lot of people that read the Bible, but there's not. not unfortunately not everybody really applies the bible they don't put the words into action and i mean even just seeing his pursuit reading this book that was so god centered and so um to honor women and how to date and then he was actually applying it to his life and how he was living i was like man that's really cool because that just shows that that you that you learn that you seek wisdom and that you actually learn wisdom and i thought that was really cool and he really did like i mean that book we followed that like single dating engaged, married, and that really helped us through the whole process. So I think sometimes,

you know, you might not have a mentor in your life. I think we hear that from a lot of people. I didn't have a mentor. I didn't have a person to watch. And that is really hard. And there's a lot of empathy and sympathy for that. But then there's also so many books, so many podcasts, so many Christian leaders who are posting so many things on YouTube that you can kind of let Ben be your mentor. And Ben Stewart was like a great, a great one for us. I think that's beautiful. I think for me and just now being having a daughter I think there should be more guys men who are that forward and saying my intention is marriage and I'm you know if if we don't mesh that way then we're going to go separate ways I think there's too many just people out there who

are dating to date with no intention yeah and there's no purpose with that and I think I like it Good job, Christian. Thank you. Yeah, we established that really early on. That was like when we first started, I think when we went on our first date after that, that was when we had our conversation and we were both like, hey, look, like, you know, I really like you. I really see this going somewhere and I want to be respectful to you

and just wanting to let you know, like, what my intentions are. And we really just set some clear boundaries and real good expectations of what we wanted this to be. Just because that's, I mean, that's so, and so many relationships. relationships. I mean, I think that if you don't, you know, I think if you put expectations on the other person to, you know, to try to live up to X, Y, and Z, then ultimately that person is not going to meet those standards. And I think really just communicating well with one another and setting clear expectations on what you're wanting. Yeah, I mean, you hear it. Well, you said a lot of people just date to date. And I think, like, for me, I'm such an advocate for like, no, you have to set

your intentions because there's really no time to waste. Like we have one life. You have a certain amount of time. I think about some of the people I dated and we dated for a long time with really no intention. We were just dating. And you look back and each one of those causes heartbreak. Each one of those causes some kind of baggage in one way or another or something you have to work through. And there are certainly amazing things to dating different people and learning things about them and learning what you like, learning how you are. But if you're not guarding your heart and having some sort of intention in that relationship and hopefully the intention is maybe we're going to get married and when you realize it's not getting out then you do begin to not waste time

of sense oh you're going to regret it because you shouldn't regret it but you are wasting time in the midst of that if you know this is not the person i'm supposed to be with wow that those are great words that's gold right now can you mentor our daughter cady I just whispered I said that was really good so you guys definitely did go through the whole process with intention it sounded like you dated for about a year

then you got engaged last June the whole engagement was epic by the way for those you listening that want to learn more we'll link the info well there's like so many fun videos and articles written about it that you should definitely check out and then I also want to link I'm going to find the Ben Stewart single dating

of marriage we'll link that down below too but got engaged last June. And then it was a pretty short engagement. Was it five or six months that you were engaged? Yeah, about five and a half months. It was really short. We were like, we did not want to have a long engagement. I think that's awesome.

Yes, it was awesome, honestly. And you know, it was kind of funny because Christians in college and so, and then his brother plays baseball in college. And so their timeline was pretty hard to try to get a wedding night. Christian, it was good for him and good for a chance. be there as his best man and so we were like why don't we just do a Thanksgiving break and so we did

and it was awesome that's cool i think it's interesting you find all these couples who get engaged and they're engaged for years and i personally found engagement to be just awkward because yeah you're not married but you're by the world standards more than dating it's just such this weird weird time where I think the shorter, the engagement, the better. I would agree with that totally. I mean, it was, the engagement is awkward. It's kind of like, even because we were long distance the whole time we were dating. And of course, we had to be long distance whenever we were engaged because you can't, like,

we didn't want to move in until we're married and just with what we believe in our morals and stuff. And so there was just a lot of like, okay, well, we're so long distance and we're still just dating. but we're more than that we're about to get married and it was just it was definitely weird oh yes yeah you mentioned uh christian your younger brother plays baseball at vanderbilt i'm a fellow commodore i played football there so shout out to the vandy athletics yeah that's right baby i love that um i don't know how you guys planned a wedding in five and a half months that had 600 guests though 600 guests i love that oh my gosh that's a party It was a party. It just kept growing. And it was kind of funny. I always said, I really wanted my people to be there. And then, you know, we have a huge family, a lot of friends all over. Christian has a huge family, a lot of friends. And, you know, his family's from Florida. Mine's from Louisiana. He went to Auburn. I've lived in Nashville for years. I lived in L.A. for a time. So we just had so many different places. And the funniest part of having that many people at the wedding was the friendships that formed from, like,

like people are friends from all over like the pictures that we saw were like what are they doing with them like it was we had we had the same thing at our wedding we actually had a couple of couples stem from our wedding that were mixed matched between different friendships and families it was really I was I did the same thing I saw a picture of two of them together I was like wait what how did this happen awesome yeah we were like laughing to heart and apparently see ours it went the other way we had two couples break up after our wedding and we were like why and they were like we just realize after y'all say y'all's vows that just wasn't us that's like oh my god that's good though like that that's still good it is like relive your wedding with different people from different

perspectives and who they met and how much fun i mean it's been so fun we're still talking about it we'll probably forever be talking about it with people it's been fun okay saddie you just did this posted a photo asking brides to reach out. Everyone's being affected right now. Where did that come from, stem from? I thought it was a really beautiful thing. Well, it's crazy. I did not know we're about to start like a movement. Because, you know, I mean, to be honest, I just saw a lot of it because my Christian and I have these friends and they're getting married in May, early May, and it's supposed to be at the beach. Well, the beach, of course, is closed

April 30th, as of now, and then, you know, it might get pushed back even further and whatnot. And so we just decided to have them over, sit with them, talk to them, listen. And it was just so sad, you know, just thinking about how much we loved our wedding and how excited we were and the planning and different things and then, you know, seeing where they're at and having to go through. So actually, I heard her say all that the next day. I was on Instagram and one of my other friends posted.

I have to cancel my wedding, so sad. And I was like, man, I'm with two people that this has happened to. I'm sure it's happened to more. But when I was thinking more, I was thinking like 100 or maybe 500. We talked and we were like, we're guessing like 50 to 100. I don't know why. I was just not like, I just totally most counted in my head because I was just thinking like how many people who are actually getting married in the next two months actually

or three months follow me on Instagram, whatever. Well, a lot apparently because I do this. thing and I'm like I want to send something and in my mind I was going to write a note to each person and I was going to send a gift that I was going to order yeah like legit and then I had like oh I was like bride slip I was like going to personally order all these things because I was just thinking it was going to be a hundred or so well no we had 40,000 comments 22,000 people went online to fill out a form this is just in one day um and I was like oh my gosh so I call my team and my mom's team and I was like, I need like full time help right now because

I really actually want to do this because my heart is still the same. I want these brides to know that they're seeing, that they have somebody else who's celebrating them, that that day is a special day and it's worth being recognized and celebrated. And so what are we going to do? And so my team and I since yesterday has been working on something and we're still going to be able to send something where we're going to send something to 5,000, but we ended up starting a support group and doing a bridal workshop for brides to do together on my like online subscription thing but we gave it to all the brides for free and it's been so cool oh my gosh in the

past day i've just been reading all these things and all the brides are posting their engagement pictures and telling about their day and all these other brides are like with them and supporting them so it has been beautiful um i i mean didn't expect it to go like this but like i just feel so thankful that we're able to help in some way and then just connect people because I think the hardest thing about this quarantine besides the actual sickness obviously but the hard thing is like the loneliness that people are experiencing and you know we're so isolated now that you start to think like your problems are just your own problems and you can't relate and then it's different things you can't talk to somebody and so being able to connect online is really beautiful and

especially connect people who are walking through the same struggle so it's been crazy but It has been just such a beautiful thing. And I'm just thankful to be like a small part of what all of these brides are really doing for each other. It's been awesome. Such a beautiful use of social media. Well done, boss of you guys. Sadie, you recently released a book called Live. Can you talk about that?

Yeah. So I released a book about a month ago, I guess now. It's crazy. And yeah, it's called Live. It's the subtitle is having an exciting and fulfilling life. And it's kind of funny because now, you know, we're in this time where we have to be at home. We have to be still for a minute. But I think this book is honestly really speaking to the time right now.

I wrote it because I felt like people didn't really think that their life had value who are my age. And that kind of comes from the suicide rate being as high as it is right now. And honestly, when I felt the need to write a book about this, I was so intimidated because I was like, I do not know how to speak to that. a counselor. I'm not wise enough. I'm not the therapist. I'm not, I'm not going to say the right thing. And that holds so much weight. But then I just thought about, you know, there's a lot of people who are going through that who aren't going to a counselor, who aren't going to somebody yet.

And they just need like a good friend. And I know how to do that. I'm going to be a good friend, know how to love people and speak life over them. And so just kind of wrote a book from the perspective of like, your life really matters. It has value. It has meaning. And here's what the Bible talks about when it talks about the path of life and the path of death. And I kind of walk through what those two paths clearly look like and what it feels like when you turn to God and you walk on this path in like very practical ways and what it really looks like and feels like when you're walking down this path of death which would just be like the lies that you're feeding yourself and ultimately getting to a really hard place um but with a heavy topic we made

it super fun I actually ended up making a picture book because I like not the best reader in the world which is ironic because I write books and I actually do love books but I like when I was little of course like you just love picture books it just keeps you going but like you're rewarded whenever you get to a page and so we made the book kind of come to life and did it more like blog style so there's like 30 or so many blogs with pictures instead of like 10 long chapters so it was a cool way of writing it and I think a really a message that will really speak to a lot of people and hopefully just get them to the place of knowing that their life has a purpose it has value it has meaning and here's a what the bible says about getting on that path towards jesus i love uh we've

actually had that same kind of struggle and i feel like a lot of people go through that where like you were saying you're not a counselor you're not a therapist and as we're we're so excited to do this show because um i feel like there's a lot of people you know that love the bachelor and that this they're interested in relationships and how people are doing it these days and so sean and i wanted to like help be a positive voice in that field but we've we've hit this kind of realization that we're not expert we're not couples therapists and i don't know if us giving advice is actually the best thing to do but i love how you step forward and said hey well what i know i can do is be a friend and so you didn't get caught up on on like

the you know the the nitty gritty of it you just did what you knew you could do and and you took a step forward yeah for sure i mean i think a lot of people go through that like y'all said and what i said you start to like like say like okay i'm not really qualified for this you know if you think about the bible it talks about the enemy he comes to steal kill and destroy and i think one of the ways in doing that is like stealing your influence and your voice saying like oh that that's not really that powerful it's not you're not the smartest person you're not the wisest person it's not really helping but you are really helping like if you speak the bio also says your tongue holds the power of life and death and so speaking words out that matter to people activate life and people

and a lot of times people just need an example they need a friend they need somebody to say i love you um or even say i love you to another person that they're inspired by or influenced by and it is amazing some of the like simplest things that i'll post like get the most response from people because it's just somebody that just needed a little bit of encouragement and i think what y'all are doing is so amazing because even if you didn't say like one specific piece of advice the example of y'all's marriage and y'all's relationship and y'all was like parenting and walking through some of the really vulnerable things you'll walk through you and even trying to get pregnant is reaching the world in such a powerful way that it wouldn't be if y'all kept silent and so i just thank you all

for sharing y'all's life and not letting that dequalification you know make y'all stop because it's awesome well speaking of parenting sadie yeah i mean well i think this one's more for christian because this was a big leap okay christian you became a father do you want to talk about do you want to talk about Cabo? Yeah, I asked Christian for sure about that one because it was all him. So it all kind of started with I was Christmas shopping and I was on Amazon like looking at the stocking stuff or a section or whatever and there was just one little thing because

Sadie always said that, or always said she was saying that she didn't think we could get a dog because she just didn't think that she would be responsible enough with it with different aspects of the dog. Well, just because I travel so much. I didn't see, I mean, I'm in the airport, not now, obviously, but before this whole thing, I mean, every week going somewhere. And so I just didn't see how a dog fit into this equation. So I thought there was this gift and it was like a little, you know, kind of magnet thing that you'd put on a on a board or whatever and it had like did you feed the dog today and like an a m and a p.m and you kind of like check it now so i got that just kind of thinking it was funny and not really thinking much of it and then i gave it to sadian for christmas and she thought that i gave it to her

and she was expecting like a dog i looked at him so blank i was like did you get me a dog i was like but i was like no i didn't even think of it i just thought i just kind of thought it was funny and random and just funny to put in stocking um so then like a month later she was seen the way that I was playing with her dad's dog because I just love dogs I was playing pets with it they're so cute um and so then say you started like looking just kind of for fun because secretively secretly and then she saw this one dog on it was like from a pet land in Dallas and we were like okay that's the cutest dog we've ever seen so then we like prayed about it for like a week I was like why are we praying about them this is like the great

I know. I was like, Lord, don't even judge me for praying about getting a dog. But then we finally hit the realization of like, because we were kind of saying like maybe in a year when we start settling down with a dog. But then we were like as busy as life as right now, why don't we just throw a dog into her next? That way, she just kind of like not necessarily adds to the craziness, but it's kind of in it with us. Because when we settle down, why do we only get a puppy? Then she's just crazy. We're finally trying to settle down. so then like a week later we called and of course I negotiated with the lady at

Petland and really really kind of swayed her to kind of you know give it the dog and then we got her and she has been the cutest thing crazy but she's locked up in the crate downstairs right now she's yelling at us but I hope y'all can't hear her so what so this fall people can see Sadie Christian and maybe maybe Cabo as well because you guys are going on tour right we are going on tour um you know christian just said yesterday you know it will be a great tour dog cobo i'm like oh i don't know about that but yeah she sleeps in the car you can definitely see me and christian on tour on our live original tour and we have an awesome um awesome band coming out with us that we're so excited about that we haven't

announced yet um but we are really excited you know last year we took off tour because obviously got married And so it's going to be so fun to be back and have Christian And these other people coming out with those I am so excited We're really excited for you guys Okay, we have one more question It's like the big question I have to have you guys choose

Who wants to go first that without knowing the question Oh dear Is that a question about kids? I don't know I don't know It's not Christian Yes I'll go first Okay Christian

Okay Christian I want you to tell us what you love about Sadie. That is a great question. So I love how Sadie is always so like just energetic and positive. And what's so cool that Sadie is she really sees the best and everyone that she meets. And she also doesn't show partiality. Like if she sees someone in her family, like she'll love them just as well as she'll love, you know, someone that's checking us out at a restaurant or someone that's, you know, just, if we're ordering

food somewhere, she's just as nice to the cashier as she is. to someone in their family and she's just radiant she's so beautiful no it's true but she really is like she just people are just so gravitated to her because I think she just has such um just such an influence it's such a call in her life and it's just so cool to see um just the way that she loves people I can I can hear your smiles to the microphone it makes me say okay Sadie what do you I love most about Christian. Aw, Christian. That was, like, the nicest thing ever.

But I love this about you and I told him this all the time. But he's, like, the most consistent person ever. Like, I mean, it doesn't matter where we are. It's kind of like he said about partiality. But it doesn't matter what room we walk in, what place we walk in. Like, he is Christian Huff, 100%. And that was one of the things that, like, I loved about him when we were dating, just his confidence in who he is.

Because a lot of guys, especially this young, like, don't know who they are. and he so knows who he is that he's the same person every day and everywhere. And the other thing is, you're really funny and, like, make me laugh a lot. But, like, he's really introverted in front of other people. But he's, like, hilarious to me. And whenever we're in private, and I just love how, like, we share something that I don't think we share, well, I know we don't share with anybody else in the world. And it's just really sweet.

He's also, like, the most loyal person in the world. And I don't know if y'all do the enneagram, but coming from a sticks, all of like like my big thing is like I want trust really on loyalty but just that consistency is so loyal and so sweet and he's just the best we I love our marriage and I love our friendship and it's just awesome I appreciate you guys taking the time to talk with us today I feel like there's a lot of parallels between our relationships beyond just the first day being in Nashville but uh Christian you know Sean and Sadie were both I feel like in the limelight from a young age And I'm sure you guys have experienced the unique challenges and, you know, benefit, I guess

benefits that come from that. There's, there's a little bit of both. But I feel like we could talk much, much longer, but we do appreciate you guys joining us today. And thank you for being such a great role model to the people out there who are listening and young couples. You guys are both doing so much good. And for those of you listening, that you want to find out more about.

Sadie and Christian, you can find their information down below. But look forward to talking to you guys next time. Yeah, thank you guys so much. Jolly the best. Thanks for such great questions and just being here y'all are. Thank you all. Of course. Thanks, guys.

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