The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Walking Down the Viall

Episode Date: May 2, 2024

Ben and Ashley are back from Nick and Natalie’s wedding and have all the details! Hear every part of the Georgia ranch aesthetic and the emotional moment when a surprise guest joined Natalie down the aisle.  Find out the drama that went down when a former Bachelor came face to face with a recent ex.  And Ashley gives us a play-by-play of Jared’s speech!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is the Ben and Ashley I, Almost Famous Podcasts with IHeart Radio. Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Almost Famous Podcast. Today, Ben and I are going to break down a little bit of our experience at Nick and Natalie's wedding. Ben came for legit 24 hours. No. What? 14. No.

You were in Georgia for 14 hours? Yeah, I'll tell you the whole story. It was wild. Okay. Well, should I, okay, go for it. Well, here's what happened, okay? I really wanted to be a part of celebrating Nick and Natalie. It means a lot to me to be invited to celebrate the two of them.

And obviously, with the welcoming of their new baby and their love story. and just being around Nick now for, you know, almost nine years, I wanted to celebrate him on his wedding day and I want to celebrate Natalie on her wedding day. And so it was really important for me to be there. I unfortunately had an event that I had committed to months previous on Friday night. The wedding is on Saturday night. The wedding is in Savannah, Georgia. I do live in Denver. My event was in Denver. And so I did the event on Friday night. The only flight out of Denver to Savannah was leaving at 9 a.m. At a Denver, landing at 3.15 in Savannah, Georgia.

When the trolleys are going to pick us up from the hotel at 4. At 4 o'clock. So if your flight was delayed by anything, really, you would have missed the ceremony. I would have ubered. I was prepared to change in the airport and go right to the wedding. The fact that you got on the trolley is. the nuttiest. I just don't even know how this happened. So Savannah's airport is about 20 minutes from my hotel. This is logistically what happened. I landed. I ran. I got an Uber. Got to my hotel at about

340. We ran upstairs. I got time to shower. Put my suit on and make the trolley that left. It's about a 40-minute trolley ride. These are cool trolleys that we took out to the wedding. It's a 40-minute trolley ride from the hotel to the wedding. I did make the trolley that left at 4 o'clock. I was impressive myself. It was so impressive. Like, you guys, I was out with Joe and Serena and two bachelor producers. And we were having the greatest time, got to walk around Savannah.

I love this city. I have to go back and bring my mom. It's like too cute. I know that, like, everybody said, you know, it's got a great reputation and everything, but it's almost like I feel like underwriting. And I'm sitting down at brunch. It must be like 11.30. And Ben's like, I'm taking off now.

And I'm like, I am just trying to figure out how we finish this meal. And then I go back and I have enough time to get ready, let alone you're flying across country in this amount of time. It was wild. It really was. It was an aggressive choice. But I did want to be there. And I made it.

And so once I hit the trolley, there was like a sense of peace that came over to me, you know, that like, hey, I made it. I'm going to be there. this is all good. I had texted you because you were going to, you know, kind of keep me updated on on how everybody was getting out there and if I needed to find my on Uber. So we get to the wedding. I'll just close this story with saying my flight took off at 6 o'clock the next morning

back to Denver. And so I was there literally 14 hours. Ben, you didn't even mention that on the trolley back that you had to wake up at 4.30. I got like four hours, three hours of sleep. I think we got back to the hotel at 1 a.m. So I got about three hours of sleep, three and a half hours of sleep, woke up, hit the airport again, flew back, landed in Denver around noon, and started my Sunday. It was- Wow. Here's what, here's the cap off of the story.

Here's what makes this even crazier. So I did land at noon. I had my wife, my wonderful wife, had booked me a birthday dinner. No, goodness, massage would have been great too. A birthday dinner that evening at this really cool restaurant named called Bruto. because it was a month wait list to get in. So this is like a 12-seater, like 14-seater, like prefixed menu, cool restaurant. We got to do that.

That started at 5. And so I came home. She was like, you got to be so tired. I was like, I'm so tired. I really am so tired. She's like, do you want me to cancel dinner? I was like, no way. This is so fun to me.

And so we did it. We made it work. And I think I'm still recovering, quite honestly. I don't think I'm fully awake since the last, you know, four days of being. back, but that's my travel schedule to get to this wedding. That's probably the least important part of this. Everything went well. We did take the first trolley out of the wedding. I was with Ashley. They used me as the pregnant lady to make sure that we got, I mean, you guys, it was midnight when we pulled away. So it wasn't like we were leaving early. They had it scheduled so like

the last trolley would leave at 1.30. Goodness gracious. And again, it's a 40 minute drive back. But it was a nice little group we had. We had Joe and Serena and Natasha and then Jared. So Jared was a groomsman. So he was with Nick all day. He started his day with Nick and the groomsmen and a couple other special people. They went to brunch. They went back to Nick's hotel.

They got ready. And then they went to the venue. They took pictures and all that. And everybody, like everything was just so. beautiful at the venue, the horses, just the backdrop. You could not go wrong with this backdrop, right? There's the pond, and then they had all the blue and white flowers. What was there's a moment to me where I was like this, what was the most emotional moment

of the wedding for you? Because I have a one. And I was looking forward to Nick's wedding for like my whole life of knowing him. because he is such a mush ball on the inside. And there's nothing really better than Nick crying because he tries to have that hard exterior. But then, like, you know, when it cracks, it's like, oh, this was worth the crack, you know. So I was always looking forward to him watching his wife come down the aisle and to do his vows. But there was one moment that I was not expecting.

Sure. But before I tell that, you tell yours. well this wedding was at natalie's sister's farm and so this is an active horse farm and it does have a lot of animals around and it's very well kept it's absolutely gorgeous and as actually was saying the backdrop for this was magnificent and the weather was great so everything you know aesthetically when it comes to the venue was working perfectly i think the most emotional moment for me uh would have to be when natalie turned the corner with river in her arms well that's it that was me too I was like, how do I not just break down in an ugly cry?

Like, I can't handle this. So, guys, they had pulled Natalie up. Like, everybody else was kind of just standing there so it wasn't too secretive. But there was a door so that we all couldn't see Natalie. And they pulled her up in a car so that, again, we couldn't see her until these little outdoor doors opened. And she had River in a white dress, River also in a white dress. in her arms. And it was so, like, ethereal and goddess-like.

And I was just like, I can't handle it. Yeah. It was a really beautiful moment because Nick isn't just looking down the aisle at his, you know, wife. He's looking down the aisle at his family. And I think it was gorgeous. And River was kind of crying and whimpering, which even made it better. Which was, like, adorable, because it wasn't like a whale. It was just like, yeah, it was like you could hear her before they walk through the door.

You could hear River. And then when they walked on the aisle, she was still cooing. And it was like this beautiful, beautiful moment where the family came back together again. I found that to be definitely the most emotional and also maybe the most real moment. Not saying the wedding wasn't real, but like that moment just felt like this is what this is about. like this is the real moment of the wedding this is the family they're they're making this commitment to each other they're building this bond with each other and they're doing it together and that felt like it just could have encapsulated the whole wedding was that moment there

well they're obviously outside of the beauty of the ceremony which was outdoors uh nick and natalie walked back down the aisle after being announced husband and wife two white doves flying over their heads I've never seen that happen or at least I haven't seen it happen that well. Shocker to me. Shocker to me. I had no clue that was happening. All of a sudden there's a white bird flying right over my head. No idea where it came from, but it was gorgeous. I'm sure the pictures of that will be absolutely fantastic. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yes. The professional photos like in black and white, that would be so amazing. And these doves are going to fly off to live the best life ever. I mean, this place was a bird's paradise in all sorts of ways. And then we have to mention that Charlene and Andy, her husband, were the officiants.

They did a great job, storytelling. Who have known Nick for years and been very close to Nick for years. They did do a great job. You could tell they took it very personally to write this. You could also tell they had practiced this many times as well. So this was a... It was their first time officiating, too. But they did great.

after the ceremony, we did go to a cocktail party and had cocktails, which was great because there were so many people because of me kind of getting in, you know, late and maybe everybody kind of staying in different hotels to get to see again. We, I got to reminisce with some friends and some old friends, some new friends, as you mentioned, Natasha, who, you know, I don't know very well, but I've been at some events with her. And we always seem to have a great time together. We always seem to be near each other for whatever reason. There's more stories of Natasha later coming up.

Also, Joe and Serena. I love Natasha. She's great. She's great. My name is Ed. Everyone say, hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin.

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which really was the start of, the reception. There wasn't this like sit down slow dinner. It was kind of buffet style with, hey, grab and go, get your food, have food, have drinks. And the dance floor started. The dance floor started. And right away, Chris Souls, who we just did an interview with. And I think you find this interview very fascinating to catch up with Chris in his life. We had mentioned during the conversation with Chris that I did have a story about Chris from this wedding. that you didn't want to discuss with Chris, so what was that? No, because I want to save it for this episode.

It's a good teaser. Was it because you wanted to talk about how he and Victoria interacted without him listening? No, this isn't even about Victoria. Did they interact? Let's talk about that first. Oh, no, no, okay, no. So everybody was obviously whispering that Victoria, his ex, who he saw for like three months during COVID, was there at the wedding. and newly single

and Chris was there also single so we were like oh is there going to be something stirred up tonight and I didn't see any I didn't see any real interaction between them did you

I of course made it awkward at one moment when I was standing with the three of them and I said hey do you Chris have you ever make Victoria oh my God Ben that was good and then there was like some random them there that didn't know Chris and Victoria and they're like he's like oh have you guys not

met yet and I was like this is perfect this is all I wanted to do um this is oh my gosh the moments I live for so what's the story that you didn't talk to about with him well the dance floor opens up a few of us hit the dance floor right away because that's what Ben does and I am the one that's like oh the dance floor starting I am not a dancer but I am and Chris joins me he does one move it's an incredible move it shows his flexibility and his knees and his you know his ankles and his hamstrings he drops it to the floor and rips his pants from top to bottom in the back literally chris has split his pants okay he was mentioning this he was like i can't do that anymore he was saying something to me like i would do that but i can't anymore because my pants are split and i

I was like, I have no idea what you're talking about. They are as split as split can be. I mean, there's nothing left. His whole butts out. Like, literally, it has just ripped wide open. Did he have black underwear on? He had black underwear on. Okay, so that's why it wasn't obvious.

And he had his suit jacket kind of like hung down below. So you couldn't really tell. But he wasn't going to take any more risks for the rest of the night. So this happens right away. As soon as we walk in, Chris Souls rips his pants. Absolutely. Fantastic moment for me and so many. Obviously then we continued dancing. A couple other noteworthy topics. The dance floor was really a good time. A lot of people joined in. A lot of people had a blast dancing. There was just a lot of good vibes going on in that room. And at one moment, they let off the, what do you call those things? The confetti burster. The confetti bursters. Like four.

or this was like kind of after a toast. And it wasn't Jared's toast. This was a toast that was separate than Jared's. This was a toast. And the confetti bursters go off. All of us are kind of standing around. Natasha is actually sitting in at a seat during this time. And she looks back to see where all this confetti is coming from.

And one of the confetti bursts right into her eye. I mean, literally shoots her directly in the eye. from like point range the pressure was intense knocks her to the ground down out nobody knows what's going on i turned back around to see just if how you know if everybody's having a great time and natasha's on the ground surrounded by joe and serena and she looks up and her eyes inflamed um she's claiming she can't see i believe her scary her head she said is full of pressure, and again, we're out in the middle of nowhere. And so this was about a 45-minute ordeal of Natasha kind of trying to take a break, getting some, you know, support from some people

there that were like, I think, local nurses, putting ice on it. But this was a real moment where she did. Those things, and directly, number four and five on the rules on the outside of the buster says, do not look at these down, you know, do not put these up to your face and do not look down the shoe and or the barrel of the confetti buster. She, not on purpose, did both and she took one hard to the face. I didn't, I wasn't here for that. I don't know where I was, but I came back and she didn't have any makeup on and I felt, I was like, what happened? And she told me and it was like, oh my gosh, I was scared for her. She didn't go to the hospital, but you know, I was a little concerned.

Yeah, I just talked to her yesterday and she said that her eye is bad enough that she is going to go to the doctor and get it checked out. I was afraid of her going to sleep on the eye. That's what you're making concern. No, she is going to go to the doctor to get the eye checked out. This was a very real thing that was happening in the midst of a really great celebration. And speaking of great celebrations, Jared got to deliver a speech. And so did Victoria Fuller. Both people from Bachelor World were giving speeches at this wedding. I don't know if that means Jared was the best man Or if Victoria was the maid of honor I think Jared was like second in line To best man

He was the second one down the aisle Well, I think Nick also just knew That Jared's great on the mic He's a good storyteller He'd have a good balance of humor And sentimentality And it was It was interesting because his parents

Gave his speech first And then they started dancing And then Nick Natalie took a little outfit change Dinner break And Jared's like I think I'm not going to give my speech. And then I'm like, Jared, we've been talking about this speech for a long time. You've got to give this speech.

I was very disappointed. Just grab the mic, Jared. They come back in. Everybody's still dancing. And then Nick comes up to him and he goes, you're going to give your speech now. And I was like, yeah, I'm so excited. And yeah, Jared did a great job. He's super natural.

He's talking about, you know, funny times when they live together. He forgot to add a couple parts about, like, how Nick used to take care of him, kind of like, he'd like make him breakfast or he'd knock on his door in the morning and be like, yo, you up? Like, let's go play, you know? Like, he just always wanted his company. And he also, um, he's also shared this story that I love. It was like the moment that we knew that Natalie would be different in Nick's life. And that was when he was basically like somebody who would be on the other end of Ask Nick, you know, his segment on his podcast, where he was the one

basically calling in and being like there's this girl and like I've been seeing her but I don't know if we should be official and I think she's away on vacation with another guy because I've been looking at her friends

tagged pictures and they're not lining up with her story and it was amazing that was the moment where it was like it was my sister and I on speakerphone and we let Jared in on all of this afterward and he was very

just like we this was the moment where like nick if you care this much about this girl's whereabouts i think it's time to make things official sure well they did obviously and today we see the result um it was a beautiful wedding we're very happy for the two of them uh Jared did do a great job he gave a great tribute to not only nick but also Natalie and uh and the love that they share it was a great wedding uh Ashley and I did then kind of after these speeches say, hey, it's midnight. You know us on the almost famous podcast. We're not night owls. We give it our all for as long as we can. And then once we can't give it our all anymore, we're out. Like that's who we are. That's what we do. We leave at the peak of our performance.

We leave when you're having fun. Yeah, we do the George Costanza. Leave before things go bad for you. And we left at the peak. We had a great trolley ride back again with some great people from Bachelor nation. We got to catch up with them. We got to hear about their lives and all the cool things happening. We'll bring some of them on the podcast here in the near future. You want to talk about your fertility check sometime on the podcast. I would love to. Hey, during a slow week, during headlines, we're going to have you talk about your sperm sample. Yeah, we'll give, tons of insight into the life that I am living. But until that, we've a lot to look forward to here at the Almost Famous podcast. That is the Nick and Natalie wedding.

breakdown. Congratulations to the two of them for the family that they have, for the honeymoon that they're on, and for the love that they share. So until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. Bye, guys. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzoor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crime, We're not the podcast for you But if you have unmedicated ADHD Oh my God, perfect

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Now, if the rule was the same, go off on me. I deserve it. You know, lock him up. Listen to no such thing on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. No such thing. I'm Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford, host of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast.

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few of the powerful stories I'll be mining on our upcoming 12th season of Family Secrets. We continue to be moved and inspired by our guests and their courageously told stories. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack. where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. Does anyone know what show they've come to see?

It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.