Okay. Hey, replay gang gang. Waiting on YouTube to go ahead and connect. See how this goes. Since there's no video, we should be fine. Okay. All right. I think I'm live. All right. Hey y'all. Give me a quick sound check. Let me know if you can hear me. Everything's coming through loud and clear. Hopefully. Lima Charlie, make sure I was in uh my big sis chithats live listening in on her stuff and she was like I hope she said you going um show your pictures and stuff. I was like you know what I do need to go live. Okay, y'all can hear me. I was like I do. So, and if I don't do it now, I'm going to forget details I would have loved to have shared with y'all. So, I'm like I need to do it now. I've had a full day of rest and I took today off. So, here we are. Okay, I see y'all coming in. Hey. Hey. Okay, so I do have some notes, but some stuff will be out of order. We're going to do the pictures and all that, and then anything else I forget, I can put it towards the end. And I have to tell myself that to make myself comfortable. Like, it's okay if you forget a detail now. You can say it later, but that way I can start, you know, with the things leading up to that night and then we can talk about the other stuff later if you want to hear more about the planning and everything later on. So, first thing I did do the smokey eye like I did on the um live stream when I practiced. I did the smokey eye for the night. You'll see it in the picture. So, I was very proud I did it and it was it didn't take me long. Five minutes or less. I was so proud. Thank you, CeCe. Hey, Lala. Hey, everybody. Hey, DG. I see y'all. Hey, y'all. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to share this with y'all. Okay. So, the event the venue was open for us for me and Mr. Trending to uh go in there and start doing our setup at 400 p.m. She gave us a code early, so we really got there about 3:45 p.m. Um, and on our way, we went to go get our and it's a little thing, y'all. So, we went to go get our cupcake stand that you'll see. We got that from Amazon in case anyone's trying to do something a little cutesy with your desserts. There's a light up cupcake stand. The annoying part is wiring through the little lights, but it looks cute when it's lit up. So, it was like, I don't know, $20 or so on Amazon. Telling you now, that thing fit so well. So, we got our cupcakes. Then, went to the uh local bakery cuz I wanted a local bakery. I did not want to do Walmart and all that stuff, but I also knew I was too short on time to get a uh baker like maybe that I would find on Instagram. So, we went to our local one of our local bakeries. Got our cupcakes. kept it simple with the cupcakes just in case people, you know, I just didn't want to do too much just in case people had different tastes and everything. Um, we brought smok, we brought, um, just everything I needed. I had made myself a list actually. Uh, oh yeah, the swag bags. I had to make sure I brought the wine. I had been chilling. I also had sparkling juice in case anyone didn't want to have alcohol. I had sparkling juice ready just in case. Um, we we were going to get bags of ice, but the venue owner said they did have ice there. Um, what else? Oh, and bottled water because didn't realize I was actually more prepared. So, I thought we didn't have I thought we didn't have anything for people to drink besides the wine. So, we're running to get all that stuff. Plus, uh, we went to Walmart to get extra wine glasses, not realizing my decorator was already bringing wine glasses. And then, shout out to the chef. Shout out to the chef. She I didn't realize it was included in my package. That's on me. She had a beverage station set up, so I didn't have to I didn't even have to do all that. I didn't have to go get extra glasses. We didn't I had I had Mr. Trenon back there watching the pictures that came with the venue, trying to hurry up and get some ice water. She had I walk out. He's He's just done. He's just grabbing the pictures to bring out for you. And I'm like, "Babe, my bad. My bad." I said, "Look." I said, "She has a whole beverage station." She had ice water, lemonade, and tea. And y'all can let me know that came if I'm missing one. But it was so pretty. It was in a little dispensary thing. It was so pretty. Yep. CeCe. Better too much than not enough. And that's what my fear was. the people that came paid a pretty penny and I said I cannot have them missing out on something simple or not simple. I can't do it. So that was it was it happened to be unnecessary but I was prepared. Um so we that was good. So So anyway, we get to the venue at 3:45 p.m. and right behind me the chef's coming and she's she's ready to set up. Later I find out she didn't realize I was me. So, we had been texting back and forth, but a lot of her communication happened with my event planner. So, when she saw me, she might have thought I was the event planner. I don't know, but she didn't know it was me at first cuz when I went to hug her cuz through our text, we would be on hugging bases. Okay. Through our text message, I went to hug her. She was a little hesitant and I was like, "Oh." And then she went in for the hug and um then she went to introduce her wife. I was like, "Oh, yeah. I know. I saw her on your Instagram and all this stuff." Come to find out later, she didn't know I was me. Cuz when I came back the second time, she was she was like, "I didn't realize it was you. I thought you were the event planner." So, but she's walking in right behind me. And let me tell you what, that is so good because the venue opened at 4:00. She's coming in like 3:50, 3:55, ready to set up, food on point. Well, I didn't know the food was on point yet, but I had seen good things, so I was hoping the food was on point. And then me and Mr. trying to walk into the kitchen area to put our little wine up and count the glasses. We come back out, half her station is already set up. I was like, "God, no." She only brought I think it was just her and her wife. I don't even think they had a third person. And I mean, it's some beautiful flowers hanging. Okay, let's let's get to some pictures and stuff we can talk about as we look at the pictures. Let me see. But I was like, "This woman is efficient." Okay, let me I got to work my layers. Hold on. Oh, nope. Not that. Uh, take this. Where's the picture? Sorry, y'all. I can't find my layer that I'm trying to hide. Oh, here we go. Okay, take that down. Okay, so this is not her setup yet. I have them in the order they came. It's a lot of a lot of pictures, so they're just in the order they're in. But you'll see her you'll see her setup. But anyway, she was halfway done by the time we're we were running back out to go. We had got we had gotten the wine glasses by that point. So, we were going to go change and we had to be back there. I wanted to be there right by 6:00 or a little before 6:00. And at that time, by everything by the time everything was done, I think we were hitting about 4:40 p.m.ish or so. So, we're running back out. I see the event planner. Did I see her coming in as I was going out? Yeah. I saw the event planner coming in as I was going out. I'm waving, saying hi to her people, running out. Didn't even realize the painting step instructor was already um he was already setting up too in the back. He was quiet. I just didn't see him, but he was already setting up, too. So, when I tell you everybody was doing their thing, um I was like, "Okay, well, I hope the photographers get there on time." The violinist, I knew she was good. I saw her confirm uh via email with us and I knew she was going to be good to go. She was coming an hour before uh before the start time. I knew she was going to be good to go. So, I was like, "Okay, she's good. I know I know she's good." So, we go home. We start changing. Uh Mr. Tren is putting his suit and his all his little accessories on. I'm trying to put my stuff on, but I got to kind of wait on him cuz I can't get that dress on and and do stuff without him. So, I'm waiting on him. And then we have like 20 minutes before the Uber driver is coming cuz I didn't want to drive our car for this. I my dress was too big. It was just too much. I want to sit in the back seat. It was a lot. So, um he Mr. Tren is lacing up my dress and everything and I'm like, "Tell me when I can suck in." I'm like, "Sinch this thing." So, tell me when I can suck in. So, we get all of our stuff done. the Uber driver's coming. Um, I was like, this is a tiny thing, but you know when you're nervous and you need everything to go right and then you worried about your dress getting messed up. I was like, can you please pull to our side of the road on our side of our house? And he was like, what do you mean? And I was like, never mind. So, I walk out, he sees the dress, he proceeds to pull to the right side of the road. He actually backs into our driveway at that point. Um, and I get in and then his tone is totally different now. His tone is, "Do you want me to turn on some music for y'all?" He was like, "Um, you he I think he said something like you need a photographer." And um Oh, he said, "You need little children walking around." He was his tone was telling he was very short on the phone. Then I came out and it was a different thing. But I was like, "I'm not going to let this mess me up." With his initial tone, I was like, "It's okay. The dress won't get messed up. It's okay. Just get in the vehicle." Um, but everything turned out good there. So then we arrive. We're getting out. Mr. Trin is helping me fix my dress before we walk in. And y'all, this little girl was in the back seat riding by on the street and she's out the window and her eyes are big and she's waving. So, I wave back at her. She just made my night right there. Um, okay. So, let's go. Um, oh, so when I walk in, I see my dad. I see our cousin. He's my my our cousin is my dad's age. They grew up together. So, I see our cousin, my dad. Probably going to call cousin just cousin trending. Um, and then uh I see Leia's grandma plus one. I see Stacy and I can't I probably saw someone else, but I can't remember yet. So, um, let me go through the pictures. We're about to go out of order a little bit. Then I'll check my notes and everything. Oh, Miss Lady. Yes. Yes. Yes. I felt like one. I ain't gonna lie. I felt like one. Okay. So, let's go through the pictures. I know I've been holding y'all up on these pictures, but I was trying to trying to go in a little bit of order. So, that's the violinist. Her name is Elena. She plays pop violin music and classical music. So, because I had her for three of my four hours and you have to pay for sheet music, so she can play stuff she didn't have in her list, but if she doesn't already have the sheet music, you have to pay per sheet music. And I was like, I can't afford that. The budget is the budget. So, I was like, play what you play. I'm gonna be fine because you had to choose between like 70 to 75 songs to cover three hours. It was something like that. So I was like just play what you play. So she plays beautifully. I love the songs I recognized. I love the ones I didn't. They still sounded beautiful. So that's Elena. And then here is when people not everybody had gotten there yet, but that's Papa Trending right there in the white hat. Cousin Trending sitting beside him. Let me tell you what freaking frack. I told the people I said this going to be your freak and your frat. And tell me I'm lying to say they weren't cutting up the whole night if you were there. They are a hoop. They are they are their own entertainment. And if and when they come in the set, they are ridiculous. So, um, okay. So, that's that. And then you can also see the table set up there, too, which is what I wanted to make sure y'all saw. So, the t my my colors were cream, champagne, and I was like, also, I asked the decorator cuz she added some blush tones, and she did really really well with the flowers that brought it all together. Um, the candles, the the the plates, the tablecloths, the chair coverings, the sash on the chairs. And she she was fast, too. I mean, they when she came in, I think she was only three deep. It was her, her mom, and I think that was her cousin. And they just went boop boop boop. Got their stuff set up. They also are going to set up the backdrop. You'll see later. I thought so. I thought so. Yeah. LA. Papa Trrenin was asking about you. Yes. Yes. He was like um he was telling uh cousin Tren. He was like, "Yeah, she got some people out in the UK. I heard one of them on the phone." But um okay, so y'all can see the setting. I wanted to make sure y'all saw this beautiful setting. It is when I tell you she got me. She understood. that I gave her my Pinterest vision board. That's what helped. Um, and I think I was telling y'all that when I was planning like, hey, if you're trying to plan something, give somebody your Pinterest vision board and she like working from Pinterest, which make which made it better, too. Okay. So, then we have more people arriving. And then, oh, let me get my let me get my head out the way. So, then there I am in my dress. Oh, the photographer obviously was there. Photographer also when I got there, he did not know it was my event. I think he thought I was the event planner again because he was trying to give me his business card. And I'm like, "Well, I already know because I I I hired you." So, I'm just letting him talk, though, cuz I don't like making people feel awkward about what they're saying. Like, either way, I knew who he was. It wasn't going to hurt nothing for him to retell who he was. So, I just took his business card. But later, he was like, "This your event?" I was like, "Yeah, yeah, it's my event." It was before the beginning he realized it was mine. But it was just so funny that both the chef and the photographer was like, "Oh, I don't know why I thought." So he starts taking pictures obviously. So he's capturing He loves which I love. He loves capturing more candid moments than posed moments. He gave me my ones I wanted poses on, but he like capturing moments where you weren't thinking about the camera. So I really like that about his personality. He's also a character, but I don't care cuz he had a 24-hour turnaround on these photos. And I tell you what, I got my photos back in less than 24 hours. He's working on my video right now and that's a 72-hour turnar around. I ain't got no complaints. He was he was a character. Him and Mr. Trending were were uh talking it up all night. I had to tell Mr. Tren like, "Hey, I need Hey, hey, hey." But I let him do his thing. I'm like, "Hey, I need you some of these times." But I I loved it cuz Mr. Triny can be very much an introvert. So, I didn't want to, you know, shut him down too much on that. Um, okay. So, we have now we have Leia's grandma sitting over there. We got Stacy over there. Leia's grandma's over there to the right. You can't see them yet, but you'll see them. And then we have I'mma say D and her daughter because I don't know if she just be out here blasting her name. So, I'm going try to remember to say D and not her full name. But D is sitting down right now and her daughter is sitting down. And then you see, you know, I got my dress and everything. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. And I'mma tell you what he said, CeCe. I'm going try to remember to tell you what he said. But um I didn't even know he could come until two or three days before the event. He told me just don't count on him coming cuz he I get my personality from him. I try not to make promises I can't keep. So I'm more like hey plan for me not to be there and I'll let you know if I can come type thing or plan for me not to do this but I'll let you know if I can. I just don't like disappointing anybody. And he's the same. He don't want to disappoint me. So he's like just don't don't plan on me being there. And then he called was like, "I can come. You still got room for me?" I was like, "Of course I got room for you, daddy. Thank you." Hey, Tarity Ty baby. Hey y'all. Okay. Thank you, IPV. I appreciate it. No, he wouldn't have been awkward. Lala, you don't understand. They have the gift of gab. They will not be awkward. They will make you not feel awkward. You will be fine. I promise you there will be no awkward for them. I You would have been fine. That day would have been fine. I promise you. Okay, so moving on. Oh, and then you can see the starry the sparkly backdrop for the violinist. And that's also um one of the picture backdrops that we had for when we took pictures like we did take pictures individually with each other. So that was what I was wanting too was a nice space for that type of picture for people to um have. So, and if if you came, I already sent you the link so you can get your own pictures and, you know, do what you want with them and all that stuff. So, you should already have that link in your email. And there's Papa. He said, he said, "You know what this feels like?" And I was like, "What?" But I kind of already knew what he was going to say. He said, "It feels like the wedding you didn't give me." I was like, "My bad, my bad." I was like, "No, I actually do kind of feel like that, too, because Mr. Trending and I did elope. We did. You know, it is what it is. We was We were 18. Okay. But so he was like, "It kind of like he was joking, but serious." And I'm like, "It's okay, though, cuz you're here now." And then, okay, there's another one with us. Thank you, DG. Thank you. And y'all, let me tell you what, this dress was third choice. If you are a member either on Patreon or YouTube, you understand what I went through. This is the third dress. The first two didn't work out. I thought this was going to be a okay choice. It actually turned out to be the best choice. Which is why you got to let things flow. You just got to let it flow sometimes because when I tell you now looking back I'm like this dress doesn't even compare to the other two. This was the best dress. But at the time I was mourning the dress I that was my first choice at the time and it wasn't this one. But now I'm very glad it is this one that actually I that I actually wore. Okay. Chef Tada. Chef T. Look at this setting, y'all. And I don't even think he got pictures of everything, but on the backside, there's these little martini glasses with the salad in it and its own little bitty fork or spoon or whatever. I think it's a fork. It was the cutest. Then the the the um salad dressing was in a bottle. So, it had its own little bottle like like for the theme type bottle. Bottle. it, man. When I tell you, I mean, you see the beautiful flowers, the beautiful setup with the trees. Chef Tada, this is called her luxe display. I couldn't do this without her giving me her lux display. Like, I needed this to make it come together. So, I'm so happy she did her thing. There's a wider shot of some of her stuff, but it the table expends extends even more. You'll probably see it in a different shot. Um, thank you How I See It TV. I let me tell you what I'mma say it now and I'll be repetitive. It is what it is. I hope to have many many more of these. So I hope there's times that y'all will be able to come cuz I really pray I have many many more of these. He should have walked you down the aisle to your Thank you, Melanin Beauty. Okay, so there's more of her cuz she she needs to be highlighted. There's the other side. So he had to half and half it so you can get the closeup. But um on the menu we had lamb lamb chops. We had um or sorry raka lamb. What? I don't know. It was lamb. And we had salmon. And we had chicken skewers. And of course we had our broccolini, our rice, our the potatoes were so mashed potatoes. They were so good. Oh yeah, there you go. She has little signs too like it says garlic mashed potatoes on there and stuff. So she has signs so you know what you were eating. Um, it was just gorgeous when I I can't go back after having her like this. U let me see it. D the lowest when I tell you. Okay, there's Oh, he got the wide shot. So, here's the whole setup. And you see she also has her own little backdrop to bring it together as well. But that's the wide shot. The beverage station would be to the right. Um, oh, uh, I don't know if I kept the picture of me at the beverage station, but it was very pretty. It went with the whole decor. It was so pretty. Um, she got her heat lamp. She's got her flames going. Thank you to the I'm glad the venue owner had this venue. I am just like, this is this is where it was meant to happen. There's the chef, Chef T, Chef Tata. She's a character. Everybody that I had is such a beautiful personality, beautiful character. um just wonderful people. Like they are on my list to continue to work with. I I they only way I wouldn't see them again is because they're booked and busy and they're not available to me. That's the only way because when I tell you I need all of them back, I need them. I asked the event planner, was she willing to travel? And let me get sponsored. I'm asking chef if she going to travel too. God doggy, I need her to come back. There's the cupcake stand. And that's a $20 Amazon cupcake stand with the lights. And it was just the cutest thing. Oh, thank you, CeCe. Thank you. Yes, she did such a great job. Thank you, Teresa. No, it's And it's okay. We shall have many more times hopefully. Yes, pink hearts. She did, right? She did, Sharon. Okay, so there's the cupcakes. Just wanted to show y'all what we put together with our little last minute thing. There's a beverage station. There we go. So, I was sitting here worried. She had the cups. She had the beverages, the ice water, the lemonade, the sweet tea. She had it taken care of. I was worried about nothing. I didn't even think to ask, "Do you also bring beverages?" I thought it was just food. So, I didn't even ask her. Okay, there's the violinist again, Elena. in case you're coming in later so you can see Elena again. Elena played so well. And when she would take her breaks cuz she took um it was either two 15-minute breaks or it's probably two 15-minute breaks. I would say two 15-minute breaks. She would have she had her speaker ready where you didn't tell she stopped. You couldn't tell she stopped playing because then her speaker would come on and it would play violin type music. So, it would just keep it flowing. So, it wasn't like this quiet really that I noticed anyway. If it did, it happened so fast I didn't even notice. Um, so she had that planned when she was taking her 15-minute breaks. There she is again. And she asked me, "What's your theme? Do you have a color?" I told her and she was like, "Okay, I think I have a dress that's perfect for that." So, she wore her dress to match my theme, which was so nice. And not it, she didn't have to. It, you know, she did not have to. Okay. And then there I am by the cupcake stand. Um, starting with the more pose pictures, but I got to figure out some poses. I me and this I am so awkward when it's time to pose but I knew I needed solo pictures so I was like let me just try. And then there it is. That is at the chef's table like her setup but behind it but in front of her backdrop. That was a really nice um area to do. And then a closeup. He got a closeup of it. Um it's awkward to look at myself so I'mma keep going. Okay, there's the beverage station again. I couldn't remember if I included that picture or not. And then here's the setup. Y'all can kind of see more of a long shot. I loved h his um field. Is it depth of field? D p of field. I think it is. I love when he would do these. I love Mr. Trend and I both love when there's like a clear part and then there's a blurry part because it draws a focus somewhere. But um here's the setup again. And the event the my event planner and my decorator is the same person. And she was like uh Oh. Oh. So, Molly Queen said, "A moment of silence for that snatchway. I can't deal with you." So, the event planner slashdecorator, she was like, "I have a formation for you that I want to try because of your intimate setting." And I was like, "Do what you want to do because I'm going to trust your eye. This is your profession. I don't have a set way. I I just need things to be where people feel comfortable. That's my goal. make them feel comfortable, then you let me know what that looks like to you." And so she was like, "Well, I want I've been wanting to try this." She called it a sexy S formation with the tables. So the tables are kind of offset from each other just a little bit. So I and I liked it. And she had that runner going to um connect them all. And I thought that that was a really nice uh formation. I really do. And then you can just get another angle of the color scheme. Um just ah and there's Stacy. You can kind of start seeing there's Leia's grandma in the foreground and then we got D in the foreground and Stacy's right beside uh Leia's grandma plus one and then he even got me blurry in the background which I like cuz I something about that out of focus. I really do like stuff like that. Um let me see. Okay, so next picture. Okay, now he got it on the other end. So now you can see um this is so that's where Mr. trending was sitting where the empty chair is right by me. And then you're going to see her face. But let me tell you what, Justine. Just Justine. Yeah, that is Melanin Beauty. That's her. That was her. That's exactly who it was. Um, but Justine with the curly hair right here sitting beside me from the Brick City, New Jersey. Now, I didn't even know that's what y'all said, but from the Brick City, New Jersey. That Justine is my Jersey girl. Justine walks in when the event, you know, we're still getting everything or I'm I'm walking in making sure everything's good and she walks in and she was like trending. Who do you think I am? And I was like, I guessed wrong, but I didn't I only had so many choices left, but I still guessed wrong. She was like, it's Justine. I was like, oh my god. I was like, Justine, y'all. Justine was the first one to buy a ticket. Justine is the reason I came on here snotting and crying knowing that somebody believed in me and bought a ticket and Miss Lady One was right after her that bought her ticket. Just want to say it. And I think it was like it might have been Leia's grandma plus one right after that. But Justine broke the seal as I call it. So when I tell you I gave her the biggest warmest hug. I gave her the biggest warmest hug. And she was a she is a character. But let me tell you what, I needed to know what she thought. I need to know what everybody thought. But especially the ones that paid the $300 for a VIP ticket. I needed to know what they thought. I know what I spent. I know what I spent, but I still needed the reassurance. And when Justine was like trending, the violinist alone made this worth it. And she was like, "And then I go over there to get my plate and you have lamb." She was like, "Lamb is my favorite." She was like, "Lamb? put it over the top. She was like, "Uh, we need settings like this." She was like, "This is so nice. We need to be able to sit back and relax sometimes and this is so um and Justine, I got your email, too." But she was like, "This is so classy." She just she had it was just very nice thing. Everybody said nice things, but I'm justine was my first ticket. So, I just got to make sure, you know, I highlight the fact that I am very appreciative. She broke the seal. I don't even know how to describe the feeling to see someone that believes in you enough to buy a $300 ticket to come to something they don't even know how you're going to set it up yet cuz now you see it. But you're buying off a blind faith cuz you there was nothing I could show you yet. I could only talk about what I was hoping to have. Um that was it. So Justine, my Jersey girl. Then we have Miss Lady One and her black sequins sparkly cuz they came sparkly. Miss Lady One with her Virgo lips. That's the one that be in the chat with the Virgo lips is right here. And she she brings her daughter to uh things that she likes to do. They are a package deal. So I got to meet them on the cruise just like I got to meet Leia's grandma on the cruise. Um Melanin Beauty, I got to meet D on the cruise. Um uh Pink Hearts Forever on the cruise on Queen Shiva's cruise. That's what I'm talking about. Um but this is her daughter in her blue sequin that's over here. So, they both are at um and and you I don't know if there'll be pictures of the bags. I don't know if I got that, but they all have a black bag with their name on it and it says VIP. So, the VIPs got a custom a little gift bag with their name actually on it just to, you know, something just one more thing that was a little more special and things like that. I wanted to make sure they just had something to take home that's like, okay, okay. Um so, they had some stuff in there. Um and then we have, let's see here. my you'll see my friend more clearly, but my friend the attorney because I was like I introduced you as my friend that's an attorney just so you know. But my friend that's an attorney is sitting by Miss Lady One's daughter. So you'll see a more clear picture of her later. Okay, so we shall keep going. All right, there's another um now you can see y'all see the setup of the chef's um table in the background. I just love the line of vision on this. I loved it. I'm when I because the lux display that the chef does, she'll ask you what's your theme, how your decoration, so I can tie in what I do with your stuff. So that impressed overly impressed. Hey, thank you, Holly Rock. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sweet essence. Yes, please hit the like button, y'all. Please do. So, oh, let me tell you what. Miss Lady One's daughter was like, "My mama talk about you so much." She was like, "At this point, you feeling like a cousin." She was like, "It's cousin Trendon because I I'll hear about you." It was like my mom be doing like, "Oh, what? Look, look, that's what Trend did." I'm like, "Oh, I'm so sorry if I get on your nerves." She was like, "No, because when I meet you, I get it." And I was like, "Oh, thank God. Thank God." But she was like, "Yeah, you're a u not." She was like, "You're you feel like a cousin at this point. You're part of the family. And then this is Mr. Trenon holding this up because shout out to Auntie Estet Noir. The reason for the people that were there that enjoyed their wine is because when I visited her at her spa, this is what she served. I didn't know about and I know Stella Rosa is a well-known name, but I didn't know about it. So, for those that enjoyed your Stella Rosa Black and your Stella Rosa Peach, that is thanks to Auntie Estat Noir because I was like, there's no other wine I want except for this wine because I know it tastes good. And sure enough, Stacy was there getting a picture of it. I think someone else took a picture of it to get it when they were at home. I did the same thing when I was at a spa. I was like, "Let me get a picture so I don't forget what this is." So, he's holding it up. So, now it's in y'all's picture bank, too, in case you forget. Oh, she did. Yeah, she did. I see. Oh, look. And Miss Lady One's picture is her in her beautiful dress now. And um Leia's grandma plus one. I saw your Instagram picture. You were in your dress, too. I saw y'all change our picture. There's Justine again. She was like, I want to be I want to be supporting her. Where do I stand? She was talking to the photographer. Where do I stand to show I'm supporting trending? So, she's a trip. So, he was like, okay, try this instead. So, this is her. This is uh our pose that we had together. Shout out to Justine. And then there's Miss Lady One. Then we had to go to stay on time. We had to go do our paint and sip portion. Um because I didn't want Ben, who is painting sip instructor for uh his company's called Ben Creative. I didn't want him to be waiting. Our schedule time was 7:30. I wanted to respect his time. He respected my time. So we the pictures with everybody else started to come later. Let's see. Oh, thank you, sweet tea. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, you know why the hair is holding up? Cuz I'm switching wigs. I'm I'm switching between my three wigs. Y'all have seen three wigs in the last week. All of them are still good cuz I ain't worn on them out. But this is a different wig from that wig. And there's another wig I was wearing during the week. [Laughter] Britney said, "Child, Stella Rosa will get you right." It will. Right. Hey, Ari. Bokeh. Yes. Bokeh. And I knew that word, but I couldn't remember it. Yes. bouquet with a blurred background. Thank you, Aria Aquar. Hey, Flower Bloom. Thank y'all. Justine said, "The event was epic." Justine is in here, my Jersey girl. Okay, let me see. Thank you, Erica. J28 said, "That definitely looks like wedding photos. Absolutely beautiful." Thank you, J28. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, there goes Dana. Okay. I was calling you D cuz I couldn't remember what you called yourself on YouTube. So now I can just say there's Dana in the pictures. I was waiting to make sure. Okay. All right. Oops. Hold on y'all. Okay. So then this is the um station for Ben uh Ben Creative. This was his station. That's what we were painting. Our ver our version of it cuz we were like I'm not a painter. I might can draw sometimes, but I'm not a painter. So uh Justine came over to my picture talking about I thought you was about to make her fly or do something crazy. I was like, "Uh-uh, Justine, I don't know how to paint like that." Here's Mr. Trending. I was messing with them. I was like, "He's not a ghost. He's real." So, here's Mr. Trending. Him and the photographer was over there doing all their little shoots and stuff. But that's him. So, y'all can officially see him in case you weren't on Instagram. I think I posted him on Instagram like one time before, I think. So, that's Mr. Trending though. You'll see him in more pictures coming up. Okay, there's Papa Trending and Mr. Trending. And Mr. Trending loves him some Papa Trenon. And Papa Trrenin loves him some Mr. Trenon. Right. Look at Dapper. It's so funny, too, cuz when my dad asked, he was like, "Well, how should I come dress?" I was like, "Come dapper. Come dapper. Thank you, Pino Rules. Thank you so much, Miss Lady with your swag." Yeah. Yeah. I picked out his suit. I'm taking my credit. I picked out his suit, but and I picked out his shoes, but he picked out his tie and his thing right here on his um the one has the one that's hanging. The brooch. He picked out his brooch, his handkerchief. That was him. I'm give him his credit cuz he got excited. He liked what I picked and then he added to it. But I'm getting my credit for that suit. I picked that out. Then here's the other half of freaking frack cousin trending over here to the right. They were a trip. So, I got all my three guys in the picture. Thank you, IPV. He That's what That's what my dad said. He said, he said, "Mr. Trina was casket shock." You know, my dad country. So, I mean, I'm still y'all can hear that. Me, too. My dad extra country. Yeah. Papa Trrena. Yes. He was looking smooth. Yeah. Justine. Okay. She co-signing for all of them. Dana says she had a great time. I'm glad you had a good time, Dana. Okay, so then uh oh, J28 said, "Hey now, cousin Triny." Yeah. And they grew up together. They grew up. He Oh my gosh. So, since I'm on that picture, let me tell you, my my dad first, he was like, "Uh, we were sitting down eating. We had kind of gotten settled in there." And he was like, "You mind if I say something?" I was like, "Dad, I don't care what you ask me to do. Of course, I'm gonna tell you yes." So, I was like, "Yeah, of course." So my dad got up and he made a speech and and I didn't cry Justine, but Justine said I am a cry baby, which I have to accept that I didn't cry though. But my dad, he was just saying how proud he was and um how he didn't want to promise he could come down until he was sure he could come down, but he was glad to be here that it was like the wedding he didn't get to attend. He had to say that again. Um so it was it was very nice. Then cousin Trendan, he came and um he let me get it for all, let me keep it on all three of them. There they go. But um he came and he said how he grew up admiring my dad because he was an older cousin. And then he said when my dad started calling him, he knew he had made it into the cool crew cuz now my dad was reaching out to him. Um and he was like uh when he heard I had moved near his area, he was like, "Oh, I'mma see cousin Trenton all the time." And he was like basically I ain't heard from her yet, but I'm coming. I'm coming. And my dad was like, "You need to get to his house. That basement alone is like a luxury hotel." I said, "Say less. Say less. I'mma be there if when I come to the area. I'm not paying for a hotel. I'm staying there." Cuz he was like, "I have to be aggressive with y'all and just be like, I'm going to be mad if you don't stay here instead of paying for a hotel." So, I said, "That's what you got to do cuz we don't like bothering people. So, you got to be real clear that not only are you okay with it, it is what you desire to happen. Otherwise, we're not going to bother you. So, I know if he ever sees this, I will let you know I'm in town and I'll stay there. Um, but and it won't be nothing off me because when I tell you the red carpet was rolled out at his house, the red carpet's rolled out. So, it ain't like I'm be suffering nothing by doing it either. Thank you, Flower Bloom. Okay. So, then let's keep going. So, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. Before we get here, I just want to say Justine, Miss Lady One, they both said how they found my channel. Miss Lady One found me from my big sis chitchat, which was so cool. Oh my gosh. You know, I love me some chitchat. And Miss uh and Justine was saying she just came across my channel and was like, "Okay, let me hang around." And she was just like once she picks out somebody she wants to support, she's there. She's she's just there. Like, you say what you're doing and I'm coming. So, Justine, thank you very much. Thank you to everybody that came because I mean y'all already showed how much you you know you support me because you were there. So I I can't say thank you enough. Um my friend then spoke um and I'll get her I when she comes up in the role I'll show you her face. But um she spoke and she was saying everything y'all are saying about her. I know of her from years and years back and she was like that's exactly who she is and I'm just liking to see her evolve. She just said she's going to try something and she end up trying it and she actually doing it. Um, I want to say this, my friend, um, I remember we were sitting in her office because she used to be my flight commander. She was my flight commander first friend later. So, she was my leadership first. But my friend, I remember sitting in her office. It was her, another person, um, I'm not going to say their name, another person, another woman, and me. And we were sitting there and we were just talking about stuff that like in the next few years we would like to accomplish. Both of them wanted to be and I don't know if the other one already was, but both of them wanted to be attorneys. They weren't attorneys yet. They wanted to be attorneys. They wanted to go into law. Um I was thinking about law cuz once you're in like contracting, you kind of then can gravitate to law sometimes because you're already reading like some crazy stuff or technical stuff. Uh, but I knew I wanted to get the job that I currently have and I was like, I gotta get back in school so I can qualify to get there. And so then, you know, two, three years later, everybody that was in that office was surpassing where they said they wanted to be, not just reaching it, but they had gone past that. And, you know, down the road, it could be three attorneys sitting in the office. I don't know. I don't know. because of the law school portion. The LSAT I'm more confident on, but that law school portion I don't know about working that into my schedule. I'm I'm shaky on that part. So, but but yes, I am just so happy to. But she was saying how we would make goals and we or whatever I said I was going to do, I would try to do. And um she was just saying like everything y'all said that were there in person, that's how she knows me. And that's a great confirmation to have that someone that knows you. You're not performing. you're not putting on and they still think that you are the way that others see you. When you do, you are presenting yourself in a way of performance because you're on YouTube and you're trying to, you know, come across to people to, you know, keep I want to keep y'all watching and stuff like that. So, it was very nice to hear that she still was like, "Oh, yeah, that no, that's how she is." Thank you, Justine. Yeah. You don't like to bother people. Yep. Dana is how I see it TV. When I say I co-sign on that, Dana gonna come dressed down. Even if it was an event to be dressed down in, Dana was going to be dressed up, you know, like she was going to be. So, yes, Dana always comes correct. Yes, I have to vouch for that. Thank you, Flower Bloom. Let's see here. Hey, guys. Hey, Gina. Okay, so this is us at the table. I had brought Smoks. I can return them to Amazon. didn't need them cuz again like Cece said, it's better to be overprepared. I had smoks. I I didn't assume he had smoks and I didn't even think to ask him honestly. I just automatically got smok so I can take those back. Now there's the cousin again. He was cutting up on his painting. She went from uh Stacy, if you in here, Justine, Miss Lady One, y'all know if y Dana Dana Dana couldn't even finish painting her painting. She kept messing up cuz she was laughing so hard cuz every time my cousin would say something then be like, "God dang it, I was painting now I'm laughing." But tell me he wasn't cutting up. She went from having lashes and I guess he messed up on her lashes. So then he said, "Oh no, she had a botch surgery. Then he said she's wearing a COVID mask." Then it went from my girl the girl wearing a co mask to she was a voodoo dog. My family is Louisiana. It was it it just that that girl evolved so many times. Okay, DG, please let's email let me know because I could at least see if I can work that into my plan. Thank you, DG. I appreciate that. Um, okay, so there's him again. Gina, I'm praying. Okay, so there's Mr. Trinity in another pose. He was caught by the photographer. The photographer was catching Mr. Trinity. He was doing so good. Okay. Then got another one with that foot kicked out. And then there's Papa trending and Leia's grandma plus one in this shot. And Leia's grandma plus one. I'm coming to the pictures. If you're in here still and if you're listening to where she brought me a birthday gift and I wasn't Oh my god, she brought me a birthday gift, y'all. She brought me a birthday gift. There's Justine Cheesing. Y'all can see her face now. We got Justine, our Jersey girl. Then be and then beside Justine we got Stacy. Stacy is always gonna be cutting up. Love some Stacy. She is everything. Then of course you see cousin trending beside Stacy. Cousin was a vibe. Mhm. Hey vibrant thing. Who had Oh, she has sunglasses too. Oh my god. Okay. Then this is Miss Lady 1's daughter that said uh she feels like I'm a cousin at this point cuz she always hears about me and her name's Michelle. Her name is Michelle. Okay. And then there's Miss Lady One. Beautiful picture of Miss Lady One. Yeah, it was a great vibe. It really was. Oh, thank you, Gina. Okay, look. I'll just take them because you don't know what you don't know. So, I'll just take the tips cuz I don't know. Thank you, Pacino Rules. Okay, then we got Papa Trending again. Then you see Mr. Tren is in the background in the bouquet style. Shout out shout out to telling me the name again. Area quiry bouquet. Bokeet bouquet. Thank you, Vibrant Thing. Okay. And then that's my attorney friend. That is my attorney friend right there. That's my girl. Oh my gosh. She is not only an attorney, she is a lieutenant colonel. She is she has worked out of the Pentagon. She she be doing stuff. When we were deployed, she was in law school. I was like, I can't I don't know how you doing it. I'm not that I would Oh, she was in law school and doing the classes she had to do to be promoted to lieutenant colonel and still doing the deployed job. I was like, "Girl, I I be trying to be a hard worker, but I don't I that one I don't see me being able to do." She was working. She does not play. I hope a next one, Melanin Beauty, and uh while y'all while most of y'all are in here too, speaking into existence that I that we don't get any major roadblocks, that we will be doing something together in September 2026. That one may be more of a travel destination thing. Uh it might not be this but also if you want to add to your prayers that I get sponsored so I can do this again. But speak you know clear your calendars. Lord willing we traveling together September 2026. Okay. So don't be booking nothing now. Thank you DG. Hey Kim. She is right. She is melanin popping. Thank you, Doris. Gina said, "Let's roll." Yep. We speaking it. It's happening. I'm not playing with y'all. I'm kidding. Y'all be there. Y'all be there for me. I'm I'm not even I ain't even worried about you. It's all about just me doing what I got to do. I ain't even worried about y'all. There goes Dana aka Cardi B. And Dana, I don't know. I think you might have overheard him, but the photographer turned to me and Mr. trending and he was like, "She looked like somebody." I said, "Cardi B." He was like, "Okay." I didn't want to be the first to say it. I was like, "No, we already we already knew it was Cardi B. We I said she's saved in my phone as Dana Cardi B." So, it's okay. Okay. And then there's a more wider shot with everyone at their stations. Well, almost everyone. I can't remember. Was somebody sitting right here? I can't remember. But um there's our wider shot and they're starting and listening to Ben. Oh, let me tell you a cute moment with Ben, our painting step instructor. Before he started talking, he looked at me and he was like, "Is there a way to turn the music down?" I was like, "You mean, do you want me to ask the violinist to turn her volume down on her violin?" And he was like, "Oh, it's a real person playing the music." I was like, "Yeah, yeah, she's really over there." And I don't know how to tell a violinist. Uh, is there a way to He was like, "Oh, oh." So, we did not ask her that, just so you know. We did not say that, but he thought it was a speaker the whole time. He thought it was something that was pre-planned. Hey, Jazzy J. Okay. And there's our instructor, Ben. And he is very nice. Lowkey. Me just He just lowkey. Y'all can tell me what y'all thought that were there, too. Wait, who ruined the painting? My cousin or Ben, the instructor. But Ben is great. He uh I'll be tagging them in my Instagram pictures in case y'all are in the area where you can use him and stuff. But he said he also did cruises and stuff like that, which I was like, dang. Okay, excuse us. Um, but that's Ben. All right, there's me. I like this picture cuz I wasn't looking and I wasn't posing, so I like that one. Oh, yeah. The cousin, my cousin, Dana would go to touch a painting. She was like, I I I'm laughing. I can't do it. Then Dana was talking about her daughter, too, cuz her daughter was mixing all her colors first. She was like, she ain't going to never paint cuz she's sitting here mixing colors, but her daughter, she did end up painting, but it was so funny. Her first 20 minutes was mixing colors, so she was taking it very seriously. Ari says, "She does look like Cardi." Yep. Yep. There she is again. So, you know, in case I ever need a celebrity lookalike. Um, okay. And then there's Miss Lady One's daughter again. There's Stacy starting out on her picture. There's Papa Trending concentrating. He looking he concentrating hard on his picture. Then we have my friend again and and Dana. They're painting. We got Papa Trrenin again with the nice uh the nice bokeh effect. And then there's Justine having a ball. Justine, I'm so glad you enjoyed yourself. Then that's just a nice shot. This is where This is cousin's photo. She She kept changing. She kept evolving. I think I don't know if he was giving her a tube top with some midrift showing and a skirt. I don't know. I'm not going to judge. I'm just saying I don't know. Um but she hadn't gotten her lashes yet at this point. There's Justine again. I like that shot, too. There's Stacy. Yes. And Stacy. Y'all see Stacy sparkling. Stacy had her sparkles. Okay. And there's Dana's daughter. She see the colors were mixing, but she has started painting. She did start painting. And then there's Dana doing hers. Okay. And then I'm sure my dad was saying something funny about his pain at this point. I'm sure he was. There's Leia's grandma plus one. Oh, she gave her a auburn fro. I like I like. Okay. And then Miss Lady One. She done created a whole type of strap, new straps on her dress and everything, which I really liked your pattern on your uh painting, Miss Lady One. And then, okay, another shot. Different angles. We had Oh, yeah. Look at the different types. had a one all a one strap, one shoulder strap. We had the V straps with my friend. We had Miss Lady One with her frilly straps. I did the deep V like um like uh the instructor. I was kind of going for what he did, but I couldn't go as deep on the V cuz the painting the brushes weren't working with me. He looks like the Incredibles character. Wait, which one does J28? Miss Lady One says she's so mad. She She's so glad she met Justine. Ah, yes. Okay. The photographer also said he has been to other painting steps and he was like, "Y'all did just fine." He was like, "Some people, everybody say they can't paint, but he some people really can't paint." And he was like, "Y'all was doing just fine." My dad, he was uh her dress was a little low at first, but the the the instructor helped him fix it. But see the little frilly um things that Miss Lady One put on hers and the orange dress. I was like, "Oh, I like that." Oh, my cousin. He look like from the Incredibles. I'm trying to think of what character. There's the setup again just in case. And then so this time there's a setup. The tables cleared. Shout out to Mr. Trrendon. He cleared the table. Um and then there's us in the background. Another shot of the tables and the settings. I like that one cuz that that lighting is really nice. It's really really nice on that one. Thank you. Yeah. Right. They all everybody just did their thing. And then it was funny cuz the instructor was like um I thought he was going to instruct everybody on the same colors cuz when we first started he was like what what's your favorite color for the dress? What background you want? All this other stuff. So I'm thinking he's talking about for everybody. So I was like okay let's do a pink dress. So then he comes around, he sees I'm painting a pink dress. He was like, "Why are you painting a pink dress? The picture I'm doing is for you." I was like, "Oh, my bad." Oh, the picture he painted look like the character from Incredibles. Okay. Okay. Hey, muted expressions. Elegant yet chill is very apt. That's That's it. That is actually the vibe. Elegant yet chill. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then there they are again painting away. Well, I say they, but I'm in there, too. So, there we are again painting away. There's another angle. They're concentrating. Concentrating. Okay. And then I just he just the photographer liked that shot to add his little orange in there with Miss Lady One stuff. Thank you, Lala. Oh, I did worry for nothing, Jay 2018. I did. And let me tell y'all what the the way I worried for nothing. I kept everybody that was hired to do their thing did it so well that my if I had kept like a heart rate monitor on my heart rate had to stay in the 60s. It was so chill. They was on point. They did everything well. Everything from from setup to tear down. They did everything. There's Stacy and Justine cutting up. And I promise you with the expression on Stacy and Justine's face, Papa Trending and Cousin Trending were cutting up right then. I promise you, weren't they? They were so creative. I agree. And Dana's daughter, I think she's laughing right now. I feel like the photographer caught her mid laugh on that one. And then that's me checking on my friend cuz she was like, I should have done some different or no, maybe she was talking about her background color or something at that point. So I was over there talking to her about her stuff. And then there's Miss Lady one again. My dad. Oh, he had her dress too low at first, but we She was fixed. She was fixed. And look at that one. I like that. That's the one. Is that Dana's daughter? She was mixing mixing mixing her colors. I think I think that's Dana's daughter that did this one. And then you see how it came out. I love it. That was a great color. And there's Dana's. And there's mine. I was working on her. That That brush was killing me. Peaches and cream. Hopefully there shall be a next one. There shall be a next one. There's us painting again. Oh, the ice cream truck is outside. There's us painting again. getting further along, concentrating. Then this is when I think she turned into a voodoo doll. Cousin Trending just he's just like he went New Orleans voodoo doll. Okay. And then that's him. That's Ben starting to fix people's uh paintings for them or help them out. And there's another shot of the food station. There's Mr. trending, him and the photographer doing their moments, having their thing. So that was him right there. And then but then Mr. Trending came over. He was like, "You got to see the picture he did by the cupcake stand." So I saw it and I was like, "What? I want a picture by the cupcake stand now. Hey July Leo babe, you did not miss my birthday. I am August 20th. We have time." I didn't want to be stressed on my birthday just in case. We have time. my fellow Leo and happy belated birthday to you. Okay, so then there's my mine because mine was gonna be the same. I couldn't silhouette like he could, but um there's mine by the cupcake stand. That's the one I put on Instagram, I believe. And I'll put more pictures on Instagram later. There's us together. Oh, oops. Then the photographer like to catch us talking cuz Mr. I pro every time you see me laughing. If I'm laughing in this Mr. Trending, he done said something with his smart a self. He done said something. And so that's what that was. I was laughing. The photographer caught it. And oh just in case I forget, yes, the food itself was pretty, but it was also delicious. That food was so good. What was supposed to be tender was tender. What was supposed to be firm was firm. The seasoning was on point. It was good. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, he did good. Muted Expressions. He did really good on that one. He did. Thank you, Muted Expressions. Thank you, sweet essence. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Y'all are Y'all are the best. There's another one. And then that one, the photographer set that one up. So that that is a pose. But he was like I don't know what he said. He said something like act like you're leading her or reach for him. He said something. So we did what he instructed us to do. And so that's how it came out. And there's one more like that one I think. Okay. DG. Thank you. J 2018 said y'all should have just had a minister there to renew their those vows. You know what I But you know what I can tell you? If I had a minister there, even if it was a surprise, he wouldn't embarrass me like uh I'm bringing love and marriage for just a second. Like Maro did, Tisha. He would have actually said, "I'm down. Let's go and do it." He would not have been like, "Why? Why should I have to do that?" He would be like, "Okay, cool. Let's do it." Like, he would not have embarrassed me like that. Dana said the food was amazing as well. Co-sign the food. That's black and white version. I really like the black and white. Really like the black and white. I ain't going to hold you. That one looked like a wedding photo. Not even going to lie. That one's probably going up in my office or not my I don't have an office, but it's going on my desk. Thank you, sweet essence. And then the color one. And then that's the other type where it was more like looking up, looking off from the camera. Yeah, Jay 2018, he wouldn't have did me like that. And I promise you, let me say I couldn't predict him, but I can, but let me say I couldn't predict him and he did some mess like that. It' be no more mention of Mr. Trin like you like where uh Trenton, where's Mr. Trenon? Who is that? I don't know who that is. Who are y'all talking about? I am me by myself. I am solo. I wish he would. Oh, Justine said, "Trenda's husband told a beautiful story of meeting Trendan. Made me smile from ear to ear." A Justine. Oh my gosh. And then I I didn't get a chance to get a picture with the violins before she changed. So, she changed. I was like, "It's okay. Just please please take a picture with me still." So there's a there's Elena and then there's me and my dad again in a different part. Oh gosh. Yeah. Thank you. And there's us together. Might as well call him father of the bride at this point. And then this one, let me take this off. This one was really nice. Um I didn't catch it. The photographer showed me the picture and he was like, "What do you notice as soon as you look at this picture?" I was like, "It's a nice background." He was like, "No." He was like, "Your husband noticed right off the bat." He was like, "What do you notice?" I was like, "I don't see it." I said, "I don't have a photographer's eye. I don't know." And so then he he brought over Mr. Trinity. He was like, "What's in this picture? What does this picture look like?" He was like, "It looks like she's floating." And I was like, "Oh snap. It doesn't look like I'm floating." Oh my gosh. It was I said, "It's magical." I didn't notice the magic at first, but I do see it now and I can appreciate it. And then there's cousin trending. And then Okay, so we're getting I think the individual photos, I think. Oh, y'all notice. I did not, y'all. I was so bad at that. Oh, and the halo. Come on, July Leo, babe. But there's me and Mr. Trend. And this felt like prom. This one felt like a prom picture for real. Okay. And then that one, that was a candid photo. I was actually looking for somebody or doing something. So, I like that one because I wasn't thinking about the camera person at that time. Jazzy J said Wonder Woman. I love it. And then I was like, this is me. Cuz I was like, I want a stair picture. I want a picture on the stairs, too. Cuz I, you know, Mr. Triny had a stair picture. I'm like, yeah, I'm copycatting. I want a picture on the stairs. So, I got my picture on the stairs. Sure did. Sure as heck did. And then, okay, there's another one just closer. There's another angle. I forgot about this angle. She did so well on the color picking. Oh my gosh. Oh. Oh, J28. That's why you are you. And oh my god, I literally did put on my 7th Avenue beauty glow. I took that thing, that brush that come with that thing. I was dripping. I was rubbing and dripping. It is 7th Avenue Beauty on the shoulders, chest, arms, collar bone, period. It sure is 7th Avenue Beauty glow on there. Good eye. I definitely used it. I think I used the warm warm one or something. I It gave me a deeper tone. I think I used that one. But you you are correct, ma'am. Um, so this is the other angle. And y'all can see their swag bags on the table right here, too. It's the little white and gold bags. Um, and if y'all didn't try them, just so you know, in those little champagne bottles, those are bubbles you can actually blow. So, you can open it and blow your bubbles, cuz I forgot to tell y'all that while you were there. But you can blow your bubbles. Okay. And there's another one. There's Stacy. Stacy said she was not going to forget that wine to make sure she could get it when she was at home. So, shout out to Stacy. Hey, Stacy. Oh, Queen Leo. I'm going to go back. I actually need to ask Melody a couple questions I need to ask her. Um, can I go back and listen to the recordings because I got to refresh some of my stuff. Then I have someone that took the class that's going to help me do some hands-on portions of it. But uh I never gave up on the class or I took the class. I never gave up on actually doing it. I put too much on my plate to start. So I just have a different timing and and and this is normal for me to take a year, two years, three years. It's it's normal for me. But I got the knowledge and I have the access. So I'mma use it um as I can work it in. I'm going to use it. I think I want to go straight into having contractors hired instead of me and Mr. Trending trying to go out there and do it because I just don't think we have the time. and she does teach you how to, you know, get your contractors and stuff. So, it is worth it in my opinion. Um, especially if you actually ready to start and go. Yes. Um, and if you're not having that in case you can't get the class later, especially if it's a sale or something, I still think you should do it. That's that's me. And I mean, you got Queen Sheba out here uh using the class. You got Auntie Estet Noir out here using the class. You got here for hot tea actually out there using the class. So, I can tell you people that's actually out there doing it, turning their profit. I'm just a slow burner in almost everything I do. So, I'mma say yes. Yes. Yes. U Oh, thank you, Britney Jana. She I love how I know she told I know Stacy walked over there. Stacy has a soft very soft feminine demeanor. So, I know she walked over to the photographer. His name is Antoine. I know she was like, "Excuse me." And I know she tapped him on the shoulder. Excuse me. Excuse me. Um, I would like for you to give me a get a picture of me, please. Uh, thank you. Thank you. Uh, one more. One more. Thank you. I I can see Stacy. I I can see you, Stacy. I don't know how you did it for sure, but I got a idea. Oh, good. Okay, so she found out it was bubbles. Good. When I tell y'all hopefully you can see the price is worth it because this is this would be the price point to do it and hopefully you will come when I have it again cuz Lord willing I will do it again. Lord willing I'm doing it again. All right. I'm glad you're ready. Queen Leo. And um happy birthday my fellow Leo. Yeah. You know that's Stacy. You know that's her personality. Melanin Beauty. Oh, you know what she asked me, Melon Beauty, when she f when I first walked in the door, she was like, "Do you still have our flat iron?" Cuz we were using um I can't remember the name of the brand, but it was a clothing iron, but it was like it's built like a flat iron. And we were using it on the cruise. I was like, "All right, now don't leave off this with my my iron." She was like, "It's our iron." She is that girl. Thank you, Miss Lady One. Justin says, "Stacy is that girl and is." And there's our group photo. Let me get out. Let me move out the way. There's our group photo, y'all. We got everybody in the picture. I was the the key photography I had to have was we all had a picture together and hopefully we all got an individual picture, too. Okay. July 31st. So, we got what we needed. Okay. So there's our group picture and I'll just just in case. So this is cousin trending Dana's daughter. Dana aka Cardi B. Justine my friend the attorney Michelle which is Miss Lady 1's daughter. That's Miss Lady One. Then we have Stacy Leia's grandma plus one and Papa Trending. Okay, let me see here. And then there we are holding our pictures. And then they're sitting beside. We were trying to figure out how to get it with the pictures cuz everybody's paintings weren't dry. So, this was a nice way of getting everybody's picture and then um they were sitting beside their pictures, which is nice. I thought this was a nice setup. Photographers's idea. Great idea. Yay, Bravo. I'm glad. Okay. And there's Miss Lady wanted and her daughter. There's my friend. That's my friend. Okay. So, we got our individual pictures now. Yes. Okay. And then that was me actually asking a real question. If you can tell by the expression on my face, I was honestly asking I think I was asking Justine a question. Thank you, CeCe. I Ashley, I'm going to Yes. Yes, I'm speaking it into existence. It's just a hard yes, I'm doing it again. Sponsors hopefully shall be in my path, but yes, I'm doing it again. And then, let's see here. There's Justine. Justine look like a godmother. And I think that's what you were going for, Justine. But Justine look like my godmother. And then there's Miss Lady One. She had a She had a nice slit in that dress, too, by the way. And then I was just laughing at somebody. I don't know what it was. There's Dana aka Cardi B. There's Leia's Grandma Plus One. And I am holding my birthday gift from Leia's Grandma Plus One. And as I told her, this is my first ever anything from Louis Vuitton. I feel spoiled and special. Thank you again for my gift. And I will show y'all what was in the actual bag, but thank you so much for my gift. And she matched my dress and everything. There's Stacy. Yes, ma'am. And there's Dana's daughter. Okay, this is me reading my card that Leia's grandma plus one got me with the gift there. Just just swag. I don't know what to say. Mr. Trin over here posing. not posing. There he is again. I told y'all him and the photographer, they was he was capturing the moments. And there's me finding out what gift was in the bag and it was earrings. So, I have a pair of Louis Vuitton earrings. Thank you. Yes, Justine. You are you you are my godmother and thank you for saying I'm beautiful. And there's it again a little bit closer with the earrings. I I will be wearing them to work. But this is so cool. Thank you again, Leia's grandma plus one. And then there we are by the stairs together. And then um we wanted to get a picture doing something. The photographer tricked us in a good way. So he was like, "Okay, well walk towards this couch." He was like, "Walk towards this couch." So we walking towards the couch. Let me get it. Oh, there's us some more before we start walking towards the couch. He got that foot kicked out like he know what he doing. Oh, I don't know if y can see. He got that foot kicked out. He don't know what he doing. And there's another one by the stairs. This one. And the one coming up. We thought we were going to the couch to take the picture. The photographer was already taking the picture cuz as I said, he likes to capture the candid moments when you're not trying to pose. So this is what these are and they turned out better. And we never sat on that couch cuz it wasn't about the couch like that one. That one right there, probably one of my favorites. Top top three of my favorites for sure. That was it. And he was saying something smart. I'm telling y'all, every time you see him smiling, he was saying something smart. Don't let him fool you. And there goes Dana, our Cardi B. And then there's Mr. Trending again. There he is again. And then I was talking to somebody. There's Mr. Trenon in the background. And there's Ben from his company, Ben Creative. And that's the picture I got to take home that's on the table. That's the one he did. And that's Oh, and that's it. That is it. Cooling and ice, right? Cooling and ice. Yes. But I hope y'all enjoyed this little walk through. Tear down was easy. We went home to change, came back, gathered our few items. Uh, everybody tore down nicely. They cleaned up. We didn't we had minimal stuff. It was more that stuff that we brought that we had to take back. It was a It was an easy night. It was a lot of planning leading up to it, but then the night itself was very easy. And yeah, so I do hope to do this again because it turned out so nicely. I just could I just want to be able to do it again. I do. So yeah, I hope y'all enjoyed that. Um I if y'all have questions, I'll stay to see if y'all type anything just to make sure because I said I would save it to the end. I want to make sure I got to the point though just in case for people that clicked in here. Thank you J28 for staying and watching. Yeah. Shoot. This is this is like a thank you to y'all. So I appreciate you being here to see it. Thank you. Yeah, this was a great great great experience for sure. Y'all, September 2026 hopefully be ready to travel. I don't know where yet, but be ready to travel. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. She said she over here cheesing. Yes. It was great. Mhm. Okay. Dana. Dana said another one. Got you. Yay, Betty Mac. I'm glad, Betty. I still I I ain't forget about you. I got your dress. I'm just slow, but I got your dress. It's coming one of these days. Thank you, Melanin Beauty. Yeah, Kathy, thank you for watching. Thank you for looking at at the the pictures and everything. Of course, y'all. Shoot. I'm grateful y'all here. Look. Yeah, they almost made me cry. stopped Justine. I wasn't a crybaby yet. You know what J20 Jay Taylor also called me a crybaby Justine so you know it is what it is. Thank you Terry Taby. Okay y'all I don't see any questions. Oh birthday month. Oh yeah. Come on Virgo. Of course Miss Lady one. Come on. So, it it would um be Labor Day weekend because that would be when most of us for those of us that aren't retired could possibly get off for a little time. So, it would be Labor Day weekend that I'm planning on doing it. But stay flexible because you know things happen. They change. So, stay flexible. But that's that's the plan just because of the the natural off time you could kind of get with that. Yes, Justine. Of course. Hey, Janetta. Okay, y'all. Well, then I'mma sign off cuz I think we are good to go. September 2026. Save. Save it for me. Save it.