Vault: Is She Wrong For Not Wanting Kids At Her Reception?

Summary

The Bert Show – "Vault: Is She Wrong For Not Wanting Kids At Her Reception?"

Date: March 25, 2026
Main Cast: Bert, Lindell, Tyler Redick

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Bert Show dives into the nuances of wedding planning, focusing on Lindell's unconventional, chill approach. The hot topic: is she wrong for wanting a child-free wedding reception? The cast breaks down why she’s not losing sleep over the details, the reactions this provokes, and examines the bigger question of whose preferences matter most. The conversation is lively, real, and packed with humor about flatware, dry receptions, and yes—wild tailgate proposals.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Lindell’s Low-Stress Approach to Wedding Planning

• Lindell, unlike most stereotypical brides, is very relaxed about her wedding, prioritizing an enjoyable atmosphere over perfect details.
  • “It's not a big deal to me and I don't get stressed out about it. I figure people will have fun regardless of all the specific little details.” – Lindell (01:14)
• Her attitude is in stark contrast to the wedding planning stress culture—something the cast prods at with gentle teasing.
  • “This is the first time I've ever heard a woman say when she's planning her own wedding day is whatever happens, happens.” – Tyler Redick (02:55)
• Lindell credits her mother with bringing most of the stress, while both she and her fiancé remain unfazed.

2. The "Flatware Phenomenon" and Petty Wedding Details

• The group explores how some details—like matching napkins and flatware—cause unnecessary stress for many brides.
  • “Describe the flatware at the last wedding you went to.” – Bird highlighting how it's rarely remembered (03:35)
• Lindell points out that some basics do matter, like avoiding plastic disguised as metal:
  • "I don't want plastic flatware that looks metal. Like, I want actual, you know, flatware that you would use in your own home." – Lindell (03:50)

3. Not Wanting Kids at the Reception – The Debate

• Lindell says multiple recent wedding experiences informed her preference for a child-free reception—not because of alcohol, but due to logistics and atmosphere:
  • “Just seeing the parents bring their kids in car seats, put the car seat on the table... it totally disrupts just the whole atmosphere of a fun reception.” – Lindell (05:19)
• The cast clarifies: this is a dry reception, scheduled as an afternoon event, yet Lindell still wants to keep it adult-only for a better environment.

4. Reactions to a Dry, Daytime Wedding Reception

• Bert can’t resist poking fun at the prospect of a fun, alcohol-free afternoon party:
  • “What sober adult gets into a photo booth?” – Bird (06:48)
• The cast jokes about sneaking in flasks and potential tailgates instead of mingling inside.

5. “Tailgating” and Reception Alternatives

• Bert and Tyler suggest tailgating outside the ceremony, complete with an inflatable chair, grill, and a Winnebago. Lindell laughs it off, saying she wouldn’t be offended:
  • “I would take pictures of that.” – Lindell (08:27)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On wedding apathy:
  • “I'm not really a girl.” – Lindell, joking about not fitting bridal stereotypes (03:06)
  • “There are lots of women out there like that. You just don't… come out and just be like, well, I'm completely opposite. It's just not normal, I guess.” – Lindell on not caring about traditions (05:06)
• On no-kids policies:
  • “It's just not an adult environment.” – Lindell, summing up her reasoning (05:19)
• On dry receptions:
  • “You can have fun without drinking, Bert.” – Lindell (06:07)
  • “If I want plastic flatware, I want plastic flatware that looks plastic.” – Bird, getting a laugh (04:09)
• On tailgating:
  • “Bird will be on the roof of the Winnebago with no shirt on, heckling people who are going to other weddings.” – Bird (08:39)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:49 – Episode Introduced: Wedding planning woes
• 01:14 – Lindell describes her chill wedding approach
• 02:26 – How family brings stress into planning
• 03:35 – The team riffs about wedding flatware
• 05:17 – Lindell’s rationale for a kid-free wedding
• 06:03 – Group reactions to a dry, daytime wedding
• 06:41 – Alternatives to alcohol: photo booth, DJ, games
• 07:12 – Reactions to tales of tailgating at the ceremony
• 08:27 – Lindell on embracing tailgate antics

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Conclusion

This episode encapsulates The Bert Show’s signature mix of humor, honesty, and relatability. The conversation offers a fresh perspective on how much (or how little) tradition and stress really need to factor into wedding planning, especially when it comes to kids at the reception. For listeners grappling with similar dilemmas—or just looking for a laugh at the idea of inflatable furniture at an afternoon wedding—this episode delivers.

Transcript

[Tyler Redick]

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[Alex Kanchowitz]

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[Bird]

The Bird Show.

[Tyler Redick]

So Lindell. I get in studio this morning and I just asked Lindell how her weekend went and it just struck me. It feels like to me, every time I have talked to Lyndall about planning her wedding, it feels like it has been so labored for her. Like, I have never met a woman that it feels to me that dislikes planning a wedding more than you.

[Lindell]

I don't dislike planning my wedding. I just. It's not a big deal to me and I don't get stressed out about it. I was telling you earlier this morning, it's not important to me that the tablecloths match the wallpaper that matches the carpet or like, what specifically you're eating. If it's chicken rosemary or chicken lemon.

[Bird]

Careful what you're saying. Tracy is listening and she is pregnant. We don't need to hurt her heart right now. I know the tablecloths don't have to match the napkins.

[Lindell]

Oh, yes, they do, apparently.

[Bird]

Are you out of your mind? You just got yourself fired.

[Lindell]

I just don't. It's not a big deal to me because I figure people will have fun regardless of all the specific little details. But I know that there are girls out there that that is important to them and that's great and they'll be happy with their wedding, but I'll be happy with my wedding if people enjoy themselves.

[Tyler Redick]

So the whole process, to me in talking to you, you just feel like it's kind of stupid.

[Lindell]

It's not stupid. It's just I didn't realize how much stuff you'd have to do. And I'm not getting stressed Out. And I was telling them last week that it's my mom that stresses me out the most because she gets really anxious about everything, whereas I'm just like, whatever sounds good to me, it works. And I'm just really laid back about it and get things done. And I make a to do list, and everything pretty much gets checked off every week. So.

[Tyler Redick]

How about your fiance? Is he getting stressed out about it?

[Lindell]

No, neither of us are. We're both just really chill and really relax.

[Tyler Redick]

And it's the stress around you that's stressing you out.

[Lindell]

Yeah, it's that. It's that. It's like, the most probably lackadaisical wedding planning ever. Cause it's not lazy. Y' all are getting it done. You're checking things off the list. But I don't know if lackadaisical is the right word, then I don't think people trust the fact that you're not stressed out, which is. Yeah, maybe it's apathetic.

[Tyler Redick]

Yeah.

[Lindell]

This is the first time around wedding planning ever. Like, you're like, I just want to get married. Yeah.

[Tyler Redick]

This is the first time I've ever heard a woman say when she's planning her own wedding day is whatever happens, happens. What?

[Lindell]

Yeah.

[Tyler Redick]

That just goes against your genes right there.

[Lindell]

Oh, yeah.

[Tyler Redick]

You must be lying. You must be covering something.

[Bird]

I don't know.

[Lindell]

I'm not really a girl.

[Bird]

I wonder if there's a time that we could open up the phones and have Lyndall be in studio and have women who are planning their wedding call up and just, like, vent to her about the petty. The thing that you know is petty. The thing that you know. Like, I went in there and I went to the shop and I reserved the, you know, Savannah style flatware, but then they rented it to someone else, and I have a signed contract. Now they have to give me the Savannah Deluxe, and it's different. And just unload on you. And then, Linda, you can say, it's flatware. What are people who. What, describe the flatware at the last wedding you went to.

[Tyler Redick]

That will only anger people more. Calmness will only anger people more. They're looking for some solidarity, and it's not gonna happen.

[Lindell]

It's like little stuff. Like, flatware is important. Like, you'll talk to catering companies and they'll just specifically not. Unless you ask the right questions. You don't get the right answers. And so a lot of times you're like, what kind of flatware they use? And I'm like, whoa. Well, we use you Know, like, recyclable. I'm like, I don't want plastic flatware that looks metal. Like, I want actual, you know, flatware that you would use in your own home.

[Bird]

If I want plastic flatware, I want plastic flatware that looks plastic.

[Lindell]

Yeah, but so a lot of places will.

[Tyler Redick]

I want people to know I don't care.

[Lindell]

Right. Barbecue style. No, but stuff like that that you don't take into consideration. Or. I was talking to Tracy, and she said, make sure you, like, find out how big the plates are. Because they'll just say, oh, yeah, we provide plates. They don't tell you they're, like, the size of a saucer. And you can't put anything on that other than, like, a bread roll. Right.

[Tyler Redick]

It's like going to that. Like on the Atlanta magazine dining out thing where they give you that little itty bitty piece of dish and you can't put any real food on it.

[Lindell]

Right.

[Tyler Redick]

It's the same deal. Good morning, Kelly. You're on Q100.

[Lindell]

Lindell, I am so with you.

[Bird]

I'm 37, got engaged in August, have no desire to plan a wedding at all. I told all my girlfriends they can do it. I. Everyone's like, when's the date?

[Lindell]

When's the date? I'm like, we don't have a date.

[Bird]

I don't care.

[Lindell]

I just want to have a party.

[Bird]

I don't care about any.

[Lindell]

I don't want to plan one thing.

[Bird]

Not one.

[Tyler Redick]

Yeah. It's just for other women to hear that, it must be like, who are you? And keep that to yourself.

[Lindell]

We're not alone. There are lots of women out there like that. You just don't. Because there's the whole Bridezilla myth. You don't come out and just be like, well, I'm completely opposite. It's just not normal, I guess.

[Tyler Redick]

What's going on with the kid issue? Because I know you guys are.

[Lindell]

I have been to so many weddings in the past three years, and that's the best part about me having to plan my wedding. Now I've gotten to see what I do and don't like about everybody else's. And one thing I don't like is little kids at the wedding reception. We don't drink alcohol or anything. And so it's not having to do with, like, it being alcohol related. It's dry wedding reception, whatever. But just seeing the parents bring their kids in car seats, put the car seat on the table that's supposed to sit 10 people, but you can only sit, like, five because they've got their diaper bag, their kid, and like all this stuff that totally disrupts just the whole atmosphere of a fun reception because you've got little kids running around, people pulling the tablecloths and the plates on the floor, and it's just not an adult environment.

[Bird]

So.

[Tyler Redick]

And you said something about a fun reception, but you said there's not going to be any booze there, right?

[Lindell]

Mm. You can have fun without drinking. Bert,

[Bird]

what time is this?

[Tyler Redick]

That's a myth to you?

[Lindell]

I was like, wendy. What?

[Tyler Redick]

Somebody told you, man.

[Lindell]

What?

[Tyler Redick]

Those are not your ideas. No, it's not.

[Bird]

What time is the. What time is the reception?

[Lindell]

Ours is in the afternoon.

[Bird]

Okay.

[Lindell]

It's like one.

[Bird]

One to one.

[Lindell]

Like four.

[Bird]

One to four on a Saturday, right? No alcohol.

[Lindell]

No alcohol.

[Bird]

One to four on a Saturday, huh?

[Lindell]

It's her wedding and she gets what she wants.

[Tyler Redick]

What are the fun things that are planned for this reception to take the place of the booth?

[Lindell]

Well, since you be there with friends, you can talk to your friends. We've got a photo booth, a dj, like, just other stuff to where you.

[Bird]

What sober adult gets into a photo booth? Let me tell you something. I had a photo booth. I had a photo booth at my birthday party. Early pictures, boring. Late pictures, bribery. That's blackmail right there. So, yeah, you know what?

[Lindell]

You can sneak in a flask if you really need to, but you'll be the only drunk person. And we will all laugh.

[Tyler Redick]

Oh, no. There'll be plenty of us. You just won't know it then.

[Lindell]

Like 8 and 9. So we're not allowed to the ceremony.

[Bird]

So can we tailgate?

[Lindell]

We could do something else. We could pre party. Tailgating? Tailgating? Tailgate. Outside the wedding. My thing is that we have not received any invitations yet, so I would say based on this conversation, we may not.

[Bird]

She's talking like her wedding's all done yet. We haven't never.

[Lindell]

I'm ordering them invitations this week. That's my thing to do. No pressure.

[Bird]

Let me ask you. I'm surprised you're not eviting people. Forward this along. Would it be considered. And answer this honestly, but would it be considered offensive if during the ceremony we did tailgate?

[Lindell]

I wouldn't be offended.

[Bird]

Would there be anyone in your family who would be offended?

[Lindell]

No.

[Bird]

Are you sure?

[Lindell]

Come on.

[Tyler Redick]

Come on. It's okay if it will. I'm more probably not. We're gonna do it either way. We're just wondering who we gotta say, what cares?

[Lindell]

They wouldn't care. It's your decision. It's your, it's you, it's not us.

[Tyler Redick]

But I mean if you want to go to hell.

[Bird]

Jeff, with the exception of Carter, we're not going to get schnockered. She's going to be the chaperone puking

[Lindell]

in our house as always.

[Bird]

The hoodie's drunk. It's going to be like I can't commit to that. It'll be a respect. It'll be a respectful intoxicated. I just think it would be funny to have like bring on a full on get somebody's dually F250 with the grill on the back inflatable chair. And when you pull in from your

[Lindell]

room, I would take pictures of that.

[Bird]

There's the bird show in inflatable furniture tailgating.

[Lindell]

These are my co workers.

[Tyler Redick]

Yes, yes, flat screen.

[Lindell]

You won't have to announce it. You have to say, oh my God, is that the bird show?

[Bird]

Bird will be on the roof of the Winnebago with no shirt on, heckling people who are going to other weddings. Oh, what's going on? You're going to the Blobsky wedding. Blocky wedding song. The bird show.

[Tyler Redick]

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[Alex Kanchowitz]

Hi, this is Alex Kanchowitz. I'm the host of Big Technology Podcast, a longtime reporter and an on air contributor to cnbc. And if you're like me, you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence is changing the business world and our lives. So each week on Big Technology, I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech and outsiders trying to influence it, asking where this is all going. They come from places like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and plenty more. So if you want to be smart with your wallet, your career choices, in meetings with your colleagues and at dinner parties, listen to Big Technology podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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