Vault: The Most Unexpected Wedding Story You'll Hear

Summary

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Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Bert Show
Episode: Vault: The Most Unexpected Wedding Story You'll Hear
Date: March 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

This lively and surprising episode centers on one of the most unconventional wedding stories to have graced The Bert Show. The team—joined by Trey, Joel, Jen, Bart, and various callers—dives into the wild journey of Trey, who, after years of saying "this is the year I'll get married," finally takes the plunge. Only, his wedding unfolds in a crowded Atlanta bar, surrounded by friends, family, some shocked bystanders, and even an objecting ex-girlfriend. The episode explores how this spontaneous event came together and how the cast and listeners react to such an unorthodox approach to marriage.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Origin of the "Forced" Marriage Promise

• Background: Four years prior, Trey frequently declared he’d get married "this year," yet never did. Joel, a close friend, took action—he sent out "save the date" cards and set a deadline (01:46).
• Initial Plan: The original vision was a Las Vegas wedding with Trey needing to find a bride by the designated date. The Vegas plan collapsed, but Trey did marry in Atlanta, at Kramer's bar (01:48–02:18).

The Build-Up: How the Wedding Came Together

• Sudden Decision: With little time left, Trey decided one week prior to just "do it." He called Joel, set the date for that weekend, and let the chaos unfold (02:31–02:49).
• About the Bride: Trey met Stephanie (bride) about six weeks before. Their introduction was by chance over an apartment search, with neither expecting it to lead to marriage. She had no idea about the radio angle until after they'd gone on a couple of dates (02:51–03:27).
  • Quote: "She did not know about the radio thing." — Trey (03:25)

The Ceremony: Unexpected Guests, Surprises, and Snafus

• Bar Wedding Details: The wedding boasted traditional elements: suits, a veil, bouquets, legitimate photographer, ordained minister, real flowers, and even a trumpet fanfare—and a released "unity bird" (04:40–07:28).
  • Quote: "We released a pigeon. We had a trumpet. Voluntary. We had a poem that was read." — Joel (07:15)
• Emotional & Comic Interludes: Trey’s mom attended in costume; an ex-girlfriend stood up to object mid-ceremony, causing a stir and some awkward laughter (05:00–05:46).
  • Quote: "One of your ex girlfriends stood up in the midst of the ceremony and said that she objected." — Jen (05:10)
  • Quote: "No, sober as a woman." — Trey, on whether his ex was drunk during her dramatic interruption (05:34)

Legality & Authenticity Questions

• Not Quite Legal: Though heartfelt and filled with pomp, the marriage lacked a valid license, making the union unofficial in the eyes of Georgia law—a main source of debate among the team (06:31–08:10).
  • Quote: "What is a wedding? ...An announcement of your union...in a public setting. It's a legal, legally blind, binding..." — Joel (07:46)
  • Quote: "I think that's the way everybody should get married, actually." — Trey (07:33)
  • Quote: "It had everything except a marriage license." — Bart (07:31)

The Social Experiment: Reactions from Friends, Family, and Listeners

• Mixed Feelings: The group reflects lightheartedly, but callers and spouses voice skepticism and even disappointment, viewing the wedding as undermining the institution's seriousness (10:55–12:03).
  • Quote: "This is the most ridiculous piece you guys have ever done...Marriage is something so special." — Caller Susan (11:05)
  • Quote: "This just laughs at our marriage...spits in the face of our marriage." — Bart, relaying his wife’s feelings (11:51)
  • Trey’s Defense: "It's just one way of doing it, you know? I mean, there's a million ways to do it." (11:59)

Was It All for Show?

• Real Intentions?: Debate continues whether the marriage was genuine or simply a fulfillment of a radio bit. Trey reveals an exclusive (if contractless) commitment to his new wife, and Joel jokes about finally delivering on his promise (12:49–13:28).
  • Quote: "He was gonna get married January 17, 2009. He got married January 17, 2009." — Joel (13:14)
  • Quote: "Gotta do what you gotta do." — Trey (13:27)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Let's take it week by week, day by day, hour by hour." — Trey, on his new marriage (04:18)
• "It was more of a convincing than an asking." — Trey, describing the 'proposal' (08:45)
• "Nobody knew her." — Joel, admitting he met the bride as she walked the aisle (09:01)
• "Watch it work out for the rest of their lives." — Bart (09:50)
• "If this is the relationship right now that actually lasts forever, it's going to make an ugly statement..." — Bart, humorously pondering the ramifications (09:51)

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Timeline of Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment/Event | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:45–02:17| Background: The origins of Trey's "I'll get married this year" declaration | | 02:31–02:49| Trey's decision to go through with the wedding | | 03:25–03:38| The bride hears about the radio bit | | 04:40–05:00| Trey's mom in costume, atmosphere at the bar wedding | | 05:10–05:46| Ex-girlfriend objects during ceremony | | 06:48–07:28| Unique touches: poem, trumpet, pigeons, lacking a license | | 08:31–09:03| Revealing none of Trey's friends had met the bride beforehand | | 10:46–10:50| Caller echoes the merits of "bar weddings" | | 11:05–12:03| Callers voice disappointment at the unseriousness of the marriage | | 13:08–13:28| Final commitment: exclusively seeing each other, fulfilling the obligation |

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Tone and Takeaways

• Playful, irreverent, occasionally heartfelt: The episode is classic Bert Show—blending real friendship, comic reflexes, and a willingness to explore uncomfortable topics.
• Debate about tradition vs. spontaneity: While the group laughs about the "best wedding ever," listeners remind them of the gravity real marriages hold for many.
• Underlying sincerity: Through the jokes, Trey and the hosts acknowledge the unusual circumstances but maintain a layer of genuine connection and support.

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For listeners who missed this episode:
You’ll get a unique peek at how one wild promise—a wedding deadline—turned into a night at the bar with all the trappings (except legality), and how radio, friendships, and real emotions mix when life’s big moments get spontaneous.

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Transcript

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[Jen]

Get it?

[Trey]

The Bird Show.

[Bart]

Well, look at him. I mean, he looks totally different as a married guy.

[Trey]

Glowing.

[Jen]

Hi, groom.

[Caller Fred]

Hello.

[Trey]

Hello.

[Jen]

I like your ring.

[Trey]

Thank you.

[Bart]

Yeah, let's see that ring. Hey, there's no ring on your face.

[Trey]

It's white, clear gold. The ring actually broke, to be honest with you, along with my phone and. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Bart]

How does a ring break? What was it made out of?

[Trey]

It was made out of a material much like gold, but not gold, probably. So, no, it did actually break, but I was wearing it. You can see it in the pictures.

[Bart]

All right, let's go back here for just a second. Jen, why don't you tell the history here of rewind, rewind, rewind.

[Jen]

When did this first start?

[Joel]

August, about four years ago.

[Jen]

Well, Joel and Trey are in studio today, and Joel and Trey are good buddies. And Joel came to us and said, you know what, my friend Trey always says that, this is the year I'm gonna get married. This is the year I'm gonna get married. And then he never did. Well, Trey's 35. So Joel said, you know what? I'm gonna take care of this for you. I'm set your wedding date and I'm sending out save the dates. So he did. He sent out save the dates for January 17th. And originally the plan was for Trey to find a bride and get married in Las Vegas. Well, the Vegas thing didn't happen, but Trey got married over the weekend here in Atlanta.

[Bart]

And that's it right there at a bar.

[Jen]

Did I miss anything?

[Trey]

That pretty much sums it up in a nutshell.

[Bart]

Now, when we talked to you two weeks ago, you said, nah, probably not gonna happen here. Not really. Any strong candidates and then two weeks later, you're married to a strong candidate.

[Trey]

Right? Right. What happened? I don't know. Last week I was like, I just had a pair. And I was like, I'm gonna do it. I said I was gonna do it. Let's do it. So I called Joel on Wednesday, I think, of last week, said, Saturday night, we're gonna do this thing. So we did, and I got married.

[Jen]

Tell everybody about your bride.

[Trey]

My bride is. She's my age. She's 35, which is.

[Jen]

I was very excited about the age appropriateness. Thank you.

[Trey]

And she's very willing to participate in the wedding we had Saturday, which was cool. So very laid back and just worked out. So I met her about a month and a half ago at my office. Manager at the fir. Bus was looking for an apartment, and she was getting rid of an apartment, and so that's how we ran into her.

[Jen]

And she didn't know about the radio thing, is what I heard.

[Trey]

She did not know about the radio thing.

[Bart]

That makes it more legit.

[Jen]

Yeah, that's kind of cool. And then she. Your office manager, Allison, told me that she didn't believe you when you told her about the radio thing.

[Trey]

No, I don't.

[Jen]

She was like, no way.

[Trey]

Yeah. She was taken back, I think, a little bit about that. But, you know, that's just the way love works sometimes.

[Jen]

So which came first, talking about the radio thing or your actual proposal to her? You know what I mean? Like, I'm curious how she found out about this and what the steps were in that.

[Trey]

She found out about the radio thing before the whole. Will you marry me?

[Caller Fred]

Okay.

[Trey]

You know, so we have. We had gone out a couple of times, and, you know, of all the people, I guess is the one that I could go through with this with.

[Bart]

You could see yourself spending the rest of your next couple of months with her.

[Trey]

Let's take it week by week, day by day, hour by hour. We have a new president coming in, and just focus on that right now.

[Jen]

Are you guys living together?

[Trey]

We are not living together.

[Bart]

It's a marriage that you guys are not. It's not a marriage. You didn't get married this week.

[Trey]

I did get married. Did you see me get married?

[Jen]

I saw that. I mean, it was the real.

[Trey]

Thank you.

[Jen]

Ordained minister. Right?

[Bart]

It was a ceremony.

[Jen]

Ceremony. And your mom was there.

[Trey]

My mom was there, which was the best part. My mom. We were wearing, believe it or not, normal suits. Everybody looks normal.

[Jen]

Everybody looked great.

[Trey]

Yeah. And then my mom shows up with her friend in a costume,

[Bart]

which was

[Trey]

the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

[Jen]

Now, I mean, I will say that one of the moments for me that stood out the most was one of your ex girlfriends standing up in the midst of the ceremony and saying that she objected.

[Bart]

Oh, she did? Really? Oh, no, no, she didn't.

[Jen]

She jumped up. There was a bench where Trey's mom and his mom's friend were sitting so that they could have front row to the ceremony so they could see everything that was going on. Because it was a crowded bar at Kramer's, and so I happened to be standing next to Trey's ex girlfriend, and she jumped up and said that she objected.

[Bart]

Come on.

[Joel]

Had to grab her and pull her down off the bench.

[Bart]

Get out of here.

[Trey]

Really?

[Bart]

Was she hammered?

[Trey]

No, sober as a woman.

[Bart]

Totally sober.

[Trey]

It was funny.

[Joel]

We laughed.

[Trey]

It was good. Yeah, it was very fitting. So she was cool with it.

[Jen]

So I don't know. Her friends were kind of consoling her.

[Bart]

Gentle. She was young.

[Jen]

Her friends were petting her, going, you know, it's okay.

[Joel]

It's okay.

[Jen]

It's gonna be okay. I promise.

[Bart]

Why did she even go there if she was gonna be so broken up about it? Why did she even go? Somebody forced her to go.

[Jen]

I'm sure she was just wondering if it was actually gon happen.

[Trey]

I. Yeah, I guess so. I thought she was kind of cool with it, but I don't know. I said, that's pretty interesting. She did object. She was the only one that objected too.

[Bart]

That's more shocking than it is.

[Trey]

That's the most shocking part.

[Bart]

I'm surprised the bride didn't stand up and go, you know what? I. I don't really. No, I'm not gonna be right. So right after the quote unquote, I'm having a tough time calling it a wedding. A, because it would happen at a bar. B, there's no marriage license.

[Jen]

Right.

[Trey]

Bert, where are you? With love, For God's sakes, man. The reality part of it, this is what happened. Let me just walk you through it, because it was the greatest wedding of all time. We had it. It was completely set up in the bar. We had the balloons and real flowers. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to turn out. Joel did a poem in the middle of the wedding ceremony.

[Jen]

Oh, he also played.

[Trey]

Yeah.

[Jen]

Was that a bugle?

[Bart]

Yeah.

[Trey]

Basically he played some kind of horn as the bride came down the somewhat aisle in the bar. It was just majestic, really. And I forgot where I was going with this, but it was. It was really cool, actually. I was really impressed and had a great time and my mom was there and we got a lot of pictures and it was a legit deal, really.

[Joel]

I mean, yeah, we hired a wedding photographer. We had an ordained minister. We had. We. We released a pigeon. We had a trumpet. Voluntary. We had a poem that was read

[Trey]

the unity bird in the bar.

[Bart]

It had everything except a marriage license.

[Trey]

I think that's the way everybody should get married, actually, because we got married. We walked out the front door with everybody cheering, got in a limo that I didn't know was there, went around the block, it dropped us back off in the bar, and we came back inside and had the reception.

[Joel]

It was as real as a wedding can be. In Kramer's and Buckhead, it was. I mean, everything was legit. I mean, honestly, though, what. What is a wedding? It's. It's a. An announcement of your union to another person in a public setting. It's a legal, legally blind, binding. Trey Humphries is married.

[Jen]

It is legal if you say it in public. How does that.

[Bart]

I know it's not.

[Trey]

What are you, a lawyer? Come on, come on, come on now. It's a law team at the virtual.

[Bart]

I mean, you're going to break her up? I mean, if you guys break up in two days, there's no. Nothing's going to be, you know, divide it up.

[Jen]

You don't have to get an attorney.

[Trey]

Well, I hope not. If that happens, I hope I don't have to get an attorney.

[Bart]

Was this an agreement that she made with you? Was the proposal one of, hey, let's just do this Saturday night. If it doesn't work out, it's fine, you know, I mean, we're just gonna.

[Trey]

I mean, obviously there's an element of, you know, this is kind of off the wall and random, so. Yeah, I would assume that that's going through her head.

[Jen]

You didn't get down on bended knee to propose?

[Bart]

Yeah. How did you propose?

[Trey]

No, I just kind of asked. I didn't. It wasn't the. It was kind of a last minute thing, so it wasn't the whole romantic thing. It was more of a convincing than an asking.

[Jen]

I think you might need that in

[Joel]

the future too, considering. I mean, considering I met her on Saturday.

[Trey]

Nobody. Nobody knew her.

[Bart]

You met her for the first time on Saturday?

[Joel]

I met her when she was about to walk down the aisle.

[Bart]

What, so you didn't even. You weren't even sure he was getting married or not?

[Joel]

Well, I mean, he told. I mean, he told me this is what's going on. This is who I've been seeing yada, yada, yada, for weeks. But I'd never met her.

[Trey]

What?

[Bart]

Wendy?

[Jen]

I mean, you're supposed to introduce her to the best friend.

[Trey]

Can't just, hey, Joel, the guy that put me up into this.

[Jen]

No, we can say her name, right? Is she okay with that? Mm. Stephanie.

[Trey]

Yeah.

[Jen]

Humphrey, she was beautiful. She's an absolutely beautiful woman, a beautiful bride. She had on a fantastic wedding gown. I was like, I couldn't believe she was wearing that at Kramer's. I'm like, that is way too nice of a dress to be in this place. And, I mean, she had the bouquet, the veil, the whole thing. Like, hair done, look gorgeous, watch it

[Bart]

work out for the rest of their lives.

[Jen]

That's what I told her.

[Bart]

It's like 50% of our audience right now is, like, divorced. And if this is the relationship right now that actually lasts forever, it's going to make an ugly statement, and you're

[Joel]

going to have a lot of people calling you to have their wedding staged on.

[Jen]

Well, they won't be arguing because they're not in the same house.

[Bart]

That's right. Do you even have her cell number? Yeah,

[Jen]

I am Facebook aol. They super poke every now and then.

[Bart]

Hey, Fred. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller Fred]

Hey, good morning. Yeah, I was just listening to that Trey story. And my wife and I met in October. We were married in December in a bar by the bartender who was an ordained minister from Internet church. And it's. It's the best way to get married because I did the big, fancy wedding the first time I got married, and that didn't work out too good, but quick fire at the bar. Best way to do it.

[Bart]

And you've been married for how long now?

[Caller Fred]

Over a year and a half right now.

[Bart]

Okay.

[Jen]

There you go.

[Bart]

Thank you, Trey.

[Jen]

There is hope.

[Trey]

I got a year and a half to beat. Thanks, Fred.

[Bart]

Susan, good morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller Susan]

Hey, guys. First, I just wanted to say that I've been listening to you from the very beginning. And I love the show like everybody else, but.

[Caller Fred]

But.

[Caller Susan]

And forgive me, Trey, because I'm not, you know, normally like this, but this is the most ridiculous piece you guys have ever done.

[Bart]

Totally agree.

[Caller Susan]

And I have. I have never, ever, ever called in, first of all, but simple Marriage is something so special. It's so special. I just can't believe that you. Number one, you put it on the air, but number two, that Trey went out and did this. I Just wanted to say I was just a little bit disappointed.

[Bart]

I didn't realize how offended my wife was at this whole thing until we were talking about it late last week. She's like, melissa's absolutely right, because Melissa kind of went off on it last week also, and I didn't want to turn this thing into, like, any serious debate or, you know, serious political, you know, and my wife said the same thing. She's like, this is ridiculous. This just laughs at our marriage. It's. It's. It spits in the face of our marriage.

[Caller Susan]

Exactly.

[Bart]

And I thought, it's a radio segment. And she said, maybe to you, but to others that are listening, like, this is a serious thing. That is ridiculous.

[Trey]

It's just one way of doing it, you know? I mean, there's a million ways to do it.

[Caller Susan]

Well, Bart, let me just say that when. When you normally have Trey and his friend on most the time, I turn it. But I did hear it a little bit this morning, and I did want to find out whether he did get married or not. So I did hang in.

[Bart]

So we got you.

[Caller Susan]

Yeah.

[Bart]

So inevitably, we got you. Why isn't she on with us this morning? The beautiful blushing bride?

[Trey]

I don't think she's ready for radio yet. She's. She's kind of a. Although she went through the bar scene, I think it's gonna take her a little while to get on the radio, you know, so.

[Bart]

Think she's embarrassed by you?

[Trey]

Probably most people are. Or maybe my mom, since she was in the costume, which was awesome.

[Bart]

So are you guys. I mean, you're saying you're officially married, but I think in the eyes of Georgie, you're probably not. Are. Are the two of you at least exclusively seeing each other?

[Trey]

We are seeing each other. We got married. I didn't get a license. I have not done that yet. It was a minister who declared the. You know, the ceremony, so, you know, kind of is what it is.

[Bart]

So you will see no other women and she is gonna see no other guy until this relationship either plays out or not.

[Trey]

Yeah.

[Bart]

Okay.

[Joel]

Ultimately.

[Jen]

Sorry, I had to sneeze.

[Bart]

Ultimately, there it goes.

[Joel]

Gay fulfilled an obligation. He was gonna get married January 17, 2009.

[Bart]

Okay.

[Joel]

He got married January 17, 2009.

[Bart]

Okay. So that's really is the bottom line. It was an obligation, and it got done right.

[Trey]

Gotta do what you gotta do.

[Jen]

And look at him.

[Caller Susan]

He's glowing.

[Bart]

Watch it last forever.

[Trey]

Book deal, movie deal.

[Bart]

Watch it absolutely last forever. All right, you guys, thanks for the update.

[Jen]

Get it.

[Trey]

The bird show.

[Amber Hunt]

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