I don’t know what’s happened to Selena and Chelsea lately, but I had to write this review since they were extremely helpful during my wedding planning! I laughed a ton and listened to the show often just to de-stress. They are so chill and easygoing. Love you and best of luck betches!

Nothing against the hosts but not a fan. I think there was too much focus on comedy and being funny and ranting rather than sharing information. I was listening to the episode about destination weddings and could not get through the episode. The hosts were constantly speaking over the guests and it was hard to hear the guest share info over the two hosts trying to share unrelated personal stories. I much preferred Nicole and Jordana. Hosts with good banter but not so much focus on trying to be funny, this isn’t your stand up comedy show. They also just weren’t funny.

I have listened to nearly every episode going back to 2019 and I’m re-listening to many episodes as my wedding quickly approaches. While Taylor was my favorite host, I’ve enjoyed something about each host since (except Nicole, who seemed to grow more out of touch with every episode). It’s an asset to the podcast that they go in a totally new direction every season. Looking forward to what comes next.

I lived for Fallon Carter she is the main reason I listen to betches brides. She brought the best perspective that I need. A lot of the wedding podcasts are conversations and not informational. That’s annoying!! I miss you Fallon🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

With the new hosts, I don’t get how they have a not great rating! I get so pumped when I see a new episode drop and I find it relaxing to hear people chat through the things I think about constantly since my own wedding is coming up! I love the stories and hearing about other brides and it makes me feel less alone!

Sometimes entertaining but ultimately not helpful at all

In my opinion, this feels like Selena’s personal vent session to verbalize and rationalize her choices for her own wedding coming up. As much as I love wedding content, this is wayyy too much about her own plans and it’s getting exhausting when the conversation monopolizes to every little choice she’s making. My suggestion would be to structure it more and bring in actual professionals that cater to a broad audience with lots of options!

I agree that Fallon sometimes left a poor taste in my mouth, but I would love to have more structure on the show and, gasp, advice on throwing a somewhat traditional wedding. If I wanted to hear people talking about their weddings or venting, I’d scroll tik tok. Some actually concrete advice from experts would be appreciated!

Selena and Chelsea are very loud and talk over each other, which makes the podcast hard to follow. The previous host, Fallon, brought years of expertise and worthwhile topics of conversation, while these new hosts bring basic, WASPy, loud banter on hypothetical concepts. Not to mention, Fallon’s voice was soothing, whereas Selena and Chelsea’s aren’t and very annoying. Regarding the 7/15 episode: Nobody cares about your one-off bachelorette recap if you’re not offering sound advice. It also wasn’t giving any wish-fulfillment.

2025 bride here and this podcast has been pretty instrumental in helping me launch into wedding planning. With Fallon at the helm, I felt I was getting in depth, highly detailed industry professional information about the ins-and outs of wedding planning. I especially loved that each episode was focused on a specific area of wedding planning and often featured talks from industry professionals and brides currently in the planning process. The most recent iteration of this podcast seems to have abandoned the educational format for a comedy focused podcast. While the new gals seem charming, I leave each episode feeling like I got no substance out of it, and I’ve started to pivot to other wedding podcasts as a result. I love listening to wedding content, so I’ll likely try to stick it out with the new format, but some more focused, informational content may be a good balance to the more fluffy, silly, tone of the current show.

I enjoy the updated take on weddings from the new hosts. A millennial myself, I find it so refreshing to hear how Selena is planning a fiscally responsible wedding, rather than blowing the equivalent of a down payment of a home on a singular event. I appreciate the priorities of the new Betches Brides hosts; having listened to the last set of hosts, I find the current set to be more realistic and down-to-earth in planning for the big day.

I started listening when Fallon was the host and loved her!! She was an actual expert in the field and gave such helpful advice for difficult aspects of the wedding planning process and had such structured interviews with other experts! With the new hosts, I finish an episode and feel like I got nothing from it. The one planning a wedding just talks about what she’s been doing for her wedding, which is great, but not really any helpful advice for those of us doing wedding planning.

I love listening to this podcast- these hosts are so funny, they keep it quick and all of their stories are relevant and helpful. I love the real life examples that they have for each episode and look forward to each new episode even though I’m not currently planning a wedding.

Getting married in 4 months, and have been obsessed w this podcast for the past year listening to Nicole, Jordana and Fallon. Fallon wasn’t perfect but the podcast had structure and she was super helpful. These girls seem nice and funny and all but I’m getting zero advice. So if im not having a “themed” (????) wedding and buy a knee-length wedding dress for $150 on poshmark IM not relatable??? This last episode when they said “i really want to do appetizers at cocktail hour because im obsessed w hors-d’oeuvres”, huh?? as opposed to what??? Are appetizers a hot take now? Im all for a combo of non traditional and traditional wedding advice, thats what makes it interesting but looks like they took it too far on just the nontraditional.

I’ve never listened to a pod about wedding planning before and find Selena, Chelsea and Jaz’s takes on non-traditional weddings so refreshing. Plus, their chemistry is great, the stories are fun and the episodes fly by. Highly recommend!

Not helpful for wedding planning at all!! Fallon was way better at actually addressing hard aspects of the wedding planning process. I loved the guest brides and expert advice. Don’t think they got the mark here - people listening are looking for advice not a show that puts down traditional weddings!

I have been listening for years and have gone through a number of host and I am extremely disappointed with the new trio. They ramble and don’t offer anything relevant or useful! I am 3 months from my wedding I will probably stop listening or go back to old episodes since these have been painful to listen too. Honestly seems like they hate wedding and would judge anyone for having a traditional wedding

Fallon was the best host this show ever had and had a great structure of interviewing specialists in different facets of the wedding. Some other folks have indicated that she had too posh of taste but that isn’t any different from the hosts of other Betches podcasts and she was the only one removed from her show. Now we’re back to hearing from random people about their wedding plans, which feels just like Instagram reels. I’m sure the current hosts are wonderful as comedians but that wasn’t the point of this podcast.

As a bride in the midst of wedding planning, I was really looking forward to this podcast coming back for some advice and guidance. Unfortunately, the weddings they talk about seem so non-traditional and abstract that it is not very relevant to most people and topics because their wedding plans are so unique. Maybe they could read some listener questions or give advice? Was really hoping to have a host that was really interested in weddings and in the midst of all things planning and excited.

Half of the time they are just complaining about things. Fallon wasn’t a perfect host, but offered actual advice and the podcast had structure. New version is not helpful at all.

New hosts are so funny and refreshing! Loving the new vibes

This is such a great podcast to commiserate about the many complicated feelings around wedding planning. Selena and Chelsea are amazing!!! Can’t wait to listen more.

Listened to about half of the first episode back and couldn’t get through it. Found the new hosts obnoxious. Also every 30 seconds there was an ad

Already loving Selena and Chelsea so much as hosts. Their content feels much more relatable.

Nicole still remains the best host. Fallon seems too posh and out of touch for the average american.

I wanted to love this podcast. As a 2024 bride I was looking for guidance and commiseration through this wild process. But, Fallon just doesn’t deliver that. She has strong opinions and tastes which I get, but they often go against the grain, and she delivers them in a way that makes the listener feel bad if they want or need to do something else. Like her anti-wedding party stance is understandable, but I can hear her role her eyes every time someone brings the topic up. A lot of people want to be supported and surrounded by close friends on their wedding day. That is not crazy. As a host of a big podcast she should be able to respect that. That’s just an example. I had to stop listening because her attitude was stressing me out.

I’ve been a long time listener due to my long engagement. I started listening when Nicole was the host and ADORED her. She was always so helpful. I slowly have stopped listening with Fallon as the host. She constantly says “that part,” is completely out of touch with non-luxury weddings, & laughs at her own jokes. Maybe I’m not the demographic, but I definitely felt like I had a reasonable budget for my wedding and I feel defeated after listening to this podcast. Almost like it’s not enough. Also pet peeve: the host and guest looking at pictures and talking about it when we can’t see it. It’s a podcast. At least describe what you’re looking at.

This podcast has been going downhill for a while, the topics are uninteresting. The latest episode discussing dress codes was especially bad though. Fallon and guest were rating wedding guest dresses that listeners supposedly submitted. The hosts launched into discussing what they liked or disliked about each outfit without even attempting to describe it to the listeners properly. This is a podcast!!

This is my favorite podcast for brides because of its high sound quality and Fallon’s deep expertise. While I appreciate that luxury weddings are Fallon’s speciality, I do wish guests and she offered more suggestions for couples with modest budget so I could finish most episodes feeling excited about things to try.

I’ve listened to this podcast from the very beginning. I’ve had long term partner that knew engagement was on the horizon (even though it was unknowingly years away when I started listening). Fallon sounds like a luxury event planner and it makes me feel like I’m poor even though I feel like I have a healthy budget for my wedding. As an engaged bride now, episodes when they bring on professionals (Zola, Minted, etc.) are less than helpful. I loved the Nicole years of this podcast the most! And this podcast works the best when they have real brides on or bridal influencers answering questions. There are so many microinfluencers sharing bridal content and I would love to hear more about their wedding! I love the lead up, but I also love wedding reviews! Pretty much came here to say: more bride questions and more bride interviews (pre and post wedding).

I took a long time to come here because as a bride, I started from the beginning when I got engaged and have laughed through early planning with the podcast. But I am just not vibing with Fallon as the host, which pains me to say. It seems she has gotten increasingly snarky as time goes on, and as a gal in the thick of planning I’m finding the episode content less helpful. This podcast is at its best when brides are asking and answering real life questions. There is value in having a planner, but at least please give us more interviews with brides like the series you used to do. I’m sad because I do love this podcast! But it no longer brings joy OR helpful tips….

I’m a new-ish listener, but I’ve worked my way through a bunch of old episodes. Yes, this podcast is event detail - heavy…BUT the episode “Make Your Ceremony a Priority” showed so much thoughtful consideration! As a wedding rabbi, it was much appreciated, and I loved the creative answers about all kinds of ceremony questions. Well done!

This podcast helped me be creative, make decisions and generally feel less alone in the wedding planning process. The current episodes are great and there’s a great catalog of older episodes that are helpful too!

I love Fallon’s takes and she’s always very protective of the brides and what they want. I love and appreciate that! 🤍 keep it up. It’s very validating as a bride that what I want matters!

So cringe when Fallon is not-so-secretly judging her brides’ plans or opinions by saying “hmm!” or “okay!” in a passive aggressive tone.

Maybe I’m not the right demo for this podcast. It seems like they lean towards brides with massive budgets. This is fine but it can be really jarring when you’re working with a more standard budget to hear the woes of people who apparently have no budget (oh, you bravely planned a mini moon and a massive honeymoon because you didn’t want to just go home after the wedding??? This is a non-issue for 99% of people). And I think the budget discrepancy is particularly jarring when they’re talking to budget brides. The episode with a bride who was about 2 years out from her small wedding was bizarre. It felt like the host and the guest really didn’t know what to do with her. But, like a lot of other people, I really lost some respect for the show during the “no ring, no bring” convo. So many people are together for years, have children, buy houses, etc before they get married. And many people choose not to ever get married. It’s so disrespectful to say that their relationships aren’t valid until a ring is on someone’s finger. The host talks about being single a lot, so that whole convo felt just confusing and icky. Appreciate some of the advice I heard here, but I’m going to be finding another podcast that better aligns with my budget and values.

Happened to listen to no ring no bring as my first episode of this pod. Will also be my last. How is Fallon the host of this show? Saying relationships are invalid unless you’re married is disgusting. There’s lot of unhappily married people so she has no idea what she’s talking about. BRIDES do not take advice from this lady, you will have no friends and a really bad wedding.

I thought it was strange that every other episode opens with Fallon monologuing about how she’s trying to manifest a boyfriend (like what?? lol), but after that insane No Ring No Bring episode freakout about how an 8 month relationship where the couple lives together isn’t serious enough to merit a +1 because “they’ll probably break up in three months,” it’s clear she’s extremely bitter about being single and it’s bleeding into her professional life. The event inquiry form on Fallon’s website sets $300k as the LOWEST client budget she accepts, which tells you how realistic her advice is for the average couple and why she is so condescending to non-multimillionaires. Also, petty, sorry, but that faux-folksy down home Kamala Harris accent with the constant verbal tics — “that part,” “lock n load, “copy that,” “I was likeee,” — IS SO CREEPY AND MAKES ME WANT TO GOUGE MY EYES OUT WITH A FORK. Still better than the last couple hosts though lmaooooooo 🤡🤡🤡

The host Fallon doesn’t allow any other perspectives besides from her own. Completely steamrolled her guest when he had another perspective on inviting a plus one. And also doesn’t believe that a relationship matters if you’re not married.

Fallon’s opinion of “no ring, no bring” is extremely outdated and off putting. She says anyone without an engagement ring isn’t in a valid relationship which is extremely condescending. This was the first episode I’ve listened to since Fallon took over and can confidently say I will never listen again.

I really liked listening to this podcast every week and of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However in the episode from October 16th Fallon’s delivery of her opinion of the friend asking for a plus one was harsh. I totally agreed with Sean, I think if a couple lives together then it is appropriate to invite the both of them together to a wedding. Obviously it’s different if they don’t live together, but Fallon just kept reiterating how their relationship wasn’t “valid” because they aren’t engaged or married. Girl please, it’s 2023, some people choose to never get married! Who are you to decide if someone’s relationship is valid or not? Obviously if the friend is important to the bride and the friend is serious enough with this guy to live with him then just invite him! All this is coming from a 2024 bride who totally understands how difficult it is to make a guest list, I just feel like some things should be done out of common courtesy.

I loved the old episodes with Taylor, Nicole, and Jordana! The episodes were pointed on topics, but I felt that I got something out of most episodes even if it was just entertainment and feeling less alone in the wedding planning process. I initially thought Fallon had a lot of potential as a great host, but I’ve found her to be very judgey and definitive about certain ideas and many are just plain wrong. Additionally, the new format is boring, and most weeks go by where I’m disappointed by yet another week focusing on a topic that has no relevance to me. Bring back the format including a Betches personality, or better yet more than one!

Love the new(ish) format and host. Fallon is fantastic - an expert and great energy. I’d love to learn more about her experience as an entrepreneur too.

Hate this new format and Fallon is so full of herself. I miss the podcast when Nicole was a host and you could really bond with her and her guests. Fallon isn’t the vibe for podcasting

Thank you Fallon for all your fabulous topics. So relatable and helps me manages the many wedding planning stresses.

I love, love, LOVE this podcast. Hearing all the different aspects and topics of wedding planning has helped me feel more confident and more knowledgeable when planning my own wedding.

Updating my review to say I think the pod has taken criticism from the audience and I’m loving it! I love hearing from different kinds of brides and experts. And Fallon! She is incredible! I think the pod has finally gotten it’s groove back! I’m really liking Fallon, but I wish she would talk to brides with more realistic weddings. I feel like I have a significant budget for my wedding and I’m still dumbfounded by some of these brides. 3 bachelorette trips??? The average bride isn’t doing these things. Not to mention Over The Moon has a $15,000 minimum budget for working with them. Seems a bit far fetched for the average bride.

Longtime listener (engaged 2021 and getting married in July 2023) and have listened to most episodes, and find the content helpful, and the hosts and guests usually make me feel more sane, since wedding planning feels like a non-stop frenzy. Fallon is extremely knowledgeable and I love having a wedding planner guide the discussions and talk to RBBs. Hearing an expert navigate questions from real brides provides helpful, relatable advice every week, and it’s a welcome change from influencers and super luxury designers. Ie, a recent episode with the bride from Maine - so great!! I also love that Fallon has a perspective. Most brides WANT the input of experts, and it’s so helpful when Fallon has tactful but strong advice for wavering brides. I’m happy Samantha‘s hosting was short lived because of all the things previous reviewers have outlined, and while I really did enjoy Nicole & Jordana and miss them, I’m happy they concluded their era now that their weddings are over, and have handed the mic to Fallon. I hope she stays for a while! I never write reviews but this podcast has been with me for a long time through the wedding planning process and I just have to voice my appreciation. Cheers to the Fallon era, and thank you!

I love the bride guide. As much as I liked hearing from a real bride, getting the advice on how to actually plan is so refreshing. I love how candid Fallon is.

I’ve been listening for almost 2 years now (long engagement!) and while I really like the new host Fallon, I do prefer the old format. I like hearing from a real bride every now and then but I miss the listener questions, the little games at the end, and how the hosts/guests would just talk about 1 or 2 topics in depth rather than about one wedding for the whole episode. Also, Cinco de Mayo is not Costa Rican. That was painful to listen to haha.