Dark Energy Thursday (Acquired Style Wedding, House of Stassi, Brooks Nader, Bran Flakez)

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**Christy** (1:43)
Hey everybody, what's up? Welcome back to another episode of Snark Bait. I'm Christy.

**Sophie** (1:48)
I'm Sophie, and we are doing things a little differently today. Because we had some scheduling issues, so we don't have a What's the Snark episode today Okay. so we are basically doing Dark Energy Thursday. So, which is exciting. Influencer edition, or, you know, Bravo Liberty, because we're going to talk about House of Stassi.
So, yeah, I am excited. Christy, how are you doing? By the way, Christy was just telling me, like, just, you know, talking about, like, real life stuff. And I was like, okay, let's get this fucking show on the road. I was like, hit record, Nance.

**Christy** (2:24)
No, I know.
It's been quite a long day, but I'm happy to be talking about the topics at hand here because I feel like influencer Snark is on fire recently and we have to talk about the trending topics. So we're recording this on Tuesday, August 11th in the evening. So this has been kind of a trending topic right now. We have to talk about Bridget Phelong's marriage, the nuptials, to her now husband, Mitch McHale. Congratulations to the newlyweds. She got married, I think, in Newport, Rhode Island.

**Sophie** (2:55)
Yeah, it was Newport, Rhode Island.

**Christy** (2:57)
Yep. Stunning.
Let's talk about a couple of things. First of all, Sophie, being the fashionista that you are, what did you think about her Vera Wang gown, her wedding dress?

**Sophie** (3:06)
I thought it was pretty. I thought she looked really pretty. And there are a couple of things they may have changed. I think the florets, the fact that there were the rose appliques or whatever they're called, the two, I didn't like how there were just two big ones, but I think she looked gorgeous. I think I would have lost the necklace because there's already so much going on.
But otherwise, she looked beautiful. And wedding dresses are so personal. If she felt beautiful and if she loved it, that's all that matters. Very happy for her. And you know what? I have never been a huge follower of either Acquired Twin. I feel like I'm just not their demographic. I'm too old. But I do think it's really sweet how close her and her sister are. Because did you see how some photo we received them in a group chat, the photos that leaked, and it was apparently someone at the wedding named Clea, who's like another influencer that they're friends with, who sent them to someone that couldn't be trusted and they ended up going everywhere, including our own group chat.
And someone who ended up posting the pictures to TikTok showed all the DMs they were getting from like Danielle and Bridget. Danielle is Bridget's twin sister. And they were like, take it down, please.

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They're like, we'll send you Fifi.

**Sophie** (4:28)
But I thought it was really sweet how I feel like Danielle as her maid of honor was like, I will handle everything.

**Christy** (4:35)
Yeah.
That was kind of salacious. I think if you're an attendee at a wedding and an event as big as this, as high profile as this one is, I mean, it was featured in People Magazine. I think that you kind of owe it to the bride and groom, they're posting you, they're throwing you this lavish, lavish party. You should be respecting whatever the rules were. And in this case, it was to not release photos until the bride and groom allowed you to. So it sucks. It sounds like Clea probably just sent it to her own friend group and then someone in the friend group released it. So it wasn't like a direct leak, but a leak nonetheless, and it's not a good look. And interestingly enough, Clea posted like a couple of the wedding photos on her personal Instagram and Acquired Style comments. Oh my God, love this, even though you leaked my photos. And then Clea MXL responds, curtains closed for me with like the salute emoji.