The Casey Crew Podcast

I’m sure that most people have heard of DJ Envy either from his work as a DJ and/or being on The Breakfast Club morning show. I knew he was married with children but I did not who his wife was until I heard their podcast The Casey Crew. Gia seems like a really sweet person and is very funny especially when she and Raashaun (DJ Envy’s government name) as she refers to him go back and forth about the stuff he says. I have to admit I do agree with a few things he says on their show so I am always talking back when I listen to the podcast like “Gia, yes, its sounds crazy but it makes sense” J The comradery between them is something to hear and I crack up every single show. I am currently so behind so I was catching up on some episodes recently. The other day I listened to episode sixty-six “The Wedding or the Marriage” and it hit close to home for me.

Highlights:

The Rock

This was one where I had to disagree with DJ Envy a little bit in the beginning and I agreed with Gia. He said that he believes that most women want a big ring; but listen to the end of his point its funny. Gia’s point was that the importance of the ring depends on the person getting proposed to. The hubs and I got married when I was twenty-two and he was twenty a years old. I did not care too much about the ring. In fact we did not even have our own rings; we used his Aunt and Uncles rings (they got married at a young age as well). At that time they were married for about twenty years or so and passed their rings down to us.

We decided to use the money that we would have spent on rings to go on a honeymoon. As the saying goes “hindsight is 20/20”, well more like 20/10 because we should have used that money to put towards our mortgage payments. If you’ve read my previous post Why Did I Stay Married you’ll know why.

My ring wasn’t the biggest but the symbolism of it was what was important to me and I never took it off. Now I don’t even wear that ring anymore. I hit my hand on something and it got slightly damaged. The good part is that it can be easily fixed but I put it up to not damage it any further. Then a few months ago I knocked the hubs ring into the trash can or maybe down the toilet. I’m not sure where it is but we can’t find it. I know, I know sounds suspect but I promise it was an accident.

What Makes Sense

My husband is like DJ Envy, and most husbands I hope, in regards to him wanting me to have the best and all that which is very sweet but I’d rather put the money towards other things. I loved DJ Envy’s point of view about building for a future and not being so focused on the ring and the wedding. We both felt that we should have gone to the Justice of the Peace. Gia made a good point as well because memories from the wedding day are precious and you would want to have something to look back on.

Our wedding was very small…like in a house with chairs set up small but even that was stressful. I could not imagination how much stress having a big wedding would have been. We both wished that we went to the Justice of the Peace but we wanted our families in attendance. That hindsight that I spoke about earlier, again, definitely should have used it! Even though we felt that we should have did something different in regards to our wedding. I am glad that our families were there and now we have an experience that we can share with other people. It may help them in their decision to have a small or large wedding or if they want to have a wedding at all. And that is what I loved so much about this particular podcast episode. They told their story but they also highlighted different views about having a wedding and having a marriage.   

Check out their podcast The Casey Crew, of course The Breakfast Club, and Gia’s Instagram (which I LOVE) trust me you won’t be sorry.