The Tasteful Dossier | A Podcast About Weddings
Aug 25, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Have you ever looked at two weddings that probably cost about the same, but one felt like it belonged in Vogue and the other just felt… expensive? We use “aesthetic” and “taste” almost…
Bailee CribbHost
When someone says old money, dark academia, bohemian, editorial, cottagecore, and the list goes on, you can picture exactly what that is.
you can picture even like a pinterest board or a feed just images flashing your mind you know what that is and the thing with weddings is anyone can buy an aesthetic anybody it's just a matter of finding all the right things that you want for that aesthetic and then boom aesthetic wedding and an aesthetic tells people what they're actually looking at definition number two what is taste Taste is more so of a discernment.
You can immediately clock that paper, that paragraph, that mockup and what not what have you was designed, written, or created by you.
It's knowing when to stop, knowing what doesn't actually fit in there, what doesn't belong.
It's understanding proportion, restraint, balance, cohesion, and even so far as editing because that's actually a lot more important than you think it is.
And most, a lot of the times, taste is actually removing things or moving things.
And you can go as far as to say a person with taste doesn't necessarily like expensive things.
They just know how to utilize the things that they have, expensive or not, and put them into a end result that has their fingerprint on it.
Why expensive doesn't automatically mean that it's tasteful because a $100,000 wedding can actually still feel cluttered.
Are you picturing that $100,000 wedding in your head? Because I can almost guarantee you that middle picture changed when I said the word cluttered.
They could have luxury linens, luxury photography, hors d'oeuvres, canapes, ice sculpture, ice sculpture fountain.
Literally luxury everything but it doesn't mean that it all works together like it doesn't all belong in the same place because just because you put it together does not mean that it should go together because you can buy anything and everything you want and put it all together you know boom wedding but taste is what helps deliver the effect that wedding has taste is deciding how those things are actually used to create the impact that you want.
And you can put them all together and end up with a cake that tastes like a hot flaming turd.
When someone says old money, dark academia, bohemian, editorial, cottagecore, and the list goes on, you can picture exactly what that is.
you can picture even like a pinterest board or a feed just images flashing your mind you know what that is and the thing with weddings is anyone can buy an aesthetic anybody it's just a matter of finding all the right things that you want for that aesthetic and then boom aesthetic wedding and an aesthetic tells people what they're actually looking at definition number two what is taste Taste is more so of a discernment.
You can immediately clock that paper, that paragraph, that mockup and what not what have you was designed, written, or created by you.
It's knowing when to stop, knowing what doesn't actually fit in there, what doesn't belong.
It's understanding proportion, restraint, balance, cohesion, and even so far as editing because that's actually a lot more important than you think it is.
And most, a lot of the times, taste is actually removing things or moving things.
And you can go as far as to say a person with taste doesn't necessarily like expensive things.
They just know how to utilize the things that they have, expensive or not, and put them into a end result that has their fingerprint on it.
Why expensive doesn't automatically mean that it's tasteful because a $100,000 wedding can actually still feel cluttered.
Are you picturing that $100,000 wedding in your head? Because I can almost guarantee you that middle picture changed when I said the word cluttered.
They could have luxury linens, luxury photography, hors d'oeuvres, canapes, ice sculpture, ice sculpture fountain.
Literally luxury everything but it doesn't mean that it all works together like it doesn't all belong in the same place because just because you put it together does not mean that it should go together because you can buy anything and everything you want and put it all together you know boom wedding but taste is what helps deliver the effect that wedding has taste is deciding how those things are actually used to create the impact that you want.
And you can put them all together and end up with a cake that tastes like a hot flaming turd.
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