Jason Kelce will tell you that as celebrated and ubiquitous as his impassioned parade speech has become, it was only the second-most noteworthy event of his offseason. That’s because, as of mid-April, there’s one fewer mummer on the market.

Kelce tied the knot in Philadelphia with his now-wife Kylie, providing another opportunity for the Kelces to show off their public speaking skills.

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“He killed it,” Kelce said last week of his brother Travis, the best man. “It must run in the family. My brother did a great job. He — the wedding was another great speaking moment. Between the vows, the best man, the maid of honor, it was a big old, you know, everybody was tearing up a little bit. It was pretty awesome. So he did a good job. He did a great job.”

Of course, we had more questions.

Wulf: OK, let’s start with an important one — band or DJ?

Kelce: We went with a DJ. He did a great job.

Wulf: That’s good, he brought the energy?

Kelce: Oh yeah.

Wulf: I always say DJ is higher floor, lower ceiling. Photos, did you do them before the ceremony or afterwards?

Kelce: We did a couple photos beforehand by myself. I didn’t see Kylie —

Wulf: You didn’t do a first look or anything?

Kelce: We didn’t do a first look, no. I’m not a big staged photos person.

Wulf: Yeah, I’m with ya.

Kelce: We ended up doing a few of them after the wedding and then a few before the wedding when we were separated a little bit. I’m not a huge — I’m more of like a candid photo guy.

Wulf: OK. So speeches were good you said, obviously. What’d Travis talk about?

Kelce: Uh, Trav kind of just referenced the type of person I have been. Kind of made a couple jokes at my expense —

Wulf: As you have to.

Kelce: As best man speeches do. And then he just kind of relayed it into how much I’ve changed and how much happier I’ve been since meeting and now marrying Kylie.

Wulf: What was the toughest part of the wedding planning process? Most stressful part?

Kelce: You know, it wasn’t really that bad. The biggest thing that we stressed out about was we decided to do, Kylie and her parents decided to do our own welcome bags for everybody coming in from out of town.

Wulf: OK.

Kelce: And I think that kind of got, putting it together —

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Wulf: It always takes longer than you think.

Kelce: Yeah. I think that just, it ended up working out really well, but that was easily the most stressful part because it didn’t really get done as quickly as we thought.

Wulf: Did you have time to really soak in the experience? Did it go by too fast?

Kelce: Kylie and I were talking about that. We didn’t end up doing a honeymoon right away — we’re doing it in the summer.

Wulf: OK.

Kelce: And we kind of wished we could have been able to do that right afterwards to kind of celebrate the moment.

Wulf: But you had to come back for this (OTAs), right?

Kelce: I didn’t have to, but I have this and Kylie works in a school district, so it timed up better for both of our schedules to do it in the summer. But yeah, I think that both of us wish we could have, or maybe we should have, gone on a honeymoon right after.

Wulf: How was the dancing? Did anybody really make an impression?

Kelce: Great. I mean, so many of our friends, Kylie’s dad is a huge dancer. He was out there non-stop. Chad Hall, who used to play here —

Wulf: Of course!

Kelce: He’s big time and was getting down on the dance floor. It was a big dancing crew. The dance floor wasn’t empty for one second it seemed like.

Wulf: How was the afterparty?

Kelce: It was good. It was right up on, right at the top of the Logan. We rented out a section of it. It was great. I mean, the weather turned out to be perfect and everything else we had set up, there was a lot of outdoor stuff we had set up that went by a lot easier.

Wulf: What else? Food. Food was good?

Kelce: Food was tremendous. The venue, we did it at the Logan, they have a pretty awesome restaurant inside of it and that chef Sonny and all those guys just did a great job.

Wulf: Any advice for anybody else going through the wedding planning process?

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Kelce: (Laughs) I think the best piece of advice that I’ve ever seen on the wedding planning process from the man’s perspective —

Wulf: Yeah.

Kelce: Mike Leach delivers, like, an awesome freakin’ rant I guess about how men should probably handle the wedding. I was fortunate. Mine was not nearly as bad of a nightmare as Mike made it sound to be, but I think that that’s a good frame of reference for how bad it can get.

Wulf: Well, congratulations.

Kelce: Thank you.

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