Influencer Halley Kate Reveals Why She Has Already Started Referring to Her Fiancé as Her Husband Before Their Wedding

Halley Kate has another unique wedding take

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• In a recent TikTok video, Kate opened up about why she has already started calling her fiancé, Reed Williams, her husband before their marriage

• "The word fiancé is the most 'pick me' word ever," she said in her video

Popular New York influencerHalley Kateis sharing another bridal era hot take.In a TikTokvideoposted on Thursday, May 21, Kate, 26, shared her latest unique view on bridal content to 1 million followers on the platform."I'm getting married this summer, like, very soon, and I'm officially at the point where I'm just using the word husband, because the word fiancé is the most 'pick me' word ever," she ranted.

"Maybe it's fun for, like, a month after you're engaged," she said, before adding, "Oh, my god, it is so horrible. The word fiancé elicits at least three questions, usually with five follow-up questions. It's like, 'Oh my god, when did you get engaged? When are you getting married?' Cause fiancé is so niche, so specific, such a small time of your life."Kate said she had found just saying husband easier. "It's not gonna hurt them when they don't know," she offered.

"My last name is McGookin, and I'm gonna change it to Williams when I get married, and I've just started saying Williams as my last name. I cannot explain to you how much easier that is," she laughed, referring to her partner, Reed Williams. "It's insane. Whenever I say McGookin, people are like, 'What? How do you spell that?' "Commenters weighed in on her choice, with one writing in agreement, "I feel like I'm begging for attention when I say fiancé."Influencer Eli Rallo, who will also marry her fiancé, Avery Tiras, in early June, wrote, "ITS THE WORST WORD EVER IFS BEEN 1 YEAR AND 9 MONTHS.""I feel the opposite. There's only so much time I get to use the fancy word fiancé 😂," wrote another internet user.

Kate has shared a few other nontraditional wedding takes she plans to participate in when it comes to her upcoming summer nuptials. In the past, she has said that, instead of a formal ceremony and reception, she will be organizing an “elopement party.”

“I'm getting married this summer, and although I am not having a wedding, I'm calling what we're doing an elopement party, because if people are traveling in for this, I want to set the expectation really clear,” she said in a TikTok video posted March 18. “I don't want them to show up to a wedding and be, like, ‘That was not a wedding.' ”

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The influencerannounced her engagement to her longtime boyfriendon Jan. 23. Days after her engagement announcement, Kate shared more details about her impending wedding in a series of Instagram Stories.

"Why don't you want a traditional wedding?" a follower asked in a question box on Kate's story.The influencer launched into an explanation, writing over the Stories post, that while she loved "friends weddings and being a guest," she didn't necessarily love "where the tradition of a wedding stems from."

"TO ME it's very much giving women were property and handed off from their dad to their new man," she explained of her rationale.

"Also I HATEEE forced attention," she continued. "Don't get me wrong, I love attention like wearing a cute outfit and people just compliment me or something because I don't feel like anyone one had to do that. I hate my birthday for the same reason, I hate when everyone has to pay attention to you because something's about you, or like everyone has to tell you they are having so much fun because it's your wedding/birthday!"

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