What's with these crazy brides? They plan their whole life for the "perfect" wedding. The perfect dress, the perfect centerpieces, the perfect favors, etc. But they just assume their day will have the perfect weather. Well sometimes it's not.Again, yesterday, it rained. Off and on from Friday night until Saturday night. We had a wedding on Saturday with the wedding ceremony outside in our wedding garden. The ceremony was planned for 5pm with the cocktail hour starting at 6pm, the usual stuff.
Well, all morning long we watched the Weather Channel for updates on the storm clouds that hung over our heads. Big, black and puffy...no, not the bride, the clouds. They hung around all day. At 12 noon, a few drizzles, at 1:30pm, a few more.
My sales chick again got the bride on the phone around 2pm and told her again that we recommend the ceremony be held inside so we can guarantee her the ceremony will go on without a hitch.
"I TOLD you I still want to get married outside", she screamed. I guess she got tired of us asking her. What do we know? We only do this all year long for hundreds of Bridzillas like her. "The guests will just have to sit in the rain" was the next foghorn out of her mouth. What's with these nutjobs?
It's more important for her to have her wedding ceremony outside even if it's raining, even if her guests (family & friends) sit in the rain, on wet seats. As Forest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does".
To make a long story short, the rain stopped, we got around 5 guys with towels to wipe down all the chairs that we setup around 2:30pm and the ceremony took place.
She had a smirk on her face for the rest of the day. I know she was saying to herself "See, I told you it would be alright". Ok, she was right, it didn't rain during the ceremony.
But wait until she opens the envelopes from her bridemaids that had their heels stuck in the wet grass and one even tripped in the grass. Wait till she hears from her grandmother that had to watch the ceremony from inside 'cause she couldn't go outside with her walker. Wait until she gets the bill from the DJ that she forced to setup his equipment in the damp wedding garden. His extension cords sat on the rainy grass and kept blowing the circuit breaker and finally burnt out one of his speakers.
Another "perfect" wedding day.
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7 comments:
amen! this is something that has always made me scratch my head
The outdoor wedding could be nice, but rarely is.
case in point, my place had one in April..The weather, you'd think when you plan your wedding a year before, will be nice. Judging "April" by this year's April isnt good since next year's "april" may be very different.
Normal temp for the day of the wedding was about 65degrees. The temp was actually near 94 degrees in an early spring heat wave. The crowd was soaked with sweat..
And obviously, 200 people with heat coming into a restaurant with an air conditioner not yet ready for spring was a little dicey.
At one point the bride's face was a puddle of sweat, but obviously she couldn't wipe it since her makeup would run.
Like your situation: The 'perfect' wedding. Ha!
I worked in this place once where we used to have 3 weddings at the same and when it rained we had to use the dining room for a 5PM ceremony then hustle everyone out of the room at 5:50 to go eat their dinner in the banquet room so we could set up the dining room again as it was for 6:oo reservations. That was fun. As a thought at least in the north people should just if they want to get married outdoors do it in July and August but these nimnuts who think even in May is going to be warm and sunny are living in denial.We seem to be getting more rain and wind than usual too.
Yes, well think about the poor cake. We delivered a cake in the rain a couple of weeks ago for an outdoors wedding. There was a tent, but that didn't matter, the cake still got wet. Whatever, they ate it anyway. At least the fresh flowers on top didn't wilt.
That is so funny. Thankfully, we don't get too much rain here. But we always talk about a back up plan with our couples, just in case!
I think this type of behaviour became more commonplace when specialty cable channels began shining their 'light' on the wedding industry. Up until five years ago I had never heard the word bridezilla.
I think this drives some of the irrationality of weddings.
That and lonely sales people looking for a fairytale that they can only get vicariously through their clients.
Or by watching HGTV and eating an extra large meat lovers pizza with a bottle of chardonnay alone in the dark on a weeknight watching Rich Bride/Poor Bride.
Things used to be different.
Or is it that I think they were?
Maybe I just burnt out after years and years of arguing over the importance of napkin folds, haggling over floorplans and being relentlessly ground down by those around me.
Is there a reasonable lifespan to a career in this business?
There was a time when I believed it mattered.
And then I got married and had kids.
And the shitty hours and the thanklessness of it all just seemed so empty.
Sure, I rose a little in the ranks.
But that just meant that I had to deal with a whole new level of 'colleagues'.
And I had to manage the shit in every direction.
Banquets is not for a family man.
Not a happy one anyway.
And management is all too happy to throw you under the bus when it suits them.
Weddings though were different twenty five years ago.
Well the music hasn't changed.
But it used to be that they were told what to do not the other way around.
And they used to get charged for things like cake cutting.
Instead of being given away for free.
I made grats on that stuff.
How dare you comp it in a race to the lowest common denominator, sales?
I was an excellent cake cutter.
That was my job even when I had the power to delegate.
"Just watch", I'd say.
"No those cooks couldn't cut a cake to save their lives and besides they just want to go home. Ask them to cut the cake and they'll spit in your dinner tomorrow."
Cake cutting is far more fun than a kindersurprise.
Next post: Ethnic weddings, just the truth.
Great job!
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