Sunday, April 5, 2009

Not so Bridezilla...

The wedding we coordinated this weekend was one that was originally supposed to be aired on the the Bridezilla Show on the Wedding Channel. The bride was nervous and stressed as a a bride usually is and a little uncoordinated with so much going on but by no means a bridezilla. My morning started on site Saturday at 11am. Before I was even out of my car a bridal family member was interrogating me as to why the pastor was not notified that we were only starting set up at 11am and not 8am anymore. Truth be told it was an honest miscommunication mistake. We had arranged to come early to start decorating, and the bride changed it to 11am and we only remembered to call the Pastor that morning, he was honestly not worried about it and totally understood, but the family member was full of wedding day jitters and was not to calm about it. Either way the van with all of the decor did not arrive till 12:30pm anyway leaving it really tight for us to get the ceremony site ready, but we all worked really hard and the stage was ready for show time.



As I mentioned before this was my first solo, and it wasn't flawless but it was good. I got the bridal party down the aisle about 20 minutes late, because the bride had a large dress that took some time getting on. And I had to set up the cocktail hour whilst the ceremony was going on. The ceremony ran short and the chocolate fountain wasn't ready, and also to find out the cups were at the reception site and not the ceremony site. This minor tragedy caused problems for Alisha cause her volunteers decided dropping off the cups was an opportunity to ditch her, leaving her to finish the site just in time for the guests to arrive. The cups arrived about ten minutes after the cocktail hour started. Also I think a lot of the guests left immediately after the ceremony for the site cause there were only like 20 people at the cocktail hour. Anyway I stayed calm and to be honest I felt in my element running the ceremony, I really enjoyed it.




The reception went off very well considering, the bartender never showed and we never found out why. The cake sort of collapsed while cutting it and we luckily caught it and saved it!!! It was more funny than tragic to be honest. We ended the wedding about and hour early because guests were already heading home. And it was a little sad that there weren't really people to send the bridal party off. However the bride and groom were having to much fun to notice anyway.



What I learned was to know your guests, no matter the amount of alcohol no group of people are going to attend a 8 hour party, I suggest either a morning wedding or evening wedding but not both. People are funny like that, I also learned to try and keep the venue an open space, creating walls between the dance floor and tables separates people and creates clicks.



Clean up went off pretty well and Alisha and I were home around 12:30am. I wish this blogging site was not public, the stories we could share with each other that does not need to be filtered due to public access can only be interesting, and I am not referring to yesterdays wedding specifically.

3 comments:

  1. That dress is pretty big, and 8hrs?! Wow.

    I'm glad everything turned out well, despite the miscommunications and lack of items that were needed.

    I totally agree about the public blog thing, there are some things I've learned/witnessed here that have been very interesting!

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  2. Congrats on your first major solo event! That is outstanding and Im glad to hear that there weren't too many mishaps throughout the wedding. That must be so exciting to finally have your first wedding done and pretty much went totally smooth. It seems like it was a great learning experience for you and you definitly learned from your mistakes and what you can do better next time.

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  3. Riette,

    I thought that you did an excellent job! Given all the factors that couldn't be controlled, everything turned out well.

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