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OK KAC.... here you go. A thread dedicated to all the behind the scenes bullshit people who work weddings know all too well.
Here's one from last year.
We now have a no-child under 12 policy, brought on *because* of this wedding. Prior to that, our contract said every 5th child required a dedicated babysitter.
Well. This group had 12 kids. Twelve. Do you want to know the panic I feel *anytime* there are children at weddings? Why? Because nobody watches them. I agree with my husband, I think at least half of parents never wanted kids to begin with. Just a side effect of sex, we're in the South, abortion isn't cool.
Mom of bride SWEARS the kids will be angels when this comes out at our meeting a few months after booking. My gut is telling me to give them their money back now and tell them to find another venue. But, this was early 2021, which was hell on the wedding industry and at the time, I'm just trying to keep the damn doors open and our staff employed.
Well, you can guess. No, nobody watches kids. They were doing all the things our contract says not to do: throwing rocks, running (we are on a slope, as humans are bipedals, our brakes tend to be our faces), climbing trees, jumping and damaging our rock walls... Twice during the event, my venue manager had to whisk a kid out of the way from getting hit by the shuttle in the dark. She has kids herself, and says she still has nightmares.
At the rehearsal, the mom of bride who swore she would watch the kids backed into our parking sign and snapped it off. My husband fixed it, we didn't complain about it. Should have.
At one point, the groom's brother appears wearing a Tom Brady shirt. My other half had just bought himself that same shirt, and thought it interesting this guy would choose the same shirt. We realized after... the dude found the package in our breakroom, addressed TO my husband, opened it, and had the balls to put on that shirt and parade around in it.
We assess the damages after, I'm just happy to see them gone and decide the weird greasy stain on one of our quilts/having to replace said quilt is a small price to pay. (yes, the stain probably was some kind of lubricant)
Oh no. Nope. This couple came back with COMPLAINTS about how my husband seemed to be Jeckll and Hyde (probably from telling kids not to do something that might damage our place or themselves). They had a list of gripes from feeling we shouldn't have been washing dishes from their rehearsal dinner while the bride was taking a shower (um, how would we know?), to being upset the clawfoot tub is just a tub (yep, because drunk people don't close shower curtains in a clawfoot and get water everywhere which then runs into the kitchen below, so we removed the showerhead
). They felt they should get money back from us.
People.
Here's one from last year.
We now have a no-child under 12 policy, brought on *because* of this wedding. Prior to that, our contract said every 5th child required a dedicated babysitter.
Well. This group had 12 kids. Twelve. Do you want to know the panic I feel *anytime* there are children at weddings? Why? Because nobody watches them. I agree with my husband, I think at least half of parents never wanted kids to begin with. Just a side effect of sex, we're in the South, abortion isn't cool.
Mom of bride SWEARS the kids will be angels when this comes out at our meeting a few months after booking. My gut is telling me to give them their money back now and tell them to find another venue. But, this was early 2021, which was hell on the wedding industry and at the time, I'm just trying to keep the damn doors open and our staff employed.
Well, you can guess. No, nobody watches kids. They were doing all the things our contract says not to do: throwing rocks, running (we are on a slope, as humans are bipedals, our brakes tend to be our faces), climbing trees, jumping and damaging our rock walls... Twice during the event, my venue manager had to whisk a kid out of the way from getting hit by the shuttle in the dark. She has kids herself, and says she still has nightmares.
At the rehearsal, the mom of bride who swore she would watch the kids backed into our parking sign and snapped it off. My husband fixed it, we didn't complain about it. Should have.
At one point, the groom's brother appears wearing a Tom Brady shirt. My other half had just bought himself that same shirt, and thought it interesting this guy would choose the same shirt. We realized after... the dude found the package in our breakroom, addressed TO my husband, opened it, and had the balls to put on that shirt and parade around in it.
We assess the damages after, I'm just happy to see them gone and decide the weird greasy stain on one of our quilts/having to replace said quilt is a small price to pay. (yes, the stain probably was some kind of lubricant)
Oh no. Nope. This couple came back with COMPLAINTS about how my husband seemed to be Jeckll and Hyde (probably from telling kids not to do something that might damage our place or themselves). They had a list of gripes from feeling we shouldn't have been washing dishes from their rehearsal dinner while the bride was taking a shower (um, how would we know?), to being upset the clawfoot tub is just a tub (yep, because drunk people don't close shower curtains in a clawfoot and get water everywhere which then runs into the kitchen below, so we removed the showerhead
). They felt they should get money back from us.People.
