I don't write on the boards often, but when I do lurk on this board, you girls always seem so nice and supportive. Today I just really need to vent. I received an email this morning informing me that the venue we booked for both ceremony and reception was "accidentally" double booked. Apparently a "small" art fair is occurring that same day. After some google searching this art fair sounds pretty big (attendance expectancy of 10,000). Our plan was to hold the ceremony in the large grassy area by the lake and the reception in the large outdoor white tent. Our plan was to use the tent as a rain contingency and the indoor banquet hall as the reception contingency. I was told in the email not to worry, because the art fair is only using the tent so we can still use the grassy area and the hall. I keep thinking of tons of problems we'll encounter: where to have the ceremony if it rains, where will everyone park if it's full from the art fair, will the art fair participants take all the hotel rooms (there's one hotel nearby), will we end up with wedding crashers, there's live music at the fair so that will interfere with the ceremony, will strangers be walking through all our pictures, etc. Considering there's only 4 months left till the wedding, we've already booked all the other vendors. We've also already paid all the down deposits for the ceremony/reception site. Ugh! I'm so frustrated, angry, and upset. I don't have any idea where to go from here. We're meeting with the venue manager and executive director next week, so hopefully something positive will come from that meeting.