I haven't posted in FOREVER, but I need to vent.
Word of advice. When you have family friends that are bakers, do not ask them to do your wedding cake.
My dad's friend has a bakery shop. He offered to do our cake as a gift. Being a gift and all, no paperwork was signed, nothing really set in stone. Well, two weeks ago, he 'realized' that our wedding was during hunting season, so not only was he not going to be able to do our cake, but he wasn't going to come to the wedding at all.
We had another family friend offer, and we accepted, since we never budgeted for cake, we would take what we could get. The next day she backed out because she didn't feel comfortable doing a wedding cake, whatever that means.
My mom mentioned the situation to a group of her friends, and someone else stepped up to do the cake. At this point we offered to pay for the cake. She said no worries, she'd be happy to do it. I just got a message from my mom saying this person just called and said she couldn't do it anymore. No explaination.
All I want is a simple cake. No frills. I can't believe we've had three people back out. So frustrating.
THEN, on top of it all, I just found out that my photographers contract does not include any rights to our pictures. All we get is a low res proof cd, with no printing rights. It's an extra 600 to get the rights. I'm so frustrated with myself that I didn't catch this sooner.
I'm only waiting for more to go wrong, since I've been hearing horror stories about the coordinator at our venue. :-\