Any Mishaps yet

MCCRARYSCOTT · March 2012

Just wondering if anyone has had any mishaps yet? My mom, FI's mom and bridesmaids threw me a shower last weekend and apparently 2 days prior to the shower, the bakery called my mom to tell her they accidentally dropped my sheet cake in the floor. They ended up giving her 2 half sheet cakes for the price of 1. The room they rented for the shower was suppose to hold about 45-50 people max and there were about 65 that actually came. It was a little snug with all the people, gift table and food table. But overall i had a great time and enjoyed seeing everyone and getting amazing gifts. I didnt even know about the cake incident.
So far we've only had 1 groomsmen out of 6 get fitted for his tux. (They have until March 15th)- so they still have about 2 weeks. And one of my bridesmaids re-ordered a different dress style and it hasn't came in yet. Oh I had to also fire my first hair stylist. And the banquet center made a big deal about wanting liability proof of insurance from our DJ, who happens to be a family friend with a DJ side business, so he had to spend an extra hundred dollars just to be insured for a day. I know there will also be little problems or minor mishaps with planning a huge event...just wondering what all yours are?

Epiphany1031 · March 2012

Hmm.. mishaps..

All I can think of is that the seamstress for my dress originally quoted alterations at $250 and put it in writing but then on a whim she decided to raise it to $500 with no additional work being added (the $250 was to hem the bottom, add a sweetheart neckline and take it in 3 inches around the hips, and she raised it to $500 with no additional alterations)! I pushed back and showed the contract she drew up, and she was soooo mad. She stuck with the $250 price but I am SO WORRIED that now because of that, she won't do a good job. I go to my final fitting at the end of March and my fingers are crossed..

I'm lucky that that's the only little mishap that has happened, however I'm nervous because I know more mishaps than that are totally normal and are to be expected. I'm waiting for the other foot to drop.. lol! I KNOW something else might happen and I'm hoping it's not going to be the dress.

Now that I think of it though, I think right now I'm nervous and stressed in general. LOL!!

We're getting married next month!!! Aaaaaaah!! So much to do..

chickenbut143 · March 2012

I don't know if i'd call it a mishap...my friend/stylist cancelled (a month ago) after guaranteeing for 10 months that she was coming to my destination wedding. I understand...it is an expensive trip. I was able to reserve the salon at the venue (since I know no-one in the area). They have quite a few weddings there, so i'm fairly confident that my hair will look good (and I have a trial sched). I was more upset that she won't be there, that I paid for 3 trials, and that she kept reassuring me up until the day before she canx that she would be there. It was more of a hurdle that I had to get over than a mishap.

Other than that...nothing else. Like I told my FI, if that's the only thing that happens...I'll be THRILLED!!

mybestfriend4eva · March 2012

So far so good on my end. No mistakes or mishaps yet. But im optimistic that I will get plenty of them at any time now LOL. I say optimistic because im desperately trying to go into mishaps with a positive attitude. Hoping when they happen it works

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[QUOTE]I don't know if i'd call it a mishap...my friend/stylist cancelled (a month ago) after guaranteeing for 10 months that she was coming to my destination wedding. I understand...it is an expensive trip. I was able to reserve the salon at the venue (since I know no-one in the area). They have quite a few weddings there, so i'm fairly confident that my hair will look good (and I have a trial sched). I was more upset that she won't be there, that I paid for 3 trials, and that she kept reassuring me up until the day before she canx that she would be there. [/QUOTE]

If you paid for trials with her, and she cancelled for your event, she owes you money!

[QUOTE]After a ton of planning, designing and going back and forth with our invitation person, we get our invites in the mail and they were HORRIBLE. They were crooked with uneven backing paper edges, the ink was literally so light that they were almost impossible to read, the edges of the papers were a bit frayed from them obviously using a dull cutter, there were typos that had not been on the digital proofs, the invites were coming unglued from the backings, the gold lining in the envelopes was flopping all over the place....Oh Lordy, it was terrible. I was proud of myself because I went to bed sure that if I just slept on it and woke up in the morning I'd like them a lot more and wouldn't be so emotional about it. Yea...took a look at them the next day and hated them more. I looked at them in sunlight, shadows, EVERYWHERE trying to see if I could make myself like them. No luck. So now we've rushed to a different stationer to design all new invites that absolutely must must must be sent out to guests no later than March 16th. We got the original stationer to waive the balance owed but she won't give back the deposit. Apparently she didn't even look at the finished product when she got it back from her printer. She just stuck them in a box and mailed them to us. So yea...that's our biggest mishap so far. Hopefully it's the only one! :)
Posted by acbp2011[/QUOTE]
I would honestly threaten to get the Better Business Bureau involved, sometimes just the threat is enough for people to fix a situation. You should definitely get your deposit back at the very least, but I would also push for her to cover any rush order fees that you might have incurred with your new stationer.

blgrout · March 2012

We've had some minor hiccups, but no major mishaps.

1. Invitationgate: my cousin, who is a graphic designer offered to help with wedding invitations, and then fell off the planet and I had to fire her from doing them because the communication was terrible. She got over it, but then I made her mad again because she decided she wanted to bring all 5 of her kids to the wedding, when we're having a no kids wedding (the invite was addressed to her and her H, not the whole family). So...she's back to being mad at me. NBD though.

2. Our cake baker overslept and was way late to our initial meeting, and then when she showed up, she totally fell apart on me and was crying and I was consoling her! We decided to use her anyways, because she has a sterling reputation and delicious cake, and she gave us a huge discount for having a meltdown during our meeting. Our cake was originally supposed to cost over $700 and is only going to cost us about $350 in the end (win!).

meganb1977 · March 2012

No mishaps lately *knock on wood* although we had several during the planning process even though I was trying desperately to keep everything simple!

starree444 · March 2012

The address of our venue was printed wrong in to invitations and i didn't notice until after they were sent out.

I hope that's the only mishap!

theatretwin · March 2012

Well, I found out this weekend that my sister's stupid ex-husband has decided to take my neice (FG) to visit his family in London - not during her spring break as requested by my sister, but afterwards and now she won't be back until after the rehersal dinner! He knew about the date months in advance and probably did it on purpose.

I'm trying not to get too mad over it b/c I can't control it, but it certainly has my siste r(MOH) and FG very upset. I hope that's the only thing. For the most part (knock on wood), I'm almost completely ready to go! Just need to clean/press the dress, finish table assignments/escort cards, and have the final meeting with the caterer and DJ!

KristinEileen · March 2012

Hmm.. Mishaps..

FSIL's dress did not fit...My mother is driving me nuts because she has TWO dresses and can't pick one... Not a mishap but a cause for concern is the GM from H-E-Double Hockey Sticks who thinks that he is going to get FI completely drunk BEFORE the ceremony... At this point that's all I've got lol...

dnice818 · March 2012

I had a fun one on Friday...
About a month ago I had taken a mock-up invite to the post office to get weighed. They said $.45, no big deal. I went ahead and ordered these adorable crab stamps from zazzle (which ended up costing me more than double normal postage, but it was my little splurge).
Fast forward to Friday, I take the invites in, they agree to hand cancel them, but then said I needed $.20 more!! They said the first person messed up when they told me $.45 because the invite was too thick. (As I'm starting to panic/almost cry), they show me the $.20 option....it's George Washington!?!?! Now I'm sure he was a great guy and all, but the stamps were ugly! They did have a $.29 option of flowers, which is what I went with, 'cause at least they were somewhat attractive.
But how much does it suck that I spent all the extra money to get the custom postage and I still had to add on a tacky @$$ stamp?!
HRUMPH! Ok, rant over, thanks!

Honeybumble · March 2012

I don't know if I would call it a "mishap," but the worst thing that's happened to me in my wedding planning is my MOH (and only WP member besides the best man) dropped out. And, as an update, when I repeatedly asked her for her address (I still planned on inviting her, of course), I was ignored. Looks like she doesn't even want to come... or be my friend anymore...

Oh, and the BM (FI's brother), still isn't speaking to him. He's a brat.

My biggest stressor however (besides money), has been the oversized guest list (I wanted to invite 60, max). Why do parents think it's OK to invite double what you've allotted them?? Grrr...

MCCRARYSCOTT · March 2012

OMG...i feel better knowing that i'm not the only to have been experiencing some minor hiccups. I felt like some stuff was already off to a bad start.

@Honeybumble, I'm with you there too. We over- invited. I sent out invitations a few days ago and hoping to start getting the RSVPs in and we are hoping that 20% which would be 70 people dont come. YIKES!!! Its a risk, but we do have a ton of people from out of town and even out of state, so we will see!

I just got some more bad news yesterday, my cousin who is like my brother has decided he will not be able to be an usher. He might not even make it to the wedding. He has other family matters out of state that he has to deal with the same weekend. I feel like it wont be a big problem and i can have an uncle step in and be an usher and walk my grandmother and mother down the aisle, but he told me only 10 days before the tux measurements are due and i just wish he can make it.

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