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lovemesomemonster
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Caution - Do not do this!
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I worked a wedding yesterday and needed to share for everyone still planning! The ceremony was at 2pm (yeah, on a Tuesday) with family and close friends. After the ceremony they had 2 hours scheduled for pictures and yes, they took the whole 2 hours. Next they had dinner at 4:30 for everyone that was at the ceremony which lasted for 2 hours (everyone was done eating around 5 and just sat there). We were told to have the buffet cleaned up and gone by 6:15 for when the "other" guests showed up at 6:30. They had a smattering of small tables set up on the opposite side of the room for everyone else that showed up while the dinner guests had their full tables.
To top off the two massive gaps, there was a dollar dance and a no host bar so guests had to pay for all drinks except water. Guests did not look happy when they walked in and were asking when the ceremony was... Terrible planning!
My warning is to THINK ABOUT YOUR GUESTS!
To top off the two massive gaps, there was a dollar dance and a no host bar so guests had to pay for all drinks except water. Guests did not look happy when they walked in and were asking when the ceremony was... Terrible planning!
My warning is to THINK ABOUT YOUR GUESTS!
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Re: Caution - Do not do this!
Apparently not, they showed up, looked super confused, had to pay for drinks, only got a cupcake to eat, and then were told the dollar dance was starting.. strangest wedding I have ever seen!
Really???
That is exactly what happened, and it was obvious that they were second citizen guests since they walked in and other people were already sitting and they didn't even have a table!
Yeah, that would be my shortest attendance at a wedding ever. If you invited me to essentially a no-host after party and I thought it was actually the main event, I'd be hungry and pissed and out of there. Fuck the rudeness - I just don't do well when I'm hangry.
It was difficult to even work it! We ran out of there as soon as we could, just reading the BEO before the event I couldn't believe what I was reading!
And actually leaving would be me being polite when I am hangry. Because by the time I reach that level of hunger my bitchiness comes out in full force and I am not afraid to show it.
I've seen some good ones in my life.
If someone placed a card/gift at the table and then found out what kind of wedding this was, I wondered who had the gonads to pull the card/gift? Because when reading this whole thing, part of me would want to if I had gone.
Also, thanks for letting me use the word gonads. It's been awhile.
My brother was invited to a wedding like that for a coworker... Needless to say they ALL were PO'd to the extent that some walked right back out to their cars with their gift and the rest only gave them cards when they'd planned to put cash or a check in the card... Some people wouldn't have a clue if they were smacked upside the head with a 2x4...