So the wedding was this weekend and it went mostly fine. There were a couple of things that I think weren't well organized (by my sister and by the people that rented the place to held the wedding)
A couple of things that I thought were unacceptable ( see what I did there?) were that
a. the place wasn't set up completely by the time the guests started to arrive, they were there at 6 and the place wasn't ready! The ceremony was held in the same place as the party and they were shuffling putting chairs in the lawn at the time we arrived. I think they should have been ready before the set hour, so people could have entered as they arrived.
b. there weren't enough chairs at the ceremony, there were a lot of people standing up, and I think that wasn't ok, and they also used the same chairs that were used for the reception, I think they should have a different set of chairs for those events, at the end of the ceremony there were again shuffling around to get the chairs back in, leaving all the guest outside the place
c. there was a table were only 3 guests eat at the same time than the rest of the tables, the kitchen ran out of food. More people than what was planned arrived, however I think that 10 more people is less than the buffer the kitchen should have to be prepared with. In the end they ate after the dancing started, but that was a good hour after everyone finished eating
d. the staff was not very well organized and seemed very inexperienced, they dropped plates and glasses more than once AND they dropped a full tray of plates with cake on it
I guess I have really high standards when it comes to events, because I would have made a fuss about all of those things, I haven't talked with my sister yet about what does she think about that, but wanted to ask you guys if you think I'm being a high maintenance person with y expectations of what should have happened.
I would expect the chairs to be set up at least half an hour before the starting time, and that there would be enough chairs. I wouldn't be upset about using the same chairs for the ceremony and the reception - that's a lot of extra chairs to have to rent.
I'm not sure what c is about - they ran out of food for 3 people?
Even experienced wait staff and bussers drop trays and things - depending on the size of the gathering that's a lot of people running back and forth and potentially bumping into one another.
If it happened to my sister, I wouldn't ask her about it. If she wants to vent, she'll bring it up. If I brought it up, it would probably make her feel bad.
c means that only 3 people on one table got to eat at the same time as the rest of the guest, the other 7 had to wait for over an hour to have plates in front of them.
I won't tell anything to my sister, you are right, if she wants to vent about it I'll let her, but I won't rain on her parade if she feels that the event was what she expected.
One of my friends who got married here had everyone sit at tables from the start. Then you just turned back to the table when the ceremony was over to start the reception, if you even had to turn around in the first place.
Not having the chairs set up in time for guests arrival or enough chairs for all guests to sit was not good. I would expect that chairs should be set up in advance of the first guests arrival.
As to running out of food; did the kichen not have an accurate advance head count or did more people show up unexpectedly? Could have been the same reason as the chairs; more guests showed up than were expected and prepared for.
However, the important thing is your sister is married and happy.
That's where my sister was wrong, she never really took the effort to know how many people were coming, she just paid for 150 and hoped for the best. They are going to have to pay for another 20 people, but they are ok with that.
She's very happy with her hubby, he's a really good guy and we all love him. I have some sad news from her tho, she lost her wedding ring already, she freaking lost her wedding ring. she didn't got vacation time from her job, so she went to work yesterday and they were moving to another building, well she removed her rings and left them I don't know where and she was only able to find her engagement ring. She has been looking for it, but she only has one place left, she told she's getting another one if this one doesn't show up; however it makes me really really sad that she lost it.
When DH lost his I was devastated I can only imagine how my sister feels having lost hers just 2 days after the wedding.
And the photos are on FB lol, kidding I'll look for some pics to put in here :D
A ten person buffer is not very big, depending on the number of guests. Some people eat a lot when it's a buffet. Hopefully these snags will just become funny wedding memories and you all will laugh about them in ten years.
You do have a nice looking family.
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