Picture this...
It's Saturday night, we're in the middle of a live event ("live" as in, there are freakin' guests in the next room enjoying cocktails, signature drinks and hors d'oeuvres on platters while we turn over the ceremony space into a gorgeous dinner space). We're getting things done, and fast. Part of the the wall and doors that separate the two spaces is glass, so we have it covered with some custom burlap curtains so we can offer the guests a big "reveal" when it's time for dinner service. Anyway, if you ask me, the curtains are a dead giveaway that the space is "off limits". It may as well have send, "go away" because that's how serious I am about being able to do a reveal for my clients.
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Not the glass doors and wall in question, but a pretty candid shot I took of our pretty ceremony altar.
FLORAL: Sarah Winward VENUE: Salt Lake Hardware |
Back to the event...
So there I am, "fluffing"... this is what I call making sure every napkin is perfect, every chair is straight and every name tag is anything but crooked. (I'm crazy, I know... but this is why you want me to run your rodeo). As I am fluffing, in walks this random girl, in jeans and with two friends. These three are obviously not wedding guests... they have no business being in the building, let alone past my iron burlap curtains. As always, I start out in my polite voice and go through the whole dog and pony show regarding what they want, that they need to leave, why they need to leave and so on. Because they're resistant and insisting they "just need to take a few pictures and measurements" for their upcoming wedding, my polite voice escalates to my annoyed and ready to physically remove you voice. After much ado, they left. Like, what the hell are you thinking?! Why would it be ok for you to take measurements for your wedding during another couple's wedding? IT'S NOT, IT WOULD NEVER FLY with any bride, EVER. To be sure I wasn't off my rocker, I took a little facebook poll and it's unanimous - any one would have told that crasher to kick rocks!
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| Within hours, dozens of voters all chimed in with the same message: GET HER OUT! |
Once they were gone, I stood there in a sort of trance. A state of disbelief, if you will. What kind of bride crashes another bride's wedding?! Brides are so particular. Sometimes they don't even want to see their reception before it's "ready".
The things I would say to the wedding crasher if I met her again on the street...
Xo, mmh