Weekly Check-in: More Wedding Crappé
Date Posted: May 21st, 2010
Things I learned this week:
I Am Not a Multi-tasker.
I got a lot accomplished sewing wise this week, and a lot of that happened Monday evening when I didn’t have any distractions. (Well… aside from kitty.) When people came over to help with wedding stuff things got done… they just didn’t get done by me. I guess this means I need to block out periods of time for myself in order to make progress on things.
Weddings Are a Lot More Work Than They Appear To Be
There are two reasons for this:
- Expectations: If you’re having a standard wedding people expect the service of a nice restaurant combined with a fun dance party. They expect things to run smoothly. They expect to never set foot in the kitchen. They expect their table to stay there the whole night.This isn’t too bad if you have the wedding at a hall where catering’s included. Sure the food is pricey and not that good, but you don’t have to worry about who’s going to pour the wine. We’re just getting food from the restaurant and in lieu of professional waitstaff we’re having some of our awesome friends help out with the service part. Not as simple as it sounds. There’s a lot that has to be thought out… especially since we want to let our friends have fun at the party too!Of course none of this would be so hard if it wasn’t for the fact that…
- The Bride and Groom can’t be event stewards. We’re the guests of honor. That means we need to have someone else be in charge of making sure stuff happens when it needs to happen. If we could be in charge we probably wouldn’t have thought through as thoroughly what needs to be done… but we can’t afford to do that. All in all I think it’s a good thing, since this way we get to enjoy our party. It’s just a lot more work than I was expecting. I’ve thrown parties before… they didn’t require nearly as much prep as this. Granted I’ve thrown some where I ended up drained by the end too…
Methinks I’ll be glad to not have to think about wedding stuff in a few weeks. And we can return to more normal essays.
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