10 Things The Wedding Industry Won’t Tell You…#6
Posted on Feb 24, 2009 under Wedding Venues |
6. “We can’t keep our weddings straight.”
“A bride wants to think she’s the only bride in the world,” says Gerard Monaghan, president of the Association of Bridal Consultants. “What she doesn’t need to see is another bride in the bathroom at her wedding reception.” But wedding pileups happen, especially at hotels and catering halls that hold several receptions in one day. Multiple weddings can also cause a location to spread its staff too thin.
Chris Cady of All Star Entertainment in Reno, Nev., arrived to emcee a reception a few years ago and found that the hotel had set aside only one waitress to serve 150 people. “The one girl showed up and cried,” Cady says.
“When a location does two functions per day per weekend, it’s a wedding factory,” says Lynn Broadwell, co-author of the resource book “Here Comes the Guide.” “Mistakes will be made.” She says a wedding reception may be bounced in favor of a larger function, gifts can get mixed up, guests can end up at the wrong party, or the wine meant for one reception can end up at the one down the hall. “You need to ask, ‘Am I going to see the people from the other function? Are we going to be rubbing elbows? Are we using the same bathroom facilities?’ And you need to have it in writing.”