I will confess that I am a little tired. Over 45 events this year and only one weekend off since April. We are still going strong and finishing up the year, but some weddings this year have made me question my sensibilities. Since everyone has an opinion, I am most anxious to hear the consensus on the following:
1. Is it alright for a band that has been hired to play at a wedding to set up a separate table at that wedding to sell their T-shirts and CD's?
2. Is it alright for a bartender to wear wrinkled khaki cargo shorts, a dirty t-shirt and a has-seen-better-days-golf visor to a so-called up scale wedding?
3. Is it alright to move a table with burning candles when blowing them out would have only taken less than 1 second?
4. Is it alright for a bride to complain constantly to her wedding helper?
5. Is it alright to blame the helper for items not purchased when she was not even involved in the decision making process?
6. Is it alright for wedding guests to come to a fancy wedding affair in blue jeans and t-shirts when the wedding party and family is in formal clothes?
7. Is it alright to never thank the people that made your wedding possible?
I realize that weddings can be stressful, but they don't have to be. Communication between parties involved are critical to a well-run business and this includes weddings. But the final straw comes when vendors work extra hard to please a bride and she fails to use two words that can make wrongs right---thank you.
Being thankful and gracious doesn't have anything to do with how much money you spend at an event. It does, however, have everything to do with class. Whether your event is a barbecue in your backyard or a sophisticated country club affair, being thankful for all of the people and services that come together to make your event as perfect as possible is showing what type of person you really are.
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