Wedding Mistakes to Avoid

Every once in awhile things happen at “live” wedding and events that make me think that there might be a hidden camera and someone will jump out from behind a bush and say “gotcha”.

Unfortunately, that has not been the case and it is just real life playing out in front of me.

Some of these stories show that excessive drinking can mess up what should be the one of the happiest days of someone’s life.

Here are some examples of what can go wrong. xo

An intoxicated bridesmaid who gives a toast that includes tales about her good friend, the bride, in front of all the guests, bride’s mother, bride’s new in-laws and new husband. The groom finally gave the DJ the sign to cut her mic and the bridesmaids dragged her off the dance floor. The wedding ended up a happy wedding, but that moment will forever live in my mind.
An intoxicated bride jumps onto the stage to sing and dance with the professional female performers. Then, when the bride thought she had a handle on her performance, she pushes one of the female performers off the stage.
The bride and groom have the DJ play, “Let’s Get Physical” by Olivia Newton John repeatedly through-out the night. This happened in 2007.
The bride and groom left with their photographer immediately after the ceremony. The cocktail hour was planned for 1 hour and 15 minutes. The caterer had enough appetizers for 1.5 cocktail hour. The couple arrived after 2.5 hours. Nothing really bad happened, but it was just myself and my amazing team, the caterer, security personnel and 300 of their closest family and friends waiting while they captured “memories”. There is a happy ending to this story – their dinner was delicious and the couple and their guests partied the night away until 1:30 am.
One last story – the photographers (who were friends of the bride and groom) drank and partied all night with the couple and the guests while randomly deleting some of the digital photos to make room, so they could take more photos of the wedding.

There is never a dull moment in the life of an event planner. XO

Downtown Wedding –

Last month we had the pleasure of producing a wedding reception for Kimi and Adam.

Their reception was a lot of fun and everyone had a great time including the couple. I love downtown LA for many reasons and one of them is when people don’t want music restrictions.
Wishing this lovely couple all my best. XO