I have not been a wedding coordinator for very long, but it is a truth universally acknowledged that I will be a non bride forever. Since October I have been dealing with other people's weddings on a daily basis (the people, not the actual weddings - I would go crazy!).
Since October I have become completely addicted to channel Lifestyle You, to Bride Night, to re runs of Bride Night, to Four Weddings (more intensely silly than Four Corners), to Bridezilla, to Whose Wedding is it Anyway and to Say Yes to the Dress.
It is a very silly past time, but I usually justify it as research. The only problem is that all these wedding shows have made me scared to deal with brides. I am no longer rational when it comes to these people, I am expecting them to yell at me like the brides in these shows yell at everyone around them. Luckily the worst I have had to deal with is late entertainers and some rain. I have not been yelled at face to face, ever.
Consequently I am very patient and pay a lot of attention to detail and walk around on the day of the wedding expecting the very worst at all times. I have my 'wedding day skirt' and my 'wedding day fake diamond earrings' and always wear my plain 'wedding day' stockings. I get to work very early on wedding days and visit the bride throughout the day. I light a disgusting amount of candles and spend a long time walking up and down the stupid hill on which our reception room is perched.
I am entrusted with very expensive and heavy cakes, real sleeping butterflies (to be awakened and released), I spread flower petals, I am asked weird questions about things I have never had to deal with before like pinning on a man's buttonhole flower, about how long a Catholic wedding mass takes, about how much I would expect to sell a dress for on ebay as second hand, everyone assumes I am an expert, but I have only ever been to three actual weddings ever (except for the ones at work). If I was an expert I would know how to get someone to propose!
All of these wedding shows, wedding expos, wedding magazines, wedding meetings etc, have really put me off having my own wedding (if I ever get a proposal) but at the same time, desperately wanting a wedding so I could do it with all the best stuff that I have discovered. It is really an exercise in putting toegther the perfect event. My wedding scrapbook gets bigger and bigger, my page on The Knot fills up with 'favourite' wedding dresses and flowers and cakes and ideas. I'm all set, I have a budget, a guest list, a huge pile of 'things I would never ever do' and a smaller list of 'things I would like to do' at my wedding.
Alas, I am always the coordinator, never the bride. It makes me grateful I suppose that I dont have someone like me as one of my brides. I would surely be yelled at if I was me assisting someone like me.
Here is a pic of last week's wedding, it was one of the nicer set ups we have done.
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