Wedding Blog

I am going to start with the bad news because, well, that’s how I like to go about things. When I was a kid I would eat all the things on my plate that I hated first, so I could get them out of the way and enjoy the goodness that was my mashed potatoes. Yes that’s right, I just compared wedding planning to mashed potatoes.

Much like Miss Peacock, I feel like all of the advanced planning I went through is blowing up in my face as we get closer to the wedding. The coordinator at our venue quit, there was an interim coordinator, and now there is a new one. Luckily I have been vigilant about saving emails because there have been several instances of “I am not sure who told you that, but it’s not possible.” No matter how many notes are placed in our file and conversations had, I’ve still had to explain every detail to three different people. But that’s nothing compared to the last three weeks…

I went to pick up our invitations and a previous version of an incorrect proof was printed. The flower girl dresses arrived (yay!) and fit neither one of the flower girls (boo). All of our envelopes had to be mailed to the calligrapher, and our printer forgot to include the inner envelopes. This solution involved me on the Crane& Co website, matching product names, ordering them myself, and paying for expedited shipping to get them there on time. The restaurant we were promised for the rehearsal dinner can no longer accommodate us. And the coup de grace…the band we were using for our reception broke up. After two weeks of me trying to get in touch with them someone called last night to inform me that they’re no longer together and would not be honoring our contract. So as of this moment in time, just a little over two months from the wedding, we have no music at our reception.

I am still pretty calm because I know that as long as we get married that day, none of this matters. I am sure that 10 years from now it will be a charmingly funny story that a man named Louie called me at 8:00 at night to say we have no wedding band. I will look back and laugh about the “potato chip incident.” But I share my tale as a lesson to all of you - save your emails, be as organized as possible, and confirm, confirm, confirm. If I hadn’t been hounding the band I can’t imagine when I would have found out about The Split. And I do promise a followup post with some good news.

Have any of you had vendors cancel? How did you handle it? And do any of you know of any good wedding bands in the Chicago/Wisconsin area? At this point I might even throw in a finders fee! Maybe we could form the first ever Weddingbee band…