Not my wedding but one I attended. Bride and groom spent a lot of money making sure everything was perfect, cute midsized hotel in the countryside, chose the ‘gold’ package for food, everything was set… until the day of the wedding.
My husband (one of the groomsmen) and I turned up an hour early, just to make sure everything was running as expected, NOTHING had been done, no chairs out in the garden for the service, no decorations up, carpet needed a good vac after the previous nights party. The following is a run down of the days nightmare
* gold package wedding breakfast was a selection on pork, Turkey, beef, all processed Bernard Matthew’s stuff and a perfect one inch cube of salmon plus four cereal bowls on the table with chips, mixed veg, plain rice and cold broccoli
* evening buffet, most of the food had not defrosted, packets of ham and cheese etc still in the package just plonked on the table, not even near enough to feed everyone, poor bride was sobbing at this point.
* ‘Top quality’ £25 a bottle wine was from Aldi, Guinness out of cans, ran out of all soft drinks
* hotel owner got drunk, interrupted the first dance and was grinding against the bride, he later gave the groom some headache tablets and said “you know, for her excuses later”
* end of the night, bride and groom go to their suite only to find the drunk hotel owner asleep in their bed! No other rooms free, spent their wedding night at our house in the spare room.
My husband (one of the groomsmen) and I turned up an hour early, just to make sure everything was running as expected, NOTHING had been done, no chairs out in the garden for the service, no decorations up, carpet needed a good vac after the previous nights party. The following is a run down of the days nightmare
* gold package wedding breakfast was a selection on pork, Turkey, beef, all processed Bernard Matthew’s stuff and a perfect one inch cube of salmon plus four cereal bowls on the table with chips, mixed veg, plain rice and cold broccoli
* evening buffet, most of the food had not defrosted, packets of ham and cheese etc still in the package just plonked on the table, not even near enough to feed everyone, poor bride was sobbing at this point.
* ‘Top quality’ £25 a bottle wine was from Aldi, Guinness out of cans, ran out of all soft drinks
* hotel owner got drunk, interrupted the first dance and was grinding against the bride, he later gave the groom some headache tablets and said “you know, for her excuses later”
* end of the night, bride and groom go to their suite only to find the drunk hotel owner asleep in their bed! No other rooms free, spent their wedding night at our house in the spare room.