Weddings are such interesting slices of life. Nerves are on edge, emotions are hightened, and problems are magnified. Brandon's unyiedling law of weddings says that every wedding WILL have something go wrong, something go awry, in short....something WILL NOT go to plan. Sometimes the errant action is as simple as a drooping bouteneir. And then other times it is a bit more serious.
My wedding business is growing and I have a number of associate ministers who go out and officiate weddings for me. This weekend one of my new associates went out on his first Rich Events wedding. Why oh why did the following have to happen on his very first wedding with us?! Apparently the cake designer failed to produce a cake for this wedding. Upon discovering the oversight, he provided a cake and delivered it. For whatever reason, the cake collapesed and fell over. It all worked out OK in the end, but still that's not the sort of thing I like for my associates and clients to endure!
This is not unlike a situation over a year ago when I hired a new wedding event staffer who was interestd in the wedding business. I gave her the job so she could see if this was something she wanted to pursue. On her first (and last) day working for me she witnessed one of the other staffers have a melt down in front of wedding guests as he blasted me for whatever it was he didn't like that we were doing. The poor new-hire had to watch me pull this guy off the floor and send him home mid-event.
This week I hired a friend to help me with recruiting in another city where I lived several years ago. She was very excited about the business and enthusiastic about working for me. When I called her tonight to plan her first week at work, she abruptly announced that she had decided not to take the job after all due to the amount of time that the job would require, and the fact that she had extensive volunteer obligations in her church.
On the positive side, I have hired serveral new officiants this week whom I think will be great additions to the team. The Rich Events footprint is beginning to grow!
