Crisis Management

We are often asked "I have planned everything down to the tiny details, what kind of crisis could possibly come up on my wedding day?" For some reason I am always at a loss to remember any off the top of my head so I thought it would be fun to keep a running list over the past two weekends. Here for your enjoyment are the last minute challenges that were faced and solved:

NO PRELUDE MUSIC
Because we had the musicians at the rehearsal, we realized that they had only prepared two songs to play as prelude music. Well that takes care of 8 minutes, but what about the other 37 minutes while guests are arriving? The bride was able to put together an IPod playlist of some of their favorite music and that problem was solved. The moral of this story is to always be very clear with your musicians exactly when they will start playing. You need to be prepared that guests can start arriving at your ceremony location up to an hour before the ceremony starts.

NEED MORE CANDLES
The Mother of the Bride had purchased oodles of beautiful ivory pillar candles to put in hurricane lanterns all over the ceremony area and on each guest table at the reception. The only problem is that after setting up at the reception site the day before the wedding she realized that the was 2 short. We saved her from having to run around town the day of the wedding looking for 10" x 3" ivory pillar candles so that she could relax and enjoy the day with her daughter. Happy to do it!

MISSING BOUTONNIERES & CORSAGES
When it came picture time the girls had their bouquets, but the guys were missing their bouts. One call to the florist's cell phone and she was on her way back from the reception site because she had also just realized they were still in her car. The lesson here is always have a complete list of cell phone numbers for all your vendors because you just never know!

FALLING STRAPS
The Maid of Honor had one spaghetti strap on her dress that just would not stay snapped. Handy sewing kit to the rescue and we had the strap tacked in no time flat. 911 Emergency Kit to the rescue!

NO BRAKES
I received a panicked phone call 3 hours before the ceremony from the family friend that was driving the vintage car for their transportation. He had just taken the car out to have it washed only to discover that it had NO brakes!!! One call to the Mother of the Bride's cell phone and it was decided that they would use his back up car in it's place. Always a good idea to take that vintage car out for a test drive a few days before the wedding!

I think all of our brides would agree that it was invaluable to have professionals on hand to handle these little emergencies when they arose. Let us be the ones that are prepared, experienced and running around solving problems!