As a Site Manager/Innkeeper, I’ve been a witness to over 300 wedding weekends at the Red Corral Ranch. The amount of variety and diversity has been off the scale. Every wedding ceremony, rehearsal and weekend is different, and that is an understatement.
Still, there’s one thing that has been similar among the events during the weekends. They are all full of details.
The name of the game with wedding rehearsals, ceremonies, receptions and in our case, wedding weekends is details, details, details. There are so many different details to think about when putting on a wedding rehearsal, ceremony and reception. When the unspeakable happens – someone forgetting some detail – it becomes a noticeable stressor when the time comes that the event is supposed to happen.
For example: the wedding reception when someone in the family was in charge of forks. The forks didn’t come to the wedding. Another when no one thought to bring napkins for anything. There’s more than enough stories about the delivered rentals being wrong or rentals being dirty. And who is supposed to bring ice? Or the time when a family member hired their DJ off Craig’s list sight unseen. I’ve never seen a worse match between DJ and wedding group. The wedding group was not happy.
The point of all this is that there are not 100 details, there are 1000 details, and there are not 1000 details – there are 10,000. What I’m saying is that if someone has never put on a wedding, rehearsal, and reception, then they truly have no idea how many details there are with these events.
That’s why there are Wedding Planners and Wedding Coordinators. This industry of experienced professionals exists out of necessity, not out of whimsy or luxury. A Wedding Planner has all the details of your event in their thoughts before you approach them. Their knowledge, experience and information for you is already in their minds. They have seen just about everything and put together weddings exactly as the family imagines – most of them stress free and work free for the family and guests. They’ve been down that road and know the “twists and turns.”
I am quite convinced that there would be fewer marriages, some of them ending while walking down the aisle, if there were no wedding planners. Why? Because the wedding planners know firsthand the level of detail required for weddings, and how to ‘not forget’ the forks and napkins, the rentals and the ice. Wedding Coordinators already know the details and how to solve problems before the boy asks the girl to marry him.
Sure, it’s humanly possible to put on your own wedding event, or have your parents and aunts/uncles and family members do the work for your wedding event. But, I’ve lost count long ago how many times I’ve heard a family member say, “I’m never doing this again.” Many find out that the imagined reality of putting on a wedding is not like the actual reality of putting on a wedding.
I will be happy to also say there are many successful weddings, rehearsals and receptions put on by family members. Obviously, there are families who will love doing the work to help make the wedding events a memorable event. I’m just suggesting that one not go into it with blinders on. So, don’t take this lightly. Consider this – what memories of your wedding do you want your family members to have?
The things I’ve seen.
Jodie, the Red Corral Ranch Site Manager
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