Disasters Wedding Planners Managed To Hide From The Bride And Groom

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Apr 19, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

Weddings have an uncanny knack for hosting all kinds of drama. It could be a natural manifestation of bringing various family members together that should otherwise never find themselves in the same room as one another. So, the role of a wedding planner is an indispensable one. They can singlehandedly maintain the balance in that fragile ecosystem that is a wedding venue, and smoothly steer the ship clear of crashing into total disasters. For some more wedding drama check out this AskReddit thread about the times that wedding industry workers just knew that things weren't going to work out. 

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    Font - A guest from my hotel was just telling me a story about her wedding that I found impressive. At her wedding, ahead of the cake cutting, the wedding cake was absolutely destroyed. No one knew about this but the event staff and planner. The way she told it, the baker did not have time to prep another cake, but they did have several matching cakes used for sampling that were prepared daily. In a moment of inspired ingenuity, because the cake used a fondant, they created a new fondant to wrap
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    Font - miss_truffles • 1d Not a planner, but once helped cater an over the top fancy wedding. I wouldn't be surprised if it cost $250k all told. It was very over planned and things went wrong all night behind the scenes, but the big one was during setup several hours before it started. The reception was in a huge tent in a field across from the family's waterfront property. There were giant "branchaliers" strung 30' up on the tent poles for decoration - huge square pieces made of woven branches
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    Font - calloooohcallay • 1d Something happened at my wedding, but I still don't know what. At the end of the day, I saw my sister-in-law slip the wedding coordinator a stack of twenties. SIL had helped with setup on the big day but wasn't otherwise involved in wedding planning and definitely wasn't responsible for tips. When I asked her about it, she just told me that that the coordinator had earned the extra and that it was better if I didn't know. G Reply 4 120 3 ...
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    Font - Amsmoonchild • 1d One (very young) bride had a really tight budget, so her sister offered to make her cake , and her mom went and picked wildflowers to decorate and make bouquets with. When the cake was done, the Mom and sister decided to stick some of the flowers in the cake. It looked pretty, but they didn't realize that the flowers were poison hemlock. One of the wedding guests noticed and ran up when it was time to cut the cake, and cut off all the parts that had hemlock in it. The br
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    Font - worldssaddestbanjo · 1d · weddit flair template Not a planner but I have a similar cake story. On my wedding day, the people delivering my cake dropped it upside down on the table. It was really elaborately decorated and frosted, and it was totally ruined. A decorator from the bakery came from 30 min away and completely redecorated my cake at the venue. I had no idea- it was done so well. My husband and I only found out about it when I called the bakery to pay them, and they told me. I'm
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    Font - picapakapoco • 1d Oh man, this just reminded me of something that I did during my hotel days. We hosted several wedding groups throughout the summer. One weekend a bridesmaid wanted to go decorate the bride and grooms room for after the wedding and requested a key. This is a big no no for security reasons, but I thought I was helping them do something nice so I gave them a key. Well it turns out there was a positive pregnancy test in the room which obviously wasn't meant to be seen. I fel
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    Font - kberbs • 1d MY planner that is included with my venue package actually told me about this one: 15 minutes to ceremony time and the officiant is nowhere to be found. Planner calls em, asks where they're at. "I'm waiting in the parking lot I thought it started at X:30." Planner responds "oh no it starts at X:00! Get in here now!" Officiant shows up on time, the whole night goes on perfectly, and the bride and groom never found out about the debacle. That was one of many, many reasons I chos
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    Font - Poison-walker3 • 1d Not a planer and this happened long before I was born. The groom, my dad was told after the fact.my mom worked a call center and worked the day of her wedding as well. Got a call coming in for a tow for a caterer for so and so's wedding. It was for there wedding. Mom did what she needed to do and somehow managed to get a police escort for the caterer.
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