Wedding Plan-igans

Planning a wedding inherently comes with a lot of shenanigans. Dealing with companies, vendors, people etc etc. I will choose just a few rant worthy situations I have run into thus far.

#1 EVERYONE thinks they are invited. EVERYONE. Did I mention EVERYONE? Listen, I don't mean to brag, but I have 820 facebook friends. I like you all ... mostly... but you are not all invited to my wedding. I've developed some general criteria and to be deemed invitation worthy you must meet one or more of the following criteria:
- You are blood related or married to someone that is
- You are in the wedding party
- One of us has known you since before we were 5 years old AND have kept in touch at least randomly
- One of us sees you or AT LEAST talks to you more than 5 times a year AND outside of large social gatherings

If you don't meet at least one of these, you are not invited. It's not that we don't like you, it's just unrealistic to invite every person we've ever shaken hands with. If you do meet one of these criteria and are not invited. I apologize. I forgot?

#2 David's bridal has better customer service than Alfred Angelo, but Alfred Angelo has better bridesmaid dresses. FACT!

I'm fairly certain that the people in the Tucson, AZ Alfred Angelo are monkeys or sewer rats. I called the other day to confirm a coupon I received in the mail was saying what I thought it was. The response I got was, "You would actually know about that before I would."
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I'm sorry, what? I would know about the promotions within the company you work for before you, the employee, would know about them. WOW! In that case I also got a coupon for FREE everything. We'll be in later today to pick up whatever we want.

#3 If you say "wedding" the price goes up.

When you're planning a wedding tell everyone you're having a funeral or a birthday party for your grandma. They will probably give you a discount. Call me cheap, but I don't even spend $45/pp ++++++ on dinner for myself, why would I do that for 200 people? I want everyone to eat, drink, and be merry, but not for $8000 in food alone. I mean who do these hooligans think they are?

Please comment and leave some of the rediculosity that you ran into planning your event or wedding.

Serious Sally.

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