All right, wedding planners!
It has been the *toughest* of weeks, no months, no... YEARS. 2020 is throwing it at us, so I say the answer is:
LAUGH.
After all, laughter is the best medicine.
Hit this thread with your best memes, listicles, and "a funny thing happened on the way to the wedding" stories!
To start us off, I dug into the depths of a particular website known for having silly things. Please enjoy these:
It's going to be SO EASY to plan. ...HA.
...Did you really just say that?
When print media is just ... weird.
When you're squad's got your back
As for the hilarious part of wedding planning, let me tell you about how much DH and I had at the very beginning.
We KNEW we wanted a sword fight. We're actors, we do stage combat, nearly all our friends do stage combat, there's a running gag where all I do on stage is beat DH to pieces (his character 150% deserves it every time), so we wanted to fight as a team for once.
However.
You try telling this to a venue used to hosting fancy affairs and not theatre. (We looked into theatres. In NYC, those are far more expensive to turn into a wedding venue than you'd think. And we do indie theatre, we know how to find the cheap theatres.)
To cover our butts, I made sure to mention this desire in our first contacts. I also stressed that we are *trained actors*, we have all had certifications in this, and so on and so forth to qualm any fears.
I can tell you that the places in NYC varied from "hmmmm" to "we've had weirder requests" (I WISH I KNEW WHAT THOSE WERE), but the places across the river in Jersey absolutely LOST THEIR MINDS. Like, pearl clutching, ignored every other question I had in the email, absolutely could not handle it. (So distracted, they kept offering dates we said were not viable!)
The reason we chose our venue, though, was because of how they handled it. Apparently, our email circulated the entire office before it made it to our coordinator. The entire office was freaked out, worried, and going, "Did you SEE what they asked???"
Coordinator: "Yep. And they said they were trained actors. Sounds good."
And that is how our venue didn't even ask for us to buy insurance AS WE PLAYED WITH SWORDS IN FORMALWEAR.
(No one was harmed in the course of our wedding.)
What's your funny story?
