(Warning: Long; Feel free to laugh at my pain)
So some of y'all may know, but I'm getting married this September at the Schermerhorn (labor day weekend; will be in ATL for the game, don't worry). Wedding planning is going fine; everything has been excellent and costs very reasonable for what we want. Until yesterday...
We hired a well-respected and connected wedding planner here in Nashville. She's been great, btw. We had our "design day" where I weathered the storm and contributed some ideas; being a good fiance and all. My fiancee and I are both of the mind that our venue is great, there's no need for a ton of gratuitous decoration, and we both are not flower people. In fact, members of both our families have pretty significant allergies. We communicated all this very very clearly. To wit, the flower portion of this design day lasted 10 minutes, wherein we basically said, we want the bare minimum for flowers; I stress: minimum.
So the bids from our vendors came in this past week, and the proposal from our vendor for flowers was, and I really am not joking, $20,732.67...
I mean...what!? Who in God's name would think (a) that that's acceptable for flowers generally in situations where a botanical garden isn't being built; and (b) that that's what we communicated in 10 minutes while saying we want virtually no flowers.
My reaction:
For $20,732.67 I better be owning my own part of a forest, or have enough flowers that I can traipse around with a fig leaf on the altar like I'm in the garden of Eden and no one can tell because they are so overwhelmed with flowers that they cannot see us at the altar.
If people are willing to pay, $20k for flowers, I need to quit my job...Period.
So some of y'all may know, but I'm getting married this September at the Schermerhorn (labor day weekend; will be in ATL for the game, don't worry). Wedding planning is going fine; everything has been excellent and costs very reasonable for what we want. Until yesterday...
We hired a well-respected and connected wedding planner here in Nashville. She's been great, btw. We had our "design day" where I weathered the storm and contributed some ideas; being a good fiance and all. My fiancee and I are both of the mind that our venue is great, there's no need for a ton of gratuitous decoration, and we both are not flower people. In fact, members of both our families have pretty significant allergies. We communicated all this very very clearly. To wit, the flower portion of this design day lasted 10 minutes, wherein we basically said, we want the bare minimum for flowers; I stress: minimum.
So the bids from our vendors came in this past week, and the proposal from our vendor for flowers was, and I really am not joking, $20,732.67...
I mean...what!? Who in God's name would think (a) that that's acceptable for flowers generally in situations where a botanical garden isn't being built; and (b) that that's what we communicated in 10 minutes while saying we want virtually no flowers.
My reaction:
For $20,732.67 I better be owning my own part of a forest, or have enough flowers that I can traipse around with a fig leaf on the altar like I'm in the garden of Eden and no one can tell because they are so overwhelmed with flowers that they cannot see us at the altar.
If people are willing to pay, $20k for flowers, I need to quit my job...Period.
