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Early, as usual, you exit
your automobile. Immediately, you navigate the people crowded entrance, walk straight
past the wedding venue’s hostess, and right down to the ceremony area.
Surveying the layout, saying “hello”
to the other wedding vendors, doing a microphone “sound – check”, and, so forth. There, diligently going through your
pre-ceremony paces, always competent, helpful, and organized. – But, then, it happens, you hear the marrying
couple’s first and last names mentioned….. Oops, your innocent mistake hits
hard, much like that childhood “belly
flop” on a swimming pool’s hard watery surface. And, under your breath, you
say, “I am on the wrong hill!” Now, you are not the usual “Wedding Crasher”, because you are a “Wedding Officiator!” This kind of crashing is excusable, and even humorous,
especially if it is by a diligent and legitimate marriage officiant. Note: By the way,
exiting quickly, but still early, the real officiator of this true story found her
bride and groom at the wedding venue on the other hill!
Real Wedding Crashers Use Credit Cards Just Like
Your Wedding Guests & Might Leave You With The Check!
At any large hotel,
there could be three or four or five wedding celebrations in one four hour
time-block. In fact, as a wedding officiator, scouting out my contracted ceremony
event, I have innocently walked into the wrong already happening reception and been greeted
warmly by the unsuspecting! It is just that easy to do! So, what about the new
wedding crasher? Are they drawn to the open bar and passed hors d'oeuvres at a wedding
cocktail hour? Maybe, the monetary treasures in envelopes ready for picking on
the gift table? Perhaps, he or she is using your wedding day much like a “dating service”. Certainly, there could be those.
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Human “creativity” is either noble or dastardly,
and amid rising hotel rates, crashers are after your discount. You might say, “Oh well, the more the merrier!”, but, like
with anything stolen from the innocents, enough of that kind of activity ruins
it for others. Then, the correction
becomes corporal, much like punishing the whole fifth grade class just because
of one obsessively pesky student transgressor.
The experts say today’s
“Wedding Crasher” is getting in on
the lower price connected with a block of rooms for a wedding or a corporate
event. Apparently, rates are steeper during high-demand times such as wedding
season or a busy convention period. And the wickedly resourceful know it. This crime
of a “stow-away” or “camouflaged” wedding guest is so easily
perpetrated. In fact, it is the 68 percent of the marrying engaged, with their
public wedding websites doing the “aiding
and abetting”. How you might ask?
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The Good Thing That Is Also The Bad Thing
The simple act of the on-line
posting of important wedding organizational details for genuine wedding guest
attendees is the culprit. For those “devious for a discount”, a wedding
website provides guest information, such as where to book rooms and deal codes
that often are not password-protected. Crashing a block is easy enough to do
with just a quick search for "wedding
block," (along with a location
and date), yielding potential dozens of examples.
Wedding website
couples, not-to-worry, and hotel purveyors don’t punish the “whole for the few”. Even though “crashers” fly under the radar, it is easy to determine if one is a
victim. Together, with a representative of the hotel hosting your wedding
guests, go through the names in your discounted block regularly. If you don’t
recognize a name or two, just let them know. If your “discount code” was used by a “Wedding
Crasher”, the hotel might suggest the typical protocol for this offense.
Finally, a bit of a warning too … Realize that Hotels aren't overly concerned
about crashers, as it's better to sell a room than have it go empty. So,
engaged couples, this leaves it to you to thwart interlopers. Do be diligent to
catch any crashers in your room
blocks. Too many couples “asleep at the
wheel” could result in legitimate guests' paying higher rates or being
unable to book at all. Those not-caught uninvited can also leach right under
your nose. Perhaps, even padding the bill for things you might pay for per head
for your guests, such as breakfast, shuttle use or gift placed in rooms.
Certainly, there may be other un-intended consequences. So, for all of us
innocents, Happy “Wedding Crasher” sleuthing!
Facebook Discussion of ""Healthy Bride Wedding Planning" - Dr. Linda Officiated Real Housewives of Orange County Wedding of Tamra and Eddie Bravo T.V. on June 15th 2013. As she finishes the writing of this introduction is off to preside her "Food Network Star Chefs" wedding.
From Dr. Linda
"Recently, after my Bravo T.V. wedding ceremony for The Reality Show - The Real Housewives of Orange County Tamra & Eddie, I received a number of compliments regarding the kindness and grace in my voice and in my deportment. Also, that these traits are not ones manufactured. The command of the wedding ceremony showed knowledge and experience. Wedding or Celebrations Manners, along with acquired knowledge and experience are more much more than "have to", they are public expressions of what a person values, and who they are or want to become. As to "healthy living", my physical stamina in my work as a Celebrity Wedding Officiator is due to the healthy body, mind and spirit choices that I have made every day for decades.
About Dr. Linda
Facebook Discussion of ""Healthy Bride Wedding Planning" - Dr. Linda Officiated Real Housewives of Orange County Wedding of Tamra and Eddie Bravo T.V. on June 15th 2013. As she finishes the writing of this introduction is off to preside her "Food Network Star Chefs" wedding.
From Dr. Linda
"Recently, after my Bravo T.V. wedding ceremony for The Reality Show - The Real Housewives of Orange County Tamra & Eddie, I received a number of compliments regarding the kindness and grace in my voice and in my deportment. Also, that these traits are not ones manufactured. The command of the wedding ceremony showed knowledge and experience. Wedding or Celebrations Manners, along with acquired knowledge and experience are more much more than "have to", they are public expressions of what a person values, and who they are or want to become. As to "healthy living", my physical stamina in my work as a Celebrity Wedding Officiator is due to the healthy body, mind and spirit choices that I have made every day for decades.
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