Sun Moon Stars Girl )-(

Welcome to my little place to vent…

Ah, yes, the Emotional Rollercoaster - my least favorite of the rollercoaster family. Yesterday was a huge up-and-down day for me. I had about five minutes of actually emotional reprieve to feel like everything was settled and taken care of. To feel like everything was going as scheduled, as planned, and on time. It was a good five minutes.

The good news: The bridesmaid dresses came in! Happily, they arrived earlier than anticipated (July 2nd instead of July 7th or 10th). After I had left a message with the bridal shop to check in with the Dessy company to make sure there wouldn’t be any further delays, she called to tell me the dresses were in her shop. It was so unexpected that I was a little bewildered - but I told her I would be down there right away to check them out. I called my friend Renee to see if she might be able to come with me - I knew I would need the emotional support if there was still a problem. She had a meeting, but would have happily joined me. So I called Kris, hoping he was either home, or at the garage (which is close to the bridal shop), or where he was on the highway. Luckily, he was on the highway, just entering San Clemente. He said he would stop at the bridal shop and take a look - and that we could go from there. About ten minutes later he calls me, at the bridal shop and says, “When she opened the box, I thought there was only one dress in there.” I knew there was no problem with the color of the dresses at that point. Finally! The good news gets better - the shop owner agreed to ship the dresses separately to my bridesmaids, so they could have as much time as possible to go get their alterations done. I think she even shipped the dresses overnight, but either way, it was so nice of her to do. I didn’t have to go down there at all, and I was able to go back to work where I called and emailed everyone to let them know the update and excellent news.

The bad news: After sending out that email, I get an email from the new Social Sales Manager at the hotel! I’m upset that no one informed me or my parents (the clients who have a current contract the the place!) that the person they’ve been making all their arrangements with is no longer there. I’m also worried that all of the things we’d worked out with the previous manager will no longer be accepted, and that all our planning went down the drain. It’s obvious from her second email to me that a lot of those details have gotten lost (she asked if we were having a DJ or band, and in the first email she responded to, I had said we were having a DJ…). With the holiday tomorrow, and the time difference between CA and NJ, it’s going to be difficult to get in touch with her over the phone to go over everything. But I am going to do that ASAP. I’m hoping they will comp us SOMETHING for this last-minute change, or at the very least, give us the same deals and discounts we already had laid out - but were not necessarily in our contract. I’m also VERY worried because I have absolutely no opportunity to meet this new manager in person until just a few days before the actual wedding. I’m hoping my parents might have some time to go meet with her. I also hope that this wasn’t a whole ‘change in staff’ thing - because the hotel was sold earlier this year and is now part of a chain. That would mean a change in the chef who cooked the food for the tasting, who was so willing to accommodate our vegetarian and vegan friends. It could also mean a change in the Maitre` D, the only other person we’d met and were excited about working with.

Of course I also have a tendency to assume the worst, thinking now “What else can go wrong?” and bring up all the other stupid little things that have “gone wrong.” I won’t list them all again now, but at least I know they are stupid little things and not, for example, the hotel burning down and having to find a new place at the last minute (which ironically my parents had to do…). I’m just upset because I thought all this stuff was taken care of, and now I have to go over all these details again, either through email, or over the phone, but basically instead of in person, like we already did!