As the title says, Im sure many of you have seen weird and wonderful things happen at weddings so I thought it would be an idea to share...it may create some inspiration......................?
Ive been to and worked at many weddings but there are a few that stick in my mind,
Firstly a 'French orchard' theme wedding - the bride wanted it to look like they were having an outdoor dinner party so she ordered fake fruit trees that would be placed around the room and the guests where going to be sitting around a banquet style table (rectangular with a space in the centre). So the fruit trees arrived at the hotel where I was working and there seemed to be rather alot of them and alot taller than the 3ft height she had described, they were varying heights from 3ft to 6ft full on trees, so the bride arrived to see the trees and help decorate the room, she was thrilled with the trees and so the decorating began!
So we began arranging them around the outside of the room until the entire perimiter of the room was lined (at this point I felt I really was in a forest clearing). So with the room lined we still had alot of trees left over so we ask the bride if she wanted them put anywhere else in the hotel her response was 'no put them in the middle of the tables' we all thought she was joking but no she really did want them there! So as lovely as they looked the guests the following day had to sit around tables with a view of trees! The guests couldnt see throught the trees to others guests and half of them couldnt see they bride or groom! It made for some interesting comments from their family and friends!!!
A WWE wrestling theme - From posters of the bride and groom posing as wrestlers to the centre peices of wrestling figures in vases! This was all very subtle and it took me a while to see what the theme was but it was a part of their personality they really wanted to show during the day and as un-wedding-ey as it sounds it actually worked and their guests loved it.
My all time favourite:
A murder mystery wedding!! - This took place one new years eve whislt I was working at a hotel and I shall never forget it! The guests had no idea what was going on but all the wedding party was in on it as were the staff. So all was going smoothly ceremony fine, dinner fine, evening reception began and thats when it all kicked of with the bridemaid running in to the room screaming, covered in blood, fake of course, that the best man had been stabbed (at this point I had forgotten myself what was going and was as shocked as the rest of the guests!) So the entire reception stops and the guests look absolutly mortified, until the grim reaper appears............yes they went all out....... he announces to the party that they are taking part in a murder mystery (cue lots of relieved faces) and that 1 person will be murdered every hour until midnight unless they find out who the murder is!
From then on the party get so invloved in this game they thought it was brilliant! They DJ carried on playing for those who didnt want to take part and all the party returned to count down midnight and reveal who the murderer was, they then all partied for another 3 hours before they had to be kindly asked to leave.........
So there are weird and wonderful theme experiences, lets hear some of yours.
Fozzie xx
