To Tom from Paula - Part 2 - Big wedding

Paula probably doesn't know how good her lettering is. She often writes little comments on the back of her envelopes pointing out things that she doesn't like. Other times she'll write more on the inside. Paula: You need to know that the orderly-ness of your penmanship is above average. Troy has his FOJ - Fear of Jean pointing out things that she thinks could be improved - which I actually don't do - but I might start (LOL - JK) What I do - is point out things that I like - and then when I say what it is - people who don't do that jump to the conclusion that I am critical of sloppy lettering that is not orderly. OK - yes - I do prefer orderly - but that doesn't mean that I never like dis-orderly. I'll be on the lookout for something dis-orderly that is eye-catching in a good way.

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 Part 2 of the mother of all events story.

So, Tom was in charge of everything. I can't remember how many people I hired to help with the napkin/place card component. All I know is that I had to calculate enough people to show up and do it after the tables were set - and I knew the lighting people would cause a huge delay - and my napkin crew had to be *on call* to show up when the tables were ready - which was going to be the last minute.

And then Tom had to make sure that the napkins were there - but not anywhere that somebody would move one of boxes or all of them -- It seems like there were about 8-10 Banker's Boxes. At some point - he would have brought them into the dining room and put them in the general vicinity of the tables. 

Sure enough -- as the crew was finally summoned to put the napkins out - at least one of the boxes went missing. I still get PTSD thinking about stuff like this. It seems silly - but when people are paying you to do something simple - you actually want to get it right.

At least I was not the vendor who got the layers of the cake all stacked up - and then realized that it was too tall to go through the doorway.

Tom and his crew did a spectacular job of getting everything right. The missing box was found. They even went above and beyond - when the groom decided that he wanted to honor the memory of his grandmother by having her favorite candy in a candy dish s.o.m.e.w.h.e.r.e -- I'm not sure where they put it - but my crew ran out and found the candy and Tom lettered a nice little card to sit next to it.

One final note tomorrow.