Breakfast Diva
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Do any of you have major weddings on your property? All I hear are horror stories. Is it worth it?
An innkeeper friend of mine has a beautiful 9 room lodge and does weddings in the summer. This is their bread and butter. Without them, the business would not be able to sustain itself. These weddings can be anywhere from 20-300 people. Of course they have to book up the entire lodge for at least 2 nights. Every year there seems to be at least 2 real horror stories. This is not an inexpensive place, and she keeps raising the prices and adding protective statements in her contract, but it doesn't seem to eliminate the problems that occur.
At the beginning of the wedding season, she had a wedding and the groom was a member of fire/sheriff/police dept. They all got so drunk that there was vomit on carpets, neighbors complaining of noise and things destroyed...oh yeah, you can't call the cops to break it up, they were all there!
Well, now I get an e-mail about the latest wedding fiasco. Frankly, I don't know how much longer she'll be able to take it.
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} "DH returned from San Fran last night around 10:30 very tired and forgot to lock the door. At around 2:00 a.m. someone walked into our apartment with a flash light....we both woke up startled and the heck frightened out of us and of course DH started yelling and screaming at the guy to "get @%&!! out.
Found out this a.m. it was the bride's brother...whom when he arrived, all of my staff nailed him as a trouble maker. So I have Mom in hysterics, Bride and her father crying and the groom mad as hell. Evidently this kid has had a big problem for about 6 months.
I am locking my door tonight and the Lodge and bringing a gun to our apartment."
An innkeeper friend of mine has a beautiful 9 room lodge and does weddings in the summer. This is their bread and butter. Without them, the business would not be able to sustain itself. These weddings can be anywhere from 20-300 people. Of course they have to book up the entire lodge for at least 2 nights. Every year there seems to be at least 2 real horror stories. This is not an inexpensive place, and she keeps raising the prices and adding protective statements in her contract, but it doesn't seem to eliminate the problems that occur.
At the beginning of the wedding season, she had a wedding and the groom was a member of fire/sheriff/police dept. They all got so drunk that there was vomit on carpets, neighbors complaining of noise and things destroyed...oh yeah, you can't call the cops to break it up, they were all there!
Well, now I get an e-mail about the latest wedding fiasco. Frankly, I don't know how much longer she'll be able to take it.
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} "DH returned from San Fran last night around 10:30 very tired and forgot to lock the door. At around 2:00 a.m. someone walked into our apartment with a flash light....we both woke up startled and the heck frightened out of us and of course DH started yelling and screaming at the guy to "get @%&!! out.
Found out this a.m. it was the bride's brother...whom when he arrived, all of my staff nailed him as a trouble maker. So I have Mom in hysterics, Bride and her father crying and the groom mad as hell. Evidently this kid has had a big problem for about 6 months.
I am locking my door tonight and the Lodge and bringing a gun to our apartment."