Growing Pains

My sister turned sixteen and it was automatically assumed that I would be the one to organize her party within a month of the event date. My mother did most of the correspondence with the vendors and has been a great resource in finding local vendors that are affordable............................ because expensive to mom is reasonable to me so she is the perfect asset to the business.

We had everything ordered and contracts were signed and then.... it rained on the night of the party. It was nice all week long and even predicted to be beautiful after the party but not the night of. Oh my where do we start with the phone calls that occurred that day, we had the make-up artist state that she was not coming out in the storming rain. The DJ got lost but did not want to admit it. He kept on saying that he was 10 minutes away and when he finally got to the venue, he circled the place for another 5 minutes. The caterer had just started a new job which had her behind schedule and she came just before the party girl and than she brought the raw food (on ICE) that she was not able to cook because she had to work late. The decorating crew miscalculated how long it was going to take us to decorate the hall so we were all rushing to get changed right before the "ON TIME" guests arrived.

This is why this posting is called "Growing Pains"... everyone starts out somewhere and most of these vendors were new at their craft which does not mean with more practice they will not get better but a chance was given so that they can learn where their weaknesses are and the areas they need to strengthen.

I wanted to illustrate that even though the event was a success there are some things that the planner has to endure and rectify to make the party keeps going because when the day of the event is here, IT IS WHAT IT IS!

The Sweet Sixteener had a nice time at her party and she is still receiving rave reviews, in light of the preliminary events that she and her attendees were not made aware of.

The only thing that I could not anticipate was the way that the new generation dances these days. Some wanted to battle on the dance floor whereas others were having close encounters that needed to be monitored.

Look at what I have gotten myself into....... I will post some of the party pictures on a later post.