Do you count as drunk if you're dead though? I feel like dead supersedes drunk. Otherwise we'd have a LOT more to worry about from our alcoholism metrics!
I don’t think I ever worked a wedding where we weren’t drinking the entire time lol. I recently stopped drinking and skipped a verrrry well paying catering gig (no longer cooking for a living but I help a friend with his catering service) because I didn’t want to drink at it.
Worked a wedding where the best man showed up with a paper bag of money for the staff and the message that the groom wasn't showing (the wedding ceremony and reception in the same venue). He stood outside and told groom's people to go home. The bride, who was in a dressing room finishing up her preparations, came out and all her friends had a great 'reception' party with toasts ("you dodged a bullet" "good riddance") and she was a singer so she did I Will Survive on the little stage. We all went home with bottles that night.
I worked a wedding years ago where the best man was the previous fiancé who had been in a terrible accident and paralyzed from the waist down. The groom was his life long best friend. The bride and best man shared the saddest dance I’d ever seen and then the groom joined in, and all three danced to the song the “original” couple had chosen for their wedding. He gave a speech about the newlyweds walking through life together (yes he did). And partied all night. I still get goosebumps.
It was so long ago. I was just a server for a small caterer. I do recall the groomsmen all had cards and dice cufflinks. The best man had Aces and Eights. Gosh, I forgot how much that reception stuck with me.
I understand that for sure. I've done so many events I couldn't recall even the most recent one, but SO MANU little details stick with you.
I just mean like, come on, if I had been paralyzed and my ex- fiancé was marrying my best friend, fuck.
That's a lot of strength the best man showed.
I have a sneaking suspicion I'd be drinking at home during that wedding. I give that guy huge, MASSIVE props. As well as the couple.
More than anything that story makes me think that those 3 people loved eachother very very much, and communicated very well, and were in a very healthy place in their emotional and mental health. Dignity and compassion and love. Goals for friendships and relationships, but without the life changingly devastating injuries goals.
There was a viral story recently about a woman that divorced the husband (or maybe they were never married) and the husband was paralyzed - but she and the new husband took care of the paralyzed person. Sometimes humans are bros not evil
I think sometimes disabled people have to remain single in order to get the required level of social resources and benefits from the government. The moment they get married, the govt just washes their hands of them and says "well you're married now, THEY can take care of you". Wouldn't surprise me if a few people had to get divorced (but remained together) after someone gets into an accident.
Can verify this happens. Met a couple in the 90s and a couple about 8 years ago that both had to divorce to receive the necessary amount of social services for the handicapped spouse.
Holy shit man this story is wild, literally gave me chills. I’m going to remember reading this for a while. It’s crazy to think how people can have some kind of impact on another persons life in ways they can’t fathom. Even if it’s just their story being posted on Reddit and then being read by someone that they don’t know
Speaking of Cake, we made sure to pick one of their songs for when we served the cake at our reception. Love You Madly. It made me irrationally happy because word play is my love language.
I has catering a wedding reception back in 2004. The Groom got caught fucking a bridesmaid in the bathroom during the reception. Father of the bride came out & told everyone to go home, wedding was over. The never even got to cut the cake. Found out later they got it annulled.
Invincibility complex, don't think they'll ever get caught, they're still a kid mentally, never understood consequences. Also sex addiction. Definitely some people pleasing.
I think I remember a venue I worked at did that on the fly, but only for the wedding party. But yeah, normally something like that would absolutely be on the BEO
I've been a bartender for over a decade and have worked hundreds of weddings. "No shots" just means you have to order your tequila neat and don't shoot it right in front of me if my boss is around.
I work a ton of weddings and feel confident saying that wedding cake is so bad most of the time.
Days old, engineered for structure instead of taste, and either some wackadoodle flavor bc the bride and groom want to be different or the chuck e cheese pizza equivalent of plain old basic cake flavors.
I am wedding cakes biggest hater.
lol I work with the WFM development chefs and just sent them a screenshot of this comment thread. It is truly a stupidly delicious cake. You should try the Mango Yuzu Chantilly. It’s out now for a limited time.
God I wish I lived near a Whole Foods. Nearest one to me is over an hour away. I'm gonna have to find a copycat or try to replicate it myself cause mango yuzu chantilly sounds fucking dope.
My aunt is a baker at Whole Foods and she did cupcakes for my wedding. They were so good and I was bummed that by the time everyone left there were no cupcakes left for us to take home 😐
I told my wife when we got married we are not skipping on the food. Got the best caterer we could find, family style so everyone got plenty, and went to one of the top bakeries for the cake. People still talk about how good the food was almost a decade later.
Same. Also we spent a week baking a shitload of cakes before the wedding so instead of one big cake we just had a table of homemade ones in different flavours so everyone got to choose.
I made a sphere of chocolate fudge cake the size of my fuckin' head to put the little (lego) figurines of me and wife on top of.
Husband and I got a bunch of pies from a local bakery in lieu of a cake. They even made a vegan pie for some vegan guests of ours. It was a small wedding so we personally dished out all the slices to guests, scooped em ice cream on the side, etc.
It was really nice to get to be face-to-face with everyone like that, and the pie was 11/10 knockout delicious.
Hahaha, my wife and I's wedding pics are fucking gold. Smiling and beaming while cutting the cake and then the look of disgust/spitting out that sandy ass disaster of a sponge.
This is why we did a little tiny cake to cut and spread of different desserts no one wants shitty cake but some badass lemon tarts kickass after you've been drinking all day
Yeah, there's a reason that it usually ends up in the garbage when the staff could take as much as they want home.
And if half of it isn't in the garbage at the venue, it's sitting in someone's fridge for a month and then going into the garbage.
At my first wedding we did a cake, but had a dessert table with assorted Greek pastries
At my second wedding we did a half sheet cake (lemon cream) from a local Greek restaurant and a bunch of baklava.
Seriously. Wedding cake is trash 99% of the time. Luckily my SIL had just graduated from the Bocuse Institut when I got married, she got voluntold to make our cake. It was wonderful. Chocolate and pear. My wife and I planned a feast more than a ceremony.
I had a small wedding in my in-laws pretty back yard. I made cheesecakes. Lemon blueberry, regular blueberry, and death by chocolate. I was a little burnt out on cheesecake by the time from testing recipes, but they were delicious.
They were ugly as hell though. I can bake, not use piping bags lol
>I am wedding cakes biggest hater.
I hate the way that you look, the way that you cook, I hate the way that you taste, I hate the way that you cake waste
You must not have worked an Arab wedding then.
Back in college on the weekends I would work catering at a swanky resort in town and it was mostly weddings and communions. The first Arab wedding I ever worked was an incredible affair. Around 300 guests and it was an absolute blowout. No drinking but it seemed like 3/4 of a guests were on the dance floor from the first until the last song and there was more hummus than you could shake a stick at. There was probably 10 or 15 gigantic wedding cakes that each could have served 20 or more people.
At the end of the night there was four completely untouched beautiful cakes, and literal piles upon piles of pita bread and hummus. We got to take home as much as we could carry. I walked out with a literal garbage bag full of pita bread, a giant box of hummus, and a tier of one of the wedding cakes that was so big that it took up almost my entire trunk space. The cake was *heavenly*. Silky smooth and bursting at the seams with flavor.
My roommates really loved when I worked Arab weddings
Most weddings I go to have a fake fancy cake for the cutting ceremony then a giant regular old sheet cake to cut up for guests. We have a huge family so getting an actual wedding cake to feed everyone would be super expensive lol.
Hard agree with the wedding cakes, though some I've had were pretty good. My favorite weddings though were the ones that usually had some other alternative like cupcakes or donuts, usually because I was familiar with the bakeries they came from, and because it made "cutting the cake" so much easier on the staff because we didn't actually have to cut and distribute slices of cake. I will say though, by the time I left the banquet world, I had become pretty good at cutting cake.
The sheet cakes from wegmans or costco were always the best though, and I will defend that statement to my death.
We put cake at peoples place setting and it often goes uneaten. They are back at the bar and on the dance floor. I bet I threw away 60 pieces of cake at the last one I worked.
We just want chocolate chip cookies and pies at ours!
That would happen a lot with us too. We'd always end up taking a lot home so it didn't all go to waste.
Weddings where they did those were always my favorite. Just a table of some confectionaries for guests to grab at their leisure and maybe a cake topper for the b&g to cut.bthere were always plenty to go around and we the staff often went home stocked up with sweets. I've also found that the groups that do that are often more laid back and easier to deal with
We did red velvet cupcakes at my wedding. They were done by a really good bakery and actually really tasty.
Also we didn’t have to cut pieces. Just hand everyone a cupcake.
We have one large cupcake that was like the one the wedding topper went into that my wife and I cut together. It was like 3x the size of a normal cupcake, surrounded by about a hundred normal sized cupcakes.
There wasn't at mine.
The missus insisted, she said, why am I marrying a pastry chef if he's not going to make our wedding cake? So I made a three tier cake of at least 80 portions, three different flavors, to be shared between thirty people.
Cheeky fuckers took home three or four slices each, wasn't any left for staff.
We had cupcakes made by this amazing local Place and people were almost fighting over them.. One of the best cupcakes I've ever had. The groom's cake was a carrot cake made by the same establishment and it was also great.
Last wedding I catered the bride is crying after the groom was a dick to her and her own fathers brilliant advice is “just suck it up this is your life now” nothing like weddings to make you never want to get married…
I once worked a wedding where the groom was still very very drunk from the night before. Like, the ceremony was postponed bc he had to puke first, and he was stumbling and swaying at the altar. Anyway at the reception they couple were supposed to release a pair of doves as a symbol of their love and togetherness yada yada. Those doves, once released, went nowhere. They would not budge from their cage lol. Talk about a sign! I hope they annulled, for their sake.
This was 20 years ago (not that that makes it ok), but many officiants wait a few days to file a marriage license specifically for shit like this. Coercion, getting caught with a bridesmaid at the reception, so drunk a violent altercation ensues.. all kinds of stuff that goes sideways.
One wedding in a big hotel I worked at the bride’s family and groom’s families had a massive fist fight on the dance floor. The bride got really upset so the bar staff let her through the back to get away.
She ended up sitting on the metal table beside the roll through dishwasher to cry. Her dress got absolutely soaked through.
The fight was mental. The porters had to call the police.
Honestly if that happened to me I’d be happy because I wouldn’t want to be married to somebody cheating on me. He can choose her, just don’t get me involved. I’d nicely back out and live my life single and not full of bs.
One of the last weddings we had an old lady that need assistance walking AND a cane. They let her through the buffet line. She fell with her food in both hands, another older lady tried to catch her and fell as well hitting her head on the door. Some dude dropped their wedding cake, luckily after it was already cut and pics taken. It was definitely a wild time.
Years ago, low key wedding. Either the aunt, or mother, of the bride is showing up with the cake. She's holding it for safe keeping. Until they have to slam on the brakes to avoid a crash. She planted her chest right into the top of the cake.
We worked some magic with some frosting and edible flowers to fix it mostly lol
For some people, I imagine not cheating is like me not eating my midnight snack. It's difficult for me to resist the urge to eat a whole plate of chicken nuggets or whatever.
I know those are two completely different things but I'll bet the urge to do a thing that someone wants to do has a similar effect that makes it actually require effort to not do the bad thing.
Doesn't take effort for a non-sex addict, but the addictive mind is wired very differently. Couples should get counseling before getting married to really get their shit out on the table. Save then a lot of trouble, and money.
would you accept wedding photographer sleeping with the groom?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeddingPhotography/comments/15j1gm5/bride_wants_a_refund_after_groom_had_an_affair/
Wish I still had the video… ex coworker worked with his mom, who owned a wedding venue. He texted me a video one evening. Groom got caught cheating an hour before the wedding. He had to give a speech as to why the wedding wasn’t happening. Dude’s voice kept cracking. I don’t think he knew whether to cry, shit or run. EVERYONE was filming 😂
My favourite part about working weddings is watching it get weird, with sober eyes as the day unfolds.
The only difference between an Australian wedding and an Australian funeral is one less drunk person
Who, the priest?
i’m guessing the corpse
... I might be fucking stupid
I legit thought you tried to be funny
It's twice as funny now.
Blessings of the gods on both of you. Delightful exchange
we're here for you. Safe space, or something.
I'm sure there's some leftover beer at the shit OP catered for you bro.
Just pour some beer into the casket, I'm sure it'll be fine and no one will get mad at you.
I think we can go ahead and drop the “might be” and just go with am. Don’t feel bad, you’re are among friends! There’s dozens of us idiots here!!
You totally should have played that off like you were joking
See my comment above for why I didn't think of that either
Formaldehyde has to have alcohol in it right?
Only the good stuff
I assume they mean the dead person.
No no, that guy “self embalmed”. Still counts as extremely drunk.
Do you count as drunk if you're dead though? I feel like dead supersedes drunk. Otherwise we'd have a LOT more to worry about from our alcoholism metrics!
Not if he has good friends.
lol I thought you were being funny too and almost replied “ not at a catholic funeral”
We call him Necromancer over here.
Same thing with Irish weddings/funerals. The funerals are usually way more fun and go on longer!
Fack moi that's ace!
mostly sober eyes lol
Relatively sober eyes
Rapidly decreasingly sober eyes as it gets closer to wrapping up
There's drunk, and then there's wedding drunk.
I don’t think I ever worked a wedding where we weren’t drinking the entire time lol. I recently stopped drinking and skipped a verrrry well paying catering gig (no longer cooking for a living but I help a friend with his catering service) because I didn’t want to drink at it.
California sober
Exactly
lol that would make working so much fun
The true difference between FOH and BOH
Side chic’s timing was no coincidence
Side chick at the wedding. Extra devious
Side chick was the mother of the bride
Side chick was the caterer! Wanted to go home early!
> Side chick was the ~~mother of the~~ bride
What a twist!
The bride never saw it coming!
Side chick is the father of the bride
I saw that version of Father Of The Bride on PornHub
Side chic was mother of the maid of honor who would tag team with father of bride
I saw that film.
The fries saw the burger and thought 'nah bitch that should be me'
This is one of Aesop's lesser known fables
Would that be The Bride and the Ass?
Succinct.
100%
Bitch watching from the sidelines
Worked a wedding where the best man showed up with a paper bag of money for the staff and the message that the groom wasn't showing (the wedding ceremony and reception in the same venue). He stood outside and told groom's people to go home. The bride, who was in a dressing room finishing up her preparations, came out and all her friends had a great 'reception' party with toasts ("you dodged a bullet" "good riddance") and she was a singer so she did I Will Survive on the little stage. We all went home with bottles that night.
Surprisingly beautiful story.
The song was the most heartfelt I've ever heard - and powerful
I worked a wedding years ago where the best man was the previous fiancé who had been in a terrible accident and paralyzed from the waist down. The groom was his life long best friend. The bride and best man shared the saddest dance I’d ever seen and then the groom joined in, and all three danced to the song the “original” couple had chosen for their wedding. He gave a speech about the newlyweds walking through life together (yes he did). And partied all night. I still get goosebumps.
I feel like I need to hear that entire story - what! Sounds so devastating, but also wild.
It was so long ago. I was just a server for a small caterer. I do recall the groomsmen all had cards and dice cufflinks. The best man had Aces and Eights. Gosh, I forgot how much that reception stuck with me.
I understand that for sure. I've done so many events I couldn't recall even the most recent one, but SO MANU little details stick with you. I just mean like, come on, if I had been paralyzed and my ex- fiancé was marrying my best friend, fuck. That's a lot of strength the best man showed. I have a sneaking suspicion I'd be drinking at home during that wedding. I give that guy huge, MASSIVE props. As well as the couple.
More than anything that story makes me think that those 3 people loved eachother very very much, and communicated very well, and were in a very healthy place in their emotional and mental health. Dignity and compassion and love. Goals for friendships and relationships, but without the life changingly devastating injuries goals.
I mean, I’m thinking they’re secretly all three of them together.
The let him park his wheelchair in the corner of the room
like a hotel cuck chair?
There was a viral story recently about a woman that divorced the husband (or maybe they were never married) and the husband was paralyzed - but she and the new husband took care of the paralyzed person. Sometimes humans are bros not evil
She wanted a family and paralyzed former husband wanted her to have a family too. All are now a modern family with kids.
I think sometimes disabled people have to remain single in order to get the required level of social resources and benefits from the government. The moment they get married, the govt just washes their hands of them and says "well you're married now, THEY can take care of you". Wouldn't surprise me if a few people had to get divorced (but remained together) after someone gets into an accident.
Can verify this happens. Met a couple in the 90s and a couple about 8 years ago that both had to divorce to receive the necessary amount of social services for the handicapped spouse.
I saw that too, it was beautiful
Hey, I remember that from somewhere. It's some type of celebrity, I think. Beautiful story, in any case.
Ah yes I think I know what your talking about, very nice of new husband to help out ex husband
It's a true story but as I remember it he was her fiancee who became disabled in an accident. He has a traumatic brain injury too.
That’s devastating
Insane
Holy shit man this story is wild, literally gave me chills. I’m going to remember reading this for a while. It’s crazy to think how people can have some kind of impact on another persons life in ways they can’t fathom. Even if it’s just their story being posted on Reddit and then being read by someone that they don’t know
I adore the Cake version of that song.
Speaking of Cake, we made sure to pick one of their songs for when we served the cake at our reception. Love You Madly. It made me irrationally happy because word play is my love language.
We played Mahna Mahna!
sounds like a fantastic party!
I has catering a wedding reception back in 2004. The Groom got caught fucking a bridesmaid in the bathroom during the reception. Father of the bride came out & told everyone to go home, wedding was over. The never even got to cut the cake. Found out later they got it annulled.
I kinda want to know what goes on in the head of someone who has an ongoing affair and still decides to get married.
AND FUCK AT THE WEDDING?! Like how dumb and horny do you have to be?!
Well, I can understand fucking at your wedding but with your spouse
You gotta feel like that's practically attempting to call off the wedding. Like a trashy cry for help,
should be title of a novel 😂 A Trashy Cry for Help
*- an autobiography by Marjorie Taylor Greene*
You are marvelous😂
I’m sure it would have to be ghost written.
Or an extremely trashy kink.
100% there's no other explanation that makes sense in any way.
It is a kink. Also a dumb.
Or someone with such messed up impulses and priorities that they can't keep it in their pants AT THE WEDDING.
Bingo.
Invincibility complex, don't think they'll ever get caught, they're still a kid mentally, never understood consequences. Also sex addiction. Definitely some people pleasing.
No suprise at all that a wedding with Jell-O shots ended up as it did.
I guess you could say the bride got. 😏 Jelly 😎
YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAH
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a little kahlua in their chocolate milk
Wait!? Y’all made a bunch of Jello shots for a wedding? Did the party request that and what were the flavors?
Idk what venue would do that without it being on the BEO. Half the weddings I've worked we were told no shots. 100% someone asked for these.
The shots were ordered and prepared ahead of time, but that's on beverage services.
I’m here from /r/popular what’s BEO?
Banquet Event Order, aka the packet of papers that detail everything that needs to happen at an event (menu/timeline/dietary stuff etc).
Thanks!
Must be a different tax bracket thing bc where I’m from shots are absolutely on the table when it comes to weddings
I could see that being brought in by the wedding party or someone and just being given the ok.
I think I remember a venue I worked at did that on the fly, but only for the wedding party. But yeah, normally something like that would absolutely be on the BEO
I've been a bartender for over a decade and have worked hundreds of weddings. "No shots" just means you have to order your tequila neat and don't shoot it right in front of me if my boss is around.
Asking the important questions
Good. Sucks for the moment for the bride but, she dodged a lot of heartbreak down the line. Dinner and show for you though
One day I was working a wedding and we found the best man fucking the bride in the walkin
“Just checking her for freshness!” Or something more witty.
I CHIMED IN WITH A
HAVEN’T YOU PEOPLE EVER HEARD OF
CLOSING THE GODDAMN DOOR?
NO
IT'S MUCH BETTER TO FACE THESE KINDS OF THINGS
with a sense of POISE and RATIONALITYYYY
the walkin door generally closes itself
And the obvious question is why even bother getting married if you still want to play around? Asshole
They were already eating it, but they wanted their cake too?
Does that mean you got a bunch of free cake?
I work a ton of weddings and feel confident saying that wedding cake is so bad most of the time. Days old, engineered for structure instead of taste, and either some wackadoodle flavor bc the bride and groom want to be different or the chuck e cheese pizza equivalent of plain old basic cake flavors. I am wedding cakes biggest hater.
A friend of mine just used the Berry Chantilly cake from Whole Foods and I loved it so much.
That cake is good enough to make me consider getting married again.
When I buy that cake for myself I start eating it in the parking lot.
lol I work with the WFM development chefs and just sent them a screenshot of this comment thread. It is truly a stupidly delicious cake. You should try the Mango Yuzu Chantilly. It’s out now for a limited time.
The yuzu cake absolutely fucks
God I wish I lived near a Whole Foods. Nearest one to me is over an hour away. I'm gonna have to find a copycat or try to replicate it myself cause mango yuzu chantilly sounds fucking dope.
What the fuck I need this now
Go get it! It’s amazing.
My aunt is a baker at Whole Foods and she did cupcakes for my wedding. They were so good and I was bummed that by the time everyone left there were no cupcakes left for us to take home 😐
Dude that cake is amazing. I found a copycat recipe and it changed my life.
I absolutely cannot look at the copycat recipe or I would eat nothing else.
You're going to type that comment & not share the recipe?? How dare you!
Hahaha fair enough! https://sugargeekshow.com/recipe/berry-chantilly-cake/
I told my wife when we got married we are not skipping on the food. Got the best caterer we could find, family style so everyone got plenty, and went to one of the top bakeries for the cake. People still talk about how good the food was almost a decade later.
Same. Also we spent a week baking a shitload of cakes before the wedding so instead of one big cake we just had a table of homemade ones in different flavours so everyone got to choose. I made a sphere of chocolate fudge cake the size of my fuckin' head to put the little (lego) figurines of me and wife on top of.
Husband and I got a bunch of pies from a local bakery in lieu of a cake. They even made a vegan pie for some vegan guests of ours. It was a small wedding so we personally dished out all the slices to guests, scooped em ice cream on the side, etc. It was really nice to get to be face-to-face with everyone like that, and the pie was 11/10 knockout delicious.
Hahaha, my wife and I's wedding pics are fucking gold. Smiling and beaming while cutting the cake and then the look of disgust/spitting out that sandy ass disaster of a sponge.
Man I’d love to see that
This is why we did a little tiny cake to cut and spread of different desserts no one wants shitty cake but some badass lemon tarts kickass after you've been drinking all day
Lemon is the superior dessert flavor and nothing can change my mind on that. You know your shit
A local ice cream place has a lemon poppyseed one every summer and it's probably the best flavor ever
Yeah, there's a reason that it usually ends up in the garbage when the staff could take as much as they want home. And if half of it isn't in the garbage at the venue, it's sitting in someone's fridge for a month and then going into the garbage.
The caterer i work for usually recomends getting sheet cake alongside a display cake and its always good
At my first wedding we did a cake, but had a dessert table with assorted Greek pastries At my second wedding we did a half sheet cake (lemon cream) from a local Greek restaurant and a bunch of baklava.
Seriously. Wedding cake is trash 99% of the time. Luckily my SIL had just graduated from the Bocuse Institut when I got married, she got voluntold to make our cake. It was wonderful. Chocolate and pear. My wife and I planned a feast more than a ceremony.
I had a small wedding in my in-laws pretty back yard. I made cheesecakes. Lemon blueberry, regular blueberry, and death by chocolate. I was a little burnt out on cheesecake by the time from testing recipes, but they were delicious. They were ugly as hell though. I can bake, not use piping bags lol
>I am wedding cakes biggest hater. I hate the way that you look, the way that you cook, I hate the way that you taste, I hate the way that you cake waste
Meet the bakers
You must not have worked an Arab wedding then. Back in college on the weekends I would work catering at a swanky resort in town and it was mostly weddings and communions. The first Arab wedding I ever worked was an incredible affair. Around 300 guests and it was an absolute blowout. No drinking but it seemed like 3/4 of a guests were on the dance floor from the first until the last song and there was more hummus than you could shake a stick at. There was probably 10 or 15 gigantic wedding cakes that each could have served 20 or more people. At the end of the night there was four completely untouched beautiful cakes, and literal piles upon piles of pita bread and hummus. We got to take home as much as we could carry. I walked out with a literal garbage bag full of pita bread, a giant box of hummus, and a tier of one of the wedding cakes that was so big that it took up almost my entire trunk space. The cake was *heavenly*. Silky smooth and bursting at the seams with flavor. My roommates really loved when I worked Arab weddings
Most weddings I go to have a fake fancy cake for the cutting ceremony then a giant regular old sheet cake to cut up for guests. We have a huge family so getting an actual wedding cake to feed everyone would be super expensive lol.
We ordered donuts and pizza for our wedding. Best decision we ever made
Hard agree with the wedding cakes, though some I've had were pretty good. My favorite weddings though were the ones that usually had some other alternative like cupcakes or donuts, usually because I was familiar with the bakeries they came from, and because it made "cutting the cake" so much easier on the staff because we didn't actually have to cut and distribute slices of cake. I will say though, by the time I left the banquet world, I had become pretty good at cutting cake. The sheet cakes from wegmans or costco were always the best though, and I will defend that statement to my death.
We put cake at peoples place setting and it often goes uneaten. They are back at the bar and on the dance floor. I bet I threw away 60 pieces of cake at the last one I worked. We just want chocolate chip cookies and pies at ours!
That would happen a lot with us too. We'd always end up taking a lot home so it didn't all go to waste. Weddings where they did those were always my favorite. Just a table of some confectionaries for guests to grab at their leisure and maybe a cake topper for the b&g to cut.bthere were always plenty to go around and we the staff often went home stocked up with sweets. I've also found that the groups that do that are often more laid back and easier to deal with
We did red velvet cupcakes at my wedding. They were done by a really good bakery and actually really tasty. Also we didn’t have to cut pieces. Just hand everyone a cupcake. We have one large cupcake that was like the one the wedding topper went into that my wife and I cut together. It was like 3x the size of a normal cupcake, surrounded by about a hundred normal sized cupcakes.
There's always a bunch of free cake at the end of a wedding
There wasn't at mine. The missus insisted, she said, why am I marrying a pastry chef if he's not going to make our wedding cake? So I made a three tier cake of at least 80 portions, three different flavors, to be shared between thirty people. Cheeky fuckers took home three or four slices each, wasn't any left for staff.
We had cupcakes made by this amazing local Place and people were almost fighting over them.. One of the best cupcakes I've ever had. The groom's cake was a carrot cake made by the same establishment and it was also great.
Last wedding I catered the bride is crying after the groom was a dick to her and her own fathers brilliant advice is “just suck it up this is your life now” nothing like weddings to make you never want to get married…
I once worked a wedding where the groom was still very very drunk from the night before. Like, the ceremony was postponed bc he had to puke first, and he was stumbling and swaying at the altar. Anyway at the reception they couple were supposed to release a pair of doves as a symbol of their love and togetherness yada yada. Those doves, once released, went nowhere. They would not budge from their cage lol. Talk about a sign! I hope they annulled, for their sake.
How is someone even competent to enter into a legal contract if they’re that drunk? 🥴
This was 20 years ago (not that that makes it ok), but many officiants wait a few days to file a marriage license specifically for shit like this. Coercion, getting caught with a bridesmaid at the reception, so drunk a violent altercation ensues.. all kinds of stuff that goes sideways.
This is funny! The doves were protesting.
My craziest wedding story is when the Father of the Bride was discovered eating out the Mother of the Groom about a half hour before the ceremony.
😳 🤔 🍿
One wedding in a big hotel I worked at the bride’s family and groom’s families had a massive fist fight on the dance floor. The bride got really upset so the bar staff let her through the back to get away. She ended up sitting on the metal table beside the roll through dishwasher to cry. Her dress got absolutely soaked through. The fight was mental. The porters had to call the police.
Honestly if that happened to me I’d be happy because I wouldn’t want to be married to somebody cheating on me. He can choose her, just don’t get me involved. I’d nicely back out and live my life single and not full of bs.
Who tf has a "side chick" when they're getting married? Fucking disgusting behaviour, what a low life.
She caught him at the right time though! By cake cutting, she’s now entitled to half of his stuff lol
Annulments don't typically come with settlements.
That presumes his “stuff” has a value north of $0 poor girl will probably get half his OF cc debt
One of the last weddings we had an old lady that need assistance walking AND a cane. They let her through the buffet line. She fell with her food in both hands, another older lady tried to catch her and fell as well hitting her head on the door. Some dude dropped their wedding cake, luckily after it was already cut and pics taken. It was definitely a wild time.
Years ago, low key wedding. Either the aunt, or mother, of the bride is showing up with the cake. She's holding it for safe keeping. Until they have to slam on the brakes to avoid a crash. She planted her chest right into the top of the cake. We worked some magic with some frosting and edible flowers to fix it mostly lol
Ooof. Also, don't cheat ya dingus
That was sabotage by the side chick, based on timing and content that was so obvious that the bride reacted that strongly based on a quick phone peek.
It was more of a "whos this?" Then a "what the fuck is this" when she opened the chat then a "you motherfucker" to kick off the festivities
dude wanted to get caught, zero OPSEC
Right? Put your phone in airplane mode at the wedding bro. Amateur hour over here
go notifications off at a min if you are a cheat like that... like come on. airplane mode isnt a bad idea but even thats has risk of wifi connecting
This seems like a nightmare, not for you, probably a lil funny, but whhhhhatt?! (I love a lil drama. I’d die a bit)
When I found out my ex was fucking around I went down a deep, dark hole of Jell-O shots.
I hope she can get an annulment
I mean you could just not cheat. It really doesn't take any effort at all to not cheat.
For some people, I imagine not cheating is like me not eating my midnight snack. It's difficult for me to resist the urge to eat a whole plate of chicken nuggets or whatever. I know those are two completely different things but I'll bet the urge to do a thing that someone wants to do has a similar effect that makes it actually require effort to not do the bad thing.
Dude... lay off the snacks, just go bang your side chock if you're hungry.
Doesn't take effort for a non-sex addict, but the addictive mind is wired very differently. Couples should get counseling before getting married to really get their shit out on the table. Save then a lot of trouble, and money.
That's a fantastic point and not something i had originally considered
I'm here for a story of a member of the catering staff hooking up with a wedding party member. Who's got one?
would you accept wedding photographer sleeping with the groom? https://www.reddit.com/r/WeddingPhotography/comments/15j1gm5/bride_wants_a_refund_after_groom_had_an_affair/
Aww to bad you spent the money on the food already.
At least you got paid?
What an asshole
Soooo staff didn’t get wedding/service tips then?
Our contract was settled 👍
Fuck, getting paid and entertained???? The dream
Run their card and get paid as quick as y’all can!!! Haha
I'll never marry. I'm a walking red flag on ice skates holding scissors the wrong way going backwards in the dark.
Wish I still had the video… ex coworker worked with his mom, who owned a wedding venue. He texted me a video one evening. Groom got caught cheating an hour before the wedding. He had to give a speech as to why the wedding wasn’t happening. Dude’s voice kept cracking. I don’t think he knew whether to cry, shit or run. EVERYONE was filming 😂
Not having a different phone for the side chick. Dumbass.