![]() So I was like, Okay, hopefully, he’s just in traffic. I was doing a tented wedding upstate, and it got to be about half an hour past the time that the caterer was supposed to show up, and I was calling and calling and getting absolutely no answer. As a couple having a wedding, make sure that you ask about where the cake’s going to be displayed so that you don’t have any accidents. I set the whole thing up, I took loads of photos of it, and then I drove off - and then I got a call minutes later telling me that the cake just flew to the ground. The dance floor was set up on the grass, so it was not super, super stable. It was the most beautiful cake I’ve ever made. One time I set up a cake on a dance floor in a tent outside. We’re just trying to keep it from the families, but meanwhile, people are sitting there, starving, waiting for their little piece of fish.Ĭlaire Ptak, owner of Violet Cakes and author of Love Is a Pink Cake The poor catering captain - because it’s not his fault, he’s just in charge of the waiters - is in between having a heart attack inside on the floor and chain-smoking outside, calling the person that they had to send to the store. And not only does he not have enough fish - instead of just figuring it out, they kept realizing that they’re still out of fish, so they’d send somebody down to the Whole Foods to get more fish, but like five pieces of fish at a time. He was serving fish as the entree, and he didn’t have enough fish. Could you please help us?” (We had a service where we did day-of coordination.) And of course what ends up happening is it’s that same caterer, and he doesn’t have enough food. The caterer seems like a bit of a mess, and we can’t lose our deposit. And then this couple calls, and they’re like, “We’re in a pinch, and everything’s falling apart. Years go by, and we avoided working with this person again. It was a tiny, banquet-style event, and he was serving watermelon soup in half watermelons, and the waiters couldn’t carry them because they were so heavy, and there was soup all over the floor and people kept falling. Very early in my career, I did a wedding with this caterer. Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming and former wedding planner As was the case with the fly in the cake, in the end, at least this group was (mostly) able to make it through the night without the married couples knowing the full extent of the drama. There are tears, hunger pains, and some truly questionable decision-making, but those in the throes of their own discussions with caterers, planners, photographers, and the like need not fear. Their wedding food horror stories, if you will. We asked wedding industry pros - those people who are often responsible for what some people unironically refer to as the best day of their lives - for the worst mishaps and the most unfortunate turn of events they’ve experienced on the job. Weddings are hard with big budgets and big expectations come even bigger ways in which things can go wrong.
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