juggling 8 schedules at a time
A wedding is a carefully orchestrated event, with many players having to be at various places punctually for days. For some people this is old hat but for others it is as foreign as a Rothenburg sneeball. As much as I hate to admit it, I am normally in the sneeball catagory. So I made myself a schedule of where I needed to be, at what time, and what I needed to bring with me starting at 4:30 am on Thursday and ending at 10am on Sunday. After I did my schedule, I did my fiance’s.
Once I had done both of ours, I had to do schedules for people whose activities were interlaced with ours. Now I realize that this sounds very controlling, but in truth, I did this to ease the stress for the various folks that were involved in the wedding. My fiance’s family had been asking him for a while to outline what their days were going to be like. His standard answer of “uh, there is a rehearsal and dinner on Friday and the wedding is on Saturday at 5″ was not enough for them. So I made them a schedule, with locations and times of places they needed to be.
I scheduled the flower folks and the wedding clean up folks. I scheduled who was supposed to take what where, and when. By the end I had 8 schedules. I handed them out to people as I saw them. Some people added more detail to the schedules. Others laughed and made numerous jokes about them. I knew they really appreciated them, at least that is what I told myself.
Post-wedding: I am happy to report, everyone kept to their schedules!
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