Bad Wedding Vendor, Absolutely Knot, Wedding You Rather, & VIP Table

This weeks episode features a story about a terrible wedding DJ. We dive into Absolutely Knot, Wedding You Rather, and VIP Table: non-traditional wedding vendors.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to another episode of Absolutely Not, another podcast. Mr. Cassie is here. I have Wedding Procast. I'm here in the studio. Live and in studio. Summer is upon us, which means trailer season. Not work or living at a trailer.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

If you don't know, we own a mobile bar. That's why. Clink 92. Yeah, and we had our first event this past weekend, so that was fun. We had the tap wall out. We were at an Airbnb, which I feel like it's always interesting to see like where we go with the trailer because it's usually some sort of outdoor venue different than like a ballroom.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Yeah, most of the time it's somewhere around like we are Pittsburgh area, for those of you that don't know. But I find ourselves a lot of the times south of the city in Somerset, near Seven Springs, near Nemicolon, sometimes even in Maryland at Deep Creek. Yep. We have a few locations closer to us, which is great whenever we have that. Not saying that the other businesses aren't good. Yeah. But the place we went to this past weekend, I instantly wrapped up the event and looked to see when it's available for us to go, whether it's for just like our 10-year anniversary that's coming up this year. Maybe looked at the dates around then. If somebody that is going to be getting married and they want to have a bachelor party, good spot. Or if it's like, hey, let's just get a group of people together. It had everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

It was really cool and it was off the grid. Very off the grid. Very off the grid. Like when we were driving in, I was like, oh my. Because sometimes it is scary when we are driving to these places and you get like disconnected from the internet and you're like, I hope I end up in the right spot. We had to drive over like this kind of smaller rickety bridge to get the trailer in.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Right over a creek, and it had wood planks over top of the wood bridge. Yeah. And when we were doing that, in my mind, as I'm driving the trailer over, like, please, just this is the last step to do. After we do this, we're fine until we actually have to take it off. Whenever we were coming back that night, it was a very weird occurrence. We were going back to the hotel that we were staying at for the night, and we wrapped around this area. Again, this was like very secluded. And there was a man just we the corner that we turned was a sharp turn. Yes, it was a little bit of a few. And we did not see him in from like me to you away, it felt like it probably was a little bit longer, but it was just the man sitting in his wheelchair fishing, maybe just looking over the pond. My main question is how did he get there? I don't know. There was no houses close by.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

There was no houses close by, and there was no streetlights or anything like that. It was not a safe spot, at least in my opinion. I'm not like a professional fisherman, but like not a safe spot to be around a curve.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

And on like in the night, thinking back on it, where he was fishing or doing whatever, the opposite side was where the lake was at.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Like that, there's probably a creek in the line. It was like a little creek from the room. So that might be like I again, I'm not, yeah, I'm not like an avid fisherman myself, but I did get a pretty good catch with you.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

Oh dad joke of the year.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Yeah, wow, that was a good dad joke right there. But no, trailer season, it's always fun to like see where we get to go and see what the couples are like into, what kind of drinks they like. The sake.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Yeah, sake was a hit.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Big hit for this one.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

And we like the next day, there was sake mixed with Yuzu. So they had like some non-traditional drinks on their bar, which that's all they were drinking. Like they almost ran out of those items. That's like how much everybody was drinking of those.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

I was not there for the Saturday. Did they tap the keg or was there still?

SPEAKER_02 3:44

They didn't tap the keg. The funniest thing about it was typically if someone has a keg, we'll say, you know, have a party pump or something because when the trailer leaves with the tap wall, you don't have the draft system to run your beer out. So like you need something to get the beer out of the keg. Well, they didn't have anything, which is fine. They just start bringing us whatever items can hold liquid from inside the Airbnb. So we filled up like 12 different things. It was like coffee pots, flower vases, like whatever they had, we were filling it up. And then we just left them out on the tables for them to drink.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

It goes with my idea of an anything but cups wedding.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

So they did it. They ended up doing it. Now, if anyone does not know, yeah, we do own a mobile bar with my cousin, our first kid's godmother. And it's been, this is now what, the sixth year?

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Fifth year in service because the first year we were we purchased it and setting up the business and like refurbishing the trailer, getting it prepped. A lot of people do ask, how is this possible? Yeah. What like how did you get it started? How are you making it work? What are the laws that go behind it? Insurance, all of that. So give a quick dive into that.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

So a lot of people are like, I can't believe you have a liquor license. Like, how'd you get a liquor license for that? We in Pennsylvania, you cannot have a mobile, a liquor license tied to a mobile vehicle. So no liquor license needed. However, we do have insurance so that we can properly pour and serve. And technically, our bar would be what you call a dry bar for hire. So we're kind of like a prop. You rent us out, we come with the bartenders, and we can provide as much, like cups, ice, straws, napkins, all of those things, or as little. Sometimes we just show up with the bartenders in the trailer and the client provides everything else. So we customize for our clients. And sometimes we don't serve alcohol at all. We'll be a cookie table, we'll do a lemonade bar like we do a lot of grad parties sometimes. Um, we've done Ben a bouquet bar, a s'mores bar, hot cocoa bar. So it's truly like a blank sleep. And then we build it out and we have like the tap wall that can slide in, the popcorn machine, the slushie machine. So I don't know, it makes us very versatile. And I think it's really fun to be on the opposite side of wedding planning and like just slinging back drinks, making drinks for people. It's I think very like not stressful at all and very fun.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Yeah. I mean, there's never a time I feel like I went somewhere for a wedding and the service from the bartenders was poor. Right. They were pouring. Yeah, pooring. It was never poor. That's another joke that just nailed right there, a little punny, but no, it is a fun adventure that you decided that you wanted to take on years ago.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

With little to no bartending experience. No. So we've learned a lot.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Kayla had some. I had bartending experience from like basement bartending.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

I've had none. I had not, I mean, like, worked in catering, so I under I understand the basics of bartending, but we've learned a lot. Like, I feel like over the last six years, like building out the tap wall from scratch, learning all of that, learning how to make certain drinks, like Kayla has taught us a lot. So it's been a fun adventure and one that I hope to continue. The nice thing about the trailer is we're seasonal and we don't have to take, like, we're not forced to be like, yeah, we want to be out every weekend. We could take one or two events a month if we want.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

My favorite thing about being a vendor for a wedding for different events is if you get a client right off the jump and they seem like they're a little like abrasive, they're a little too much just from their demands before you even go to contract. You can easily be like, I don't think I need this stress to Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, we're all right. It's not the right bit. Beyond doing this podcast, behind beside having our own businesses, we also have the mobile bar. I feel like we're pretty versatile.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

We're dabbling in a lot.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

It's like the I will say, whenever it comes to people post online, like how how do you get rich quick? And we're not like rich by any means, rich in life.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Yeah, we are rich in life, and rich in experience.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

That is correct. It's good, it is fun because we own the mobile bar, because we have now become vendors be outside of your wedding planning. I don't really like I do, I've I'm on the precipice, I feel like, of doing my own business side of wedding planning with not wedding planning.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

You're like a corporate vendor, or you could be a vendor at wedding. I might be.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

I can do it. I can do like a rehearsal dinner game show or something. Or a bridal shower.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

We should do that. We should do a giveaway, a rehearsal dinner. Oh giveaway, a rehearsal dinner game show giveaway.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

Yeah, with featuring game show Garrett. That would that would be fun. But our episode is gonna be tied around vendors at a wedding. When it comes to team building and being a vendor for a conference, for a convention, whatever it may be, it's the easiest part of a running a convention or a conference. Because I've been on the side of working as a board of director for a conference, and it can get stressful. Doing just two hours or less, depending on what my event may be at a conference or a convention, it's like clockwork. Because then I get I'll I know how to keep the crowd engaged, get whatever they're looking for out of it, and having a good time.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Oh, yeah. Being a vendor is the best. So like when you're not in charge of anything and you're just showing up to do the exact job you were hired for, yeah, love it. Stress.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Being the event planner of the other side of things is probably the most stressful thing. Yeah. And shout out to them.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

We've both been on that side of things where it's definitely more stressful, and you have to trust who what vendors are hired and trust that every single person that's involved is gonna do exactly what you need them to do, which sometimes it doesn't happen. But it's fun. I like I like the stressful part of it.

unknown 9:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

I not saying that what like the vendor side can be stressful, it's just other things can be yeah. That other side of it can be really bad. So yeah, that's today's episode. Story is about what a bad vendor?

SPEAKER_02 9:57

It is about a bad vendor, it's actually not about COVID 92. It's really hilarious. It's about a DJ. So let's dive into the story. I have to tell you about my wedding DJ from H E Double Hockey Sticks. I have changed the names and locations, but everything else is the truth. If there is anything the story teaches you, it's that cheap is not always best and always, always, always get a contract.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Agree. So the contract, like before we get into the story, they hired somebody without any contract.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

Okay. All right, let's get into it. My husband and I were planning our wedding and we were on a bit of a budget. We had a few DJs that we really loved, but needed to stay under $2,500 for entertainment, which had to include our ceremony sound as well as cocktail hour and dinner reception. And unfortunately, a lot of the DJs that we liked online were $5,000 or above, which is average. Like I would say anywhere between like three to six is average. Um, we ended up doing going with this DJ named DJ Mike. Mike didn't have a website, but he did have a Facebook page that highlighted his services. He was posting on there very frequently pictures and videos of all the weddings that he'd done. He was quick to communicate and preferred to do this via text over email. I really hated this. But fine, we were happy to have locked in someone who was available on our date and willing tra willing to travel to our venue, which was in the middle of nowhere. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Yeah, you can phone the email. I mean, sometimes it's like quicker to text than email communication, especially if someone has like a read option for it. So you know, like, hey, they got to see it. I don't like read receipt email people though.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

I've dealt with it. Like some t some vendors really truly just like won't do a contract or they're not in the state of like they don't have contract process drawn up. I would just say if you're planning a wedding and someone doesn't have a contract, it might be a little bit of a red flag.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Like proceed with caution or don't proceed at all is what I would say.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Like just having a Facebook page and not a website. It's okay to not have a website, but your only presence might be just like a Facebook page. Yeah. Because that you, if you are a DJ, you should be posting via or via via via social media, having it in beyond Facebook, like Instagram or TikTok, just to like show your work.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

Mm-hmm. I agree. But this guy just had a Facebook page. DJ Mike. DJ Mike. I begged him for a contract, but he said there was no need. He has it all in writing and we were all good. I sent him a $1,000 deposit to save our date, and he put us in his books. We had settled on a wireless microphone and music for ceremony from 3 to 4 p.m. I was gonna walk at 3 30, and then his DJ services from 4 to 9 30 for normal cocktail, dinner music, some speeches, and dancing. He had us fill out some forms after booking and then went radio silent. Months pass and we hear nothing from him. Three months out, I decide to check in. He didn't respond. But it is be it is the beginning of wedding season where we live, May in New Jersey, and he finally responds and say said he had a health scare, but is all good and is back up doing weddings. We had no idea he was sick, and I told him I was so glad he was feeling better, and we could schedule, and if he could, could we schedule our call whenever he's ready? He said okay, and we scheduled something for two weeks later. The call arrives and he does not get on the call. We stayed on the Zoom for 15 minutes, tried texting, calling, and Facebook messaging, and he did not respond.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

I don't like that. Is he on like clearly he's in the same central time like these search? No, he's on the eastern time. Eastern time. Like there have been times that I have had a client call that the person is Pacific time. Yeah, I've done it or mountain time and it gets scheduled. It's on the calendar for me as this time, and then they're like messaging me an hour before an hour. Typically, it's an hour before, like, where are you?

SPEAKER_02 13:55

I usually wait like 15 minutes and then I'd be like, hey, just checking in. Like, we have this call. Are you on a different time zone? Because that's usually what it ends up being. If for some reason, like I'm not crossing paths.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

The worst time I ever had for anything of that, it was during like maybe like 2020, 2021. I had a virtual event for a company. It was multiple throughout the day, but the first one was at 3 a.m. Because most of the people that were going to be logging in, there were some employees that were on a different time zone, must be in Europe. Zero people. Nobody showed in. Zero people logged in. So I woke up super early, middle of the night. I might as well have stayed up.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

And nobody showed up. And then I had to be back on the call again, like three hours later, for the next batch of people. Terrible. Bad. Bad.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

All right. So he doesn't get on the call. They try getting hold of him. We get a call a week later that he got sick and he was so, so sorry he missed the call. We reschedule and he gets on the next call. It was as if he didn't have any of the information that we had shared with him prior. He asked us to verify all of the information we had already put on the sheets, including the location of our wedding, the guest count, and the types of services he was supposed to be providing. It was kind of weird, mainly about the speaker situation. He was asking if the same setup would work for both locations. We told him the ceremony was in a whole separate room and we need a separate setup. And then he mentioned he only had one system, but he has a workaround for that and he would figure it out. I believed him. I shouldn't have believed. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Yeah. Most DJs do have two pieces of equipment that they can easily like unplug the XLR, because I've worked for a DJ company once, and I've worked just like with speakers before. I'll have a fun story later on that. Yeah. But the uh like all you have to do is unplug and plug in, and then the next speaker's gonna work. Go right in.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

They'll have a speaker set up with like a little portable system that they could like run off an iPad, and the other ones like their big DJ booth.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

They're talking about it in the call. He says he has a workaround and they're all good. Yeah. I don't believe him. Our next task is he asked us to literally build out all of the lists for him on Spotify, including all of our big songs, all of the songs we wanted to play at our wedding. Isn't that the DJ's job? Again, I thought this was weird. But we get on Spotify and we make a full five-hour list of music and we make lists for pre-ceremony music and ceremony songs and all of the songs for our dancing and cake cutting. We did remind him that we did not want to do a garter, I would be doing the bouquet toss, and we did not want to do a money dance. He took notes and said, Great.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

All right. Shout out them, probably making a fire playlist.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Yeah. But also, I I'm on the same page. Like, I usually with the DJs, you'll give them your important songs because you do have to do that. But then you give them like genres or artists that you like, and it's the DJ's job to kind of build out a playlist.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

Create it from there.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

You might have like, these are our must-have songs, like we really want to hear these. These are the ones we don't want to hear, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:59

So the fact that he's telling them to build a five-hour list again, I'd be like, Yeah, not good. Yeah. DJ Mike. I left the call feeling fine. We had given him all of the important information that he needed to do his job. We made our final payment and we said we would see him in a month at the wedding. Wedding day rolls around and he shows up in basketball shorts and a dirty t-shirt. I only noticed because we did a first look out and close to where we were taking photos to where the ceremony was going to be. I figured he would be changing for the ceremony, but he never changed. He stayed in the outfit and even added a baseball cap. I guess we never talked about the uniform, so my bad. Ceremony was fine. There were some issues with some of the songs, but nothing major. The correct song played when I walked down the aisle. After we were announced and recessing back down the aisle, he took the whole time until we reached the end of the aisle to start the song. He said his system was malfunctioning, so we walked down the aisle in silence. Ah, that's sad.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Did they review him? Like, did they look at reviews? Not like they hopefully they reviewed him after, but I think they said were there reviews?

SPEAKER_02 18:04

I don't know. Well, he was posting like all these weddings, so he was doing weddings. They must have been happy or fine with his services. I don't know if they read reviews. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Must not have seen him in his attire.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Also, it is important as a vendor to verify. If you're thinking your attire might be too casual, like you should verify like what do you want us to wear? Like with the trailer, I'll always say, is black on black okay? We have like shirts with our business logo and then black bottoms. They're usually like cool. But I have had once where they wanted white shirts with khaki bottoms or black pants, and like we change our outfit based on what they want.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

Yeah, you do it that way. And I do think when it comes to a DJ, any wedding, I feel like majority of the time that they're in a suit jacket and a nice button down.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

You're like front and center sometimes when you're the DJ. You're the MC, you're you're like usually in front of the dancers, like you you need to look presentable. Basketball, shorts, and a dirty t-shirt is a basic.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

Yeah, you're just trying to like play hoops after.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

The big problem didn't come until cocktail hour and reception. We attended cocktail hour, and I noticed that there was no DJ setup for the music. So I saw him breaking down at the ceremony. I went over to talk to him, and he explained to me that he actually only had one setup. So he had to move all of his equipment from the ceremony location over to the cocktail hour and reception area. So we had no cocktail hour music. Someone had a portable speaker in their car and brought it over to play something in the background.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Shout out them for doing that. But you if you hired somebody to have music.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

Yeah, it's like they also addressed it and he said I had a workaround.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

He didn't have a workaround. His workaround was probably sweating in his shorts and his baseball cap to hustle to get the music set up as quick as possible. Was he by himself? Did he have a mistake?

SPEAKER_02 19:54

At least this says he's by himself the whole time. It never mentions an assistant.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Yeah, most I feel like I mean, uh, you don't need to have an assistant as a DJ. But sometimes it's helpful. It's very helpful to have one.

unknown 20:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Reception is supposed to start and he is still not set. He's sweating profusely and looking a mess. The venue is trying to help him as much as possible, but we had to delay the introductions by 20 minutes so he could finish up. We lined up for intros and we get in the room and we are doing our first dance and he played the wrong song. You heard that right, the wrong song. My husband walked over to the booth and showed him the correct song, and we had to restart the first dance. It was awkward and kind of disappointing every time I think about it.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

I wonder what like the wrong song was.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

She didn't say in here.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

It wasn't an upbeat song, I don't know. Or was it another slow song that he had thought was on that Spotify playlist, and he probably didn't look back at his email and was like, I don't know what or to know what it was.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

I did work a wedding where like the DJ blanked and had had the first dance song on the sheet. I saw it on his system, and he still was like trying to catch me to verify it was the right song, and he walked around the booth and came to me, and it was super awkward when I'm like, You have the song. Yeah, play the song. See it's a very it's cringe worthy, that type of moment. It's like, and you can't get that moment back in a wedding day. Yeah. Not good. This guy's getting zero star review from me. Yeah, DJ might. Venue staff said he rolled in with a cooler of booze. He'd been sipping on some coarse lights while setting up.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

Not a good look. It was also like he didn't flow the songs together the whole night. He would play the whole song through, wait till it ended, and then scroll to find another song, leaving about 10 to 15 seconds of silence in between. It was so cringy. The worst of all is he played six songs off of our do not playlist. Six whole songs. We sent a follow up email after the wedding, and his excuse was I evaluated the list that you had sent, and it had some great songs on it. That the crowd, I think, wanted to hear.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Yeah, but they didn't. The other thing, when it comes to a Spotify playlist, it's not as good as a DJ mix. Well, probably better than what he would have done, but a Spotify playlist can mix songs between the so you could easily have just done it that way. Did he have a free Spotify account and not allow that?

SPEAKER_02 22:22

It says there's no ads, so I'm hoping so. She says, excuse me, sir, this is my wedding day, not yours. At 9 30, when he was done, he just cut the music so fast, didn't want to give us a shout out or thank anyone for celebrating. It was so awkward. I did have a cash tip prepared to give him, but I gave that to the venue team instead. DJ Mike was easily the worst vendor we had on our wedding day.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Agreed. And again, like a DJ, if he is a part of the ceremony in in any way, that he's a part of the whole day. But when it comes to the reception, you can get past a food vendor sucking because food is food, in my opinion. But like you will remember whether or not your DJ was good or bad. I've seen some that is like number one, I feel like on a reception standpoint of things.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

If vibes are something that's a priority for you in like the dance floor, you have to get a good DJ. Like I have seen some bad, bad DJs, and it really does kill, kill the vibe. People are not on the dance floor, and to me, this sounds terrible. Like I wish they gave she doesn't talk about asking for a refund, but like in this case, I would have asked for some sort of refund. He did not do cocktail hour music. Yeah, you have to bring it in booze, wearing a bad outfit, playing songs on the do not playlist. Like to me, this is either a full or partial refund, but there's no contract, so that's probably why.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Yeah, should have wrote a formal contract. There are some good DJs around here that I've seen. I don't want to shout out like and and miss any, but I was at one that you just did at the the Finch.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

The reserve.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

The reserve. Otherwise at the Finch.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

The Finch was the cocktail hour location.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

Okay, it's like on different levels. Okay. But he might have been the DJ at that too. But he was DJ Loyal.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Yeah. Loyalty entertainment.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Loyalty entertainment. Outstanding. But you know, you gotta have presence on the microphone, and you gotta know the vibes of what people want to listen to on the dance floor. I thought he was great. Fireside events. Great too. Shout out, Eric. And then our DJs from our wedding, Sound Waves.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Those three. If you're in the Pittsburgh area, all of them are good. Most are good around here, I feel like. I've had those are the three that I know. And Plenty Agency.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

That's the other one I've I've had a ton of good DJs in Pittsburgh, and I have had a few of bad ones. I'm not going to drop their names on here, but I've had a few that I'm like, yeah, I'm never booking them again.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

The what you were saying, like, well, DJ Mike first off, and then just having a Facebook. So at a private school that I worked at that shall not be named, we hired a DJ for DJing and karaoke. His name was DJ Mike. He happens to live a street above us, and that's where his address is located at. And we had him for our Christmas party for like faculty and staff. And then I left early because we had our street Christmas crawl. And I told him, hey, like when you're wrapped up here, come join us for the Christmas crawl. And he did. And then we karaoked again more for the Christmas crawl.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

I didn't know his name was DJ Mike. I think that maybe they picked DJ Mike because microphone. Like it was they said they made up. If your name is DJ Mike, that story probably most likely is not about you.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

No, but if you are a DJ in New Jersey, that they changed your baseball cap. Oh gosh. Yeah. Well, if you wore baseball shorts, a base or basketball shorts, a baseball cap, boozing with coarse light, and had to transfer all of your equipment from the ceremony to the reception and miss Cocteau Hour. This story was about you. Yes. I wonder if they're still in business. I would say no. I don't know. It's like I don't know if this is gonna work out for me or not.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

No. And maybe maybe there was like a decline in how good they were because he was going through a health scare, you know?

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Maybe that's why I got bad, or like that could have been a lie. Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

This is like a not about the story at all. I don't know. Like I don't want to keep talking about DJs too much. But going to a wedding, if a DJ is mixing too much, where like I don't know what the next song is, or they're blend like I want to I want to keep dancing to this song. And every song is only half of the song. I I do that myself. Like I get to a point and I'm like, all right, next song. I click the next button. I'm not mixing anything, but like let the song ride. Yeah, I agree. Unless you're mixing it really well.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

I've had DJs that like mix really well, and it's like every song is like a banger, a banger, every single song is really good. Then I have had some where like the dance floor is vibing and everybody's out there dancing, and then they change the song too quick, and then the next song they picked is like like you see everyone rest of the dance floor for this song, don't change it.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Leave it going, and then what is that genre? What's that vibe? Find a song like that. Yeah, that's your profession. You should be knowing what like the next thing should be.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

I know.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

I don't need like techno unless it's one more time.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Yeah, but the couple might like techno. Whatever the couple likes, yeah. I'll dance to whatever.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

All right. Next segment is absolutely not again, vendor related. It's absolutely not things vendors should not be doing at a wedding.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Okay, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

So uh wearing basketball shorts, absolutely not. Wearing a baseball cap, absolutely not. Drinking a coarse light or breaking a case of coors light or however many you brought, absolutely not. First one showing up late without communication.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

Absolutely not. Like sometimes you're if you're running behind, because I've had this, we work in the city. If you're in the city, you might run into traffic. You need to be communicating, it doesn't have to be with the couple, but with whoever's in charge. We're stuck in traffic, this is going on, we're gonna be arriving. Like, say your arrival window was two o'clock, and you're actually not gonna get there until 2 45 or 3. Like, you should give somebody a heads up.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Yeah, like a standard time, I feel like for most, not every vendor, is two hours prior to the event.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Yeah. Usually like for weddings, more like three to four hours, depending what vendors.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Yeah, what it is. A that's at least what I give myself as a vendor. If I find myself, like I said, traffic or whatever it may be, you gotta just gotta let somebody know.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

And sometimes you're scheduled on the loading dock at a certain time. And so like coming at a way later time is gonna mess up their loading dock schedule.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

In another episode, as I was a vendor for like 30,000 canned goods in Fort Lauderdale, and the loading dock was on the bottom level, but the event was on like the middle floor, I loaded up the day prior. Smart. Just to like make sure. And I showed up, I feel like four hours in advance of the event on the event day because it's like it's a lot to set up.

SPEAKER_02 29:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

So yeah, communicate if you're late. Eating the couple's plated dinner before guests are served.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

It just depends. Like if you're doing it out of like, I don't know how to explain it. If it's scheduled for your vendor meal to get fed at the same time as the couple's eating, or like you end up getting your vendor meal in the back away from guest view and you're eating, I would say yes, because the best time to eat is when the couple's eating. But if you're like cutting in the buffet line or something like that, just trying to get food because they didn't schedule you a vendor meal or you didn't want to wait to eat your vendor meal when it's scheduled, then absolutely not. Like you have to let the guests eat first. And I don't know, that's just like rude.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

Yeah. I feel like if it's somebody that maybe has something going on during an a like while dinner is being served and you're getting photos. I don't know who's getting photos during that, or if you're the DJ, like you're gonna set songs in advance, I feel like, so you might eat and then get back out there to get the next thing going. You're not gonna eat it after everyone's served. Right, because formality is maybe pushing things back. Yeah. Bartenders serving drinks before contracted time.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

I feel like we should say absolutely not. We should say that. But I feel like with the trailer, people will come up and be like, hey, can I have a drink? And if we're set and ready to go, yeah, I'm usually like, yeah, sure. Like I'm just I'm not charging them, I'm not charging the client extra. But sometimes the client has specifically said, I do not want alcohol served before my ceremony. And in that case, I will serve them something non-alcoholic.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

I guess I wasn't there for the day of the wedding, but I was there the day prior. And I think our contracted time was five or five thirty. And we started, I feel like the first group of people came at like 4 30.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

And I'm not gonna tell somebody no and then make them have like a sour taste at the beginning of the night.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

I'm the same way. I'm like more flexible. However, I work with a lot of caters that are strict by the book. Like bar doesn't open till five, they're not serving anybody a drink, even if like somebody important comes over. They're like, sorry, bar service doesn't start, which I'm like, I get, but like me personally, I think it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Yeah. Bringing extra people slash assistance not approved.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

It depends on the vendor, but most of the time I'm gonna say absolutely not. Like I had somebody bring an assistant once and it was like some, it was like they were on a date. The girl showed up, like not even in a uniform, was just like hanging out at the photo booth.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Yeah, they gotta be doing work.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Yeah, like if you're there, you gotta be for work. If you're coming and you're training or something like that, I just think it's nice to give them a heads up because most of the time you also have to feed them. So it's good to like know how many vendors are coming in.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Yeah, otherwise they're not gonna, they might not get something. Or hey, split your plate. Right. Asking the bride or groom for payment on the wedding day.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

I'm gonna say absolutely not. You should always, as a vendor, be getting paid in full prior to the event day. And it should be written in your contract that you're not gonna do your service unless you're paid in full. You should not be handling payment the day of. I know vendors that do that. They'll like accept payment on the day of. To me, it's typically at the very minimum 14 days out from the day, and most of the contracts are 30 days plus out from the day that you need to be paid in full.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

Like we, as a like corporate event standpoint, if you don't get paid the day of it, maybe is because like you paid the company had paid half in their net 30 account. So they pay their deposit, and then you'll get you're gonna get paid within the next thing, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

Yeah. Sometimes corporations are a little different, but I can't imagine working someone's wedding and then them just not paying.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Yeah. Because like oh you put money down to make that day go good. And what if it doesn't go good and you're on a contract and now they want a refund? Like, I already paid more than what the refunds amount. But we don't have bad events, so we're okay with that. Um, taking shots with the bridal party while working. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 33:11

I don't care what vendor you are, you should not be drinking. Like, I always see a lot of times it's the bands. They're like always trying to get drinks at the bar, and they're like, Oh, the couple told me. I'm like, I don't care. You're here to work, you shouldn't be getting drinks at the bar. You don't need to be liquored up to do your job. And even as a planner, people will be like, have a drink with me. Like, have a drink. No, I'm working. Like, I would never be drinking on the job, yeah, doing any job. So I'm like, I don't know. Yeah, it's a no to me.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

I think across the board, photographer, caterer, wedding planner, DJ, they shouldn't be drinking. You said band. I feel like I know the band probably had been drinking, or I'm not trying to like a lot of times they'll bring their liquid courage to get on a microphone and sing a song.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

Maybe they need it.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

I'm just saying I'm not gonna be providing it. And if I see it, I'm gonna tell them don't serve them.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

What's that a what if it's a friend that's of the wedding party and they're there? I don't like frienders, so that rarely happens. Yeah, that's true. Interrupting family photos for behind the scenes footage. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 34:15

I think if you want to get footage of it, you just start recording or taking pictures. Not like, hey, redo that. Redo that moment. Like it already happened, and now that moment's gone, so it is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Yeah. Uh complaining about tips loudly.

SPEAKER_02 34:31

Absolutely not. Again. Vendors do this stuff though. And to me, a tip is not mandatory. If it's given, it's always appreciated by whomever's getting it. But you should never be expecting a tip, and if you don't get one, you're all upset over it. Like I worked at a place for a very long time where I would say 70% of my clients would tip me, but the 30% that didn't, I wasn't like, I can't believe they didn't give me a tip. Why didn't you give me a tip?

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

It was just like, okay, like either maybe they didn't want to tip, they didn't know that they should tip, or a lot of people like the tipping culture in the wedding industry can get out of hand very quickly, and none of it is mandatory. So you truly don't have to.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Yeah. It's like just like tipping in general, I feel like it's gotten out of hand. I feel like again, I brought it up in the previous episode, but I'm not gonna show up somewhere and go through a personal kiosk and grab my own drink, grab my own food, and then go and put my food on a a smart scanner, and then after it's asking for a tip, I didn't do like nobody did anything for me. Yeah, somebody cooked the food, but it was a pretzel. I don't know, like and they just stock the beer. I still end up giving like a dollar or two, but it's like, why are we doing this? This is too much. It's not I somebody mentioned it. If I have to pay for a tip before I get my food and beverage, I'm not tipping the same as if I tip after I get my food and beverage.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

I think that's pretty solid. That's pretty solid advice. Telling the couple that's not my job. That is not my job.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

I again would say absolutely not in most scenarios. Like most of the time on a wedding day, every vendor is willing to go outside their comfort zone and make it work if there's something that's going on. But there are situations and scenarios where saying that's not my job, I'm not doing that would be totally appropriate.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

If someone's asking me to take a picture, I'm like, I don't I'm not good at that. Yeah. I won't be able to do that. Someone wants me to get on the DJ boot.

unknown 36:35

I'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

No, but like if it's something that's easy, hey, can you lift this? Can you move this over here? I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

Like a prime example was we worked a trailer event last year, and there was a lot of like rain, and they had these tents set up all over, and there was nobody really there working at the venue because it was like a house, an estate. And they were asking our staff, the bartending staff, to like pitch in and move these tents around. And like, of course, we're gonna help. I could have been like, no, I'm not doing that. That's not my job, but I'm like, yeah, sure. Like, what do you guys need?

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Just be a good person at that point. Uh taking a smoke break every 20 minutes. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

We're not taking smoke breaks. Usually when you're working a wedding, you're almost working the whole entire time when the reception's going on. You might get a 30-minute break or like a 15-minute break somewhere. But if you are like a planner, you're a coordinator, you're catering, you're bartending, you're like, you're on the floor. Same with like photographers. You break for your vendor meal and that's it.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:32

Otherwise, you're working the whole entire time.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

I think it's like past the era of being able to do that in any workplace environment. I haven't really worked with anyone that had to like go step to the side for a smoke break. But if I did, like you're just I feel like they just smoke to get a break. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

I also feel like if if someone asks and we're not busy and they would be like, Hey, I'm gonna go take a smoke break, are you okay with that? Like if I was the manager or coordinator or planner, I'd be like, Yeah, you're fine. But if it's like a busy time and you're like, hey, I need to step away from the smoke break, I'm like, no. Yeah, no, suck it up.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

Yeah, just do it later. Last one, vendors networking with guests during the reception.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

It depends on like the level of networking, but I would say an absolutely yes for this. Like, if somebody's seeing you do something and they come up and they're like, Wow, you're such a good DJ. I love your work, and you have a business card and you want to like give it to them, I would say that's appropriate. Or I've had it happen when I'm planning a wedding and people come up and be like, Wow, the wedding's been so great. Like my daughter's getting married, and I'll share information. I think that kind of networking is fine. But I think if you're neglecting your job to network and like put yourself out there, then like, no.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

Yeah, you have to not be the conversator, conversation starter. Right. You have to be the conversation receiver. Receiver.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

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SPEAKER_01 39:41

So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

All right. A black tie wedding or a casual cocktail attire.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

I don't mind getting dressed up because I don't get dressed up often. So I will do the black tie.

SPEAKER_02 39:50

I figured you were gonna pick that.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

Like I like to get a little fancy and see how I can like color combo my jacket to my pants or just like what kind of tie am I gonna wear with my jacket? And I'm gonna be flush.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

Now, the only thing about black tie is you have to wear a tuxedo.

SPEAKER_00 40:06

So that's like super fancy, but uh I'm gonna revert back to the original then. I'm gonna do whatever the uh casual casual cocktail attack. No, like I I I love being a groomsman in a wedding because I know that I'm gonna be all fancied up. Sometimes I'll get a little pocket sleeve, pocket square, pocket square. Sometimes I'll get a little uh buttons to go on my jacket, your cuffling cufflings, I'll get a boutonier, yeah. I'll get nice fancy shoes. Here's the only thing when it comes to like as a groomsman and needing to rent or purchase, I've had I've been on both sides of it. I've also done it as a groom. You rent from like a mall tuxedo suit location, or you can purchase one online and then get it fixed up yourself at like a tuxedo warehouse or whatever those are. It's cheaper to just like have your suit, pants, combo from an online source than renting it.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

And then you just wear it for one day and it costs more money to rent it than it is to purchase the outfit and then you have it forever.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

So anyone that's getting married in the upcoming future, I know a few maybe go that route. If I'm gonna be a part of it, purchase over rent.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

Yeah. I agree. Okay. An indoor reception or an outdoor reception?

SPEAKER_00 41:36

If it's an outdoor reception, it's usually in a uh warm season. So bring it indoors. I'm gonna be sweating my Badonka Donk off. Like I like it's just too I like to wear my jacket through the night. Like I just like to sometimes, you know, coast that thing off through the evening and not instantly. And it just gets hot, might be buggy, just you know indoor, and then whenever everyone wants to go out for a vape slash smoke break, I'll meet you out there. But I'm gonna keep it indoors most of the time. Love it. I would do the same.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

Uh, live band or a DJ?

SPEAKER_00 42:15

I've honestly never been a guest at a wedding with a live band. So I don't know if this is like fair to say, but I would pick a DJ as long as it's like a solid DJ. Most of the time it is. Because most of like my friends' family have a nice taste in music. So I'm gonna be grooving out to whatever's getting played. I would love to see a live band wedding. I was gonna say when we depends on how many piece band.

SPEAKER_02 42:40

When we were at Ocean Reef, I feel like almost every single wedding had live bands. So I saw a lot of live bands, and then I've seen my fair share of live bands in Pittsburgh. They are fun.

SPEAKER_01 42:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:51

They it when you have a good band, I've I've also seen some like not so great bands, but the majority of the time the bands are good, but they do take breaks, so you have to like plan accordingly for the breaks what they're playing. What did they do on a break then? I've seen it where the bands go on break and they put on dinner music and it's like but then I've also seen it where they just put on like bangers, like a bunch of like what your DJ would be playing, and the party continues.

SPEAKER_00 43:13

And that's if that was the case, then yeah, give me a live band. If it's playing still up eat music in between the breaks, breaks.

SPEAKER_02 43:20

Yeah, they the bands typically take like at least 130 and then two 15-minute breaks within their four-hour stretch.

SPEAKER_00 43:27

I I can understand that, but like I don't know, I've never been a live singer at a wedding. But if you're asking me to just like throw out banger after banger, I guess at like a concert, they take an intermission.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

So it is. I I thought the same thing the first time. I'm like, that's kind of crazy. But then I'm like, when you go to a concert, they're like hour and a half sets or two hour sets. So that's a lot. Next one buffet dinner or food truck dinner?

SPEAKER_00 43:52

I I would prefer a buffet. Because tip if it's a buffet, it's probably a good buffet. You're gonna have a beef option, a chicken option, or you can. Take both. Kind of a nice, maybe like solid pasta and a like mac and cheese or something that go with it. It's and of the veggie options I can either skip or move right along, or skip or take. Depends on what the veggie option is. I I feel like when I go to like do a buffet though, is I fill up the plate so fast, like extremely quick. If it's somebody that serves you in the buffet line, it's better because then like my plates don't feel like I'm like as full.

SPEAKER_02 44:32

I do the same thing. I like put a lot of food on my plate if I can. I I'm hungry at a wedding. Okay. Uh next one. Champagne tower or an ice sculpture.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Like what does the ice ice sculpture do anything?

SPEAKER_02 44:43

I guess it could be like an ice sculpture luge.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

Yeah, that would be okay. I probably wouldn't do it, but I don't know. Like champagne, I just would the only time I'm having a glass of champagne is during the toasts. Yeah. And then sometimes I mess up. Like I'll take a I I always drink half. And then it's like the father of the bride does a toast. So I'll take a swig. And then the best man does his speech, take a swig. Maid of honor does it finish the drink. And then there's one more speech.

SPEAKER_02 45:15

Like how much you're like, there's not enough champagne.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

If you have multiple best men or multiple bridesmaids, maid of honors, matrons of honor giving a speech, you gotta give everyone more than one glass. Or like make an announcement saying, hey, we have five speeches coming up. Make sure that I can like properly sip this.

SPEAKER_02 45:34

Hilarious. Okay. Um, wedding favors or no favors.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

Honestly, I the only like a Pittsburgh cookie table, I'll take cookies back. I'm gonna be honest. Most if unless I'm a groomsman and I get a gift, nothing's coming home with me.

SPEAKER_02 45:52

No favors. Sometimes we grab stuff for the kids, though, if it's like something that I think they'd like. It's more the props on the dance floor. I'll be like, oh yeah, let's take some of those.

SPEAKER_00 46:01

Yeah, nothing really matters.

SPEAKER_02 46:03

Um long speeches or short and sweet?

SPEAKER_00 46:06

Short and sweet. Is that if it is a long speech, if you were walking on, I always tell every like anyone giving a speech at any point. I some I feel like I've like have I did it for my sister's wedding. I had notes there, but I wasn't following a speech. If you bring out a piece of paper and then I see that you're bringing out like three pieces of paper with writing on it, I instantly shut off. Like I'll laugh when everyone laughs and just go along with it and cheer you on, but I'm really not paying attention.

SPEAKER_02 46:45

Fair enough. Having a big lively dance floor or a very lively cocktail hour.

SPEAKER_00 46:51

Dance floor.

SPEAKER_02 46:52

Dance floor.

SPEAKER_00 46:53

Because that it's yeah, cocktail hour is great, but I feel like when it comes to a cocktail hour, especially when it's really getting out of our age gap now, but you're catching up with people or you're just with the people that you know the most and just conversating. But if a dance floor is just dud, then the night's a dud.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

Yeah, that's true. I feel that. Um, okay, having a photo booth or having a live painter.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

Can I vote neither? I don't care for either. You could. Yeah. I mean, like the as like a bride and groom, I feel like a live painting would be pretty cool. A photo booth, it's a nice party favor after. But again, if there's a line for the photo booth, I'm not waiting in it.

SPEAKER_02 47:36

Yeah. I also feel like the placement of the photo booth. If it's not like somewhere where it's easily accessible, I'm not going there.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Yeah, it's nice to have it. Then sometimes I'll like go to friends' houses and I'll see that there was a group of friends that got in the photo booth and I was probably on the dance floor. That's what it was. And they're just they're duds and they don't go on the dance floor.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

Okay, last one. Kids at a wedding or adults only?

SPEAKER_00 47:59

I prefer adults only because I've just been in weddings, at weddings, weddings with my children, that it's just so much better off whenever you don't have kids there for yourself as a parent, for the guests that don't have their kids there. It's just I don't know how to explain the kids aren't like the worst. It's okay if there's a kid there, but if they start acting up, someone's gotta control them. Yeah, parents got a parent. Parents got a parent. And don't make a parent make their parent parent their kids. Yeah. Don't do that. Unless you're the bride and groom.

SPEAKER_02 48:37

Yeah, then it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

Then it's fine. All right, VIP table. This is non-traditional wedding services. Well, obviously, like there's gonna be a photographer, there's gonna be a caterer, there's gonna be a DJ. Yeah. It might be a videographer. These are non-traditional things that would be at a wedding. I'll let you go first.

SPEAKER_02 49:03

Okay. I'm gonna go first. I've shared this one before. I would love if there was a service that you could hire for your wedding, that when your guests sit down at the reception, there's somebody that pulls up with one of those guacamole carts and just makes fresh chips, salsa guacamole for the table, and then they leave. Their only job is to make fresh guac and chips, and then they're done.

SPEAKER_00 49:29

That's it, and then they leave. I would like that. I would like fresh guac, maybe some queso that they can drop. I like that. Okay, I don't know where to go now. All right, I'm gonna go with my first pick. This is more so for like the next morning.

SPEAKER_02 49:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 49:44

Okay, this is very niche. You're gonna be like, what the heck is this? But like a late 90s, early 2000s Sports Center at the hotel breakfast the next morning. Like you hire people that are on a microphone with speakers and they're giving a recap of the night before, like highlights.

SPEAKER_02 50:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:03

Here's the top 10 from the, or it's the like not top 10 things that happen. And then you work with the photographer or videographer and you show highlights of the night. No, that would be it. We have like Uncle Bill on the dance floor right here. Look at him killing it. Number one, number one, or and like the number one pick is the first kiss after.

SPEAKER_02 50:23

And it shows videos. I think that's funny because I had a couple that did I call they called it Lady Whistle Downing because it was when Burgerton first came out where they they had their guests submit pictures and videos, and then somebody printed out like a little newspaper that had pictures and videos, and then they slid it under everybody's door that night. So it was like a midnight wedding newspaper.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:45

But it did that, like highlighted what happened at the wedding, which I was like, that's clever.

SPEAKER_00 50:49

Like a live one there. All right. My second one, this would just be either regrettable or you were if you give enough warning ahead of time as you give you hire a tattoo artist. Like what if somebody got too loaded and then woke up with something tattooed on of the next. I love that.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

Flash tattoos. Flash tattoos. They do that. Well, hire them. Hire them. That could be a good one. Mine is a made up one, this next one. Um, but I wish that there was a service that maybe it would be on your phone, like you could sign up for it, and it would show you like when your favorite songs are coming up. So like it would like buzz your phone and it would be like fireball pit bull in two songs. So you knew I can run to the bathroom and get out, and like I'm not gonna miss it. Because you know how sometimes you get in line for the bar, or like you're at the bathroom and you hear your song on, and then you're like missing it. Yeah, that I don't know. That doesn't exist, but I wish it existed.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

It's like going to a bar that has a touch tunes and AMI music, and you can see the next ahead, unless you see that song suck, and then like I do, I skip ahead.

SPEAKER_02 51:59

Yeah, you could crazy.

SPEAKER_00 52:01

That's a great idea. That's a great idea. It's like buzzing when you get to your seat at the table. Yeah, like a Texas.

SPEAKER_02 52:05

I'm like, I don't know how they would buzz you, but like I don't I'm not thinking about the logistics, just the service itself. Like, hey, the songs you like, they're coming up soon. And then my other one would be that you could get maybe a fast pass for the bar. So if the lines are long, you could just like flash your bracelet, cut the line, get your drink, or a cup that refills itself. That's like magic. That could never happen. But like in an ideal world, I hate waiting in the lines.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

The line is only busy at the start of the Sometimes, like it's always at the start of cocktail hour, right before it's time to sit down for your meal, and then right after. After that, I feel like it flows pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 52:47

End of the night is fine, but like sometimes cocktail hour, you're waiting like 20 minutes to get a drink when they do not have it staffed properly. Yeah, I feel like everyone would use the fast fast.

SPEAKER_00 52:56

Maybe you just like pay an extra money to the couple. I don't know. Uh, I'm gonna go with a an animal shelter that brings puppies, and then you can adopt them, or you can just like play with puppies that could be fun at any point in the night.

SPEAKER_02 53:12

I like that.

SPEAKER_00 53:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

Drunk people love pets. You would have to like make sure people aren't trying to steal the pets away.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

Or you have to adopt it.

SPEAKER_02 53:19

I feel like sometimes people have that at their cocktail hour.

SPEAKER_00 53:21

Like wake up and be like, oh my gosh, we have a dog. I got a dog. That happened at one of our friends' wedding, and there was a dog on the loose, and then it came back with us. And our friend was like it didn't come back with us, it was at the hotel.

SPEAKER_01 53:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:33

And didn't have a collar, didn't have nothing, and it was at in our room or at our buddy's.

SPEAKER_02 53:38

Yeah, we were like, somebody get this dog out of here.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

Yeah. And our friend was like, I'm gonna take it to the hotel front desk and let him know, hey, like there's a dog that was on the loose. Did anybody miss it? And it turned out that somebody was missing their dog, but he was ready to take it because he was felt like that, like it smelled, didn't again didn't have a leash.

SPEAKER_02 53:59

Yeah, didn't have collar or anything, so it was just like, well, I don't know who owns this dog.

SPEAKER_00 54:02

And my last pick is gonna be mascots. Oh. So like if you're Pittsburgh, I would love to see like a pierogi there. Okay, or maybe it's the cookie table and there's an eat and part cookie, or you're a big football fan and your football mascots there. Like, I would love to see a mascot there.

SPEAKER_02 54:20

I like mascots at weddings. Yeah, they're really good at cocktail hour because you can like get pictures, or like late night on the dance floor. I feel like those are the best. All right, my last pick. This is something completely made up. But if there was a mute button for annoying people giving speeches, like you could just be like, you don't have to listen. You can talk.

SPEAKER_00 54:40

Adam Sandler movie click.

SPEAKER_02 54:42

You could just be like someone's talking to you and they're just saying like annoying stuff. Mute.

SPEAKER_00 54:48

It's like you get it, yeah, you get set at a bad table. You're like, gosh, I have to sit down with the biggest.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

I'm just gonna mute all these people.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

Get me through it, autoplay me till it gets to the dance floor. Just give me a remote. Honorable mentions. I game show wedding rehearsal.

SPEAKER_02 55:02

Fun.

SPEAKER_00 55:02

Uh power hour, cocktail hour.

SPEAKER_02 55:05

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 55:05

It's a good idea, but like it's not a vendor, it's not a service. The touchstones during cocktail hour. That was in one of your clips. It kind of went off of one of your things you said.

SPEAKER_02 55:16

Yeah. It was simple.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

That's why I didn't pick it. Um, but that like the guests can pay for a song and maybe they pay more to skip and like ahead of the line. Like they pay, like, it's like going to a bar and you want to skip the songs that are already been purchased. You just pay a couple extra credits to have your song played ahead of time. Uh, pizza food truck after reception, but that's kind of standard. Uh, bathroom attendant and a karaoke after party. Love that.

SPEAKER_02 55:45

My honorable mentions are actually all services that I like and use frequently. One is flower donations. So people come and they will take your flowers at the end of your wedding and they'll take it to like nursing homes and hospitals for the next day. There is a service like a dog nanny, where they, if you have a dog in your wedding, they'll like walk the dog, groom the dog, bring the dog all ready and looking nice. And then the last one is similar to when you're at relay for life. You know how there's like cops and they lock you in jail? Like if there was wedding cops and then they would like lock people up in jail and you had to pay to get them out, and then the money you pay to get them out goes to the couple.

SPEAKER_00 56:22

Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 56:23

Those would be mine.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

I feel like I see someone I don't like. Get them out of here. Get them out of here. All right. Well, that wraps up this week's episode.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

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SPEAKER_00 56:41

We'll see you next week.