wedding reception horror story
May 10, 2007 by Cash
Getting married can be bittersweet under the best of circumstances. When the most vital part of the reception is stolen? Positively painful.
A recent British wedding was ruined when almost $900 worth of booze was stolen the night prior from the reception hall.
intruders had entered the hall, in The Crescent, during the night and stolen two bottles of whisky, two bottles of gin, one bottle of Bacardi rum, one bottle of vodka, two bottles of Pimms, six cases each containing six bottles of red wine and four cases each containing 24 cans of Carling lager.
The replacement value of the alcohol was £450.
The intruders also removed the payphone from the hall which containing about 70p.
Why not just steal the wedding ring? Or my soul!?!
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I know someone with a Kitchen Aide Mixer… It’s real nice.
I think it was you. Did you secretly escape to England?
“intruders” could be ANYONE cerveny. ANYONE..
…hiccup
I sure hope this doesn’t happen at the wedding I’m going to next week. Free food, wine, and beer! That’s what I’m talking about
are you going as the official designated drunk ex? because those people are always awesome.
Goat, I wish, I wish.
Here is a truly horrifying wedding reception experience.
Delaware City Fire Hall in Delaware City, Delaware Ruined Wedding Reception
I hope this blog assists couples (and anyone else) who is considering using Delaware City Fire Hall in Delaware City, Delaware for their wedding receptions. Here is a horrific experience that took place at a wedding reception at Delaware City Fire Hall that I attended in June 2007.
When guests began to arrive at the Delaware City Fire Hall for a wedding reception around 5:00 PM, they were greeted by stifling hot temperatures inside the the building. When the mother of the groom asked a bar tender to turn the air conditioning down, he said he would get to it. After 15 minutes, she had to ask him again, and he said he still didn’t do it. He then left the bar area and returned to tell the groom’s mother that the air conditioner was never turned on. It took about an hour for the Delaware City Fire Hall to cool down. Since the outside temperature was in the mid-80s, it was not pleasant.
The wedding party arrived, was introduced by the MC, and sat at their head table. By the time they were seated, the bar was closed, and they had no drinks. After looking around, I realized there was no water at any table. No water glasses, no water pitchers, nothing. (You would think a fire hall with fire trucks and such would at least have some water!) Members of the wedding party asked the Delaware City Fire Hall staff for some water, and they refused saying water was “not in the contract.” As a courtesy, they brought out 2 pitchers of water (for an entire room full of guests) and left them at the bar. Are you kidding me?????
One of the groomsmen gave a blessing, and the best man was prepared to give his speech and toast. However, while there were champagne glasses for each guest, there was no champagne. The best man and groom asked the bartender, who was apparently doubling as the Delaware City Fire Hall manager, where the champagne was, and some crazy kitchen worker again began yelling that champagne “is not in the contract.” After getting a copy of the contract and showing that champagne was indeed in the contract, the groom was met with the reality that the Delaware City Fire Hall didn’t have any champagne! Did they forgot to purchase it” Who knows. No one could get a straight answer. Apparently, one of the incompetent Delaware City Fire Hall workers went to buy the champagne after the bride and groom complained, but there was no evidence of that since the champagne never showed up on anyone’s table. Plus, the over-zealous bartender, who seemed more interested in causing problems than solving them, proved his lack of inter-personal and problem-solving skills when he began yelling at the best man who was trying to fix the champagne and water situation! The Napoleonic Delaware City Fire Hall bartender attempted to flex some muscle by telling the best man to leave his kitchen or he would have him physically escorted out of the kitchen. (I think the little fella was watching too much of that show “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox TV.) The bartender then began to tell everyone that he was a Delaware State Trooper. I pray to God that no other troopers act like that guy.
Now comes times for the buffet dinner. The head table was supposed to be served their meals, but the Delaware City Fire Hall staff managed to even screw that up. Keeping in mind that the wedding party was about to die of thirst because on no water, no drinks from the bar, and the searing heat of the late-air-conditioned hall, they were at their wits’ ends. Their meals were served (did I mention with no drinks?), and then mid-way through the meal some crazy old guy comes by in cutoff shorts, sneakers, and a T-shirt serving salads. There was no rhyme or reason to the timing of the salads’ arrival, and the guy looked like he just cut his lawn. After the entrees were half gone and after the salads came, a woman showed up with one pitcher of water. She put the pitcher on the head table, then inexplicably took it away and placed it at the bar. What the hell is going on with the Delaware City Fire Hall?
Okay. Things could not get any worse…until it came time to cut the cake. The Delaware City Fire Hall staff refused to provide plates or utensils for the cake. Again, they kept reverting back to the “contract.” OK. Let me paint the picture. There are crazy old people running around in gardening clothes and even more crazy people yelling about contracts. There is a moonlighting cop tending bar picking fights with wedding party members. It’s hot as hell. There is no champagne. The parents are screaming. And the bride is crying. Yes, this is the picture of the wedding reception that took place at the Delaware City Fire Hall.
After no one could stand the incompetence any longer, a mother began arguing with the bartender/manager/cop/UFC champion. Get this. This guy, who had no clue how to fix any of the problems (because, at his own admission, he said the “hall manager” was out of town) states that he is “shutting the entire reception down.” Yee haa! How fitting for this guy! To make things worse, he calls the police and lies to them, saying that people were being disorderly. I saw no disorder. I saw parents dancing with 7-year-olds, grandparents dancing with grandchildren, and people trying to salvage what they could of a wedding that was horrible ruined by the Delaware City Fire Hall, their incompetent staff, and this one bartender guy who needed someone there to help him manage the facility like a professional.
So, the Delaware City cop shows up, accompanied by (this is a good one) a Delaware Department of Natural Resources officer (yes, that would be a game warden). The DJ is still spinning records and the guests are oblivious because the bartender pseudo-manager guy didn’t tell any of the guests to leave. Four New Castle County Police officers then show up, but by this time 75% of the guests left the Delaware City Fire Hall because they truly couldn’t take any more.
I don’t want to sway anyone’s opinion, and I encourage everyone to make their own judgments. However, this is just one example of the type of service that could occur if you rent the Delaware City Fire Hall for your wedding reception or event.
See http://www.deweddingreceptions.blogspot.com