> artographer@aol.com wrote:

>> No mammalian names
>> mantioned.

>
> peta at work??
>

>> Ladies...planning a wedding is absolutely not something you want to
>> hand over to inexperienced family/friends help nor is it something that
>> you would want to hand over to incompitent and inexperienced vendors.
>> What we recommend at our store ( my store) and I won't mention our name
>> either in order to avoid the rath of posters with nothing better to do
>> but write posts designed to offer advice that's ludicrous at best and
>> completely wrong at worst.
>> First we recommend you " plan a lifetime" not just a day. Planning a
>> wedding day involves as most of you know, bringing together a half a
>> dozen or more contractors ( vendors) all together to perform like a
>> symphony, when for the most part, never saw or worked together with
>> each other prior to your day, and...at some distant point in time, for
>> one day, that for most of you is a year away will perform effortlessly
>> and with military precision. This may seem trifle and easy however
>> daunting. It may even seem like all vendors are completely professional
>> and no matter what (vendor) shows up at said wedding day to perform,
>> they will simply all mesh together and you the bride and groom will
>> live happly ever after experiencing the "perfect event." This is of
>> course completely neurotic and I am sure that most women of reasonal
>> intelligence would agree whole heartedly.
>> Planning a " successful" wedding day involves professionals with a
>> network of reliable, sober, professional and honest associates. Yes
>> there are those brides who are laboring under the impression that the
>> wedding industry is completely corrupt and with a little advice from
>> some nitwit on a google board, and a few visits to a few websites, and
>> some close advice from a girlfriend who helped plan her friends wedding
>> for 50 people in some church basement that planning a wedding with
>> budgets that range from 20 to 100 thousand dollars or pounds of hard
>> earned cash is as easy as 1,2,3.
>> I won't go into all the pitfalls of what may or may not happen here on
>> this board. If any bride wants some advice from a wedding professional
>> than feel free to email me. I promise I won't pitch my business unless
>> you ask. I will just answer anyones question openly and honestly.
>> I offered this service on another post for flowers but it went
>> unanswered.
>> Now I do fully expect to be taken to task, insulted, condiscended on
>> and berated about my offer to give advice, by folks on this board who
>> for one reason or another seem to think that they know everything. (
>> this is a google board) I myself do not profess to know everything.
>> However being in the wedding planning, floral and photography business
>> with 20 years of experience...I can only offer what I do know and if I
>> don't know...I can damn sure find out.
>> So if there is someone who is surfing the post for advice on planning
>> their special day be it flowers, photography, DJ's, pro planning,
>> facilities, caterers, limos, contracts, gowns, how to recognize bad
>> vendors vs good vendors, churches ( all denominations ) ethnic weddings
>> from Hindu to Jewish and Korean to Philippino, what flowers are in
>> season, how to distinguish stem dyed from real flowers, how to find a
>> GREAT photographer...not just a good one...but definately how to avoid
>> a bad one. Then give me a hollar :)
>> I am a busy man since we do over 100 weddings a year in the Washington
>> DC area ( which is why I know about ethnic weddings ) but I will take
>> the time to respond over the next few weeks depending on the amount of
>> request.

>
> also how in hell can a chicken understand this game
>
> mk5000
>
> "The ones that were left were in the process of being
> trained to dance,"--Carole Morganti