The guests never know if something is awry. Photo by Hannah Elaine Photography (hannahelaine.com).
One of the things I like about wedding planning is that it is full of surprises. Unfortunately, not all of them are the pleasant kind. I coordinated a wedding recently where I found myself saying words that no one wants to hear coming out of their mouth. It went like this:
“Hello, gas company? I’d like to report a gas leak.” I gave the address. “I need you to send someone right away. Please send someone really discreet, because there are 150 guests here for a back yard wedding.”
It was about 15 minutes before the ceremony in the back yard of a beautiful North Shore home. The caterer was using the coach house kitchen, and we kept smelling gas in the garage below the kitchen. All the family members had gone a few blocks away for pre-ceremony photos, so I was the logical person to make the call. I figured that the disruption of a service man arriving would be less than the disruption of a gas explosion!
Fortunately, the people at the gas company understood the situation, and the man who came to turn off the gas came and went before the ceremony started without even making a ripple. When the family returned, I explained to the bride’s father what had gone on in their absence. And then we started the processional, without anyone else being the wiser.
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