Comedy of Errors: A Wedding Planner's Crash Course with DJ ESG

What's up guys? Dj ESG on this Wedding Advice, season number 8. And today I had to talk about what happened to me this past weekend Crazy. I was at a venue in the city that doesn't really do weddings, but that wasn't really the major problem. So we're waiting for the ceremony to start and the fishing gets a phone call saying that the photographer's car got towed. And if you ever got towed in the city of Philadelphia or Detroit or anywhere else for that matter, you'll know how big of an issue it is. First they get you for why they towed you in the first place there's a fine. Then they get you for the towing there's a fine. Then they get you for storage fees at the lot that's a fine. Then they get you for annoyance that's a fine. Then you're a PPA for like four hours.

So I go to the girl when she finally shows up, because the ceremony was on time, but she was a little late getting there and I had to wait for her. I was like what happened? Luck and um, I said, uh, you ever seen parking wars on television? You'll know what I'm talking about. You just watch that show. Uh, it's not on regular tv anymore, just pull up on youtube. So I go. So what did you do? She goes I parked in front of a hydrant, I didn't know. And I was like, wait, because I don't wait. You didn't know, I guess, because I don't come to the city a lot, I was doing a fire hydrant, like you're telling me, if you parked in the suburb in front of a fire engine. She said, yeah, but I didn't think that, would you know. I didn't really realize it was there and I was like, oh okay, now you have no car and your wallet's in your car and your ID's in your car. And she actually left the wedding an hour plus early, I think, I don't know, because the cake was getting cut and she wasn't there. No-transcript, somebody's car is getting towed out front and I pointed to where it was and all of a sudden you see the videographer flying outside and I'm like you gotta be kidding me.

First the photographer, now the videographer and uh, luckily man, he got it stopped in time, like before, like they actually like took it all the way away. But I was like dude, you're parked the wrong direction. Like you can't park left on the right hand side, it doesn't, that doesn't work. You have to park with traffic and he's running outside. I'm like, oh my god, you gotta be kidding me.

And not only that, the venue, sweet as pie, but I mean it took forever to get the dishes out. I mean we're talking salad and then pasta. And then me, and it was like I mean it was a tour and um, you know it wasn't his fault, it was just the nature of having your wedding at a place that doesn't do weddings and Italian restaurants. So we had about an hour and a half hour 15 minutes of dancing, total like hardcore, which was cool, and they dance. But man, between the photographer getting her car towed and her leaving early and the videographer almost getting his car towed and him almost having anxiety attack, and then the venue I'm not getting the food out quick enough and all the people driving me nuts like because they were bored.

I could totally tell it's like, man, you know, when you hire your vendors and you hire people, man, make sure everybody knows the rules of where they're going and they know what they can and can't do and they know what time the food needs to come out and how a wedding actually works and not to leave early and all this other jazz. I'm like, oh my god. And when it was over, the groom walks up to me and gives me a big hug. The bride, I mean. I'm 45. I've been around the block for 30 plus years. These people were not nearly my age. We're talking, like you know, young 20s, mid-20s and while they're great at shooting and doing things, they're not great at really understanding the conceptual theory of a wedding and stuff that happens at a wedding. At least most of them that I've met aren't. So you know you're trading the good with the bad, but oh, my goodness gracious, I've never.

It was hysterical. So, just whenever you guys have a wedding and you hire vendors, make sure your vendors understand everything that has to happen, like where they can park their cars, how fast the food needs to come out, if something happens to your car or something. You don't leave and just go bye-bye. I have no idea where these people went and there was like a lot of other things that happened too, but I mean nice, super sweet, super, super nice people. But I mean just like common sense didn't occur. So I will leave you with that. It's great advice. I'm still laughing because the only two people that got