"What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
I wrote a post awhile ago about the "perfect" party not being an indication of fun and thought it might be helpful and/or insightful to share my perspective about some of the most common hiccups and hilarious moments that have/could/and maybe will happen when planning and executing a celebration of any kind.
Someone assumes there's plenty of time to do XYZ.
That someone is wrong.
The simplest of meetings/calls will be reschedule a dozen times...and then cancelled.
The budget changes.
The focus/theme/reason for the party changes.
The cost of catering/food is underestimated.
The budget changes again.
If your event uses name tags, you will 100% get into a full blown fight with the printer.
You'll lose the fight with printer.
You'll try to negotiate with the printer to just print the damn name tags.
You'll apologize to the printer and beg for forgiveness and suddenly the printer will work.
A million emails about the event will be in your inbox the day before the event.
You'll only have time to respond to 3.
The night before the event you'll wake up in a cold sweat because you had a nightmare about forgetting to do something really really REALLY important.
You'll repeat to yourself the name of the one random thing you're supposed to bring.
You'll forget the one one random thing you're supposed to bring and be mad at yourself.
As you set up, you'll to start to sweat--no matter how cold it is.
Someone will get a paper cut/stub their toe/hurt their knee and you'll have an emergency first aid kit in your packed items--somewhere.
A brief moment of "technical difficulties" will befall the sound system.
You'll suddenly be expected to transform into a sound engineer.
You'll accidentally move something and somehow the sound will turn back on so you'll move away slowly like you meant to do whatever you did.
You'll postpone using the restroom until your bladder is on the verge of exploding because you have just one more thing to fix/do.
You'll suddenly become the most popular person in the world while using the restroom and a dozen people will be searching for you to answer a question.
The event reaches a point where things are running smoothly so you'll sit down.
You'll regret sitting down because you'll realize how much your feet/back/shoulders hurt.
You will get HANGRY, eat the first food item you see and then remember you packed a healthy option.
You'll feel accomplished and elated as all the guest leave happy and smiling.
You'll remember you're on the clean up crew and curse under your breath.
When planning an event of any kind, know that you'll need to have a lot of patience and be able to adapt quickly because unexpected stuff happens despite your best efforts to control every single element.