Work

This week, B's taking on the tasks of:
1) hotel reservations (he needs to find more rooms)
2) wedding assistant interview(s)
3) ordering groomsmen shirts & ties.

I don't envy him the interview things... but I think he'll handle it with ease. I think 4 interviews and we'll know whom we're hiring. And these aren't formal interviews; just quick coffeehouse type meet-ups.

I am working on roses. I HAVE to finish the centerpieces this week, or I feel I will go mad. HAVE to. Last week had some break-down moments and lack of productivity as I had to deal with some people situations, and I was not nearly as productive as I needed to be.

I've found that if I cut out a TON of patterns and then glue them (rather than doing, say 20 at a time), I'm a lot more productive. Here's hoping.

We bought cups yesterday so I can do the paper mache. I wanted them all to be uniform, but I didn't want to go to a ton of expense buying balls or something for each one. So, I bought a bag of balloons, I'm blowing each one to the same approximate size, and I'm paper mache-ing each one. I could glue directly onto the balloon, but I"m too scared it will pop and roses will go EVERYWHERE. The paper mache, once it hardens, is solid and the balloon is no longer needed.

I'm not sure how many roses I have right now. A good centerpiece requires around 200. I have more than that right now. But, I'd rather fill up the box I have right now and then start gluing, that way I'm not demoralized when I find out I only have roses for only x number of centerpieces.

Next weekend: invites.

How to not get a job...

We've gotten a number of great responses for our assistants posting...we've also gotten a few less great responses. Here are a couple of notes:

* When responding to an ad, do not mis-type your email address. 

* Don't respond with only one sentence

* Do not mis-type your phone number

* Do not be rude.  "Hey you" = not super rude, but not super appealing either.

* Do not type in all lower caps.

* If your email is more than 5 lines long, consider using some punctuation.

It's been funny.

Wedding assistants...

Eeeek. I just put a posting on craigslist for wedding assistants (set up food, keep food warm and replenished, clear plates, etc). I think I'll either get a FLOOD of responses or NO responses.

We already have one person hired-- someone we know and someone dependable. That makes us a lot more relieved. But we need a couple more...

This could be interesting.