Day 4: Bridal show crashers? I didn't know they existed...

As a person who one day wants to become an event planner, I was so excited to go to my first bridal show. Especially since I helped promote the show, I was anxious to see how it would all play out.

I got there at about 10am to help set up. Vendors were running around with their heads cut off, all trying to make their booth as appealing as possible. There were some who came up to me asking outrageous questions like, "Can I move this table backwards, then this one sideways, then add another?" As an intern, I wasn't in authority to make important decisions, but vendors like this needed to know that they needed to chill out and stop making things so difficult!

After all the vendors were set up it was time for the brides and their entourages to start coming in. All-in-all the event turned out great and my boss actually booked a wedding!

....However, it didn't all go completely smooth (I mean, when does an event ever go 100% right?). A couple came in a few minutes before the doors opened and kept hounding us asking, 1. when the fashion show was going to be on and 2. when the food was going to be out. And when I say hounding us I mean hounding us- asking the same questions every 2 minutes. 

Needless to say, once the event started the couple just got worse and worse. They went up to the food buffet a total of 7 times each throughout the event (each time with a full plate). It was evident that they were not here for the vendors, seeing that they did not walk around once to look at the different booths. Then once we figured out they were the parents of one of the models, we realized they only came to the show for the free food and the show.

Don't get me wrong, supporting your daughter is completely understandable but crashing a bridal show is not only unconventional but a little rude. We collectively decided to say something to the couple once they sat on the floor in front of our booth to eat their food. Although they moved, they still continued to be a nuisance. So, at that point we gave up on trying to control the two crazies and just let them be and just focused on the show.