Posted on 08/28/2006 5:11:55 PM PDT by MooseMan
Red card on the field!
The foul: a venue double-booking a major sporting event the same day as a wedding.
Final score: Soccer 2, Stinde/Lambro Wedding 1.
Bev Stinde and her husband, Allen, saved up for years to give their eldest girl a wedding day she would never forget. She got that day, and it was unforgettable -- but for all the wrong reason.
Three weeks before Rachelle Stinde and Jim Lambro were to be married, Lord Hill Farms drop-kicked a bomb on them: There was going to be a soccer tournament in the fields below their outdoor wedding. They were told only 200 or so people would be there -- about the same as the number of guests invited to the wedding. In fact, there were 150 teams registered over the four days of the tournament.
It wasn't the World Cup, but neither was it the kind of wedding background the family envisioned. Maybe years from now, they'll be able to laugh about it, but not now.
On Saturday, this is how it played out: 12 games X 22 uniformed players ages 10 to 18 + 10 to 15 spectators per game = a lot of hollerin', a lot of clapping and a lot of groans of defeat.
It was a much different picture from the one the Renton couple had in their heads in June 2005 when they booked the popular Snohomish venue, sold on the unmarred and tranquil scenery of rolling hills, a pond and the mountains. It was the view that graced the photographs in the venue's office and on its site.
"We chose Lord Hill Farms because of that backdrop," Rachelle Stinde said. "The whole time we walked around it, I thought, This is so pretty. Wow. I started crying. I think this is it."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
I give everybody the same advice when I found out they are getting married.
"Something is bound to, and WILL, go wrong at your wedding. Accept it, expect it, embrace that fact, and be determined to laugh about it and you're day will be fine."
My family got left at the ceremony location by the limo service and was very late for the reception.
The priest was conducting his first wedding and forgot to tell us to kiss.
It was the first wedding I had ever been to and I didn't know how big of a sin it was to not go to every table and say hi. Some people were offended.
Oh, well, I laughed and had a great time.
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