Just a random public service announcement - caterers have not understood that the (economic) world has ended between the last time they were busy and today. Maybe none of us has. But really, people, you are not in the driver's seat anymore. Sorry.
EDIT: Also, I realize that you way you used to shame people into loosening the purse-strings was to pronounce the phrase "I realize you are on a budget" with a slight sneer encircling the last word. Soo, that never would have worked on me anyway, as I am not on a quest to produce the puurfect day and I think budgets are very good things indeed, but it really is out of place now. Just so you know.
2/12/2009
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I am glad that you are giving them a budget. The various people with whom my family worked were understandably losing it because my parents on the one hand refused to establish a budget -- a specific dollar total that we would spend (either on individual things or on the whole pageant) -- but on the other hand are utterly unembarrassed about demanding bargains.
Eventually I tried to forewarn vendors that they should just add 10% to their price when quoting it to my parents, and then reluctantly take that 10% off under the force of their persuasion.
Good for you for not being cowed. "Yes, yes I am on a budget. Can you meet it, or do I need to look elsewhere?"
What's especially galling is that it's not all that meager a budget. My fiancee and I are spending what to any normal human is a *huge* sum of money on the shin-dig. The whole industry is addicted to budgetless spending, though.
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