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Well, of Doom, might be a bit much, but it was the first really rough one this year. Which is pretty good, all things considered. Anyway, let's set the scene:
It's 10PM, the reception started at 7PM and 6, that's six, kegs of beer have been consumed by a group of roughly 100 people, many of whom are not drinking or have departed already. The hardcore party people are still going strong when I get the call to come to the ballroom. There were several minor issues, but these stood out as exceptional:
Mr. Drunk
Up first is Mr. I'm so drunk I'm going to start a fight with a 15 year old. This guy was so wasted that he stumbled into the kid and spilled some beer. This is clearly the kids fault so Mr. Drunk starts getting in the kids face. Right before punches start flying, the bride steps in and tells the guy to gtfo.
Fast forward about 20 minutes and the guy and his girlfriend check out of the hotel. The desk told me they were very polite while checking out but, about 30 seconds after they walked out of the hotel, Mr. Drunk ran back in, punched our lobby display board, and ran back out. No damage was done, but that thing is expensive and we had his credit card number...so he's lucky he didn't break it.
Cupcake Fight
There was a nice table of cupcakes outside the ballroom for everyone to snack on prior to/during the reception. This was a pretty neat idea, and went over really well, until some people decided that it would be fun to have a food fight with the remaining cupcakes. This of course made a giant mess right outside the entry to the ballroom and nearly started a couple of fist fights over the unfair targeting of certain individuals.
We had to pull some reserve staff to get everything wiped down quickly and had to post people inside and outside the ballroom while the floor was wet from mopping in order to prevent some drunk idiot from falling down and hurting themselves.
Do you know who I am?!?
One of the desk staff reported some loud noises coming from the lobby bathroom. By now my relief is here so we both go to investigate. We discover a guy peeing into the trashcan because "they...they...the things were all taken". One of this guy's buddies was holding him up and we think the loud noises were trashcan guy falling down/stumbling into things. The manager on duty talks to the guy about how he needs to knock it off or he'll have to toss the guy out. Guy thinks this is funny and tells the MoD that "everything is cool, but man, don't like get in my business because I've been to jail and I ain't afraid to go back".
We go back to the reception and tell the bar tenders that he's cut off. This enrages the guy because he's the brother of the groom and this is bullshit and we're all...I don't know what we are all because at this point he seemed to lose the ability to speak and sort of staggered off. Later he got even more upset when the hotel bar also wouldn't server him. Yes, surprise, we do tell the bar if we cut someone off at an event, so your cunning plan to get more beer from the hotel failed.
Bonus followup: the night guy told me that he and his buddies went downtown to continue drinking. They stumbled back in around 4am and Mr. Brother was so wasted he was hanging between two of his friends and being dragged through the lobby to the elevators.
It's 10PM, the reception started at 7PM and 6, that's six, kegs of beer have been consumed by a group of roughly 100 people, many of whom are not drinking or have departed already. The hardcore party people are still going strong when I get the call to come to the ballroom. There were several minor issues, but these stood out as exceptional:
Mr. Drunk
Up first is Mr. I'm so drunk I'm going to start a fight with a 15 year old. This guy was so wasted that he stumbled into the kid and spilled some beer. This is clearly the kids fault so Mr. Drunk starts getting in the kids face. Right before punches start flying, the bride steps in and tells the guy to gtfo.
Fast forward about 20 minutes and the guy and his girlfriend check out of the hotel. The desk told me they were very polite while checking out but, about 30 seconds after they walked out of the hotel, Mr. Drunk ran back in, punched our lobby display board, and ran back out. No damage was done, but that thing is expensive and we had his credit card number...so he's lucky he didn't break it.
Cupcake Fight
There was a nice table of cupcakes outside the ballroom for everyone to snack on prior to/during the reception. This was a pretty neat idea, and went over really well, until some people decided that it would be fun to have a food fight with the remaining cupcakes. This of course made a giant mess right outside the entry to the ballroom and nearly started a couple of fist fights over the unfair targeting of certain individuals.
We had to pull some reserve staff to get everything wiped down quickly and had to post people inside and outside the ballroom while the floor was wet from mopping in order to prevent some drunk idiot from falling down and hurting themselves.
Do you know who I am?!?
One of the desk staff reported some loud noises coming from the lobby bathroom. By now my relief is here so we both go to investigate. We discover a guy peeing into the trashcan because "they...they...the things were all taken". One of this guy's buddies was holding him up and we think the loud noises were trashcan guy falling down/stumbling into things. The manager on duty talks to the guy about how he needs to knock it off or he'll have to toss the guy out. Guy thinks this is funny and tells the MoD that "everything is cool, but man, don't like get in my business because I've been to jail and I ain't afraid to go back".
We go back to the reception and tell the bar tenders that he's cut off. This enrages the guy because he's the brother of the groom and this is bullshit and we're all...I don't know what we are all because at this point he seemed to lose the ability to speak and sort of staggered off. Later he got even more upset when the hotel bar also wouldn't server him. Yes, surprise, we do tell the bar if we cut someone off at an event, so your cunning plan to get more beer from the hotel failed.
Bonus followup: the night guy told me that he and his buddies went downtown to continue drinking. They stumbled back in around 4am and Mr. Brother was so wasted he was hanging between two of his friends and being dragged through the lobby to the elevators.
If I get married, I want to have a morning/early afternoon wedding for 3 reasons.
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The aftermath wasn't pretty though...stumbled my drunk ass in the house to try and get a glass of water to settle my stomach down and the like and before I knew it I had to stumble some more to worship the porcelain god. The morning after sucked...royally. I rarely drink, but I refuse to get wasted. As for the SC's, sheesh. Glad the last guy got cut off, but what about the drunk SC that tried picking a fight with a 15 year old? The cupcake fight thing was pretty immature of them to do, IMO. I imagine the clean up was a PITA.
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