June Weddings

a little choppy in places and not quite what we had envisioned.  She had also come with a guest which we weren't expecting.  This wasn't a huge deal, but we had been told for zoning reasons that we could only have a certain number of people at our small venue and we were already at capacity. Luckily, no one said anything.  We really appreciated that she had us meet her a few days before the ceremony at a restaurant and suggested we sit there and write our vows.  We both did just that.  June was easy to communicate with and was responsive to messages.  I received a guest complaint about an incident where someone was trying to take a photo and June inserted herself to tell them how it should be down and started taking her own photo.  Someone else came up to me to tell me that they had observed this happening and that it was very off putting.  June was very quick at mailing the marriage liscense.  

ings sound disjointed and choppy. It was very obvious that she was not prepared/had not practiced and it was very distracting. She also told everyone that we wrote one of the readings ourselves (we did not), which made no sense in the context of the ceremony and was honestly kind of embarrassing and ruined the impact of the message. She lost her place in the ceremony and messed up our family blessing, repeating the same side twice. She also told us that she would be able to do the handfasting ceremony while she was reading, but instead chose to have a groomsman do it without asking us. Because of where he had to stand, nobody in the audience got to see the ceremony. After the ceremony, she interrupted our private moment to tell us that the marriage certificate was missing (it wasn’t, the coordinator was just holding onto it to avoid this exact situation). Any one of these things on their own (with the exception of not being prepared for readings) wouldn’t have been that bad on its own, but all of them combined led to a disappointing experience. I think this was maybe just an off day for her, but it is unfortunate that is happened on our wedding day - we can never get those moments back. ****Update upon hearing more information from our guests: reduced star rating from 2 to 1. Many of our guests have mentioned that June's behavior before and after the ceremony was unprofessional and expressed surprise that she was a hired professional, not just "a family member who did a bad job." Apparently before the ceremony, she was asking guests to volunteer to be ushers (we already had 3 ushers so this was not necessary. I also find it inappropriate to be assigning wedding party duties to random guests), was stepping on the coordinators toes, and created an awkward situation for my family by loudly repeating "I need Haley's dad!" even though he was not invited (which I made very clear in our initial forms, further indicating that she did not prepare. I also mentioned it that morning on a call). After the ceremony, she personally gathered the witnesses to sign the marriage certificate (this was the coordinator's job), telling them that we had to hurry because she had another wedding to get to. Essentially, our scheduled private moment was interrupted because she chose to book two weddings back to back. At this point, I have asked my guests to stop telling me more information about June's conduct at our wedding because the more I find out, the more unacceptable it becomes. I am embarrassed and saddened by this new information - I assumed this was just an off day, but apparently getting to the next wedding was more important than doing a good job at ours :(