Friday, July 1, 2011

Nasty-Ass consultation


  • The couple arrive.
  • They don't look you in the eye.
  • Before you can begin your spiel they start talking about this and that.
  • He is yawning.
  • She still won't make eye contact.
  • She looks like a horse.
  • You begin to try and answer a question.
  • Mid sentence, you get interrupted.
  • That happens numerous times.
  • They ask a completely unrelated question.
  • Moments later they say how you haven't answered the last question.
  • You try to do that.
  • He says something unrelated once again.
  • She responds to him.
  • They go into their own mini conversation.
  • They finally remember you are in the room, look back at you and you start to answer.
  • They cut you off with another random question.
  • They inform you how organized they are.
  • The notes are written on a crumbled sheet of paper.
  • Your blood pressure rises.
  • They start talking about photos.
  • They infer that there are special people they want photos taken of.
  • They do not want groups, just want me aware of who is who.
  • 'How will you know them?" they question.
  • You briefly consider making a joke about learning telepathy before their wedding day but bite your tongue.
  • They tell you how they "...don't want many formals but HIS side of the family is huge and they will need a photo of all of them."
  • "OH - and we will need multiple groups on my side as well."
  • But they do not want many formals, you see.
  • They ask if you can get all the formals completed in 30 minutes so they can attend their cocktail hour.
  • You tell them they are fucking bat-shit crazy.
  • They once again proclaim their love for their butthole venue, then mention how "the view is not that great and there seems to be no where to take nice photos."
  • Yet they adore their venue.
  • Super fantastic, you think. A picture-perfect perfection.
  • The venue is under construction.
  • There is mud all around.
  • She is worried.
  • Yet they ADORE their venue.
  • They wonder how you will handle that.
  • You try to answer, they briefly smile politely and then suddenly ask about albums.
  • They suggest they can do their own on Shutterfly.
  • They disagree as to which parent will want what type of album.
  • This goes on and on for an hour.
  • He yawns even wider and she starts looking more like My not-so-Pretty Pony.
  • You are hating them.
  • No-REALLY: you hate them.
  • You want them out of your studio.
  • You hope their 'perfect' venue burns down.
  • You hope she slips on aforementioned mud and breaks her boney-ass horse hip the morning of the wedding.
  • being an equine, she then then need to be shot.
  • You hope he cheats on her and brings the pregnant girlfriend to the wedding the day of and ruins everything.
  • You really, really, really really hope they would die, right here- right now in front of you.
  • Just keel over dead so you could bury them in the back yard, as no one would miss these 2 fucking pests.
  • another super-duper day at the office.