What I Did For Work: Wedding Assistant

Flowers and the wedding cake. :)

The cake looks nice but it's fake. Haha.

Last Sunday I went and work with my cousin, a wedding consultant, as her assistant. I went to two wedding that day, seemed like that day was a really nice day, I saw several wedding cars on the street. So many pretty brides were marrying.

In Taiwan, it's not like in the U.S.. The weddings are often held in hotels and both sides of the family would be invited to the wedding to have lunch or dinner with the new couples. And usually this is what a wedding consultant does: to create a best wedding for the bride and groom.

The weddings were beautiful. Well, more specifically I will say, both weddings made me really want to get married right away. I've always wished I can have a wedding like those, vivid and clean and fun and blah blah, you know, just wonderful and like those in fairy tale.

 One thing I love about weddings: they use lots and lots of flowers for decoration.

Most of the time, I went to a wedding as the bride's family or the groom's family, but this time I went as a wedding assistant, person who helps the wedding preparation and makes sure everything goes as it's planned. Although I didn't help much, since I was new and kind of not in the situation, I learned alot from my cousin.

 Working as a "server," we show the nicest faces of us. We smile as we talk to our customers, we stand straightly, and we don't drink or eat in front of everyone; we hide ourselves.

 "Always I hide from the camara." -- Jesse W.
Haha. It's true. My first job as a wedding assistant wasn't placing the wedding tables but holding the long wedding dress tale for the bride when bride and groom were walking to the table one by one for cheers. My cousin told me: "NEVER ever be taken photos with the bride and groom, the photographer would wanna kill you 'cuz they can't just cut you off especially you're standing right between the couple."
So, I was hiding hard from the camara. It was easy, just kneel a bit behind the bride then no one would even notice you, well, at least no one has noticed me.

 I was late for the first wedding which was held in the early afternoon, so my cousin took me to the second wedding so that I can see more and learn more about this job. One thing about this job I think is important, everything you do as you work is not for you, but for your customer.
Oh, I know now, it works for every job though. You do things not only for yourself but also for people around you.

The second wedding was smaller than the first one, but though it was smaller, the flowers were used more in this wedding. I didn't have any idea about how a wedding consultant prepares for a wedding. My cousin first checked eveything, the music that would be used during the wedding and pictures and slide show, with the hotel workers. Then we ran to the couple's resting room and asked them to come and rehearsal for the wedding, like when the door was opened they had to walk out pair by pair, how the bride and groom needed to do when they got on the stage, and when to walk around the room to cheers, etc.
You think that's alot to do too, right?
I was just tired standing there and watching and sometimes running inbetween the couple's resting room and the main room and maybe showing customers where the restroom was at and...
Anyway I didn't even do a "big" thing but I felt tired. Can you imagine how tired it would be for my cousin who was running all over the place and sometimes I didn't even know where to go to get her.
This job is interesting, at the same time, it's tiring as well.

I love this picture. :)

This is just a short description of my work experience with my wedding consultant cousin who is the best "server" I've ever known. I hope you enjoy this writing of mine.

By the way, this is Jesse. :)