I am discovering that 'ridiculous' is perhaps the adjective of choice for wedding-related businesses and their practices. (Really. It will be funny when the thing's done, I'm sure of it.) But no, I quite agree.
On that note, I have an appointment next week to try on robes from the rack, with all sorts of codicils about how anything I picked would need extensive alterations, and so on and so forth. I'm rather treating it more pragmatically: a chance to be more certain of what I want, and then arranging exactly the thing made to specification. (Especially since nine in ten of the robes I've seen so far are far too ornate for my tastes, and the half the remaining ones wouldn't suit me at all.) Narcissa, thankfully, is amused by the errand, and at least if I trust to her advice, I'll look good in the end.
Back to the planners - no, quite. The first two are entirely impossible, I entirely intend to trust Temp's advice on catering. (She's given me three names so far, and is checking on details for a few others).
But it is Tallie's age that's a concern, yes. And she hasn't nearly the business connections for all the various necessary things (well, everyone else seems to think they're necessary) yet. But I am inclined to trust her, yes.
First, she actually looked at the specifics - had a decent idea of the necessary size of the thing, some recommendations for spaces that would hit the right note (elegant, but not overdone), a way to balance the various obligatory events. She's the only one who recognised the complications of creating an event that might be vaguely comfortable for both some of my family and friends, and Raz's.
But she comes well-recommended too, through an odd connection. You might remember I passed a very pleasant summer with Chimera Powell in 89, when we were doing research together? Tallie's his cousin, and he says she's got his eye for detail and his knack for implication, and I honestly can't think of higher praise than that. (In contrast, what I get out of him about Miss Clearwater, whom he hired as an assistant after she left school, is that she's diligent, and he supposes she's learning quickly enough. Not unhappy, but nowhere near the praise Tallie got.)
Friday it is, and tea, certainly. And thank you for threading that needle with Dolores - both because I want to save the 5ths difficulty, and because I'm hoping it works her round to being a bit more reasonable with me.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey and Pomona Sprout
Date: 2012-09-19 03:06 am (UTC)On that note, I have an appointment next week to try on robes from the rack, with all sorts of codicils about how anything I picked would need extensive alterations, and so on and so forth. I'm rather treating it more pragmatically: a chance to be more certain of what I want, and then arranging exactly the thing made to specification. (Especially since nine in ten of the robes I've seen so far are far too ornate for my tastes, and the half the remaining ones wouldn't suit me at all.) Narcissa, thankfully, is amused by the errand, and at least if I trust to her advice, I'll look good in the end.
Back to the planners - no, quite. The first two are entirely impossible, I entirely intend to trust Temp's advice on catering. (She's given me three names so far, and is checking on details for a few others).
But it is Tallie's age that's a concern, yes. And she hasn't nearly the business connections for all the various necessary things (well, everyone else seems to think they're necessary) yet. But I am inclined to trust her, yes.
First, she actually looked at the specifics - had a decent idea of the necessary size of the thing, some recommendations for spaces that would hit the right note (elegant, but not overdone), a way to balance the various obligatory events. She's the only one who recognised the complications of creating an event that might be vaguely comfortable for both some of my family and friends, and Raz's.
But she comes well-recommended too, through an odd connection. You might remember I passed a very pleasant summer with Chimera Powell in 89, when we were doing research together? Tallie's his cousin, and he says she's got his eye for detail and his knack for implication, and I honestly can't think of higher praise than that. (In contrast, what I get out of him about Miss Clearwater, whom he hired as an assistant after she left school, is that she's diligent, and he supposes she's learning quickly enough. Not unhappy, but nowhere near the praise Tallie got.)
Friday it is, and tea, certainly. And thank you for threading that needle with Dolores - both because I want to save the 5ths difficulty, and because I'm hoping it works her round to being a bit more reasonable with me.