Wedding Planners

I have so many people calling me or emailing me lately---"I would love to be a wedding planner; it is so romantic! Are you hiring? Could I work for you?" How much money do you make? Isn't it just wonderful planning weddings?"

I will meet with anyone once. After that, is a whole different story. I go through my usual speech; pros and cons, dealing with irate MILs and frustrated fathers, brides in tears and drunk grooms. The person across from me is glassy eyed thinking that she would just love to fall in love with the best man, dancing off into the sunset happily ever after. I lead such a romantic life---sigh!
Then I start to tell them the real deal---work, work, work! I have gone with no sleep for 3 days, I work 80-100 hours a week, (that is a short week!) I am yelled at, in the muck and the mud retrieving electrical cords, stuck in the make-shift kitchen washing 250 salad plates because the caterer forgot dessert plates, part-time bartender, cleaning up the flower-girl left overs from too many wedding mints and cake, standing in 3 inch heels on a hard concrete floor for two hours (yes-two hours!) propping up a cake because the baker couldn't be bothered to check her own work, and tracking down lost dogs that have run through the mud.
Do you still want to be a wedding planner? Funny, I never seem to get that second phone call from them!