I had my rehearsal dinner and wedding ceremony at MCC this past weekend, I was a covid bride, so I was a reschedule and during that time there was a wedding coordinator change. I expressed concern regarding this but was told everything would run smoothly. The first indication that this would not be the cause was a discrepancy over applying payments that were made to our ceremony instead of rehearsal (2 different events - 2 different people paying) thus causing us to find out instead of the $300 left owed on our rehearsal we were told originally that in fact we owed $800 which we found out about 2 weeks before the wedding.
My rehearsal dinner did in fact run smoothly except for not communicating with the staff that I expressly told the wedding coordinator (both the old one and the new one (Michelle) on multiple occasions that our guests were to be told the bar was closed and she confirmed multiple times it was noted, and staff was informed. The staff told them when asked that they could go into the grill bar, we were trying to avoid alcohol consumption the day before our wedding, putting me in the awkward position of explaining to guests we couldn't afford a bar or bar tab for both nights. We were also told rehearsal guests would be shuttled via golf carts down to the ceremony location for the rehearsal this DIDN'T happen leaving 70-80 year old grandmas to walk down an 1/8 of a mile incline with walkers.
The day of the wedding it was an absolute horror show (thank God for my private coordinator not MCCS wedding coordinator) - we were told that we would have golf carts again for the guests to be shuttled - originally my family was given golf carts leaving it to brothers and uncles to shuttle people down but then they were rudely taken away and as they were needed by staff for setup/ golfers. We were also only provided 2 golf carts; we were told this was the case but were also told if more were available the day of, they would be given to us. On the day of we were told the rest were need by golfers even though there were no less than 20 golf carts just sitting not being unused and very few golfers there due to the overseeding situation that they extended that we were not told of till the day of. The problem with not having golf carts was that this left approximately 100 guests to again trapeze 1/8 of a mile down a sharp incline to get to the ceremony location, I was originally okay with the concept that not all guests might get to be shuttled but never thought that older guests or even ALL or most guests would have to walk. Eventually they decided to assign 2 staff members to operate golf carts for guests but all that happened is they basically were running back and forth from clubhouse to ceremony site for their duties but weren't focused on transporting guests. I was told that this was done as this was a better way to do it, not sure in whose opinion that was.
Lastly, we found out that where our ceremony was done wasn't where ceremonies were EVER DONE before, this wasn't told to us directly but was something my family happened to overhear as some of this disaster was unfolding. I was NEVER told this I WAS always told my ceremony would occur exactly where it did, and it was the only option we were shown when we first inquired. My ceremony was also delayed because when our DJ checked in with them to find out if he would need power, in advance of our day, they told him no and that they had a generator, the day of magically no generator was to be had as it was in storage and they had no idea where and again the clubhouse that was an 1/8 mile away was too far to run an extension cord. THANKFULLY our DJ actually is amazing and was able to run home and get a generator and our ceremony only started about 20 minutes late. As our ceremony started, I was loaded into a golf cart separate from my dad who they had taken away his golf cart and dropped at the ceremony location, NO final moments with your dad before you walk down the aisle just an FYI to brides. As canon D started playing, I was driven down to the ceremony site, I realized we were going the wrong way versus what I had been told but thought hey she knows what she is doing maybe they changed things, she however drove me to the side that was probably 250-500 feet from the aisle and thought it was going to work to have me walk past all the guests all the way down the side of the aisle to where my dad was at the end. I told her no you need to drive me to the aisle as obviously in a big dress to trapeze across the grass alone in front of everyone before my walk down the aisle was a TERRIBLE Idea. Suddenly as Canon D is playing, she decides she isn't going to drive me across the grass due to concerns about the grass and instead drives me back up the hill- all the around with the music playing in front of all the guests to the opposite side of the aisle where apparently on that side it was somehow okay to drive on the grass. read more
