OK, 3 words...

Professional

Wedding

Planner

If Bride wants a big to-do, then have her hire a professional wedding planner - who will happily advise on things, coordinate deliverys, deal with the caterers, etc - cause she's being paid.

I went to a high-budget wedding and reception once (had a head-liner play the reception!*), and was amazed that they were too cheap to hire a wedding planner. I worked with the bride and several of us kept telling her, "hire a wedding planner." Then after the wedding when she was griping about the flow of things, we got to tell her "I told you so, you should have hired a wedding planner." Come on, if you're paying $10K for the band, you can spring for a planner!




*Clarence Gatemouth Brown, if you were curious