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Lord, save me from brides
May. 28th, 2006 04:11 pmFor the past few weeks, we've been getting three to five calls daily, not to mention the numerous walk-ins and counter questions, asking about wedding invitations, programs, response cards, etc. One day, after about the third call, "Hi, do you guys print wedding invitations?" and going through the entire spiel in the phone call, I exclaimed (after hanging up), "What is WITH all these wedding things recently??"
Then it hit me.
This is May.
Next month is June.
June is historically a big wedding month.
Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
Brides are my worst copy center customers. They are notoriously picky about what they want, the paper, the printing, the colors, the frickin' SIZE. No one can have simple sizes. Nothing easy. OH no. They're square, or curved, or have raised edges on the papers, textures, teeny-tiny cards....DRILLING.
Apparently the big thing in wedding invitations and programs now is to use two sheets of paper and thread a ribbon between them instead of stapling or the like. We're the only store in the area with the big adjustable drill. I hate drilling.
I also have to tell them that anything under standard letter size (8.5" by 11") will NOT run through our big machines, and they'll have to use the self-serve machines. Anything with raised texture possibly will not run cleanly through the machine. I had one woman with paper that reminded me of corduroy. Lots of ridges. The toner would NOT fuse to it. "Well, how am I supposed to do this then?" she demanded snottily. I suggested an ink jet printer. And no, we don't have ink jets.
And brides get testy if we don't have the exact paper they want. They get snotty if, just trying to be helpful, I suggest looking at a craft store, a scrapbooking store, or (gasp) a stationary store. Ma'am, look at the name of the business. We are called OFFICEMax, not WEDDINGMax.
And the brides that wait until the day before the wedding to print the programs?? Oh dear lord. I'm not even going to get started on that.
In closing, every single time I get a frantic bride in wanting to print her invitations, programs, whatever, I am repeatedly thankful that my wedding was so small, the "invitations" were phone calls.
Then it hit me.
This is May.
Next month is June.
June is historically a big wedding month.
Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
Brides are my worst copy center customers. They are notoriously picky about what they want, the paper, the printing, the colors, the frickin' SIZE. No one can have simple sizes. Nothing easy. OH no. They're square, or curved, or have raised edges on the papers, textures, teeny-tiny cards....DRILLING.
Apparently the big thing in wedding invitations and programs now is to use two sheets of paper and thread a ribbon between them instead of stapling or the like. We're the only store in the area with the big adjustable drill. I hate drilling.
I also have to tell them that anything under standard letter size (8.5" by 11") will NOT run through our big machines, and they'll have to use the self-serve machines. Anything with raised texture possibly will not run cleanly through the machine. I had one woman with paper that reminded me of corduroy. Lots of ridges. The toner would NOT fuse to it. "Well, how am I supposed to do this then?" she demanded snottily. I suggested an ink jet printer. And no, we don't have ink jets.
And brides get testy if we don't have the exact paper they want. They get snotty if, just trying to be helpful, I suggest looking at a craft store, a scrapbooking store, or (gasp) a stationary store. Ma'am, look at the name of the business. We are called OFFICEMax, not WEDDINGMax.
And the brides that wait until the day before the wedding to print the programs?? Oh dear lord. I'm not even going to get started on that.
In closing, every single time I get a frantic bride in wanting to print her invitations, programs, whatever, I am repeatedly thankful that my wedding was so small, the "invitations" were phone calls.
