Be Respectful of Time
Once time is lapsed you can’t get it back…..
No matter what you do in life, you should be respectful of another person’s time. I had the opportunity to hang out after our National Association of Catering Executives (NACE) meeting the other evening with some event professionals and one of the topics of our discussion was how much time was wasted due to clients’ arriving late or worse yet, not at all.
Many don’t realize that in addition to 60 minute meeting time that we are allocating for you, we also have travel time to get to the location (which in my case ranges from 30-45 minutes) and as we arrive early to ensure we are on time, that’s easily another 15 minutes, plus the drive back. So a one hour meeting time, in truth is taking between 2 hours and 15 minutes to 2 hours and 45 minutes of time out of our day. Many clients associate delayed responses with “island time” but our ability to get back to you in a timely manner (other than when we have events of course) is adversely impacted by each meeting that starts late.
I’ve also had a few clients that were purposely going to start their ceremony late. There are several reasons why you should always start your ceremony on time. First of all, you should respect the time of those guests that did arrive on time to attend your special day. Secondly, often times ministers do have another wedding to attend to and they schedule their time based on your ceremony start time. As a coordinator, i know from experience that starting on time sets the pace for the entire day, if you start on time, the day is relaxed, it is when things are running late that the stress factor sets in.
