StephanieTPC
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I think I just need to vent and most of my friends and family are tired of hearing about PC, so I hope you don't mind if I do it here.
I did a "bridal shower" last night. It was only my second show. I prepped and prepped and worked my butt off. It was supposed to be a surprise to the bride so I didn't have a wish list and due to the sheer number of people who were supposed to be there I made up a product book so people could take the card of the item they wished to buy out of the book and that would alleviate duplicates.
The MOH told me there was going to be at least 25 people there (or more) and that we needed to make two recipes that needed to be doubled. She picked out the Asian Pot Stickers and the Strawberry Amaretto pastries. My wonderful fiance wanted to try his hand at making the profiterole puffs and he made those as a special gift in the brides' wedding colours (pale pink, baby blue, peach and white). So I made 48 potstickers and 36 pastries. Plus we brought 48 profiterole puffs.
So I get there, I'm excited. I 've put a lot of effort into it. I came up with games. I decorate my table. I get all my things in order.
5 people showed up. WIth five kids. ALL brought her outside gifts. They all showed up around the same time - 45 minutes late.
I don't think I can begin to explain how disappointed I am. I worked my tail-end off prepping before the show, standing on my feet on concrete floors (it was being held at a church) - and I've got buristis in my knees that's flared up and makes it painful to stand or even walk. One lady commented that she doesn't think it's necessary to have Pampered Chef tools inthe kitchen as they're expensive and you can make anything with a little elbow grease and imagination.
They told me they didn't want to see the demo, only eat the food and look at a catalog. I sat in the corner of the room most of the night after I cleaned up all of my hardwork and was on the verge of tears. I drove over an hour for this show. My son and my fiance had to drive along with me and had to sit at their grandparents all night waiting for me to finish too..
Between the lady yelling at me from Babies R Us and this horrible show, I feel like a total failure. I mean I know it's not my fault no one showed up and no one wanted to buy anything for the bride. I did get some sales - $50 dollars total. They told me though to cancel the order if they had to pay direct shipping. No one bought anything for the bride and I felt so bad for her too - she kept saying how she wanted this and that and how she and her fiance had nothing to start their house with. She got a LOT Of lingerie though from people though. 4 out of five of the people who brought her gifts brought her some sort of lingerie.
Ok I know this is long and I went totally off on a tangent, but this is a pretty crappy mother's day weather wise and I'm not feeling so hot about things. I know people have it much worse than me and I shouldn't be throwing myself a pity party, but I just feel so let down. Five people and their five kids ate every bit of food - and two of the ladies had the nerve to comment that the food wasn't "good ol fashioned cookin'".
Thanks for reading this if you made it this far.
I did a "bridal shower" last night. It was only my second show. I prepped and prepped and worked my butt off. It was supposed to be a surprise to the bride so I didn't have a wish list and due to the sheer number of people who were supposed to be there I made up a product book so people could take the card of the item they wished to buy out of the book and that would alleviate duplicates.
The MOH told me there was going to be at least 25 people there (or more) and that we needed to make two recipes that needed to be doubled. She picked out the Asian Pot Stickers and the Strawberry Amaretto pastries. My wonderful fiance wanted to try his hand at making the profiterole puffs and he made those as a special gift in the brides' wedding colours (pale pink, baby blue, peach and white). So I made 48 potstickers and 36 pastries. Plus we brought 48 profiterole puffs.
So I get there, I'm excited. I 've put a lot of effort into it. I came up with games. I decorate my table. I get all my things in order.
5 people showed up. WIth five kids. ALL brought her outside gifts. They all showed up around the same time - 45 minutes late.
I don't think I can begin to explain how disappointed I am. I worked my tail-end off prepping before the show, standing on my feet on concrete floors (it was being held at a church) - and I've got buristis in my knees that's flared up and makes it painful to stand or even walk. One lady commented that she doesn't think it's necessary to have Pampered Chef tools inthe kitchen as they're expensive and you can make anything with a little elbow grease and imagination.
They told me they didn't want to see the demo, only eat the food and look at a catalog. I sat in the corner of the room most of the night after I cleaned up all of my hardwork and was on the verge of tears. I drove over an hour for this show. My son and my fiance had to drive along with me and had to sit at their grandparents all night waiting for me to finish too..
Between the lady yelling at me from Babies R Us and this horrible show, I feel like a total failure. I mean I know it's not my fault no one showed up and no one wanted to buy anything for the bride. I did get some sales - $50 dollars total. They told me though to cancel the order if they had to pay direct shipping. No one bought anything for the bride and I felt so bad for her too - she kept saying how she wanted this and that and how she and her fiance had nothing to start their house with. She got a LOT Of lingerie though from people though. 4 out of five of the people who brought her gifts brought her some sort of lingerie.
Ok I know this is long and I went totally off on a tangent, but this is a pretty crappy mother's day weather wise and I'm not feeling so hot about things. I know people have it much worse than me and I shouldn't be throwing myself a pity party, but I just feel so let down. Five people and their five kids ate every bit of food - and two of the ladies had the nerve to comment that the food wasn't "good ol fashioned cookin'".
Thanks for reading this if you made it this far.
) has you confused with her local catering company! She obviously didn't bother to let everyone know what kind of wedding shower this was supposed to be. All I can say is thankfully this experience is OVER. The next time, be darn sure that your host knows what a Pampered Chef wedding shower is all about. Although I have not yet had the opportunity to do a Wedding Shower, I know I'm going to take a 'lesson learned' from your experience and make sure the host knows what I expect.
I feel really badly for you!!! This was NOT fair to you at all and it seems like the bride would be disappointed too. Not just because she didn't get some things she obviously was excited about, but that barely anyone came to her shower!! What is wrong with those people? If the person hosting this thought there'd be that many people, I'd assume she got RSVPs right? How terrible that that many of her friends blew it off.
