Irish bride-to-be pleads with hotel

Toots · 20-09-2017 02:52PM

Neyite wrote: »

I used to work in a place were we had a running tally on the noticeboard of how often the place got threatened with Joe. It was at least once a week. Each.

We would take great pleasure in pretending not to know who he was.

I was a bank cashier during the recession. The liveline threats were an hourly occurrence!!

Jimbob1977 · 20-09-2017 02:52PM

The club could have asked the local County Board and opposition team for an early start, e.g. 10am.

GAA matches only run for 60 minutes at club level.

I'm assuming the wedding and the reception are happening in the same county as the match.

Everyone at the church by 1pm, if required.

A Shaved Duck? · 20-09-2017 02:53PM

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Moving the date, at this late stage, is a non-offer. The hotel is in a position to be flexible, but they have chosen not to be. Yes they are legally entitled to that position but it is fairly lousy.

The radio wasn't the right place to air the grievance though.

Are you serious a non-offer?...i get that your trying to see an alternative side and somehow find fault with the hotel but your struggling.

She signed a contract months ago and the week of the wedding sent a mail to the hotel to discount her wedding because people decided to play a GAA match instead of attend her wedding.

She sends a thinly veiled threat about damaging a businesses reputation on live radio which blows up in her face and even after all this she is offered a compromise by the hotel.

If you can still try and pin this mess on anybody but her you're reading a different article to the rest of us.

jamesbere · 20-09-2017 02:53PM

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Well look, she's invited at least ten of the players, so she knows how important the game is to those who play it. There's a good chance they escalate GAA well above where you would put it. You're not right about how important it is and neither are they. Each to their own.

If it's a championship match, then nothing barring your own wedding, injury or illness is a good enough reason to miss the match.

It seems to me though that applying a little bit of common sense would go a long way. The partners of the players can go to the wedding. Arrange a bus to pick the players up after the game, and bring them straight to the reception.

It seems odd that those playing just straight up cancelled without coming up with any compromise.

I'll assume for the moment the fellas playing are probably friends of the groom and their partners might not know the bride and groom that well and decided they didn't want to go on their own.

Considering its a weekend I'm guessing the wedding is a Saturday which would mean the match is an evening throw in so going after the game might not be an option.

Radiant Cool Crazy Nightmare · 20-09-2017 02:57PM

I presume that the manager that spoke for the hotel on the radio will be running the show the day of the wedding. That is going to be so awkward, but the bride to be has brought all of this onto herself.

loyatemu · 20-09-2017 02:57PM

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It seems odd that those playing just straight up cancelled without coming up with any compromise.

maybe they were glad of the excuse not to go.

In other news, I'm aghast that people think €250 cash is a standard gift for a wedding - considering the cost of actually attending. What's wrong with a toaster or fondue set?

Snotty · 20-09-2017 02:57PM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

The club could have asked the local County Board and opposition team for an early start, e.g. 10am.

GAA matches only run for 60 minutes at club level.

I'm assuming the wedding and the reception are happening in the same county as the match.

Everyone at the church by 1pm, if required.

Very likely that the bride and groom are from different areas, tradition is the wedding is in the brides home area. The bride/wedding could be in Cork and the groom/team could be from Donegal

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20-09-2017 03:01PM

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I'm glad that businesses are pushing back against 'the customer is always right'. People think it gives them a licence to demand whatever they want. I think businesses are realising that it's pretty obvious when a customer is kicking up a stink for no good reason and that the general public will see that.

I'm almost 35 years owning different businesses. Anytime I see someone start out on their own I give them the same advice. If you try to live up to the customer is always right you won't last in business. That's not an ex to be rude or treat the customer badly but there are a lot of customers who expect too much of you.

seamus · 20-09-2017 03:01PM

loyatemu wrote: »

What's wrong with a toaster or fondue set?

The fact that it's not 1984?

xzanti · 20-09-2017 03:01PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

how are 16 guests not turning up costing her €2000?

Loss of 16 monetary gifts, I'd imagine.

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RocketRaccoon · 20-09-2017 03:04PM

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They can't just reschedule a match and nobody knows what time the match is on.

loyatemu · 20-09-2017 03:05PM

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ask the hotel to stick the extra 16 steaks in a bag and take them with her when she leaves.

Neyite · 20-09-2017 03:09PM

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A wedding is important to the couple, and maybe to their families. To the rest of the guests, it's just a day out and folk who live and breathe their sport throughout the year and have played in matches since their childhoods, training in all weathers, could be forgiven for prioritising a match important to their team over a wedding that wasn't a family wedding.

It's 16 folk out of 150. She's not going to miss them. They aren't integral to her day. She wont be any less married if they don't show. She just thought that she could threaten a venue and squeeze a few quid out of them on the back of a few cancellations.

Ash.J.Williams · 20-09-2017 03:10PM

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That's not how life works.... If county boards have to consult brides before compiling the years fixtures there'd be no gaa... Or fai etc.

20-09-2017 03:10PM

I'm not interested in any sport so have little knowledge about how they are run. Is there no way that the GAA would change the date /venue in a case like this. I'd understand them not willing to budge to suit one or two players but in this case the whole team are supposed to be going to a wedding?

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Ash.J.Williams · 20-09-2017 03:12PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I'm not interested in any sport so have little knowledge about how they are run. Is there no way that the GAA would change the date /venue in a case like this. I'd understand them not willing to budge to suit one or two players but in this case the whole team are supposed to be going to a wedding?

It's like delaying a train for 3hrs to suit a passenger, there would be a buildup affecting thousands of passengers

Ash.J.Williams · 20-09-2017 03:13PM

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The opposing team may object for a start then things get messy...

Neyite · 20-09-2017 03:13PM

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If they did it for one bride, they'd have to do it for every one married on a Saturday. I'm not sure how long the match season lasts but I think it's pretty much April -September so that's probably not feasible.

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yabadabado · 20-09-2017 03:14PM

She comes across as an awful **** .Great to hear her make a complete disgrace of herself on national radio.

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Sebastian Dangerfield · 20-09-2017 03:15PM

For those saying to reschedule the match, scheduling club games in the first place is a huge issue, to the point where club players have formed a union to have their voices heard. Its almost impossible for the powers that be to agree on a week first time around. The other team agreeing to postpone for this reason is unlikely, without the possibility of replays and delays to a final.

Either way Im not sure what it changes from her perspective. She doesnt seem concerned with their attendance, just that she gets extra champagne or a voucher to compensate for the lack of it.

JaMarcusHustle · 20-09-2017 03:16PM

joeysoap wrote:

A summons to a wedding now generally costs the recipients a cash present, even if they indicate they are not attending.

Fair play, I love the idea of a wedding invite being referred to as a summons

Cheensbo · 20-09-2017 03:18PM

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While I take your point that a wedding is only important to the bride and groom, personally Id think someone was a moron for cancelling going to a wedding for some small sporting event - its not like its the olympics.

Personally I would think someone was a moron for cancelling going to a sporting event over some wedding. Its not like they are getting married themselves.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 20-09-2017 03:19PM

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If its a county final, the winner goes into a provincial competition, then a national competition.

kylith · 20-09-2017 03:19PM

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It is for the people who have trained for it all year.

Caliden · 20-09-2017 03:19PM

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

For those saying to reschedule the match, scheduling club games in the first place is a huge issue, to the point where club players have formed a union to have their voices heard. Its almost impossible for the powers that be to agree on a week first time around. The other team agreeing to postpone for this reason is unlikely, without the possibility of replays and delays to a final.

Either way Im not sure what it changes from her perspective. She doesnt seem concerned with their attendance, just that she gets extra champagne or a voucher to compensate for the lack of it.

How much notice is given for a match?

Surely if you had at least 1 weeks notice of a match you could inform the hotel of the change in numbers and they could adjust their food order accordingly.

If the issue that she was required to have a minimum of 150 and now she goes below that then that's just hard luck.

My own contract has a minimum of 165 but we'll be inviting more than that to avoid this issue.

Irish bride-to-be pleads with hotel

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