From budget to bad

Recently we had an employee leave, and as it happens her odd jobs were distributed through the remaining workers.
I managed to pick up the task of ensuring the already booked corporate functions went off without a hitch.The venues, entertainment and accommodation were already secured all that was left was food and decoration duties... or so I thought.

Basically it all started going wrong when I found out that the 40 something rooms we needed booked over two days had not actually been confirmed.
I also found in addition to no accommodation actually booked:-

- The venue for dinner had NO booking and had since secured another booking, a gold wedding anniversary, an issue since we needed the whole restaurant.
- The four piece band booked for the dinner (in the unconfirmed restaurant) does not fit into a restaurant only big enough to seat 80 people comfortably.
- The guests, including board members and share holders, require another two night’s accommodation on top of the previous night, and the transfers that were organised for them was going to send them to the wrong hotel.

So basically my budget is doomed. Our la-de-dah event is NOW booked for dinner at Bilson’s restaurant (since we booted out the gold wedding anniversary), with an after-party at the Marble room in the Radisson Plaza (since we can’t fit a band or dance floor into Bilson’s) and stumbling-distance accommodation at the Radisson.All in all, problems aside I have rather enjoyed booking it all and thinking about how lovely it will all look when MY hard work pays off. Maybe a career change coming on? hehe
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