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Quiz: Can You Spot These Problem Guests in Your Wedding Planning Career?

Over the course of your wedding planning career, you’ll encounter a number of different wedding guests. Some of them will be absolutely angelic and even use your services later on. While others can be nightmarish! You’re never going to be 100% prepared for problem guests who show up to your weddings. But you can pick up a few tricks to deal with some common issues. Take our quiz to find out if you’ve got the chops to identify and take care of these problem guests!

You know the guest list by heart and notice an unfamiliar face by the buffet table. Do you…

Send venue security in their direction

Go up to them personally and ask who they are

Approach the happy couple and ask them about this person

Ask the couple’s parents or wedding party if they know the person

Correct!

Wrong!

A guest is getting into a heated argument with someone else. What do you do?

Physically tear the two people apart to stop the argument

Immediately go find your clients

Go over and let them know they’re acting inappropriately

Find the best man to initiate the toast to distract the guests

Correct!

Wrong!

You spot someone rearranging the seating chart. You…

Politely ask them if they needed any assistance

Gently nudge them towards the dance floor to distract them

Don’t act until they move on. Once they do, pull up your master seating chart and move everything back to the way it was.

Approach them and ask them if they’re having a good time

Correct!

Wrong!

At the reception, a member of your client’s family is complaining loudly about his seating position being far from the wedding party. What do you do?

Quietly let him know that there’s nothing that can be done now. Ensure the bride and groom don’t notice what’s happening

Find out who his plus one is and ask them to help you quell his anger

Options B & C

Offer move him closer

Correct!

Wrong!

A guest has been following you around trying to make well-intentioned conversation. You…

Appease them. What’s the harm in a little conversation?

You politely let them know that you’re working and have to oversee the programming

You introduce the person to a friendly group of guests in hopes of striking a friendships between them

Pretend you didn’t hear them, and go about your duties normally

Correct!

Wrong!

You notice someone is spending a little too much time near the gift table. What do you do?

Notify the venue manager of a potential crasher, then go check them out

You notify a member of the wedding party or the couple’s parents and try to identify them. If nobody knows who they are, kick the person out!

Nothing. Give them the benefit of the doubt. They aren’t doing anything wrong!

You introduce yourself and ask them if they’re trying to find something

Correct!

Wrong!

During the ceremony a baby starts to cry loudly. What do you do?

Stop the procession until the baby stops crying

You quietly approach the parents and ask them to leave until the baby settles down

You already had this sorted: you told them at the get-go to move to the back of the venue if the baby starts to cry

You start crying to drown out the baby

Correct!

Wrong!

You see a guest who’s already on their fourth drink during cocktail hour. What do you do?

You go up to them and tell them that they need to slow down the drinks

Nothing! It’s an open bar for a reason!

Tell the bartender to keep an eye on them and cut them off when necessary

Ask a member of the wedding party to talk to them about their intake.

Correct!

Wrong!

A guest is having an absolute meltdown in the corner of the reception. A small crowd is starting to form, what do you do?

Approach the guest and try to move them out of the immediate venue then try to calm them down. No need to worry the newlyweds!

Check out the seating chart and find out who they know. Locate their plus one and send them over to the sobbing guest with a box of tissues

Disperse the crowd, escort them out, and don’t let them back in until they can behave

Disperse the crowd and get to the bottom of it yourself

Correct!

Wrong!

Some bold guests show up during the ceremony. You…

Already have a row of empty chairs in the back for stragglers to take a hasty seat without disturbing the ceremony.

Quietly move to the back of the room and let them know that they’ll have to stand until the end of the proceedings

Quickly and quietly approach them as they walk in and try to seat them as quietly as possible

Let them stand in the back of the room. They should know not to interrupt the proceedings

Correct!

Wrong!

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Need some extra help in dealing with children at your events? Check out this post on accommodating children at weddings and parties!

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