With Urgency
The Andrada wedding vendor crisis arrived on Thursday at two in the afternoon, which was the worst possible time because I was in the middle of a call with the bride's mother about the table linen colors and there is no graceful way to put a bride's mother on hold.
Jana appeared at my desk with a piece of paper and a face that said the information on the paper was not good information. She set it in front of me and took two careful steps back.
I looked at it.
The lighting contractor had pulled out. A family emergency, his message said, though the message had the brief guilty quality of something that was not entirely a family emergency and was at least partially an opportunity he had found that paid better. He was out. The Andrada wedding was in four and a half weeks and t
