A wedding planner has shared her most embarrassing story which left her feeling “mortified” during a couple’s big day.
Claudia Postigo – founder of The Planner Co , a boutique wedding planning agency – had just returned to work from maternity leave when a diary disaster struck. She said: “Picture the scene – the team and I were cleaning up the venue at the end of the night after a beautiful wedding.
“Everything went to plan, and everyone was happy – right up until I found a half-full bottle of my own breast milk on one of the tables.”
Claudia had been expressing milk while working away from her baby for the first time. She had pumped two bottles of breast milk earlier in the day and given them to her catering team to store in the fridge.
The bottle on the table, now half-empty and complete with a cute little straw, was one of those same two bottles of breastmilk.
“I was mortified,” says Claudia. “Who on earth had been drinking my breastmilk?”
Claudia, a professional wedding planner whose events have been featured in Vogue and ELLE, lives and organises weddings in sunny Spain.
Her couple for this wedding was from the USA, and they had an adorable two-year-old daughter who had flown out with them to attend the ceremony.
“Once I spoke to the couple the day after, the mystery was solved,” said Claudia.
“It turns out that halfway through the cocktail hour, the couple’s daughter had complained to the groom that she was thirsty. He had asked the catering staff if they had any milk for the baby. They assumed he was talking about the breast milk and gave him a bottle of it with a straw.”
But the little girl wasn’t impressed with the “Spanish milk.”
“She complained to her dad that the milk in Spain tasted weird,” said Claudia.
“The groom tasted some of the breastmilk himself to see what his daughter was talking about.”
She added: “Luckily, the couple saw the funny side, and everything worked out. But it was definitely an eventful first wedding to return to after my maternity leave.”
Claudia revealed other mishaps that have happened at weddings.
“I’ve seen a little bit of everything – from a best man who recreated his own first dance with his wife to someone’s cousin who arrived wearing a floor-length, bright white, crystal-bedecked gown.
“As a wedding planner, you have to deal with these mishaps gracefully while still making the day absolutely magical for the bride and groom.
“It really is like being a swan – graceful and elegant on top, with the feet going like crazy beneath.
“Still, this is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever had happen to me – and needless to say, I’m going to be a lot clearer with my caterers in the future.”
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