The Wedding Client Request That Made Me Change Every Contract

15 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, wedding planner Jamie Wolfer explains how a client’s request to split a long event into non‑consecutive segments—having her leave the venue, sit in a coffee shop for several hours while she was pregnant, and then return—highlighted the need for stricter work boundaries. She recounts that she used to accept 10‑hour events but no longer does, emphasizing that “boundaries are beautiful.” The discomfort of the split‑shift request prompted her to amend all future proposals and contracts by inserting the word “consecutive,” explicitly prohibiting split shifts and ensuring events run in one continuous block.

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I used to do 10-hour events. I don't do those anymore. Boundaries are beautiful, people. So they're like, hey, so can we split it where you do 2 hours here and then like you just go to a coffee shop and then you come back later? Come again? You want me to just come here, show up to see where the rentals are going, leave and go sit at a coffee shop for 3 or 4 hours, pregnant and uncomfortable, mind you, and then come back to do the rest of the event? Yeah. It's because of this event that I added the word consecutive to all of my proposals and contracts. Where we don't do split shifts.