Logistics for Saturday wedding.

This Saturday I am bartending a wedding in city of industry, ca.   Over 130 people. Signature cocktail with fresh berries. Custom printed menu. Water station and I am hauling all the supplies (alcohol ) to the venue for the client.    How do I package, store, transport all this stuff, and my bar, tables etc, with my little Toyota Matrix hatchback. 

Here is how I handled it.   All supplies are stored in my garage.  The black berries are ordered from the local street fair vendor.  8 flats ordered and I will pick up tomorrow, bring home, wash and package into 52 plastic containers purchased from the dollar store.  Purchased 6 ft tables x2 and a 150quart cooler from Walmart to store all the berries.  

Ordered fitted table clothes for both 6 ft tables, 4 square purple table clothes for accents, 4 clear ice buckets to hold the display beer and wine, purple led lights to illuminate the ice buckets.  Purple is the theme color.

Custom menu created by buying light purple card stock from michaels and printed with my home inkjet printer with dark purple ink.  

Polling all viewers- blue or purple

Here is a poll to see how many agree that this light is blue.  Please participate and help find out if I'm colorblind. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/55QL2YL

Business difficulties.

I will be bartending a wedding this coming Saturday April 19 2014.  As part of my service I will be decorating the bar in colors to match the wedding scheme.  Bout a month ago I order battery operated tea lights in the color purple to place in the clear ice buckets I will use to display and chill wine, beer, etc.   yesterday my lights arrived.  However they turned out to be blue not purple.   I can't wait another month for a replacement from china.   I contacted the amazon.com seller and received an immediate refund. I then had to order from a local seller at higher cost.   He lesson learned - if an issue comes up take action immediately to correct it.   My new lights should arrive in 2 days just before the wedding.  

2 booking in 1day

On Friday 4/11/2014 I was able to book 2 jobs.   1 from a lady contacting me from the UK.   I was very skeptical.  Initially thinking it was some sort of scam.  After a few emails and some research on her, I determined she was real.   I sent a paypal invoice.  She paid the deposit and is confirmed for her event.  Turns out she is part of the UK group called Equity.  The are the UK version do SAG/Aftra.  Very interesting. 

Second quasi booking was from a referral.  She called looking for me to DJ her wedding.  I advised I am not a DJ but have a speaker system for rent.  Connect your Bluetooth device and play your playlist of music.  I do bartend weddings though.  So she asked about my service and showed legitimate interest.  Details still not finalized.  I sent an invoice and now waiting to see if she leaves a deposit.   

Used my iPhone to check calendars and take notes.  However it's not easy to hold the phone and switch to calendar.  Looking for a more efficient way to field calls.