Last year, my husband and I celebrated our 25th anniversary.
We were going to renew our vows, and have the reception we didn’t have the chance to have the first time around. We planned the party for the end of April, thinking it would be warm enough to not worry about heating, yet cool enough that air conditioning would not be a necessity. When the morning of the vow renewals arrived, I heard the furnace turning on. There was three inches of snow on the ground, and it was coming down quickly. By noon, when we were getting ready to go to the venue and decorate, we had six inches of snow on the ground. We got to the venue, and checked to make the rooms we had for the night for our guests was available. We found out they had turned off the heat. I asked if they could have the HVAC system turned on, so everyone was comfortable. They had the furnace turned off in the reception room we had rented. I had a dress that was sleeveless and I wasn’t sure if I had anything else that was suitable. I was upset that we had snow on this day. The vow renewal and reception was saved, when the manager at the venue was able to get the HVAC technician there to turn on the furnace. Now, the only thing we had to worry about was if they were going to turn on the heating in the rooms. That entire wing of the hotel was without heat, and it had nothing to do with the HVAC systems. The electricity had turned off in those units, and they needed an electrician instead of an HVAC technician.