I was embarrassed when guests at a wedding were served my breast milk

IT IS common knowledge that disaster can strike even the most carefully planned events, as wedding planner Claudia Postigo knows only too well.

At a recent ceremony she helped plan, she found herself “mortified” after her own breast milk was served to guests.

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“Imagine the scene,” says Claudia Postigo, founder of The Planner Co.

“The team and I were cleaning up the venue at the end of the evening after a beautiful wedding.

“Everything was going according to plan and everyone was happy – until I found a half-full bottle of my own breast milk on one of the tables.”

Claudia had just returned from maternity leave and was pumping for the first time while working without her baby.

She had pumped two bottles of breast milk earlier in the day and given them to her catering team to keep in the refrigerator.

The bottle on the table, now half empty and complete with a cute straw, was one of those same two bottles of breast milk.

“I was terrified,” says Claudia.

“Who the hell drank my breast milk?”

Claudia, a professional wedding planner whose events have been featured in Vogue and ELLE, lives and organizes weddings in Spain.

Her couple for this wedding came from the US and they had a two-year-old daughter who flew with them to attend the ceremony.

“When I spoke to the couple the next day, the mystery was solved,” says Claudia.

“It turned out that the couple’s daughter had complained to the groom halfway through the drinks hour that she was thirsty.

“He had asked the catering staff if they had milk for the baby.

“They assumed he was talking about the breast milk and gave him a bottle with a straw!”

But the little girl was not impressed with the ‘Spanish milk’. “She complained to her father that the milk in Spain tasted strange,” says Claudia.

“The groom himself tasted some of the breast milk to see what his daughter was talking about.

“Luckily the couple saw the funny side and everything turned out fine,” says Claudia.

“But it was definitely an eventful first wedding that I was able to return to after my maternity leave.”

Claudia says this isn’t the first time strange things have happened at a wedding she’s planned.

“These accidents happen at weddings,” says Claudia.

‘I saw a little bit of everything – from a best man recreating his own first dance with his wife to someone’s cousin arriving in a floor-length, bright white dress embellished with crystals.

Why it’s time to ditch wedding favors once and for all

By Josie Griffiths, Deputy Digital Fabulous Editor and bride-to-be

Josie Griffiths said: When was the last time you saw something in a shop window or browsed online and thought “that would be the perfect gift for 120 of my closest friends, colleagues, relatives and partners of my friend who I barely know “?

I’ll tell you when, never, because there is NO universal gift that everyone will love – unless you want to bankrupt yourself buying Rolexes and Tiffany jewelry, and even then they wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.

So why are brides still piling the stress (and expense) of wedding favors on top of everything else we have to organize?

I’ve been to dozens of weddings over the past five years, so when I got engaged I already had a mental list of do’s and don’ts for my own big day, and leaving wedding favors was definitely on the agenda.

The cost of buying an individual gift for everyone who comes is enormous, meaning many couples try to keep it in the under five euro category.

But the reality is that no one wants a cheap, poorly thought out keepsake; they’d probably rather have one more free drink from the bar.

And that’s not all: bridal handbags are notoriously small and don’t have room to fit an unexpected gift inside, and catering waiters have a bad habit of throwing away the wedding favors as they clear the coffee mug from the tables.

I bet none of my guests will notice the lack of a random gift on their dinner table.

If you really hate the idea of ​​not buying anything for your guests, donations to charity are always a kind gesture.

But the last thing your friends and family need is more random things showing up in their house — so it’s time to spare them the guilt of throwing away your Etsy-bought keychain.

“As a wedding planner you have to deal with these mishaps gracefully and at the same time make the day absolutely magical for the bride and groom.

“It really is like being a swan: graceful and elegant from above, with the feet underneath like crazy.

“Still, this is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever experienced – and needless to say, I’ll be much clearer with my caterers in the future.”