What I never wanted for a wedding was an ordinary one that guests would confuse with other weddings that they must have visited. I want my wedding to be the event that generations will remember – every bride wants this anyway, and why do I rant? Just because I have seen so many friends’ weddings and I have helped out arrange for the same, but the main wedding organizer still sticks to what they want to happen rather than accommodate their client’s once in a lifetime cravings.

Mine was not just going to be any of the other Michigan weddings or the world’s for that matter. While every other detail can contribute to the event’s turnout, venue was top priority. It was going to make or break the wedding to remember thing that I am just dying for. Holding the wedding in my husband’s hometown in Michigan was scary – I knew nothing about the place and yet venue is what I fuss over.

Having a few meetings with my wedding organizer was exciting and frightening at the same time. Was this wedding organizer going to be the same as the crappy ones I already have? When she showed me the elegant Castle Farms where state of the art Michigan weddings are held, I thought to myself, “obviously not”. She gave me that fab professional first impression and that was a great sigh of relief. I was confident that the rest would follow – well everything did, in fact.

YouTube has fearlessly revealed appalling and stomach churning videos of primary school teachers maltreating their students in front of the class. I am just glad that none of these teachers have gone unpunished because of such deplorable behavior. Especially that we have got kids of our own in the same school, we cannot help but get worried that our kids might be in the same situation. I was definitely paranoid about it, and how I wish I had these Macgyver gadgets or concealed cameras in my son’s clothes.

Anyway, my son’s class adviser knew about the growing concerns of parents in his class, and made it easy for us to gain access to what was going on in class. Though we did not have actual CCTV videos, we were contented with the way our parents-teacher portal looked like. He made a website through Wix.com (I know because I used the same for our family album), and gave the website out to the parents. It contained a profile on every student. His profile was in there too, all complete with his contact details. The weekly, monthly and annual calendars of activities were uploaded and it was easy to see what was up for the next few days and weeks.

He surely made knowing how to make a website work in order to appease the parents who were definitely all the rage about the issue of student maltreatment and sheer child abuse.