If there’s one statement that makes me gringe, it’s “There’s a wedding this Saturday.”
‘But why?’ I hear you asking (or maybe you didn’t and I’m just putting words in your mouth…). Well, because that one statement means that for at least two of us on the Worship Team (there’s generally one or two more but it’s always at least us) get to take down the stages and unplug all the wiring on Thursday night, and then (here’s the kicker) rebuild everything Saturday afternoon (goodbye summer saturdays…)
Now trust me, I know there are plenty of hard working people out there, so I’m not trying to complain, and besides Jesus never complained about any work. I’m more than willing to do this work (not like I have anything else to do on a Saturday afternoon anyway besides sit at home), but I’m just wondering ‘where is everyone else?’.
From my perspective anyway, it appears as though everyone else just comes in Sunday morning and presto, all our mics and DI boxes are back. Yes, there is an extended sound check on Sundays after weddings to iron out issues, but other than that it’s like nothing happened.
So my dilema then is this, I want to see more people help rebuild after weddings, but at the same time I know that I should just do the work and ‘suck it up’.
