Thanks! Now I understand...
Event: Wedding Reception
Contractor: Bride
History: During meetings Bride & Groom warned me about little bro and specifically asked that no one be allowed make any impromptu toasts and by all means that he be prohibited from embarrassing them by attempting to repeat past wedding catastrophes when given a microphone.
Situation: Groom's Brother, a raging drunk, demanded the mic to make a toast.
I politely told him that his brother and his sister in law did not want anyone toasting and that I could not allow him to use my equipment. As he is reaching for the mixer, to create a distraction or impose his drunken will, I grabbed his hand and told him, with strict tones this time, to keep his hands off my property. With his other hand he took a swing. Drunks have horrible aim and one of the other groom's men grabbed him and pulled him away.
I had no intention of retaliating with violence but I would have disrupted the groom's enjoyment of the celebration by calling him to the stage and demanding that either him, his Father, or anyone other than me, remove the drunk or I would be required to enforce the terms of the contract that address such circumstances and discontinue my performance.
In this case, it was handled by the Groom's father who had someone take him out of the reception. Both the Father and the Groom could not apologize enough. Too bad they don't demand better behavior from Brother Lush.
The party went on with out any additional disruption.
Without the contractual agreement, I would have been in a precarious position to enforce any protective action.
So I would tell the inquisitive individual about that.
P.S> Anyone else sensing a theme to the causation of "Not going as planned."
