Yeah, a friend of mine was invited to a very expensive restaurant for helping a very wealthy old woman with her Wi-Fi issues. He said he was the only person dining there who wasn’t a birdlike elderly woman, and that the food was fantastic, but it left him hungry enough that he stopped at a McDonald’s as soon as he left.

I enjoy experiential dining, degustation, tasting menus, experimental food, modernist cooking, etc, but only if I’m expecting it, and if there are enough courses that you aren’t starving when you’re done. Did one at MoMA and it was great, but we had a large breakfast knowing we would enjoy it more if we weren’t so hungry we didn’t take our time. Did a chef’s tasting a cruise ship a few years ago and that was worth every penny, not only was it excellent and fascinating, most of the tastings were at least 2 or 3 bites. It was enough that we took the last dessert back to our cabin.

And that was fantastic… but I was expecting it, looking forward to it, planned it.. didn’t have it sprung on me after sitting through a wedding and being expected to stand around being social for hours. :)

You didn’t fuck up. Your fiancé’s absolutely idiotic notion of appropriate wedding fare is the fuckup, and thank goodness someone pointed it out in time to change it.

Let her have her asinine snob-food party with a bunch of 60 pound elderly rich ladies who will actually enjoy the experience and not have to stop at a frakkin McDonald’s in the way home to make their stomachs stop rumbling. Find an actual wedding caterer and ask them for a few options that are actually popular at weddings, and enjoy success and happy guests instead of resentful hangry guests followed by your fiancé breaking into tears from realizing that the only thing about your wedding day that the guests will remember is the lack of food and her breaking down because her attempt to show how special and high class she is failed miserably.

For the plaster, use something like this to reinforce it since you probably knocked off the keys (the plaster that was pushed through the lath and hardened after drooping a bit, that’s what normally holds the plaster tightly to the lath.) when you were cutting.

https://plastermagic.com/adhesive-reattachment/

You want BIFL? Get a good set of traditional wired headphones with a Bluetooth adapter/amplifier. Maybe a grado sr80x at $125 https://4ourears.com/products/sr80x?variant=39583367200816 And a Bluetooth thing like this for less than $20: https://www.1mii.com/product-item/ml100/

The cans will last forever (the parts like foam are replaceable). The Bluetooth bit will last as long as something with a lipo battery can.