Christening — Maardu

A christening runs three hours including the meal, and most venues in Maardu were built for something else. The hall has low ceilings or the community centre has concrete that bounces sound everywhere or the restaurant puts you next to the kitchen pass. None of it is wrong, but all of it shapes what you can do.

We walk the room a week before. Sight lines matter when half the guests are standing with phones out. Table spacing matters when there are prams. Power matters because someone always wants to run a slideshow from a laptop they brought that morning. The venue makes the day possible or difficult, and you only get one of them.