Christening — Pärnu

Most christening venues in Pärnu are rooms built for something else — a restaurant hall, a hotel ballroom, a private function space — and none of them were designed for a four-hour gathering where half the guests stand the entire time and a newborn needs to sleep undisturbed in the next room. The trouble shows up in predictable ways: PA bleed through the wall, no surface to lay out the buffet that isn't directly under an air vent, or a single narrow doorway that becomes a bottleneck the moment anyone tries to leave with a pram.

We walk the room the week before, map the power, confirm sight lines from where the family will stand, and mark where not to put speakers. Small fixes, all of them. None of them possible on the morning.