专门给人做伴娘也能赚钱？是，而且赚得还不少_The

时间：2019-12-31 01:08:05 来源：作者：网络

原标题：专门给人做伴娘也能赚钱？是，而且赚得还不少

纽约一个叫做Jen Glantz的姑娘每年要以伴娘身份参加20-35场婚礼，不过她却不认识其中任何一位新娘。

2015年，Jen开创了自己的公司：雇佣伴娘（Bridesmaids For Hire）。每一次婚礼，Jen都要提前至少三个月开始准备——伴娘Jen是那么负责解决婚礼上一切混乱的那个人。

作为职业伴娘，Jen自己的婚礼会是什么样的呢？她说：“我结婚那天，希望只是一个简单的聚会，有比萨、有乐队就行。我其实不那么喜欢婚礼。”.......参加了那么多场婚礼，想来这辈子也是够够的了。

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No one has more best friends than Jen Glantz. The 31-year-old entrepreneur works with anywhere between 20 and 35 brides per year since breaking ground on her business, Bridesmaid For Hire, in 2015.

任你最好的朋友再多，也多不过珍·格兰兹（Jen Glantz）。这位31岁的企业家自2015年创立“伴娘雇佣”（Bridesmaid For Hire）生意以来，每年和20至35名新娘一起工作。

The gistof her pitch is remarkably simple: Glantz is not a wedding planner, she will not schedule the father-daughter dance or color coordinate the unrulygroomsmen, but she will serve as the emotional fulcrum on the biggest day of your life by being the best bridesmaid she can be.

她宣传词的主旨很简单：格兰兹不是婚礼策划人，她不策划父女舞，也不给桀骜不驯的新郎搭配衣服颜色，但她会尽全力当好伴娘，是你人生中最重要的日子里的情感支柱。

Sometimes that job is easy. Sometimes all it takes is eating cake and breaking in the dance floor.

有时候这份工作很容易。有时候需要干的所有事情就是吃蛋糕和踏入舞池。

But other times it means extinguishing long-simmeringfires that flare up between newly ordained in-laws, or arriving in the clutch when a maid of honor drops out after an ugly meltdown.

但其他时候这意味着给刚结成的亲家消气，或者在首席伴娘失态并退出后控场。

把这看做是基于合同的姐妹情，大约一个客户收2000美元。

Glantz tells me that Bridesmaid For Hire originated as a Craigslist ad, posted after serving as a civilian bridesmaid for countless friends.

格兰兹告诉我“伴娘雇佣”最初是Craigslist上的一则广告，是当了无数朋友的伴娘后发的广告。

而后她接到了上百封回复邮件，这证实了她的猜想：在720亿美元的庞大婚礼产业中，还有空间给完全针对紧张、被压垮的新娘的服务。

Today, the business is how she makes a living. Glantz works with her clients anywhere from three months to a full year before their wedding date, after establishing a rate with them that hinges on what they want out of the service.

今天，她靠这桩生意挣钱。格兰兹会在婚礼前3个月或者前一整年和顾客一起工作，费用取决于顾客想获得怎样的服务。

She’s trained other women to be part-time bridesmaid engineers, written two memoirs, and has diversified Bridesmaid For Hire into a number of distinct verticals and financial plans. (If, for instance, you only need an hour of her expert counseling, you can schedule a “1-on-1 wedding vent session.”)

她也训练其他女性成为兼职伴娘专家，还写了两份回忆录，并且扩大了“伴娘雇佣”的经营范围，成立了众多清楚的层级和金融计划。（比如说，如果你只需要她一小时的专家咨询，你可以预约“一对一婚礼泄愤课程”）

今日语言点

1）gist

[dʒɪst]

n. 要点；主旨

常见用法：

to catch the gist 抓住要点/精髓

He couldn't fully understand the words, but he got the gist.

他虽然无法完全理解所有词句，但主要意思还是明白的。

2）unruly

[ʌn'ruːlɪ]

adj. 不守规矩的；任性的