Jul. 29, 2008
Wedding Tips
Posted in Courtship and weddings
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Here are a few wedding tips from me and some of my friends/relatives. I hope they help someone who is planning a wedding to have a more stress free day. The most important thing to remember is that the wedding (and the marriage) should glorify the Lord. All the decorations and fancy dresses and food are nice, but if the wedding is stressful and costs tons it won't be remembered fondly.
So in no special order, here are the helpful hints. If you have some of your own, add them in the comments.
1-Freeze a few meals for the week after the wedding. You will need to relax. 2-On the wedding day, if you are getting dressed in your formal clothes at the church, wear button up shirts so your hair and make up won't get messed up. 3-See what is already at the place where you are having the reception and ask what you can use. 4-Label everything you take to the church and make a list of it. If others help you clean up it can be confusing.
5-Take lots of tinfoil, plastic wrap, and freezer bags for left overs. You may need to take your own trash bags too. 6-Take lots of safety pins, sewing needle and thread,bobby pins, hair spray, an extra slip or two and an iron . We have needed these at each wedding. 7- Make sure the main folks have each others cell phone numbers.Then make sure someone reminds everyone in the wedding party to turn off their phones for the ceremony. 8-Assign someone to make up a cooler of leftovers for the bride and groom. They tend to not eat much at the reception.
9-On the night of the rehearsal assign someone to make sure the rings get to the church. I have been to a couple of weddings where they were left at home.
10-If you have more than one child, make good lists of what you did for the wedding you will need to know again -things like how much punch and cake you needed.
11- A calendar with lists of what needs to be done on a certain day was helpful especially the week of the wedding. It makes it easier to delegate if folks ask what they can do to help.
(Pam)
1. Give a few reliable people short lists of jobs/responsibilities for them to do before, during, and/or after the ceremony. These can include lists of items to bring from home, items to pack up afterwards, things to put in place at the church, etc.
2. Think ahead to how much refrigerator room you'll need for food and flowers, and then plan accordingly.
3. Have a list of photo shots you'll want to make it easier for the photographer and for you.
4. Tell people ahead of time when they'll be needed for photo shots so you don't have to track them down.
5. Load up items in vehicles ahead of time as much as possible, rather than waiting until it's time to go to the church.
(Meg)
I think it's a very good idea for the bride and groom to put anything they are taking with them in a clearly defined place. At our wedding, Adrian ( the groom) and I just left our pre-wedding clothes in our respective dressing rooms strewn wherever, along with miscellaneous (purse, brush, etc.), and Hannah(maid of honor) and Lane(best man) had to scramble to figure out what was what afterwards, to get it loaded in the car for us. Hannah accidentally loaded Lane's dress shoes in our car, and by the time we figured that out it was too late and we were well on the road, and poor Lane had to find time and money to purchase another pair of dress shoes for church the next day :-P. A little more aforethought beforehand would have saved a lot of trouble. (Susan)
1. If you have limited refrigerator space you could make some "platform trays" to stack some of your "ready to serve" trays that you put together for the reception. These platforms will give you space under them for food plus if you make them right you can stack two of these platforms on top of each other and really make use of the refrigerator space. Researching your space for reception food is a MUST!!! Remember if you're making your own flower bouquets and boutonnieres etc you'll need frig space for them too!!!
2. I lived by lists and it was nice to have things to cross off. You can get these list from different wedding books and come up with one that is right for your family. I had list from 6 months up to the day of the wedding ~~~ I am a "list person" so it worked well for us. It helped my daughter stay on track too and gave she and her fiance plenty of time to decide what and how they wanted things done.
3. Cold food is definitely easier to do and easier to clean up after than hot food :-) But if you do the hot food you can keep things warm in large crock pots ~ just make sure the electricity in your kitchen will handle all of the extra cords etc.
4. As the mother-of-the-bride, take some time to think of special gifts that you want to give to your daughter at showers etc. This is a special time to share special messages and lifelong encouragements to your daughter.
5. For wedding decorations if you have a Michael's and/or JoAnn Fabrics around be sure to keep an eye out for their coupons. Michael's and JoAnn's in our area honored each other's coupons and it sure helped in buying things.
6. You may want to make up plates for the bridal party at the reception so that they won't have to wait in a line to be served. We had a menu made up ahead of time and had them choose what they would like and did their plates.
7. Realize that "things" can happen that are unplanned and be ready to smile and go with the flow :-)))
8. Enjoy the day and the months that went into this special day. Pray............pray.............pray :-)
(Terry)
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