Little Things Can Make Or Break Your Wedding
May 6, 2010 by Surrey Weddings
Filed under Wedding Advice
Every bride-to-be has a vision in her mind of a perfect wedding with no hitches to ruin that vision. There are many little details that can either create the perfect wedding or make it stressful to the wedding party or the guests.
When you have been planning your wedding for months, the big things will probably be just fine. You will walk down the aisle and marry your handsome fiance. Your reception will have all the trappings you envisioned, like good music, dancing, great food and happy guests.
In order to make the entire event something special, you need to add little touches of your own personality or creativity to what could be a sterile event. To make it really special, include your groom’s interests or personality in the special touches you are planning too. Good politics might suggest that you also include both mothers to help you create your special touches.
To begin with, don’t leave necessary items to chance or assume that they come naturally with some of your catered deliveries. It would be a good idea to get your maid of honour involved in checking and double checking the availability of necessary utensils, matches for lighting candles, a bottle opener for the wine, enough wine glasses for all your guests, sufficient ice for cool drinks for the length of your reception, etc. Catering companies can be sloppy, too.
Another good idea is to have a bag with tape, needle and thread for emergency repairs, antacids, Tylenol, Alka-Seltzer tablets, a few Band-Aids and an antiseptic. It wouldn’t hurt to have a few sweets or a couple of simple toys to entertain a too-tired child if any are going to be in attendance. Enlist your mothers or your maid of honour.
Your wedding favours for your guests do not have to be the traditional favours given at most wedding receptions. Consider, instead, a CD of the romantic music your and your husband played or danced to while you were courting. Put your pictures and the date of your wedding on the CD label.
Another special favour would be a DVD or PowerPoint presentation of pictures of both of you from childhood to now. Include some of your courting days and the same music suggested above. Both mothers would probably be happy to provide the old family album for really personal photos to share with your guests. It can all be done on your computer.
Disposable cameras on the reception tables will give you a photographic memory of events and expressions you will not notice with all the attention being paid to both of you at the reception. A picture of your 4-year-old nephew sneaking a taste of the frosting on the wedding cake or two tots dancing with each other in the middle of the adults will be priceless later. Have a basket near the door so people can drop off the cameras as they leave.
One way to entertain your guests before you arrive at the reception is to have a quiz at each place setting on the tables with questions about both you and your groom. Provide a nice gift for the one who knew the most about both of you.
Granted, you will be overwhelmed with details during the last few days before your wedding. Have a quick meeting with your maid of honour and both mothers, even a few special friends, and divide the little details between them so you don’t have to worry about them at the last minute. Even the best planning can be derailed with a tiny oversight.
It’s the little things that make or break your wedding. They don’t have to break you.
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