It has been a while since I blogged about Carisa and Richard's wedding. Not that we have been slacking but rather we have been busy with all the wedding details and lots of DIY crafts (we will share pics of our crafts in a later post!) With only a couple of days to go, I am trying to blog a couple more times before Carisa and Richard’s wedding so that the timeline of the blog series flows well. (Not that you guys would have cared right? Maybe I am just a little OCD.)
As the wedding gets closer, there are some final details that you will want to do either a month or week before the wedding.
1.
Schedule Meetings With Your Vendors
Most likely, you would have booked them a year ago when you got engaged and never communicated with them again. While most of them should still be alive and kicking you will want to go over the details of the services they are going to provide you. Here are some vendors you will want to reconnect with:
- Wedding commissioner: Perfect time to go over your vows. If you are writing your own, your wedding commissioner will likely nudge you along so you don’t procrastinate.
- Photographer / Videographer: Double check the contract you signed and determine whether or not the amount of time booked was enough for your photographer and/or videographer to capture all the events at your wedding. By this time, you should have a timeline drafted.
- Venue Coordinator: Walk through your venue and meet up with the coordinator on to discuss timing, floorplans, menu tastings (Yum!), etc.
- DJ: Go over your song list for the wedding events, your do not play list, and any other special requests. (Try not to go overboard on the last one. Just because your DJ is a part-time magician, it doesn’t mean that he will want to perform that day.)
2. Pay Your Vendors Ahead of Time
Go over your contracts and see when final payment is needed for your vendors. Most of them are a week before. Try to make as many final payments possible to avoid having to take out your credit card repeatedly on your wedding day.
3. Have a Wedding Ceremony Rehearsal
Some clients don't feel it is necessary to have a ceremony rehearsal because it is just walking down an aisle right? How hard can that be? There are a couple of reasons to have (and to attend) a ceremony rehearsal: It ensures everyone understands their role and knows where they are supposed to stand during the ceremony; It gets everyone's timing to be close to perfect, afterall that is all you can strive for; It increase everyone's confidence. Not everyone likes to be the center of attention. But when you are walking down the aisle, you will be (briefly) the center of attention. Up until the bride walks down the aisle that is.
4.
Assign Tasks to Helpers
You can’t do it all and will need help with tasks such as greeting guests, receiving wedding gifts from guests, and putting out place cards and wedding favors. Ask your helpers ahead of time and make sure they know what to do.
5.
Make Sure Everything Fits
Meet up with your seamstress for your final fitting. During this fitting, wear all the undergarments that you will be wearing on your big day and start breaking in your wedding shoes. If your feet are sore, the pain of them will show up on your face and wedding pictures. Not the greatest memory.
Relating to Carisa and Richard’s wedding, I am happy to report that all the vendors are alive and kicking and ready for their wedding this weekend! Can’t wait!
~Monica
Owner and Lead Designer @Wishahmon
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