Preparing For Your Wedding - Part 1 - A-Weddingday.com Magazine

How to Prepare for your Wedding Ceremony and Reception

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Congratulations and best wishes on your upcoming wedding. You are probably busy with or wonder about what you need to do in preparing for the most important day of the rest of your life. You want it to be a one-of-a-kind, memorable occasion for you and your guests. The following are suggested items you should have on your to-do or done list. Obviously you should adjust and personalize it and add some touches of your own.

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Engagement

Send out engagement announcements.
Commemorate the occasion with engagement gifts to each other and maybe even with an engagement portrait.
Have you chosen your Wedding rings? Do leave yourself plenty of time to choose the rings, and shop. Where you you purchase, may make a huge difference in price for the exact, same ring.

Before you head over or check the Internet, you should familiarize yourselves with the diamonds and precious metals used to create ring. Read our article “ How to Choose Engagement and Wedding Rings.

Wedding Invitations

Once you have set your wedding date, this is also the time to choose and order your invitations and enclosures, envelope seals, thank you notes, all wedding stationery and postage.
Before you choose your wedding stationery you must decide if yours will be a theme wedding. If so, order wedding stationery that will complement your theme.
You may choose to order:

 pre-printed invitations and wedding stationery from one of the invitation publishers, (Very expensive).

 Order invitations to be printed by a local printer, (More reasonable).

 Print your own invitations on your home or office printer, (Most economical), Using blanks,gives you the flexibility to get creative and be original.
For Instructions for Making Your Own Stationery CLICK HERE
For wedding stationery/ Frequently Asked Questions CLICK HERE
Check the post office for the love, wedding, flowers or other pretty stamps.

For you and out of town guestss

Make reservations for your Rehearsal luncheons or dinners and the hotel accommodations for your out of town guest and for your wedding night. Surprise your out of town guests with memorable welcome gifts awaiting them at the hotel. An article titlesd “Make Your Out of Town Guests Feel at Home” is coming Soon. If you are signed up, and on our mailing list, we’ll send you an email when the article is published.

Attend to the attire and bridal accessories

Make sure that the bride’s wedding gown and accessories, the groom’s attire and accessories and the attire and accessories for the mothers, fathers and wedding attendants are ordered and will be ready on time. At this time you may decide if your gifts to your wedding attendants’ will include jewelry to match and complement their wedding attire.

Foe more information, read the article ” About Wedding Gown and Bridesmaids Dresses”

Attend to the ceremony needs:

First choose the date and time of day and make sure to:

Choose and secure the marriage ceremony site, for that date and time
Secure the Officiant for that date and time
Obtain your Marriage license.
Arrange for the flower arrangements if your ceremony will take place in your place of worship or a building. (You do not need flowers SecSfor an outdoors wedding) but you do need to order the flowers (fresh, satin or silk) for the bride, the groom, the parents, the wedding party and the flower and ring children.
Purchase your ceremony wedding accessories, Here I highly recommend the Internet. The choice is huge and very varied allowing you to select yours wedding accessories by theme, color, heritage etc… You may even find personalized accessories to commemorate the day. What you will need for the ceremony : a Guest book, a pen, a ring bearer pillow, a flower basket, a unity candle set and unity candle holders.
Whether you prefer to purchase online, in a brick and mortar store or have no preference, be sure to check the Internet. This avails you of the largest resource of what is available, special offers (personalization) where it is available, and the price range.
You may want to have a ceremony program that explains what will take place (and why?)
If you are Jewish, don’t forget to order a Mazal-Tov Glass bag for the glass breaking ceremony, and yarmulkes (Kippot) head coverings.
Prepare to deliver special wedding vows to each other and vows to your children if you have any. Do not have, or even expect the children vow to you!
Assign your attendants, kids and adults, the task you expect each to fulfill as follows and make absolutely certain that each person knows, and is willing and able to fulfil the task assigned them, as follows: The bride is lead the to the altar or to where the groom and the officiants wait for her, by her father, parents or if there are no pare
- Parent(s) to
- Wedding programs should be handed each guest upon arrival by a person you assign for the task.
-  Guest sign-in book and pen should be placed in a prominent place and have a special person you appointed direct your guests to sign your book upon arrival at your wedding site.
-  Flower basket should contain either small flowers or rose petals to bel spread for the bride to walk on when coming down the aisle.
- Ring Bearer carries the ring pillow where the wedding rings rest during the ceremony, to be placed on the bride and groom’s fingers at the appropriate moment.
- If you have children place their wedding jewelry on the pillow too.
- Unity candles are a set containing a pillar candle and 2 tapers. Traditionally the tapers are lighted by the mothers of the bride and groom or if your children are old enough have them light the tapers.
- A Flowers monitor to double check and assure that the personal and the ceremony site’s flowers will be placed in plenty of time before the ceremony begins.

Transportation

Arrange for transportation to the wedding ceremony, from the ceremony to the reception and for after the reception. For more information CLICK HERE to read the article: ‘Wedding and Event Transportation Sample Chapter ‘ and go over the worksheets. This an actual chapter taken from the Wedding Planning Guide. It does not include check lists.

Attend to the reception needs

Most of your preparations are associated with the reception. To have the wedding reception of your dreams, you’ll need to engage various wedding vendors, professionals and service providers.
For a comprehensive series of articles about how to choose and work with wedding vendors, professionals and service providers, CLICK HERE!
Click on each of the highlighted sections to read the complementing article. You need to secure the:

Reception site,
Caterers,
Wedding cake,
Florists, decorators,(Unless you use fresh flowers, order or create your centerpiece for the reception way ahead so you’ll not worry about them just before the wedding.)
Musicians, Photographers, and videographers.
If you have friends and family members who can fulfill any of these tasks, you may wish to ask them first. They will be honored to be asked.
Get Champagne Flutes, Cake cutting and serving set, Bridal purse (Money bag for the money dance if you plan one), place cards (Optional), Centerpieces if you have tables set up (Optional bet nice), a wedding card holding box, Cake tops (If you plan a groom cake or have children and a cake for them, you may need more than one caketop.) favors for the guests, prepare your favors and assign someone to place the place cards, favors and centerpieces on the tables prior to the reception.
Choose memento gifts for the bridal party. Jewelry and Personalized gifts become treasured keepsakes.
An emergency kit
Do not forget to prepare a speech to honor your new husband / wife.

After the Reception Needs

You’ll need to secure the following early enough so as not to have to worry on your wedding day:

Credit cards and Cash for your honeymoon (and for vendor gratuities)
Lingerie, cologne, additional personal honeymoon preferences
Hotel reservations
Honeymoon package
Lots of enthusiasm

I hope that this information will assist you and make your planning easier. Don’t get panicky. Enjoy the preparation for your wedding. And keep mementos. When you have treasured keepsakes, you will look back to this day and you will smile and enjoy the memories.

Have a one-of-a-kind wedding day to remember and a happy and rewarding life together.

Nily
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