Tips for wedding this weekend!

[mintich]

I'm getting married this weekend. Any tips for making the day run smoothly?

Good luck! Enjoy yourself and make sure you have the key items and do it the way you want to do and never to please some one else. I wish someone had told me this I got worked up about a few things and I wish I had gone with the exactly what I wanted (outfit related, indian wedding so multiple outfit changes over 2 days ) and still regret it after 10 years. So really enjoy your day, best wishes!

Relax. For once it is all about you and your husband/wife to be 😁 Don’t stress about anyone else.

Go to bed early the night before!
Have breakfast.
Make sure you've tested any new beauty products before the big day to ensure there are no last minute reactions.
Have your favourite scent as a room diffuser, natural oil or candle ready to go, and as you’re getting ready, a lovely aroma will fill the space. After the big day, that scent will always take you back to that morning.
Prepare a playlist of your favourite songs to listen to.
Have all the cash for any on the day vendors in envelopes ready to go and handed over to a trusted bridal party member or best man.
Nominate a trusted person in your bridal party or your planner to direct questions and queries to (or to hand over your phone to), to minimise last minute panic and to take anypressure away from you.
Wear a dress shirt when getting your hair styled and make up done so it can be unbuttoned without doing any damage! Try to avoid wearing a bra too, or at least wear a strapless one so you don’t end up with bra marks when you put your dress on.
If you’ve got lots of flowers and you get hay fever, take tablets!
Give your bridal party a list of things you must have back from the venue, but make sure the venue coordinator has a list of this as well. That way, if anything gets lost in the shuffle your venue will know to hang onto it for you.

Warn your new MIL she cannot pop in at 8am to take the leftover cake and give her son a kiss before she heads home (still bitter 20 years and a divorce later..!!)
That aside, have fun and enjoy the day, congratulations!

Take all the tags off everything that’s new, saves the stress of trying to get stickers off shoes when you’re in your big frock.

Smile! Try to stop every couple of hours and savour the sights/smells/sounds of the day.

Know where your phone is and make sure its charged for the next morning. Especially if you are in a remote cottage with no idea how you get back to the rest of the overnight guests in the morning. definitely not speaking from experience

Double check you have invited the relevant relatives!!

Have a sausage sandwich and a glass of champagne for breakfast

Also, get a pair of white trainers for when your feet hurt later. No one will see them under the frock.

Practise walking in your shoes and dress, take time to score the soles of your shoes so they are less slippery. Practise sitting in your dress, you will need to be able to sit to sign the register.
DO NOT get drunk before the ceremony, if your capacity to enter into a serious contract is questionable you may find your ceremony delayed by a few hours while you sober up.
Don't be late to your ceremony, it is not OK.
Try to relax and enjoy yourself, the bride sets the mood for the whole day. I've seen a room full of happy, excited people drained of all positive atmosphere the instant a bad tempered bride walks in.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Have a lovely, special day.

Remember to eat!!

Don't worry about anything that happens now. As long as you both turn up nothing else matters. Enjoy yourself. The day will go so fast. Take a little time for yourselves here and there ( we nearly missed the evening buffet because we were talking to guests!).

Have a wonderful day mintich!

Remember to eat and try to enjoy getting ready. My photographer was really keen to have photos of me getting fastened into my dress but I ended up sending him to the venue as I just wanted 10 minutes to relax and he ended up taking some lovely photos of my (now) DH greeting guests which were much better than any stressed staged photos of me

Also try to have all your jobs done by 6pm the night before so you can have a relaxing evening

Everyone will want to take photos but "look at the photographer you are paying for"