Pack an emergency wedding day kit • needle and thread in white, black and the color of bridesmaid gowns • extra pairs of pantyhose • pain reliever pills/antacid • quick-clean detergent stick • bandages • powder • deodorant • double-sided tape • black buttons • sanitary pads • mints/gum • makeup for touch-ups • extra cash • slippers or a change of shoes • umbrellas • hairspray • hair pins • names and phone numbers of all wedding vendors • static cling spray • hair dryer • contact lens solution/ eye drops • nail file/clipper • straws (to sip drinks without ruining lipstick) • safety pins • black socks • earring backs
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families. If possible, invite out-of town guests, too. 18 Reserve the location for your 26 Arrange accommodations for rehearsal dinner. attendants who do not live in town. If neither you nor any of your family, 4 MONTHS friends or neighbors have the facilities BEFORE THE WEDDING to house them, make hotel reservations. Your fiancée does the same for his 19 Address invitations and attendants. announcements. All addressing, stuffing 27 Reserve a block of rooms at a and stamping should be completed in hotel for out-of-town guests. Most time to mail the invitations four to six hotels offer discounts to guests for a weeks before the wedding. If you have wedding weekend. In advance of mailing an “A” and a “B” list, you may mail invitations, write to your guests and “A” eight weeks in advance. When you enclose the hotel information so they can receive regrets, you may invite people on make their reservations directly. Once “B” four weeks (and no less than three they arrive, have waiting for them a weeks) before the wedding. Prepare complete information packet, including maps and directions to include with city maps, transportation schedules and invitations. prices, sights to see and restaurants. 20 Check with the post office for the An additional courtesy, included with postage needed to mail the invitation this information, might be a refreshing when all the pieces are enclosed in the basket of fruit, snacks or other food that envelope. Purchase pretty “Love” stamps your region is known for. for an appropriate wedding touch. 28 Ask a friend or relative to check on 21 Schedule professional dance lessons your out-of-town guests to be sure they to make your first dance memorable. are comfortable and answer any of their 22 Meet with the caterer to firm up the questions. Provide that person’s name menu and all the details. If any guests and phone number in your letter because require special food, arrange that now. you will be so busy those last few days. Be sure all your expectations are clearly 29 Visit your florist with dress-color defined in a written contract, which swatches to help with the selection of should include taxes, any service charges, flowers for your wedding and additional fees and reception. Ask to bartenders and about providing the aisle waiters, if not included runner for the ceremony. in the package. Also, Again, be sure everything of brides use Pinterest you should make is clearly itemized in a to communicate their certain that the contractual agreement. location — which wedding-day vision to 30 Decide on your should be a licensed planners and vendors. honeymoon destination. catering establishment Consult a travel agent. — carries basic Traditionally, the groom liability insurance. makes these arrangements, but if you’re 23 Engage a baker to create a special better at that, don’t hesitate to offer. wedding cake, if you want something 31 Hire limousines or other specialty more elaborate than what your caterer cars for the wedding party members. offers. Inquire about a cake-cutting 32 Investigate resources for designing charge if you bring in the wedding cake and printing a program to distribute from elsewhere. at the ceremony. Desktop publishing 24 Investigate having air-conditioning in should make that possible at a a tent when the wedding is to be held in reasonable cost to you. warm weather. 33 Consult with your officiant about 25 Plan a rehearsal dinner. Members any restriction on photography and of the wedding party, their spouses, videography. fiancées or significant others should be 34 Discuss with helpful family or invited, along with both your immediate CONTINUED FROM PAGE 27
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