Confirming Details With Your Wedding Vendors

It may seem as though your wedding planning efforts have consumed your waking hours for months and it’s probably true. As the final weeks before your wedding day approach, now is the time to hold pre-event meetings with your suppliers and venues. It is what our professional planners do and you should as well.

A pre-event meeting is something that all reputable suppliers do throughout the industry as a matter of course. Schedule meetings with every one of your suppliers. In person is best, if all are in the same local area.

The purpose of these meetings is to make sure that there are no surprises. Review your plans with florists, caterers, photographers, musicians etc. Confirm details. Take your planner or point person or personal attendant or whomever else you’ve enlisted for help with you. Make sure everyone hears the same information.

It is recommended that you hold the meetings two to four weeks prior to your wedding.
Remember that you are the client, and it is YOUR wedding day. You’ve been working on this for some time and it needs to be delivered in the way you planned. It is your vision for your wedding and you have hired these vendors to make that vision a reality. The pre- event meetings will serve as a double check that everything has been done and nothing has been overlooked. Ask any questions you may have. Leave none unasked. These meetings insure that planning and preparation come together to make your wedding day go smoothly and as planned.

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Wedding Day Assistance

It's your Big Day! The day you've been dreaming of for so long is finally here! And you should be enjoying every moment of this magical day, not running around with a to-do list.

Unless you've hired a professional wedding planner to help you with all of the details of your wedding, you really should consider accepting help from those friends and family who offer to assist you.

No matter how much planning you do, there will always be details that require attention on the day of the wedding. And honestly, as the star of this long awaited event, you have more important things to do than chase down missing boutonnières.

We know the close friends and family in your wedding party will be there, but I’m sure there are others who would be glad to assist you in any way they can. If someone offers, and you think they are serious about the offer, you can certainly use their assistance. And people who are involved in helping tend to have a wonderful time as a participant rather than an observer. Think of these folks as your back up plan for details prior to the wedding day as well as the big day.

These are not “make work jobs”. These are details that you really don’t need to handle yourself. You just need to have someone on the spot to make sure they happen as planned.

Ask someone you trust to be your personal assistant for your pre-ceremony details. A close friend or family member should be available to help the bride and her attendants dress. She will handle any emergencies and help arrange trains and flowers for photos.

Likewise, a male friend or uncle would be a big help to the men in the wedding party, making sure that ties are straight, cuff links and shirt studs are worn appropriately and boutonnieres are pinned on in a uniform manner.

You should have a point person who will quietly leave the ceremony after your vows and arrive at the reception site well in advance of the guests just to make sure that everything is as ordered. That person can serve to welcome early arriving guests and direct them to the reception area, until your parents (the official hosts) are able to arrive.

You will also need someone to stay behind at the wedding ceremony site and make sure that any personal items left in the bride’s room are collected and brought to the reception site. This person can also be responsible for moving flowers to the reception site if that is part of your plan.

If the groom drove his car to the ceremony site and will join the bride in the limousine after the ceremony, he will need someone to drive his car to the reception site.

Our wedding consultants can help you with plans for a smooth and seamless day.

Want to use this article in your newsletter or on your website? You can as long as you use this complete statement: Certified Wedding Specialist Dorna Love publishes the Love Wedding Planning monthly e-zine. For more wedding planning tips visit her website at www.plannedwithlove.com and get your F*R*E*E report "10 Simple Ways to Create Your Dream Wedding Without Going Broke"