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Wedding Tips |
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Mermaid Enterprises
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Oscar's
Wedding Tips...
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| Give
each guest a request form to quote their favourite song.
Get the bride and groom to check through the ones they like.
Give these to the DJ at night for music everyone wants to hear. |
| For Couples with a Slightly Longer Engagement, It is Very Useful to pick
your attendants no ore than 6 months before the wedding. People and
relationships change and something that seems a grand idea, can be a
nightmare a year or two down the line! You also have a better idea of
who your real friends are and who has supported you unconditionally.
Thus meriting the status received through the honour of your asking. |
| Bride and Groom to break in shoes... |
| Take shoes and underwear to fittings, to get correct hem length and right
fit. |
| Have hair trials, even consider having a backup hairdresser, as if they give
you a horrendous haircut / style you are horrified, you still have
someone to do your hair for you. |
| Consider having your honeymoon a couple of days later... |
| Cost saving if you have close friends and family who have nice cars for
second and third wedding cars |
| Be careful with Car Ribbons, if likely to rain as they could get
caught up in the wipers! |
| Choose Flowers which are in season of your wedding as it is much cheaper
also more foliage reduces the cost, but still looks great. |
| If you are having young children consider having a child-minder /
entertainer to keep them occupied. Also that your venue has a room suitable
for this |
| If you venue has stairs, is there easy access for invalid or elderly
guests? |
| Please check seams on your wedding dress, if I didn't know a godsend of a
dressmaker, my dress would have fallen apart in two-halves!!! (if someone
trod on it while wearing it on our wedding day from poor stitching) |
| Check who owns rights of photos, and how much it will all cost, i.e. reprints, the procedure, proof albums, special rates for parents etc.... |
| Have an usher or bridesmaid, gather some food for you secretly for when you leave the reception, as you may not be hungry during the reception from being on the go, but afterwards you become ravenous! |
| Brides, have chalk the colour of your dress in your bag, or ask a friend
to have some, to mask any stains on your dress for photos... |
| Have a close friend or family who will be with you to have a survival kit:
safety pins/ needle and thread / pen & paper / scissors / superglue
(broken heels) / tissues / headache tablets / spare medication / sweets /
spare hosiery / little amount of cash / chalk for dress / lipstick. |
| If you are tossing your garter, then buy two... one to throw and one to
keep |
| Have a Waistcoat Made, often cheaper than hiring one or a little more, but something you really like.... |
| Our Wedding Favour tiles can double up as great place names: if you
simply add guests names on sticky labels |
| Our celebration platter can be personalised and a good alternative for
gifts for parents and wedding party |
| Our general product section has great potential personal gift ideas in our online shop |
| You could have rose petals for confetti |
| Consider Wedding Insurance... |
| Also that once bespoke items are ordered for your wedding and you change
your mind, you may not be entitled to have your money back... |
| You credit card MAY automatically cover you for things purchased with it
for a period of time. Check with your card company. |
| Consider having a house-sitter if you are going away on honeymoon as an extra security measure, as people will know that you may have wedding presents in your home, and that you are away. |
| Brides must remember to have any travel documents (i.e.
tickets) in the same name as on your passport: as presenting your marriage
certificate when you check in may not be sufficient for some airlines...
hotels of course can be booked in your married name |
| Grooms, make sure that you give the best man, your marriage
certificate after your ceremony to keep together with all of your other
travel documents |
| Honeymoons... Ask other people were married at a similar time of year to you, and see what they thought of the place they went to... word of mouth is often more valuable than any holiday brochure. |
| You could wrap up fun cameras and put them on each table to catch all the
action on the tables... You could add a tag which says something like
"please take some snaps for us" |
| Our Table Centre pieces can double up as gifts, and are often comparable
to hiring. So you could have each one decorated individually and use
them on your day and afterwards give them away as gifts! |
| You could have flowers around your table centre pieces matching your
wedding flowers |
| Instead of having a formal receiving line, you could have a balloon receiving line, where you give each guest a balloon filled with helium and you tour around the room and as you talk to the guest, you snip the ribbon the balloon goes up to the ceiling and decorates, and that way you can tell who you have spoken to... |
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How about an unconventional top table plan: |
| Consider having table names (i.e. romantic places that you
have been) instead of table numbers: a handy way of preventing upset. |
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Brides, have you thought about giving a speech, even if it
is just to say thank you for coming (breaking the tradition that brides
should be seen and not heard!) |
| As from tradition, the groom thanks everyone, and the bestman gives an insight to the groom and the brides dad, the bride. The bride could take the angle, about how you met, or a funny story about you both, or something not normally covered by the speeches normally. |
| Have extra confetti, as guests may not be able to get biodegradable confetti which is asked by some places of ceremony. |
| Have extra maps available to the reception venue. |
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Finally, don't worry if things do not go to plan, as the guests will not know what is supposed to happen when anyway... |
Thank you for submitting your tips and keep them coming...
Submit your own tips by emailing wedding-tips@merpots.co.uk
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