Post-wedding bride/coordinator realizations that can be helpful to other brides to be. 1. For you not to go nuts in preparing, give yourself a year or more for planning and execution. 2. Only 70%-80% of your expected guests attend the event so consider that in your catering budget so that you wont spend extra for no shows. 3. Excel is a the best-co-planner for the event so figure out how to use it for budgeting, guest list, table assignment and others. 4. Categorize guests based on priority/importance. Doing that can help you decide who to put on the waiting list in case you need to reduce the number of guests. 5. Plus 1s could mean plus nones (or the guest wont attend at all). 6. If youd be getting friends or relatives to help you out as coordinators, give them a checklist of tasks that they need to do on the day of the wedding. You can survive with 1 coordinator for the ceremony and 1 for the reception (may vary depending on the number of expected guests). 7. There are a lot of surprises await on the day of the wedding (good and bad). Bring a small sling bag with you for you to have access to your phone anytime. 8. Pray for a good weather. 9. RSVP doesnt work anymore. Be more appreciative to the people who say they cant attend outright. 10. Dont spend too much on invitations. You can use multi-media to send out a soft copy of the invite.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:06:05 +0000