Rehearsal Dress: Nordstrom // Heels: Steve Madden // Purse: Old (Similar HERE) // Earrings: Lisi Lerch
Happy Wedding Wednesday:) It’s been a while since I have done a full wedding post. As I inch closer and closer to the big day, I have been doing more research on wedding day advice. With everything that goes on in one day, I wanted to keep a personal list of everything that I wanted to remember about the day.
To get this advice, I went straight to my instagram stories to ask my followers what their best wedding day advice was! If you are a bride to be and looking for some advice I have rounded up a whole list of great advice my readers gave me:) I broke the advice up into sections so it is easy to remember and use throughout your big day!
If you have additional advice, we all would love to read about it so feel free to put it in the comments below!
Wedding Advice For Getting Ready
- Give your phone to someone else to manage all day so they can capture the everything for you.
- Have a bridesmaid put together an “Oh Shit Kit” (You can find lists online).
- Start early so you don’t feel rushed all day.
- Make an active choice to not be stressed.
Wedding Advice For Photography
- Pictures with your mom while you are getting ready.
- Have a family member be in charge of directing people during family photos.
- Make sure to get a picture at the reception with your immediate family, siblings, etc.
- Have a secret word with your photographer if you get overwhelmed and need a break from guests.
- Stay smiling! So many candid photos will be taken.
- Make sure to tell your family to seek out the photographer for candid pictures during the reception.
Wedding Advice For The Ceremony
- Give cute cards to each other and read it before you see each other for the first time.
- When walking down the isle, focus on only your future husband and no one else.
- Ride from the church to the reception in a car for just the two of you.
- During the ceremony have your paster pause and give you a chance to look out at all the guests.
- Try not to look at family members who might make you cry. Don’t want to mess up the make up.
Wedding Advice For The Reception
- Find a moment for you and your spouse to stop and look around at everyone having fun.
- Find a separate place during cocktail hour to have dinner together or at least have a small snack together.
- Don’t worry about saying Hi to everyone and enjoy the party.
- Don’t forget a whole set of invitations for your photographer.
- Have a motto for the day.
- At the very least use a Day-Of Planner (not a family member).
- As guests line up outside to send you off, have one last dance together alone.
- Tell bridesmaids not to tell you if something isn’t going to plan (If it’s huge problem then the bride should be informed).
- Stay next to your new husband the whole night. It can be easy to get pulled in different directions.
- Stop and take mental pictures throughout the day/night.
- Think about how everyone in the room loves y’all and it’s your favorite people when you walk down the aisle.
- No matter what goes wrong, you will be married by the end of the night!
This is such a wonderful list! There are so many important practical details here that I’m sure many people don’t even think of while they are planning!
Another thing that I might add which is in tune with all of the advice offered here is to remember that planning the day of your dreams is *your* responsibility, but once you’ve done that, making it happen becomes your *team’s* responsibility! For those of us who like to control every aspect of an important event, and who immediately start to stress or worry when we cannot, we need to remember that if we have taken the time to make our preferences and choices abundantly clear, and have been steadfast and fastidious in communicating our needs in the planning process, there is nothing to worry about. So when the day arrives, the most important thing to do is to remember to take your time, focus on absorbing the overwhelming outpouring of love surrounding you as a couple, and enjoy every single special moment!