Step 86 - Check Marriage License Requirements

(1 Month to 2 Months before the Wedding)
In order for a couple to get married, they need to pick up a marriage license. Marriage licenses can be obtained at a County Clerks Office and other specified municipal offices throughout the county. You can also download the forms from the county clerk website. Marriage licenses also can be obtained from the registrar of vital statistics.

Every state has their own procedures and forms that have to be filled out. Each state has their own fee structure and own marriage laws. Some states requires a witness over the age of 18 to come with you when you apply for a marriage license and some states don't. Most states issue a marriage license that is valid for 30 days but in addition generally there is a 72 hour waiting period before they can be used. The marriage license must be obtained from the county om the state from which you plan to marry.

Both parties must have a valid ID such as a driver's license, ID issued by DPS (Department of Public Safety), valid passport, resident alien card, or other government issued identification. A couple is authorized to be married by a licensed or ordained christian minister, priests, Jewish rabbis, persons of religious organizations who are duly authorized by the religious organization to conduct marriage ceremonies.

A couple is also authorized to be married by justices of the Supreme Court, judges of the court of criminal appeals, justices of the court of appeals, judges of the district, county, probate courts, judges of the county court at law, courts, of domestic relations and juvenile courts, retired justices and judges of such courts, justices of the peace, retired justices of the peace, justices and magistrates of the federal courts including mayors and licensed county clerks.

If either applicant is divorced, the divorce documents for the application in question must be brought in at the time of application. It is recommended both the bride and groom obtain the marriage license together in person, if for some reason one person is unable to appear, an affidavit of absent application is required.

Whether or not a bride changes her name after marriage is usually a decision discussed by her and her soon to be husband, whichever route the bride decides to take (change her last name to the husbands last name, use a hyphenated last name or stick with her maiden name) should be something the couple discusses with each other before filling out the marriage certificate before the wedding day. In the majority of weddings in the U.S.A. brides are more likely to change their last name to the husband's surname.

Also before one gets married the couple is recommended to get a medical exam, and get blood tests. Couples are generally not allowed to marry siblings, parents, children, and first cousins. Sometimes second cousins may be allowed to marry if it's determined a gene compatibility exist from a blood test. It's recommended to not change your name on many documents until after the couple is married. No one can change a document until the marriage is legal.

Xerox a copy of your wedding certificate. Make about 25 copies of the marriage certificate and keep the documents in a safe place such as an important paper drawer. Send a copy out with any name change request forms. It is recommended you start making name changes on all your papers beginning the week after your wedding or honeymoon focusing on changing your social security and driver's license first.

There are kits available online that can help you out to change your name after you get married. Some charge money, others are free. The more prevalent name change kits online are shown below.

Online Name Change Kit Websites

www.bridekit.com
www.kitbiz.com
www.legalforms.com
www.missnowmrs.com
www.thenamechangekit.com
www.thesmartbride.com


Listed below are places where brides need to arrange for name and address places. To get your name changed seems like it is a lot of work and it is, but it's very important. If you procrastinate or don't you are libel to get in trouble with the IRS, have problems with social security, later and damage your credit rating.

Bride Name and Address Places Needing Updating after Wedding

Auto Club
Banks
Business Cards
Credit Bureaus
  Equifax         1-(800) 685-1111
  Experian       1-(888) 397-3742
  Trans Union  1-(800) 916-8800
Credit Cards
Creditors
Department of Motor Vehicle(Driver's License, Registration, Other)
Employers (Employer's Records, Work, 401K)
Family and Friends
Insurance (Auto, Health, House, Other)
Investments (Stocks and Bonds)
IRS/Tax Forms
Leases
Letterheads
Library Cards
Magazine Subscriptions/Book Clubs
Maintenance Fees
Medical/Doctor/Dentist
Memberships (Clubs, Gyms)
Mortgage
Passport
Professional License
Property Titles
Schools/Alumni Associations
Social Security
U.S. Post Office
Utility Bills (Cable, Electric, Internet, Phone, Sewage, Water)
Voter's Registration Card
Will/Legal Documents/Lawyer

Whew, that's a lot of work. Once you have updated all your name and address documents, your honey owes you a nice dinner, drink, and dessert. You are now officially a Mrs. and congratulations!

See you on the other side!

Step 85 - Prepare a Bridal Emergency Kit

(1 Month to 2 Months before the Wedding)
Bridal emergencies arise at almost every wedding. If you ask almost anybody that has ever had a wedding, at about 95 percent of them, at least something did not go perfectly right. Very often it's a vendor or two that muffs up the day, sometimes the weather fouls up the plans, sometimes it's a clothing mishap, sometimes it's a stain, either wine spilling on a dress or the wedding dress rubbing against a limousine tire or the little ring bearer getting his chocolate covered hands on the bride's wedding dress. Sometimes the maid of honor passes out after skipping a meal or the groom recovering from a bachelor party from the night before the wedding.

The secret to minimizing bridal emergencies that happen at weddings is to perform proper planning. Make sure the bride and groom do their homework before booking a wedding vendor, do your research verify your vendor with the better business bureau, have there been any complaints from bridal parties that have used this vendor in the past, get personal references or see the wedding vendors in action, how organized are they at other weddings?

Proper planning is another area that minimizes emergencies that happen at weddings. Don't put wedding cakes in dangerous areas, near dance floors and high traffic areas, also watch over areas where children can get in trouble such as knocking over a candy jar or bumping into a table full of coffee cups. Keep drinking under control too, don't let those that can't handle their liquor ruin your wedding, make sure their alcohol consumption is cut off of they reach a certain point.

Many other situations arise at weddings too, you can save the day by preparing a bridal emergency kit. While you never expect emergencies to arise on your big wedding day, little things always seem to happen, it's better to be safe than sorry. Bridal emergency kits can be ordered from many bridal shops, but you can create one yourself. Start off with either a duffle bag, tote bag, large basket, or an over-sized purse. You then want to pick up items that will be there, in the event an emergency situation should ever arise.

Your bridal emergency kit should be prepared well in advance of the wedding. Preferably, one to two months before the wedding. Absolutely, have everything you need at least one week before the wedding. The last week before the wedding, there tends to be so many things on the bride's plate that there just is no time left to find the remaining items for the bridal emergency kit.

The bride should assign someone close to her that is a very responsible person, such as the maid of honor, one of the bridesmaids, mother of the bride, or a close friend that is not in the wedding party. Find a strategic location at the wedding ceremony site and wedding reception facility. Work with the vendor to find a safe but easy to access good location for the bridal emergency kit, it may be a spot in the bathroom, a holding room, closet, or extra room at a venue. Your aide is responsible to getting the bridal kit to the agreed to spot at the wedding ceremony and moving it to the agreed to spot at the wedding reception.

Go through the items listed below and identify what items should be part of your bridal emergency kit. When the wedding is over you should decide what to do with the kit. Keep the kit yourself, give it away as a wedding favor to someone close to you, give it to someone else who has an upcoming wedding, leave it with an officiant to help a bride who is low on funds, or leave it with a wedding planner.

Bridal Emergency Kit Items

1 - Acid Relief Tablets or Tums
2 - Adhesive Strips
3 - Advil, Bayer, Aspirin, or Ibuprofin
4 - Backup Bow Tie for the Groomsmen Tuxedos
5 - Baby Oil
6 - Baby Powder
7 - Baby Wipes or Moist Towelettes
8 - Ballet Flats (Sore Feet after Dancing)
9 - Band Aids (Clear Ones Preferred)
10 - Batteries (Backup for Camera or other Video Equipment)
11 - Bleach Pen
12 - Blotting Paper or Whiteout
13 - Bobby Pins, Safety Pins, or Straight Pins
14 - Body Lotion, or Body Oil
15 - Bottle of Water, Seltzer, Mineral Water, Gatorade, or Powerade
16 - Bug Spray or Insect Repellent or Off
17 - Buttons (Extras for wedding dress, bridesmaid's dresses, or tuxedos)
18 - Calculator
19 - Camera (Regular, Digital, or Disposable)
20 - Cash ($20 for Emergency and Roll of Quarters for Phone, Parking, Meters, and Vending)
21 - Cellular Phone (Turned off for Wedding)
22 - Clear Nail Polish
23 - Cold Medicine
24 - Comb
25 - Contact Lens/Contact Cleaner/Eye Glasses
26 - Copy of Directions to Wedding Reception
27 - Corsage Pins
28 - Cotton Balls
29 - Cuff Links (Extra for Tuxedos)
30 - Dental Floss
31 - Deodorant or Spray Deodorant
32 - Driver's License/ Photo ID Card
33 - Ear Plugs
34 - Emory Board
35 - Eye Drops or Visine
36 - Facial Tissue or Facial Wipes
37 - First Aid Kit
38 - Gum or Life Savers
39 - Hair Brush
40 - Hair Dryer or Curling Iron
41 - Hairspray
42 - Hand Lotion or Hand Sanitizer
43 - Handkerchief
44 - Important Phone Numbers
45 - Janie Stick
46 - Kleenex or Tissue
47 - Krazy Glue or Super Glue
48 - Lint Remover or Lint Roller
49 - Lip Chap
50 - Lip Stain
51 - Lip Stick or Lip Pencil
52 - Makeup Remover
53 - Makeup Sponge
54 - Makeup Supplies
55 - Manicure Supplies
56 - Mascara
57 - Masking Tape (Hem Tape)
58 - Matches or Lighter
59 - Mint or Breath Mints
60 - Mirror (Compact)
61 - Nail Clippers
62 - Nail Polish and Nail Polish Remover
63 - Nasal Decongestant or Nasal Spray
64 - Notepad and Pens
65 - Pantiliners or Panty Hose
66 - Pepto Bismol
67 - Prescription Medicine
68 - Perfume
69 - QTips
70 - Razer
71 - Ribbon, Yarn, or String
72 - Robitussin, Cough Medicine, or Cough Drops
73 - Scissors
74 - Scotch Tape
75 - Sewing Kit or Needle and Thread
76 - Sharpie Black Marker
77 - Shoes (Extra Pair Comfortable)
78 - Shoe Polish (Color of Brides, Bridesmaids, Groomsmen's Shoes)
79 - Shout Wipes
80 - Snacks (Granola Bars, Dried Fruits, Fruit Rollups)
81 - Spare Garter
82 - Spare Money Bag (For Honeymoon Dance)
83 - Stain Stick or Stain Remover
84 - Straws (To prevent lipstick markings on lips and drinking glasses)
85 - Sun Glasses
86 - Sun Screen or Sun Tan Lotion
87 - Tampons or Feminine Napkins
88 - Thread (Color of Wedding, Bridesmaid's Dresses and Tuxedos)
89 - Tide to Go Pen
90 - Tooth Brush
91 - Tooth Paste
92 - Tweezers
93 - Tylenol
94 - Umbrella
95 - Vaseline
96 - Wash Cloth or Hand Towels
97 - Watch
98 - Wedding Fan
99 - Wedding License
100 - Wedding Program


Believe it or not, many of these cosmetic items can fit into your bridal emergency bag, most items are inexpensive and found at your local pharmacy or drug store. Get items little by little over a period of time. Depending on your budget you may consider an emergency kit for yourself and another for the bridal party or the bridal party can use yours in a pinch.

Your bridal emergency kit can save the day for many situations, hair messed up on a blustery day, skin abrasions from a fall, blistered feet from dancing, perspiration from a hot day, a stain on your dress, a rip or tear of wedding dresses, red eyes, a cold, a headache, a dry mouth, a broken high heel, dead batteries, a smudge on your shoes and on and on. You are prepared for most any emergency.

The bridal emergency kit, almost always something is used from it at practically every wedding. It also helps by putting the bride's mind at ease. But even with all the planning you do to try to make the wedding perfect, just things continue to happen at weddings, hopefully yours will be a funny story because you planned your wedding well and your bridal emergency kit just happened to save the day. Don't worry or fret about matters out of your control, you planned the best you could, enjoy, smile, and have a good time, it's the best day of your life, enjoy your wedding day.

See you on the other side!

Step 84 - Develop and Distribute Day of Wedding Schedule

(1 Month to 2 Months before the Wedding)
To insure your wedding weekend runs smoothly, you will want to create contact sheets of all the people involved in your special day and you also will need to create a timeline of events and activities to insure your wedding day is perfect. Depending on who you have hired for the wedding, you may need to create four different types of day of wedding schedules.

The first type "Day of Wedding" schedule you will need is for the wedding day itself, someone to oversee that everything at the wedding is taken care of. This schedule may be created as one of the services provided by the wedding planner. It also might be covered by a coordinator of the reception facility or hotel or restaurant. A family member or friend might volunteer and act as your coordinator, or maybe you can hire a day of wedding coordinator who is similar to a wedding planner but works your wedding day only.

The second "Day of Wedding" schedule is in reality the official high level wedding schedule, a schedule that shows a timeline highlighting the wedding rehearsal, the rehearsal dinner, the wedding ceremony, and shows estimated activities of the wedding reception including when the cocktail hour begins, the grand entrance of the bridal party, the time to start dinner, the speeches and toasts, the time of the receiving line, the first dance of the wedding couple, father and bride dance, the mother and groom dance, the bouquet and garter toss, and the grand departure of the wedding couple. This schedule is shared by family and possibly the wedding guests.

The third "Day of Wedding" schedule is a schedule prepared specifically for the bridal party. This schedule includes all the bridal party contacts and the times and locations the bridal party need to arrive at the rehearsal site, rehearsal dinner site, the expected time the bridesmaids are expected to show at the bride's house, the time the bridal party needs to arrive at the wedding ceremony site, time to be available for the wedding photography and videography and the time they all have to be at the wedding reception. Also the time for the best man's toast and if there are other wedding activities the bridal party needs to make an appearance at.

The fourth "Day of Wedding" schedule is the caterer's schedule. If you are using a professional caterer they usually have their schedule system down pat. Though on the other hand, if you are catering the wedding through a non-professional party, you will need somebody to create a chart for the food part of the wedding. If it's a  medium to large wedding all the food activities best be charted out. Where do all the food deliveries go, when and where does food get prepared and where does it get stored? When do hors 'doeuvres get served and when, what and where is the order of the foods to go out, if it's a multi-course meal, the order for the different foods to be brought out and which seat do the different entrees go. Also any foods and dishes for buffet table such as desserts and coffee are there set up times for them too.

For any of these day of wedding schedules there are a few different types of tools that can be used. They can be set up using an Excel Spreadsheet or even created using a Word document, they can be put into an activity list and set up into a checklist format in which a coordinator can check off an activity as it's performed. If the event is medium or large sized, the activity sheet can be set up using a Gantt chart which is basically a horizontal bar chart with each activity presented using a bar under a timeline.

You can learn how to create a Gantt chart using Excel by going into Youtube and you will see instructional lessons by entering "Gantt chart using Excel" into the browser. (Gantt chart was named after an American Engineer named Henry Gantt who perfected this chart).

If the wedding activities get a little bit complex, you may want to consider putting the wedding activities into a Pert chart (Program Evaluation Review Technique). The Pert chart represents events or milestones in a logical sequence of events. It may show things such as Task A must be completed before Task B can began, or Task A and Task B can be done concurrently, or Task A and Task B have to be completed before Task C can begin. Pert Charts are used to display projects represented in a network diagram using numbered nodes (usually circles or rectangles) which is an event with directional lines used in the diagram to show the sequence of tasks. Pert Charts work well at big weddings with a lot of complexity involved, are especially helpful involving large wedding tents and weddings involving empty warehouses, ballrooms, or banquet halls.

Another tool you can use is a tool found in Google Docs. Go into your Google browser and put in "Day of Wedding Google Docs" and you will find a another guideline to help you create a "Day of Wedding" Chart. Some other websites that help generate tools you can also use to generate wedding activities are listed below.

Day of Wedding Website Tools

www.gantt.com
www.ganttchart.com
www.projectplan.com
www.russellandhazel.com
www.tomsplanner.com
www.weddingdetails.com


If you are using a wedding planner, most likely the wedding planner has their in-house tool that lays out the "Day of Wedding" schedule. If you are planning the wedding yourself, you should create a wedding schedule and identify someone to be a day of wedding coordinator. If you are having a small wedding, you might get away with creating a day of wedding schedule and recruit possibly the bride's mom or bride's dad or close relative or friend to oversee deliveries go to the right place and wedding guest's questions and needs are taken care of.

If you have a medium or large wedding you really should consider using if not a wedding planner a "Day of Wedding" coordinator. That is if the caterer or reception facility or restaurant does not provide one for the reception. There are a few options you have to find yourself a person who can serve this important function. There are wedding planner businesses and wedding coordinators that will work just the wedding for you. You can find these businesses off of wedding websites, yellow pages, and using internet queries. You also might be able to find a relative or a family friend to perform this function.

If you have done all the work, have lined up and booked all the vendors, have laid out all the contacts and created a "Day of Wedding" schedule. You might even think of hiring a student that has started taking Wedding Planning classes. You have done all the upfront work, you just need somebody to oversee the vendor deliveries, where to place the gifts and cards, makes sure the tables are set, and answers any questions wedding guests may have. In all likelihood if you contacted a class that has wedding planners, and interview a few of them and talk to their instructors you should be able to find a pretty good one. You just need to do a good interview with a few students, find one that is organized, well mannered, and would be personable to your guests. Someone who can take your marching order instructions and implement your tasks, and hiring a student shouldn't cost you a lot of money, and they will be appreciative by getting their foot in the door. If you are happy with their service afterward, you should get a picture taken with this person at the reception so they have this experience to pad their resume.

Your "Day of Wedding" Coordinator should have three types of charts on them on the day of the wedding. The first chart should be a contact sheet of all the important people involved for the special day. It should be broken down into two pieces, contacts for the bridal party and wedding vendor contacts. For the bridal party you should include their function (e.g. Maid of Honor, Best Man, etc.) their name, phone number, their address, backup number, and an electronic means of contacting too such as their email. The address is important, you just never know, you might have to send someone out to pick up the bridal party person, for this is the day their car won't start.

Your coordinator should have a contact for all the wedding vendors too. If the wedding vendor is suppose to make a delivery and that have not shown up yet, this day is an important day that all has to be perfect. The wedding cake, florists, decorators, food delivery, limousine service, DJ, musician's, rental services, food, and beverage, reception help, caterer's, etc. they must be all on time. If they don't arrive when they are expected you must find out why and how soon can they get there. The coordinator should have the business name, contact person, time of expected delivery, phone number, business address, and a backup contact with all numbers on a handy contact sheet.

The wedding coordinator should also have available an answer to questions sheet. Answers to any question that a wedding vendor or wedding guest may ask. Where does the wedding cake go? Where do I put the wedding flowers? Where do the wedding gifts go? Where do cards for the wedding gifts go? Where do I find the lady's powder room? What are the directions to the wedding reception hall? If the coordinator does not know the answer to a question she should know who to check with an answer, whether it be the mother of the bride, mother of the groom, maid of honor, or caterer.

The third piece of information the wedding coordinator should have is a sheet of the "Day of Wedding" activities. The wedding coordinator might have a clipboard or a whiteboard of each of the events expected activities. Occasionally some activities might be added, dropped or rearranged. Before the wedding this "Day of Wedding" schedule should be reviewed over and over to insure everything is in order and a little buffer is placed so the wedding schedule is sure to run smoothly, even including the timeliness of the groom and the bride.

A baseline for "Day of Wedding" is shown below. The "Day of Schedule" should get reviewed and reviewed, talk to the officiant, church secretary, bride, groom, mother of the bride, maid of honor, best man, caterer, reception facility, and all the wedding vendors, a summary should be shared with all the participants too.


"Day of Wedding" Rehearsal Activities

Review timing and processional order
Review positions of bridal party during the wedding
Review timing and order of recessional
Provide cues and coordinate readings
Provide cues and coordinate wedding musicians and soloists
Review if anything else needs coverage at the rehearsal
Coordinate any decoration at the rehearsal dinner
Coordinate food served at the rehearsal dinner
Oversee the delivery of the groomsman cake
Provide cues for the best man's speech and wedding toasts
Make sure the groomsman cake is cut and served to guests
Provide assistance to out of town guests at the rehearsal dinner
Make sure rehearsal dinner vendors get paid and tipped
Insure all favors, food bags, leftover groomsman cake, and gifts are not left behind


"Day of Wedding"  Wedding Ceremony Site

Arrive at ceremony site
Greet wedding officiant
Bride and bridesmaid verified ready hair, makeup, dress done
Limousine has picked up bride and bridesmaids
Insure decorators drop off decorations
Insure flowers for wedding arrive
Insure church is decorated for the wedding
Guest book is set up and attended
Wedding party arrived
Bride situated in holding room
Wedding family members arrive
Musicians arrive
Photographers and videographers arrive
Flowers, bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres handed to bridal party
Groomsmen receive wedding programs to hand out
Pre-wedding photos taken
Music Begins
Groomsmen and best man situated at the altar
Candle Lighting
Mothers are seated
Processional is formed
Flower girl and ring bearer go down the aisle
Bride and father processional
Ceremony begins
Music cues
Reader cues
Wedding vow cues
Wedding party recessional
Signing of the marriage certificate
A formal receiving line formed
Photo sessions at the church
Check with guests on directions to the wedding reception
Coordinate any transfers from ceremony to reception (i.e. flowers)
Stay on top of photo shoot and location
Insure ceremony site has been cleaned, misc. items for storage
Insure appropriate ceremony vendors been paid and tipped.


"Day of Wedding" Wedding Reception

Pre-inspect wedding reception area to insure venue is in good condition and clean
Caterer is ready to attend to his food preparation
Attend to rental services deliveries
Bartending stations are ready to go
Verify seating charts and seating arrangements
Is updraft or special lighting or fabric hanging need to be done
Get wedding banquet tables and chairs and buffet tables positioned
Linen deliveries made
Wait Staff help arrived including bartenders and kitchen help
Linen placed on all the tables
Oversee any additional food deliveries
Wedding cake delivered
Wedding cake put on table and inspected
Ice sculpture delivered and setup
Flowers delivered
Decoration materials delivered
Wedding favors delivered
Beverages delivered
Cater food prepared
Photo booth delivered and setup
Guest signing book and station readied
Check in with caterer
Table centerpieces are positioned on tables
Flowers are positioned on tables
Each table place setting with china, napkins, flatware, and glassware
Buffet tables squared away with coffee, coffee cups and saucers, etc.
Disc jockey arrives for setup
Dance floor setup
Musicians arrive for setup
Gift table is positioned
Check in with bartender to insure they are ready (beer, wine, and hard liquor, soda, juice, water, garnishes, ice, they are situated and ready)
Place settings are positioned on tables
Wedding favors placed on the tables
Final decorations placed on tables
Coat and cloak room is ready
Candles and lights are lighted
Take care of special buffet table (candy buffet, chocolate fountain, coffee bar)
Toast glasses and champagne positioned and ready
Cake cutting knife positioned and ready
Wait staff receive final instructions
Check if caterer and wait staff are ready
One last thorough inspection of facility
Get formal picture of reception facility decorated while empty
Unlock front door of reception facility
Begin cocktail hour
Ceremony music begins
Cocktails served by bartenders and wait staff
Wait staff serves hors d'oeuvres
Oversee wedding guests needs and help locate seating
Photographers and videographers arrive from photo shoot
Formal part of wedding reception begins
Wedding guests get seated
Cue musicians or disc jockey
Announcement of grand entrance of bridal party
Bar is closed during formal part of dinner
Bridal party is seated for dinner
First table seated
Bridal party seated
Officiant leads in prayer
Bridal party served dinner by head of waitstaff
Reception tables served dinner by waitstaff in numerical order
Bride and groom on receiving line
Check on special needs tables
Check on children's or teenager's tables
Food prepared for wedding vendors
Check in with caterer
Give cue on toasts and speeches
Formal evening music begins give cue to musicians
Photographers and photographers are positioned for pictures
Bride and groom cut wedding cake
Serve coffee and tea and dessert
Wait staff clears table of dinner dishes
Bar opens back up
Hostess cuts and waitstaff serves wedding cake
Tossing of the bouquet and garter
Bride and groom's first dance
Bride and father dance
Groom and mother dance
Any special announcement (birthday's, anniversary's, after reception matters)
Wait staff starts clearing tables
Insure limousine for honeymoon or hotel has arrived
Hand wedding sparklers out to wedding guests for Grand Finale
Grand finale send off for the bride and groom
Insure tuxedos and wedding dress get returned to tuxedo shop and to cleaners
Make sure final payments to wedding vendors and tips are ready to be handed out
Collect gives and insure delivery to bride's mom's house or couples home
Pack up leftovers and deliver to designated person
Wedding guests continue to dance
Wedding guests start to depart
Wait staff starts removing linens
Rental supplies are readied to be returned
Cleaning staff has arrived and starts cleaning
Insure no gifts, favors or belongings are left behind
Inspect reception has been cleaned
Thank all for a great wedding and lockup
Return the key in the morning

About a week before the wedding you want the bridal party to receive their wedding schedule. They should receive contact information on all the wedding party members along with the time and place of each location of the wedding. Also the wedding coordinator should check in with the caterer to be sure he is squared away, most of the time he is organized well for the wedding but if you happen to come across an inexperienced caterer, he most likely will need help with some type of "Day of Wedding" scheduling tool.

Every wedding is different, they each have different bride and groom wishes and a varied sort of wedding vendors and caterers. The one thing is for sure unless it's a very small wedding, in order for the wedding to be run smoothly it's best they find a tool to aid them in the managing of all activities and events associated for the wedding day.

See you on the other side!