It is imperative for any wedding planner and bride to be to have a checklist for planning any kind of wedding. Even a small and seemingly causal wedding, will have a lot of work that needs to be done and various aspects that might get overlooked. The last thing you want is for your guests to show up at your venue and find they have no where to sit, because you forgot to order chairs. This is why you need to have a wedding planning guide in place so that everything you need to do is set out and time lined and if you have people helping you (which is always a good idea) that they also know what is going on.
A wedding planning guide is a bride's best friend. Like many brides in today's society, you probably have a full time job and cannot devote as much time to planning your wedding as you would like to. Having a checklist at hand will remind you to make those few phone calls during your lunch break or look for that fabric you needed before going home after work. It will ensure that you don't forget anything and it will make sure that you get everything done on time, without getting too stressed out or upset. After all, this is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. Stress and pressure is not going to do you any good.
For weddings a planning checklist or guide is not only going to help you, but it also helps everyone else who is planning things for your wedding day. It will help the florist know what time to be at your venue to set up. It will allow the baker enough time to make a stunning cake for you and it will be a guide for the DJ as to where he has to be and what he needs to have for your wedding. Making a comprehensive file for your wedding is encouraged. In the file, keep addresses, phone numbers, names, quotes, fabric samples, letters, details and more, so that whenever you go to a supplier or contractor you have all the information you need at your fingertips.
You can get a wedding planning guide off the internet at many sites. These are samples that you can adjust and adapt to suit your own wedding, but most of them are quite detailed as it is. Some of the sample guides will even give you appropriate times for certain things to be done, like the invitations. They are normally sent out 3 months in advance, so you will need to have your venue, date and time finalized before then and the invitations designed and printed.
So, if you are a bride to be and want to make sure you are on top of things for your wedding and don't forget anything or leave anything to the last minute, be sure to get a wedding planning guide and start your planning early. Get a wedding file and also get a few people to help you with the planning to make things go smoother.
Here are a few of the wedding superstitions that have developed over the years:
The Bridal Shower
Everything the bride says while opening presents will come back to her on her wedding night. It could be good to be careful with this one . . . you never know! Having the same phrases repeated on the wedding night could be a good or bad thing, depending.
For good luck, the first gift opened should be the first gift used. There are a few superstitions surrounding the gifts given at a bridal shower, such as the giver of the third present opened will have a baby.
The Dress
The whole wedding outfit must not be tried on until the actual day of the wedding. This common superstition is due to the fact that it was thought to bring bad luck on the bride. If she put on all her wedding garb before the wedding . . . she might not be married after all!
Green, yellow, pink and red wedding dresses are considered bad form. According to an old marriage rhyme, these four colors of wedding dresses would bring assorted miseries on the married couple`s life and they wouldn`t be happy.
It`s bad luck for the groom to see the bride in her dress on their wedding day. This is a pretty strong superstition that most people follow to this day.
The Church
Seeing a pig run across the road on the way to the church. This is considered to be very bad news for the wedding party and could foretell a cancelled wedding or a terrible marriage. Interestingly, meeting a black cat on your wedding day actually signifies good luck.
Meeting a monk or a nun outside the church. According to this superstition, you are doomed to a marriage of barrenness and will be dependent on charity if you run across a nun or a monk on your way to the church.
Wed on a Saturday for no luck at all. While you may not get bad luck by tying the knot on a Saturday, you won`t have good luck either, so you may want to try Monday (health) or Wednesday (best of all), instead.
The Ceremony
Dropping the ring means the marriage won`t last. While this traditionally applies to the groom`s clumsy fingers, it`s been turned into a uni-sex superstition.
A penny in the bride`s shoe will bring wealth to the marriage. This is the often skipped part of the old "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" adage.
Marrying when the hands on the clock are on their way down is bad luck. It`s considered far better to marry between the half hour and the hour, when the hands are moving back up. Otherwise, your marriage will always be going downhill.
The Wedding Night
The first person to fall asleep on the wedding night will also be the first to die. This is a superstition that obviously has no basis in fact, but it is still remarked upon . . . usually by the person who fell asleep last!
It`s not likely that any of these superstitions is based on truth, but they are definitely interesting to learn about. Many of them are still alive and well to this day and are still respected by most brides. While they may not be true, wedding superstitions certainly show no signs of going away just yet.
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