7 Major Wedding Details Where You Need Help, When It's Your Own Wedding

Planning a wedding involves a lot more responsibilities that you can possibly imagine. When you actually get down to doing all the tasks, you realise that you will need help with multiple wedding details and would need to delegate tasks to reliable friends and family members. You'll need to keep in touch with everyone and ensure that nothing gets lost in translation.

You can coordinate all of it with the help of a wedding checklist and a well-established wedding communication plan. Let us give you a brief on how to proceed.

1. A macro-view of the wedding

Do you think you can handle the complete overview of all the wedding details that go into making your day so special. We're talking about coordinating all of the vendors, checking up on decor, ceremonies, guests, food, festivities, power back-up, mehndiwalas, favours et all. Whew!

Make your life simple by calling in a wedding professional - a set of wedding planners or giving each of your close ones one aspect to control.

2. Managing overhead costs

A big fat Indian wedding is not an easy task, especially not on your pocket. You can make it simple by laying out a wedding budget, but that does This, however, does not take into account all of your overheads. Manage these wedding details by setting aside money for overhead expenses and a maximum cap for them.

3. Travel, stay and accommodation

Making sure the wedding party gets to the venue can be a bit of a problem. You need to make sure everyone is able to coordinate and reach the venue on time. You could perhaps arrange for a service to pick everyone together at common locations or get people to carpool to make things easier.

Similarly, if you're holding a residential wedding, plan for their stay and accommodation as well. especial for out-of-town guests.

Whatever you decide on these wedding details, it won’t hurt to get help and advice from family members on this one.

4. Detailing the Invites

It can feel extremely daunting to take care of this if you’re not sure how to proceed. Ask your parents to help you prepare the guest list along with your partner and double check while going through name to make sure you haven’t missed someone.

You can also get all your wedding details up on a wedding website made by professionals to ensure that all your guests are kept in the loop without you having to worry too much about getting all the information right.

5. Last-minute coordination

It’s not possible for the couple to be able to contact and confirm things with all the vendors at the last minute. You will be too busy attending all the ceremonies, preparing for them, meeting and receiving guests, spending time with family to be able to plan and talk to several professionals from all the services you’ve hired for your events.

Get friends to pitch in for these wedding details or ask your wedding planner to take care of this and ensure that all the vendors are contacted again a day or two before the event to be safe.

6. Arranging for Gifts

You really don’t want to fret over how safe all your wedding gifts and money envelopes from guests are until the end of the wedding parties and the reception, do you? Make sure someone is in charge of stashing them away in a safe location until you can collect everything once the event is over. This may seem like minor wedding details but can become extremely frustrating to manage if they're overlooked.

You can even speak to the manager at the venue you’ve booked and ask for help and suggestions.

7. Overtime possibilities

In case there’s a delay in the rituals or if the celebrations are going beyond the expected time, it’s necessary to get someone to talk to the vendors in question. This could be your wedding DJ, your photographers, the emcee at a wedding party and even the caterers.

Make sure your wedding planner or someone else keeps track of these things. There should be a backup plan beforehand which everyone can follow by coordinating with each other during the event. The couple won’t be able to do much at this point on these wedding details because they’ll be too caught up in all the events.

When you have a team of family and friends in place, all of these things will become easily manageable. After arranging all the things for different events, make sure someone is responsible for collecting valuable things once the event is over and bring them back home. If you feel it is too much to handle, you can always hire a wedding planner to take care of all the hassles.

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