Wedding Invitations

Continuing on from yesterdays wedding etiquette blog I would like discuss more on the wedding party.

When choosing your wedding party, you’ll want to pick people who will follow direction and are polite.  Despite contrary belief politeness and etiquette aren’t always common sense to everyone.  Therefore I recommend doing a little etiquette training with your wedding party and go over a few details and expectations. There’s everything from walking down the isle to table manners. You want wedding singers not wedding belchers.

Remember to keep the lines of communication open! Don’t assume everyone knows what to do. One of the biggest things to go over is the chain of events and how things are going to run that day.  It can be very discouraging for the wedding party if they don’t know where they’re suppose to be and when, or even what’s expected of them.

If there are children in the wedding party, be sure they know what’s appropriate and what’s not. Have the parents reinforce this with them too. For some reason some children will actually listen better to someone who’s not their parent.

Remember your wedding party needs nourishment and sit down time.  Let them know when they will be able to do this so you don’t have people leaving the line and chowing down because they don’t see light at the end of the tunnel.

I know this is the last thing you want to worry about, so I must say, really pick your wedding party carefully.