Your Last-Minute Wedding Day Checklist 

Pack a Wedding Day Checklist!

Make certain you're one hundred percent on top of everything and be prepared. Here’s a wedding day checklist of things every bride should have on hand for her wedding. Although you may not need all of the items listed on the wedding day checklist below, be on the safe side. Pack a "beauty bag" emergency pouch to bring with you on your big day!

Wedding Day Checklist for the Groom:  Show up. Remember to bring along shaving cream & razor, comb, cologne, deodorant, mints, and other necessities. Bring the wedding rings!

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Wedding Planning Checklist

• Wedding Checklist - Check in with your vendors

Confirm arrangements with your pros and make sure they all have exact directions and a contact person's cell phone number.

• Wedding Checklist - Prepare final payments

Pay your vendors ahead of time so you don't have to try to remember what is owed to whom on your wedding day."

• Wedding Checklist - Have an "insurance policy"

When your vendors collect your final payments, have each of them sign a note indicating he or she has received it. Then if anyone claims they weren't paid, you will have proof that they were.

Wedding Checklist 4. Create tip envelopes

If you plan on tipping anyone, such as the banquet captain, wait staff, DJ, or officiant, prepare envelopes with their names and insert the correct amounts. Sealed envelopes are a lot safer than a stack of bills in someone's pocket!

• Wedding Checklist - Bring extra cash just in case

You might want to give a gratuity to someone who you feel has gone above and beyond the call of duty.

• Wedding Checklist - Drop your luggage off early

If you are staying overnight at a hotel after the reception, bring your bags the night before or have a friend or family member drop them off the morning of the wedding.

• Wedding Checklist - Pack for your honeymoon early

Do it sooner rather than later. This way you don’t have to worry. In addition, make sure your passports and travel documents are in order.

• Wedding Checklist - Pack properly for your destination wedding

Make a list of all the important things you need to bring and, if possible, pack them as carry-on. You might be able to pick up such necessities as drugstore items at your wedding destination, but don't assume so.

• Wedding Checklist - Have wedding items in place before the big day

Have your wedding favors, toasting glasses, cake knife and server delivered to your wedding reception site a few days beforehand. For anything going to the ceremony site, designate a trusted friend or family member to get everything there before your wedding guests arrive.

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• Wedding Checklist - Put your signature-drink recipes in writing

Give a list to your bartender the day before, so he doesn't forget exactly what you want.

• Wedding Checklist - Name those tunes

Songs are often covered or remade by different bands, so double-check with your DJ or band leader that they have the versions you want.

• Wedding Checklist - Have a discussion with your photographer

Leave nothing to chance. Give him or her a list of people you'd like to have photographed together.  Your photographer will probably get the obvious ones, but if you want a picture of everyone who flew in for your wedding, your sorority sisters or your new husband's coworkers, let your photographer know in advance.

• Wedding Checklist - Create a wedding-day photography schedule

This is the best way to keep things moving smoothly. For example, if the bride, the bridesmaids and the bride's family are being photographed at 4:15 p.m., this means they need to be at the location at 4:00 p.m., fully dressed and made up. You don't want a bridesmaid thinking she can pull into the parking lot at 4:15 p.m. with rollers in her hair and her dress in a garment bag!

• Wedding Checklist - Create a day-of itinerary

Write a detailed schedule for the bridal party and family to be distributed after the rehearsal. This lets people know where and when to arrive for photographs, etc.

• Wedding Checklist - Review printed materials

Be sure to carefully check place cards, table numbers, menus and programs for errors several days before your wedding.

• Wedding Checklist - Make your guests feel loved

Have thoughtful welcome gifts with personalized notes waiting for your guests in their hotel rooms.

• Wedding Checklist - Line your cards up

Arrange your escort and seating cards in alphabetical order ahead of time, and bring an extra copy of the seating arrangements or give it to a bridesmaid and let her be in charge of it.

• Wedding Checklist - Hydrate your bouquets 

  Have a vase of water ready for bouquets if it is hot and dry outside.  Certain flowers, like hydrangea and lilies need water, so if you want your bouquet to live past the ceremony, don't let it get thirsty.

• Wedding Checklist - Figure out how to get your gown to your location

If you and your bridesmaids expect to dress at your ceremony site, don't end up trying to fit large garment bags into one car along with you and your maids. If you have a plan in place, you'll avoid stress.

• Wedding Checklist - Get your limo driver's number

Don't forget to bring his cell phone number in case you change your exit time or leave something in the car. At midnight, it won't help to have only the office number.

• Wedding Checklist - Arrange transportation home for your bridal party

Don't strand your attendants at your wedding location! If they're planning to arrive via shared transportation, make sure they have a ride at the end of the evening as well.

• Wedding Checklist - Have a back up plan for rain

If you're planning an outdoor ceremony, be sure to have a tent set up and umbrellas on hand for guests, or a backup ceremony site just in case.

• Wedding Checklist - Nominate a gift caretaker

Designate in advance someone to take your presents home. Give her a house key so she can have everything there for you when you return."

• Wedding Checklist - Designate a wedding-day supervisor

Have a well-organized relative arrive early at the ceremony and reception site to ensure everything is in order.

• Wedding Checklist - Give your legal documents to someone responsible

Appoint someone to keep your signed marriage license until the end of the evening so it doesn't get lost. Some honeymoon locations will give you special perks if you show proof that you're honeymooners. That license may be all you'll have.

• Wedding Checklist - Don't go hungry!

Pre-order a breakfast delivery to your hotel room the morning of the wedding. Going through the day on an empty stomach isn't helpful in dealing with all the excitement.

• Wedding Checklist - Make sure everyone knows when it's over

Double-check the end time of your wedding with your venue, as well as the time it must be cleared out, and give this information to all vendors. This will prevent unexpected overtime fees.

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