wedding busyness?
Jan. 26th, 2007 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraThis is a question for anyone who has thrown a big "event" reception, particularly weddings/commitment ceremonies.
I have heard numerous people refer to how super-busy they were the week before their wedding - "all the running around they had to do", how exhausted they were after the wedding such that they just wanted to sleep for two days, etc.
As a wedding planning novice, it is not obvious to me what tasks will need to be performed in the days before the wedding. Surely we'll have long since had all our vendors booked, etc, and I assume most of the Stuff we want (food, tables, cake, etc) will be delivered directly to the site day-of. My mother has suggested she might show up "several days in advance to help out" - it's not clear what she would be helping with, and I had assumed I would work a normal schedule that week. I'm probably being hopelessly naive, but I'm afraid I'm missing so much information that I can't even figure out what my bad assumptions are here. Can anyone who has recently planned a wedding-type event give me a list of the errands you ran in the week or so before the wedding? If you don't remember every single errand, can you give me a sense of what sorts of things you had to deal with? (Maybe I'm wrong in assuming most things can be delivered directly, and you had to personally transport and store things?)
I have heard numerous people refer to how super-busy they were the week before their wedding - "all the running around they had to do", how exhausted they were after the wedding such that they just wanted to sleep for two days, etc.
As a wedding planning novice, it is not obvious to me what tasks will need to be performed in the days before the wedding. Surely we'll have long since had all our vendors booked, etc, and I assume most of the Stuff we want (food, tables, cake, etc) will be delivered directly to the site day-of. My mother has suggested she might show up "several days in advance to help out" - it's not clear what she would be helping with, and I had assumed I would work a normal schedule that week. I'm probably being hopelessly naive, but I'm afraid I'm missing so much information that I can't even figure out what my bad assumptions are here. Can anyone who has recently planned a wedding-type event give me a list of the errands you ran in the week or so before the wedding? If you don't remember every single errand, can you give me a sense of what sorts of things you had to deal with? (Maybe I'm wrong in assuming most things can be delivered directly, and you had to personally transport and store things?)
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Date: 2007-01-27 01:24 pm (UTC)We had to deliver a ton of stuff to the ceremony and reception sites, put up signs in various places, pick up flowers, pick up tux, pick up programs (which we could have done earlier if life worked that way), confirm everything with participants and vendors, clean the house (we had an after-party at the house), prepare for our honeymoon trip (though we planned a Tuesday departure after a Sunday wedding so we would have time to decompress and finish packing after the wedding).