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Well my wedding day came and went, and I thought that I would write out some tips, etc. since this section was beyond helpful for me when I was planning my wedding.

So here are some of the lessons learned. Sorry it is long and all over the place. I don't have a ton of pics uploaded to photobucket yet, but will try to add more later.

I want to begin by saying that it was a perfect day. Perfect in every single way. Nothing (major) went wrong, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

TIPS:

I wrote EVERYTHING down. MAJOR list making was done by me. I had a general timeline (for Friday through Sunday) as well as a day-of timeline, and a list of important contact numbers. I had a list of everyone's jobs, and a list of where people needed to be and when. This allowed me to relax all weekend (more or less) and just enjoy the day.

Make SURE you have all your thank you's written down. The ONLY thing that really went wrong was that, even though we wrote all our thank you's down, we forgot to thank our ushers and our friend who video taped the wedding. I feel HORRIBLE about this!

My dress--I bough an inexpensive dress ($850) and I am SO happy I did. Alternations, undergarments, veil and jewelry all added up, so I am happy I went with a cheaper dress. Plus, I am a true believer that every bride looks great on her wedding day, so why not do it on the cheap!?



My dress is from Blissful Bridal in Calgary and I was very happy with them. My alternations were done by Kay's Sewing in Saskatoon, and I was happy with them as well.

PICTURES:

We did our pictures before. BEST decision ever. I was pretty nervous the day of, and seeing DH beforehand made me so much more relaxed. Then, we only had to take a few pics afterwards and our guests could head straight to cocktails.

BAR:

We decided not to do a totally open bar (please--no debate!)so instead had an open bar from 5pm until after supper, and then did a loonie bar. It worked. Also, we did NOT close the bar during supper, only speeches, and I was happy with that decision.

DECOR:

We didn't decorate the church. I was happy with this decision. We only did a backdrop, floor length table covers, and chair covers for the reception. Chair covers was a major decision, as they were not cheap, but I think they really made the room look great.



FLOWERS:

I LOVED our flowers. One piece of advice: if your weather is going to be really hot or really cold, consider only having flowers from the ceremony on. We did our pre-ceremony pics without flowers, got our flowers at the ceremony and then took flower pics after. The flowers looked great at the ceremony and great afterwards because they were fresh and healthy.


CAKE:

Sliced Decadence in Saskatoon. LOOOVED the look and the taste. However, we ordered a cake for 200 people but even between the wedding reception and breakfast the next day, only anout 1/3 of it got eaten. I would order a smaller one next time.


ETC.:

-Make sure you have a great DJ. Ours was amazing and the dancefloor was packed ALL night, from the first song.

-Flip flop bucket: it was a huge hit! I would totally recommend it. We had 15 pairs for a wedding of 200 (I didnt think anyone would use them!) and they were snapped up in less than a minute.

-Enjoying the day: I didn't care about anything the day of, other than being with DH, greeting our guests and dancing. It didn't matter if things went wrong!

-Though I originally really wanted Save the dates, instead we built our wedding website (using www.mywedding.com) and sent that out to our guest list, so that they were aware of our wedding date.

-FAVOURS: Instead of favours we did a charitable donation, with a card on each place setting explaining that 'in lieu of donations...' and I was really happy we did this.

-Greeting guests: We scarfed down some fruit and granola bars pre-reception, and during supper we went around to all 26 tables and thanked each and every guest for coming. We did this instead of a receiving line. Best idea ever, because we got our hello's out the way and then could dance.

-Give people little jobs! We had someone transporting flowers, making sure everything looked good just prior to the reception, etc. and it took lots off our minds.

-Booze: We ordered double what the liquor store told us, but we still almost ran out! If you have big drinkers, prepare!

-Hospitality room: The night before the wedding, we had a hospitality room at the hotel. It was a great way to visit with guests in town a day early and to get some greetings out of the way.

-"gift opening": instead of a gift opening, we had a come and go breakfast. More relaxing, less awkward, more visitng. So happy we did this.

-Speeches and slideshow: we kept them short. 4 speeches took 20 minutes, slideshow (which was fabulous) took 5 minutes. PERFECT!

-This isn't for everyone, but we skipped the garter toss, bouquet toss, and (as a last minute decision) the cake cutting. Everyone was having so much fun on the dance floor, we didn't want to interrupt.

-First dance: We picked a short (2 min) song. Great decision. Two minutes felt like an eternity.

-Card box: We had the guest book attendants (DH's teenage cousin) take up the cards to our hotel room as soon as the program started, so that it was safe.



I will add more as I think of it, but all in all it was a perfect day. I took the time to savour every moment of it (and made sure not to drink a ton--well, at least not until 11pm or so) and it was PERFECT in every way.

Thanks for reading!

(sorry for the blurring, but DH is shy!)

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