Here are tips based on my experience that will banish stress from your wedding day final preparations. At least stress caused by music. I can’t do anything about the rest of your wedding day.
I know that many of you with 2010 weddings are in the final stages of preparations, especially those with weddings in the coming month!
So I thought I’d focus on final preparations (for wedding music) in today’s article. I’ll point out what you should be taking care of in the final weeks before your big day.
Getting rid of the stress
The final weeks (or even days) of wedding preparation can be a frantic, hectic time. Fortunately, you’re not alone. You’re not the only one going through this. And you don’t have to go through this without help!
Since my goal is to simplify your wedding planning, I designed my wedding music checklist and my 6 phases of wedding music planning to reduce your guide you along the way and reducing your stress.
I did this by putting all the things which cause frantic, hectic, stressful work earlier in the process and designed the final preparations to only be “wrap-up” and “small detail” items. After all, you’ve got enough on your plate already!
Final preparation tips
The tips below are pulled from the checklist that accompanies my Guide to Selecting Memorable Church Wedding Music. If you’re not yet at the final preparation stages, you still have time to make getting the Guide and checklist worthwhile in helping you along the way.
- Think about music and your wedding program. Do you want to include music in your wedding program? If so, pull together all the information and get it into the program. Make sure to double-check it so you don’t have any glaring errors that will embarrass you later.
- Assuming you’re using my wedding music checklist (that comes with my Church Wedding Music How-To Guide) with its step-by-step approach, go back and review the previous phases to make sure nothing has been overlooked or is still waiting to be completed.
- If you’re not using the checklist, check and double-check arrangements with the church and with your musicians. Find out what the musicians need at the church to perform. Find out how they should set-up (this probably won’t be an issue if you’re using church-provided musicians). (If you are using the checklist, you should have already done these steps)
- Figure out whether any special instructions are needed for musicians (don’t forget simple things like when to arrive at the church).
- Work out cues for the musicians. If your church provides a wedding coordinator or if you’re using musicians from the church, they’ll already have a good idea how things should work. In any case, just make sure musicians will know when to start playing and when they should plan to stop (such as in the case of being ready to start the ceremony) and who will coordinate this at the ceremony.
- Make arrangements for any remaining payments to be made to the musicians.
Get results
I hope these tips will help you prevent unpleasant last-minute surprises just before (or during) your wedding ceremony!
For lots more detail on final preparations (and all of your wedding music planning), be sure to check out my Guide to Selecting Memorable Church Wedding Music. You won’t be disappointed!
If you have any other ideas from your experience, be sure to leave a comment so that other readers can benefit! They’ll thank you and so do I.
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This website’s full of great advice. I particularly like the final preparation tips. It seems like obvious stuff, but you do hear horror stories!!!
Thanks, I really appreciate hearing that!
I’d like to hear some of those horror stories. I think they make great learning opportunities to help others from making the same mistakes.
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