Susie Davis, Owner & Certified Wedding Consultant, with “A Plan To Remember” offers her wedding advice about responsibilities that each groom should remember.
- Purchase bride’s engagement and wedding rings and arranges engraving.
- Set a budget with your bride.
- Help compile guest list. Present list to bride at least 5 months before the wedding.
- Select groomsmen.
- Obtain marriage license.
- Rent or purchase wedding attire.
- Choose all wedding attire and accessories for the male bridal party.
- Plan and pay for the honeymoon.
- Obtain all necessary travel documents for honeymoon (i.e. passport, birth certificate, visa).
- Assist in any and all planning of ceremony and reception.
- Purchase wedding gift for bride and your parents.
- Pay for the bridal bouquet and all corsages and boutonnieres for wedding party.
- Scout out hotels for out-of-town guest.
- Send out rehearsal dinner invitations.
- Arrive at ceremony site at scheduled time.
- Bring marriage license to ceremony site.
- Make payments to officiate and musicians.
- Communicate with groomsmen and pass on all information to your side of the family.
- Limit alcohol consumption on the wedding day (groomsmen too!)
- Understand your brides expectations (first dance, when can you remove your jacket, etc.)
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