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Traditional Thursday: Groom’s Responsibilities

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.)

Would you like to see more ideas for wedding inspiration? Check out our latest issue of Premier Bride of Mississippi here!

 

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