The Bride:
- Choose and Order invitations & other wedding stationery
- Choose your florist and order flowers for the ceremony, reception, corsages, bouquets & buttonholes
- Book a pre-marriage course
- Buy gifts for the bridesmaids and flower girls
- List wedding gifts as received and send thank you cards
- Prepare a speech (optional)
- Arrange any rehearsals you propose to have
- Organize change of name documentation e.g. drivers licence, passport etc.
The Groom:
- Organize payment of church fee's
- Buy gifts for best man, groomsmen and pageboy
- Make all the necessary travel arrangements for your honeymoon
- Prepare a speech
- Help your bride with arrangements wherever possible
- Usually the groom pays for the brides bouquet, both mother's corsages and the bridesmaids bouquets
- Buy buttonholes for you, your groomsmen and any close male relatives
Bride & Groom:
- Choose date & time of wedding
- Decide on style & theme of wedding
- Book ceremony and reception venue
- Choose wedding rings
- Finalise and confirm guest list
- Create a reception seating plan
- Compile a gift wish list and visit gift registry
- Choose music for ceremony & reception
- Choose entertainment for reception
- Choose photographer and videographer
- Choose wedding cars
Maid of Honour:
- Organise and attend all pre wedding parties/showers
- Offer assistance as required to the bride and her mother before the wedding
- Help bride dress on the wedding day
- Help bridesmaids, flower girls and brides mother on the wedding day
- Precede the bride into the wedding venue
- Hold brides engagement ring & bouquet & take the grooms ring during the ceremony
- Sign register as official witness
- Prepare a speech
- Help child attendants with all proceedings
- Organize for gifts to be taken home after the reception
Best Man:
- Offer any assistance necessary to the groom
- Offer assistance required by either bride or grooms parents
- Organize Bulls party at least one week before the wedding
- Organize delivery and return of any hired suits
- Organize delivery of bride and grooms luggage to first night accommodation
- Help groom dress on the day
- Drive groom to the ceremony venue
- Sign register as official witness
- Escort the chief bridesmaid to the register signing area
- Ensure that all guests have transport to the reception
- Prepare a speech
- Read emails and letters
- Look after tickets etc for the honeymoon
Bride's Mother:
- Assist the bride as much as possible with wedding plans
- Assist with compiling the guest list
- Choose your wedding outfit ensuring that it complements the wedding colour scheme
- Mail invitations at least 6-8 weeks before the wedding day
- Make accommodation arrangements for out of town guests
Bride's Father:
- If agreed, provide the reception
- Accompany bride to the ceremony venue
- Make sure your guests are comfortable & introduce & socialize with groom's family and friends
- Prepare a speech
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