The Seven Truths For Your South Carolina Wedding Day

Since you were a child you dreamed of being a bride on your South Carolina Wedding Day. In your dreams, the sun shines, music plays, wedding guests laugh, dance and sing. The wedding guest talk for years of how a good time they had. The wedding of your dreams can happen, but it takes planning, discipline, and patience. Let's get down to the nitty gritty of the Schedule of the Day.

Truths For Your South Carolina Wedding Day

TRUTH #1:Time is the enemy. Work backwards from the time the bride and groom should arrive at the wedding reception. Remember the schedule at the reception is fairly fixed and will usually follow a script set out by the caterer. Remember that if a bride and groom have booked a five hour reception that begins at noon and is set to end at 5:00 PM, they can usually assume that at 5:00 the lights will come on and the caterer will begin to turn over the hall for the 6:30 reception coming in after them. If a bride and groom are a half hour late getting to the hall, the dinner will begin to get cold and other activities may be rushed.

TRUTH #2:Travel eats up time. Many brides and grooms forget to include travel into their estimates when planning their South Carolina wedding. A bride and groom may spend as much as an hour or more in the limo during course of the day.

TRUTH #3:Good photography takes time. The FORMAL PORTRAITS are an important historical record and take time. A bride and groom should allow about a half hour for the portraits and they are best done right after the ceremony.

TRUTH #4:Receiving lines waste time. After all the bride and groom will be seeing each of these guests at the reception hall anyway, right? Why throw away as much as 20 minutes that you could spend at the cocktail hour.

TRUTH #5:Start the day early. A bride should plan to leave for her hair appointment early. If a bride plans to meet her bridesmaids at her house beforehand and go together, give them an earlier time as well.

TRUTH #6:Nutrition is power. When you don't eat you loose energy and a bride and groom can't have any FUN if they are tired and hungry. Plan a good breakfast, even if you think you can't eat anything, at least drink a diet shake. Have one of the bridesmaids compile a snack basket for everyone to pick at throughout the day. Soft pretzels work great…no mess and they soak up alcohol. Alcohol early in the day is usually a BAD idea. Hangover at the reception…not FUN.

TRUTH #7:The photographer is the cruise director of a bride and groom's South Carolina wedding. The photographer will be with the bride and groom from the beginning of the wedding day until the cake is cut. Work with your photographer to plan a schedule, so he will keep the bride and groom on track and maximize their FUN.

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