When you get engaged, there’s so much excitement and so much to think about.  However, as the wedding plans start to take form, consider limiting where you turn to for opinions.

As early in the planning stage as possible, make a firm decision about who you trust to give you honest and unbiased advice.  That could be a sister, your mother, perhaps your head bridesmaid.  My advice is to limit it to three or four of your closest family or friends.

It’s very easy to ask 20 people about the chair cover colours, or menu items, or even first dance or ceremony music suggestions.  Trust me - this will completely overwhelm you.  If you don’t know immediately what’s right, that’s OK.  But when you ask too many people for their opinion it probably will make things worse.

Don’t ignore others offering advice or ideas, they’re just trying to help.  But if you’re asking for help, decide early on who you will ask and make a decision to trust them and only them.

I also think there might be some advantage in making a guy one of those confidants.  Depending on your outlook, a guy will likely give you a completely different perspective.  Something you’re losing sleep over may in fact be one of things that many of the guests will not even notice.   This will help you decide if it’s important for you, or for everybody.  Either way is right.

Most importantly - never forget that the most important thing about your wedding is that it’s your wedding.

Regards
Nick Logan

DJ or MC for wedding ceremony and reception

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Guest books are nice to have at a wedding.  If you’re going to use one, be sure to have your wedding MC remind guests through out the evening to sign.  Often there’s a line at the start of the reception and some guests will skip it with every intention of doing it later, then forget.

Also, encourage your guests to contribute more than just their name.  Words of wisdom, advice, or just a story or comment will be so much more memorable in 10 or 20 years.

I’ve seen some other great ideas used instead  of the traditional wedding guest book.

• A photo book, like a reference type book with more photos than text.  One couple had images of the world (a well travelled pair) and they had guests at the wedding from 11 different countries.  Guests signed the photos, instead of writing on blank pages.
• An old fashioned photo album, complete with Polaroid instant photos.  Take a pic, print the photo, then sign the page.  Usually these albums use black pages, so be sure to have a pen that will show up on black - perhaps a silver or white ink pen.
• An artists canvas mounted on a frame.  Supply a variety of pens (lot’s of colour) and you then have a guest book that is actually a work of art.  You can hang and display this in your home.  An alternative is to use paper, then talk to the photo/image outlets (the guys that used to develop your rolls of camera film) about transferring that to canvas.  Alternatively, go to the experts at On2Canvas.

If you have another idea, please add it to the comments!

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