Wedding coordinators are available to orchestrate the varied details associated with a successful Michigan wedding and reception. The cost of a coordinator varies greatly and depends largely on the amount of time spent on your wedding.

How to Tips for Event Planners

By using articles and expert advice, you can handle the wedding preliminaries yourself, but it is still wise to use event planners to help keep your wedding day organized. A coordinator can smooth the wedding day's progression and so help provide the relaxed and enjoyable day you desire. A relative or close friend may be able to do the wedding day coordinating for you. Many churches have wedding hostesses who know about church facilities and policies.

How to Tips for Wedding Coordinators

- Acquaint yourself with the ceremony site. - Discuss with the bride and groom any wedding policies of the ceremony site. - Be available to assist the bride and groom by answering questions, offering suggestions, and having names of available resources for services. - Be as organized as possible, with all wedding day information in one place. - As you assist the bridal couple in planning their big day, know the following;

(1) Who will be giving the bride away? (2) Will the bridal couple be having a double-ring ceremony? Who will have the rings? (3) Will the officiant provide the wording for the vows, or will the bride and groom be writing their own? (4) Will communion (the Eucharist) be observed? Who will participate? (5) Will the lighting of the unity candle be included? (6) What other special observances will be a part of the outdoor Michigan ceremony? (7) Who will have the marriage license? When and where will it be signed? (8) Will the bridal couple have a receiving line? If so, where? Who will be involved? (9) Who will be responsible for cleaning out the bride’s dressing room? The grooms dressing room? (10) Who will be responsible for audio and/or videotapes of the ceremony? of the reception? (11) If a preceremony buffet is to be served at the ceremony site, who will be responsible for setup? Serving? Cleanup? (12) Where will the reception be? How soon will it follow the ceremony? (13) Who will be responsible for taking the guest book to the reception? To whose home afterward? (14) Who will be responsible for transporting the gifts from the ceremony site? from the reception site? To whose house?

- Confirm your arrival time for both the rehearsal and ceremony with the custodian of the facility (or other designated person). This time should be early enough to accomplish any necessary advance preparations: unlocking doors, setting up equipment and accessories, turning on lights, heating or air conditioning, etc.

- Confirm with the bride the arrival times of the bridal party, the brides and grooms parents, and grandparents, special others, the officiants, musicians, florist, photographer, DJ, etc. On the wedding day be available to greet each one, to answer any questions, and to give any last-minute instructions.

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