If you’ve just announced your engagement to the World, it’s time to start the planning and there is for sure plenty of it. It can sometimes get so hectic and stressy as you try to ensure everyone involved will get the best out of the day, but don’t forget that it is your wedding day too and you should also be able to enjoy it.

Just what is the No.1 reason for wedding misunderstandings?

The main issue which causes arguments, stress or just plain confusion is the wedding etiquette associated with the order of wedding, gift giving, table arrangements and/or dinner speeches.

Wedding Order
Depending on if you are planning a formal religious service or a more informal non-religious style, you will first want to check what customs and protocol are expected of your style of wedding event. An easy solution is to note all invited people’s personalities, religions, nationalities etc onto your guest list. You can do this in 10-20 minutes once you have listed out the people you are inviting.

This expanded details list will then help you to easily answer these major questions:

whom should I sit next to whom.
This is a key point in ensuring your guests and ultimately you have the most fun possible by pairing up similar types of people.

how to know what are appropriate gifts to give.
You know what you would like to receive but most guests have absolutely no idea what are appropriate gifts to give you and don’t want to be seen as having no wedding gift etiquette. Publish your wedding gift list or wedding booklet so that all invited people can see it and get you your ideal present.

- wedding speeches that don’t flop or upset.
Everyone wants to give and hear great wedding dinner speeches, but nearly everyone struggles with knowing what they can or should say and what not to say. Based on your list of invitees, you can easily select the right people to give the speeches and can ask them or politely suggest to them what you would like to be said. Of course, you can never be 100% sure what they are going to say, but at least this way you won’t get any bad surprises.

Food or Catering selection.
Your guests will feel truly at ease if they don’t have any concerns over the wedding menu, and as this is also a major area of disagreement you can pre-empt any troubles by aligning your desired catering around what people can and can’t eat. This is especially important in mixed religion or different culture weddings.

There are many things to consider and plan for when organising your wedding and you may decide you want to hire a wedding planner to do this for you. With the cost of such services becoming ever more expensive, many people are doing it themselves and there can be great satisfaction in knowing that you have successfully planned it all yourselves.

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