After spending months on planning a perfect wedding, you wedding day is getting close! You have everything ready. Now, it’s time to pack your bridal emergency kit to ensure you will have a stress free and disaster-free day.

Two weeks before your wedding day, you can start picking up a few things from the list here and there while you’re out.  Rest assured, all of these suggestions will eventually be used since they are all everyday items.

What should be included in your bridal emergency kit?

• a tote bag to hold the items (zip closure is better)
• makeup bag (put sample size makeup and skin care items)
• Straws (so you can drink without messing up your lipstick)
• insect repellent (for outdoor weddings – be sure to test the scent)
• white chalk / baby powder (to hide stains)
• pantyhose
• clear nail polish (to repair a manicure or pantyhose)
• instant stain remover (such as a Tide pen)
• safety pins
• nail file or emery board
• miniature sewing kit
• fabric tape
• scissors
• breath mints
• tampons and pads
• pain reliever
• dental floss
• tweezers
• baby wipes
• comb/brush
• hair spray
• hair pins/bobby pins
• antacid
• tissues
• crackers / power bars
• batteries and memory card (for digital camera)
• ink pen
• a list of phone numbers for all of your wedding vendors and your attendants
• contact lens solution
• eye drops
• duct tape
• scotch tape
• dark socks (in case you have any forgetful groomsmen)
• extra car keys
• bottle water

Keep the emergency kit handy throughout the day.  Rest assured, you will have a perfect and stress free wedding day.

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Do you find your fiancé a kind of laid-back person and don’t want to get involved in wedding planning? Here are 5 easy ways of including him in preparing for this monumental event.

1. Ask for His Help – Grooms who don’t get involved always assumed their help either wasn’t needed, or wanted. Have a heart-to-heart talk with your fiancé and explain how important it is for him to join in on the wedding planning.
2. Ask for His Opinion – Don’t assume that your husband-to-be will have no interest in the color of the bridesmaid dresses, the type of flowers or wedding favors you’ll have at the wedding. Ask his opinions in simpler ways, such as showing him pictures from a magazine, or a website that you’ve found with the perfect dress. This lets him know you want his input and care what he has to say.
3. Entertaining Ideas – Ask your fiancé to be in charge of auditioning bands or DJ’s and booking the entertainment for the reception as well as the ceremony, if necessary.
4. Helping with the Invitations – Invitations will need assembly. Envelops will need addressed, stuffed and have postage affixed. There are also invitations for the bridal shower, and thank you cards for after the wedding. He can help some of those while watching his favorite TV program.
5. The Honeymooners – If the two of you don’t already have a clear idea of what type of honeymoon you’d like, arrange for a “date” night where you sit down together and decide where you’re going to go, and what you’d like to do. Ask your fiancé to handle all of the arrangements, such as the making the hotel reservations, or getting the paperwork in order for your passports.

Using these few simple suggestions, you should be able to encourage your fiancé to become more involved in wedding planning and at least take some responsibilities off of your shoulders at the same time.

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Planning a wedding can be a stressful time, however, as the bride you should try to do all that you can to keep from letting the stress overtake you and ruin your big day. Planning ahead is one the best ways to ensure that you do not come down with the last minute stress syndrome.

Properly planning ahead of time can help you to feel at ease as your wedding day approaches. This includes setting up a schedule or checklist of the items that you need to take care of and setting yourself deadlines in which to have these things accomplished.

You can also enlist the help of others; never try to do it all alone. Working together with family and friends cannot only reduce your stress but it can be fun too.

Think positive; do not assume that things are going to go wrong. Thinking positive thoughts will help you to have a better attitude about the results of your wedding planning efforts and help you to have a good time in the process.

Communicate, communicate, communicate, and never assume that your fiancé or others in your family know what you want or know your expectations. You need to make everything clear to everyone involved in the planning process to ensure that things turn out the way that you are visualizing them to be.

Doing these things can help you to make sure that your wedding planning results in the perfect wedding day that you have always dreamt of for many years.

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