12 days to go! What did you almost forget?

I almost forgot pretty hangers for dress photos lol. Honestly, I was pretty chill throughout the process - those last few days I just tried to keep myself organized and make sure I had lists of what needed to go to the venue, and boxes/baskets/bags of things that could be gathered ahead of time

Ahhh!!!! I am 4 days after you and I am SO EXCITED for you (and for me!)

As a result, I don't know what I'll forget just yet, but things I have left to organise are:

breakfast ingredients for the morning of

printing the stickers for our favours and our cake bags, plus our guest book (bottles of wine we'll have people sign with metallic pens)

collect a few decor items and figure out when to drop them off

collect my dress and veil (next wednesday - my alterations lady is just steaming them)

I have a LOT of sweet little detail (a mirror with a rabbit on it to put in my pocket (my dress has pockets y'all!), a hip flask for our quaich ceremony which we need to fill, etc etc, and I think I'm most worried about forgetting those things. They're in the boxes we will take with us, but just knowing what needs to go in what house (my partner and I are staying apart), what needs to go to the venue, etc... makes things a bit tricky and it would be so easy to accidentally leave my gift for the groom at my house, the gift for my parents at my partner's accommodation... you know?

One of those tiny details it's easy to forget lol

Oh man, I forgot so much (not almost forgot, but full on forgot, bc my husband got COVID 3 weeks before our wedding so those last few weeks were HELL). The ones that still eat at me:

- An invite to use in my bridal details / flat lay photos, and loose blooms from the florist for the same purpose - I forgot to even ask for them.

The others are not so much "forgot" as "didn't think of:"

- Flat iron or curling iron, brush and bobby pins for my "emergency bag." My hair got destroyed during pre-ceremony outdoor photos. I hate most of our photos so far bc of it. Almost cried when I saw myself in the bathroom mirror right before I walked down the aisle (and not happy tears), and totally could've taken 5 minutes to fix it if I'd just had access to a flat iron.

- Someone on point to supervise the groomsmen pre-ceremony. Seriously, these are all adults mostly in their early 40s but they don't get out much especially since COVID so they were fun, but unreliable (not wasted or anything, just excited to be together again and highly distracted). Best man did get our rings to the ceremony so that was fine, but my husband forgot to hand out the groomsman and ring bearer gifts, and they forgot a little puppet I'd made of one groomsman who couldn't be there (another groomsman was supposed to carry him down the aisle, LOL). More importantly, they forgot the ring bearer pillow, and my husband's nephew was super upset he couldn't actually carry anything down the aisle bc the rabbi refused to let him hold the actual rings (he's 10 and I actually would've been fine with it, so I was mad about that).

These last two won't matter if you don't have any kids in the wedding:

- Backup outfits on-site for little ones. My SIL was going to carry my 10 month old nephew down the aisle with her but he had a blowout right before the ceremony, so poor SIL got separated from all the other bridesmaids and we found her crying in the bathroom trying to clean him up while my brother ran to get a change of clothes - she ended up carrying him down the aisle in pajamas. None of this bothered me except that my SIL was so upset about it. We could've easily had a backup outfit for him on standby so she didn't have to go through that.

- Someone on point to take little ones outside if they melt down during the ceremony. Same nephew was fussy (turned out he was coming down with RSV, oops - he's usually a calm, happy baby). Again, wasn't bothering me but everyone else assumed it was a big deal, so my dad got all flustered and tried to take him outside... but in the process he kicked over one of the glass vases that were lining the aisles, so in the middle of our ceremony you just heard glass shatter and water splash on the floor. Which was actually a blessing in disguise bc someone yelled out "mazel tov!" and it made everyone laugh and broke up the formality of the ceremony. But it was stressful for my dad, brother and SIL and we could've had a non-immediate family member lined up to take the baby outside if needed. It did work out fine though, when we walked out at the end of the ceremony the first thing I saw was my childhood best friend standing there holding my nephew - she saw my dad run out with him and followed him out to relieve him so he wouldn't miss the ceremony. :-) Gotta love friends like her.

Oh - one more - practicing first dances. We kind of couldn't bc we left it for the last few weeks and then spent those last few weeks in various stages of quarantine due to DH getting COVID. So I couldn't practice with him until he was in the clear, and then couldn't practice with my dad bc we weren't sure if he might have infected me - I was testing daily right up until the wedding to be sure. But, if you're not dealing with anything crazy like that, now would be a good time to practice those dances / speeches if applicable!

Ours was all indoors too, I didn't want any part of it outdoors, but we ended up having to take all our pre-ceremony photos outdoors bc they were still setting up inside. I so regret not pushing to find an indoor space - I picked our venue for the inside, not the outside. So it wasn't the backdrop I wanted AND it ruined my hair - double crappy! Extra hairspray is a great idea.