Weddingbee Blog

In theory, anyway. That’s why we decided to do a proper rehearsal at the Met Club the night before the wedding. Make our wedding party earn their dinners and all that.

My wedding planners (Jennifer and Shira of the Wedding Library) were at the rehearsal to make sure everything went off without a hitch. As it turns out, the rehearsal was a *great* idea, because we realized that the way we had planned the processional kind of fucked up was less than ideal.

The dilemma was, our current setup put my brother (a groomsman) standing furthest on the outside of the bridal party. My sister and Mr. Daisy’s brother were already cool on the inside–since Mr. Daisy’s bro was best man and my sister was one of my maids of honor–but we wanted my brother with the rest of the family.

So we called an audible and changed up the order, to go as follows:

1. Mr. Daisy flanked by his parents and trailed by his brother (best man)
2. Lil E (bridesmaid) and the Thaitalian (groomsman)
3. Sam (bridesmaid) and Scott (groomsman)
4. The Bean (MOH#2) and the Cuban (groomsman)
5. My sister (MOH#1) and my brother (groomsman)
6. Then my parents entered and waited at the beginning of the aisle
7. When the music changed, I met them and they walked me down the aisle, with me carrying my ginormous shower “bouquet”

The thing is, I had *agonized* over the processional order, even emailing a zillion a few spreadsheets back and forth with my planner Shira to decide if we’d do strict height order, strict role order (i.e. MOH last), modified height order, and a million other permutations. In the end, I thought I had come up with the *perfect* processional. which goes to show that theory and reality are two different ballgames.

Once we had the revised processional squared away and had done another quick run through, we were whisked off by waiting town cars to our rehearsal dinner at Bobby Van’s (more on that amazing dinner to come).

Besides in church weddings, are day-before rehearsals common? Will you be doing a run-through of the main event? Will it be the night before or just earlier on the wedding day itself?

And what are you doing about the processional? Single file? Two by two? …?