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Embossing heat tool!

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Corner Rounder!
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Overwhelmed? Feeling like you are doing all the wedding-planning work? If you’re anything like me, you feel the need to do every wedding-related task yourself. No, you’re not a masochist, but you just know that only you can do it best (control freak alert!).

Of course, there are grooms out there who are very involved in the wedding planning process. I’ve seen a few DIY projects where the groom made the invitations by hand or did the calligraphy on the envelopes himself! Sadly, Mr. Kitten does not have crafting or calligraphy skills, but that hasn’t stopped me from delegating other time-consuming tasks to him!

1. Thank-you notes: Divide the thank-you note duties! If the gift-giver is one of his guests, have him write the thank you note. Chances are you’ll be receiving gifts from his friends and family members that you don’t know very well or have never met. It will be more meaningful for those people to receive a thank-you note from him, the person they actually know. And because he knows the gift-giver, it will be much easier for him to write a meaningful, personalized thank-you note.
2. Compiling an address database: Have him call/email people requesting their mailing addresses! One warning: I assigned this task to Mr. Kitten over the summer. After he had compiled most of the addresses, I discovered, to my horror, that he had occasionally misspelled people’s names and street names. I had to go back and double-check every entry! If I could do it all over again, I would have explicitly expressed to him how important accuracy was in that situation (especially if you were paying someone to do calligraphy!).
3. Simple crafting tasks: Mr. Kitten is a fan of using the embossing heating tool and the corner rounder (both are “tools” and therefore are fun to use).
4. Contacting any RSVP delinquents: Especially those from his side!
5. Handling the groomsmen and their attire: Of course, you may want to pick out his attire together, but once the decision is made, let him handle the details.
6. Planning the honeymoon: Traditionally this is part of the groom’s duties, but I had to be persuaded to let this one go!

What tasks have you delegated to your husband-to-be?