Weddingbee Blog

A wee piece of advice from the other (OMG) side of the wedding ceremony:

Don’t be afraid to do things last minute. I know you want to get all your DIYs done before the week of the wedding, and I think that is indeed the best way to plan. I’m talking about if, for instance, you are two weeks from your wedding and suddenly decide that you and your fiance should take dance lessons. You might have been thinking about it previously, and wondering if you should. Don’t let the fact that you’re two weeks out stop you from looking into it!

You might have guessed that the above was not an entirely theoretical example…I searched the internet and found a few dance studios that offered dance lessons to help with first dances and things. In the process of looking for reviews, I found a studio that had a note in their WeddingWire profile saying, “last minute bookings OK!”

I stopped looking for reviews at that moment and sent an email.

Dancing Til Dawn was so great. Dawn is a lovely lady, and made dancing so easy for two people who really have no experience ballroom dancing. With just an hour of “slow, slow quick quick,” we had a basic first dance routine down! And it was June 16th before our June 25th wedding! Dancing came much more naturally to Cinnamon Buns than it did to me, which was good as he’s the one leading. At the end of our lesson, we also decided to book another one the Thursday before the wedding for us and our parents, to get everyone used to dancing. That was really fun, and I’m very glad we did it.

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Another last-minute thing for us was our family photo display. I’ll talk more about it when we have pictures back, but we purposely saved the matting with scrapbook paper and framing of them until the Friday morning before the wedding (the whole project came in to being about a month before the wedding). As mum and I were going to spend hours baking pie, we needed something to do while 6 pies were in the oven for 1.5 hours. I think we might have had a freak-out over something/anything/nothing had we not had that project to fill in the time.

This post in one sentence: Don’t aim to do things last minute, but don’t be afraid to use all the time you have.

Married ladies, what things did you do last-minute?