Wedding guest checklist
Fourteen hours, a wet field and a dance floor. The list is short because the job is small; it exists because the small things are what get forgotten.
30 items
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The items
- Before the day
- RSVP by the date, even if it is a no
- Send your dietary requirements
- Check the dress code and ask if it is unclear
- Buy from the gift list, or agree money
- Book accommodation and transport early
- Arrange how you are getting home, before you drink anything
- What to wear
- The outfit, tried on all the way through
- Shoes you can stand in for four hours
- Flat shoes in a bag for the evening
- Something warm for outsideEvery outdoor ceremony is colder than the forecast.
- Block heels or heel stoppers for grass
- Nothing white, unless you have been told otherwise
- The bag
- Card and gift, or the payment made
- Portable charger
- Painkillers
- Plasters for blisters
- Tissues
- Cash, for a bar or a taxi that needs it
- Sunglasses and sun cream, or an umbrella
- Chewing gum and a spare hair tie
- On the day
- Arrive thirty minutes before the ceremony time
- Phone silent, and away during the ceremony
- Eat something before the reception
- Find your seat before speeches, not during
- Talk to the person sitting alone
- Say goodbye to the couple before you leave
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Questions people ask
- What should a wedding guest bring?
- The card and gift, flat shoes for later, a portable charger and something warm. Evening receptions get cold and outdoor ceremonies are longer than you expect.
- When should I arrive?
- Thirty minutes before the stated ceremony time. That is not early — that is what the stated time means, and latecomers are sometimes not let in.