When it comes to planning your wedding, there are a lot of things to think about. Do you have everything planned out? Is everything in order? Do you know what to do to take care of your pink gerbera daisy centerpieces so you don’t ruin them and have to come up with ahem, ‘unique’ centerpieces for weddings made out of tissue paper from the bathroom scrunched up around glass bowls from the caterer with little marbles from your little brother’s room? Sometimes, having a back up plan and a list of vendors can be a very good idea. Everyone says that it will never rain on their wedding day, but unfortunately, the world still has many surprises, and often, Murphy law applies.
If your photographer, caterer, florist, minister or officiant are missing, what do you do? Often, those roles are the most difficult to fill. Plan ahead and have a list of all their numbers right where everyone that needs to see it can, so you don’t have to go searching for the number for thirty minutes only to call the florist and find out that their floral caught fire, when you could have called them in three minutes and used the other twenty seven minutes to send your best friend down to the grocery store to buy emergency flowers there, or get them to buy tall, elegant pillar candles, which will work just as well in a pinch.
If your photographer is missing, get as many guests as you can to take as many pictures as you can. Even if Bob is a terrible photographer, if he takes eighteen photos, one of them might be accidentally great, and if Jane loves photography and doesn’t have the best of cameras, and takes eighty seven photos, you’re likely to have enough photos to make up for the lack of a professional after you sort through them. Use a website like flickr to share photos so you can sort through and find the ones you like. Your kids probably won’t even know the difference between Bob’s one good photo and Janie’s nine good photos, and the ten ‘professional’ photos you would have had if your photographer had shown up.