Planning For Wedding Contingencies

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Couples get married every day of the year somewhere around the world.  Many of them plan their wedding way in advance, and feel like they have everything all set for their special day.  What very few people think about doing, however, is to plan for if things don’t go quite the way they intended.

For instance, if you planned for your wedding to be outside, and within a couple days of the wedding you knew it was going to be raining hard all day, you need to think in advance where you’d rather move people so that they can stay dry, or plan for stronger material if you still want to hold your wedding outside.  You might need a much bigger tent than you had initially planned for, especially if it’s supposed to be a big wedding.  And some of the foods you were going to have might not work as well for an outside wedding.

In the book A Wedding Like No Other by Peggy and Peter Post, they tell the story of a couple that wasn’t paying attention to signs of very bad weather coming.  Even the morning of the event, both parties looked at the sky and thought that things would be just fine.  By the time of the wedding, however, torrential weather finally hit the community.  Luckily, everyone was inside for the ceremony, but just before midway of the session the power went out.  Once the ceremony was over, they proceeded to try to drive to where the reception was, but found both ways to access the building were flooded.  The father was able to make arrangements to have the reception at his golf club in a small room, which turned out to be fine because they’d lost half the guests on the trip, and this was in the days before cell phones.  If the father hadn’t caught a lucky break, things could have ended much worse.

It never hurts to set up a backup plan just in case something does go wrong.  Caterers have been known to pull out at the last minute.  Photographers have ended up missing events because they’ve overbooked or gotten lost.  Brides have sometimes found that their wedding dress doesn’t quite fit on the day of their wedding.  The people who do hair and makeup might not show up.  Some of these are small things, but others could make the day seem like it’s never going to end, and not in a good way.

Take a little bit of time to always have a backup plan for certain things on your wedding day, because you never know what will happen with those things that are out of your control.

See more:
Wedding Planning Checklist
How to Create a Wedding Contingency Plan
Checklist for A Wedding Contingency Plan