Your Wedding Day: Tasks to Assign Others to Help With

There are a number of things that will be happening at your wedding, both during the ceremony and the reception, that you will want to assign others to help you with. If you plan in advance who is going to do what, and when they will do it, then your wedding day should run as smoothly as possible, without the bride and her family scrambling at the last minute to get these tasks done.

Your Wedding Day: Greeter and Guestbook Attendant

Especially if you have an outdoor wedding in which it might not be clear to people where exactly they should be, having a greeter and guestbook attendant will help your guests to feel welcomed and know what they should be doing. Point them to where they should put their gifts, help them find seats and get settled, and mostly just welcome them and make sure they know they are in the right place.

Your Wedding Day: Safekeeping of Gifts

At most weddings, people bring a lot of expensive and otherwise valuable gifts, including many cards that have money or gift cards in them. It would be horribly unfortunate for this to be the case, but there is a slight chance that somebody at or around your wedding might be tempted to walk off with one of your gifts. To protect against this, have a couple of your guests assigned to keep an eye on the gifts, and at some point during the reception, to move them all into a car (and lock it).

Your Wedding Day: Punch Server

If you do not have full service catering at your wedding reception, consider assigning somebody to serve the punch or other beverages. Especially if they are placed at the end of a line, guests will need to set down everything else they are carrying to properly pour a cup of punch. Have one of your guests help pour cups of punch, especially during the initial rush at the beginning of the reception.

Your Wedding Day: Cleanup of Site

If you are responsible for cleaning up either your wedding or reception site, this is a task that you should delegate to somebody else. You are not going to want to be cleaning up trash and moving chairs around right after you get married! Communicate beforehand what cleanup needs to be done, and make sure your team will stay until the place is as clean as it needs to be.

Your Wedding Day: Don't Make Your Family Work

It can be tempting to have your parents and siblings, the people you trust most, in charge of some of these tasks. However, your wedding day is a very special day for them as well, so it would be wise to not assign them tasks to complete. Make sure that you enjoy your special day with the most special people in your life!