Activity for Michelle

Are you planning any specific songs or leaving it up to your dj?

What are you serving at your reception? What do you enjoy as a guest?

What songs/artists get you into a dancing mood immediately?

What have you enjoyed as a guest that you would not have thought of? What details didn’t work out?

Do you have a seasonal color palette picked out or just whatever you like? What type of centerpieces and decorations are you wanting to have?

As a guest, what have you noticed worked well that you would do yourself or recommend to a friend getting married, and what backfired at weddings you have attended that you would do differently in their shoes?

Some people don’t see the point in it and would rather go to the reception, while others see it a huge breach of etiquette to skip the ceremony because that is the purpose of the event. What is your personal take as a guest?

What are you focusing your attention and budget on? Are you going for guest experience and memories or something else?

What made them stand out as enjoyable?

What will you be offering your guests to eat for them to pick from? Will you have it served buffet style, plated or something else?

Little costs that add up or details that people don’t tell you about such as who is collecting gifts/cards or arranging delivery of getting ready food, as examples.

For the married couples, what items/services did you feel was worth the splurge that you don’t regret? What do wish you had skipped or researched better?

What did/will you serve to the 12 and under crowd? Are you going for basic chicken fingers, providing a second choice for them or serving whatever adults eat? How detailed are you going with that on the reply card if guests need to pick a plated...

For those who added upgrades of household items, whether it’s your first home together after moving out of parents’ houses with mix and match or combining households, what did you do with the original items? For example, donating appliances or...

What did you decide or what do you plan to have? Do you have a strong preference from a guest perspective being either an attendant or the significant other/random plus one of an attendant seated with or apart from your date based on past experiences...

Without inconveniencing guests or intentionally making them uncomfortable, was there anything you included that worked out well that you and guests enjoyed that was strongly discouraged by the wedding articles and websites as “bad planning” or...