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Decide on your wedding budget with your fiancee.
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Choose your best man, groomsmen and ushers.
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Make an appointment with your celebrant and attend to all legal requirements.
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Make appointments to visit formal wear stores with your fiancee to decide on styles.
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Decide on the style of buttonholes for you and your party.
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Organise to have your wedding bands engraved.
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Discuss honeymoon plans with your fiancee and set a budget.
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Discuss with your fiancee whether you would like to use a bridal registry service and go with her to choose the gifts.
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Make all honeymoon arrangements.
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Enroll yourself and your fiancee in dancing lessons for that all-important first dance.
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Book accommodation for your wedding night.
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Make sure your home is stocked with essentials for when you return from your honeymoon.
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Gather maps, brochures and travel schedules for your out of town guests.
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Make transport arrangements for you, the wedding party, and both sets of parents, including transport from the reception to where you will be spending your wedding night.
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Organise purchase of liquor, wines and champagne for the reception (if not provided by your venue)
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Delegate someone responsible to collect gifts from the reception and look after them for you.
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Review all contracts with providers of wedding services and offer to confirm all arrangements for your
fiancee
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Choose a special toast to your bride
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Prepare (and practise) your speech.
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Make a list of favourite songs to discuss with your fiancee and choose one for the bridal dance.
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Organise appointments for formal wear fittings for all the men in your party.
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In the stressful months leading up to the day, surprise your fiancee with romantic dinners, with the stipulation that you both cannot mention the wedding during the entire evening.
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Attend to all fees for the Celebrant, the musicians, the photographers, etc.
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Surprise your fiancee by arranging for flowers, champagne and chocolates to be delivered to your hotel room on your wedding night.
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When you collect your wedding rings from the jeweller, take your fiancee’s engagement ring along and have it
professionally cleaned.
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Review all insurance policies (home, car, life, medical etc) and make any adjustments necessary.
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Delegate someone responsible to look after your wedding certificate once it has been signed and presented to you.
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Buy gifts for the men in your bridal party and last, but by no means least, buy a very special gift for your bride
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The buttonhole flowers are worn on the left lapel --- flower
up
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With single breasted suits, do up the top button only when there are two buttons on the suit, and do up the middle button only when there are three buttons.
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The pleats on the cummerbunds are worn facing up.
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The groomsmen should all be wearing matching shoes. Most formal wear stores have a hire range of black lace-up and slip-on shoes.
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Why should girls have all the fun? When you book in for a final suit fitting, why not take all of your groomsmen to the hairdressers for a style cut, and then buy them lunch to thank them for their support and friendship.
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Wear a subtle aftershave or fragrance so as not to overpower your bride’s perfume and the subtle fragrance of her bouquet.
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Have your hair trimmed approximately one to two weeks before the wedding so that it doesn’t have that “just cut” look.
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Have a facial a few days before the wedding, after all you will not have the luxury of layers of makeup to give you a perfect complexion.
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Take a stick of cover-up foundation with you on the day for you and your groomsmen to use to hide any blemishes or shaving rashes.
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For best photographic results, shave 2-3 days before the wedding and then wait until the morning of the wedding to have your last shave as a single man.
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Have a manicure two days before the wedding. On the wedding day use a nail brush to clean your hands and nails. Do not apply hand lotion --- you will be shaking hands with a lot of people and there is nothing like a wet, oily
handshake.
