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5 Modern Wedding Tips for the Digital Bride
Jan
With modern weddings, technology plays a big role in making these unforgettable celebrations special. Wedding planning binders and calendars aren’t the only planning tools that a bride would need now in the year 2020 as the digital age has taken over us, including the wedding day itself.
Embrace the convenience technology has given us and get to know how to make the wedding day and wedding planning easier with the help of the ever-dependable smartphone and digital applications.
Here are 5 helpful wedding tips for the digital bride in 2020, read on!
Wedding apps are still king.
Even with brides who would prefer to have a wedding binder, having a handy app devoted for your big day is still very convenient. With loads of free wedding planning apps in the market, brides of today are lucky to have these resources easily available within the palm of their hands, literally. From wedding inspiration boards to wedding guest list apps, brides can check their lists and see their charts in an instant whenever and wherever. No need to lug around binders or carry around multiple lists!
However, if you are still a believer of the wedding binder, it’s okay to use one main wedding planning binder to sort all of your contracts, checklists, and wedding details together. However, you may supplement it with handy digital apps which can make wedding tasks easier – such as seating plan apps. You don’t have to recreate the wedding venue onto a board and use pins or flags to be rearranged per tiny round table, with table seating apps you can revise your seating plan on-the-go with just tapping your screen.
Create a wedding email.
Separate all the wedding-related emails into a new email address so you, too, can sort your wedding communication away from your work and personal emails. Pick an easy address as well, starting with your soon-to-be last name to make it easier for wedding suppliers to find and recognise. With your devoted email address, you can easily keep all the communication between you and your suppliers in one place.
To have a more organised and stress-free planning, you may opt to have the wedding email logged in on another email app on your phone or only available to be easily accessed at your laptop or tablet at home. Especially if your wedding day isn’t for another 6 months or a year, keep the wedding planning separate from your busy work life to avoid burnout. If you devote the weekends or Friday nights for wedding planning, only open the wedding email address on those days and keep it closed during the workweek.
Invest in an unforgettable wedding hashtag.
Who would have ever guessed that wedding hashtags would be a thing? With the fast-paced times we have and the never-ending social media feeds, it is hard to keep track of everything and not miss a single event or a trending post. Having a devoted wedding hashtag is a great way to make sure you and your new spouse get to see everything from your guests’ point of view. During the wedding day, the bride is the last person to arrive at the ceremony and the newlyweds are both the last ones to enter the ballroom to start the reception. Get to see everything that happens before the program starts through searching for the wedding hashtag at Facebook, Instagram, and other social media feed so you are still on the loop in your own wedding day.
Introduce the chosen wedding hashtag right from the start, from the save-the-dates, the invitation, the welcome bag for destination weddings, and the wedding decorations. Make sure the guests get to see it in the ceremony and also in the reception so they would know how to tag you and your beloved spouse.
Be prepared with a playlist.
Everyone has their own music playlist for their specific moods and their daily routines, hence the wedding day isn’t an exception. Prepare a great playlist of your handpicked favourites in your smartphone’s music app for the different moments during the big day. Get dancing with the bridesmaids as you all get prepped for the big day through a playlist of your club anthems or your high school theme songs. A calm and soothing playlist might be perfect for the car ride going to the church, as it might just be the longest car ride ever for the bride. When the wedding day is over and done, these songs will forever hold a special place in your heart as it will remind you of such an amazing day and an unforgettable memory.
Even if you have hired a wedding band or a DJ to take over the music duties for the reception, still have a party playlist on your phone’s music app as a plan B. You’ll never know when you might need it and if ever you and your friends are still up for dancing even after the DJ’s set, you can simply plug and play to dance the night away.
Don’t forget to power up.
Wedding checklists and bridal emergency kits are supposed to be updated now that it is the 2020’s and these should include having a powerbank on hand. With the wedding day starting in the morning and ending up late into the evening, the bride and groom won’t have the time to find an outlet or let alone find a charger. If any vendor or supplier is needed to be contacted, it would be too unfortunate for the bride and groom to both have dead phones by the time the reception proper starts.
The perfect place to stash a powerbank for the two of them to use would be in the bridal car, as the bride can use it going to the church (if she is bringing a phone in the first place) and they can both bring it along during the trip going to the reception. On the second part of the day, the powerbank can be prepped right on the bridal table ready to power up in time for the speeches and the dances.
