- You don’t have to be an events coordinator to have your own bridal kit.
If you are great friend of the Bride-to-be, no matter what role you play during your friend’s wedding- Maid of Honor, Bridesmaid or simply a guest, it would be wonderful to help her one of way or another.
The Wedding Girl Scout
Besides being the troubleshooter, one of the things I really learned from being an Events Coordinator is to be a “Girl Scout” in every wedding. Instead of having emergency kits, I have its fancy equivalent – the bridal kit.
Of course, I don’t really have those fancy walkie talkie nor do I have all the supplies in the Martha Stewart Bridal Emergency Kit, all the things I have were consolidated items that was brought about by my personal experience as an Events Coordinator.
Ceremony Helps
At first I depended on the Bridal Kit of the different Events companies I’m with but eventually, I learned to keep and replenish my own kit supplies base from the different weddings I attended. I guess as the Ceremonial head and sometimes Bridal Assistant of some weddings, I was able to put together a dependable kit which some of you may like to have if ever the situation arises.
D-I-Y Bridal kit.
When prepping up for the wedding often times one fixes and double checks the Ceremonial items. In those incidents you may like to put some items you may like to put in your Bridal Emergency Kits.
1. Hair Pins - are usually needed just in case the Bride’s headdress and veil may be off during the Ceremony and reception. These are also needed for instances wherein Flower girls and other entourage members have headdresses as well.
2. Safety Pins - this is for the Second Veil where in the Veil Secondary sponsors would be pinning it onto the bride and groom.
3. Matches/lighters - you guessed it, this is for the Candle Sponsors – the lighting of the ceremony candles and unity candles.
4 and 5. Scissors and Tailor Pins - the scissors and tailor pins were very useful to me when one time while being a Bridal Assistant, the beaded string from the Bridal bouquet loosened. I had to cut it and placed tailor pins to put the rest of the beaded string in place.
Tailor pins are also useful for the buttoniers and corsages of the entourage – usually the Principal sponsors and the male part of the entourage have them.
6 and 7. Black ballpen/Signpen and clipboard - to assist in signing the Marriage Contract which is usually the Best Man and Maid of Honor duties, having extra ballpens/signpens may speed up the process.
8. Tissue/white handkerchief - for those touching moments when the couple or the couple’s parents may shed a tear or two. It would be great to hand them these tissue paper/handkerchiefs to wipe their tears.
9. White ribbon - just in case you want to decorate those matches, lighters for the ceremony you may use the generic color for any wedding – white.
10. Silver/white pouch - sometimes, some brides don’t have their bridal pouch where they could put their make-up, mobile phones, and other personal little thingies that they maybe needing, so it would be great to lend them something like a silver/white pouch for the ceremony.
11. Pain relievers - for headaches and other on-the-spot sickness people at the ceremony may encounter.
12. Small glue gun - just in case, there are some instances like the flower decor at the match would suddenly fall off, you can fix it immediately at the place where you are doing the preps.
12. Small glue gun - just in case, there are some instances like the flower decor at the match would suddenly fall off, you can fix it immediately at the place where you are doing the preps.
13. Fresh mints - for fresh breath anytime and anywhere.
14. Needles and thread (white and any color – depending on the Wedding Theme) - for rips and seams.
15. Straws - The very white wedding gown would be trashed, if she gets some unwanted liquid spilt over it plus her lipstick will be drastically affected if the bride drinks. So not to dehydrate the bride make sure you have some handy straw.
There are perhaps other things you like to add like nail polish for runs etc. it’s really up to you. Remember every wedding is like a play, whatever happens the show must go on. So it would be great to nip every problem in the bud no matter how small it is. Thus in doing so you get the merit you always need and a badge of gratefulness from the couple who are having their special day. So add if you must but never subtract, every wedding may use these items one way or another, so be the Wedding events girl scout.
Source: http://spotlighttheatre.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/15-must-haves-inside-a-bridal-kit/
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