As the old saying goes, “practice makes perfect” and when comes to you’re the most important day of your life, you naturally want everything to flawlessly go as planned. Which brings us to the topic of your wedding rehearsals, and if there is really a need for it. Although most people would claim, one can easily forego a wedding rehearsal especially if you are on a tight budget. While most people generally knows how to stand and walk, a conducting a wedding rehearsal is generally advised to ensure the proper flow of traffic and to simply make sure there will be no hitches in the wedding ceremony. So send out that wedding rehearsal invitation and set up a small gathering where you can practice at the same time celebrate the last few days before your enter the married life.

It is generally advised to do your wedding rehearsals in the site or it’s not possible, it can be easily done in the family room or large living room. You can start your wedding rehearsals by gathering all the participants of the wedding and lining them up in the proper order they will follow during the ceremony. If someone cannot make it to the rehearsal, it’s not a cause to fret, just instruct the people to leave a spot on the designated position of the person. You can also ask the people behind or in front of the missing attendant to assist the individual and clue him in where to position.

The attendants should stand on both sides of the officiant, directly facing the groom and bride, the ring bearers and the flower girls would stand at the front of the senior attendants. However, if there is only one flower girl, she should stand in front of the matron or maid of honor while the ring bearer would naturally stand in front of the best man.

Recessional

Once you have instructed everyone to remember his or her proper position, you can proceed on practicing the Recessional. The bride and the groom would leave first, them followed by the children included in the entourage, then the maid or matron of honor and the best man, to be followed by the bridesmaid and the groomsmen. Once the whole entire entourage have ‘recessed’ the immediate family members will follow led by the bride’s parents, then the groom’s parents, followed by the grandparents.

Processional

Once you are done with practicing the recessional, ask the participants to regroup to proceed in practicing the processional. During this time, everyone would know their position – on whether who will precede and follow them. Give out the instructions that before the processional would start, the immediate family members should be properly seated on the designated seats. You can assign ushers to provide assistance in helping family members find their seats.

The officiant or minister can give the cue to start the processional music and he will be the first on to enter followed by the groom and his men. It is generally acceptable for grooms to come in next to the minister or last, whichever he prefers. When all men are finally in place, they will all face the aisle to wait from the bridal entourage to enter. The bridesmaids will then be cued to enter maintaining proper spacing and intervals of roughly about 20 feet, followed by the amid or matron of honor. The ring bearer and the flowergirl/s will follow and the bride will slowly walk down the aisle with her father or escort on the left side.

There is just the preview of your wedding ceremony and instructions should be given out to avoid turning your wedding into a circus. After the ceremony, you can invite everyone to a small intimate dinner and celebrate the imminent wedding and enjoy everyone’s company.