Showing posts with label Wedding Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wedding Party. Show all posts

Thursday, July 27, 2006

FYI Bridesmaids

BRIDESMAID’S DUTIES

  • Help the bride plan her wedding.
  • Listen to her plans with a smile on your face.
  • Make time for group dress shopping trips and fittings.
  • Pay for your bridesmaid’s dress, even if you hate it. You can let your feelings be known but the bride has the final call on what you wear.
  • Help addresses and assemble wedding and shower invitations.
  • Help wrap and tag guest favours and Bombonniere.
  • Help the Maid of Honour plan & pay for a shower
  • Attend the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.
  • Help decorate ceremony and reception locations if necessary
  • Stand in the receiving (optional)
  • Sit at the head table
  • Have a dance with the groomsmen
  • Offer to help the Maid of Honour when needed.
  • Help load gifts into car.
  • Help with clean-up at the end of the night (for all the different events)

FYI Groomsmen

GROOMSMEN'S DUTIES

  • Go and pick out your tuxes and show up for fittings
  • Help the groom and best man, if they need any
  • Help with loading and unloading cars of decorations, liquor, etc….
  • Attend the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner.
  • Greet and seat guests at the ceremony.
  • Escort the mother of the groom to her seat.
  • Escort the mother of the bride to her seat.
  • Roll out a red or white carpet down the church aisle for the bride to walk on.
  • Smile for the photographer.
  • Sit at the head table during dinner
  • At the end of the reception, help load the car with gifts and everything else.
  • Return your tux.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

We've got all our Groomsmen...

They are:

Roy McGee - Best Man. Jerome's first cousin. The very first Thompson family member that I met... yes, even before the girls :) He's been around since the very beginning stages of our relationship.

Andy Montalbano - Groomsmen #1. My Matron of Honor, Trisha's husband. Andy and Jerome met for the first time about 5 years ago when Trisha and I were having a High School Reunion. It was Jerome's birthday that night and Andy felt the need to help Jerome out with "celebrating his birthday at the girlfriend's class reunion"... oh Andy I'll get you yet!

Don Lederhaus - Groomsmen #2. My first cousin. Here I thought this guy would be the perfect Usher for our wedding... as it ends up, he wants a bigger part in this production! Now hopefully any and all those stories we have about when he use to babysat me will not come up during any sort of speech.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Wisconsin Bridal Shower


Yep, it's this weekend on Saturday. It will be held at my parents house in Hortonville.

  • Jerome and I will be leaving on Friday to Wisconsin. We may have Bridesmaid Anna and her son Chris along for the ride... we'll know for sure on Thursday.
  • When we get in I will need to prep a Pampered Chef Ring recipe for the shower when I get there since I've an early morning hair appointment at Richard's.
  • Jerome will head over to his Groomsmen's house (Andy Montalbano) while the shower is going on to hang out. Jerome also will get Mark, our DJ, his copy of our contract while I'm at the shower.
  • We've got an appointment to meet with a photographer while we are home at 4PM on Saturday in Hortonville.
  • We need to stop in or call about the cake and give them our list of flavors for the layers.

hummmm what else?

Thursday, January 05, 2006

How I, or we, know the bridal party...

Trisha Montalbano - Matron of Honor. Well this chick use to tease me during a city summer function called Rec...The place where all the neighborhood kids go while their parents are at work when school wasn't in session. I went home and told my mom that this girl was teasing me(guess I'm a tattletale!)... My mom called her mom... And we became the best of friends... Strange isn't it??? I would say we had to have met in 2nd grade since we were in the same class but weren't really friends till about 5th grade. I also stood up in her wedding to her husband Andy.

Lisa Petersen - Bridesmaid #1. I met Lisa when I was in my 2nd year of college. My dorm roommate moved out just before Christmas break to move in with her boyfriend. I was so wishing to have a room all to myself, which was possible since most people wouldn't start a new school year 1/2 through the year... But nooooo Lisa had to come and move in on my turf. :) She had been studying abroad for the first half of the school year and needed a dorm to stay in for the 2nd half. You guessed it... Lisa ended up being my roommate in college and then when I moved to the cities we shared a two bedroom apartment.

Anna Widerski - Bridesmaid #2. Anna, Anna, Anna. What to say about Anna. As I was working for a temp agency I got a job working at US Bank stuffing and folding and being annoyed 24/7 with my new "job". A lady in my department, "Smelly Beth", told me about this girl who was somewhere around my age that was in the department across the hall and thought we would make good friends for each other. And well... Anna happened to know this Jerome fellow since he worked at US Bank at some point in time too. Yes, Anna is the one that made the connection sort of between Jerome and I. We actually saw each other on the street outside of Anna's apartment as we were both going to her house at the exact same time!

Anna Totzke - Flower Girl #1. Anna is my God-child, niece, and my eldest sister Tammy's youngest daughter. Cute as a button and thought she would be perfect for this job!

Mckenna Mullock - Flower Girl #2. Mckenna is also my God-child, niece, and oldest child of my older sister Pam. Always a Princess in dresses and sparkles.

Allie Totzke - Special Duties As Assigned. Can you guess by the last name that this is my other niece from one of these families? She's Tammy's oldest daughter and Anna's big sister. I'm sure she will do a fine job of helping me with special projects on the big day... Never know I may need her to do some artwork for my house some day too!

I guess that's all I can tell you right now. I'll update this as people become known!

BRIDAL PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT


Well so far at least!!!

Trisha Montalbano - Matron of Honor

Lisa Petersen - Bridesmaid #1

Anna Widerski - Bridesmaid #2



Anna Totzke- Flower Girl #1
Mckenna Mullock - Flower Girl #2
Allie Totzke-Special Duties As Assigned

There are more to come, I couldn't get in touch with everyone last night!!!

Jerome even attempted to ask his ideal Best Man but the guy screamed and never gave an actual response before hanging up the phone!!!