Things to practice before your wedding

Things you should practice before your wedding day:

• Letting people encourage you and compliment you
• Tying a tie or bow-tie if you're wearing one
• Dancing if you want to do a first dance
• Holding a bouquet if there'll be one
• Your speech if you're making one
• Not your vows, let them be raw and ugly-beautiful
• Smiling for photos how you'd like to be seen in photos
• Shaking a bottle of champagne if champagne showers are on the schedule
• Ordering a car to pick you up from the reception so someone else can clean up afterward
• Cutting a cake with your partner, it's kinda weird
• Being present while your partner exchanges vows with you
• Walking slowly because everyone walks so fast into the ceremony
• Letting your parents speak for as long as they want in their speeches because it means they love you
• Eating canapés without dropping them on your clothes
• What would change if it rains?
• Setting boundaries with anyone and everyone who might infringe them and reduce your joy on the day
• Kissing ... no real reason, just do it more
• Signing your old signature for a marriage certificate if you're changing names in marriage
• How to walk through a sparkler line without crouching weirdly so it looks like you're actually escaping a war zone in the photos of you exiting the sparkler exit
• Politely and drunkedly telling your DJ or band to play this one banger that you will absolutely shake your tail feather to
• Ugly crying in your ceremony, are you even legally married if you don't cry? (Yes, you actually are but I'm just saying, crying is ok, it's how we know you're alive)

💍 Josh Withers is an Australian wedding celebrant based in Hobart who travels the world every week creating meaningful, fun, and honest marriage ceremonies for adventurous couples just like you.

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