Aloha from the Valley Isle! I’m here today preparing for Janilee & Melvin’s Maui wedding this Saturday at the Wailuku Community Center, and I’m excited about it. They had their final planning meeting with me earlier today to go over any last minute changes for their wedding celebration, and we’re good to go! They are planning a really lively, original, and fun celebration: a unique trivia game to release the tables to the buffet, an original bouquet toss activity, Last Man Sitting for the garter giveaway, and much more!
On FRIDAY, I finalize their musical soundtrack, burn it onto two CDs, print & put together the “script” for the celebration, then rehearse, rehearse, rehearse! I pick up my assistant Lesley around 10pm, then get a good night’s rest.
On SATURDAY, I leisurely wake up, have a good breakfast, rehearse the presentation with Lesley a few more times (to make sure that we’ve coordinated the music cues to the presentation), and then get to the community center around 3pm. After helping my friend Bud set up his DJ system and checking to make sure all of the audiovisual logistics are in place…IT’S SHOWTIME!
The next few days will be intense, but the result, on Saturday at Janilee & Melvin’s wedding celebration, will be absolutely worth it.
How much time should a good emcee devote to something as important as your wedding?
If you want your wedding to turn out good, be like Janilee & Melvin: make sure that your Master of Ceremonies puts in the necessary preparation and rehearsal time in order to make your wedding as fun, stress-free, and perfect as can be.
Thanks for reading. Now I have to go rehearse.
