Whats your groom and his merry men doing the morning of the wedding?

Mine is sTayin at the hotel were getting married at with his best man using the swimming pool having breakfast using the sauna probably havin a nice relaxing time whilst I'm at home with 4 kids lol

Well I was worried he was going to be working until 10am ? - but I now know that this week he has booked the Friday and Saturday (wedding day) and the week after off!

But knowing them they will be asleep until 11am! The campervan is picking them up at 12 to be at the venue an hour before the wedding (where I am staying the night before so i will make sure everything is ok). I am not giving them anything to do just to get ready and remember the rings! I think that will be all I can trust him with ?

I actually don't really know...probably just breakfast, swimming, chilling out at the hotel with his ushers and the photographer ? or more likely finishing his speech!

I'm sensing that answers to this question will have an effect on your spreadsheet?

Ant will be getting to the venue, groomed and well-dressed. Giving him anything else to do might be begging for disaster. His merry men, on the other hand, will likely have tasks to do: ensure any final DIY decor is in place at the venue, that any early guests are taken to the music room for a drink, that residential guests manage to find their rooms, etc. Oh, and making sure Ant gets to the venue groomed and well-dressed.

I might enlist his 4-year old niece to act as messenger and ferret love notes between the two of us as well.

And as for trusting the ushers with making sure the venue looks like it should: I will likely be providing diagrams. Perhaps CADs of the proper layout and 3D renderings of centrepieces and how the dessert table should look ?

I'm worried that they will be recovering from the night before as it's a friends birthday!

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See I'm torn between not risking giving them anything else and knowing that they've all been ushers at weddings before so they know the score and whilst they are a bunch of silly little boys sometimes I'm hoping they will man up on the day and do whats needed... Also seems a bit silly for me and BM's to be running around when they've got nothing to do!!!

I've pencilled for him and the ushers to be at the church ready for the ceremony 1 hour before now. Can't see any guests arriving before that???

Although we do also have a few rooms on site that I suppose people might need seeing to... I might need to consider that when I work out who has which room so no one gets a peek of me early!!

H's only jobs on the morning were to go to the pub for a drink and get to the venue 45 minutes before the ceremony.

All venue set up was done the day before. The second photographer met all the men at the pub for photos.

My partner has volunteered to go to the venue on the morning of our wedding to give it a once over to ensure everything is as planned!

I am sure he will have a cheeky pint somewhere before getting to the Church an hour before me to greet the guests! x

Oh dear, I've just realised the flaw in the plan of OH staying at pub b&b the night before.... I'll have to put his Mum on boys watch to make sure they don't get totally bladdered!!!

My H was in a hotel 5mins from our venue arranged for the lads to all go to his favourite little greasy diner for breakfast (which he then, couldn't eat due to the hangover/nerves). That was at 9am and the photographer arranged to meet him there to get some getting ready shots of the boys. They were done for about 10:30ish and he was picked up at 1:45 by his Limo to get to our church for our 3pm service. In between it appears they had a lazy day, going through speeches and getting dressed which was a bit of a mission I am told.

My Mom did our venue checks around 10am on the morning of the wedding as we had a 3pm service and so plenty of time. I wouldn't have asked my H to do this, he was so nervous and preoccupied and IMO he needed his groomsmens attention just to settle his nerves and support him so I wouldn't have asked them either.

OH will be on dog walking duty. He will also have to contend with a house full (due to some friends taking the piss & saying they can't afford to come otherwise!!) but I am sure he will have them all through the bathroom with military order! He will also have to strip our bed & put clean sheets on (for said guests to sleep in our bed!!), plus get another set of sheets so they can put clean sheets on OUR bed for when we come home on the sunday evening Mr & Mrs ? He has to do all of this by 12.00 to leave to get to the church on time! Feel sorry for him

D will be arriving at the church between 12 and 12.15. And he'll have no choice because he wants to go in the wedding car so there will be a tight schedule he must stick to so that I arrive at church on time (its the same car) Our service starts at 1pm.

Also this way he is there to greet guests, spend some time chatting and hopefully he will be relaxed and excited rather than a nervous wreck like me.

We get married at 3pm, my OH plan is to take the kids to park when they get up and had breakfast with bestman (im staying at my parents!) they wil then have a mcdonalds and head home for 12 quick shower for boys and best man is bringing them to my mums, OH and groomsmen are getting picked up at 2.15 for the 5 min drive to church.

Mine was responsible for most of the on-the-day setup in the venue, so had to make sure all the cake stands were put together and vases put out etc, plus showing the ushers round all the various bits of the venue so they could guide people. He actually had more work than I did - I just had to sit still and have hair/make-up done!

They are getting up early for breakfast, shower and get dressed then OH , Bestman and Usher are off to have a proper wet shave then they will be at the venue for 11am, registrar interview is at 11:30 to they can meet and greet the guests for 12pm ceremony.

I wouldnt rely on the ushers to be setting up they will be keeping the groom happy and calm.

They shall be playing golf.

Everything was set up the day before so he didnt have anything to do.

he ended up going to the local shopping mall with his best man, one of my b.maids and a flowere girl!

my suspicion is that he went to get my wedding pressie!

Mine will be washing the car. He turned down a boozy night with the boys the night before (of his own accord) to make sure the golf is obsessively clean. He has planned to get up at 6 to do this and still have time to do his hair 5 million times before the ceremony. He gets really hot when he's getting ready for a night out and he gets sweaty and his hair goes back to being curly and he hates it. I imagine he will be swearing and showering a lot to try and fix it haha.

Mr C had a few drinks with the boys the night before, he stayed at his mums then went to the pub next door to the church for a pint or two before the ceremony.

He was at the church an hour before me!

The venue did all of our set-up, I sent my dad's partner down to do a quick check before we left!

Not a lot knowing my OH. The venue is sorting out our reception room and we are taking all our bits and bobs the day before so there isn't much for him to do other than get dressing and sort his hair out. He will get to the venue about and hour before which should be plenty of time.

We stayed together the night before as we were so busy setting up the hall for the reception. Whilst I was at his mum's getting ready (there wasn't enough room at my mum's) he was having breakfast at the 8 ball diner (a classic car diner) and then back home to get ready with his best man and then he went to the local hotel to meet his other mates. As his mate was helping wih the photography, there were photos of them all with the cars (our theme was classic cars so his mates were coming to the wedding in theirs) and then photos at the church before he ceremony so I got to see some of the guests arriving along with some of the cars.

OH is in charge of rings and thats it. Even thats a push

We were going to stay together but my mum has suddenly turned ultra superstitious and says we shouldn't! OH really surprised me as I thought he'd have a drunken night of poker in a casino with his best friend and not get in till 4am, but he wants to stay at his great-grans house like he used to when he was little n'awwwwww.( so relieved!! )

S x

Im staying at our venue the night before and oh is staying at a bb over the road with best man, my dad and brothers, his parents and grandparents. Think he will only be getting the rings and even then I'm tempted to take them up myself and get one of my bridesmaids to take them over. I'm such a control freak I even wanted to take all their suits up with me so that I know that they get there but I realise I can't do everything!

The best man seems to think its a boozy night but my oh has said otherwise he said he doesn't want to drink loads and doesn't want a drink on the morning either! I've a feelin it's the best man that will need to be controlled no one else!

The morning of our wedding, Mr S did the following:

4am - went to bed after drinking with the boys the night before

10am - woke up

Between waking up and getting to the venue I think he washed, did a poo & got changed. Whilst at the venue, I think he had a pint and chatted to people. What a stressful time he had of it, eh?

Best man's role in all of this was to make sure he dressed himself properly & arrived at the venue on time.

I recently went to a wedding where my OH was best man. He spent the morning emptying the sick bucket for the groom as they all had a few too many the evening before. The groom was so ill, he was unable to keep any breakfast down, pose for photos or be out of the loo for more than 10 minutes!

Lesson learnt I hope. Fingers crossed he will have a nice chilled morning where they all go to the cafe for breakky, then takes his time to get ready, rather than spend his time spewing!

My god. I was completely happy for my H to have a few beers the night before but if he had gone this far I would have been absolutely livid.

I totally agree Kharv, I will bury him if he tries that!!!!

I am just worried for the revenge that could be taken!

Playing golf apparently. And stocking up on Krispy Kremes for the tower we will be having.