{"id":1182,"date":"2009-10-12T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2015-10-23T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:32:04","slug":"survival-kit-for-the-bride-groom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/survival-kit-for-the-bride-groom\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Kit for the Bride &amp; Groom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Any good wedding planner knows that the secret to the success of a smooth wedding-day is to act like a good little boy scout and BE PREPARED! \u00a0Here&#8217;s the emergency essentials for any good chief bridesmaid\/Best Man.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/10\/survival-gear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1184 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/10\/survival-gear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><strong>FOR THE BRIDE:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Makeup and beauty tools<\/li>\n<li>Nail file<\/li>\n<li>Nail polish in the same colour she&#8217;s wearing<\/li>\n<li>Pain killers\/headache tablets<\/li>\n<li>Perfume<\/li>\n<li>Safety pins &#8211; prob the most important of the lot! \u00a0For holding things in&#8230;or up.<\/li>\n<li>Small sewing kit &#8211; tears in the dress\/veil, hems etc. \u00a0It DOES happen!<\/li>\n<li>Snack<\/li>\n<li>Stain-remover wipes<\/li>\n<li>Tissues<\/li>\n<li>Toothbrush and toothpaste<\/li>\n<li>Water and a drinking straw<\/li>\n<li>White ballet flats<\/li>\n<li>White chalk for covering up dress stains<\/li>\n<li>White gaffer\u2019s tape (available at hardware stores) to patch tears in your dress &#8211; might be a bit on the extreme side but hey, you never know!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FOR THE GROOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breath mints<\/li>\n<li>Cologne<\/li>\n<li>Compact steamer for creases in the shirt\/suit (this is probably only for the extreme best, Best Men!)<\/li>\n<li>Deodorant<\/li>\n<li>Extra bowtie or tie in case the groom or a groomsman forgets<\/li>\n<li>Extra buttons<\/li>\n<li>Extra copy of the groom\u2019s vows<\/li>\n<li>Extra cuff links<\/li>\n<li>Extra dress socks<\/li>\n<li>Extra handkerchief or pocket square<\/li>\n<li>Extra shoelaces<\/li>\n<li>Floss<\/li>\n<li>Hair styling products and tools<\/li>\n<li>Lint brush<\/li>\n<li>Pain killers\/headache tablets (coz he probably had a few drinks the night before\/morning to calm the nerves!)<\/li>\n<li>Razor<\/li>\n<li>Shoe polish kit<\/li>\n<li>Small sewing kit<\/li>\n<li>Snack<\/li>\n<li>Stain-remover wipes<\/li>\n<li>Toothbrush and toothpaste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Oh, and from the ACTUAL Cub Scouts &#8211; I love this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usscouts.org\/csrt\/\">Cub Scout Roundtable Survival Kit<\/a> &#8211; cute sentiments true for life as well as scouting! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any good wedding planner knows that the secret to the success of a smooth wedding-day is to act like a good little boy scout and BE PREPARED! \u00a0Here&#8217;s the emergency essentials for any good chief bridesmaid\/Best Man. FOR THE BRIDE: Makeup and beauty tools Nail file Nail polish in the same colour she&#8217;s wearing Pain killers\/headache tablets Perfume Safety pins &#8211; prob the most important of the lot! \u00a0For holding things in&#8230;or up. Small sewing kit &#8211; tears in the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-planning-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}