If there are small children involved, they will need to practice in the actual place eighty-seven times if there's to be a fifty percent chance of their doing what you were hoping for. And there are all kinds of opportunities for practical annoyances that wouldn't stop you getting married, but can leave your guests shifting in their pews wishing the Keystone Cops up there would get *on* with it, already.
If you haven't met the organist yet, this is the chance to check just how many verses of the congregational hymn he'll be playing (somewhere around verse seven, my MOH shot me a rather dirty look). If there's a "unity candle," parents and bride and groom need to know whether the side candles will be lit already, or where to look for matches. If the bride and groom are to circle around the altar with their hands ceremonially tied, best they have a solid idea which way to turn first, lest the MOH need to figure out how to get a bride in a hoop skirt back on her feet, after the groom bolts in the other direction.
If it's bride, groom, and two witnesses in the JOP's office and nobody cares who stands where, then no, there's no point. |
