When my best good friend endeavored to pull off an epic shower for my baby child she did something I should have take more heed of: she started a closed Facebook group for all the hostesses so that they could communicate.
There were 14 of them hostessing the event, so even with modern technology, inboxing, texting, otherwise messaging might or might not have worked. But the posts worked. Besides, they were quite entertaining. I know this because my best good friend would update me with who had offered to make banana pudding and who was going to do the table decorations.
The hostesses discussed cost and food choices, locations. Everyone was kept in the loop (if they wanted to be.) If they were not within the loop, it was their own fault because the loop was available at any and all times.
These smart cookies did not risk there being too much of one thing and not enough of another. If only I had taken a page from them and done something similar for those of us trying to build an epic wedding.
The shower, by the way, was epic. But more on that later.
Here is the problem we faced regarding communication or the lack thereof. All of those of us trying to execute what became no easy task worked our regular jobs almost right up the nuptials. That the wedding occurred on New Year's Day, exactly one week after we celebrated Christmas and all that entails compounded the challenge.
Our texts sometimes went unread and sometimes were misread. Sometimes they weren't sent when we thought they had been and sometimes they were mistakenly sent to the wrong folk. Voice messages were garbled or misunderstood. All of this cause frustration and costs us unnecessary time and money. Unlike the aforementioned hostesses, we did end up with too much of some things and not enough of others.
Worst of all, this was avoidable. So, the advice I offer here, is to find a way to communicate to the others who need information from you and from who you need information. In a word: communicate.
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