Unfortunately, no matter how well you plan the perfect wedding day there is a high risk of something going wrong (that’s what happens when you are pursuing perfection, right?). While we can’t guarantee perfection, but we can give you a few tools to make sure you are prepared to tackle any issues that may arrive. If you’ve followed our advice over the course of your wedding planning this list of emergency kit items is for the things, we couldn’t explicitly prepare you for (aka emergencies). Let’s just get to it!
What is a Wedding Day Emergency Kit?
This is what the sports fans call a “hail mary”. It is the last resort for any last-minute wedding blunders that may arise. Items in kit typically range from basic toiletries, household essentials, and anything that might address small issues. So, here are 32 items that should solve some of the most common slip ups.
Emergency Kit List
- Fashion tape
- Tweezers
- Tide TO Go Pen
- Wipes (We’re talking baby wipes, make-up wipes, and tissues)
- An extra set of jewelry and earring backs
- Breath Mints or Mouth Wash (avoid gum you don’t want to forget it it’s in your mouth while you are walking down the aisle)
- Sample/Travel size of your wedding perfume
- Q-tips
- Advil/Pain meds
- Band-aids
- Clear Nail Polish (You may even want to buy a bottle of your wedding polish in the event something ships you will have the color as a back-up
- Super glue
- Pads and Tampons
- Lint Roller
- Extra shoe inserts
- Change of shoes for the reception
- Sewing Kit
- Emergency snack bar
- Eyelash glue
- Bobby pins and hair ties for any issues after your stylist leaves
- Mini Lotion
- Mini Hairspray
- Nail file
- Lipstick, lip liner, lip gloss
- Oil blotting sheets for my brides with oily skin
- Small brush and/or comb
- Small mirror
- Extra contacts and/or glasses
- Jewelry Cleaner in case you didn’t get the chance to get your pieces cleaned beforehand
- Portable phone charger or a power bank
- Static Guard
- Toothbrush and Toothpaste
When to pack this Kit?
Though important packing the emergency kit doesn’t have a specific deadline for needing to be done. We recommend not waiting until the week before the wedding since things start to fly by that last week and it may be too much to add this to the list as well. So, to avoid stress just start adding things as soon as possible. Buy a few things at the store every week until you have all that you need.
Who should hold on to it?
Assign someone to hold onto the emergency kit throughout the wedding. Often is you have a wedding planner they will be the person that holds your phone, emergency kit, gathers tips for the vendors, etc. If you don’t have a wedding planner be sure to pick someone that can handle those tasks. We speak often about having points of contact so keep in mind this can be several people or you can delegate all of these “please keep track of this while I get hitched” tasks to one person!
The key is to plan for stressful events to have a stress free wedding day and of course we hope this list helps!
