If you have a wedding planner on board, she will undoubtedly recommend you create a wedding day emergency kit. When it comes to emergency kits, don’t forget about your fiance and his boys- they may need help on the wedding day, too! As with your wedding, personalize the list of items for your emergency kits- we all have unique needs and may run into problems unique to our own wedding. Our hope is, of course, that nothing will go awry on our big day, but we’ll be prepared with emergency kits (just in case!)

Here are some items you absolutely need on your emergency kit:

• Baby powder (helpful to get spills out of your wedding dress)
• Extra earring backs
• Bobby pins
• White chalk (to cover any stains on your wedding dress)
• Straws (for mess-free drinking)
• Sewing kit
• Nail polish in the color of your bridesmaids shoes
• Aspirin (two kinds- in case someone is allergic to a certain kind)
• Antacid
• Smelling salts (hopefully no one will need them!)
• Mouthwash or mints
• Tampons
• Dental floss
• Duct tape (it can fix anything, right?)
• Digital or disposable camera
• Extra copies of driving directions
• Umbrella
• Safety pins

Here are some items that your fiance can’t leave out of his emergency kit:

• Extra pairs of black socks
• Lint brush
• Corsage pins
• Comb
• Deodorant
• Extra buttons
• Shoe polish

If you don’t want to, or don’t have time, to gather all the items for this kit, you can purchase a made-to-order wedding day survival kit online or at local stores. Armed with these emergency survival kits, you can survive every manageable disaster that may come your way on your wedding day!