What to do if a wedding party member gets sick ...

Congratulations! Your wedding week is finally here…but some of your bridal party members are feeling a little under the weather! Stay calm; they very well could recover in time, but if they don’t, here are some ways to keep their sickness from making your wedding a mess:

-encourage members to limit their alcohol and increase their water intake leading up to the wedding
-make sure everyone knows to eat a filling but healthy breakfast the day of any and all events
-have an emergency kit with medicine items (Tylenol, Ny/Dayquil, mucus relief, cough suppressant, Tums, Imodium, etc.) on hand, including gallon sized Ziploc bags for accidents
-bring a small battery-powered fan to keep feverish members cool
-if the flower girl or ring bearer is feeling ill and their parents are not in the wedding party, invite them to stay with their children to keep an eye over them until they need to walk down the aisle
-if the Flower Girl or Ring Bearer's parents are a part of the wedding party, find a guest or family member who would be willing to look over them, or hire a sitting service to come attend to the sick children

Sweet bride encouraging her flower girl and baby sister who wasn't feeling well.

To help you stay relaxed and to keep unneeded stress off of your shoulders, consider hiring a day-of coordinator like Celebrations by Amy Bacon. We bring emergency kits to every wedding chock-full of medications that someone may need but didn’t bring with them, and electric fans to battle fevers and the Arizona heat. Additionally, we have working relationships with top-notch sitting services who can expertly tend to kids’ and their upset tummies. In addition to that, the week leading up to the wedding we become the primary contact for any of your wedding day needs, including making sure your bridal party knows where to be and when. We’ll check in with everyone and see if they’re ready for the wedding. If they feel a little under the weather, we’ll do everything we can to get them back to health through suggestions and pointers of how to make it through the day, sick or not. Celebrations by Amy Bacon will be there for you and your guests every step of the way, through sneezes, snuffles, smiles, and all. If all else fails, just think to yourself that everyone is catching the Love Bug that you and your fiancé released into their lives! They can’t help but get love sick around the two of you so let them feel better and enjoy your special day.

This sweet flower girl and ring bearer were sick the morning of the wedding. With a little (OK a lot) TLC and a great deal of patience from their mother (MOB) they were better by the ceremony!

Blog written by Patrice Klaum - Celebrations by Amy Bacon team member
Wedding images from a Celebrations by Amy Bacon wedding on 5.12.12 at The Scottsdale Plaza.