Wedding Day Emergency Kit: An Important Checklist for Millennial Brides

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The day of the wedding is one of the most crucial days of a person’s life. Despite spending months on the Wedding day management, there are multiple unforeseen situations that can cause panic and spoil the vibe. If you happen to talk to a new bride, she would tell you how a wedding day emergency kit can save the day.

Most of the brides (and the bridesmaids-in-charge) swear by the mantra of ‘Always be prepared’ in case disaster strikes. Even though the kit doesn’t guarantee that it can fix every single problem, it can most certainly make your experience seamless. This is an essential wedding day management task that shouldn’t be forgotten.

Be it small beauty blunders or fashion mishaps, keep a wedding day emergency kit handy for glitch-free wedding day management. Throw these 15 necessary but often forgotten items in a bag or a makeup box and have them handy throughout the wedding.

1. Breath Mints

A common problem for brides who often forget to eat during the festivities, bad breath is something that is inevitable. Keep breath mints or a mini mouthwash in your makeup box or purse so that you can keep smiling and chatting stress-free.
P.S. It comes in handy for the bride who loves one too many drinks.

2. Extra Earring Backs

No matter how flawless your wedding day management is, heavy earrings or jewelry mishaps can instantly cause panic. Stash a couple of extra earring backs in your kit to make sure that your jewelry stays put. A big wedding-day-management disaster averted!

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3. Eye drops

Lack of sleep and bright lights can make your eyes dry and puffy. Don’t let them ruin your beauty prep! Make sure you add some gentle eye drops to your wedding checklist.
(Please note: if the bride wears contact lenses, make sure she brings an extra pair, contact solution.)

4. Small Sewing Kit

Even though most hotels provide a vanity kit, it is always a good idea to purchase your own and keep it handy. A mini sewing kit should include safety pins and a pair of small scissors too. You never know when you will catch a snag in your wedding dress. It can make your wedding day management easier than you can imagine.

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5. Q-tips
Eyeliner mistakes happen all the time. Q-tips can be life saviors in fixing those small spots without messing up the makeup. Add these to your wedding checklist to avoid small panic situations and make your wedding day management a smooth-sailing experience.

6. Baby Powder

Be it an oily scalp, shoe bite, or a sweaty face, there’s little that baby powder cannot fix. It is also gentle on the skin so rest assured that it won’t trigger allergies or cause skin irritation. Make sure you don’t forget to add this to your wedding checklist for shopping. 

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7. Sanitary Napkins

This uninvited guest is a bride’s worst nightmare. Even the best wedding day management cannot prevent this, but a solid wedding checklist can make you prepared for it. Add a couple of these to your makeup box. Even if you think you won’t need them, someone else might. You might be able to save someone else’s day too. So don’t you forget this one in your wedding checklist!

8. Glue drops

Be it broken footwear or a broken nail, feviQuick glue drops are a lifesaver that can help you not just on your big day but also during the wedding day management. Although, no matter how hard you try, it won’t be able to fix your broken sleep cycle.

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9. Tweezers

From stray hairs to splinters, these nimble helpers can make the problem at hand seem easier and make your wedding day management easier. Make sure you throw in a pair in your makeup box.

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10. Essential Medicine

Make sure you throw in all the essential medicines like antacids, painkillers, allergy medication, and hangover pills in your emergency bridal kit. It’s better to be safe than sorry! Add these to your wedding checklist to buy these well before D-day.

11. Mini First Aid Kit

Be it small cuts and scrapes or shoe burns, Band-Aids, antiseptic, ice packs, and burn cream—can make the bride’s life easier on her D-day. Make sure you buy these well in advance so that it doesn’t hamper your wedding day management.

12. Snack Bars

Nobody wants to encounter a hangry bride or her growling stomach! Keep a snack bar handy that is a quick and mess-free snack that will not spill or stain anyone’s dress. You might think it isn’t essential but make sure you add snack bars everywhere, even in the makeup box. It can make the wedding day management easier both for the bride and the bridesmaid.

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13. White Chalk

It might seem like an unlikely choice, but white chalk can dry out an oil stain or cover stains on white surfaces. You can usually cover the stain with chalk in a pinch and save your wedding day management from falling apart.

14. Deodorant

Be it the nerves or the heat, if you are the bride, you might panic easily, and sweating is your body’s natural reaction. Add this to your makeup box and your wedding checklist because a fragrant bride is a happy bride.

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15. Wet Wipes

Be it quickly cleaning the dust from footwear or removing makeup or just freshening up, wet wipes are a must-add item to the makeup box or the emergency kit. Make sure you stock them up to save you any last-minute fashion mishaps during wedding day management.

This was our take on what you should include in your wedding day emergency kit and avoid all the triggers that may have turned beloved brides into bride-zilla in the past. Apart from this, if you have booked your dream wedding venue and other wedding-related services through Weddingz.com, you can expect a flawless affair with ‘Guarantee of a Great Event’. If you want to add more elements to this bridal survival kit, you are welcome to drop in your comments!