Users are an important part of making your day run smoothly. Be sure to select men (and/or women) who are responsible and attentive. Users can be asked to fill any number of roles on the Big Day.

• Keep guests out of the ceremony area until 30 minutes before the wedding. This is to allow the couple to finish all formal photography, the decorators to finish last-minute touches, the minister to meet with vendors to go over venue rules and restrictions, and a dozen other things that need to happen in a fairly quiet room.
• Locate church officials, members of the couple’s wedding party, or members of the family for their designated photography time slot.
• Seat guests according to the couple’s desires. This may (or may not) include seating guests on the corresponding side of the aisle, seating family “within the ribbon” so they are closer to the front of the ceremony, seating those with small children in the cry room or in a back row, assisting elderly guests with walkers or wheelchairs, showing guests the locations of available facilities, ensuring guests have picked up a program, and ensuring guests have stopped at the registry to sign in.
• During the ceremony, ushers may be needed to bring forward ceremony elements or to help remove fussy children  and take them to a cry room or the foyer to play quietly.
• After the ceremony, ushers may be asked to move wedding accessories, floral arrangements, and other decor to the reception venue.
• At the reception, ushers may be asked to help guests find their seats (if a seating chart is used or to locate tables reserved for parents and grandparents).

As you can see, there are a lot of little ways throughout the big day where good ushers come in handy. It’s a bigger job than most people realize, if done correctly.

Brides, be sure to let ushers know what you expect of them.
Ushers, save the bride just one thing from her mind; ask how you can help.