Planning your wedding can be a lot less stressful - and more fun - when you let others help.

Learning how to delegate will prove invaluable when it comes to organising your Cairns wedding.

And while the idea of giving up control can be daunting, it’s comforting to know the special people you choose to play an important role in your Cairns wedding day will take the event as seriously as you do.

Bride’s parents
* Arrange invitations
* Give advice on gift ideas

Chief bridesmaid
* Organise any pre-wedding showers
* Organise wedding dress fittings for herself and any bridesmaids
* Help choose wedding flowers
* Attend the wedding rehearsal dinner
* Help the bride dress on the wedding day
* Carry emergency wedding day kit with everything from needle and thread to lipstick
* Hold the bride’s bouquet during the wedding vows
* Act as witness during signing

Best man
* Organise wedding suit fittings
* Organise buck’s night
* Pick up wedding flowers
* Attend the rehearsal dinner
* Organise wedding day transport for the groom and his parents
* Mind the wedding rings on the day
* Have the groom at the wedding at least 30 minutes before
* Act as a witness during signing
* Arrange any payments on the day such as for the celebrant

Usher
* Escort the mother of the bride to her seat
* Escort any unaccompanied guests
* Hand out Order of Service sheets