Having enough tapes and batteries for a day is crucial. You need sufficient amount of both.
Take at least 4 hours worth of tapes and 6 hours worth of batteries. And a battery charger.
Get the tapes and the batteries organized in the camera bag.
Keep tapes in the boxes, all properly labeled before going on the shoot.
The easiest thing would be to place clear labels on each tape. You might date them in advance.
Have a pen or two handy; make notes on the tape/box before putting it in the bag after using the tape. The fastest way to mark the tapes would be placing consecutive numbers on them. If you have some more time, put down some additional information as well, like ‘’groom’s house’’, or ‘’reception-1’’ and so on.
Mark all your batteries, for example with insulation tape.
I get mine organized with marked side up for the fresh batteries, and down for discharged battery to avoid wasting time on figuring out which battery is charged, which is not. Keep your battery charger plugged into AC/DC adapter in your car during your travel part of a day. And after the wedding day settles down as you move to the reception hall, get it plugged it there. Place drained batteries on the charger; get that battery rotation organized through the day, so you always have good battery supply.
