Quinceañera Court Sheet

Tradition puts fourteen young people around the quinceañera, one for each year — seven damas and seven chambelanes, plus the chambelán de honor. Many families choose fewer, and this sheet does not care which number you land on. What it cares about is that each member of the court is a small commitment between two families: an outfit someone orders and pays for, a rehearsal schedule someone drives to, and a real chance that one of them drops out weeks before the date. A wedding party is adults who manage themselves; a court is minors managed by their parents, and the parents are who this sheet is really for.

The outfit deal belongs in writing, per family: who orders it, who pays for it, and the date it has to be picked up by — three answers per member, sent as one message so every family reads the same rule at the same time. Match every court outfit to the quinceañera's own vestido, not to each other, so the room reads as one picture instead of fourteen separate ones.

Rehearsal attendance is the early-warning system, not a formality. In many families, two missed rehearsals in a row is the point to call the understudy's family — not the week of, when the routine can no longer absorb a change without everyone noticing on the floor.

This is one of the nine sheets in the Quinceañera Planning Kit. The kit ties the court's transport, its rehearsal calendar, and its outfit deadlines to the rest of the vendors and the night — the kit has the other eight sheets.