ICal automatic email (or SMS) reminders for appointments

I schedule many individual appointments each week and would like to have iCal send an automatic reminder to my clients about 24-48 hours before each appointment. I have not found any way to do this in iCal and have only seen this question unanswered on old posts. If iCal can't do it is there an app that will do it? I have an iPhone 4S, iPad and MacBook Air, all with the latests updates. Thanks in advance.

Re: Receive billing email or sms alerts
I currently receive an email to advise my account is available included is an attachment containing the actual bill.
however now that attachment is missing and I do not know which account it refers to.
I do not wish to use the Myaccount facility as I already have too many passwords etc to use and remember & at my age I suffer some memory loss. If the previous attachment method is no longer available I will have to return to the unreliable Aust post system where my mail often fails to arrive. Due to various medical conditions I am often not at my residence. but am able to keep track of incoming bills by email.

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Swipe down from the top of your homescreen and select Settings>Notifications. Near the bottom you'll see in blue letters Lock Screen Settings. Click that and toggle Lock Screen Notifications to ON. Now whenever you have an appointment in your Calendar, it'll show up that day on your Lock Screen.
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i am able to make active-active replication enviroment. but i want some another facility. if there some process failure, some data error or you can say any type of error and stop the process. in case can we get any EMAIL or SMS alert for user notification.
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Steven:
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ICal client/customer automatic eMail reminders

So iCal can totally send reminders to those who are "attending" an event. But what about sending an automatic eMail reminder that has custom text in it? I own a business and we'd like for the appointments that we have in iCal to send eMail reminders that remind our customers what day and time their appointment is, along with directions, and what they should bring. The eMail would say the same thing for every customer, but is it possible to customize the eMail reminders? or is there an add on/plug in that can be bought or another application that simply reads the iCal appointments or anything?!?!

Maybe this will help.
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I need help finding or creating a script to automatically create iCal email and message reminders. iCal

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I'm learning to use iCal v.5.0.3 on a Mac Pro (2,1) 2x3 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, running Lion OSX10.7.5.
I need to find or write a script which, when I create a new iCal timed event, will automatically send me an email and give a screen alert 24 hours before - plus on the morning of the appointment, plus 2 hours beforehand. I'm wondering if such a script exists already or can be adapted. I've searched various forums and am unable to find specific simple instructions on how to create such a thing in Applescript or Automator or whatever. So I've really tried to find out on my own.
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