Planning your wedding checklist
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Planning your wedding checklist
12 Months Out
Make a Guest List
Decide Formality and Overall Theme
Select the Venue
While selecting your venue, throw out that pros and cons list and trust your gut—this decision is about how you feel when you’re there.
Select the Caterer
11 Months Out
Choose a Color Theme and Start Thinking of Overall Design
Hire Vendors Who Book Up Quickly, Including Your Photographer, Band, DJ, and Videographer
10 Months Out
Start Shopping for Your Wedding Dress
Book Hotel-Room Blocks for Guests
Take Engagement Photos
Start Looking at Invitations
9 Months Out
Send Save the Dates
8 Months Out
Select the Bridesmaids’ Dresses and Schedule Fittings Within the Month
7 Months Out
Book the Rehearsal-Dinner Venue
Hire an Officiant
6 Months Out
5 Months Out
Book Transportation for Guests, If Needed
Book the Newlyweds’ Transportation (Limo, Specialty Car, etc.)
Buy or Rent the Groom’s Tuxedo
Begin Premarital Counseling
4 Months Out
Have Your Final Tasting With the Caterer
Choose Your Cake
Buy Wedding Bands
Select the Groomsmen’s Attire and Schedule Fittings Within the Month
Hair and Makeup Trial
3 Months Out
Order the Invitations and Hire a Calligrapher
Create or Plan Your Menu
Brainstorm Guest Favors and Gift Bags
Write Your Vows
Select Readings
Meet With the Officiant and Invite Him or Her to the Rehearsal Dinner
Start Crafting Any DIY Items If You Haven’t Already
2 Months Out
Send the Wedding Invitations (With RSVPs Due One Month Before the Wedding)
Send Out Rehearsal-Dinner Invitations (These Can Be Included With the Wedding Invitations If You Like)
First Dress Fitting
Pick Up Your Marriage License
Buy Wedding-Party Gifts
Do a Floral Mock-Up With Your Florist
Give the Song Selections to Your Band or DJ
Give the Song Selections to Your Ceremony Musicians
Buy All Small Items
1 Month Out
Assemble Gift Bags
Pay Your Vendors in Full
Create a Seating Chart
Order or Make Your Escort Cards and Place Cards
Have a Final Venue Walk-Through
Put Cash in Tip Envelopes for Your Planner/Delegate to Distribute
Break in Your Wedding Shoes
Final Week
Congratulations! You’ve made it all the way to the final week of your wedding planning. Deep breaths now, most of the hard work is over at this point. Now all that is really left is the nitty-gritty details. Take care of things like:
- Refreshing your hair color
- Getting your eyebrows done
- Manicure/pedicure
- Getting a massage (why not make it a couple’s massage?)
- Final dress fitting (a friend or bridesmaid should come with you so she can learn how to bustle if your dress requires it)
- Pack your bags for the honeymoon (don’t forget your passport if you’re leaving the country), and confirm your travel arrangements
- Any edible crafting
- Clean your ring (head to your jeweler to get your engagement ring professionally cleaned so it’s extra sparkly on your wedding day)
- Chase any RSVP stragglers and deliver the final head count
- Clear your work to-do list so you can only focus on wedding festivities and take it all in
- Practice your vows out loud
- Write your partner a note
Night Before and Day of the Wedding
The big day is finally here. All your careful preparation and creative planning have come to fruition, and it’s time to enjoy the wedding. Here’s what to do:
The Night Before:
- Eat a healthy meal
- Pack a clutch or small bag of personal items
- Drink water
- Get a good night’s sleep
- Put any boxes, suitcases, bags, and survival kits to bring to the ceremony or reception in the car (you’ll thank us tomorrow)
The Morning Of:
- Stay off your feet as much as possible
- Eat breakfast
- Drink even more water
- Take your dress and veil out of the bag early on and have someone steam them if needed
- Lay out all the items (rings, invitations, etc.) that you want your photographer to capture
- Exchange notes with your partner
- Say thank you to everyone around you
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