This wedding planning checklist will make it easy to help plan your perfect wedding and keep the details of your wedding on track. You will know when to order your wedding invitations and pick your bridesmaid dresses as well as the grooms attire such as tuxedos. Stay rested and have your wedding planning checklist nearby.
Let us begin. These critical details for brides and grooms to plan:
One Year to Wedding: Determine Your Budget and pad this amount by 5-7%. Prioritize your must haves from your desires. Write it down. Discuss with groom to be and your parents and get idea of how much each will help. Think about your location, theme and amount of wedding guests. Discuss how many bridesmaid and groomsmen you want. Decide if you want to hire a wedding planner or consultant. Choose your date - the larger the wedding and more popular the reception locale the more time you need to book your reception.
Nine-Ten Months: It’s time to pick out your wedding dress. Choose the photographer, band or dj, florist and whether you’d like it catered or buffet style. Contact your clergy or Rabbi or Justice of the Peace who will officiate at your wedding ceremony.
Six-Eight Months: Go shopping for your bridesmaid dresses and mother of the bride dress. Choose your music for the wedding reception. Make reservations for your honeymoon and get your travel documents needed such as passport or visas. Send out save the date announcements.
Four-Five Months: Get your invitations. Select attire for groom and groomsmen. Select your wedding rings. Pick out wedding cake.
Three Months out: Finalize invitations. Get help in planning out rehearsal dinner reservations. You can delegate to your friends and family.
Two Months: Send out your invitations. Shop for gifts for wedding party. If you are writing your own vows now is the time to do this. Make appointment for makeup and hair salon and choose hairstyle.
One Month Out: Call up all vendors to finalize contracts. Obtain your marriage license. Determine seating charts for wedding reception.
Two-Three Days: Go to a day spa for a facial. Start packing for your honeymoon.
One day: Have lunch with friends or family and know that your wedding planning checklist has helped kept you on track.