We all know how much needs to be planned for a wedding and it can become very confusing what you need to do and when. So today we bring you a planning timeline......
Hope this can help with some of that stress of planning a wedding!!
Nine - Twelve months before
- Set a budget
- Set the date for Wedding
- Think about what type of wedding you would like Theme, colours, indoors/outdoors reception
- Start to research your venue for ceremony and reception and secure the date
- Research what sort of entertainment you would like (DJ or Band) and get it booked
- Choose your florist, photographer, videographer, transport, caterers (anything that you will need to book in advance so you can secure your date)
- Choose your wedding party
- Start looking at dresses, the earlier you can choose your dress the better!
- Work out your guest list
- Send out save the date cards
Six to Four Months before
- Look into choosing your cake maker
- Look at ordering your wedding stationery/or start making your stationery (this may include invites, rsvp's, menu cards, place cards, table plan, order of service)
- Look into getting your wedding shoes so you can try these on at your fitting
- Think about your jewellery for the day
- Have a dress fitting
- Get your Bridesmaid dresses and their accessories sorted
- Think about what you want to do for our honeymoon
- Decide on a gift list ( if you are having one) if not think about alternatives
Two to four months before
- Have a food tasting at your venue or caterers
- Finalise details with suppliers (venue, photographer, videographer ect...)
- Prepare details that may need to be added to invites Maps, taxis numbers, hotel numbers, train/tube information
- Buy/order your wedding favours
- Buy your wedding rings
Six to Eight weeks before
- Send out invites
- Arrange your wedding banns
- Hire the grooms and his wedding party suits
- Have your hair and make up trail
Four to Two weeks before
- Chase an outstanding Rsvp's
- Organise your seating plan
- Make sure you have your first dance sorted
- Final dress fitting
- Check that you have received everything that you have ordered (favours, guest book cake toppers ect)
- Check that suppliers have all the information that they need
- Make sure the wedding party know what they are doing on the day and they know when they have to collect their outfits and when they need to be returned if they are hired
One week to go
- Collect rings if you have not done so already and give to best man or the Groom
- Confirm numbers with your venue
- Make a note of all you on the day suppliers and their contact details and have one of the wedding party in charge of this
- Collect dress
- Collect any hired outfits
- Have a running order of the day and again let one of the wedding party be in charge of this
- Get your nails done and have relaxing day
- Last but not least make sure you have a nice chilled night before the big day and enjoy the day!!!
Now this seems like a lot of organising but if you stay organised then you should be able to enjoy the planning. A good thing would be to purchase a notebook/file (now if your like me this will be the best part about planning a wedding) you will have all the information about the wedding in one place. Also spreadsheets (if you are not a computer phobic) can be a very useful tool.
A great tip - Start a wedding scrap book, use this to stick in any ideas that you have or have seen in magazines/websites. This will help you when you go and see suppliers and you can show them your vision so there is no confusion (and yes this does mean another notebook :-) )
I will be looking at ways to help keep your planning stress free and organised in the coming weeks so make sure you keep reading!!!
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