Wedding Checklist

It is well known that planning a good wedding means plan ahead and organize every detail. That is truly a complex task and you need to be well organized to complete it successfully. Planning a wedding may be a challenge even for the most organized of minds. The easiest way to go about this is to sit down and think about what you really want your wedding to be like, put the ideas down on paper and then try to break them down into smaller tasks and assign them time frames for completion and you will get a checklist of what you have to do and when to do it.



Several wedding checklists are available for you to look at on the Internet. Here is the one that we suggest. Don't take this or any other wedding checklist as such. You need to take it and use to filter your own ideas and adapt the checklist to them, so adapt any checklist that you choose to what you are about to plan. If you have a hard time working with big time frames, try to break your checklist down into smaller time frames; you may be inexperienced, but you can get an idea what may take the longest time to plan.

12-16 months in advance: choose the date; book ceremony and reception sites;set a budget;

6-12 months in advance: try to put together a guest list;choose your maid of honor and bridesmaids;make arrangements with a photographer and a videographer; look for the wedding gown - it may require fittings so allow a lot of time for them to be made; make arrangements for music; look for a florist and book services; look for a caterer if food is not provided by your reception site provider; make plans for your honeymoon (make formal arrangements and make sure passports will be valid at the time of travel); look for a wedding invitations vendor; register with a gift registry

3-5 months in advance: complete the guest list;order and send out the invitations; choose men's attire;find a wedding cake vendor and place the order; arrange for transportation;arrange reception details with the caterer and the reception site vendor; choose wedding bands

2 months in advance: send thank you notes for the gifts as they arrive;plan for guest favors;
1 month in advance:arrange accommodation for your out of town guests;check details about the wedding license

2-3 weeks in advance:make arrangements for beauty; do a final check on the wedding gown; check for last minute problems with your vendors; schedule a rehearsal
1 day before the wedding:take care of yourself and relax;assign small tasks to family and friends to take pressure off yourself on the wedding day; Enjoy your wedding!