9-12 Months before the wedding

• Bookmark this site for easy reference. click here.
• Choose your wedding date - and alternative ones so you can be flexible when it comes to the availability of a venue or a wedding professional you want to hire.
• Find a location for your ceremony site.
• Reserve reception site.
• Clear the date with your officiant.
• Announce your engagement in local newspapers.
• Set a preliminary budget.
• Arrange get-together for families to meet, celebrate, and discuss wedding plans.
• Enlist help. Consider hiring a bridal consultant. If your budget doesn’t allow this, ask relatives and close friends to assist you in specific tasks.
• Begin compiling your guest list.
• Choose your attendants, and ask them to be in your wedding party.
• Select wedding gown, shoes, and accessories.
• Decide on bridesmaid's dresses and flower girl’s dress.
• Start thinking about your honeymoon.
• Complete your wedding website and tell all of your friends and family through a newsletter!