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Wedding Checklist

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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!

Choose your caterer.
Hire musician for ceremony.
Hire band/disc jockey for reception.
Book your photographer.
Book your videographer.
Select your baker and order the cake (and groom’s cake, if you desire).
Choose your florist.
Reserve rental equipment, including tent, tables, chairs, linens, china, and any other desired items.
Register for gifts.
Shop for wedding rings.
Book your travel and accommodations for your honeymoon.
Make sure your visas and passports are up to date, and any other required travel documents if you’re traveling abroad. Inquire about necessary immunizations.
Attend premarital classes.
Order invitations and other wedding stationery. Don’t forget thank you notes!
Book calligrapher
Mail save-the-date cards to out-of-town guests.
Hold block of hotel rooms for out-of-town guests and let your guests know through a newsletter from your website. (Remember to ask for any group discounts or special packages.)
Reserve your room for wedding night.
If you are having an at-home wedding, begin any necessary home improvements and/or landscaping work.
Make sure contracts, deposits, and arrangements are complete with all of your service providers.

Verify that the wedding gown, bridesmaid’s dresses, and flower girl’s dress have been ordered.
Make appointments for gown fittings.
Choose and order formal wear for groom and attendants.
Make sure all out-of-town male attendants have submitted their measurements to your formal wear provider.
Help both mothers’ coordinate, shop, and order their wedding day attire.
Make sure addresses are up to date for the guest list.
Schedule a time for the ceremony rehearsal.
Plan a rehearsal dinner for members of your wedding party, your family and out-of-town guests.
Meet with florist to discuss and decide upon bouquets, arrangements, etc.
Purchase/order/make gifts for bridal party and groomsmen.
Reserve your wedding day transportation.
Check the state requirements for a marriage license.
Shop for trousseau.

Prepare directions on the website for your guests to reach your events without getting lost.
Give the caterer or other food suppliers a close idea of the number of guests you expect.
Plan post wedding brunch.
Address your invitations and announcements or have them addressed. They should go in the mail six to eight weeks before your big day.
Make a date with your photographer for any formal portraits you desire.
Meet with your officiant to discuss the service.
Write your vows, if you are doing so.
Choose readings and/or songs for the ceremony; ask those you want to read or perform if they will do the honor
Make a song list for the major highlights of the reception (first dance, cake-cutting, bouquet toss, etc.)
Make an appointment to have a trial run with your hair stylist and makeup artist.
Purchase your wedding rings and arrange for engraving.
Select gift for groom, if you are exchanging presents.
Select thank you gifts for parents.
Purchase a going away outfit.

Mail out your invitations.
Send bridal portrait and wedding announcement to newspapers.
Schedule beauty appointments for the wedding day.
Purchase special accessories for your wedding day attire.
Give your disc jockey/band a list of songs that you want and don’t want to hear.
Plan a luncheon with the bridesmaids.
wardrobe for showers, pre-wedding parties, and honeymoon.

Obtain marriage license (the time period during which this needs to be done varies according to local regulations; check with the local town clerk’s office.)
Create and order ceremony programs.
Put together welcome baskets for out-of-town guests.
pick up ordered tuxedo/suit, if purchasing. (groom and groomsmen)
Start arranging seating plan and make up place cards.
Pick up wedding rings
Confirm that all male and female attendants have been fitted for formalwear.
Make final menu decisions.
Discuss wedding photo shots with photographer and videographer.
Keep track of all the gifts coming in.
Write thank you notes for the gifts.
Check with your florist to confirm dates and times of flower deliveries.
Review your wedding day transportation plans and make sure drivers are clear about addresses, times, and number of passengers.