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Year Countdown |
8 TO 12 Months Before
the Wedding
- Select a wedding date and time
- Decide the type of wedding you would
like to have (size, formality, and setting)
- Begin your guest list
- Consider possible color schemes.Explore
pre-marital counseling
- Start health and fitness plan
- Select your professional: photographer,
caterer, consultant, music, etc
- Shop together for your wedding rings
- Decide upon your budget
- Determine who will pay what expenses
- Book your wedding location(s)
- Choose your attendants
- Determine the sizes of your attendants
- Select dress and headpiece, and set
a date for fittings and delivery
- Select your bridesmaids' dresses and
accessories
- Give thought to your honeymoon location
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5 to 8 Months
- Check the requirements for marriage
license
- Select and discuss your color schemes
with the florist and/or balloonist of
choice
- Again consider pre-marital counseling
- Reserve your wedding day rental equipment
(tables, chairs, china, silverware, gazebo,
etc.)
- Decide upon a gift registry and select
your gift choices
- Begin your record of gifts received
- Send thank you notes as soon as possible
- Order your invitations and related stationary
needs
- Start shopping for the mens’ wedding
attire
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3 to 5 Months
- Finalize your guest list
- Decide upon and order your favors
- Select your baker, then choose your
cake, groom’s cake, and mints
- Help both mothers coordinate and find
their wedding day clothing
- Review your written agreements forms
with all of your professionals (photographer,
caterer, D.J., site coordinator, transportation,
etc.)
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2 to 3 Months
- Have engagement portraits taken
- Place your engagement announcement in
the newspaper
- Mail out invitations and announcements
- Decide on the mens’ wedding attire
- Arrange and plan your rehearsal dinner
- Purchase your wedding day accessories
- Arrange attendants' parties
- Book a beverage caterer for the reception
and make selections
- Prepare accommodations for out-of-town
attendants and guests
- Consider a hairdresser and/or makeup
artist and book appointments
- Finalize all honeymoon plans
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2 to 4 Weeks
- Final wedding dress fitting
- Final fitting for your wedding attendants
- Obtain marriage license
- Have your attendants' parties
- Purchase your going-away outfit
- Draw a map to direct your guests to
the site(s), if necessary
- Create a calendar of events for the
wedding day
- Make sure your accessories are in order
(rings, pillow, garter, etc.)
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1 to 2 Weeks
- Finalize arrangements with the entertainer(s)
and provide a list of music you would
like played during special events such
as first dance, garter removal and bouquet
toss
- Pick up your wedding rings and make
sure that the engravings are correct and
they fit properly
- Contact the guests who have not responded
to your invitations
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1 to 7 Days
- Make sure your marriage license is in
order
- Prepare seating arrangements, if necessary
- Purchase travelers checks, confirm honeymoon
reservations
- Pack your baggage for your honeymoon
- Have your wedding ceremony rehearsal
- Instruct your wedding party on what
you would like them to do on the day of
the wedding
- Have your rehearsal dinner
- Make sure all wedding attire fits properly
- Give the best man the amount the professionals
are to be paid on the day of the wedding
- Inform your caterer of the total guest
count
- Confirm out-of-town guests have transportation
and sleeping accommodations
- Check with your florist and/or balloonist
to make sure they will arrive when scheduled
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Your Wedding Day
- Relax, enjoy yourself, and remain calm!
- Allow at least two hours for dressing
- Allow plenty of time to apply your makeup
and style your hair
- If professionals are doing your hair
and/or makeup, ask them in advance how
much time they will need
- If photographs are to be taken before
the ceremony, allow at least one and one-half
hours
- Remember to bring the rings and marriage
license
- Seat guests as they arrive. The groom’s
parents should be seated about 5 minutes
before start time, the mother of the bride
is normally seated last
- Take a deep breath, don't worry, and
SMILE!
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