Wedding Planning

by: Samantha Taylor

Depending on your personal preferences and the preferences of your husband or wife-to-be, a wedding can take anywhere from 6 weeks to 2 years to plan. If one step in the planning process is missed, the whole wedding could be ruined. To prevent this from happening, we have created a wedding checklist in order to ensure everything goes according to plan on your big day.

7-12 Months Prior
* Announce Engagement and have your engagement party
*Decide on the wedding style and create a guest list
*Choose who you both want in the wedding party
* Set the date and time of the wedding
*Book your wedding officiant
*Choose your wedding song
*Decide on "extras" (cake, flowers, dj, photographers etc)
*Purchase your wedding dress and bridal accessories
*Purchase bridesmaids dresses and accessories (maid of honor as well)
*Start planning your honeymoon
*Buy (or make) your wedding favors
*Purchase your wedding invitations
*Plan your rehearsal ceremony and dinner

2-6 Months Prior
*Arrange accommodations for out-of-town guests
*Finalize the dinner menu
*Book your limo (or other form of transportation)
*Book the rehearsal dinner site
*Book your honeymoon
*Purchase your wedding rings
*Purchase your gifts for the wedding party
*Rent the tuxedos for groom and groomsmen (including bestman)
*Schedule a dress fitting (bride)
*Book hair and makeup appointment (bride)
*Have your bridal shower
*Send out the invitations to your guests
*Plan the wedding program

1 Month Prior
*Get your marriage license (and blood tests if needed)
*Final dress fitting (bride)
*Arrange seating for your guests
*Have your stag and doe party

1-2 Weeks Prior
*Pick up the wedding dress
*Have your bachelor and bachelorette parties

The Day Before
*Give the wedding party their gifts
*Pick up the tuxedo(s)
*Decorate the wedding site
*Have your rehearsal dinner and greet out-of-town guests

Follow these steps in the first step towards a lifetime of marital bliss!

About the author:
Samantha Taylor spent several years working in the weddings industry as a wedding planner. When she isn't being a mom of two wonderful children, she works as a freelance writer for http://www.yourwedding101.com - a site that offers information about everything wedding related - from wedding planning to wedding invitations and more.

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