10 to 12 Months Before Your Wedding

• Create your wedding guest list
• Make a list of 3-5 Photographers/videographers you’d like to interview
• Compare the price, delivery time, and customer service from 3-5 Printers
• Musicians should have videos you can sample on YouTube. Or take advantage of your early planning and go see them play live to see how they interact with a crowd
• Venues are a major part of the ceremony. Visit as many as you like and start envisioning your theme and wedding decor
• Find a good wedding insurance policy. Most couples don’t consider this until it’s too late
• Start your wedding gown hunt. This process can take months so you’ll want to get started right away
• Send save the date cards

6 to 9 Months Before Your Wedding

• Arrange accommodations for your guests
• Book your venue
• Book your photographer & videographer
• Book your DJ
• Order your dress. We know you’ve found “The One” by now!
• Hire an event planner for your venue decor and entertainment

3 to 5 Months Before Your Wedding

• Buy the wedding bands
• Order the groom’s and groomsmen’s suits
• Confirm your passports are valid
• Update your travel vaccinations and insurance
• Take care of ALL the legal work (your registrar needs about 3 months notice)
• Hire a florist
• Settle on stationery
• Make sure your best man and maid of honor are planning the bachelor and bachelorette parties
• Book your Cake!

6 to 8 Weeks Before Your Wedding

Hire a Makeup artist & attend a makeup trial
• Schedule a hair stylist, and visit the salon with your ideas
• Send out the wedding invitations
• Start the second draft of your wedding vows
• Order all printables (This includes programs, rehearsal dinner invitations, bachelor/bachelorette invitations, bridesmaids luncheon, and newspaper announcement.)

3 to 5 Weeks Before Your Wedding

• Review and update order specifications
• Final wedding gown fitting
• Review RSVP list and call any unconfirmed guests
• Call all of your appointments to re-confirm the time
• Organize all of the wedding transportation

1 to 2 Weeks Before Your Wedding

• Pack for the honeymoon
• Visit the spa
• Break in your shoes 🙂
• Finalize the seating plan
• Print out a timetable for the big day to keep track of when all of the suppliers will arrive and all of the contact details
• Supply the wedding planner/venue with any special requests from the suppliers
• Organise all payments for suppliers and venues
• Confirm the final headcount with the venue and caterers
• Groom’s final fitting
• Groom’s party final fitting
• Bridesmaids final fitting
• Finalize and rehearse wedding vows
• Get yourself a spa day (you deserve it)!

The Day Before Your Wedding

• Check on the cake one final time
• Get yourself a mani/pedi
• Drop off all your printables with your wedding planner

Your Wedding Day

• Give the best man the wedding bands
• Assign someone to point out to the photographer who everyone is
• Give the best man an envelope with the officiant’s fee if you haven’t already paid him.
• Assign someone to pack up your gifts and lay out the wedding favors