Wedding Planning Checklist

NINE MONTHS AND EARLIER

• Announce your engagement.
  
  
• Select a date for your wedding.
  
  
• Hire a professional wedding consultant.
  
  
• Determine the type of wedding you want
  
  
• Determine budget and how expenses will be shared.
  
  
• Begin record-keeping for payments made.
  
  
• Prepare guest lists:  bride’s, groom’s, bride’s family, groom’s family, and organize as follows: those who must be invited, those who should be invited and those who would be nice to invite.
  
  
• Select and reserve ceremony site.
  
  
• Select and reserve your officiate.
  
  
• Select and reserve reception site.
  
  
• Order your bridal gown and headpiece.
  
  
• Determine your color scheme.
  
  
• Send engagement notice with a photograph to your local newspaper.
  
  
• Buy a calendar and not all important activities such as showers, luncheons, parties, get-together's, etc.
  
  
• If ceremony or reception is at home, arrange for home or garden improvements as needed.
  
  
• Order passport, visa or birth certificate if needed for honeymoon or marriage license.
  
  
• Select maid of honor, best man, bridesmaids and ushers