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