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12 months before your Wedding day
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Announce the Engagement
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Set Wedding Day
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Create a wedding budget - be exhaustive about this!
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Hire a Wedding Planner or Coordinator (optional)
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Compile a guest list
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Start file of ideas
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Reserve a place for the Ceremony
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Book an Officiant
- Research
Reception Halls
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Book a Professional Photographer, and Videographer
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Book Caterer, Florist and Music (Band, DJ, etc.)
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Look for a Wedding Gown and Tux; allowing time for alterations and fittings
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Register for gifts
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Select and call the bridesmaids, and the groomsmen.
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Agree on a date to order bridesmaids' dresses and groomsmen's tuxes
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Choose a place for your Honeymoon
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Apply for passports, if required
6 months before your Wedding day
- Finalize the guest list
- Decide on timeline and details of Ceremony and Reception
- Order invitations, calligraphy (optional), and thank you notes
- Make airline and hotel reservations for the Honeymoon
- Agree on a caterer, a florist and place an order for the wedding cake.
- Book Transportation (Limo, Antique Car, Etc.) for wedding day
- Shop for any Party Rentals
- Order Wedding Favors
3-4 months before your Wedding day
- Mail wedding invitations
- Confirm wedding details and contracts with all wedding vendors
- Choose gifts for your attendants
- Set a date and time for the rehearsal dinner
- Help make travel arrangements for out-of-town guest
- Make final alterations and fittings for the Wedding Gown and Tux
- Set time with your Photographer for the Bridal Portrait or Engagement shoot
1 month before your Wedding day
- Apply for the marriage license
- Buy your wedding bands
- Finalize music list and no-play list with band or DJ
- Attend showers
1-2 weeks before your Wedding day
- Schedule the rehearsal a day or two before your wedding day
- Make an appointment with a Beauty Salon for the day of the wedding
- Send a wedding announcement to the local newspapers (optional)
- Make necessary arrangements for name & address change, if any.
- Discuss final details with the Reception Site and the Caterer
- Pack for Honeymoon
- Write out all checks needed for wedding day
- Send reminders to the rehearsal dinner attendees about the location & time
- Discuss final details of the ceremony and reception with family and bridal party
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