Once your guy has proposed and you two have decided to direct your lives towards marriage, there are tons of things that need to be taken care of before your "happily after". A well-balanced, time-saving, and precise wedding checklist and timeline is a must for every bride-to-be. It not only gives you peace of mind during the months of planning and organizing your wedding, but also helps you not get jittery during the process. A ready-to-use wedding checklist planner can be used to delegate and reduce the arrangements that need to be taken care of before the wedding. So, whether you're looking for a traditional or a destination wedding checklist timeline, you can modify the following wedding checklist and timeline according to your taste. Read more on wedding planning checklist.
Wedding Checklist Planner
Planning a wedding is sometimes an overwhelming experience, with all the "To-do" list of things jumbled up. Here's a wedding planning timeline checklist, that can pretty much suit all types of weddings. Just place a check mark as you go through the wedding checklist timeline with ease. Read more on wedding planning.
9-12 Months Before The Wedding
____ Announce your engagement, officially, to family & friends.
____ Calculate the overall wedding budget to decide who pays for what.
____ After consulting with registry office, set the wedding date.
____ Officially, introduce both the families.
____ Send a picture of both of you to the local paper, announcing your engagement.
____ Decide what type of wedding would you like? Formal, semi-formal, or informal.
____ Book your ceremony, rehearsal, and reception sites.
____ Would you like to go for premarital counseling?
____ If you wish & can afford, hire a wedding coordinator.
____ Make or modify this wedding checklist planner.
____ Begin working on the first draft of your guest list.
6-9 Months Before The Wedding
____ Announce your wedding date, officially to family & friends.
____ Shopping! Wedding dress, shoes, jewelry, etc.
____ Select bridesmaids dresses.
____ Finalize the flower decoration & bouquets.
____ Hire a caterer, wedding photographer, and DJ/band.
____ Choose an officiant & discuss your entire ceremony process.
____ Choose where you would like to register for gifts.
____ For out-of-town guests, if any, you will have to reserve hotel rooms.
____ Organize an intimate engagement party, if you wish.
____ Decide and book your dream honeymoon destination.
4-6 Months Before The Wedding
____ With your fiance/maid-of-honor, select & order wedding invitations.
____ Visit different bakeries & choose your wedding cake.
____ With the catering service you hired, discuss the optimal menu ideas.
____ Finalize the rental items like china, crystal, flatware, arches, candelabras, etc.
____ With your fiance, finalize & purchase your wedding rings.
____ Decide on the groom's tux & attire of the groomsmen as well.
____ Check if bridesmaids have ordered the gowns & select the accessories.
____ Search for appropriate wedding favors.
____ Check calender dates to confirm bridal shower & bachelorette party.
____ Before you send bridal shower invitations, register for gifts.
____ Look in magazines & talk to stylists on ideas for wedding hair & makeup.
____ Give your maid-of-honor/shower hostesses your guest list.
____ Decide with your fiance whether you want wedding insurance.
2-4 Months Before The Wedding
____ Sit with your fiance to finalize the guest list & send out invitations.
____ Choose a restaurant for the rehearsal dinner & finalize the dinner menu.
____ With your fiance, select wedding music for the entire ceremony & reception.
____ Book your hairstylist and makeup artist, hopefully from the same place.
____ Check if the tuxes for the groom's side are ordered.
____ For yourself & out-of-town guests, organize wedding transportation.
____ Order your selected wedding favors according to guests attending.
____ Decide on gifts for each other, shower hostess, both your parents.
____ Finalize & purchase the bridal party gifts.
____ Regularly, check your wedding registry for enough options left for guests.
____ If you wish, open joint bank accounts & insurances.
____ Plan & purchase clothes, items for your honeymoon.
____ 8 weeks before the wedding date, send the invitations.
1-2 Months Before The Wedding
____ Schedule your first bridal gown fitting.
____ Schedule the final fitting as well for the formal bridal portrait.
____ If you wish, finalize on ceremony readings & poems.
____ Design your entire wedding programs.
____ Finalize the ceremony procedure with the officiant.
____ Arrange a "Bridesmaid luncheon" and other pre-wedding parties for your guests.
____ Write your vows; remind the groom to do so as well.
____ Set the appointment with wedding photographer for formal bridal portrait.
____ Look up for blood test and marriage license requirements in your state.
____ Discuss & finalize details with the wedding coordinator.
3-4 Weeks Before The Wedding
____ Get the marriage license (no earlier than 30 days before the wedding).
____ Arrange for your name change.
____ Send out rehearsal dinner invitations to the guests.
____ Schedule an appointment with your stylist & discuss your hair, makeup, & overall look.
____ Confirm hotel rooms for your out-of-town guests.
1-2 Weeks Before The Wedding
____ Personally call guests who haven't responded to the invitations.
____ Make the payments to all wedding services.
____ Schedule your final wedding gown fitting.
____ Pick up wedding dress and make sure all accessories are together.
____ Reconfirm all wedding plans; ceremony, reception site, florist, photographer, DJ, baker, honeymoon.
____ Give caterer & reception site the final head count.
____ Provide wedding party and out-of-town guests with itinerary and maps.
____ Prepare "wedding emergency kit" with needle, thread, safety pins, tape, mirror, etc.
____ Give someone at home numbers of the honeymoon locations, credit card numbers etc.
____ Prepare place cards.
____ Prepare wedding favors for transportation.
____ Prepare "wedding box" for ceremony accessories.
____ Prepare "reception box" for reception accessories.
____ Finalize the seating chart for reception.
____ Confirm all rental and floral delivery dates and times.
____ Confirm arrival times for all wedding party.
____ Pack for wedding night and honeymoon.
Day Before The Wedding
____ Go through the wedding checklist timeline to see if you haven't left anything out.
____ Choose who is responsible for various wedding payments; make envelopes.
____ Make & hand out assignment lists to ensure everyone knows their tasks.
____ Hand out the ceremony, reception, & favor boxes to appropriate individuals.
____ Give rings to the best man.
____ Arrange your wedding dress and all accessories during the day.
____ Get a manicure, pedicure, & a massage therapy.
____ Rehearse the ceremony with officiant and your wedding party.
____ Ask your fiance to check flight arrangements for the honeymoon.
____ Have the phone numbers of all wedding vendors ready.
____ Go to bed early; you need a good night's sleep.
The Wedding Day
____ Relax & have a healthy breakfast; drink plenty of fluids.
____ Take a relaxing lavender bath.
____ Wear a button-down shirt while your hairdresser & makeup artists work on you.
____ Remember to take your wedding license along.
After The Wedding
____ Clean & preserve your wedding gown.
____ Preserve your bouquet.
____ Write & send out thank you notes for all wedding gifts.
____ Complete the "name change" process.
____ Follow the completion program with the bridal registry store.
____ Meet the photographer to finalize wedding albums & video.
That was your complete, no errors, perfect wedding checklist and timeline. As this is a printable wedding checklist timeline, you can keep with you as the day of the wedding gets closer. You can add notes and rearrange some of the timings for any of the items in the wedding checklist and timeline. One more point you can add on your wedding checklist planner from us: Cherish each and every moment of this special day in both your lives.
Wedding Checklist Planner
Planning a wedding is sometimes an overwhelming experience, with all the "To-do" list of things jumbled up. Here's a wedding planning timeline checklist, that can pretty much suit all types of weddings. Just place a check mark as you go through the wedding checklist timeline with ease. Read more on wedding planning.
9-12 Months Before The Wedding
____ Announce your engagement, officially, to family & friends.
____ Calculate the overall wedding budget to decide who pays for what.
____ After consulting with registry office, set the wedding date.
____ Officially, introduce both the families.
____ Send a picture of both of you to the local paper, announcing your engagement.
____ Decide what type of wedding would you like? Formal, semi-formal, or informal.
____ Book your ceremony, rehearsal, and reception sites.
____ Would you like to go for premarital counseling?
____ If you wish & can afford, hire a wedding coordinator.
____ Make or modify this wedding checklist planner.
____ Begin working on the first draft of your guest list.
6-9 Months Before The Wedding
____ Announce your wedding date, officially to family & friends.
____ Shopping! Wedding dress, shoes, jewelry, etc.
____ Select bridesmaids dresses.
____ Finalize the flower decoration & bouquets.
____ Hire a caterer, wedding photographer, and DJ/band.
____ Choose an officiant & discuss your entire ceremony process.
____ Choose where you would like to register for gifts.
____ For out-of-town guests, if any, you will have to reserve hotel rooms.
____ Organize an intimate engagement party, if you wish.
____ Decide and book your dream honeymoon destination.
4-6 Months Before The Wedding
____ With your fiance/maid-of-honor, select & order wedding invitations.
____ Visit different bakeries & choose your wedding cake.
____ With the catering service you hired, discuss the optimal menu ideas.
____ Finalize the rental items like china, crystal, flatware, arches, candelabras, etc.
____ With your fiance, finalize & purchase your wedding rings.
____ Decide on the groom's tux & attire of the groomsmen as well.
____ Check if bridesmaids have ordered the gowns & select the accessories.
____ Search for appropriate wedding favors.
____ Check calender dates to confirm bridal shower & bachelorette party.
____ Before you send bridal shower invitations, register for gifts.
____ Look in magazines & talk to stylists on ideas for wedding hair & makeup.
____ Give your maid-of-honor/shower hostesses your guest list.
____ Decide with your fiance whether you want wedding insurance.
2-4 Months Before The Wedding
____ Sit with your fiance to finalize the guest list & send out invitations.
____ Choose a restaurant for the rehearsal dinner & finalize the dinner menu.
____ With your fiance, select wedding music for the entire ceremony & reception.
____ Book your hairstylist and makeup artist, hopefully from the same place.
____ Check if the tuxes for the groom's side are ordered.
____ For yourself & out-of-town guests, organize wedding transportation.
____ Order your selected wedding favors according to guests attending.
____ Decide on gifts for each other, shower hostess, both your parents.
____ Finalize & purchase the bridal party gifts.
____ Regularly, check your wedding registry for enough options left for guests.
____ If you wish, open joint bank accounts & insurances.
____ Plan & purchase clothes, items for your honeymoon.
____ 8 weeks before the wedding date, send the invitations.
1-2 Months Before The Wedding
____ Schedule your first bridal gown fitting.
____ Schedule the final fitting as well for the formal bridal portrait.
____ If you wish, finalize on ceremony readings & poems.
____ Design your entire wedding programs.
____ Finalize the ceremony procedure with the officiant.
____ Arrange a "Bridesmaid luncheon" and other pre-wedding parties for your guests.
____ Write your vows; remind the groom to do so as well.
____ Set the appointment with wedding photographer for formal bridal portrait.
____ Look up for blood test and marriage license requirements in your state.
____ Discuss & finalize details with the wedding coordinator.
3-4 Weeks Before The Wedding
____ Get the marriage license (no earlier than 30 days before the wedding).
____ Arrange for your name change.
____ Send out rehearsal dinner invitations to the guests.
____ Schedule an appointment with your stylist & discuss your hair, makeup, & overall look.
____ Confirm hotel rooms for your out-of-town guests.
1-2 Weeks Before The Wedding
____ Personally call guests who haven't responded to the invitations.
____ Make the payments to all wedding services.
____ Schedule your final wedding gown fitting.
____ Pick up wedding dress and make sure all accessories are together.
____ Reconfirm all wedding plans; ceremony, reception site, florist, photographer, DJ, baker, honeymoon.
____ Give caterer & reception site the final head count.
____ Provide wedding party and out-of-town guests with itinerary and maps.
____ Prepare "wedding emergency kit" with needle, thread, safety pins, tape, mirror, etc.
____ Give someone at home numbers of the honeymoon locations, credit card numbers etc.
____ Prepare place cards.
____ Prepare wedding favors for transportation.
____ Prepare "wedding box" for ceremony accessories.
____ Prepare "reception box" for reception accessories.
____ Finalize the seating chart for reception.
____ Confirm all rental and floral delivery dates and times.
____ Confirm arrival times for all wedding party.
____ Pack for wedding night and honeymoon.
Day Before The Wedding
____ Go through the wedding checklist timeline to see if you haven't left anything out.
____ Choose who is responsible for various wedding payments; make envelopes.
____ Make & hand out assignment lists to ensure everyone knows their tasks.
____ Hand out the ceremony, reception, & favor boxes to appropriate individuals.
____ Give rings to the best man.
____ Arrange your wedding dress and all accessories during the day.
____ Get a manicure, pedicure, & a massage therapy.
____ Rehearse the ceremony with officiant and your wedding party.
____ Ask your fiance to check flight arrangements for the honeymoon.
____ Have the phone numbers of all wedding vendors ready.
____ Go to bed early; you need a good night's sleep.
The Wedding Day
____ Relax & have a healthy breakfast; drink plenty of fluids.
____ Take a relaxing lavender bath.
____ Wear a button-down shirt while your hairdresser & makeup artists work on you.
____ Remember to take your wedding license along.
After The Wedding
____ Clean & preserve your wedding gown.
____ Preserve your bouquet.
____ Write & send out thank you notes for all wedding gifts.
____ Complete the "name change" process.
____ Follow the completion program with the bridal registry store.
____ Meet the photographer to finalize wedding albums & video.
That was your complete, no errors, perfect wedding checklist and timeline. As this is a printable wedding checklist timeline, you can keep with you as the day of the wedding gets closer. You can add notes and rearrange some of the timings for any of the items in the wedding checklist and timeline. One more point you can add on your wedding checklist planner from us: Cherish each and every moment of this special day in both your lives.
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