WEDDING PLANNING TIMELINE
13-15 Months Before
- Pick your wedding date
- Look at + Book your venue
- Start writing your guest list
- Set a budget
- Make a wedding folder or Pinterest board
10-12 Months Before
- Ask bridesmaids to be in the wedding
- 12 months: Start looking at photographers + videographers + wedding MC
- 11 months: Book photographer + videographer + wedding MC
- Pick an officiant
7-9 Months Before
- Order your wedding dress
- Order wedding ringsMC
- Looking at bridesmaid dresses
- Start hair + makeup trials
- Book hair + makeup
- Book the DJ + Floral designer
- Start looking at invitation design & finalize guests list
4-6 Months Before
- 6 months: Order invitations
- Order bridesmaids’ dresses
- Take prewedding photos
- Confirm all vendors
- Book honeymoon
- Make a vendors group chat
- Make a friend group chat + Send save-the-dates
- Make a wedding page on Facebook & electronic invitation letter
3 Months Before
- Groom: Rent the men’s formal wear
- Bride: Try Makeup + hair final look
- Hire wedding day transportation
- Finalize Dinner Menu
- Food tasting
- Book a hotel room for bride for photo taking
- Reserve a block of hotel rooms
2 Months Before
- Purchase Gifts for parents, attendants, wedding party + each other
- Send a must-have shot list to your photographer
- Buy lingerie for wedding + honeymoon
- Apply for a wedding license
- Have name cards made for tables
1 Months Before
- Have final grown fitting + Bring Dress Home
- Check in with bridesmaids. Make sure they have their gowns ready for the wedding
- Make last-minute adjustments with vendors
- Create a wedding program
- Make hotel bags for guests
- Confirm final headcount with venue
- Finalize music with DJ
- Create seating chart
- Book waxing + nail appointments
- Decide & Write wedding vows
- Send invitations
- Attend bridal shower & bachelorette Party
1-2 Weeks Before
- Get your last prewedding haircut + color
- Create wedding day schedule for vendors
- Call a final meeting with all wedding vendors and confirm arrangements
- Call the party bus company to confirm pickup times + locations
- 3-5 days : Get everything printed ( place cards , table cards , menus , favors + Seating plan )
- 3-5 days : Go to wax + nails
Day Before
- Provide all wedding professionals with an emergency phone number to call on the wedding day
- Write checks for vendors
- Pack separate bag for the wedding day + personal hotel bag
- Pack an emergency kit
- Attend rehearsal
Day of
- Present parents + each other with gifts
- Give wedding rings to the best man to hold during the ceremony
- Assign a family member or attendant to be the photographer’s contact so he/she knows who’s who
- Enjoy, every, second