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wedding checklist

Our handy wedding checklist covers from six months before the wedding to the big day itself:

6 months before:

  • Announce your engagement (if you haven't already)
  • Choose your reception venue
  • Book service with vicar or registrar and check costs
  • Plan clothes for the bride and bridesmaids
  • Agree budget and decide who pays for what
  • Arrange approximate number of guests for ceremony
  • Decide on required style and theme
  • Choose maid of honour, bridesmaids and pageboys
  • Choose best man and ushers
  • Book DJ, band or other entertainment
  • Order flowers, bouquets and buttonholes
  • Arrange photographer and videographer
  • Draft guest list for ceremony, reception and evening
  • Book transport for wedding day
  • Take out wedding insurance

3 months before

  • Book honeymoon and travel insurance
  • Start selecting items for gift list
  • Discuss ceremony and order of service
  • Choose music options
  • Order wedding invitations
  • Finalise guest list
  • Prepare map / accommodation details for guests
  • Choose outfits for men in wedding party
  • Establish dates for reading of bands in church
  • Buy wedding rings
  • Arrange toastmaster
  • Finalise wedding list
  • Book wedding cake
  • Confirm passports are up to date
  • Send out invitations

1 month before

  • Start thinking about speeches
  • Buy shoes, underwear and accessories
  • Order decorations, balloons and cameras
  • Buy gifts for attendants
  • Book beauty treatments
  • Check bookings, florist, photographer etc.
  • Set date for wedding rehearsal
  • Arrange final fitting of Bride and Bridesmaids dresses
  • Have a trial with your hairdresser
  • Have trial for wedding make up
  • Organise stag and hen parties
  • Check honeymoon arrangements
  • Chase outstanding invitation replies

2 weeks before

  • Prepare seating plan and place cards
  • Order currency and travellers cheques
  • Decide first dance music
  • Advise florist of final numbers for buttonholes
  • Inform the venue of final numbers

1 week before

  • Hold a wedding rehearsal for all attendants
  • Check arrangements for flowers, cake, entertainment and transport
  • Wrap gifts for all attendants
  • Advise chief usher of seating plan
  • Arrange for hired items to be returned after the wedding

1 day before

  • Collect hired clothing
  • Collect currency or travellers cheques
  • Collect messages to be read at the wedding
  • Make sure best man has rings
  • Relax and have a leisurely evening
  • Make sure everything is packed for honeymoon

On the day

  • Enjoy your dream day, you planned for it long enough !!

 
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