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 !!