Part 2 of your wedding timeline checklist


Four Months Before the Wedding

  • □ Select & order the cake
  • □ Mail invitations
  • □ Send the guest list to the host of your shower
  • □ Purchase wedding shoes and start dress fittings
  • □ Schedule hair & make up artists
  • □ Choose your music
  • □ Make sure your passport is up to date 


 

Three Months Before the Wedding 

  • □ Finalize the menu
  • □ Finalize the flowers
  • □ Order favors 
  • □ Make a list of the people giving toasts
  • □ Finalize the readings
  • □ Purchase your undergarments
  • □ Finalize the order of the ceremony & the reception
  • □ Print menu cards/programs
  • □ Schedule dance lessons.
  • □ Purchase your guest book and any other items you aren’t renting.
  • □ If you are DIYing anything for your wedding, start now, or cross it off your list. 

  • Two Months Before the Wedding
  • □ Send your event schedule to the vendors

□ Review the playlist with the DJ/Band

  • □ Pick a wedding hashtag.
  • □ Submit a newspaper wedding announcement
  • □ Enjoy a bachelor/bachelorette party 

  • One Month Before the Wedding
  • □ Enter RSVPs on your guest list
  • □ Get Your marriage license
  • □ Get name change paperwork.
  • □ Visit your dressmaker for one last fitting
  • □ Stock the bar
  • □ Send out as many final payments as you can
  • □ Confirm times for hair & makeup and all Vendors
  • □ Email & print directions for transport vehicles
  • □ Assign seating
  • □ Purchase bridesmaids’ gifts 
  • □ Write vows
  • □ Get your hair cut & colored
  • □ If your traditional, now is the time to get something old, something new, something borrowed,
  • & something blue!

  • Two Weeks Before the Wedding 
  • □ Confirm guest List. Call guests who haven’t RSVPd.
  • □ Confirm head counts, menus, and delivery with your caterers/bakers.
  • □ Make sure any clothing you want cleaned or pressed is taken care of.
  • □ Finalize shot list with your photographer.

 

Week of The Wedding 

  • □ Check the weather reports and see if you will need to use your contingency plan.
  • □ Reconfirm arrival times with vendors
  • □ Delegate small wedding-day tasks
  • □ Send a timeline to the wedding party
  • □ Pick up your dress
  • □ Check in with the Photographer
  • □ Set aside checks/cash for vendors that haven’t been paid in full
  • □ Set aside envelopes with cash for tips for your vendors
  • □ Book a manicure/pedicure for the day before your wedding
  • □ Send a final guest list to the Caterer/Venue
  • □ Break in your shoes
  • □ Pack for your honeymoon
  • □ Pack an overnight bag.
  • □ Create a wedding day emergency kit.
  • □ Give all your vendors an emergency number to call.
  • □ Rehearse your ceremony with your officiant and wedding party.
  • □ Confirm Honeymoon Transportation.
  • □ Print out your vows.

  • □ Assign someone to pick up all your gifts/belongings after your reception and deliver them to
  • your house/apartment.
  • □ Give a copy of all your planning materials to your day of coordinator.
  • Day of Wedding
  • □ Put a list on your door of things not to forget. 
  • □ Make sure your vendors are paid in full
  • □ Enjoy your wedding! (Don’t forget to greet your guests!)
  • After the Wedding 
  • □ Send out thank you notes. (For gifts and for those who helped.)
  • □ Follow up and make sure you know when you’ll get your wedding photos back. Wedding season is April-October in the South. A typical turnaround time is 6-9 weeks due to the volume of weddings happening.
  • □ Ensure that all rentals have been returned