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