Helpful tips before your wedding ...
12 months
- Choose the kind of wedding you will have, date and time.
- Discuss the budget, and who will pay for what.
- Consider hiring a wedding coordinator.
- Make arrangements with Officiant.
- Reserve the wedding and reception locations.
- Select your wedding dress, veil and accessories.
- Choose
the bridesmaids, groomsmen, ushers, and honored roles.
- Have a formal black/white photo sitting for announcements.
- Send engagement announcement to your fiancé's and your local & hometown newspapers.
Meet with the florist, photographer, caterer, videographer, and DJ.
- Discuss the guest list with fiancé and families.
- Plan reception music.
- Contact a rental coordinator for equipment reservations.
- Discuss honeymoon and reservations.
- Arrange for time off work.
- Buy a wedding planner and envelopes to store brochures and notes.
- Develop record-keeping system for invitations, gifts, and thank-you notes.
- Plan new living arrangements and home furnishings.
- Select and register wedding gifts and patterns.
- Select color scheme.
- Order dress and accessories.
- Order bridesmaids' dresses, shoes and accessories.
- Contact men's formal wear specialist for men's attire.
- Have parents select attire.
- Order invitations, announcements, programs, napkins, matchbooks, and personal stationery.
- Arrange for physical examinations, dental appointments, etc.
- Choose and order wedding bands and engraving.
- Order wedding and groom's cakes.
- Check state/county marriage license requirements.
- Plan ceremony, reception, menus, master of ceremonies, music, and timetables.
- Plan rehearsal dinner, and bridesmaids' luncheon.
- Complete guest list and address invitations.
- Make arrangements for lodging for out-of-town guests.
- Purchase gifts for attendants and groom.
- Plan reception seating, if necessary.
- Cape Tunes "Homework": If your wedding DJ is already reserved, here's some homework we ask Brides & Grooms to complete at least three weeks before their wedding day:
MUSIC CHECKLIST - This is so you can let us know what you like / don't like, etc.
NAMES CHECKLIST - This is so we can have the names of your wedding party before the big day and not spend vital time on your big day.
After your wedding ... when you come back to reality ...
- Remember your vows ... take the "for better or worse" part seriously ...
- When it's "worse" ... be there for each other ... make it work ... it will be worth it
