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Free Wedding Planning Guide

Wedding Planning Timeline/Overview

When planning your dream wedding, your are best advised to work backwards from the big day.  Take a look at our free wedding planning guide presented below.

Six to twelve months before your wedding date is the time when you need to make most of your reservations and put in place firm deposits.  You need to know rough but fairly accurate estimates of

the number of wedding guests you will be accommodating You need to know rough but fairly accurate estimates of the number of wedding guests you will be accommodating as each wedding location can only accommodate a certain number of people, and you want a wedding venue that can comfortably cater for everyone.

So here is our guide to planning a cheap wedding and what needs to be accomplished during this timeframe.

  • Select and reserve locations for the wedding ceremony and the reception
  • Interview and reserve your professional talent including: Musician or DJ, Photographer/Videographer, Floral arranger, Caterer, Wedding cake baker, Wedding official, Wedding planner or consultant (optional)
  • Select and confirm wedding party attendants for both bride and groom
  • Select wedding party attire and coordinate fittings
  • Arrange transportation for bridal party on the big day
  • Place engagement information in local newspaper

    Four Months Before Your Wedding Day:
  • Finalize your guest list including complete mailing address for invitations
  • Order wedding invitations
  • Select a destination for the honeymoon, make hotel and airfare reservations, get passports
  • Reconfirm that bridal party dresses are on order and menswear rental attire is coordinated
Begin planning the wedding shower Register at bridal registries for shower and wedding gifts – if not registering at national chains, remember to register at stores that are local to the families of both bride and groom Reserve suite for bride and groom's wedding night Reserve block of hotel rooms for out-of-town wedding guests Shop for and order wedding rings Make sure you both agree where you will live once you're married

Two Months Before Your Wedding Day:
  • Address and mail wedding invitations
  • Make preparations for rehearsal dinner
  • Coordinate details for marriage license in state where marriage ceremony will take place
  • Coordinate, order, or make decorations and favours for wedding
  • Select the music you want for the ceremony and the reception

One Month Before Your Wedding Day:

  • Have the wedding shower
  • Complete final fittings for bridal dress and all bridal attendants
  • Coordinate and schedule all hair and make-up appointments
  • Purchase gifts for bridal party and groomsmen

Two Weeks Before Your Wedding Day:

  • Get marriage license
  • Begin process of changing name on credit cards, social security card, driver's license, bank accounts
  • Prepare seating arrangements and prepare place cards
  • Make sure accommodations for out-of-town guests are in order
  • Reconfirm all details with those who have been hired
  • Prepare change of address paperwork, pack and get ready to move (if applicable)
  • Give final count to caterer
  • Practice hair and make-up styles; grooms should get hair cut now

Day Before Your Wedding Day:

  • Hold rehearsal and rehearsal dinner
  • Get some rest

Your Perfect Wedding Day:

  • Make it to the ceremony on time
  • Bring wedding rings
  • Have a means of paying final tab for all services rendered and have cash for tips
  • Eat before ceremony so you don't get sick

Remember to smile pretty for your pictures, and be proud, because you've just pulled off a major feat!!

Now, everybody's wedding schedule is going to be different, so you will need to obviously make personal modifications to the plan so that it fits perfectly with your requirements.

Now with your free wedding planning guide all finished it's time to find those massive discounts.  Take a look around our website to

find those killer deals and start saving a fortune on your dream wedding.  Remember to shop around, and don't settle for the first price you're given.  Most of the time online wedding stores provide a telephone number, which give you the prefect opportunity to play one store off against the next.  You never know you may get your dream honeymoon destination cheaper than the sale price already heavily discounted...

 

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