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12 - 18 Months Before Wedding

- Announce your Engagement to family and friends.

Place an engagement announcement in the newspaper

If you are having an engagement party book it and send out invitations

Set wedding date, you may need a couple of options as the venues you choose may be booked on your date

Determine wedding ceremony and reception style, casual or formal, reception centre, marquee, garden or beach

Determine approximate number of guests, this has a lot of influence in choosing your venue

Set wedding budget, now is the time to decide who will be contributing and how much. For assistance use our budget calculator

Start thinking about your wedding gown, look at different styles and decide what you would like

Look for suitable ceremony location and make a tentative booking

Look for suitable reception location and make a tentative booking

Choose an officiant and book them

Confirm your ceremony location and pay a deposit

Confirm your reception location and pay a deposit

Choose a caterer and book them (if required)

Choose and order your wedding dress

Choose and book photographer

Choose and book videographer

Create your wedding website including a guest book and photo gallery on Easy Weddings

9 - 11 Months Before Wedding

Start a display folder that you can gather all your wedding planning information together in, you don't want to loose things like deposit receipts

Begin your guest list, ask parents for a list and do your own wish list, this can be finalized closer to the date

Select your bridal party and ask each of them if they will do the honours

Meet with your officiant to discuss the ceremony, fill in all forms and discuss religious requirements such as counseling

If you are planning to use a wedding consultant, find one and hire them now

Select the colour scheme for your wedding, you will need to think about the colours or your chosen ceremony and reception location and attire for your bridal party

Select your reception entertainment, band or DJ and start listening to demos

If you are planning an outdoor ceremony decide if you would like a wet weather option (chapel or marquee) book this in

If you are planning an outdoor reception book marquee and all other party hire

6 - 8 Months Before Wedding

Book reception entertainment

Choose and book ceremony entertainment (if required)

Choose and order bridesmaids attire, involve all bridesmaids

Choose and order junior attendants attire, allow for possible growth

Choose formal wear for groom and groomsmen, organise fittings and book to hire

Meet with and book florist, decide what flowers you require and what style you would like

Choose a gift registry, if using one, and select a big range of gifts with a large price range

Choose your wedding cake and order it

Place a hold on some hotel rooms near by for out of town guests

Inform all out of town guests of the wedding date as they will need extra travel time

Decide on your invitation wording and design, involve all parents

Plan honeymoon

Organize passports, birth certificates and visa

4 - 5 Months Before Wedding

Finalize guest list

Finalize caterer and reception details

Reserve bridal suite for wedding night

Finalize wording for all stationary and order it

Order wedding rings

finalize ceremony arrangements with officiant, including marriage licence

Select gifts for each other

Select gifts for bridal party

Choose a hairdresser and book for your trial and the wedding day, you will need to book in for yourself, all female attendants including flower girls and possibly mothers. You should only need to have a trial yourself, but confirm this with your hair stylist

Choose a make up artist and book for your trial and the wedding day, you will need to book in for yourself, all female attendants and possibly mothers. You should only need to have a trial yourself, but confirm this with your make up artist

Hire wedding vehicles for the bridal party, you will need to decide what sort of transport you need and where the two parties are getting ready

2 - 3 Months Before Wedding

Choose and purchase bridal accessories, veil, headpiece, jewellery, lingerie and shoes. You will need lingerie and shoes for fittings

Choose and buy grooms accessories, shoes, cufflinks, etc

Choose accessories and shoes for the bridal party and organise for your attendants to try shoes on, jewellery is an excellent gift for your bridal party

Decide on any additional decorations that you would like for your ceremony or reception that are not included, such as red carpet, chair covers, disposable cameras, butterflies to release, ideas are only limited by your imagination. Book these services

Any new beauty routines or hair colours or styles should be experimented with now

If you plan a diet and exercise regime start it now

Pick up your invitations and start addressing them

Confirm fittings and delivery date of your dress

Confirm with all bridesmaids that they have organised their dresses and shoes, and to try them on again before the wedding date

Decide what bombonieres you would like and make or order them

Ask special guests to do readings or take part in the ceremony in any other way that you would like

Choose a MC, this could be a guest or a professional one

Select ceremony and reception music, you will need to pick music for walking down the isle, signing the register, the bridal waltz, cutting the cake and any other particular music you would like

Talk to the maid of honour and best man about the hens / bucks parties and any bridal showers that you choose to have. They will need lists with names and addresses of who you would like to invite

Mail wedding invitations out 6 to 8 weeks before the wedding

Have your hair and makeup trials, having them on the same day gives you an excellent excuse to go out for the night, ensure you take your headpiece and veil

Purchase anything required for the honeymoon

6 - 8 Weeks Before Wedding

Decide on vows and readings for the ceremony

Write your ceremony program

Add more gifts to your registry if required

Have your final gown fitting and confirm when the dress is to be picked up

Order drinks if they are not included in the catering package

If required, arrange a babysitter or something to entertain the kids at the reception

Work out wedding day times before you need to confirm bookings

Confirm your honeymoon reservations

Book in to have nails professionally done 1 or 2 days before the wedding (if required), you may wish to just get your own done or the bridesmaids as well

3 - 5 Weeks Before Wedding

Organise your rehearsal and rehearsal dinner

Contact everyone in the bridal party and ensure that they know what is required of them leading up to and on the day, ensure that they know all the times, check that their attire and shoes are organised

If there are any beauty routines that you are still to do, do them now, facials or teeth whitening

Have a meeting with your officiant to finalise your ceremony structure, you will need to let them know the vows are readings that you have chosen.

Pick up wedding rings and check their size

Pick up your wedding dress, and store it carefully where no harm can come to it and it won't get creased

Decide what you are using for something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue, also organise your garter if it is not one of these items

Call all guests who haven't rsvp'd, a few days before you need to confirm final numbers

Confirm all reception details including menus and numbers

Arrange seating for reception and let the reception centre or caterer see this asap

Name your place cards and deliver them to the reception centre

Check luggage condition

1 - 2 Weeks Before Wedding

Have your rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, confirm your ceremony details and time with the officiant

Confirm your ceremony location booking, including time

Confirm flowers ordered and delivery locations and times with your florist

Confirm cake order and delivery location and time with the baker

Confirm photographer time and locations

Confirm videographer time and locations

Confirm your ceremony entertainment including music choices

Confirm reception entertainment including choices

Confirm any party hire including marquee (if required)

Confirm any decorations or specialty items that you have booked

Confirm bombonieres, number and delivery details

Confirm transport, to ceremony, to photo locations, to reception location and leaving the reception, including times

Confirm hairdresser booking, both time and number of people

Confirm makeup artist, both time and number of people

Confirm nail treatments (if required)

Confirm formal wear hire

Confirm wedding night accommodation

Confirm MC

Confirm with any guests who are doing readings or special favors for the ceremony

Confirm with any guests who are doing speeches at the reception

Confirm honeymoon arrangements

Pack for your wedding night

Pack for honeymoon

Arrange refreshments for bridal party while dressing

Check that you have all the accessories that you need, jewellery, shoes, veil, tiara, lingerie, extra pair of stockings, garter, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Have your hens and bucks nights

The groom should have a have a hair cut now if required

Prepare your speech

Plan the night before the wedding, who will be staying where

Leave a copy of your honeymoon itinerary with someone

Organise cash for anything that is to be paid on the day and give it to a trusted person to make the payment on the day

1 Day Before Wedding

Pack car for honeymoon

Organise someone to transport wedding accessories

Organise someone to return any hires

Pickup tuxedo's the Friday before wedding

Review schedule with wedding party

Gather together everything that you need to get ready on the wedding day and take it with you to where you are getting ready

Drop off anything required to the reception centre

Check that all formal wear items are there and are the right size

After Wedding

Ensure that all formal wear is returned

Take any photos to be developed

Check that all wedding bills have been paid in full

Take your gown and veil to be cleaned

Freeze the top layer of your wedding cake

If you wish to have your wedding bouquet preserved, take it to be done

Within two months write thank you letters