Guide To A Stress Free Wedding
Congratulations on one of the biggest decision of your life, you’re engaged!
Whether you’ve been dreaming about your picture perfect wedding day since you were little, or couldn’t be bothered about anything and just looking forward to marrying the person of your dreams, wedding planning can be a daunting task!
With a handy month-by-month layout, you can make sure everything gets done with plenty of time to spare. This guide will help you to never feel overwhelmed and tasks don’t pile up and cause you unnecessary stress
+12 Months
- Now that you are engaged, you probably have a rock on your finger, so it’s important to insure your engagement ring as soon as you can. Better safe than sorry!
- Have an engagement party to celebrate with your closest friends and family.
- Have a casual get together between the two family’s parents so they can get to know each other better, if they haven’t met each other before.
- Ask your friends and family who would be willing to help you plan your big day. Do this early enough so you can be sure that when you delegate duties, they would be able to help with the planning.
- Take time to sit down with your fiancé when it gets quieter to discuss the whole wedding planning process. You should make sure that you are both on the same page with all planning activities and know what is expected for the next 12 months.
- Make a long list for potential guests. Split the list into an ‘A’ list and the ‘B’ list. You can always refine as time passes.
- Draw up a budget. This can be a daunting task, but working with the list above, allocate amounts for each section so that you can see what you are prepared to spend and what the total will be. A excel document is great so that you can keep track of the budgeted amount and then the actual quoted amount.
- Choose a wedding date. Try to at least decide on three preliminary wedding dates at first to be more flexible.
Things you will need to research, consider and make a decision on in the next few months to make that big day extra special:
- Wedding Venues
- Photographer
- Videographer
- Wedding dress
- Wedding cake
- Menu and Bar
- Make-up and Hairstyles
- Wedding officiants
- Transport
- Entertainment (Sound, Lighting, DJ’s/Bands)
- Florists
- Caterers
- Stationery (Save the date, Invitations, Menus, Place Cards & Seating Plan)
- Wedding decoration (including color scheme and style)
- Songs for important moments
- Think about and choose your wedding party (Best man, Maid of honor, Bridesmaids, Groomsmen, Flower girls and Ring bearer)