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ORGANISING THE WEDDING
Your Engaged! Now What?
- Announce the engagement to friends and family
- Put an engagement announcement in the newspaper
- Plan your engagement party
Initial Wedding Plans
- Set the date
- Decide on a wedding budget
- Think about the style of wedding you would like
- Employ a wedding planner if you chose one
- Select the priest/celebrant or registry office
- Select your bridal party
- Write a guest list so you can approximate numbers for the reception
- Choose your wedding reception venue and book it
- Book any equipment hire required, i.e. seats, marquee, etc
- If you are having a professional decorator, choose and book them
- Start shopping for your bridal gown, dressmaker and bridal accessories
- Shop for suits and dresses for the wedding party and organize fittings
- Reserve the wedding transportation, i.e. cars, horse and carriage, limousines, etc
- Choose and book the photographer and videographer
- Order and send 'save the date' cards to out of town guests
3 Months Before
- Select and order your wedding cake
- Order wedding invitations and stationery
- Decide if you want to include a gift registry card with your invitations and arrange
- Arrange passport, visas, inoculations, etc for your honeymoon, if overseas
- Organise a Master of Ceremonies
- Address and send out wedding invitations
- Organise florist and your wedding flowers
- Select music or musicians for the wedding ceremony
- Book reception music and entertainment
- Choose your wedding rings
2 Months Before
- Give notice of intent to marry to wedding official at least one full month and no more than 6 months in prior to the wedding date
- Organise wedding ceremony rehearsal
- Mail your invitatioins if you haven't already done so
- Ensure you have all your bridal accessories organised
- Arrange your honeymoon and travel insurance
- Consider wedding insurance
6 Weeks Before
- Confirm reception venue and any other bookings
- confirm wedding flowers with the florist
- Work out a system for tracking your RSVP's
- Plan hen's and buck's nights
- Purchase gifts for wedding party
- Prepare your wedding speeches
- Purchase disposable cameras
- Choose bonbonniere, place cards, table stationery and thank you cards
4 Weeks Before
- Advise venues of estimated guest numbers
- confirm minister / celebrant
- Have a hairstyle and make up rehearsal
- Final bridal gown fitting
- Finalise details with the photographer
- Finalise wedding party clothes and fittings
- Update your guest list
- Start writing thank you cards
- Get your wedding gift tracker ready
- Arrange beverages or set budget with reception venue
- Confirm honeymoon and travel insurance details
2 Weeks Before
- Ensure all final fittings for wedding clothes are done and garments collected.
- Make sure the wedding party are prepared for their duties
- Finalise guest numbers and confirm with the recption venue caterers
- Confirm hairdresser and makeup artist
- Create reception seating plan and finalise place cards
- Have something old, something new, something borrowed & something blue
- Plan honeymoon clothes
1 Week Before
- Have some time to yourself before the guests start arriving in town
- Finalise and confirm all arrangements and bookings
- Have a final wedding rehearsal
- Check that all outfits and accessories are ready
- Pack a bridal emergency kit for the day
- On the night before, layout your bridal gown, lingerie and accessories (you will sleep better)
- Check you have gifts wrapped and ready for the bridal party
- Finalise your clothes for the honeymoon
- Leave at least a few days to relax
- Get a massage, pamper yourself, have your nails done.
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