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One Year Before: o Set date to order attendants’ dresses.
o Confirm delivery date for your dress.
o Buy a wedding planner and memory album.
o Select a portrait photographer.
o Discuss wedding budget with your parents, fiancé,
o Plan ceremony, reception details with organist,
perhaps his parents, decide on the wedding style
caterer, florist, etc.
from flowers to food and cake.
o Decide on wedding and reception sites. Three Months Before:
o Plan color scheme for wedding and reception. o Buy groom’s wedding gift.
o With fiancé, see clergymember or judge. o Mail your invitations.
o Plan reception, make reservations. o Have final dress and headpiece fitting.
o Book a band or disc jockey company. o Have portrait taken.

o Hire a photographer and videographer. o Choose gifts for your attendants.
o Select and register for china, silver, etc. o Pick up wedding rings, check engraving.
o Begin your guest list; have fiancé do his. o Plan lodging for traveling guests and bridesmaids.
o Choose attendants. o Discuss rehearsal dinner with groom.
o Plan new home, begin shopping for it. o Make appointment with hairdresser.
o Consult a travel agent for honeymoon ideas. o Write thank-you notes for gifts.

o Complete honeymoon plans with groom. o Send announcements to newspapers.
Six Months Before: Two Weeks Before:

o Complete your guest list. o Go with fiancé for marriage license.

o Order invitations and announcements, start addressing o Buy luggage, check honeymoon reservations.
them upon receipt. o Give a final guest count to the caterer.
o Arrange transportation for wedding party.
o Shop for trousseau. One Week Before:
o Order wedding rings. o Begin your honeymoon packing.
o Purchase traveler’s checks.
o Finish addressing your announcements to mail
on your wedding day.
o Check on final details with florist, etc.
o Arrange to move belongings to new home.
o Keep up with gift acknowledgments.
o Remind maid of honor and bridesmaids of rehearsal
dinner details; present gifts to attendants at rehearsal dinner.