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Wedding Planning

by: Samantha Taylor

Depending on your personal preferences and the preferences of your husband or wife-to-be, a wedding can take anywhere from 6 weeks to 2 years to plan. If one step in the planning process is missed, the whole wedding could be ruined. To prevent this from happening, we have created a wedding checklist in order to ensure everything goes according to plan on your big day.

7-12 Months Prior
� Announce Engagement and have your engagement party
� Decide on the wedding style and create a guest list
� Choose who you both want in the wedding party
� Set the date and time of the wedding
� Book your wedding officiant
� Choose your wedding song
� Decide on "extras" (cake, flowers, dj, photographers etc)
� Purchase your wedding dress and bridal accessories
� Purchase bridesmaids dresses and accessories (maid of honor as well)
� Start planning your honeymoon
� Buy (or make) your wedding favors
� Purchase your wedding invitations
� Plan your rehearsal ceremony and dinner

2-6 Months Prior
� Arrange accommodations for out-of-town guests
� Finalize the dinner menu
� Book your limo (or other form of transportation)
� Book the rehearsal dinner site
� Book your honeymoon
� Purchase your wedding rings
� Purchase your gifts for the wedding party
� Rent the tuxedos for groom and groomsmen (including bestman)
� Schedule a dress fitting (bride)
� Book hair and makeup appointment (bride)
� Have your bridal shower
� Send out the invitations to your guests
� Plan the wedding program

1 Month Prior
� Get your marriage license (and blood tests if needed)
� Final dress fitting (bride)
� Arrange seating for your guests
� Have your stag and doe party

1-2 Weeks Prior
� Pick up the wedding dress
� Have your bachelor and bachelorette parties

The Day Before
� Give the wedding party their gifts
� Pick up the tuxedo(s)
� Decorate the wedding site
� Have your rehearsal dinner and greet out-of-town guests

Follow these steps in the first step towards a lifetime of marital bliss!

About the author:
Samantha Taylor spent several years working in the weddings industry as a wedding planner. When she isn't being a mom of two wonderful children, she works as a freelance writer for http://www.yourwedding101.com - a site that offers information about everything wedding related - from wedding planning to wedding invitations and more.

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