BRIDE AND GROOM

• Announce your engagement!
• Decide on a date
• Book church & hotel
• Prepare a budget
• Decide on number of guests
• Book suppliers
• Pre-marriage course
• Church mass booklets
• Finalise mass booklet with priest
• Decide on readers 
• Candles
• Church music
• Wedding rings
• Gifts for each other
• Gifts for mothers and helpers
• Organise money to be paid on the day
• Full rehearsal in church 
• Outfits for next day

PAPERWORK

• Church notification
• Civil notification
• Letters of freedom
• Dispensation from archbishop if required (mixed marriage)
• Copies of birth and baptismal certificates
• Passports
• Invitations
• Evening invitations
• RSVPs
• Stamps
• Mass booklet
• Directions to church and hotel
• List of local B&Bs
• Thank you cards

BRIDE

• Dress
• Shoes
• Veil
• Tiara/head piece/accessories
• Jewellery
• Underwear, Lingerie
• Garter
• Hand bag
• Shoes for dancing
• Tights
• Perfume
• Book hair (including trial)
• Book make-up (including trial)
• Book tan (including trial)
• Facials
• Manicure
• Pedicure
• Book final beauty appointments
• Teeth whitening
• Full dress rehearsal (including underwear, dress, shoes, jewellery)

GROOM, BEST MAN & GROOMSMEN

• Suit 
• Cufflinks
• Shoes
• Hair cut, shave
• Gifts for groomsmen

BRIDESMAIDS

• Dress & fittings
• Hair accessories
• Underwear
• Shoes
• Jewellery
• Gifts for bridesmaids

FLOWER GIRL & PAGEBOY

• Outfits
• Ring cushion
• Hair accessories for flower girl

TRANSPORT

• Cars
• Car ribbon
• Umbrellas  

FLOWERS

• Bouquet for bride
• Bouquets for bridesmaids
• Flower girl posy/basket
• Buttonholes
• Corsages
• Flowers for church
• Flowers for reception
• Bouquets for mothers
• Pew ends

VIDEOGRAPHER

• Book videographer
• Discuss the wedding details with the videographer and provide any required music or photographs for inclusion on the wedding DVD 

PHOTOGRAPHS

• Book photographer
• Give basic list of photos to be taken on the day

HOTEL

• Book hotel
• Confirm numbers
• Choose menu
• Confirm rooms
• Wedding cake
• Deliver cake
• Deliver favours
• Deliver wine
• Table plan
• Deliver luggage and leave a car at hotel for bride and groom for day after
• Pay final bill

RECEPTION

• Arrival drinks
• Pre-dinner refreshments
• Pre-dinner entertainment
• Band
• D.J.
• Organise wine and corkage with hotel 
• Decide on wine/round of drinks for toasting
• Decide on first dance
• Table plan
• Place names
• Favours
• Centrepieces if not supplied by hotel
• Chair covers
• Deliver guestbook 

EMERGENCY KIT

• Make-up
• Hairbrush
• Deodorant
• Perfume
• Spare tights
• Clear nail polish
• Hair spray
• Hair clips
• Breath mints
• Safety pins
• Wet wipes
• Tissues
• Sewing kit
• Party feet
• Plasters/Blister pads
• Tampon/Sanitary towels
• Pain killers
• Lip stick/gloss
• Powder 

HONEYMOON

• Choose destination
• Book flights
• Book accommodation
• Organise travel insurance
• Organise vaccinations if required
• Apply for visas if required
• Order foreign currency
• Ensure bank cards can be used abroad
• Pack suitcases