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Wedding Checklist

May 27th, 2011 by in Resources

wedding checklist

Our complete Wedding Checklist for everything you need to do before your wedding!

Every bride is bound to forget something when planning such a momentous event, so we’ve prepared an extensive list to help you out. It’s a long list, but if you think you can add anything to it, please let us know!

BRIDE AND GROOM

  • Announce your engagement!
  • Decide on a date
  • Book ceremony & reception venue
  • Prepare a budget
  • Decide on number of guests
  • Book suppliers
  • Pre-marriage course
  • Ceremony booklets
  • Finalise mass booklet with priest
  • Decide on readers
  • Candles
  • Ceremony 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
  • State notification
  • Letters of freedom
  • Dispensation from archbishop if required (mixed marriage)
  • Copies of birth and baptismal certificates
  • Passports
  • Invitations
  • Evening invitations
  • RSVPs
  • Stamps
  • Ceremony booklet
  • Directions to ceremony and reception venue
  • 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
  • Personalised Number Plates

PHOTOGRAPHS

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

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

VENUE

  • Book venue
  • 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

 

 


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