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Creating the perfect wedding timeline from engagement to wedding day involves careful planning and organisation. This timeline will guide you through the major milestones, ensuring that every aspect of your wedding is thoughtfully planned and executed.

Immediately After Engagement (12-18 Months Before the Wedding)

  1. Celebrate Your Engagement
    • Announce Your Engagement: Share the news with family and friends!
    • Engagement Party (Optional): Maybe plan a small and intimate celebration to mark the occasion with family and close friends?
  2. Start Planning
    • Set Your Budget: Discuss your budget with your partner and any contributing parties.
    • Draft a Guest List: Begin drafting a list of potential guests to gauge the size of your wedding.
    • Hire a Wedding Planner (Optional): Consider hiring a professional to help with planning. You might think as overkill, but there is some amazing expertise that you can lean in or fall back on.
    • Choose a Wedding Date
    • Consider Season and Availability: Choose a season and a few potential dates, considering venue availability.

12-14 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Book the Venue
    • Ceremony and Reception Venues: Visit and book your preferred venues as soon as possible.
  2. Select Key Vendors
    • Photographer/Videographer: Book a photographer and videographer whose style you love. So many great options to choose from. Look at reviews too!
    • Caterer: If not included with the venue, select and book your caterer.
    • Entertainment: Hire a band or DJ and discuss music preferences.
  3. Engagement Photos
    • Schedule a Session: Have engagement photos taken for your wedding website, save-the-dates, and keepsakes. It’s a great idea!
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10-12 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Choose Your Wedding Party
    • Select Bridesmaids and Groomsmen: Ask close friends and family to be part of your wedding party. It’s a huge honour to be selected so time it right and make it a 1-1!
  2. Send or Mail Save-the-Dates:Send out save-the-dates to give guests advance notice of your wedding date.
  3. Shop for Attire
    • Wedding Dress: Start shopping for your wedding dress and schedule fittings.We3 can help @bridlatique
    • Groom’s Attire: Begin looking at options for the groom’s attire. Take care on matchng the themes!
    • Bridesmaids’ Dresses and Groomsmen’s Suits: Choose styles and colours for the wedding party.
  4. Create a Wedding Website –optional but can be a great memento of the day..
    • Wedding Info Hub: Include key details like date, location, registry information, and accommodation options.

8-10 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Book Remaining Vendors
    • Florist: Meet with florists to discuss your vision and secure your choice.
    • Priest/Vicar/Ceremony host 
    • Wedding Cake: Schedule tastings and book a bakery for your cake.
    • Transportation: Arrange transportation for you, your wedding party, and guests if necessary.
  2. Plan the Honeymoon
    • Book Travel and Accommodations: Decide on your honeymoon destination and make travel arrangements. Try to make this a special place, somewhere that you’ve always wanted to go to!

6-8 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Finalize Guest List
    • Confirm Numbers: Finalize your guest list and start collecting mailing addresses.
  2. Order Invitations
    • Design and Print: Choose and order your wedding invitations, programs, and other stationery.
  3. Choose Décor
    • Select Flowers, any Center pieces, and Decor: Work with your florist and planner to finalize your décor scheme.
  4. Plan the Ceremony
    • Music and Readings: Choose ceremony music, readings, and any special rituals.
  5. Book Hair and Makeup Artists
    • Schedule Trials: Book your beauty team and schedule hair and makeup trials.
  6. Tricks and treats ….guests love them on the table!

4-6 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Send Invitations
    • Mail Invitations: Send out formal invitations to your guests. Email is ok too.
  2. Create a Wedding Registry
    • Select Gifts: Register for items you’d like to receive from your guests.
  3. Arrange Accommodations
    • Book Rooms: Reserve hotel blocks for out-of-town guests and the wedding party.
  4. Plan Rehearsal Dinner
    • Book Venue: Arrange the location and details for the rehearsal dinner.
  5. Final Dress Fitting
    • Make Alterations: Have your final wedding dress fitting and ensure it’s ready for the big day.

2-4 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Finalize Details with Vendors
    • Confirm Orders and Services: Reconfirm details with all vendors and provide them with your timeline.
    • Plan the Reception: Finalize your reception details, including seating arrangements and the menu.
  2. Apply for Marriage License (if not already part of the ceremony)
    • Legal Preparations: Research your state’s requirements and apply for your marriage license.
  3. Create a Day-of Timeline
    • Detailed Schedule: Develop a comprehensive timeline for the wedding day, including vendor arrivals, ceremony start time, and reception events.
  4. Bridal Shower and Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties
    • Attend Parties: Enjoy (and we mean enjoy!) pre-wedding celebrations hosted by your bridal party and friends.

1-2 Months Before the Wedding

  1. Confirm RSVPs
    • Follow Up: Contact guests who haven’t responded and finalize the guest count.
  2. Finalise Seating Chart
    • Create and Print: Arrange seating and print place cards or seating charts.
  3. Prepare Vows and Speeches
    • Write Personal Vows: If writing your own vows, finalize them.
    • Review Speeches: Confirm the order of toasts and speeches during the reception.
  4. Final Beauty Prep
    • Hair and Skincare: Book any final beauty appointments, like facials, haircuts, or colour.
  5. Pack for Honeymoon
    • Honeymoon Luggage: Pack and prepare everything you’ll need for your honeymoon.

1 Week Before the Wedding

  1. Final Walkthrough
    • Venue Walkthrough: Do a final walkthrough at your venue to confirm all details.
  2. Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner
    • Practice Ceremony: Have a rehearsal with your wedding party, official, and key participants.
    • Dinner: Host or attend the rehearsal dinner and relax with loved ones.
  3. Relax and Rest
    • Get Rest: Take time to relax, eat well, and get plenty of sleep.

Wedding Day

  1. Getting Ready
    • Start Early: Begin getting ready according to the timeline with hair, makeup, and dressing.
    • Enjoy Every Moment
  2. Stay Present: Take a moment to soak it all in, and don’t sweat the small stuff.
    • Celebrate!
  3. Get Married: Enjoy your ceremony, celebrate with your loved ones, and make memories to last a lifetime.

This timeline provides a detailed roadmap and a perfect wedding timeline to help you stay on track from the moment you get engaged until your wedding day. Adjust it as needed to fit your personal preferences, cultural traditions, and wedding style. We hope this helps you, and we are available to help and support in your choice of wedding dresses when the time comes.

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