❏ Choose a date and talk about budget
❏ Decide on a wedding style
❏ Choose your wedding party
❏ Create a wedding website
❏ Start browsing Save the Date designs
❏ Order sample Save the dates
❏ Make a guest list
❏ Explore ceremony & reception venue options
❏ Start assembling a dream team of wedding pros [like me, hiii!]
❏ Engagement Photos!

❏ Find hotels at different price points for out-of-town guests
❏ Browse wedding invite designs
❏ Refine your guest list
❏ Create your gift registry
❏ Start planning your honeymoon

❏ Reserve your rentals
❏ Hire ceremony musicians
❏ Book transportation for your wedding day to and from the venues
❏ Decide on suits for any wedding party members/grooms/etc
❏ Start deciding on your wedding day hair/makeup styles
❏ Personalize and order wedding invitation samples
❏ Meet with your officiant to discuss ceremony run down
❏ Purchase wedding rings
❏ Choose cake style and schedule tastings
❏ Order wedding invitation suite

❏ Order your wedding cake
❏ Connect with your band or DJ to discuss preferences
❏ Meet with your florist
❏ Finalize your guest list
❏ Compile your rehearsal dinner guest list and details
❏ Schedule any fittings you may need for wedding day outfits
❏ Book your honeymoon flights & hotels
❏ Book your suite for your wedding night

❏ Hair and makeup trials
❏ Finalize readers and readings for your ceremony
❏ Plan reception seating
❏ Purchase toasting flutes, serving pieces, guestbook,
and flower basket/ring pillow if needed
❏ Finalize reception menu with catering
❏ Purchase wedding party gifts
❏ Mail wedding invitations

❏ Write your vows
❏ Review ceremony details with officiant
❏ Finalize seating arrangements
❏ Apply for marriage license
❏ Purchase/assemble guest girfts
❏ Make/order wedding programs
❏ Finalize any fittings needed for wedding party
❏ Create wedding day timelines with your planner/photographer and send it to your wedding party, family members, vendors and officiant
❏ Decide on “something old, something new, something borrowed & something blue” if you’re doing
❏ Book spa and beauty treatments for yourself and your most calming bff

❏ Final fittings
❏ Pick up marriage license
❏ Contact vendors to confirm date, time, location & details
❏ Confirm honeymoon reservations
❏ Pick up wedding rings
❏ Write thank you notes as gifts are received
❏ Follow up with any outstanding RSVPs
❏ Get final payments in to anyone who requires 30 days (that’s me!)
❏ Fill out your wedding planning questionairre if you haven’t already, and lock down a final schedule and portrait list with me for your wedding day.

❏ Break in your wedding shoes. Wear them around the house every day
❏ Make arrangements for care of your pets on your wedding night, and care of pets and plants on your honeymoon
❏ Get a haircut and freshen up color
❏ Give your final guest count to your caterer
❏ Update registries
❏ Send directions to the driver for wedding day transportation
❏ Delegate someone to return tuxes, rentals & tend to wedding dress(es) after the wedding

❏ Prepare your wedding day emergency kit
❏ Give readers their scripts
❏ Prepare final payments to vendors [like hair and makeup] as well as cash tips in individual envelopes
❏ Lay out wedding clothes and gather all accessories
❏ Drink a ton of water all week. Your skin and hangover[s] will thank you.

❏ Treat yourself to a massage and a mani/pedi
❏ Attend your rehearsal
❏ Have a blast at your rehearsal dinner
❏ Thank everyone around you
❏ Go to bed at a decent hour
❏ Drink lots of water.

❏ Eat a good breakfast
❏ Stay off your feet as much as possible
❏ Give yourself more than enough time to get ready
❏ Lay out all the items you want your photographer to capture
❏ Exchange notes with your fiancé(e)
❏ Relax, smile and soak up every moment of your wedding day.

❏ Send thank notes no later than 3 weeks after the wedding
❏ Send outfits to the cleaners
❏ Make sure all rentals are returned