You can find a variety of sources in magazines, the internet and even the bookstore for your wedding checklist.  Naturally, your budget, theme and mood (informal vs. formal) for the wedding will likely dictate the type of checklist you need to use. Most of these checklists start months in advance – even up to a year – and include how to announce your engagement and even who will perform the official duties of the ceremony.

Besides your budget, one of the most important things on your wedding checklist will be finding your wedding dress as well as the accessories like shoes, jewelry, veil and gloves. Some weddings dresses have to be ordered and can take months to get in. Then, you have to schedule fittings and alterations into your checklist.

Caterers, the ceremony and reception site, musicians, flowers, bridal and groom attendants, booking the honeymoon, the wedding cake, wedding photographer and even planning the rehearsal dinner are all part of the wedding checklist. Ordering your invitations and creating your invitation list are additional duties as well. Even if your wedding is in front of the Justice of the Peace, there are details you can keep track of with a wedding checklist such as blood tests and scheduling the exchanging of vows.

As a bride, in the final weeks leading to your ceremony, delegate, delegate, delegate! Make copies of your wedding checklist and let your mom, your future mother-in-law and best friend help you. Just highlight the tasks you want them to accomplish and have them report back to you so you can update the main checklist. Trusting in close family and friends can ensure you have every item on your wedding checklist complete.

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Working out a wedding seating plan is nearly always going to be a dilema for the bride and groom during the days preceding the wedding.  Here are a few ideas as to how you can go about ensuring you have the perfect wedding seating plan!

Start with a final list of all invited guests who have accepted their invitations.  Then make a rough sketch of the layout of the reception venue making sure you mark on the sketch the postions of the podium, the cake table, tables for the guests, the head table, a table for the guest book, a table for collecting the gifts received and the stand for the DJ or the dance floor (if you have made one at your chosen venue).   Always remember to ask your catering service manager or your wedding planner for their advice, as they will undoubtedley have faced the same problems several times.

The traditional wedding seating plan consists of a head table that is placed in a prominent position. At the head table would be seated the bride and the groom, with the Maid of Honor sitting on the groom’s left, and the Best Man sitting on the bride’s right. If you want to you can include more attendants on the head table, just make sure that the males and females are placed alternately in your seating plan.

The bridal couples can choose to sit at the ‘Sweetheart Table’ as well- this will make the head table look less cramped and give all sitting there more room. You can also include the parents of both the bride and the groom at the head table either as well as, or instead of the bridal party.

The guests should be allocated their own seating at the various tables.  You will be able to mark each guests place with a small place card on the table.  It is also a good idea to place a full seating plan near the entrance to the venue, making sure the tables are marked in some way, as this will help the guests to find their correct places quickly.

Both the bride and groom will need to work on the wedding seating plan together, as you will both know your own kin better.  When you are placing your guests, you will obviously want to keep families together and try and keep the balance of male and female guests right.  You won’t want to put Uncle Harry next to Uncle Fred if all they are going to do is argue all the time!

Once you have the seating plan organised, forget it, relax and start to look forward to your big day.

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From the flowers, music, the groom’s tuxedo, the bride’s dress, guest lists, the priest, the venue, table arrangements, caterers: it’s endless! To make sure there are no goof-ups anywhere, make yourself a wedding planning list: a checklist that includes every detail.

Hiring a wedding planner is a good idea, if you can afford it. Most brides and grooms cannot, unfortunately. It’s best, in that case, to stick with a list. A wedding planning list allows you to plan your wedding just the way you want it. With ample time and help from friends who are experienced, you’re sure to pull off a successful wedding.

Defining your budget is that first, most important step. It’ll determine the rest of your planning. Based on the budget you’ve set for yourself, decide on the guest list. Don’t invite too many people you haven’t met in ages or won’t meet all that often in the future. Include all friends and family you would like at this auspicious event and keep it at that.

Setting up a menu that everyone agrees to is another important part of the wedding plan. Discuss it with your parents and to-be in-laws and everyone else involved. Ask caterers and restaurants to display the range of their services to you with the prices. This will help you compare and reach a final decision that everyone likes.

Attend a few ‘wedding shows’ to see how a wedding really works. Wedding dresses, flowers and flower arrangements, invitations and so on need to be decided upon and a wedding show will help you make the right choice. A good wedding planning list will incorporate all these details.

Start preparing well ahead of the final date: about six months or so, and you can rest assured that your wedding will go like clockwork, at an economical budget with no nasty surprises!

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The list will go on and on – you will find it much easier to work through this with a professional wedding checklist to hand.  This will be a great time saver.

You will also have the security of knowing that you have not missed out anything really important.  Many people will have used the same wedding checklist before you, and gone onto plan successful weddings, so you can be confident that what worked for them will work for you too!

You will probably need to start using a wedding checklist around a year before the planned wedding date.  You will find that you will constantly be referring to this as the wedding day draws closer.

The wedding checklist can be used for noting down various wedding decoration themes and ideas, as well as checking off each task as it is done.

When you use a proper checklist you won’t find yourself saying “oh no, I forgot to do that”, you can rest easy knowing that each part of the wedding planning has been checked off in the right order and at the correct time.

Planning is such an important part of putting together a great wedding, that it really should not be left to chance.

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