12 Months Before the wedding

1. Bookmark this site www.afairytalewedding.com for easy future reference.
2. Select a wedding consultant to help you avoid wasting time or money.
3. Confirm ceremony date, time, and site with officiant.
4. Set a preliminary budget with the help of your wedding coordinator
5. Select attendants.
6. Reserve the reception site.
7. Do a walk through with your wedding planner
8. Select and book caterers, photographers, videographers, florists, musicians, and other service providers.
9. Begin compiling guest list.
10. Select wedding dress, headpiece, and bridesmaid’s dresses.
11. Start selecting your colors and themes for your wedding
12. Start thinking about your honeymoon.

9 Months Before

1. Attend premarital classes.
2. Choose and order your dress accessories.
3. Gift Registry, for china, gifts, etc.
4. Shop for a new home.

6 Months Before

1. Place deposits and sign contracts for wedding vendors and services.
2. Choose bridesmaid’s dresses and accessories.
3. Choose flower girl’s dress.
4. Make sure your visas and passports are up to date, if you’re traveling as well as any shots or medical
5. information needed for your honeymoon..
6. Complete honeymoon plans with groom.
7. Discuss rehersal dinner with groom.

4 Months Before

1. Verify that the wedding gown, bridesmaid’s dresses, and flower girl dress have been ordered.
2. Make sure addresses for guest list are up to date.
3. Order invitations, announcements, and any other personal stationary.
4. Choose and order formal wear for groom and attendants.
5. Make sure all out-of-town male attendants have submitted their measurements to your formal wear provider.
6. Verify that both mothers have selected and ordered either dresses.
7. Investigate requirements for medical test and other records for your marriage license.
8. Design a map to direct guests to the ceremony and reception sites.
9. Complete registering.
10. Shop for trousseau.

2 Months before

1. Schedule final fitting.
2. Finalize bridal registry.
3. Confirm ceremony details with your officiant.
4. Finish addressing invitations and announcements, mail them out.
5. Finalize wardrobe for showers, pre-wedding parties, and honeymoon.
6. Shop for gifts for bridal party.
7. Shop for accessories, such as shoes, stockings, garter, purse, cake knife, candles, and guest registration book.
8. Choose wedding rings, and arrange for engraving.
9. Plan your bridesmaid’s party.
10. Schedule and appointment with your hairdresser and make-up consultant.
11. Finalize and verify all details with vendors and service providers.
12. Order wedding cake.

6 Weeks before

1. Mail invitations .
2. Confirm all male and female attendants have been fitted for formalwear.
3. Set rehearsal and inform all who needed to be there.
4. Make final menu decisions.
5. Discuss wedding photo shots with photographer and videographer.
6. Send announcement to newspaper.
7. Write thank you notes for gifts.
8. Set a date and time for your ceremony rehearsal
9. Your wedding planner will call your court and make sure they show up to the rehearsal
10. Usually 2 to 3 days prior to the wedding day.

2 Weeks Before

1. Pick up wedding gown, and confirm that it fits properly.
2. Take care of blood and medical tests, and marriage license.
3. Finalize musical selections for the ceremony and reception.
4. Finalize seating chart for reception.
5. Finish addressing announcements to mail on wedding day.

1 Week Before

1. Pick up wedding rings.
2. Give final guest count for the reception to your caterer.
3. Practice applying make-up for the wedding day, if you’re doing it on your own.
4. Confirm details with all service providers.
5. Verify all bridesmaids and groomsman have picked up their formalwear.
6. Your wedding planner will confirm that all attendants know when to arrive at the rehearsal, rehearsal
7. dinner,and wedding ceremony.
8. Confirm honeymoon plans.
9. Make a list of names and pronunciation for the Best Man to mention in his introduction, if appropriate and make
10. sure your wedding planner has it.
11. Cancel newspaper, and mail for while you’re away.
12. Pay up coming bills that will be due while you are away.
13. Pack for honeymoon and purchase traveler’s checks.
14. Arrange to move belongings to new home.
15. Delivery everything to your wedding planner need to take with her for the day of.

1-2 Days Before

1. Review any special seating arrangements with ushers.
2. Groom to pick up formalwear.
3. Make sure to have marriage license.
4. Check with your wedding planner and make sure all final details with caterer, florist, musicians, have been taken care of.

Day before

Relax, relax, relax, so you glow for your wedding

The Night Before

Sleep, sleep, sleep-you have the biggest day of your life ahead of you. You want to look and feel your best. Make sure to make time with family, especially parents to share memories of times gone by and to say thank you take photos of your last hours at home as a single person. Take some time for yourself to be quiet. Close your eyes and visualize every step of the coming day. This will relax you and help prevent unforeseen incidents.

The morning of…

Have a small meal before leaving for the church don’t bring too many personal items to the church..less to worry about MOST IMPORTANT!!!! Stay Calm…if you run behind schedule-take a deep breath and remember that the ceremony will wait for you!!! Your family and friends and your wedding planner want to see you shine-not be frazzled because you are running late-so relax -looking, feeling and radiating your happiness is what counts.

Countdown to “I Do”

2 hours till “I Do”…

Groom, bestman and groomsmenget together begin dressing.

45 minutes…

Ushers arrive at the wedding sight, pick up boutonnieres and programs, go over seating plans, wait at the entrance to the church for the guests to arrive.

30 minutes…

Organ or some type of music begins,final check of marriage license, mother and attendants leave for the wedding site, ushers seating guests.

20 minutes…

Groom and best man arrive, father (or brides escort) and bride leave for the ceremony site.

10 minutes…

Bridal party and parents wait in the back of church while other relatives are seated.

5 minutes…

Mother of the groom is escorted to her seat (unless a Jewish ceremony) with grooms father walking right behind the usher, then taking his seat beside his wife…mother of the groom in the pew first with the father sitting on the aisle, bride and father arrive at ceremony site, mother of the bride is escorted down the aisle.

* 1 minute…

if there is an aisle runner, two ushers walk in step to the front of the church and unroll the runner and walk in step to the back of the church, unrolling runner as they go… they then take their place in the procession. And now the moment you have waited for……the minister, priest or rabbi takes his/her place along with the groom and best man. (In Christian tradition, the groom and best man enter from chancel door and stand facing the congregation-at an angle-the groom standing nearest the minister, the best man one step behind the groom. In Jewish tradition, the groom and best man are part of the wedding procession. As the ceremony begins, the guests will rise to watch the bride make her entrance.

Smile… this is your moment!!!

After the Honeymoon. Report your name change to Social Security. Call 1-800-772-1213 or on line at www.ssa.gov

Have a Happy Life!