

❒ Plan your bachelor/bachelorette parties. ❒ Go over the dinner menu and catering options. ❒ Reserve an arch, chairs, tables, linens, and other rentals needed for the ceremony or reception. ❒ Figure out who you’ll invite to the rehearsal dinner. ❒ Review your guest list and decide if plus-ones and kids are welcome. ❒ Research cake or other wedding dessert options. ❒ Start thinking about honeymoon destinations. ❒ Book your photographer and videographer. ❒ Reserve music vendors for your ceremony and reception. ❒ Choose your wedding ceremony officiant. ❒ Research music options (DJ, band, ceremony musician). ❒ Decide on a color scheme and wedding day aesthetic. ❒ Brainstorm dresses and suits for your wedding party. ❒ Ask your bridesmaids, groomsmen, flower girl, and ring bearer to be in your wedding.

❒ Consider hiring a wedding planner or same-day coordination help. ❒ Create a detailed wedding budget outline. ❒ Finalize your guest list and reach out for mailing addresses. ❒ Find a wedding venue and lock down your date! ❒ Create a Pinterest board for wedding inspiration. ❒ Start thinking about what size wedding you’ll have and draft a guest list. ❒ Set a wedding budget and open a joint savings account with your hubby-to-be. ❒ Announce your nuptials! Inform friends and family of your engagement and post to social media.

To help you get started, we’ve outlined a month-by-month wedding planning timeline that will keep you organized, calm, and prepared for what’s to come. Organizing your to-do list by the month will help you get each task checked off your list at the right time without any last-minute frenzies. With countless details and decisions to get to, you may be wondering what comes first on your wedding planning timeline. Are you a Type-A bride who’s always creating to-do lists and calendaring events? If you’ve got a personality that was born to plan, your wedding wheels have probably been turning since before you got engaged.
