A Wedding Planning Checklist Keeps You Organized

A wedding planning checklist helps you remember every detailed aspect of your special day. Organizing your day without a wedding planning checklist is like building a house without a blueprint or going to the market without a list – you are certain to forget something important.

Your wedding planning checklist will include several elements. While most couples plan their wedding a year or more in advance, you can apply the same concept to a wedding in a month by stepping up your pace. Your first priority is to meet each other’s family and formally announce your engagement to your friends and community. Often couples publish a short summary of their engagement with a photo to announce their future wedding to the community. To tell your friends and out-of-town relatives about the good news, send formal engagement announcements. Your may want to choose a wedding theme at this time so you can select engagement announcements accordingly. Wedding themes range from formal to tropical to casual, based on the unique preferences of the couple.

Elements to organize on your wedding planning checklist include stationery, attire, photography and videos, music, gifts, location, accessories for the ceremony, accessories for the reception, decorations, flowers and legal paperwork. To have a successful wedding, all of these elements must be taken care of within a designated budget. A wedding planning checklist ensures you won’t overlook any of them as you try to handle all the details of your special day. It’s a challenge that a wedding planning checklist makes much easier.

Stationery choices for invitations and thank you notes range from whimsical to elegant. Adding stickers to your outer envelope is a great way to reflect the theme of your wedding day. For elegant weddings, seal your envelopes with ornamental baroque monogrammed stickers. If you decide on a destination or beach wedding, beach towel stickers are simply perfect.

No bride is complete without an attractive headpiece and eye-catching jewelry. While the gowns, tuxedos and shoes are obvious items you need for your wedding, jewels and headpieces are also required attire for most brides. From simple to sparkling, the right jewelry and headpiece (possibly a rhinestone tiara) make the bride absolutely stunning.

Themed wedding ceremony accessories make exchanging vows even more special. Items to include on your master wedding planning checklist include a ring bearer pillow and a flower girl basket. Choose themed items for a professional look throughout your wedding day.

Besides the traditional ceremony, you may also decide to use a unity candle at your ceremony. Smaller tapers are used to light a large, monogrammed candle to show the joining of two as one. You can also have a unity sand ceremony, which is a wonderful way to bring blended families together. Everyone pours different colored sand into a large, decorative vase to create a lasting keepsake of the couple’s and family’s union. If you have lost a family member but want to include them in your wedding ceremony, display a memorial. Personalized memorial pillar candles are a perfect way to represent a lost loved one at your wedding ceremony.

After the ceremony, champagne bubbles should be given to all the attendees instead of using confetti to congratulate the happy couple. Many facilities do not allow confetti so bubbles are a fun alternative.

At your wedding reception, you will need a guest book, bridal garters, cake topper, and cake serving set, place cards and favors to include in all the special ceremonies throughout the party. A guest book is a convenient way to assemble names and addresses for thank you notes and gives your guests a chance to make a personal statement to you. The bride wears a special garter for her husband to remove and throw to the single men to determine which one is likely to marry first. During the cake cutting ceremony, the happy couple feeds each other for the first time. Having themed accessories makes these moments even more special in photos and videos. These themed wedding reception accessories are also fantastic keepsakes of your day. Favors are the keepsakes given to your guests, such as photo frames and silver plated accessories. With so much to remember along the way, a wedding planning checklist gives you an organized blueprint to build the perfect day.