7 Steps To Make Your Own Perfect Wedding Preparation Checklist
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Early wedding planning really is key to pulling off a successful wedding.
Some wedding checklists even suggest starting 16 months prior to the big day.
Obviously, this depends on how long an engagement period you’ve decided upon.
You might have more, or even less, time to get your wedding sorted, including creating any
Step 1: Start As Early As Possible
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wedding shopping lists, etc.
The bigger and grander the wedding ceremony, the more planning will be needed, and the earlier you might need to start.
But even if your wedding errs more on the side of humble and low-key, getting things sorted early will mean less stress the closer to W-Day you get.
Step 1: Start As Early As Possible
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Before you even start to put together your checklist or marriage shopping list, you need to decide exactly how you want to go about organizing and maintaining things.
Some people might want one huge master list with everything on it.
This means everything can be viewed in one place in one go.
Step 2: One Master List or Several Specific Lists?
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But this can be quite daunting if there’s a lot of items on it.
Therefore, you might want to consider making checklists for specific parts of the wedding such as:
• Rehearsal
• Ceremony
• Reception
• Wedding party
• Honeymoon
Step 2: One Master List or Several Specific Lists?
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This compartmentalizes everything and makes it more digestible.
It’s also great if you’re delegating people to look after certain aspects of your wedding, or you want nuanced control over more complex areas.
However, try not to do both.
Step 2: One Master List or Several Specific Lists?
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Having both a master and a specific lists means you’ll have to make sure both are updated when things get done.
Fail to do this effectively and you could end up with duplicates, or even end up leaving something unfinished because of miscommunication or omission.
Step 2: One Master List or Several Specific Lists?
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We certainly admit the sheer tsunami of information and readily available checklists on the internet is overwhelming.
However, dipping your toe into the water of it all isn’t a bad idea.
As copious as checklists and wedding shopping lists are online, they do contain knowledge and experience that could prove useful.
Step 3: Gather Checklist Inspiration
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Because there’s so much to think about your wedding, it’s implausible for you to remember and cover every tiny detail.
Therefore, checking others’ lists might illuminate you to things that might have been left by the wayside.
However, don’t go overboard, or you risk becoming bedazzled and bamboozled.
Step 3: Gather Checklist Inspiration
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Try looking at some of the most popular results from your search.
They’re top results for a reason and should serve you well.
Step 3: Gather Checklist Inspiration
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Whilst checklist inspiration is a good thing, you still need to bear in mind that your wedding is utterly unique.
Whilst it might share many qualities and aspects with other weddings, meaning the preparation might be similar in some areas, your wedding really is like no other.
So why should your checklist be like every other?
Step 4: Make It Your Own
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This is why we think it’s best to build your own checklist rather than just use one found on the internet.
Whilst someone else’s printable wedding checklist might be good overall, we guarantee you’ll be scribbling extra things that you need to do, or editing out things that are irrelevant.
This is especially so if your wedding has specific cultural or religious considerations
Step 4: Make It Your Own
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or practices that need to be incorporated into your plans.
It’s also important if you’re incorporating some unusual elements to an otherwise traditional wedding, or doing something completely different.
Doing a surprise dance routine for the procession? You’ll need to factor in rehearsal time for those involved.
Step 4: Make It Your Own
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Getting married on a rollercoaster or underwater in scuba gear? Then your checklist is going to be very different from the norm.
It’s your wedding.
Therefore it should be your wedding checklist and yours alone.
Step 4: Make It Your Own
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Now that you’ve decided on how to organize your checklist or checklists, and know what you’ll be putting on them, it’s not time to decide on the timeframes for getting them done.
What timeframes you want to put onto your checklist depends entirely on how you want to organize yourself and what control you desire over each area of your wedding.
Step 5: Decide on Your Checklist’s Timeframes
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Many checklist timeframes divide things into monthly timeframes the further away from your wedding day you are.
Then, they break things down into weekly ones one or two months before the wedding.
Lastly, they go into days for the final furlong/week.
But you might want to start organizing things by weeks or days a lot earlier, depending
Step 5: Decide on Your Checklist’s Timeframes
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on how best you work when organizing things.
Whatever you decide, so it in a way that makes you feel comfortable and in control of planning wedding necessities.
Step 5: Decide on Your Checklist’s Timeframes
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Weddings are big undertakings.
So, why not get a little help from your friends and family? Many hands make light work, after all.
You might want them to help plan specific aspects of your upcoming wedding.
Maybe task a close friend with doing some preliminary research for your wedding dress?
Step 6: Prepare to Delegate
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Or ask a family member to scout out some potential wedding venues?
Or not. It’s entirely up to you.
Too many cooks also spoil the broth, after all.
Delegate as much or as little as your comfortable and in control of.
If you are going to delegate, you might want to consider
Step 6: Prepare to Delegate
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making your wedding preparation checklist or wedding shopping list on a shopping list app.
Chose one that has a sharing function, meaning those you’ve delegated a task to can edit and check things off themselves.
You might also be able to instantly see the changes or receive a timely notification about them, depending on the app.
Step 6: Prepare to Delegate
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Technology, as well as close relatives and acquaintances, can certainly help out.
Step 6: Prepare to Delegate
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When making your checklist, be sure to make sure it doesn’t stop at the wedding itself.
There’s still plenty of things to do afterwards.
Have you thought about returning any suit hires? What about “thank you” cards? Have your planned a honeymoon? Any official documents you need to fill out if you’re changing your last name?
Step 7: Plan Beyond the Wedding
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Any wedding presents that need to be returned (hopefully not)?
The fallout from the wedding won’t be as magnitudinous as what you needed to do before it.
But the post-wedding humdrum is still something that needs to be prepared for least if spiral out of control or make you encounter unexpected snags.
Step 7: Plan Beyond the Wedding
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Learn more about how to organize a dream wedding and not go crazy