The wedding timeline checklist is the main checklist most couples search for when planning their wedding. The To-Do-List is organized from 9-12 months before the wedding until the first days after the wedding.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the To-Do-Things pointed out here. Just pick the ones that best suit your dream wedding.

9-12 months before the wedding

• Officially announce your engagement
• Decide on who pays for what and set an overall budget
• Set a wedding date (consult with registry office and officiant)
• Decide on the type (style and formality) of wedding (formal, semi-formal, informal…)
• Choose and book reception site (liability insurance necessary?) and arrange parking
• Choose and book ceremony location (liability insurance necessary?)
• Decide whether you need/want pre-marital counseling
• Get some useful wedding checklists or prepare your own ones
• Hire wedding planner if you wish
• Start first draft of your guest list

This checklist will help you keep in mind the options you have concerning the stationery you might want to use for your wedding.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the ideas pointed out here. Just pick the ones that best suit your dream wedding.

• Set budget
• Invitations (bought or self made)
• Response cards
• Map / directions cards
• Programs
• Guest book
• Menu cards (bought or self made)
• Place cards (bought or self made)

Wedding invitations are a perfect way to share your excitement about your upcoming wedding with your guests. Whether you make the invitations yourself or you order them, you have different options to prepare, pack and send the invitations to your guest list.

Consider the following wedding invitations checklist before deciding how you want to announce your big day.

• Set budget
• Order / self-made
• Include date / time / location / rsvp date
• Consider including: directions to place, menu/hotel options, registry link
• Include names of bride & groom
• Include names of parents (if desired)
• Include rsvp envelop or rsvp email / telephone number

Traditionally, hosting the bridal shower falls on the bride’s maid of honor, who invites friends and relatives of the bride and groom to offer gifts for their home or anything else, according to the couple’s needs.

From spontaneous and informal to complex themes and etiquette showers, you can let your imagination fly while planning your bride’s shower. Here you have a bridal shower checklist to help you organize all the details.

• Set budget
• Set bridal shower date 2-6 weeks before the wedding day
• Ask bride and groom who they want to have at the shower (guests list)
• Decide if you want a co-ed shower
• Choose place (it should match the shower theme)
• Write and send invitations
• Decide if there is going to be a central theme (from decoration to gifts)
• Organize bridal shower gifts (based on couple’s registry list, shower theme…)
• Organize decoration
• Organize bridal shower favors

There are many different services which can facilitate the course of a wedding day. The following checklist will give you an overview of the services which a couple might hire when planning their big day.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the services pointed out here. Just pick the ones that best suit your dream wedding.

• Wedding consultant
• Venue
• Accomodation
• Transportation
• Catering
• Wedding cake
• Wedding outfits / attire
• Wedding flower decoration and delivery
• Ceremony officiant
• Photographer / videographer
• Gift registry

Once you’ve decided to get married it’s time to plan and organize the big event. One of the first things we recommend you do is to set a budget for the whole celebration. Whether you are going to celebrate small or big there are plenty of things that add up.

Use this wedding budget checklist to help you get a general idea of all the costs implied in a wedding.

Planning the wedding decoration is usually quite time consuming. However, it is also one of the most creative parts of the wedding planning. It allows you to let your imagination fly and express your personal style. The following decorations checklist will give you an overview of the most common decoration possibilities for your wedding.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the ideas pointed out here. Just pick the ones that best suit your own dream wedding.

• Archway
• Altar arrangements
• Pew bows
• Aisle runner
• Headpieces
• Centerpieces
• Chair covers
• Head table decor
• Backdrops, ceiling canopies, mandaps, mehendi & sangeet…

You probably want to make sure that your wedding day is perfectly immortalized through nice pictures or videos to which you can go back again and again in the future. So, if your budget allows for it, hiring a professional photographer / videographer might be a very wise decision.

This checklist contains the most important things which need to be taken into account when interviewing a wedding photographer / videographer.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the ideas pointed out here. Just pick the ones that best suit your own dream wedding.

• Set budget
• Start 4-12 months in advance interviewing photographers / videographers
• Ask for photographer’s references and photo samples
• Decide if you want a second photographer
• Check price for full day wedding coverage
• Check photographer’s charge for travel, hotel, car rental…
• Check shipping costs (when photographer lives overseas)
• Check minimum number of “keeper” after photos
• Check if digital negatives and files are included
• Check if there will be any logo or copyright on photos

In this category you can let your imagination fly while organizing your personal wedding flower decoration. There are lots of options where to use flowers. Here you’ll find a checklist of the most common ones.

Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the ideas pointed out here. Just pick the ones that best suit your dream wedding.

• Set budget
• Start about 9-12 months in advance
• Bride’s bouquet
• Bridesmaids bouquets
• Maid of honor bouquet
• Throw away bouquet
• Corsages (for mothers, grandmothers)
• Boutonnieres (for groom, fathers, grandfathers, best man, groom’s men)

Decorations which might also include flowers:

• Archway
• Altar arrangements

A wedding is usually an occasion where you receive many gifts. However, in order to avoid unnecessary or double wedding gifts, it is advisable to register at a registry and give your guests an idea of what you would like and may need. This makes it easier for you as well as for your guests.

The list below will help you create your own wedding gifts registry checklist.

• Register about 6-9 months in advance
• Make sure that both of you participate at the process of choosing
• Choose gifts at all price levels (so guests can choose according to their budget)
• Make sure you register for things you really need and would like
• Check return policies
• Check if (at least some) registries are also available online