Planning a wedding is easier, more exciting and fun than you might think. Planning your wedding stress free requires lots of organizing, lots of time, and lots of patience. Here is a concise blueprint on how to plan a wedding.
Congratulations on your engagement! Once you’ve come down from cloud nine, go out and buy yourselves a wedding planning organizer. This is the most important item in your wedding planning tools! Use your wedding checklist to organize your ideas, inspirations, names of vendors, and all the other items that make wedding planning easier.
When you’ve announced your engagement, it’s time to buy your wedding rings. Make sure that announcing your engagement and purchasing the rings (this can be done in reverse) takes place within two to three weeks. Why? Because you’ll want to submit a formal engagement announcement to the paper, specifying a date, if possible, otherwise the date must be set when booking your civil or religious ceremony and you then submit a formal wedding announcement.
The number one mistake couples make when working on how to plan a wedding is underestimating the time they’ll need. Many churches, halls and vendors are normally pre-booked months and months in advance! An informal wedding requires three to six months to plan and book; a semiformal wedding six months to a year and a formal/large wedding 12 to 18 months. Booking as early as possible gives you the best chance of obtaining the vendors and caterers that you want.
Although money does not guarantee you happiness, if you and your husband to be agree about money it will probably be. Make decisions on who is paying for what items, and if either of your parents are helping out financially or not. Remember whoever pays has the say about what is done and who is invited, so be very clear and specific with each other when it comes to money
The next thing in planning your wedding is coming up with a wedding budget that works for you. All other how wedding planning decisions flow from this one crucial element. To establish the size of your wedding, you will have to determine the right balance between your wedding dreams and you wedding budget. Your wedding budget will decide the size of your guest list. Expenses for a wedding are never minor. Expect to pay 45 to 50% of your entire budget on the reception.