The Ultimate Guide For Planning Your Dream Wedding

Congratulations if you’ve just got engaged! Planning your perfect wedding can be both exciting and nerve-racking, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the different options, and not to mention the bombardment of questions you don’t the answers to from your close friends and family.

The best way to approach your wedding is to be open to suggestions from the people you aim to plan it with. You have to think of a budget, and think about the guests – what food, what music, where and when the big day will take place.

So, to help you tick off the most important elements that make up a great wedding, here’s an example of handy wedding planning guide checklist: (to see the full checklist, check out this site.)

• Start a wedding folder or binder.
• Begin leafing through bridal, lifestyle, fashion, gardening, design, and food magazines for inspiration.
• Work out your budget.
• Determine how much you have to spend, based on your families’ contributions and your own.
• Pick your wedding party.
• As soon as you’re engaged, people will start wondering who’s in.
• Start the guest list.
• Make a head count database to use throughout your planning process, with columns for contact info, RSVPs, gifts, and any other relevant information. (Want to keep costs low? It may be brutal, but the best way to do it is to reduce your guest list.)
• Hire a planner, if desired.
• A planner will have relationships with—and insights about—vendors.
• Reserve your date and venues.
• Decide whether to have separate locations for the ceremony and the reception, factoring in travel time between the two places.
• Travel is important for the guests. Book chauffeur driven cars.
• Book your officiant.
• Research photographers, bands, florists, and caterers.
• Keep their contact information in your binder.
• Throw an engagement party, if you wish.
• But remember that your invitees should be on your wedding guest list as well.

The best thing you can do when designing your perfect wedding is prepare yourself mentally. Get into the right frame of mind and be prepared to compromise. Enter into the planning of your wedding with an open mind and flexibility. You may have it all planned out in your mind but not keeping your ideas flexible will leave you frustrated and disappointed. Be ready to chop and change your ideas of what your dream wedding is. Not only will you need to be flexible with your planning but you need to be willing to make compromises financially. Don’t try to over plan or be too controlling and take everything with a grain of salt and a sense of humor. It’s a huge deal, but not one that can be controlled down to the finest detail.

But besides that, your wedding can be anything you want it to be. Your theme, your style, your day. Once the chaos of the big day is finalised, all you have to do is walk down the aisle, and the rest is history. It’s then time to celebrate the marriage, so pack your dancing shoes! Soon enough it’ll then be time to jet off into the sunset with your partner and live happily ever after.