First of all, congratulations on your engagement! It’s time to plan for your wedding, how should you go about doing it? Here’s how your timeline should look like!
12 months before wedding
- Plan a wedding date
- Visit different ideal venues and book the venue
- Come up with a dream board for your wedding theme, styling and decorations
- Start researching on bridal attire
- Prepare a checklist
8 months
- Shop for wedding bands
- Shop for bridal gowns and suits and make a booking
- Book your actual day photographer and videographer
- Book wedding date with ROM and the official
4 – 6 months
- Go for the first gown fitting and suit fitting for your pre-wedding photoshoot
- Do your pre-wedding photoshoot (earlier will be better for overseas shoot)
- Plan your honeymoon
- Book your makeup artist
- Finalize all wedding vendors (decorators, florists, caterers etc)
2 months
- Send out your wedding invitations
- Go for makeup and hair trial
- Go for first fitting of gowns and suits if you haven’t done so for pre-wedding shoot
- Organize your food tasting session
- Buy all bridesmaid and groomsmen outfits
- Finalize guest list and start planning table arrangements
1 month
- Book a church rehearsal date for 2 weeks before wedding
- Start working on any DIY decorations
- Have fun at your hen night and stag night!
- Brief your bridal entourage on their duties
- Finalize your actual day programmes
2 weeks
- Go for final fitting of gowns and suits
- Confirm all timing and run through the day’s program with your makeup artist and photographer and videographer
- Complete your montage
- Go for haircut or dye your hair if you are intending to
- Go for facial appointment
1 week
- Collect your gowns
- Finish up on the minor preparations
- Go for manicure and pedicure
- Pack for hotel stay (if any)
- Start packing for honeymoon
Eve of wedding day
- Collect hand bouquet and tie up car decorations
- Confirm timing with makeup artist for the next day
- Have a restful day and eat good food
- Stay hydrated and sleep early!
Actual day
- Hand all duties to your bridesmaids and groomsmen or planner
- Enjoy your wedding and don’t sweat the small stuff!
- Embrace the moments and don’t worry about what comes next
- Most importantly, SMILE! 🙂
Your wedding day is an important event of your lifetime, it is not worth getting overly frustrated over minor things that went wrong. At the end of the day, it is the marriage that matters the most 🙂 So here’s to wishing all lovely couples a blessed and blissful marriage filled with abundance of love!
