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Engagement
- Announce engagement, and insert in newspapers if necessary.
- Arrange engagement party.
Soon after
- Establish a wedding budget. You might find it helpful to use the Wedding SA budget plan.
- The wedding style you choose.
- If you need a wedding coordinator, hire one or plan your wedding using Wedding SA.
- Select the venue for your wedding and choose the date.
- Contact the priest, celebrant, or registry office to arrange a wedding ceremony.
- You can choose from bridesmaids and groomsmen for your wedding party.
- Make a guest list.
- Book the reception venue.
- Hire any extra equipment required – marquee, furniture, pottery, etc.
- Find out if you need a wedding decorator and get in touch if needed.
- Start shopping for a wedding dress, or a dressmaker, and accessories.
- You will need to select suits and dresses for your wedding party and organize fittings.
- Book your honeymoon.
- Book your wedding transportation: cars, horses and carriages, limousines, etc.
- Choose a photographer or videographer.
- Choose a florist.
- For a church or ceremony, choose music or a musician.
- Book reception entertainment.
- Pre-marriage counselling is an option.
- Take into consideration wedding insurance.
3 months before
- Send invitations and other stationery orders
- Select Bomboniere.
- Select a wedding cake
- Book your wedding day appointments with a hairdresser, beautician or other professional.
- Set up any personal appointments that are necessary.
- If the honeymoon is abroad, arrange passports and vaccinations.
- Arrange Master of Ceremonies.
2 months before
- If necessary, compile a gift list and consult a gift registry.
- Notify the wedding coordinator of your intention to marry at least one month in advance.
- Organize a wedding rehearsal
- Choose your wedding rings
- Invites can be collected and written.
6 Weeks before
- Relax! Relax!
- If hired goods were selected, confirm reception arrangements.
- Get beverages
- Confirm arrangements with the florist
- Confirm details for your honeymoon.
- Get your honeymoon clothes planned.
- Send your invitations.
- Keep track of all declines and acceptances.
- Provide estimates of guest numbers to venues.
- Plan hen’s or buck’s night.
- Choose gifts for attendants.
- Start to prepare your speeches.
4 Weeks before
- Organize holiday and wedding insurance.
- If hired goods were selected, confirm reception arrangements.
- Confirm arrangements with the wedding official.
- Do a hair- and beauty rehearsal.
- Final wedding dress fitting and any necessary alterations.
- Finalize arrangements with the photographer.
- Finalize attendants’ outfits.
- Start updating your Wedding SA Guestlist and writing thank-you notes when receiving gifts.
2 Weeks before
- Relax! Relax!
- Final fitting of all wedding gowns and arrangements for delivery
- You must ensure that the wedding party knows all details and what they need to do.
- Finalize guest numbers and confirm with caterers.
- Organize wedding reception seating.
- The bride must notify credit institutions if she is changing her name.
- Send your guests an alphabetical list with table assignments and place cards.
1 Week Before
- Relax! Enjoy the weeks leading up to your wedding.
- Finalize all arrangements, including catering, floral, and photography.
- Perform a wedding rehearsal
- Final fitting of all accessories and outfits
- Make sure that guests, especially interstate or overseas, have transportation to and from the church.
- For an emergency, make sure a family member has access to it.
- Take a bag for your honeymoon.
- To make your mind at ease, layout all the clothes you need for the big day.
- Gifts for attendants