I know that when I was getting married, the wedding checklist that I got with my planner was not enough, and I had to find one online. This was something that saved me a lot of time, and also saved me from forgetting some things that I may not have remembered until it was too late. I may have remembered them, but I would have found myself overwhelmed as the wedding approached trying to do everything that I had forgotten.
A good wedding checklist not only lists everything that you have to do, or at least that you might want to include, but it also gives you a good time frame. Some wait until it is too late to order their bridesmaid dresses. A good wedding checklist will advise you to do it early enough for the order to come in, and to give you plenty of time for alterations. It might tell you to do this six months before the wedding, where as many might wait until three months before and end up with a lot of problems. You should always assume something will go wrong, so too much time is better than cutting it close.
You might also see that a good wedding checklists advises you to do things that you never thought to do. Did you remember to talk with your DJ or band about music selection? Did you organize what people will do between ceremony and reception? Do you know where everyone should stay as far as hotels? Do you have gift bags for your out of town guests? Did you give your wedding photographer a list of wanted poses? A good wedding checklist will have all of this information, and plenty more. You can find a few and compare them.
You may think that you are having a simple wedding, and that you might not need a wedding checklist. That simple isn’t true. You should find one anyway. You can whittle it down to the things you need by going through the list and marking off the things you don’t want to do or don’t have to worry about. Not only will a good wedding checklist help you remember everything, it will also offer you some peace. That nagging voice in the back of your head that keeps saying you might be forgetting something will be very quiet. There’s nothing like a calm bride and groom.
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