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The Ultimate Wedding Prep Guide

wedding preparation

• Design and purchase wedding bands

• Discuss wedding plans with both families

• Pick a wedding date & location

• Get marriage license

• Discuss with your fiancé/fiancée invitation lists for both the reception and wedding day

• Finalize rehearsal dinner location, food, decoration & slideshow

• Plan Honeymoon, and prepare passports (if traveling abroad)

• Book an officiant for the big day

• Create a room block at a near by hotel for your guests

• Prepare wedding night accommodations

• Choose wedding attire with your partner for bridesmaids and groomsmen

• Contact local florists for bridal bouquet/corsage, flowers for mothers & bridesmaids, boutonnieres for groom & groomsmen, and floral decorations at ceremony/reception

• Consider a wedding gift for your fiancé/fiancée

• Create welcome baskets for out-of-town guests

• Select music to be played during the wedding ceremony

• Select a DJ or band to play at your wedding reception

• Buy gifts for bridal party (groomsman, bridesmaids, ushers)

• Hire a care service for the wedding party if necessary (for transportation from wedding prep > ceremony > reception)

• Keep track of wedding gifts as the arrive and to whom thank you notes should be written

• Prepare beauty routine with any makeup/hair technicians for day of wedding, and/or get haircut

• Pack for Honeymoon (if leaving right after the wedding)

• Prepare a toast to your future wife/husband

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