You and your partner have finally set a date, and you’re thrilled. You have announced the wedding to all your family and friends –then you start to panic as you realize the overpowering task ahead of you! You start to think how you’re going to pull this off without missing out on something that will turn your wedding into a disaster. Hold your horses! Although there are still many important decisions and things you need to do for your wedding, starting your plans early and gearing up for the big day will enormously help.

So what’s your best friend in planning? Your wedding checklist –this will be a great tool for you to advantageously plan your wedding. With today’s weddings becoming more and more exorbitant affairs and luxurious in each way, budgeting and planning becomes a requirement as well. Wedding checklists helps in the budgeting process, as well as placing equal weight to every part of the wedding preparation.

Wedding checklists will allow you to have a smoother run with the wedding preparation process, and ensure that you don’t forget anything significant for the wedding. Making wedding checklists will need you to sit down and take enough time to think about all the things that you’ll need for the wedding. You may want to do this at the very first part of your planning, as this will serve as your guideline to tasks that will need to get done.

So as not to get overwhelmed with the intimidating mission ahead of you, it will help to prepare a wedding checklist where the tasks have been broken down into simple steps. Check out these tasks that you may include in your wedding checklist:

Twelve to six months before the wedding date
Decide on the style of the wedding and the time.
Begin doing an idea scrap book.
Determine the budget with both your families.
Book the ceremony location and the reception venue.
Book your officiant.
Settle on how many guests you’ll be having,
Prepare a guest list
Book the florist, musician, and caterer.
Book the photographer.
Book the means of transportation.
Select and order the wedding dress.
Create a gift registry.
Six to three months before the wedding date
Select wedding rings.
Select and order the attire of the groom.
Order the attire of the male attendants.
Schedule a dress fitting for the gown.
Confirm the orders for bridesmaids’ dress.
Order the invitations, as well as other stationery.
Write your personal vows and the readings.
Reserve the room for the wedding night.
Book the honeymoon.
Book rooms for guest accommodations.

Three to one months before the wedding date
Have a final guest list.
Send the invitations.
Select the playlist and music for the wedding.
Prepare the seating plan.
Book rental items
Buy the wedding favors
Order the final arrangement for flowers.
Organize how the cake will be delivered.
Book the makeup artist and the hair stylist.

One month before the wedding date
Pick out gifts for the attendants.
Pick up the wedding rings.
Select gifts for each other.
Confirm every service contracted.
Send rehearsal dinner invitations.
Final fitting for the wedding gown
Trial run for the makeup and hairstyle
Organize decorations for the table of the wedding cake
Have paperwork in order
Confirm the reservations for honeymoon
Write the “thank you” notes

These are just some of the things that wedding checklists must have. You may have ideas and plans of your own, and writing them down on a wedding checklist will greatly help so you don’t overlook them when the excitement and the “hectic” days start coming in.

Creating wedding checklists with all the wedding essentials, help makes wedding preparations easier, lighter, and more systematic. Most importantly, it helps prevent ruining wedding atmospheres caused by crucial things overlooked.