You have spent sleepless nights and stressful days planning the wedding, and finally the day is almost at hand. What do you do? You’ll need a wedding day itinerary to ensure that all your plans and perfect little details are carried out smoothly, as well as the event runs without flaws.

The numerous decisions and details effectively conveyed to everyone, from the bridal party to the families and to the vendors, will be a major factor for a successful wedding. A well-organized wedding day itinerary will be a thorough and highly-effective method of conveying with several people in a manner that’s time-saving.

A wedding day itinerary sheet is a piece of paper that contains a timetable or schedule of activities and details that the bride, as well as the groom wishes to transpire during their big day. Also, the details must be according to the constraints and time restrictions of the ceremony, reception site, and services of the vendor.

A wedding day itinerary must also consider everything, from how long it’ll take a bride to get ready, to the travel times from one location to another. Coordinate with your ceremony planner, catering manager and entertainment for reception in laying out what will be occurring during the wedding day –this will be a great help in deciding issues of timing and scheduling.

Create a wedding day itinerary and have it finalized not less than a week or two weeks prior to the event. Once the wedding itinerary has been confirmed, it must be sent to every vendor through mail, fax, or email. Also, enough copies must be made for distributing to families and the bridal party during the rehearsal dinner.

You can start creating your wedding day itinerary by gathering pertinent information from vendor contracts, reception, and ceremony. Then follow simple steps to create the itinerary’s basis.

Creating A Wedding Day Itinerary

Step1 – Determine and be familiar with the pre-ceremony arrangements. This would include details like where the bride will get ready, or the time everyone needs to be at the church, or the time that photo shoots need to be done, and others.

Step2 – Collect relevant information. Get contact numbers and names, phone numbers of offices, cellular phones, or pagers from all the vendors who’ll be participating in your wedding.

Step3 – Establish or decide on a time that the photographers will start taking pictures or when the person in charge of doing the video will begin filming.

Step4 – Distinguish the time of arrival of the officiant of the ceremony, and other major “timing” matters of the wedding ceremony.

Step5 – Distinguish the time of arrival and other major timing issues for the reception place.

Step6 – Think about the travel time, and distinguish the amount of time that needs to be allotted for getting in one place to the other. Establish how long it will take to get from the “getting ready” place to the ceremony location or from the ceremony location to the reception venue?

Step7 – Know the time of arrival for vendors, as well as their departure time.

Step8 – Include the event’s activities, and place them in order. Take into account special details as well and put them on appropriate places on the wedding day itinerary.

Step9 – Feel free to add other aspects that you may feel pertinent or important to the wedding day.

A wedding day itinerary seals the planning for the big day. When you have worked so hard to make your special day as perfect as can be, you can’t afford to miss out on important things –like being on time in all aspects during the wedding day and having a smooth flow and transition of events. Make sure you create that wedding day itinerary, and finally place a fantastic closing to the “I do” preparation.