Bride & Groom Planning Calendar
Six weeks to two months before your wedding
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Mail the invitations (six weeks is customary, 8 is becoming increasingly common). It is not uncommon for guests to mail their response card without writing their name. To identify guests if this happens, assign each guest a number. Write this number very small on the back of their response card before you put it in with the invitation. An incomplete response card can now be matched to a guest.
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Use the index cards with each guest's name and address to track responses.
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Order wedding programs and reception accessories such as napkins, cake boxes, etc.
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Make final menu decisions.
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Set rehearsal time and verify with all participants.
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Have first wedding dress fitting.
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Schedule to have formal bridal portrait taken two to four weeks before wedding. Make sure wedding dress and shoes will be ready.
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Make sure members of the wedding party have their fitting.
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Make an appointment with your hairdresser to practice your wedding-day hair style. Bring headpiece. Have a makeup consultation at the same time. Schedule hair and makeup appoint¬ments for yourself and bridal party on the wedding day. Schedule a manicure for the day before wedding.
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Give photographer a list of all pictures you would like taken, including pictures you may want of the tent, flowers, cake, etc.
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Give videographer list of all shots you would like included in the video.
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Purchase gift for fiancé if gifts are being exchanged.
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Choose thank you gifts for parents and any others who helped with wedding.
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Submit wedding announcement and photograph to newspaper. Specify date for publishing.
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Continue to write thank you notes.
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