Preview Wedding Week Timeline

Wedding Week Timeline

Don’t look now...but the wedding is upon you! Aer months and months of planning, you’re headed into

the last week, and your “to-do” list has outgrown your smart phone’s memory. Based on many years’ expe-

rience helping brides, MOBs (mothers-of-the-bride) and assorted others create exceponal weddings,

we’ve put together a sample of what that last week might look like. We chose to base this sample on a

wedding at which the bridal party is spending the night before and the night of the wedding at a hotel, and

the ceremony and recepon are at two dierent locaons on a Saturday night.

Each wedding is unique, of course, so each wedding meline will be unique. Thinking about all these details

in advance and wring them down in your own meline, however, will ensure that the week of the big

event goes as smoothly as possible for everyone involved. Once your meline is nalized, print it out to give

both families and the bridal party members, as well as the vendors who will supply your wedding needs.

Make a list of Important cell phone numbers for the day of the wedding itself as part of your meline

planning. It is always important for your vendors and key members of the bridal party to have everyone’s

phone number. This way, instead of everyone calling you, they can call the correct person directly on the

big day. Include on your list of numbers those of the bride and groom, as well as the those of the wedding

coordinator, the catering contact, the transportaon and site coordinators, the bakery providing the cake,

the photographer and/or videographer, the DJ and/or other musicians, the orist, the minister or whoever

is performing the ceremony, etc.

Tuesday

Do you need to make any grooming appointments? Do you need to take anything to the coordinator, cater-

er, and/or baker? Do you need to pack for your honeymoon or nd your passport? Do you have the mar-

riage cercate? How will the photographer get from the hotel to the ceremony to the recepon? Have

you given a copy of the nalized list of pictures to be taken before/aer the ceremony to the photographer

and to both families? Do you need a nal check-in with the person performing the ceremony?

Wednesday

Do you need to clean out your car? Do you have other appointments scheduled for today? Have you con-

rmed your appointments for later in the week? Does everyone involved know the me and place of the

rehearsal as well as of any other events for the wedding weekend?

Thursday

Do you have cash to p everyone? Do you have nal payment checks wrien and placed in envelopes ad-

dressed for each vendor? Have you packed for the night before and the night of the wedding? Have you

Resources For Planning Your Wedding

One of a series of Resources from High Point Events

to help you plan an exceponal wedding

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