Preparing your own wedding is the most exciting part. The most important is to know your budget. How much are you willing to spend? When you know your budget make a list of the things needed for the wedding. Now a day’s there are wedding planners who will take care all your requirements for your wedding with a certain amount of fee depending how simple or elaborate your plans are. There is nothing like planning your own wedding. It takes a lot of time and patience from both of you and your family. You will need their help or your friends if you have limited budget or just simply like doing it.
Some suggestions of what you need to do and plan ahead of time:
a) Have a budget and stay within the budget.
b) Budget for the engagement ring
c) Budget for wedding bands
d) Licenses needed for the wedding
e) Budget for your honeymoon; location and how many days?
f) What are your plans after the wedding? Stay in a hotel? Go
out of town? Or go straight to your honeymoon?
g) Have you decided where you are going to live after the wedding?
h) Are you going to buy a house; rent or live with in-laws?
i) Budget for furniture’s and appliances
j) Are you going to have showers? Plan the dates and what kind of showers.
k) Your color motif for the wedding
l) Wedding dress - who will make the gown or if you will get it ready made.
m) Entourage of the wedding – maid of honor; flower girl; ring bearer; best man- who will pay for their clothes?
n) What date, time and place is the wedding?
o) Who will take you down the aisle if father and mother or a relative?
p) Plan the location of church and reception
q) Your wedding car – will there be flowers on the car?
r) The priest or pastor who will officiate in the wedding
s) Wedding invitations and thank you notes; what is the design of
your invitations?
t) Who will be your god parents for the wedding? Who will spend for their clothes ?
u) The arrangement of the entourage going down the aisle
v) Will you have rehearsal’s going down the aisle together with entourage?
w) Who will be your candle; veil and cord sponsor?
x) How many guests are you planning to invite? Make a list first and then check which ones you want to retain.
y) Plan the menu depending the time of the reception – will it be breakfast; brunch; cocktails with dinner. Who will make your wedding cake? What kind of cake? What is the motif? Will you have favors placed inside cake to pull? Will you offer wine to the guests? Will you have a toast for the bride and groom?
z) Motif of the arrangement for the church and reception flowers for the church; reception; and the entourage
1) What will be your give-a ways? Will it be food; candies in tiny containers; fancy jewelry; cologne etc. How will be the packaging of the items?
2) Will you have a spokesman in the church and receptions? Will you have a choir or a singer? Will there be dancing at the reception? Will there be a video of your childhood? Will there be games? Will you throw your bouquet?
Preparing for a wedding is hard work, coordination and lots of planning and checking of things must be done and prepared. It will take a lot of time on your part and patience. Both of you will be excited but at the same time you may experience tensions on both sides. Bear in mind that this is your wedding, your dream of a lifetime of having a family. Enjoy every moment of it. True love comes only once.
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