Wedding Checklist: 18 – 12 months before your Dream Wedding

Once you’ve selected your wedding date and noted it down on your wedding check list, it’s important that you start planning your wedding as soon as possible.

Refer to your printable wedding checklist and start selecting a wedding ceremony and wedding rehearsal venue as well as wedding service providers.

You might, for example, want to have a romantic beach wedding, in which case you will have to make travel and hotel arrangements after consulting with your travel agent.

It’s very important that you don’t delay choosing a location since many wedding venues and wedding service providers are often booked up many months – and even a year or more – in advance.

You don’t want to feel rushed and make unwise decisions and costly mistakes.

On the other hand, you don’t want to delay and risk being disappointed because the venue or service provider wasn’t available for the date you wanted.

As detailed as our checklist is, this Wedding Planning Guide is even MORE detailed.

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Wedding Checklist: 18 – 12 months before your Dream Wedding

The next item on your wedding checklist after you have established a wedding budget and completed the previous items on your wedding to do list is to select your wedding theme and colors.

When deciding on a color, you might want to choose your favorite color first and see how that looks – keeping in mind that the color you choose will carry through to other areas of your wedding.

Or you might want to choose a combination that goes together such as yellow and cream or black and white or green and blue.

The colors you choose will also be carried through to your wedding invitations and wedding favors.

Your wedding theme ties in closely with the style of your wedding – whether it’s formal, semi-formal, or even casual and informal.

Formal can be “dressed to the nines” with tuxedos with long tails and top hats for the men and long dresses for the women.

Semi-formal can be suits for the men and evening dresses for the women.

And casual can be as laid back as you want – from no ties or suit jackets to sandals or flip flops for a beach wedding.

Your theme will take some thought when planning a wedding.

It might be a beach theme.

Or it might be an intimate setting in a private mansion similar to what this bride did when she planned her amazing budget wedding – and saved an estimated $10,000 without making major sacrifices.

Or it might be what you always dreamed of – a glamorous, fairy tale wedding with all the stops pulled out that will be talked about for weeks to come.

It’s really up to you…and whether or not you’re planning a budget wedding.

Once you’ve decided on your theme and colors, note them down on your wedding checklist and let your mother and the mother of the groom know.

Wedding Checklist: 18 – 12 months before your Dream Wedding

Wedding Planning on a Budget

After you’ve selected your wedding date, you’ll want to refer to your wedding checklist for things to do first.

One thing you’ll need to do is establish a wedding budget.

Your wedding budget will depend on where your dream wedding will take place, how formal it will be, and what style you choose.

This is the point in your wedding timeline where a tiny investment could save you hundreds – even thousands – of dollars in wedding costs.

This Budget Wedding Planning Guide will not only steer you through your wedding timeline, but it will also show you ways to save money in many areas of your wedding planning…just like this bride did. Plus it has FREE Wedding Planning Software (Windows PC’s only) which will make your wedding planning so much easier. (Click on the link to find out how much she saved on her wedding budget.)

Establishing a wedding budget will be an important step in controlling costs as you follow your wedding checklist and timeline.