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Easy Tips To Help Your Wedding Planning

By Reid Thompson

Your wedding day is one of the biggest days of your life. Plan carefully so that you can spend the day soaking in every minute of the special occasion. Large conventional weddings usually take between 8 - 12 months to plan. Numerous weddings, however, are planned in as little as 6 weeks and are quite successful. Utilize a wedding timetable that gives you a list of things to accomplish at 12, 6, 3, and 2 months before the wedding. Most planning timetables will take you right up to the day of your wedding.

To plan most successfully delegate jobs and small decisions to family and friends. They want to get involved. Ask them for ideas and opinions, just because they offer them doesn't mean you have to use them. However, the more ideas you investigate, the more comfortable you will feel making a decision about your own wedding. While researching collect wedding information, photos, samples, receipts and business cards. Then find one place to put them to keep your wedding details in the one place.

Try a three ring binder with labeled tabs for different categories such as Wedding Dress, Men's Attire, Catering, Bridesmaids, Reception, Photographer, Florist, DJ, etc. This information could even be placed in an expandable horizontal file. Keep it organized and easy to access.

Some people have found it helpful to create a scrapbook by using images from magazines, wedding internet sites, and photos from weddings of family and friends. Looking at a well arranged scrapbook will help you visualize which colors and themes work well together and what to avoid. It will help solidify your own wedding decisions. Gathering photos and pictures in a scrapbook will also inspire you with great ideas, like using bubbles instead of birdseed for the bridal exit and providing disposable cameras to get a variety of candid shots from your wedding reception.

As you work to stay organized, keep a list of the most important aspects of your wedding. These are generally the things that involve scheduling, down payments, and strict deadlines (like wedding dress alterations). Make sure your wedding venue is reserved and paid for early. You also need to schedule entertainment well in advance. If you feel that you are bogged down with less important details, you can refer back to this list to make sure the big aspects of your wedding day are covered.

Set a wedding budget and stick to it! This is not as difficult as it may seem if you plan carefully. Any wedding can be beautiful and fashionable without costing a fortune. Carefully budget, prioritize and recruit assistance family and friends for assistance. Your wedding will be as elegant as any other at a fraction of the cost.

You may want to think about opening a bank account specifically for wedding expenses. This is a good way to keep within your budget and keep track of wedding expenses. This will keep small expenses from slowly and unexpectedly running up your wedding bill. If you are planning your wedding over time, leave the money in an account where it can earn interest, which may help with additional wedding expenses.

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