#wedding planning timeline

[merrybrides]

What Order Should I Hire My Wedding Vendors In?

Weddings are the work of a giant team of creative professionals all working together to make your dreams a reality.  So, after you determine your wedding budget and choose your wedding style, the ultimate step in the wedding planning process begins:  hiring trustworthy, reputable wedding vendors to carry out your vision. But, who do you hire first? The big decisions will effect the small decisions so following the schedule will ease your stress in the end. To help you with the process we’ve outlined the best order to book your wedding vendors in from start to finish.

We like to categorize wedding vendors into two categories: those that can serve one bride per day and those that can serve multiple brides per day. The number of clients they can serve in a day effects how soon you should book these vendors along the process because if a company can only serve one bride per day, you want to get your date confirmed with them first.  Plus, one decision may effect the next.

Following are wedding vendors who typically serve one wedding per day.

1 – Wedding Planner (12 months in advance): 

You should choose your wedding planner first to reserve your date on their calendar and have their guidance during the entire wedding planning process.  From the beginning to the end, your wedding planner will be your experienced counsel for every vendor interview, contract, and scheduling question. Don’t feel like you can’t do anything before hiring your wedding coordinator. While you’re interviewing and deciding, you can still start to do research on venues and take tours, but we don’t suggest booking anything until your wedding planner can review a contract with you.

What if you only have the budget for a month-of wedding planner?  That’s okay.  You’ll still want to book them in advance to reserve your day and it’s likely you can pay them an hourly fee leading up to your wedding if you need help with vendor contract reviews or have other questions.

2 – Wedding Venue (12 months in advance):  

The most obvious reason to book your wedding venue next is to reserve your date. If you live in a popular metro area, event venues will likely be booked for weddings up to one, maybe two years, in advance.  Getting on the calendar sooner than later will take a huge level of stress off of your shoulders.  

Secondly, your wedding venue will eat up the bulk of your wedding budget.  Knowing how much money you will be spending on the venue, will give you a remaining amount of budget to work with. 

 And lastly,  the style of your wedding venue will effect the overall style of your wedding.  Whether you choose a glamorous ballroom or countryside barn – everything from your wedding dress, flowers to music selection will be effected.

Ceremony Plans.  This is when you should also decide what your ceremony plans are too.  Will you be married at a separate location (like a church) or will your wedding ceremony take place at the same venue as your wedding reception?  Who will perform the ceremony?

3 – Photographer and Videographer (11 months in advance): 

We suggest the third vendor to hire for your wedding is your wedding photographer and wedding videographer. Why?  Because these are most often single person (or small teams) of creative professionals that work one wedding per day. Much of why you’ll hire them is based off of loving their style and loving their pricing even more, so once you find your match – make it official by signing the contract. Don’t let your date get booked by another bride!

4 – Band or DJ (11 months in advance): 

While you might not think about entertainment for your wedding reception at this stage of the game, you should!  Your Band or DJ is a perfect example of a wedding vendor who can only service 1 wedding per day.  If you have your heart set on a specific band, or love the energy of the DJ you saw at your friend’s wedding – book them now.  This goes for ceremony musicians too.

5 – Wedding Dress (11 months in advance): 

Once you decide on where you will get married and where the reception will be, it’s time to go dress shopping! Unless you opt for a store like David’s Bridal, most bridal stores will need to place the order for your dress from the dress designer at least 10 months in advance.

Bridal Party.  Along with the wedding dress, pick out bridesmaid dresses and what the groom and groomsmen will wear.  We recommend picking out and ordering the Groom’s menswear at least six months out.  

6 – Hair and Makeup (9 months in advance):  

Chances are you are as thick as thieves with your hair dresser and have your cut and color pre-booked every time you leave the salon, and for good reason!  A talented hair stylist is coveted by many and hard to get in with.  But does your stylist do bridal updos?  Many don’t. And if you think your hair girl gets booked, just imagine what the schedule of a top bridal hair stylist and and wedding makeup artist looks like.  Busy.  Your beauty vendors will likely only be able to serve one full bridal party per Saturday. So, book them sooner than later.

Following are wedding vendors who can serve multiple weddings in a weekend.

7 –  Caterer (8 months in advance):  

If your venue does not offer onsite catering, its time to hire an offsite caterer to feed your guests.  During this time you will review their menus, read customer testimonials and brainstorm on setups like buffets, plated or stations and maybe even have a tasting.  

8 – Floral and Decor (8 months in advance):   

Next up are wedding flowers.  At eight months in advance you have a good amount of time to get on the schedule for the best wedding florist in your area and brainstorm with them on what the vision of your wedding is.

9 – Wedding Cake (6-8 months in advance): 

While a wedding cake baker can serve multiple weddings in a weekend, chances are they can’t serve an endless amount.  So, we say get on the schedule in advance by signing the wedding cake contract.  Again, it’s likely you’ll have your tasting a bit later in the process, but reserving your spot in their weekend schedule ahead of time will make sure you get the cake baker you like the best.

10 – Invitations (6-8 months in advance):  

Time to talk invitations and stationery. If you would like to send out save the dates, you’ll want to choose your stationery designer eight months in advance. 

If a couple is sending out save the dates, then those need to be sent out six months before the wedding.  In that case, the stationer should be hired at least two months prior to that date in order have time to pick something out, do proofs, have them printed and addressed. 

For invitations only, a bride should start to look at her options six months out as the standard is that invitations should be mailed out at least eight weeks prior to the wedding date.”

11 – Transportation (4 months in advance):  

While this may seem like a last minute reservation, you may change your mind after reading what Kirkley Hennessey, owner of Hennessey Transportation has to say.  “We typically ask brides and grooms to have their wedding transportation arrangements booked at least 3-4 months in advance. This allows the company they choose to reserve the fleet equipment without any issues. 

As that is a suggestion, I personally feel it’s best to contract this service as soon as they know what they need. Whether it’s just a getaway car or an entire manifest of guest travel, the sooner the better for all parties. A lot of times they know they need transportation, but they are not certain what exactly they’re looking for. A lot of times when they contact us they realize what a helpful experience it can be as we can identify and suggest services needed and provide pricing all on one phone call.

Something to note:  if your wedding is ever in April, and you absolutely want a limousine, book the day you got engaged! Prom season always derails brides.”

Other items that will need to get decided on and completed about a month out: 

Obtain your marriage license, please pick out your wedding march song, get your wedding bands and get your engagement ring cleaned, finalize transportation to and from wedding and reception, count your RSVP’s and finalize numbers with all your caterer.

[cjdsignsworld]

Wedding Planning Timeline

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[quinn-pop]

the return of my dedede wedding headcanon

he likes to keep it lighthearted and sweet; most of why people like having him officiate is because of his charisma. he’s great at handling whatever situation and usually good at ad libbing. and he genuinely loves doing it because well. it’s a party and it’s about people caring for each other, what’s not to love?

(tbh he probably tries to hide how much he cries at weddings but he just really likes love lol)

also! dreamland culture is kinda complicated, being made up of so many species from all over and who knows where, so there are a lot of different wedding traditions and no one way to do it

anyway, silly art

i just really felt like drawing something soft

[asocial-skye]

i know that the college-era timeline had to end poorly because we need the drama of it, but i would've loved to see everyone inform past im sol that sun-jae was her boyfriend after old im sol left back to present day.

and if i'm being really indulgent, cue kim tae-sung and baek in-hyuk not being to handle sun-jae's pining ass and decide to go on a mission to 'recover her memory.'

[kanzakurawrites]

Mal and Ben's wedding should have been in the winter and it would have been absolutely gorgeous.

[decarbry]

I came here from the bird app to follow you and I WAS ALREADY DOING IT. One question, were erasermic together before Aizawa became a Nomu? And are we getting some heavy angst OwO? I love your style btw. Sorry if this is already answered and I haven't seen it u.u.

yeah they're married 😎

[stupidsexygrizzop]

"mike is busy in the future" okay can we elaborate on that because if its the same future it looks a little on fire

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

God knows how many years I've had this bad boy for

I'm going to start building

Tomorrow

I'm tired

[unbreakable--bond]

sometimes i like to imagine finding a fellow sonic fan, falling in love, getting married years later in the future and on the night of the honeymoon i tell them i ship sontails

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[lonestarbabe]

I reckon Iris still likes Carlos and will dislike Tk/ Reufse to divorce Carlos

Yeah, it kind of seemed like there would be some tension there for some reason??? but like what’s not to like about TK...he’s not perfect but he’s definitely likeable and a people person! But there are a lot of feelings going into this... like Iris has a lot going on and letting go of marriage to Carlos could be hard even if it’s what has to happen. They need to get on it fast. It’s hard to believe that a divorce could happen in 8 weeks.

[dcomposing]

Ok game time: Naegami Headcanons after the tragedy let’s go.

anon i am kissing you so sweetly for this one. under the cut bc i have MANY.

SO i don't see them getting together while at hope's peak pre-tragedy. maybe if the tragedy hadn't happened, something would have happened in their final year -- but togami has such a stick up his ass that i think that they would have juuust become real friends when the tragedy happened.

post-killing game, i think togami has. feelings for naegi that he doesn't recognize as such. he just thinks he's neat! i also always like to think of him as devoted to naegi to the point of comedy. hagakure is behind on his work? no mercy. naegi is behind on his work? "well i suppose i could stay late tonight and help you get through the backlog. do you want coffee?" he's whipped he just doesn't know it yet.

naegi, for his part, is really proud of how far togami has come since the beginning of the killing game/since their first days at hope's peak -- but i don't think he has romantic feelings for him until after he gets back from towa city.

SPEAKING of towa city and togami being freakishly devoted to naegi. the moment they find out that komaru is alive and being held captive, togami volunteers to lead the rescue operation. he justifies it as a way to settle the debt he owes to naegi for saving him in chapter 6, but really? he would have done it even if naegi wasn't the ultimate hope.

naegi doesn't take it well when togami is captured. obviously. not only does he have no idea where his sister is or if she made it out alive, now he's simultaneously dealing with the possibility that he may have just lost another friend to the tragedy (and, of course, he blames himself because it was his sister that togami ran out to save.) he... doesn't sleep much during UDG.

on the other hand, the relief he feels when togami is rescued and his sister is confirmed to be safe? he practically launches himself at togami when he gets back to headquarters, triggering a moment of Realization for both of them.

that said, i think both of them are really good at managing their priorities -- it's still the end of the world, after all -- so while they might feel Extremely awkward around each other during meals or around the office, when push comes to shove, they actually work together better than ever.

when naegi first approaches him and kirigiri with the idea for the neo world program, it wasn't even a question for togami. he believes in naegi (they all do) so when he says "hey lets commit treason" of COURSE he's in.

i think they get together while they're on jabberwock island. not while the killing game is happening, of course, but as they're setting up. they're all still so hopeful that this will work and they're (practically) alone on a beautiful island. awkward first kiss while they’re pulling an all-nighter before the system launches in the morning. a moment of hope before it all goes to absolute hell.

again, they’re very good about priorities. the minute killing game (2!) starts, they kind of silently agree to put things on hold until they can figure out wtf to do. it’s very tense and they share several charged moments where they’re *this* close to cracking under pressure.

shortly after sdr2 chapter 6, togami realizes that he’s full blown in love with naegi and has been for awhile. kirigiri is ready to kill him because she’s known the whole time (of course)

they don’t even really have time to recover/actually figure out their relationship because -- of course -- naegi is put on trial for treason and dr3 starts. turns out having a relationship in the middle of the apocalypse is difficult. togami has never been more afraid in his life, but he’s determined to get naegi out of there if he has to strangle munakata with his bare hands. naegi realizes he’s fully in love with togami the first time he sees his face once he’s out of the future foundation black site.

the reconstruction of hope’s peak is where they finally get to have an actual relationship, holy shit. meanwhile komaru and syo have been dating for like a year and a half, totally unbothered.

i’m a huge fan of the thh survivors sharing a living space because, as i’ve mentioned before, they aren’t great at functioning without the others nearby. shortly after the reconstruction of hope’s peak begins, naegi quietly moves into togami’s room. kirigiri notices right away, but it takes the others about a week to realize LMFAO.

once the reconstruction is finished and naegi and kirigiri are prepping to take on the incoming class, togami gives naegi the extremely normal anniversary gift of an entire fucking house. it’s... understated, given that togami was the one behind it.

the original plans he showed the other survivors (+ komaru lol) were much more extravagant, until asahina and komaru not-so-kindly pointed out that naegi is normal and probably doesn’t want a fuck off huge house.

(timeline here is about a year post dr3, three years since UDG, 4.5 years since the events of thh, and a whopping 6.5 years since they met at the original hope’s peak for the very first time)

8 years after they escape hope’s peak, togami decides he’s going to propose to naegi -- they’ve talked about it before, of course, but now that the world has finally started to really, truly recover from the tragedy, it feels more appropriate. he enlists asahina and komarus’ help in picking out the ring and obsessively plans out the perfect day/time/place.

when the day finally comes where he’s finally going to do it, naegi beats him to the punch with a simple-yet-sweet proposal over breakfast that morning. togami rapidly cycles between stunned to elated to furious that naegi beat him. he gets flustered and accidentally rejects the proposal before backtracking and having to admit that he wanted to be the one to propose, damn it!! they figure it out, eventually

their actual wedding is just a simple and sweet courthouse ceremony with kirigiri and komaru there as witnesses. once the news of their engagement got out, they were pretty immediately overwhelmed by attendance requests and, while togami is one for excessive ceremony and naegi loves his friends so much, they’re actually pretty private about their personal lives and ultimately decide to do one wedding that’s just for them before throwing the obligatory big party with everyone being invited (and, of course, media coverage bc, y’know. ultimate hope and the last surviving togami heir.)

i have SO many more thoughts about them/their domestic life but oh my fucking god this got way too long. sorry for liking a really really long slow burn LMFAO

[peligin-eyed]

Smashes my OCs’ faces together like Barbie dolls- “now kiss”

[ooakphotography]

Why Every Couple Needs a Wedding Photography Timeline

A wedding is a whirlwind of emotions, moments, and fleeting memories. With so much happening, it's essential to ensure that each significant event is captured perfectly. This is where a wedding photography timeline comes into play.

Streamlining Captures: The Role of a Structured Timeline

A well-structured photography timeline serves as a roadmap for the day's events, ensuring that both the photographer and the couple are on the same page. It eliminates guesswork, ensures efficient use of time, and guarantees that no special moment goes undocumented.

Here are a few reasons why having a timeline is crucial:

1. Clarity and Coordination: It provides a clear structure, ensuring everyone knows where they need to be and when.

2. Efficient Time Management: By allocating specific times for different photo sessions, couples can enjoy their day without feeling rushed.

3. Ensures Comprehensive Coverage: A timeline ensures that all critical events, from getting ready to the final send-off, are captured.

Key Elements to Include in Your Photography Schedule

4. Pre-Wedding Shots: Allocate time for shots of the wedding attire, rings, and candid moments as the couple gets ready.

5. First Look: If the couple plans on having a 'first look' moment, schedule it before the ceremony.

6. Ceremony Highlights: Ensure that key moments like the vows, ring exchange, and the first kiss are prioritized.

7. Group Photos: Allocate time for family photos, bridal party shots, and couple portraits.

8. Reception Details: Capture the venue, décor, cake, and other details before guests arrive.

9. Key Reception Moments: Plan for moments like the first dance, toasts, cake cutting, and the send-off.

In conclusion, a wedding photography timeline is more than just a schedule—it's a tool that ensures the seamless capturing of memories. By organizing the day's events and coordinating with the photographer, couples can ensure their wedding album is a comprehensive reflection of their special day.