Wedding

Congratulations you are engaged! Now you need to know the essentials of wedding planning. It can be a very daunting thing figuring out wedding basics, but you just start at the beginning. When you flip though most wedding magazines you can find a free basic wedding planning worksheet. This basic wedding planner will go over the wedding essentials that you will need to cover. These are on average two to three page documents that will designate wedding basics month by month.

Once you set a date and have a timeline there are the wedding basics you should figure out first such as where should the ceremony and the reception take place, who will be your photographer, who will be your florist, who will be in your wedding party and what will you wear. Finding a great basic wedding planner will start you on your way to understanding what is essential to your wedding. This is something you and your fiancée should go over together before you get family involved so that you have an idea of your wedding essentials before you get everyone else’s opinions. This is a special day for the two of you and you need to decide what is essential and what can be negotiated between the new families.

If you want a more in depth tool at your disposal you should visit your local bookstore and check out the different bride’s essential wedding planners. These are more like notebooks or scrapbooks that have very detailed chapters that will take you through the wedding basics month by month or topic by topic. The first chapter may take you through basic wedding + planning guidelines. You may then find a chapter on ceremony etiquette that includes what to wear, basic wedding vows, and an overall run down of the ceremony based on your own religious or non-religious beliefs. Following that you should think about the reception basics of where to have it, how to decorate the space and what food to serve. There should also be a chapter on vendors that will discuss such wedding floral and wedding photography basics as how to choose a vendor, what to look for in a contract and how to effectively communicate your basic wedding ideas to your new vendors. Many wedding planners have folders in them for you to keep business cards, contracts and important documents. Organizing your wedding basics will make it easier as the months slip away and you head down the isle to say “I do”.