Wedding Planning Checklist: Step By Step Wedding To-Do List

Indian weddings are like grand festivals that take months and days of proper planning to execute on the final day. However, planning a wedding from scratch needs extra effort, time and energy. For expert assistance and smooth wedding planning, you can hire a wedding planner to make your job easy with their wedding planning checklist.

This wedding checklist will help you keep organised and stay on track on days you will be busy with wedding preps. Fiestro Events has helped numerous couples plan their dream wedding. Here is a secret checklist that you should move forward with. 

Ultimate Wedding Planning Checklist


12 Months Before The Wedding

1. Finalize A Wedding Date: One of the initial steps in wedding planning is to finalise a wedding date, considering the wedding season, availability and special dates.

2. Set a Budget: When your wedding date is decided and announced, it is the right time to set a wedding budget with your family members and partner. Setting up a budget initially will ensure smooth planning and execution of all your wedding functions.

3. Create a Guest List: Once you decide on a budget, create a list to approximate the total number of guests.

4. Hire Expert Wedding Planners: If you are planning a destination wedding or want to avoid stress during the entire planning process, hiring experts is best. Wedding planners will handle everything, from deciding on a venue to decor, catering, guest accommodation, logistics, entertainment, and other vendors. 

With over a decade of experience planning weddings and events, we take pride in turning dreams into realities. Hire our team and see the magic happen.

5. Deciding A Wedding Theme: Once we discuss your budget, guest list and preferences, we will help you finalise a wedding theme for your D-day. Whether it’s a vintage wedding or a Bridgerton-theme wedding carnival, we ensure everyone stays and enjoys the vibe. 

6. Finalize A Venue: Based on your wedding destination, we offer hand-picked wedding venues that suit your budget, preferences and guest size. If we are in the city, we can explore the venues, shortlist the best ones, and finally book one that matches your vision.

7. Booking Key Vendors: When you book expert wedding planners, you don’t have to deal with the stress of searching for and booking different vendors, such as a DJ, anchor, photography, videography, decorators, caterers, etc. With our years of vendor relationships, we have some of the best connections in the city.


6 Months Before The Wedding

8. Start Pre-Bridal Treatments: Brides can start their pre-bridal dermatological treatments around five to six months before the wedding. By consulting an expert dermatologist in your city, you can explore options like hydra facials and vampire facials.

9. Hunt For The Bride and Groom Dress: The sooner, the better. Finding your dream lehenga and sherwani can take multiple visits and require much time and energy. It is better to start hunting for your wedding attire at least six months before the wedding. The popular markets are super crowded before the wedding season, so you need a good time before your wedding to get the dresses ready.

10. Planing honeymoon: Between your wedding preps, this can be a right time to plan your honeymoon. Watch YouTube vlogs, see people’s recommendations, and finalise an exotic destination. During this time of wedding checklist, you can decide the destination, create a rough honeymoon plan, book tickets, and see if all your needed documents are up to date. 

11. Shop Other Essentials: During this period, the bride and groom can finish shopping for other essentials they will need after the wedding, such as grooming kits, footwear, Western dresses, ethnic dresses, makeup, etc.

12. Look For Makeup Artists: Now is a good time to find professional makeup artists available on your wedding dates. Talk to them, tell them your vision, and get quotations.


3 Months Before The Wedding

13. Plan Pre-Wedding Functions: Along with your wedding planners, you can plan other pre-bridal functions such as mehendi, sangeet, haldi, engagement, etc. You can finalise the event’s theme, budget and preferences with our experts to get a detailed wedding planning checklist.

14. Start Taking Care Of Your Skin and Hair: Brides and Grooms can start their parlour treatments, like facials, D-tans, etc., to get that amazing glow on D-day. This is not it. The couple should focus on their diet, water intake, sleep schedule and supplements to stay fit and look the best on their wedding day.

15. Book a Makeup Artist: Based on your preferences and budget, you can book a makeup artist three to four months before your wedding. You can book one even sooner if your wedding is on a famous wedding date, such as Valentine's Day.


1 Month Before The Wedding

16. Finalise Music and Entertainment: You can finalise your dance songs, entry songs and other entertainment-related details.

17. Start Practicing Your Dance Performances: Now is a good time to hire a professional choreographer and start practicing your dance performances for Mehendi, Haldi, and Sangeet.

18. Final Dress Fitting: Pick up your dresses and try them to see the fits and flares. Make sure your dresses fit properly to avoid last-minute chaos. 

19. Book Wedding Cards: Meet with a designer and create a wedding invitation card that suits your preferences and budget. Once the designs are final, you can send the cards for printing. 

20. Pack Your Bags: Brides can start packing their bags with all the things they are going to take with them to their new house, including all the new dresses, footwear, makeup, skincare, and even their honeymoon bags.


1 Week Before The Wedding

21. Send Wedding Invites: Start visiting your relatives to invite them to the wedding. You can also send e-invites to the out-station guests.

22. Trying The Wedding Dress: Make sure to try your wedding dress 3-4 days before the wedding. Many couples can gain or lose weight during the wedding planning process. 

23. Final Checks With Our Team: One last check with our wedding planners regarding venue, decor, logistics, DJ, etc., per your wedding checklist.

Conclusion

Wedding Planning is an overwhelming process that begins 12 to 18 months before the wedding. From finalising the date and venue to booking key vendors, wedding planning requires a lot of effort, time, and energy. 

However, with our expert wedding planners in Jaipur, you can stay stress-free with our wedding checklist. While our expert team members do all the work, you focus on your wedding attire, invites, beauty therapies, etc.

You can contact our experts today for more detailed information on wedding planning.