Start planning your wedding now.
Advance wedding planning will save you - and everyone around you - a tremendous amount of unnecessary stress. Planning ahead of time will allow you a better selection and sometimes (usually) better pricing than if you wait
Start with the wedding planning basics.
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Give some thought to the style of wedding you want
and when and where you would like to be married.
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determine a list of key people who will be part of the wedding party and estimate the number of guests you expect to attend your wedding ceremony and wedding reception.
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If it is going to be rather large or very complicated wedding consider hiring a wedding planner or consultant to assist.
Make a wedding planning "to do" list or obtain a list of essential things that you will need to do or select
There are a ton of free wedding planning lists that can be found in just about every other wedding publication you look in.
Set up a wedding planning filing system
Keeping everything organized will make the wedding planning process easier.
A simple document file and file folders with labels will easily do the trick.
You can buy a notebook that has pockets that you can put all of your written notes, reminders and potential vendor information
most importantly remember before you register for any bridal/wedding planner show, sign up on any wedding related website or even send in that postcard for the ‘free wedding planning guide”,remember your name will go on a “prospect list” somewhere and will be sold to someone willing to pay for that information.
So if you can:
- set up a free email account just for your wedding planning
- f you can get a “mail box” that you will only use for the duration of your wedding planning.
- Try and get temporary voice mail box or use a pre-paid phone.
Once you decide which vendors you are actually going to use then give them your direct contact information
This way you can easily screen all your e-mails and phone calls.Once you get done with your wedding plans you simply shut them all off .
If you volunteer your personal e-mail address, address or phone number and the information gets on the "lead lists" you will be dealing with unwanted solicitations for years.
After you have selected the wedding suppliers you intend to work with, provide them with the direct contact information they will need
