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You need to be able to trust them with your plan.</p>\n<p>Building relationships with wedding planning team will allow you to let go when you need to so they can execute your plan. Follow these steps to ensure you select the dream team you deserve.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quality:</strong> Make sure you hire quality vendors for your big day. You do pay for what you get, and hiring vendors that don’t offer quality service will leave you wishing you had a different team.</li>\n<li><strong>Get referrals: </strong>If someone you know has gotten married, ask them who they had on their team. They will tell you the good, bad, and ugly. Additionally, when you’re considering a particular vendor, always research them online. Don’t believe everything you read, but this will help you pick a team that offers quality service.</li>\n<li><strong>Consider a wedding planner: </strong>You may be planning your own wedding, and that is why you’re reading this book. If you aren’t working with a wedding planner, at the very least hire a wedding coordinator. It will be worth the money so that you can relax and enjoy your day.</li>\n<li><strong>Build relationships: </strong>Make sure you get to know your team for each category: florist, decorator, rentals, photo, video, catering, venue, bar and bartending, baker, entertainment, and transportation. If you establish relationships with your team, you will be able to let go and know they’ll make the best choice for you on your wedding day if something were to go wrong. If they don’t know you, they can’t make good decisions on your behalf. This will also help you let go, knowing they’ll take care of what needs to be done on your wedding day.</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Selecting your guest list","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Selecting your guest list will drive your budget. The guests at your wedding are a variable cost. This means the cost of your food, flowers, bar, rentals, and cake will go up or down based on the final number of guests at your wedding.</p>\n<p>It is important to follow these steps when formulating your guest list.</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Determine your size: micro, medium, or large wedding.</li>\n<li>Determine who is invited: your friends, your family, your fiancé’s friends, and your fiancé’s family.</li>\n<li>Organize your guest list so that you can keep track of who is coming to your wedding.</li>\n<li>Determine if you are allowing your guests to bring a guest.</li>\n<li>Keep track of the RSVPs so that you aren’t paying for one more guest than you need do.</li>\n</ol>\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">If you could hand your guests $250 cash and ask them to come to your wedding, they should make the cut. There will be difficult choices to make on who you are inviting, so work with your fiancé to determine the most important people in your life who need to be with you on your most important day.</p>\n"},{"title":"Creating your ceremony and reception","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>The ceremony and reception elements are only yours. You may have attended weddings in the past, but no two weddings are alike. It’s important to customize your wedding day because all the elements work together as a reflection of your relationship.</p>\n<p>Following, are some tips for ensuring a perfect ceremony and reception for your big day.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Book the perfect ceremony and reception venue to fit your specific needs: indoor, outdoor, all-inclusive, venue only.</li>\n<li>Book an officiant who will customize your ceremony type to your specific needs.</li>\n<li>Make sure to check with the county clerk’s office so you know the rules and regulations for obtaining a marriage license.</li>\n<li>Choose your ceremony type (for example, will you have a religious ceremony or not?) and design a ceremony that is meaningful to you.</li>\n<li>Set the mood with music for your prelude, processional, special music, recessional, and postlude.</li>\n<li>Create a detailed timeline of events for your reception, including items such as cocktail hour, bridal party introductions, welcome before dinner, dinner service, cake cutting, toasts, special dances, bouquet toss, garter toss, and formal exit.</li>\n<li>Pick your food and beverages based on items you enjoy.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Remember to make your ceremony and reception memorable by including as many personalized touches as possible. For example, fill out a questionnaire sharing how you met or when you knew you were in love and have your officiant share that insider information at your ceremony.</p>\n<p>You could also have a close relative share your love story with your guests. All your favorite people will gather to witness your marriage and celebrate at the reception.</p>\n"},{"title":"Create, distribute, rehearse, and implement your plan","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>An important part of a successful wedding weekend is the creation, distribution, rehearsal, and implementation of your plan. Just as in marriage, communication is key to any successful event. If you don’t communicate, you won’t have a successful wedding day — it’s a simple as that. It’s also important to rehearse the plan with your bridal party. Finally, you get to watch the plan in action.</p>\n<p>Following these steps to ensure a perfect wedding day:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick a good team of vendors who can implement your plan and vision. Having a team you trust will enable you to relax and enjoy your wedding day, knowing that they’re taking care of the details.</li>\n<li>Create your detailed schedule of events to include your bridal party names, vendor names and contact information, the timeline of the day, flowers and decor, and final guest list.</li>\n<li>Distribute your detailed schedule of events to your vendor team. Make sure they know who the contact is on the day of the event in case they have any questions.</li>\n<li>Rehearse with your bridal party to make sure they know how they will enter and exit the ceremony. They will also need to know the activities that are scheduled for the wedding day, including when and where they’ll be getting ready, the ceremony elements, and the reception elements.</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Knowing your state's marriage license rules","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Don’t forget to obtain your marriage license before your ceremony! The following table includes info on what form of identification you need, whether you must be a resident, how old you need to be, when the license expires, if you need a blood test, if there is a waiting period, and whether you need a witness, and if so, how many.</p>\n<p>It’s always a good idea to reach out to the state or county where you’re getting married to confirm the information because rules and regulations do change.</p>\n<h3>Marriage License Rules by State</h3>\n<table width=\"524\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"45\"><strong>State</strong></td>\n<td width=\"143\"><strong>ID</strong></td>\n<td width=\"74\"><strong>Residency Required</strong></td>\n<td width=\"54\"><strong>Age</strong></td>\n<td width=\"46\"><strong>Expiration</strong></td>\n<td width=\"52\"><strong>Blood Test</strong></td>\n<td width=\"48\"><strong>Wait</strong></td>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>Witness</strong></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"45\">AL</td>\n<td width=\"143\">One of the following: a valid driver’s 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Sarah Barker

Sarah Barker

Sarah Barker is a wedding and event planner, florist, venue owner, venue manager, and educator in the events industry. Sarah has planned and executed more than 600 weddings and proposals, made more than 4,000 bouquets, 20,000 arrangements, and served more than 500,000 guests across the United States. Her work has been featured in Buzz Feed, PopSugar, MSN Lifestyle, The Huffington Post, Every Last Detail, Wedding Chicks, Desiree Hartsock, Southern Weddings, Green Wedding Shoes and Borrowed and Blue. She has also won several industry awards, including Best Planner and Florist in Nashville, and an Industry Leader for Smart Meeting Magazine.

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Weddings Planning a Wedding For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 05-13-2022

Congratulations — you’re engaged and that should be celebrated! Now it’s time to make it official and plan your perfect wedding day. It’s all about perspective. The big picture in planning a wedding is that at the end of the day, you will be married. That’s what’s most important. Along your journey, there will be bumps in the road. But wedding planning doesn’t have to be stressful. Following the simple steps outlined in this Cheat Sheet will ensure a perfect wedding day.

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