开这个贴子希望能对各位正在筹备婚礼的新娘们有所帮助，我会定期给大家分享一些小经验小常识。你们也可以直接在这里问我你们想知道的婚礼方面的知识，现在正遇到的问题，我都会定期回来查看为你们解答：）婚礼是意见幸福的负担，冗杂却也甜蜜，真心希望每一对恋人幸福，甜蜜！

先最最基本的介绍一下我自己：）
“王飒，2008 开始从事婚礼,大型晚会,公司宴会等活动策划。2011 年至美国奥斯汀先后 就职于美国 Something to Celebrate, The Blueprint Events 公司,任高级婚礼策划师与首席华人婚礼策划师,获 CWP(Certificate Wedding Planner)证书。2015 年至纽约,创立 Memory by Sa 婚礼活动策划工作室。”

今天先按照时间表，给大家介绍一下宏观来开，一场婚礼的策划需要做那些准备，请小情侣们心中有数，安排好时间

12 Months to Go
- Envision your wedding and draw up a budget.
- Assemble your "planning team." Consider hiring a wedding consultant.
- Pick a wedding date and time. Select several options, then check with your venues, officiant, and
important guests before finalizing.
- Start planning the guest list.
- Look for and book ceremony sites and reception sites.
- Ask friends and relatives to be in the wedding party.
- Optional: Have an engagement party. You may want to register beforehand for gifts.

8-10 Months to Go
- Bride: Think about, shop for, and order your gown.
- Envision reception food.
- Decide what type of entertainment you want. A pianist for the cocktail hour, strolling violinists, a
DJ, or band?
- Think about your floral decor.
- Research and book your wedding professionals. Interview vendors: photographer, videographer,
reception band or DJ, florist.
- Research a wedding insurance policy to protect your deposits.
- Research and reserve accommodations for out-of-town guests.
- Register for gifts.
- Contact rental companies if you need to rent anything for ceremony/reception, such as chairs,
tables, and tent.

6-8 Months to Go
- Book ceremony musicians.
- Order bridesmaid dresses.
- Start planning honeymoon.
- Send save-the-date cards. This is a particularly good idea if you're marrying during a tourist or
holiday season or having a destination wedding.

4-6 Months to Go
- Attend pre-wedding counseling, if required.
- Shop for and order invitations and wedding rings.
- Shop for formalwear.
- Renew or get passports, if necessary.
- Envision your wedding cake and research, interview, and book a cake designer.

3 Months to Go
- Order wedding cake.
- Hire a calligrapher, if you want your invitations professionally addressed.
- Attend your shower. (It may be earlier, depending on when hosts decide to have it.)
- Groom: Rent the men's formalwear.
- Hire wedding-day transport: limousines, other cars. Look into transportation sooner if you're
considering renting streetcars or over-the-top travel.

2 Months to Go
- Mail your invitations.
- Write your vows.
- Purchase gifts for parents, attendants, and each other.
- Book your stylist and try out big-day hairstyles.
- Book a makeup artist and go for a trial run.

1 Months to Go
- Apply for a marriage license. Check with the local bureau in the town where you'll wed.
- Bride: Have final gown fitting. Bring your maid of honor along to learn how to bustle your dress.
Have the dress pressed and bring it home.
- Call all bridesmaids. Make sure they have their gowns ready for the wedding.
- Make last-minute adjustments with vendors.
- Create a wedding program to hand out to guests.
- Order and plan in-room welcome baskets for out-of-town guests.

2 Weeks to Go
- Review final RSVP list and call any guests who have not yet sent a response.
- Deliver must-have shot lists to photographer and videographer. Include who should be in formal
portraits and determine when portraits will be taken.
- Deliver final song list to your DJ or bandleader. Include special song requests and songs you
don't want played.
- Bride: Get your last prewedding haircut and color.
1WeektoGo
- Give reception site/caterer final guest head count. Include vendors, such as the photographer or band members, who will expect a meal. Ask how many extra plates the caterer will prepare.
- Supply location manager with a list of vendor requests such as a table for DJ or setup space needed by florist.
- Plan reception seating chart.
- Print place and table cards, or finalize list with the calligrapher you have hired to do so.
- Call all wedding vendors and confirm arrangements.
- Give ceremony and reception site managers a schedule of vendor delivery and setup times, plus
contact numbers.
- Groom: Get your hair trimmed.

2-3 Days to Go
- Bride: If you need to, have your gown pressed or steamed.
- Groom: Go for final fitting and pick up your formalwear.
- Groom: Ask the best man to make sure all groomsmen attend fittings and pick up their outfits.
- Determine wedding-party positions during ceremony and the order of the party in the
processional and recessional.
- Hand off place cards, table cards, menus, disposable cameras, favors, and any other items for
setting the tables to the caterer and/or reception site manager.
- Reconfirm final details with all vendors. Discuss any necessary last-minute substitutions.
- Call the limousine- or car-rental company for pickup times and locations.
- Arrange for guests without cars to be picked up from the airport or train station. Ask friends,
attendants, or relatives to help.
- Deliver welcome baskets to the hotel concierge; make sure to include names and delivery
instructions.

Day Before
- Provide all wedding professionals with an emergency phone number to call on the day of the wedding.
- Write checks and/or talk to wedding hosts (usually your parents, if not you) about any final balances to be paid at the end of the reception.

Night Before
- Rehearse ceremony. Meet with wedding party, ceremony readers, immediate family, and your officiant at the ceremony site to rehearse and iron out details.
- Bring unity candle, aisle runner, yarmulkes, or other ceremony accessories to the site.
- Give your marriage license to your officiant.
- Attend rehearsal dinner.
- Present attendants with gifts at the rehearsal dinner. You'll want to do this especially if the gifts
are accessories to be worn during the wedding.

Day Of
- Present parents and each other with gifts.
- Give wedding bands to the best man and the maid of honor to hold during the ceremony.
- Give best man the officiant's fee envelope, to be handed off after the ceremony.
- Introduce your reception site manager to your consultant or maid of honor for questions or
problems during the reception.
- Assign a family member or attendant to be the photographer's contact so he knows who is who.

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