I wanted a photographer booked by no later than one year out, but it ended up happening about 8 months out. Don't stress yourself out about it, but make that your planning priority. I'd say try to book within the next two months. Have you met with anyone yet? If not, try working on that in the coming month.
You can skip STDs. Call/email guests who would be coming from out of town.
Do you have shoes/jewelry/undergarments? Has the menu been picked? Guest list finalized and addresses collected? Wedding party/parent gifts?
You should probably decide on your photographer soon. It was actually the very first thing I booked, even before the reception hall (though I had a short list of those at that point). But also, photography is a hobby of mine so it's more important to me than most other elements of the wedding. If you're going to be particular about what you want in a photographer, you're going to need to start to go after it. Otherwise, if it doesn't matter that much to you, you can probably always book somebody - but it's really never too early especially if you want to get a good price
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I think so... I've read about them anyway, You could also set up a wedding website with the date and more info! More and more people are doing that these days.
I would try to wrap up the photographer. It's a pretty big one and you don't want to find out that people have already booked your top choices on your date. Plus it's big and will be very satisfying when you cross it off your list
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You don't need STDs. We only had three months to plan our wedding; I'd say you should have a photographer by the 2 or 3 month mark. Figure out what you want to do for place cards or favors or the cake cutting set or your garter. Those are really easy.
You also don't HAVE to have favors, that's even easier! We decided not to have ANYTHING 'just' to have it...so no ridiculously lame favors because we feel like we're 'supposed to' have SOMETHING. We love candy, so we taped our place cards to candy sticks. And Eric's mom made chocolate candies from a family recipe and we stuck them in a bag, tied with a bow, and people picked them up on their way out. If it didn't have meaning to us, there was no reason to have it [and thus buy it!].
We made the decision last night to do a donation instead of favors. I had a good favor idea in mind but the donation route just made sense to us (and is a lot less work).
you dont have to do STD's, but since your wedding is on a sunday, you may want to, especially if you have a fair amount of out-of-town guests or it is at night. if you decide to, you should send them out within the next couple months.
and yes, there were definitely certain periods where i felt felt major lulls in the wedding planning, so in the meantime you can try to accomplish simple tasks such as: order stuff like champagne flutes, cake servers, decor, flower girl basket/ ring pillow (if applicable), guest book, etc.
as for invites and photographer, definitely start looking into accomplishing both of these soon to give yourself piece of mind.
haha good point!!! after going to some local photographers' websites to see their work, we called, emailed and met with a few and yes, price definitely influenced our choice, but we also liked her personality, as well. it wasnt actually as hard as we expected (ive heard a lot of nightmare stories in here).
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You can skip STDs. Call/email guests who would be coming from out of town.
Do you have shoes/jewelry/undergarments? Has the menu been picked? Guest list finalized and addresses collected? Wedding party/parent gifts?
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We only had three months to plan our wedding; I'd say you should have a photographer by the 2 or 3 month mark.
Figure out what you want to do for place cards or favors or the cake cutting set or your garter. Those are really easy.
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and yes, there were definitely certain periods where i felt felt major lulls in the wedding planning, so in the meantime you can try to accomplish simple tasks such as: order stuff like champagne flutes, cake servers, decor, flower girl basket/ ring pillow (if applicable), guest book, etc.
as for invites and photographer, definitely start looking into accomplishing both of these soon to give yourself piece of mind.
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Of course, then what would we right about on Lj? ;-/
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