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A simple wedding planning guide and checklist to help you plan a grand wedding at a low budget.

Wedding planning is an extremely important thing that you really shouldn’t take lightly. After all it only leads up to the moment of your dreams does it not? So in order to ensure that you do it right, we’ve provided a guide or a checklist for you to ensure that you are able to plan the wedding of your dreams to be the best possible one.

• The first thing you need to do is to pick a date for your wedding. Whether the date has special meaning or is a day of good luck it doesn’t matter. Picking a date is important so that everyone else can keep that day free for you.

• Decide how much you can spend. Setting a budget may not seem very romantic but if you want to plan a wedding well you must know where you stand first. A tip for setting a budget is to have it practical but have some room for flexibility.

• Order your engagement or wedding rings. A piece of advice on this part of the panning is to ask your family and friends for a reputable jeweler’s number.

• The next step to planning a wedding is to book the wedding and reception sites. Having a date set helps a lot because it allows you to make early bookings and therefore ensuring you of the date that you would like.

• Decide on who you want to attend your wedding. Remember it is your wedding so make it as big or as small as you like.

• Wedding planning includes choosing your wedding dress as well as attires for the wedding party.

• The next thing to do is to make a guest list. This is crucial and delicate because your budget will limit the amount of people that you can invite.

• You will also have to hire vendors such as a wedding coordinator, photographer, video professional, caterer, florist and even an entertainer. My advice here is to have a wider selection and to interview them all to see who’s style, ideas and budget best suits yours.

• The technical part of wedding planning is to find out more about the state requirements for obtaining a marriage license. Find out things like how to get one and how long it lasts.

• To get more ideas on how to plan the creative part of your wedding you might consider asking your parents for some ideas or advice. This not only makes wedding planning easier, it’ll make them happy as well.

• Lastly, don’t forget to order and send out the wedding invitations!
  

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