Eighteen to Twelve Months away from the wedding, you should:

• Decide on a wedding date. Make and appointment with your clergyman or officiates.
• Discuss with your fiancée and your family how much you want to spend. Assemble your wedding guest list in consultation with both families
• Pick a reception venue and make the necessary reservations.
• Shop for the engagement ring.
• Consider working with a professional wedding planner.
• Book your music or entertainment

Eight to ten months before the wedding:

• Shop for your wedding dress and veil.  Several fitting are usually required.
• Select china, crystal and silverware patterns and register them in the Wedding Gift Registry at you favorite store
• Select your bridesmaids.
• Set the date to order dresses for the bridesmaids and attendants.
• Pick a honeymoon destination. Check to see if your passports need to be renewed and if any inoculations are required for foreign destinations.
• Hire a photographer and inform him/her of the location of the wedding, reception, and any other functions you want photographed.

Six to eight months before the wedding:

• Finalize your guest list and compare it with your fiancés. Divide the list into those receiving invitations and those receiving announcements only.
• Order your invitations and announcements.  Your invitations should be mailed four weeks before the wedding.
• Order your personal stationery and thank-you notes.
• Decide on a color scheme four your wedding and inform your mother and your fiancés mother so they can find compatible colored dresses and hem lengths.
• Talk to a florist about which flowers will match the color scheme you've chosen.
• Arrange the transportation for all the members of your wedding party to and from the ceremony and the reception by reserving limousines or other transportation.

Three months before the wedding:

• Order your wedding broom and coordinating broom favors
• Confirm the delivery date of your gown and make the final selection of the attendant's dresses.
• Make an appointment for your bridal portrait.
• Order your wedding cake, if it is not to be made by the reception caterer.
• Inform your clergyman or officiates of all the details of your ceremony including flowers, music, photographs, canopies, carpets, etc.
• Discuss the details of your wedding with the caterer and/or hotel manager.
• If you're renting any equipment reserve it now.
• Order/Confirm any and all rental items (i.e. tables, linens, candelabras, back-drops, etc.)  With the respective rental companies.

One Month before the wedding:

• Mail the invitations
• Have the final fitting for your gown and confirm the date for your bridal portrait.
• Select and order gifts for the attendants. Bridesmaids usually receive the same gift, for the maid or matron of on get something a little more special.
• Choose the wedding bands
• Make room reservations for out -of-town attendants.
• Make necessary arrangements for the bridesmaid's luncheon or dinner.
• Discuss plans for the rehearsal dinner with the hosts.
• Keep up with your correspondence. It's a good idea to addressing your announcements now so they can all go out together the day after the wedding.

Two weeks before the wedding:

• Go with your fiancé to fill the necessary forms for your marriage license.
• Plan with your hairdresser for a wedding hair-do. Bring your headpiece and veil, and make your appointment if you want your hair done on the day of the wedding.
• If you are changing your name, arrange to change your name and address on official documents (drivers license, bank accounts, insurance and health policies.)
• Deliver your wedding announcement to the local papers society director.

One week before your wedding:

• Start your honeymoon packing.
• Check to see wedding announcements are all addressed, stamped and ready for your parents to mail the day after the wedding.
• Have the luncheon or dinner for the bridesmaids.
• Schedule your rehearsal for one or two days before the wedding.
• Inform participants of the exact time and place.
• Wrap and present gifts to your attendants at the bridesmaids' party.
• Inform the caterer of the exact number of confirmed guests.
• Go over the final details of the ceremony and reception with all of the parties involved.
• Relax take a day off just before the wedding and pamper yourself with a facial, pedicure, manicure and massage.  It's the perfect way to prepare for the big day.