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The 3-Month and Week-Of Wedding Checklists
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The last few months are where good planning either pays off or unravels. The big bookings are done. What is left is a hundred small confirmations, and the trap is letting them pile into the final week. Split the home straight into three clear stages and the week of your wedding can be about getting married, not chasing the caterer.
3 months out: finalise and confirm
- Send invitations if you have not already, and set the RSVP deadline, see when to send wedding invitations
- Confirm the menu after your tasting
- Buy or collect the rings
- Final outfit fittings for the couple and wedding party
- Confirm transport and any guest accommodation
- Write and rehearse speeches
1 month out: the numbers stage
This is the headcount month. Everything depends on knowing who is coming.
- Chase outstanding RSVPs, kindly and once, see what to do about guests who do not reply
- Lock your final headcount
- Build the seating plan from confirmed guests, see wedding seating chart and table planning
- Give final numbers and dietary requirements to the caterer
- Confirm the running order with the venue and key suppliers
- Arrange final payments and a tip plan
Your RSVP data is doing two jobs now
The headcount and dietary notes you collected at RSVP feed straight into the catering order and the seating plan. If those replies are scattered across texts and voicemails, pull them into one place first, see how to track wedding RSVPs.
The week of: delegate and breathe
The week-of list should be short, because by now the work is done. The goal is to hand things off, not take things on.
- Confirm timings with every supplier one last time
- Pack: outfit, rings, documents, emergency kit
- Brief your wedding party on who does what, and when
- Hand over a point of contact, so suppliers call someone who is not you
- Confirm final guest numbers if anything shifted
- Stop planning. Sleep. Eat. Be present.
The interactive home-straight list
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The one rule for the final week
Delegate everything you possibly can. The couple should not be answering supplier calls on the morning of the wedding. Hand a trusted person the schedule and the contact list, and let them field the small fires. This single move is the difference between a calm morning and a stressful one.
Where this fits
This is the tail of the longer plan. The year before is in the 12-month wedding planning checklist, the order of it all is in what order to plan a wedding, and the full timeline lives in our wedding planning timeline guide.
Keep your numbers in one place
An invitation with built-in RSVP, so your final headcount and dietary notes are ready exactly when the caterer asks.