Amazing Steps To Note While Planning Your Wedding

Wedding is actually a beautiful thing and every girls dream, the name Mrs.  sounds interesting but before the Mrs. lots of preparation needs to be put in place. You can either need the help of your families or a professional . 

Join me as I share with you steps to having an amazing talk-about wedding 

1. The Earlier For You The Better

Why Wait?🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋
Immediately after your introduction start planning your wedding.
But for we ladies, plans actually started before proposals.
For my christian folks we call it Faith 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉so any other plan is just formalities. Plan (at least 6 months before the wedding day).


2. Paper Works of Helpers 

 I like to call this your ‘personal wedding planning team’. 
This can be made up of your bridesmaids, close friends and family and/ or a wedding planner. By the way, if you have a wedding planner, that person will do everything about planning and coordinating your wedding so that you can go to sleep and show up pretty on your wedding day, sure that everything is in control. It’s a good idea to follow up with your wedding planner or helpers every week, it’s easier following up with one person that all the many vendors involved in a wedding.

 3. Call Center 

 Contact those people in your list, that you want to assist you in the wedding planning process, don’t assume they should know (they are waiting for you to ask). Ask if they can find the time, and let them know you’d be delegating some wedding tasks to them. Ask your mom and her friends, aunties, family members and friends. Choose bridesmaids and maid of honor (chief bridesmaids), and ask them to help out in your wedding plans. 

 4. Tick, Tick, Tick Says the Clock 

 Make a wedding checklist and timeline for your team to work with. After you’ve told a couple of people that you’ll need their help, next is to tell them what to help out with, so write down a wedding planing to-do list, of things to do from now to your wedding day. AFTER doing that, you should assign one or more work from that list to each person you’ve asked for help. You know these people, and what they are good in or love to do so use that knowledge to assign your wedding to-do-list to them. We already made you ready-to-use wedding checklists – this one to prepare you for your traditional wedding and this checklist to keep you organized when preparing for your white wedding. The wedding timeline is about adding dates of when to do things, to your wedding to-do list.



 5. Involve your fiance too

 Assign him some things on your wedding planning checklist (you may want to ask him what and what he can help out with, OR just choose areas that you know he can do well). Generally, men love helping out with setting the wedding budget, planning for drinks, hiring the DJ and planning the wedding music playlist, making arrangements for the sound system for the day, negotiating the venue price, planning what the boys (groomsmen and asoebi guys) will wear, planning the honeymoon trip. Some guys also love to join their brides during food and cake tasting (when looking to choose vendors).


 6. Make a budget list and a budget. 

Make a list of the things you need to buy or rent for the wedding. Find out how much each one costs, and then total up the costs. That is your wedding budget. We already made you a ready-made wedding budget list, with all items filled, all you need to do is fill how much each thing costs


7. Make a list of the types of vendors and suppliers you need for the wedding preparation.

 Most Nigerians have a couple of family members around who are willing and ready to help out with cooking and some other areas, so that you won’t have to pay vendors for some services. In any case, write down the list of things that you would need to hire people to do for you; also make a list of the things your family members and friends will do for you for free. 


8. Decide on the type of venue you will use – outdoor or indoor?

 If outdoor, will it be a garden or a family house backyard or an open field?
 If indoors, will it be a hotel or an event center or where? 


 9. Search and interview vendors and venue managers

Start asking around an compiling names of possible vendors who will help you put things together for your wedding. Visit them, ask them some questions, see pictures of them at work and of their works at a previous wedding, and fix a date to taste food and cakes , and inspect possible venues. 


10. Plan for Coordination of the main Wedding Day

Assign a few people to oversee/ coordinate things on your wedding day (when you’ll be on the stage). These people would have to be at the wedding venues very early and leave after everyone. They’ll be making calls early to followup with vendors to be early to do the decoration, to set the cake, to bring the food and drinks, and so on. When your wedding is in high gear, these are the people that’ll be in the background quenching any fires or show-stoppers that may come up. Plan this team ahead of time; tell the people you select to do this, and spell out what you expect them to do. Be sure to give your helpers (planning team) useful books or resources that could help them plan your wedding like a pro ask them to read up our detailed guide to planning a wedding reception, as well as our step by step guide on how to coordinate your wedding reception yourself, with help from your close buddies and without the services of a wedding planner.