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- Discuss with your fiancee the date and type of wedding you would like to have
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- Start planning and making the necessary arrangements for the honeymoon
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- Discuss and plan with your fiancee your new home together
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- Choose your best man and ushers
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4 Months before your Wedding |
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- Select your wedding rings
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- Select and order men's wedding attire with your fiance
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- Complete your guest list including full names, addresses, zip codes and phone numbers
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- Finalize all your honeymoon plans and send in any required deposits
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- Check requirements for blood test
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- Check requirements for marriage license
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2 Months before your Wedding |
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- Meet with officiant to finalize ceremony
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- Discuss financial arrangement for flowers
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- Assist parents with plans for the rehearsal dinner party
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- Arrange accommodations for out-of-town guests
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1 Month before your Wedding |
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- Confirm that all attendants have been fitted and wedding attire has been ordered
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- Purchase gifts for best man and ushers
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- Take care of business and legal affairs (add bride's name to insurance policies and medical plans, make a new will, add her name to joint checking acc't and credit cards)
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- Purchase wedding gift for fiancee, if gifts are being exchanged
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2 Weeks before your Wedding |
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- Together with fiancee, gather necessary documents and get your marriage license
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- Have utilities and phone service turned on in the new home
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- Arrange wedding day transportation
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- Confirm accommodations for out-of-town guests
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- If moving, give change of address card to post office
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The Week before your Wedding |
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- Discuss all final details with fiancee; offer to assist if needed
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- See to it that you and your attendants are at the rehearsal and they know their duties
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- Pick up and try on wedding attire
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- Go over special seating or pew cards with ushers
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- See the attendants get their wedding attire
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- Arrange for gifts brought to the reception to be taken to your new home
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- Pack clothes for your honeymoon
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- Make sure luggage is in the car or the hotel where you will stay your first night
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- Confirm all honeymoon reservations
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- If flying, make sure you have your plane tickets
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On Your Wedding Day |
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- Allow plenty of time to get dressed
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- Have the best man and maid-of-honor sign the wedding certificate as witnesses
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- Get to the ceremony location on time!
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- Dance first with your bride, then with both mothers and the bridesmaids
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- Give the best man the bride's wedding ring
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- Just before leaving the reception, thank the bride's parents, and say good bye to parents
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- Place the officiant's fee in a sealed envelope
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- Give it to the best man so he may present it after the ceremony. Don't forget to take the marriage license to the ceremony
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- Don't forget to take the marriage license to the ceremony
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