For every girl, a wedding is a difficult day, a special event when a new joint, family life begins.
And he imagines the most beautiful wedding. On the wedding day, the bride wants to be the happiest, most beautiful and not think about organizational issues on such a day. You can contact a wedding agency for help so that professionals can control all the details of the preparation. But this is costly, so many people are dealing with this issue. That is why the couple begins to prepare for the celebration in advance in order to think through and calculate all the details and draw up a plan. Here we will look at the main points for preparing a plan so that you don’t forget anything.
Preparation six months before the wedding
Now you can send an application to the registry office via the Internet in advance to reserve the specific date you need. This does not cancel a trip to the registry office a month before the wedding to submit an application, but you will definitely be sure of the date. After all, there is a queue.
Already now you need to roughly calculate the budget for the celebration, how much money you need to prepare for the event. Create a list of guests on each side, which you will adjust over time.
And, of course, inform your family and friends about the upcoming event. Among the friends, identify the bridesmaids and groomsmen.
Now you can figure out, based on the time of year, what time and what places you will visit with your guests on your wedding day.
In two weeks it's time...
- Well, two weeks before the wedding, it’s time to go to the beauty salon. It's time for the bride and groom to go to the hairdresser to get a good haircut and, if necessary, hair coloring.
- Also at this time you need to start ordering a wedding cake. The wedding treat should be thought out in advance.
- Even at this time, people buy a wedding dress, accessories and other decorative elements for the celebration.
- We come up with the idea together with the florist and order the bride’s bouquet in advance.
- Attention, an important point - buy shoes for the wedding and now start wearing them every day at home.
- You can distribute traditional responsibilities for organizing a wedding on the day of celebration among loved ones and relatives. If you put this in writing, they won't have to worry about anything at the wedding. And everything will go like clockwork.
- And for dessert we hold farewell evenings for the bride and groom - a fiery bachelor party plus a lyrical bachelorette party.
Buying a wedding dress
Preparation for the wedding in four months
You need to decide which main color will be a priority on your wedding day; perhaps there will be a thematic solution.
The wedding could be, for example, lilac or tangerine. This means that the main wedding decorations in the hall and accessories, and perhaps some of the guests’ outfits, will be exactly this color.
Now you can decide on the dress model for the girl and the suit for the groom. If you are going to sew a dress to order, then choose and buy fabric, approve the style.
You also need to choose the restaurant where the celebration will take place and book it for the wedding date.
Since it will be difficult to find a free banquet hall closer to the date, there may be options that do not suit you.
What services should you book in advance for your wedding date?
At this time, you already need to choose the hosts of the wedding event who will ensure the mood for you and the guests. Together, make a plan for the evening, a script for the event, and discuss the music.
Closer to the date of the celebration, it will be difficult to find free good specialists such as a photographer, videographer, toastmaster, makeup artist, stylist, hair styling and manicurist.
You also need to think about how the room will be decorated; you will deal with this issue yourself or hire a specialist for this issue.
You can make your own or buy wedding-themed posters, invitations for wedding guests, nameplates for the table, ribbons and decorations for cars.
We collect all the important things:
- to the registry office: when you submitted your application, you were given a list of what is needed at the registry office. Collect everything clearly according to this list.
- If your wedding night will be at a hotel, be sure to pack bags in advance that will contain things to change into (after all, you will arrive at the hotel in a wedding dress), as well as makeup remover, spare shoes and underwear.
- start packing your bags for your honeymoon if it’s the next day, or the day after the wedding.
- little things for decorators: start collecting all this in advance too. These can be details that you made with your own hands, and they need to be added to the decor, wedding glasses, towels, hearth, accessories, etc.
Let all this be in one place, to which other residents of your apartment will not have access, so that no one can rearrange, remove or hide it all. And we definitely recommend attaching stickers, or better yet, huge stickers, on which it will be written to whom this parcel is intended. During these two weeks you will be able to report something there, and before the wedding itself you will have everything sorted out.
Preparation 3 months before the wedding
If your couple has decided to do a beautiful wedding dance, then you need to decide what the dance will be and start rehearsals with a coach.
Artists and singers are often invited to wedding events, and you need to decide who will perform and the financial aspects of this issue.
Think about the number of guests, what kind of transport they will use, calculate the number of cars or buses.
If after the wedding there is a honeymoon and vacation, then you need to decide on the direction of your vacation and perhaps already book tickets and hotels.
Preparation two months before the wedding
The most important thing is to submit an application to the registry office. Check again what documents you need to take with you, how much to pay and when the registry office is on holiday. Check all the details about when to pick up the documents.
The bride has already decided on the choice of dress, perhaps ordered it sewn or bought a ready-made one.
Now you need to choose stockings, a small handbag, jewelry, a veil, gloves, shoes, and, depending on the time of year, a bolero or fur coat to go with the dress.
A suit has already been chosen or purchased for the groom; we select a shirt, tie, vest, boutonniere, shoes, and underwear to go with it.
An important issue is the choice of rings. The couple must decide whether the rings will be the same and choose or order wedding rings.
In the chosen restaurant, you need to discuss the menu and choose what dishes and drinks will be on the table on the holiday.
Discuss and decide on entertainment in the evening, namely whether there will be fireworks, lanterns, soap bubbles.
Perhaps, before the wedding, the bride wants to undergo a course of caring procedures for the face and body, perhaps a solarium. The course can have up to eight sessions, so it’s worth starting now.
Discuss and choose the type of cake, its weight and decoration. And which pastry chef will you order it from?
One month before the wedding
When there is very little time left before the celebration, you need, in preparation for the wedding, to do things that you will not have time to do later.
Many establishments allow you to bring your own alcohol, and you already know how much and what kind you need. Now we need to buy it.
The bride needs to use the services of florists and order a bridal bouquet.
Nowadays the bride's bouquet is made thoroughly; it weighs more than a regular bouquet due to the base, so that the bride can hold it comfortably.
And such bouquets are not thrown to girlfriends.
You need a regular bouquet for this purpose or a similar bouquet of artificial flowers.
When communicating with the photographer, you need to discuss the shooting locations where general photos will be taken or romantic shots will be taken. In the restaurant where the celebration will take place, it is necessary to discuss and approve the layout of tables and seating arrangements for guests.
And of course, the bride and groom need to make an event plan for the wedding day, when filming starts and where, registration, trips to parks and filming locations, a restaurant, etc.
Final preparations before the wedding
- If your event includes a wedding cake at the end, then you need to order it and discuss who will pick it up and when. We also order a loaf, with which the parents will meet the newlyweds in front of the restaurant.
- It happens that people's plans change. Therefore, it is advisable to call all invited guests again and confirm with them your presence at the banquet so that changes can be made in time.
- If the bride and groom will be organizing a bachelorette and bachelor party, now is the time to organize it.
- The bridesmaids, together with the bride, need to draw up a plan for the bridegroom, come up with competitions and tasks.
- If there are small memorable gifts for guests, then you need to purchase them.
- The newlyweds must also choose the place where the first wedding night will take place.
How to prepare for a wedding: a detailed plan for the bride and groom
Have you just decided to get married and are going to organize your wedding yourself, but you still have no idea where to start and what business to tackle first? Together with the director of the wedding agency "Natali-Art" of the wedding agency "Natali-Art" of the wedding agency "Natali-Art" Natalia Parshina, we have drawn up a detailed action plan for the newlyweds.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE WEDDING
1. Go to the registry office and submit an application.
First of all, choose the date for the celebration. A lot depends on what day you want to get married. For example, if you are planning to get married, then Saturday is no longer suitable for you - they don’t get married in churches on this day. The wedding ceremony is scheduled one month and one day after submitting the application. The date and time are chosen together with a representative of the registry office.
Prepare yourself in advance for the fact that the application process may not be so easy and enjoyable. Summer and autumn are the peak of weddings, which means there is a large influx of couples in registry offices. Most future newlyweds prefer to schedule their wedding on Friday and Saturday. The most convenient time for the ceremony is from 11 o’clock (because it is impossible for the beautiful bride to get ready earlier) to 14 o’clock (then it’s too late, because there is still so much to do on this day!). Almost everyone wants to sign up for these hours. Naturally, there are not enough “happy hours” for everyone, especially in the most popular registry offices and wedding palaces in Moscow. In order to submit an application and schedule a wedding in the first half of Friday and Saturday, the newlyweds have to queue up at the registry office in advance (usually three days before the date of filing the application) and stand in this queue for all these three days, even at night.
It sounds crazy, but unfortunately, it is true. Let's make a reservation right away - we are talking only about those who decided to get married in the summer and autumn on weekends in the most prestigious registry offices of the capital (Griboyedovsky, Gagarinsky, etc.). In other registry offices (for example, in Babushkinsky or Chertanovsky) you most likely will not encounter such problems. Well, there aren’t that many people who want to get married on weekdays, so you can choose a date and a convenient time quite calmly.
To facilitate the application process, many couples sign up for virtual lists on various wedding forums, so that, having created a whole group of waiting lists, they can be on duty at the registry office walls in turn. Another option is to pay someone to wait in line for you.
And finally, the most comfortable and reliable way to avoid standing in queues is to contact a wedding agency, which will not only organize your wedding, but will also help with submitting an application to the registry office (read more about how and how a wedding agency will help you here Here ).
For a list of all wedding palaces and registry offices in Moscow, see here .
2. Visit several wedding salons - buy or order a dress for the bride and a suit for the groom.
Read about the most fashionable wedding dresses of this season (and see photos) here. Read about the most fashionable wedding dresses of this season (and see photos) here.
4. Choose witnesses and bridesmaids.
5. Select and rent a hall in which the wedding banquet will take place.
This could be a restaurant or, as a more economical option, a cafe. The cost of a banquet ranges from 1,500 rubles per person (without alcohol) to 3,500 – 4,000 rubles per person (for this amount you can afford a restaurant somewhere in the Rublyovka area, the price will include a small amount of alcohol).
Specify right away whether it will be possible to bring your own alcohol to the banquet (if you buy alcohol, it will be much cheaper), whether the price of the order includes a wedding cake, etc. Many cafes and restaurants allow you to bring not only your own alcohol to the banquet, but also fruits, sweets, individual snacks (for example, caviar), etc.
6. Order and print wedding invitations.
In Moscow, such services are provided by many printing companies; from them you can order not only wedding invitations, but also mind cards (which indicate the place of each guest at the banquet), wedding posters, calendars (newlyweds order them as souvenirs for guests), envelopes ( for invitations). Orders are usually accepted for a circulation of at least 10 pieces.
Average cost of printing services in Moscow:
— Wedding invitations — from 35 to 75 rubles. per piece (the price depends on the shape of the invitation - with or without a fold, double-sided or single-sided printing, etc.)
— Place cards — from 7 to 30 rubles. a piece
— Calendars — from 30 rub. a piece
— Wedding posters — from 100 rubles. a piece
— Envelopes — from 15 to 30 rubles. a piece
7. Order cars and decorations for the wedding procession.
“It’s better to order a limousine in advance, 1.5 - 2 months before the wedding,” advises Natalya Parshina, director of the wedding agency Natali-Art, wedding agency Natali-Art, wedding agency Natali-Art , “Many companies have cars scheduled two months in advance. And to be absolutely sure that you will find exactly the kind of car you would like, it is better to rent it in advance. In the wedding business, limousines are most often “thrown away,” so you can’t order a car “blindly” just by looking at its photo. Now you can place an order simply by phone or on the website. But you shouldn't do this. Don’t be lazy, go to a limousine rental company and ask the company’s employees to show you the cars.
Read more about how and for how much you can order limousines in the capital (as well as vintage cars, carriages, yachts and other vehicles for a wedding procession) here.
8. Draw up a preliminary script for the celebration.
9. Choose a honeymoon route.
If you choose an exotic country, consult your doctor about vaccinations. If necessary, reissue passports.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO A MONTH BEFORE YOUR WEDDING
1. Buy wedding rings.
In principle, this can be done earlier or later - in a word, at any time you want. Choosing engagement rings is definitely an enjoyable and memorable process, so enjoy it to the fullest!
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2. Decide on the design of the wedding bouquet
It can be ordered from florists, wedding salons or wedding agencies). If you would like to decorate the banquet hall or tables with fresh flowers, you can order decoration from the same company.
3. Send out wedding invitations.
4. Approve and order an entertaining wedding program, agree with the host or toastmaster.
5. Book a wedding tour and air tickets.
6. Order photo and video shooting of the celebration. Together with the photographer, choose the locations where the shooting will take place.
The cost of photography is from 10,000 to 15,000 rubles. This price includes 5 - 8 hours of work by the photographer and his assistant (he installs professional lighting equipment), digital processing and artistic retouching of images, printing of the agreed number of photographs and a DVD with photographs.
Many newlyweds, in addition to a disc with photographs, also order a beautifully designed wedding album or book. An album is a photo album in which sheets with a photo image are printed on professional thin cardboard and, unlike a wedding book, have a small thickness. A wedding book is a handmade album with thick cardboard pages printed on photographic paper and made using special equipment. The cost of their production varies greatly depending on the paper, cover materials, sizes, etc. On average, the production of a wedding album is 3,000 - 6,000 rubles, a book - from 5,000 to 25,000 rubles.
Also, many newlyweds order a “love-story” from professional photographers - a staged wedding photo shoot before the wedding with a walk around Moscow. From the best selected photographs, a separate part of the wedding book and a slide show are created for broadcast at the banquet. The cost of shooting a “love-story” is 7,000 – 9,000 rubles.
The price for professional video shooting and editing of a wedding video is from 6,000 to 15,000 rubles.
7. Decide on the location of the wedding night (if, for example, you want to spend it in a hotel, you should book a room in advance).
8. Buy shoes and accessories for the bride and groom.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE WEDDING
1. Visit a beauty salon.
2. Approve the plan for the arrangement of guests in the banquet hall and the registry office.
3. Order a wedding cake.
4. Call all guests on the list.
5. Confirm the number of guests and create a wedding banquet menu.
6. Coordinate the color and style of bridesmaids' dresses. If you want your little brother to carry the veil, make sure to choose the appropriate color for his suit.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO A WEEK BEFORE YOUR WEDDING
1. Walk in wedding shoes for 2 - 3 hours . If they press even a little, give them a stretch.
2. Create a wedding day schedule
And especially the wedding banquet: in what order are the dishes served on the table, when is it hot, when are the appetizers, at what point is the cake brought out, what music is played, in what order will the guests say toasts, etc.
THREE DAYS BEFORE THE WEDDING
1. Confirm your car order again. Specify time and address.
DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING
1. Get a manicure and pedicure.
2. Call the organizers of the wedding program and clarify all the details.
3. Order a taxi to meet out-of-town guests.
4. Collect all the necessary documents (especially your passport ) in your purse and give them to one of your parents.
5. Together with your girlfriends, go to a good restaurant for a bachelorette party and have a lot of fun.
A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE WEDDING
1. Pick up the wedding bouquet.
2. Visit a stylist.
3. Pack the bride's purse
Place a tissue, wet wipes, lipstick, compact, spare hairpins, a small mirror and a coin for good luck.
4. Organize a light snack for the arrival of the groom and guests.
5. Chill several bottles of champagne that you will drink with your guests immediately after the wedding ceremony.
6. Check again whether you have taken your passport. 7. Forget all the worries, worries and worries and enjoy the moment. After all, this day is yours!
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