Wedding Expressions - Wedding Planner

Getting Started

• How to announce your engagement
  
• Setting your date
  
• Newspaper Announcements
  
• Getting parents involved
  
• Month-to-Month to do list: Yours and His
  

Now What?

• Determine your wedding style
  
• Who Pays for What?
  
• Preparing your wedding budget
  
• Determine your color scheme
  
• Marrying at 30, 40, and beyond
  
• I Do Again - Remarrying
  
• Children and Remarriage
  
• Do I need a wedding consultant?
  

• Bridal Party Roles
  
• Friends and family that are not attendants

1. Your bridal gown
   
2. Dress styles and your figure?
   
3. 4 Steps to a better Fit
   
4. Gown preservation
   
5. Your headpiece
   
6. Shoes
   
7. Lingerie and accessories
   
8. Bridesmaid’s Dresses
   
9. Men's Formal wear

• Choosing an Officiant
  
• Personalizing your ceremony
  
• Deceased or divorced parents
  
• Civil ceremonies
  
• Writing your own vows
  
• How to write a wedding program
  
• Ceremony music
  
• Unity Candle Ceremony

1. Planning advice
   
2. Finding a reception site
   
3. Out of town guests and accommodations
   
4. Hiring a caterer
   
5. Reception food
   
6. Wedding Cake
   
7. Reception beverages
   
8. Reception Music
   
9. Hiring a D.J.
   
10. More reception entertainment ideas
    
11. Reception Don’ts
    
12. How-to make your reception unique
    
13. Perfect Punch Recipes
    

• Your Guest List
  
• Choosing an invitation
  
• Wording your invitation
  
• Beyond the invitation
  
• Addressing, Assembly and Mailing
  
• RSVP Central
  
• Invitations Q&A's

• Choosing a florist
  
• Ceremony flowers
  
• Reception flowers/decorations
  
• Preserving your bouquet
  

• Choosing your photographer
  
• Hiring a videographer

• Consumer tips
  

Booking a limousine

• Engagement parties
  
• Showers
  
• Bridesmaid’s parties
  
• Bachelorette parties
  
• Bachelor parties
  
• Pre-wedding parties
  
• The Rehearsal Dinner

• Registering
  
• Monetary, duplicate and damaged gifts
  
• Thank You notes
  
• Gifts and favors for guests
  
• Gifts for attendants
  

• Bridal trousseau
  
• His name or yours?
  
• Marriage license
  
• Prenuptial agreement?
  
• Family planning
  

• Wedding rehearsal
  
• The Rehearsal Dinner
  
• Wedding day time line
  
• Seating
  
• Order of processional
  
• Receiving line
  
• Reception time line

• Planning and destinations
  
• Budgeting
  
• Honeymoon packages?

• Perfect Packing for the Perfect Honeymoon

Changing your name