What you need to prepare for the wedding: a complete list down to the smallest detail

Wedding plan

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Wedding Preparation: Action Plan 6 Months Before Your Wedding

We decide on the date of the solemn wedding.
We decide whether you want a painting in the registry office or an outdoor ceremony.
We choose the registry office/wedding palace.
We go to the registry office and reserve a wedding date (or do it via the Internet/phone).
We draw up an individual plan for preparing for the wedding point by point.
Let's find out whether wedding exhibitions will be organized in your city. If there are, we will definitely visit them.
We are compiling a rough list of guests.
Based on this, we calculate how much money will be needed to hold a wedding banquet.
We decide what wedding services you will order for your wedding. Let's find out their approximate cost.
Based on the two previous points, we form an approximate wedding budget (add 15-20% to it for unforeseen expenses, etc.).
We announce your wedding to relatives and friends.
We choose witnesses (or do it later). In terms of organizing a wedding, this point should be given special attention. After all, the wedding mood largely depends on the witnesses.
Let's decide how you will spend your honeymoon. If necessary, we reserve a hotel room in advance, buy tickets, etc. (especially if your wedding falls during the warm season).
We are making a list of restaurants, banquet halls and other places where you would like to hold your wedding. We will find out the terms of their rental, including how far in advance you need to book a restaurant (cafe) and make an advance payment.

What to buy for the wedding

When we have decided on the main points, it’s time to move on to the full list of what is needed for the wedding. You may not have to buy all of these things; you will find some at home, but it’s better to have everything on one list, so you definitely won’t forget anything.

For convenience, we will break it down into stages of the day of celebration.

For the registry office you need:

rings and a cushion for them,
passports, receipts and marriage certificate cover,
champagne, glasses, sweets,
rice, rose petals, coins (everything that is planned to be sprinkled on the newlyweds on their way out),
towel (on which the newlyweds will stand).

For a walk:

decorations for a photo shoot (if any),
plastic cups (glasses),
champagne, wine, drinks and treats for guests,
garbage bags,
umbrellas (if there is a fear that it will rain),
several bottles of clean water (wash hands),
lock (if you plan to hang it on the bridge).

For the banquet:

glasses for the bride and groom,
prizes for competitions,
book of wishes for newlyweds,
bonbonnieres,
a flash drive with a song for the first dance of the bride and groom or with all the music for the wedding, if you selected it yourself,
seating cards and plan (if provided),
duplicate bouquet,
containers and bags for products,
vases and jars for flowers,
bottles of alcohol from the bride and groom.

Also, this list of what is needed for a wedding banquet includes all purchased food and drinks, as well as a cake and a loaf; the latter, for the ceremony of welcoming the newlyweds, requires salt, whipping glasses and a towel (not from the registry office). Usually, everything needed for the wedding is brought to the banquet the day before and left at the restaurant or cafe.

Style and color

Having a wedding entirely in white is no longer relevant. Typically, the bride and groom have one or two shades in their outfits, accessories and banquet area design that complement classic white. And sometimes the future husband and wife decide that their celebration will not be in standard light colors at all, choosing bright clothes and attributes.

Also in the modern world it has become very fashionable and interesting to organize stylized weddings. For example, you can surprise your guests and invite them not to a standard holiday, but in the style of Chicago gangsters or in Provence style.

Wedding day plan

Another main point that will have to be planned, taking into account all the details, such as: what time will registration be, where will the photo session be, is it included in your plans to ride around the city with guests, etc.

Before going to the registry office, the bride and groom must have time to get ready. If we take a standard wedding day, then the girl and the guy spend the night in different apartments. In the morning, a stylist and makeup artist comes to the bride and prepares her for the celebration. Very often, the mother and close friends of the bride are present, as well as a photographer who captures the moments of the girl getting ready. By the way, before this, photography can take place in the groom’s house and he is also photographed.

Before going to the bride, the man and his friends decorate the wedding cortege, pick up a bouquet and go to the house to pick up his future wife. It is rare, but it still happens that bridesmaids arrange competitions for the groom, which have long been called ransom. Sometimes, the bride gets ready not at home, but at a hotel. It is possible to meet lovers directly at the registry office. In general, what will happen to you is worth thinking about and deciding based on your preferences.

After the painting, the newlyweds go to some beautiful place and have a photo shoot there, but you also have to think about where exactly in advance. Here it is worth considering the time of year of your celebration. In winter, it would be original to go to the skating rink or sledding, in the spring to visit the park, in the summer to have a picnic in nature or ride the carousel, and in the fall to take a walk along the street or visit the botanical garden. Photography can be arranged both before and after marriage registration, with or without guests.

Honeymoon

If a couple has the desire and opportunity to fly away on vacation after the wedding, then they need to think in advance where exactly and purchase vouchers or tickets, but it is worth remembering that each country has its own season for vacation, we have a detailed article about this.

Buy the necessary things and accessories for your honeymoon in advance so that after the wedding you don’t have to think about it anymore.

Wedding style

First of all, you need to decide on the style of your future wedding. Here are some basic options.

Regular traditional wedding

Registration at the registry office to the sounds of Mendelssohn's march and the solemn words of the state registrar is suitable for those newlyweds who do not want a pompous and pretentious ceremony. And the money saved can be spent on a further banquet, a professional cameraman or photographer, or on a honeymoon.

Official exit ceremony

Innovations in marriage legislation in accordance with the order of the Moscow Government “On the organization of activities for state registration of marriage in a solemn setting” dated October 6, 2006, allow a wedding ceremony to be held outside the walls of the registry office.

Such places for on-site marriage registration can be picturesque cultural and historical sites of the city , a list of which can be found on the official website of the Moscow Civil Registry Office https://zags.mos.ru/uslugi/vyezdnaya/.

Staged on-site registration

This option is suitable for those who are not residents of Moscow, but still want to hold a wedding in a picturesque place.
You can register your marriage informally at the registry office, and then hold a magnificent ceremony in nature, in a park, on the beach or in the forest. In this article you will learn details on how to organize a staged on-site registration yourself, what you should consider when preparing and how to calculate the approximate cost of the event.

Modest wedding

Not everyone has the money for a big wedding. And even if there is money, this does not mean that it must be spent on organizing a noisy party. Recently, more and more people prefer modest weddings without lavish celebrations. The saved money can be invested in something more significant: an apartment, a car, renovations, a luxurious honeymoon, in the end.

From this article you will learn how to arrange a memorable holiday without investing a lot of money into it and items of the wedding budget on which you can save without losing quality.

date

You can begin submitting an application to the registry office two months before your desired date. If the bride and groom are confident that they will be able to organize a wedding in such a period of time, then you can safely choose a date and go submit documents. But it also happens that a couple wants to tie the knot at a certain time of the year. And if the decision to get married was made in the fall, and you want to exchange rings in the summer, then you have a huge amount of time to prepare for the holiday and choose a date. If the season of celebration is not important to lovers, then you can start preparing and planning your wedding day right now.

Other little things

Buy your favorite wedding rings, order a wedding cake. Think about how and with what you will decorate the banquet area if you have completely rented the premises. Think about the cars, how many are needed and whether they will be decorated. Most often, the cortege of young people consists of one ordered car, and the rest are cars of friends. If there is a bachelor and bachelorette party, then you need to think about where and with whom. Often newlyweds spend their wedding night in a hotel, so if you like this idea, then you need to choose a room and book it.

Now you have a ready-made plan of where to start your wedding preparations, how it goes and what needs to be done before the celebration, and we wish you a beautiful wedding and we hope that our step-by-step list will help in organizing the holiday of your dreams.