Planning Your Wedding: The Ultimate Checklist for Your Perfect Day

Your wedding is one of the most beautiful days of your life – and one of the most demanding. To help you stay organised, we've created the ultimate wedding planning checklist for you.

12 Months Before: Laying the Foundations

• Plan your engagement celebration
  
• Set your budget
  
• Create your guest list (including B-list)
  
• View and book your wedding venue
  
• Fix your date
  
• Reserve your civil ceremony appointment
  
• Review insurance (wedding insurance?)
  

9 Months Before: Setting the Course

• Discuss catering/venue menu
  
• Book your photographer
  
• Book your DJ or band
  
• Search for and purchase your wedding dress
  
• Choose the groom's suit
  
• Find a celebrant (for a non-religious ceremony)
  
• Finalise your church or registry office
  

6 Months Before: The Details

• Design and send invitations
  
• Save-the-date cards sent?
  
• Create your wedding website
  
• Plan flowers and decorations
  
• Buy or adjust your rings
  
• Plan personalised map posters for your wedding and décor
  
• Arrange menu tasting
  

3 Months Before: Getting Concrete

• Plan your seating arrangement
  
• Order guest favours
  
• Design personalised map posters as guest gifts or décor
  
• Buy your wedding shoes
  
• Get accessories (jewellery, tie, etc.)
  
• Test hairstyle and make-up
  
• Have your wedding rings engraved
  
• Order your wedding cake
  

1 Month Before: The Final Steps

• Create a timeline for the day
  
• Write or practise your speech
  
• Get gifts for parents and best man/woman
  
• Order a map poster of your wedding venue as a surprise for your partner
  
• Finalise your seating plan
  
• Check the weather forecast (Plan B for outdoors)
  

1 Week Before: Take a Breath

• Pack your bag for your wedding night
  
• Pack your bag for the wedding (emergency kit)
  
• Hang up your personalised wedding posters (décor for the venue)
  
• Breathe
  

Your Wedding Day

• Don't skip breakfast
  
• Look closely, take it all in
  
• Smile. Cry. Laugh. Say yes.
  
• Marvel at the map posters that tell your story on the wall
  

Checklist for the Ultimate Wedding Gift

A personalised map poster of your wedding venue is a gift that lasts forever. Designed in 2 minutes, printed on silk-finish poster paper. Perfect for:

• The newlyweds themselves – as a memory of the most beautiful day
• The best man/woman – as a thank-you gift
• The parents – "The place where your children said yes"
• Your guests – as a small keepsake with date and coordinates

Design your wedding map poster now in the editor – in 2 minutes, with over 60 styles for every taste.

Tip: Save this page or print it out – it'll guide you through the entire planning process.