No advice but sending love! 💕 Congrats girly 🥰

1. Go online and find a standard wedding planning checklist. Back when I did this 7-8 years ago, the Knot had an amazing one that you could customize by adding additional items, tracking dates, etc.

2. Get a venue locked in ASAP. Sometimes, venues can be booked out 1.5-2 plus years in advance, so go do site visits ASAP and get a date locked in.

3. From there, the checklist will tell you good timelines of when to do what. Dresses can take 9 plus months. It’ll all be ok.

I hate planning things, but even I found our wedding to be more fun than brutal. The costs stack up, so you have to be careful, and decide immediately what you will invest in, vs. what you are willing to sacrifice quality on. 

The things that I personally found made the biggest difference (and were thus worth the spend):

2. Food (though cocktail hour food is the best to optimize — so few people end up eating the dinners, let alone the cake)

Hey boo! Congrats on getting married! My business partner and I have/am writing an online course to teach people how to plan their own wedding! There are tons of videos full of information on almost every subject on wedding planning. Annnnd where to start! I’d love to chat with you about it more!! Reach out to me on insta @alexjepps 🤍🤍🤍

i have no advice but i wanted to say good luck to you!

Build the wedding you want, not the wedding others expect you to have. I wish someone had told me this when I was wedding planning.  A lot of people will have opinions about how things "should be done" and will feel very entitled to voice those opinions to you. Ignore them all! This is a day to celebrate you and your future partner. Want to rock a pantsuit? Do it. Breakfast for dinner? Yes, please. Skip the dollar dance? Here for it. Your party, your rules. Everyone else needs to get on board.

So, +1 on The Knot’s checklist. They sort it by timeline too, which is SUPER helpful. The first step, though, is figuring out just how big you want it to be. I chose a 150-person wedding, which was big enough to invite everyone close to me, but not so big that costs were enormous. 

Once you have that number, then book the venue appropriate for that number. Once that’s squared away, you’ve got a lot of time. Trust me… 1/2

No really... I don't have the slightest clue where to begin. Everything I have seen and heard from my friends about planning a wedding sounds BRUTAL. Like certain things (dresses, particularly) take ages to come in, or venues go quick so you have to book pretty far in advance.

What is the FIRST thing I need to do? Think of this as "Wedding Planning for Dummies" and please help a girl out!

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