Hi everyone!
Around the ten and nine month mark leading up to your wedding, you need to start making decisions!
If you've had a a year or more to plan your wedding, by the ten month mark you really need to finalize your venue. You've done your research, visited several places, so now the contract needs to be signed, and the deposit needs to be made. You really don't want to lose your dream venue because you don't want to commit, because believe me, you will lose it!
You also need to find the place you're having your ceremony- if it's not the same as the location of the reception. If you're having it in a church, outside, or somewhere else, you need to make a decision!
Depending on if you book your ceremony space first, or your reception space first, you should keep them relatively close in location.
At this point in the planning process, you most likely have your dream guest list written out. You have everyone you'd love to have, but you know it's unrealistic. You should now break your list down into an 'A list' and a 'B list'. The 'A list' is all the people you know have to be there. It's also about what fits into your guest list based on what the venue allows, and/or your budget allows. The 'B list' is other people you'd love to have at your wedding, but they'd understand if they weren't invited.
Depending on how many people you invite to your wedding, expect around 15% of those people to not be able to make it for some reason or another.
No one wants to know that they are on your B list. It's obviously not something you want to talk about. You however have this list incase you start getting a lot of 'no's' right away. You are going to get 'No's' from people no matter what, but sometimes it seems like some couples get more 'no's' than average. This is where the 'B list' comes in handy. You don't want to be sending these invitations a week before your wedding; send them out as soon as possible so it's no obvious to them! If you invite 220, you should expect 200 "yes's". If your numbers start getting lower than that, you need your B list.
You should also purchase your wedding dress at this point in the planning process. The dress could take up to eight months to come in. You'll want a little time once it comes in to have it altered.
Happy Planning!!
xo, Val.
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