Whilst there’s no one-size-fits-all template, here's a rough guide of how long to allow for each part of your wedding day with some top timing tips!
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The number-one secret to a stress-free wedding day? Scheduling ample time for you and your wedding party to get ready.
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Our wedding checklist works on a wedding planning timeline of 12 months, but you can tweak it to suit your own timeframe. If you're looking to get hitched quickly, you can always check out our guides on how to plan a wedding in six months, three months, and six weeks.
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Timelines are the key to a smooth-running day, and using this one as a framework to build and customize your own wedding-day schedule will help you keep everything on track.
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To ensure your wedding day runs smoothly, it’s important to create a detailed, hour-by-hour wedding day timeline—doing so will help you stay organized, stress-free, and on time (because even running a few minutes late can throw the whole day off track).
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Creating a wedding day timeline is one of the most challenging parts of planning your event. Start by using a template to map out when you’d like each part of the day to occur. You must also speak to the staff, photographer, and venue about this timeline.
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That’s why we’ve created a sample modern wedding day timeline based on ceremonies starting at both 1pm and 6pm, as well as alternative timelines for an 11am start, and brunch and afternoon tea style receptions, along with some helpful tips on putting together the order of your day.
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Your wedding day timeline should be formatted clearly and given to all of your vendors, including your caterer, photographer, videographer, DJ or band leader, ceremony musicians, hair stylist, makeup artist, and more, as well as any VIPs (family members, bridal party, etc.) the week of the wedding.
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Plan to do this with your partner and your photographer right before the reception kicks off—we promise you'll treasure the photos forever. With a printable resource, use our wedding editor's expert guide on the ultimate day-of wedding checklist to ensure you don't forget a thing.
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To plan a stress-free wedding day schedule & itinerary, use our expertly crafted wedding timeline template to stay organized & share a printable PDF.
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