Your South Carolina Wedding Timetable

The biggest favor that a bride and groom can is to start planning as early as possible. Give yourself plenty of time to reserve your ceremony and reception locations, contact all of the local vendors whose services you will need, and give plenty of notice to all of the friends and family members expected to attend the wedding. Weddings.SC has created a wedding calendar to serve as a guideline to planning your South Carolina wedding day. Organize your wedding ideas and carefully plan your South Carolina. Keep in mind that many wedding professionals are booked well over a year in advance for popular wedding months like May, June, and September.

Nine to Twelve Months Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Announce the engagement to friends and family members.
• Select a wedding date.
• Meet with your clergy/wedding officiant to discuss premarital requirements.
• Create a wedding budget .
• Determine the style of wedding.
• Select a wedding planner, if needed.
• Determine the size of your guest list.
• Choose and reserve the wedding and reception sites
• Select the bridal party .
• Shopping around for wedding rings.
• Select wedding professionals, such as the caterer, baker, florist, photographer, etc.

Six to Nine Months Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Select a color scheme.
• Choose the brideswedding dress, headpiece, and accessories.
• Decide on the attire for the wedding attendants.
• Start planning the details of the wedding ceremony and reception.
• Complete all arrangements with your wedding service professionals. Sign the contracts and pay any deposits.
• Begin a health and beauty regiment.

Four to Six Months Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Order all wedding invitations, announcements, thank-you cards and other wedding stationery.
• Finalize your guest list.
• Schedule fittings for the bride and wedding party.
• Mother of the Bride and Mother of the Groom should choose their dresses.
• Order wedding rings.
• Choose bridal registry.
• Make arrangements for out-of-town guests.
• Finalize honeymoon plans.
• Address wedding invitations and announcements once they have been received.
• Arrange hair and makeup "rehearsal" with headpiece.

Two to Four Months Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Have bridal portrait made.
• Plan bridesmaids' luncheon.
• Plan wedding rehearsal dinner .
• Order wedding cake and groom's cake.

Two Months Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Review wedding ceremony details with clergy/wedding officiant.
• Schedule the wedding rehearsal.
• Schedule all health and beauty appointments.
• Select the wedding gifts for bride and groom’s parents, groom, attendants, and others (bridal consultant, soloist, etc.).
• Purchase wedding accessories such as toasting goblets, garter, cake knife, etc.
• Log gifts as they arrive and send thank-you cards.

Four to Six Weeks Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Mail the wedding invitations
• Finalize wedding details with wedding officiant and wedding service professionals.
• Schedule a date to get the marriage license and complete other official details such as name change on all credit cards, driver's license, etc.
• Arrange final attire fittings for the bride, groom, and all attendants.
• Make sure that all wedding accessories are in.
• Finalize transportation arrangements.
• Pick up wedding rings.

One Week Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Give caterer final guest count.
• Review final details with wedding service professionals.
• Confirm honeymoon reservations and finish packing.
• Review rehearsal dinner plans.

The Day Before Your South Carolina Wedding

• Visit with your out-of-town wedding guests.
• Prepare everything needed for the wedding day.
• Steal a quiet moment with your fiance.
• Have wedding rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner.
• Get a good night's rest.

The Wedding Day

• Give yourself a few moments alone to relax and let any anxiety subside.
• Be pampered by having your hair and make-up done.
• Enjoy this magical day!

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