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We've gotten a lot of the big stuff out of the way - we've chosen a venue (ceremony and reception at the same place), wedding party, officiant, dress, photographer, and DJ; and our caterer, rental companies for linens/tent/lights, and florist come with the venue. My bridesmaids have been told "Find a knee-length purple dress and silver shoes", and his dudes will be in grey, but the specifics are up to my fiance. Our save-the-dates went out with our holiday cards - good lord, getting all of those addresses was a pain! I won invitations from For The Modern Bride, so I'm working with a designer to get those finished. Next up will likely be choosing a bakery (Yay for cake tastings!) and figuring out our menu with our caterer.
I think the napkins will look lovely, especially if there's some sort of unifying color scheme. I considered doing something like that, but then I remembered that I'm really lazy when it comes to DIY stuff :)
Ooh, I love your colours! I want the my FI to wear grey too. I wish we were having a bakery cake - I'm missing out on the cake tasting experience!
We're doing a tent too - what kind of lights are you putting in it?
Hi! I haven't done much planning during the holidays, but here's what's done so far -
Here's what's up next for us in Jan -
Then in Feb/March -
I'm planning a smaller wedding for about 40 guests.
heres what i have for our wedding of approx 120:
ceremony and reception sites booked
rehearsal dinner booked
room blocks reserved
dress picked out
got wedding party organized
Transportation reserved
wedding website done
engagement photos done
finalized wording for ceremony
next up in jan:
send out save the dates
pick bridesmaid dresses and tux styles
DJ
Photographer
Ceremony musician
florist
Little later:
cake!
honeymoon planning
@KikiD - Don't feel shamed! Booking a venue was, by far, the biggest pain in our planning so far. Especially since you can't really do anything at all until you have the where and when. Once the holidays are over, I'm sure you'll have more time to get stuff done.
@toothfairyb - I have no idea what we're doing for lighting - I think we'll end up going with whatever the "default" lighting option is. Although I have been intrigued by some of the lantern-ish options some of the bees have posted :)
Everyone's been busy!
@Spaganya, you're so on the ball! Doing my ceremony wording is something I have to work on!
soo far, we have our ceremony/reception site, officiants, photographer/videographer, my dress, dj, bridesmaid dresses picked out, next on the list is the florist...and working on our wedding website..=)
Hi girls! 9 months left till our day!!!! :)
I feel like we are slowly falling behind!!!! We are going to try to get our e-pics (bout time!) done within the next week, then STD made and mailed.
So far we have our ceremony/reception site picked and down paid * dress is here, needs alterations though * BM dresses picked * My shoes just came!!!! * and that is about it!
I keep putting stuff off, and before I know it, we'll be out of time! So trying to hit the planning hard this month, especially before school starts again in 2 weeks. ugh!
Rosie, we're planning hard this month too. Seems to be the only month nothing is going on!
Let's see, we have:
* Booked our Venue
*Booked our Officiant (a friend! lol)
*Booked our Caterer (The Kogi Truck)
*Booked our Photographer (The amazing Kirsten Ellis)
*Bought our Dresses
*Commissioned our STD's
*Bought every Cafe lights at Big Lots post-holidays
*Picked out (but not ordered/had made) our wedding bands
*Been collecting vintage milkglass/china for our centerpieces
*Picked out 2 of our 8 (non-matching) maids ensembles
We still need to:
*Reserve Room blocks at a bad-ass hotel
*Have C's suit made
* Get wedding shoes/accessories
*Invitations, Invitations, Invitations...
*Find a DOC to work with our budget
*Many, many more DIY projects/details/things I'm forgetting.
Can't wait to see how everyone's Day turns out!
We are SO far behind! *sigh* Or i ought to say I am so far behind. Ain't like the boy is helping me out much! So far I have:
In the next week I need to make appointments to book:
Things left to do:
@Ms. Awesome - I'm so jealous of your cafe light find!! I haven't been able to find them anywhere!!
@Rabbit - You aren't far behind at all! You've got lots done! :)
If I had posted this comment a week ago I wouldn't have had anything besides a venue... But thanks to a very busy week between the holidays I am now the proud customer of a list of vendors!!
January to do:
As you all know the to-do list could go on and on... but I'm determined to fit in all the DIY, and keep the week of the wedding as stress free as possible. It could totally work, right? :-p
Hey Ladies -
So far we have:
For January:
I am way too lazy to bust out a ton of DIY, but I do have 1 or 2 small things planned to personalize the wedding to at least trick people into thinking I busted my butt DIYing :)
Everyone is doing so well so far!
Geez you ladies are putting me to shame...I feel like I am majorly slacking in every department:
Done so far
Still need to do:
I feel like I am already running out of time (why does it have to go by so darn fast!?!)
I wish I could just pause and get everything done in one day....or I wish I wasn't plagued with the procrastination bug.
I was just having a conversation with my FI about how behind I feel, but lets see my list:
What I have done:
What I still need to do!
After looking at my "accomplished" list and seeing what everyone else has done, I think I'm doing ok!! I have a slow week at work so hopefully I will be able to get a few things done! I just have to stay on track since the FI convinced me that it would be a great time to start looking for a house!!
Church and Reception Venue
(includes food, liquor, table linens, champagne toast for all, and valet for guests)
Wedding Party
Bridesmaids’ dresses
Wedding Dress
DJ
Officiant
Hotel room blocks
Wedding website
Wedding invite suite template with custom map card (DIY!)
3 Registries set-up (online)
Bridal shower date picked, working on invites
To do’s:
-book 1 of 2 photogs
-book bakery for cake
-book florist
-book limo
-book honeymoon
-get groomsmen tuxes ordered
-get FI's wedding band
This is helping me feel a little more centered. Here's what I've got done:
What I still need to do soonish:
This is our year, ladies 
*Venue/Reception site
*dress
*2/4 BM dresses
*Photog
*cake baker
*"caterer"
*My Ring
*His ring
*Wedding Website
*The place I'm getting flowers for the DIY bouquets
*Run away bubbles
*Guestbook bought
*2 Registries
*Waiting on officiant to Confirm date
I'm still torn on if we want a DJ or not, and we need to work on chair rentals, the tuxes, pick and order the invites, and a few other things!
hey september brides! it really is confusing to know what to do and when to do it. i've seen several "check lists" and some say i'm like a month behind and others say i'm like three months ahead. who knows... anyway, here's what i have done so far:
* officiant (friend of FI)
* venue and ceremony site (same place)
* ordered my dress, but haven't picked it up yet.
* photographer
* dj and lighting (6 purple uplights)
* caterer - comes with the venue, but we won't choose a menu until april
* engagement pictures (done by a photographer friend)
* ordered save the dates, and collected all but one address
* personal training (but is it doing any good just yet, is the real question. haha)
* cake topper
* various candles
* wedding website done
* hotel room blocks secured
up next:
* mail save the dates
* going shopping for bridesmaids dresses this weekend
* meetings with florists
* cake
* table linens
ok, writing it all out makes me feel like things are a little more under control than i thought. :)
We're Sunday the 5th!! So far we've booked:
I have shoes that I bought for a BM dress thinking I can dye them but I can't - so I'll use them for mine. I think I have a dress - there's 2 I'm still going back & forth between & can't decide (I'll eventually post the ever popular - "help me pick a dress" post but I wanna get pics of me in them 1st). The bridal salon I like best throws in the veil so that's cool.
Still to do? Way more than I probably realize. LOL
I'm also a Sept. 5 bride in NYC! BUT this thread is causing me stress, cause our venue cancelled a few weeks ago (which had everything included) so I feel like we're starting over from scratch.
So right now we have:
We need:
and the last major thing we need... for the government to give me my fiancee visa so I can move!
Now that I have it written out it's not as bad as I thought. I think it just threw me for a loop having to re-plan our wedding. It feels like I'm having 2 weddings since the first one was pretty much completely planned!
Eeek....all these lists are making me feel like I"ve done nothing! I definitely took a wedding planning break over the holidays, but I guess it's time to get my butt in gear! We've done:
ceremony/reception venue, florist (still figuring out exact details of flowers and arrangements), photographer, dress, officiant, band....and I think that's it! Yikes!
Things that are weighing on my mind: STDs (we're waiting to see a design from an etsy seller we contacted), invitations, song choices, hotel for night before/night of the wedding, deciding on BM dresses, finalizing flower decisions, cake, wedding website, my shoes/veil/hair flower, groom's attire, PICKING OUT THE GROOMSMEN (FI refuses to do this now, I have no idea why!), MOB and MOG dresses, honeymoon, scheduling e pics, bridesmaid gifts....oh man, I need to go lie down! This is making me super nervous. Only 8 months left!
@ missypoytress OH NO! Your venue backed out?!? I've never heard of that before. Lemme know if I can help at all.
@ hilsy I feel the same way - I keep thinking we have plenty of time but I know I'm gonna blink & it'll be July. LOL
Hi hive! I'm a sept bee as well, until now we have:
@Dancy: totally! And my FI seems to think we still have oodles of time--he thought our wedding could have been planned for LAST sept! (we got engaged in June--3 months? I don't think so!).
So many September bee's coming out of the woodwork! So nice to "meet" you all :) (ya'll are making me get my butt in gear with the planning!)
hi everyone!
In the next month we are:
We got our e-pics taken this weekend and back today! Officiant decided on, just have to ask, appointment with caterer for Saturday, ANOTHER pair of wedding shoes bought (JUST what I needed!!!!) and called about block room rates.
Whew! we had a whirlwind of planning over Christmas when we went to Madison where our wedding will be. i think i had something like 16 appointments, but we booked our florist, cake baker, ceremony musicians, and DOC! So added to the "completed" list we have: ceremony venue booked, reception venue booked, officiant lined up, photographer booked, reception music booked, hotel rooms blocked, pre-marital counseling done, engagement pictures taken and printed, my dress ordered (and in!), bridesmaid dresses chosen, cake baker booked, cake designed and decided on, flowers decided on, Save-the-dates ordered and received, ceremony musicians booked and DOC picked out
Next on the list . . .
Hi all fellow September brides!
I'm a September 25th-er, and I have...
Done
- ceremony venue
- reception venue
- officiant
- DJ
- food
- dress
- bridesmaids dresses
- photographer
- invitations
- STD's (gone out with holiday cards)
- guest book (picture frame with matting...)
- mini lights and decor for the reception
Pending
- florist (waiting for quotes)
- placecards (waiting for shipment from eBay)
- accessories (waiting for shipment from... eBay. Noticing a pattern?)
- tuxes (waiting on prices)
Not Done
- cake and cupcakes
- welcome notes for out of town guests
- music selection
- food selection
- alcohol purchasing
- rehearsal dinner arrangements
I think... that's it. I'm reeaaallly ahead though. Or so I thought until I read this thread. Then I realized that I'm actually kind of normal.
Feels nice :D
Hi Everyone,
Makes me feel better that others have a lot left to do.
Done:
Ceremony Venue
Reception Venue (includes catering, linens, cake etc)
DJ
Photographer
Room Block
Save the Dates sent
To Do:
Dress (AND...Bridesmaids, Groomsmen, Groom)
Flowers
Invitations
Transportation
Rehearsal Dinner
Hair & Makeup
Yikes... and I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot
Phew. We have so much left to do. Shoes, caterer, (cup)cake(s), groom's attire, groomsmen attire, all that. But we now have a more firm handle on the table decorations, and both bridesmaids have their dresses, so I count that as a success!
So far, for my Sept 18th wedding, I have:
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This board has been quiet for a while...where are all the September brides at? Come out and say hi!
How bout we all talk about our wedding plans so far?
On my list to do right now is start making napkins! I've bought some fabric so each table will have a different colour/pattern of fabric. I'm hoping it looks sweet and not like a bunch of patterns threw up everywhere ;)