Plan in Two Months

We have about 2 months until the wedding. We are expecting 350 guest. Where do we start. Could you suggest a week by week to do list.

It will be hard to plan a large wedding in 2 months. The first thing you need to do is find a location for the wedding/reception. Many places book up a year or more in advance, so you may have to call lots of places to find one that can hold that many people. Then, ask the people you want as attendants and get busy finding dresses etc. They need to be rush ordered with enough time for alterations and you may find 2 months is not enough time. So, you may want to consider buying dresses from a department store (even coordinating colors can work nicely if they can't all get the same dress). When you find a site, you will need to work with the caterer on food soon. Also, when you have a pretty firm guest count, you will need to order invitations, because you generally need to mail them out 4-6 weeks before the wedding. It takes a bit of time to address them all, so allow for this.

You can start now by entering the guests names and addresses in the People section of EZ Wedding Planner. Then you can print lists by address, etc. for invitations. You can also track the RSVPs for reception count. And you can seat them at reception tables using the Seating section of EZWP (usually an extremely time consuming job if done manually, but easy to do here).

One other vendor that books far in advance is a photographer, so start now to find one who is available on your wedding date.

You can use the Plan as a checklist of things to do - check them off as you do them and then only display the Not Done items. They are in the general order of how things usually are done, but the dates will not line up with a 2 month wedding, so just start picking them off from the top and work your way down. You may want to turn your email reminders off in Options, so you aren't swamped with overdue items emailed to you.