832-422-5820
713-453-5449 Ext. 1
The Ultimate Place For Your Special Event
12+ months or more
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Choose a date (or up to 3 so you can be flexible).
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Talk budget and decide who is contributing what.
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Discover your wedding style.
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Choose wedding party:
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Maid of Honor and Bridesmaids, Best Man and Groomsmen, Flower Girl and Ring Bearer.
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Create a wedding website.
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Get engagement ring insured and consider purchasing wedding insurance.
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Begin compiling a guest list.
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Explore ceremony and reception venue options.
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Start assembling a team of wedding pros: planner, photographer, videographer, caterer, florist, and musicians.
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Browse wedding dress and veil styles.
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Get discounts! Subscribe to Bride Vibe, MagnetStreet’s e-newsletter, for wedding stationery deals.
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Get engagement photos taken.
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Start browsing Save the Date designs to find your favorite shape and size.
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Order your Save the Dates. Check our current promotions to seize the deal!
10-11 months to go
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Choose bridal party attire and accessories.
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Reserve ceremony and reception venues.
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Book officiant.
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Hire photographer, videographer, caterer, DJ/band, florist, and planner.
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Mail your Save the Dates.
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Purchase wedding dress, veil and undergarments.
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Establish a fitness routine.
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Establish a skin care/beauty routine.
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8-9 months to go
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Find 3 hotels (at different price points) for out-of-town guests.
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Refine guest list.
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Create gift registries at 3 national retailers.
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Browse Wedding Invitation designs and coordinating stationery (Enclosures, Programs, Menu Cards, Thank Yous, and Favors).
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Begin planning honeymoon
6-7 months to go
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Explore wedding day hair and makeup styles.
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Meet with officiant to discuss plans for ceremony.
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Choose cake style and schedule tastings.
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Decide on groomsmen attire.
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Personalize & order Wedding Invitation.
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Hire ceremony musicians.
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Book transportation to and from venues.
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Purchase wedding bands.
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Order Wedding Invitation Suite. Check our current promotions to seize the deal!
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Order Thank You Cards (for gifts that arrive early).
4-5 months to go
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Choose flowers for: wedding party, attendants, venues, cake, etc.
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Schedule dress fittings.
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Book honeymoon flights and hotels.
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Book room for wedding night.
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Order wedding cake.
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Plan welcome baskets for out-of-town guests.
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Prepare {play/do not play} lists for DJ/band.
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Finalize wedding guest list.
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Assemble rehearsal dinner guest list.
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Book rehearsal dinner venue.
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Order Rehearsal Dinner Invitations.
3 months to go
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Finalize honeymoon plans and ensure all documents are in order.
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Plan ceremony and reception seating.
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Experiment with hair and veil with stylist.
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Purchase: toasting flutes, serving pieces, guestbook, flower basket and ring bearer pillow.
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Finalize reception menu.
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Order Wedding Favors.
2 months to go
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Mail Wedding Invitations.
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Develop system for organizing RSVPs.
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Begin writing vows.
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Review ceremony details with officiant.
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Lay out the content for Wedding Programs.
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Apply for marriage license: order 2-3 extra.
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Finalize seating arrangements.
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Finalize playlists with musicians.
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Finalize fittings for wedding party and parents.
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Create wedding day timeline and send to your vendors, officiant and wedding party.
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Write out honeymoon itinerary for family at home.
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Decide “Something Old, New, Borrowed, Blue.”
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Book spa and beauty treatments for you and your bridal party.
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Book wedding day transportation.
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Purchase gifts for attendants.
1 months to go
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Call vendors to confirm date, times and location.
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Confirm honeymoon reservations.
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Pack for honeymoon.
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Pick up wedding rings.
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Pick up marriage license
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Order Wedding Programs.
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Final dress fitting (with shoes & undergarments).
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Write Thank You notes as gifts are received.
2 weeks to go
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Follow up with guests who have not RSVP’d.
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Give final count to caterer.
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Update registries.
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Begin breaking in wedding shoes.
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Make arrangements for the caring of pets and plants while on honeymoon.
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Send playlists to DJ/band/ceremony musicians.
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Get final haircut and color.
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Delegate wedding day duties: gift table, guestbook, etc.
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Delegate someone to return tuxes, rentals and tend to wedding dress.
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Send directions to wedding day limo/transportation driver.
2 week to go
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Prepare final payments to vendors + cash tips for service personnel.
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Give readers their scripts.
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Give photographer and videographer your image and video requests
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Lay out wedding clothes.
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Prepare wedding day emergency kit.
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Get spa treatments for you and the bridal party.
Day Before
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Deliver welcome baskets.
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Get mani/pedi/massage.
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Attend wedding rehearsal.
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Have fun at the rehearsal dinner.
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Get to bed at a decent hour!
Wedding Day
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Eat a good breakfast! Allow yourself plenty of time to get ready.
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Give wedding rings and officiant fee to best man.
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Relax, smile, and soak in every incredible moment.
Wrapping things up…
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Ensure tuxes and rentals have been returned.
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Get wedding dress to preservationist or cleaners.
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Order Thank You Cards (include a wedding photo).
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Order Personalized Stationery with your new last name.
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Put your favorite wedding photo on a beautiful Custom Canvas.