Wedding Checklist/timeline

Thank you all so much for your help! I think I will make a draft checklist for now, and will edit it as needed as I go along with the planning process. I have also set up my budget, the maximum number of people we will have at the wedding, and have reached out to our preferred venues. So far, so good!

I'm very grateful for your advice. I never imagined finding so much support during this process. This website is fantastic, as are all of you!

Don't forget, venue site visits will take much longer than normal because of the pandemic. If you're looking to use a banquet hall, many of them are still closed in Ontario. By the time you settle on a venue with your preferred date, it could be months from now and next thing you know, you're at your 10 month out mark.

As many people here have said I wouldn’t worry a lot about certain timelines. With that being said... because a lot of 2020 weddings have been moved to 2021, you want to start planning ASAP in order to secure your vendors ☺️

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Of course! Hope you enjoy the planning!

Don't stress too much about the dates that WW sets. You can also edit them if things seem too soon or too far out (like maybe you want your florist booked way before dress shopping, that's ok!).


Tackle what you feel is the big stuff first, generally it's the how much/where/who is coming that dictate other parts of planning. If you want 200 people that changes the venue you need, and when/where might influence your dress and so on, and the budget dictates all. We picked our photographer first with a few loose dates selected, then our venue, then my dress.

Like Amanda said work on your big items.


What I did was first write out a draft guest list to know my guest count. I then reached out to multiple venues. I made an excel spreadsheet for each venue, including cost for decor, transportation, etc, to determine how much a wedding would cost at each venue with a specific number of guests.
That's how I ended up determining a budget and whether or not I needed to reduce guest count. Not unless you have a set budget already.
Research photographers, DJs, and officiants and once you have your wedding date secured at the venue, you can reach out and book with those vendors.
I also use The Knot for wedding timeline

I agree with Amanda - don't worry too much as to the timeline that the WW checklist gives you!! Even when I was planning my wedding back in 2018 there were things that I'm glad I got out of the way before the checklist said to and things on there that I didn't need to do until later even though the checklist had it early on in the order. I really just used it more as a reference to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything.

View quoted message Thanks, Amanda! This is very helpful. 😊

I would start planning as soon as you can! Dates for vendors and venues will be filling up fast with couples from this season having to postpone to next year and for couples that are already planning on 2021 dates! I personally haven't gone by the dates that they had laid out. Get your big things out of the way first. Like your venue, photographer, DJ, and your Officiant. And go from there