Between booking your venue and communicating with all your vendors, planning your wedding day requires a lot of preparation. Once you get to your wedding day, you’ll still have several tasks to accomplish to bring it all to life! Having a wedding day item checklist with you will help ensure you have everything you need with you and prepared, plus some! As a Washington D.C. wedding planner, here are the essentials to have on your wedding day item checklist
Ceremony
- Welcome Sign
- Card Box
- Guestbook
- Pen or Marker for Guestbook
- Reserved Seating Signs for family seats at the Ceremony
- Ceremony Items (i.e. broom, unity candle, sand) if you’re going to include any of these traditions in your ceremony
Cocktail Hour
- Seating Chart
- Optional Customized Items
- Bar Signs
- Cocktail Napkins
- Drink Stirrers
Reception
- Table Name/Number Signs
- Menu Cards or Thank You cards for each place setting
- Cake Topper
- Cake Cutting Knife Set
- Champagne Flute Set for Cake Cutting
- Favors for guests – consider combining this with your seating chart. Create a personalized favor for each guest and include their table name/number on it.
A wedding checklist will help you organize all the plans and arrangements you’ve spent so long working on during your engagement. You don’t want to be a week out from your wedding day and realize you haven’t purchased everything you need! These final to-dos are the finishing touches for celebrating your big day.
