A Guy’s Guide To Planning His Wedding
There was a time when a guy who was getting married had only three responsibilities, buy a ring, get to the church on time and make sure that he had his pants on before starting down the aisle. The truth is though that for most of us those days are long over and today men are just as much involved in the planning of the wedding, the reception and the honeymoon as the women are. In most cases she may do the majority of the work but she is likely to ask your input. While it is true that she will have the majority of the say-so as to how things go on this special day, you are a very important part of it and to her you being actively involved are part of what makes it so wonderful.
The first thing that has to be done is that the couple should sit down and decide a few things following their engagement. They should determine the amount of money they’d be willing to spend and based on that information, decide on the location and who they’d like to invite. Then they’re going to want to set a deadline to make everything easier , and lastly you just work on the minor details that pop up.
As soon as you have become engaged you will need to make several important decisions immediately. First is the date of your announcement party, the wedding day, the location of the wedding, the rehearsal dinner, the reception and if you are using one, which hotel you will be using. All of these things need to be done ASAP since these locations all fill up their calendars quickly, you will also need to start looking at caterers, and cake makers since again they are hard to get on short notice so you will want to get your name on the calendar quickly and as far ahead of time as possible.
It’s always hard to approach someone and ask them for cash, so your plan of action is to show them the estimate and ask them what part they would like to be involved with helping, or if there would be anything in particular they would like to contribute. Around fifty percent of the cost will be the reception, which accounts for booze, dinner, decorations, centerpieces, location rental, and things like cake and gifts.. You can expect a photographer and cameraman to set you back around a couple grand, while the ceremony will be around two grand. You’ll then have to deal with other costs like rings, invitations, gifts, and flowers. Don’t skimp on the big things, and if you need to, cut costs on the miscellaneous items.
You don’t want to have to deal with this longer than you have to, so six to nine months of planning is optimal. Any longer would just allow for more mistakes to happen as time goes on. The benefit of having the date set in stone will give you a general idea of the timeline and help you decide when you’ll need to send out invitations and hold rehearsals. You’re going to have to lock down the reception site as well as the location of the wedding at this point.
Once you get most of these big things out of the way, everything else is going to be downhill. I wish you the best of luck, and hope it doesn’t prove to be much of a headache.
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