Your Colorado Wedding Planning Schedule: 6 Months Out to the Big Day
With only six months left before your wedding day, you may feel like your to-do list is growing bigger every time you look at it. There are a lot of details involved with planning and bringing your Colorado wedding to life. Building your wedding planning schedule can help your tasks feel more manageable and ensure that you check everything off your list before your big day. Here are a few of the tasks you should make sure you’re keeping track of in the six months before your wedding day.
Image of L&B near Camp Hale, by Doug Treiber Photography.
(If you are just getting started with wedding planning or have more than six months until your celebration, check out the first half of this series, Your Colorado Wedding Planning Schedule: 12-6 Months Out)
6 Months until Your Colorado Wedding
Create Your Registry
Your wedding registry can be an opportunity to plan for the next phase in your life as a couple, whether it’s buying a house or going on a backpacking trip! Choose items for your registry at a variety of prices and focus on things you and your partner will use in your life together.
Book Your Vendors
Depending on the scale of your wedding, you may have a number of vendors to book. Organization is key, here. Keep a spreadsheet of vendors you’re considering and those you’ve hired for your big day. Keep track of payments made along with questions and confirmations from each vendor. From caterers to an officiant to a florist, there are a lot of people to keep track of when planning a wedding, and starting a comprehensive spreadsheet early will help you ensure that everyone is accounted for on your wedding day. If you’re working with a wedding planner, they may have recommendations or relationships with vendors and can help lighten your wedding planning organizational load.
Start Planning Your Honeymoon
Particularly if you’ll be traveling for your honeymoon, start planning earlier rather than later. You and your partner can have fun figuring out where you want to go, what sights you want to see, experiences you both want to have, and then start booking!
3 Months until Your Colorado Wedding
The last three months before your wedding are a busy time. There are a lot of final details to work out! Here are a few of the big ones to keep in mind with only three months to go, but there are a number of other little details you may need to consider depending on your wedding size, location, and style.
Order & Send Out Invitations
Now that you have so many details worked out, you can order your invitations. An easy way to limit the seemingly endless options for invitations is to keep your invites aligned with your wedding theme or colors. Order more than you think you’ll need, just in case, and double-check your spelling on names and addresses before you send. Typically, wedding invites go out 6-8 weeks before your wedding date. Don’t forget to track who has RSVPed as responses come back.
Invitations: Platypus Papers @platypuspapers
Photographer: Allie Al-Mabuk, Simply Love Photography @simplyloveco
Florist: Lindsay Emmerich, Fairytale Floral @fairytalefloral
Find a Stylist & Schedule Hair and Makeup Trials
If you’re having your hair and makeup professionally done for your wedding, start looking for stylists who do weddings in your area (or in the area where your wedding will be held). Once you find a stylist you like, schedule your hair and makeup trials and determine when you’ll need your stylist to arrive on your wedding day.
Hair: Alisha Basore with @yourfairyhairmother
Make up: Taryn Gasaprini and Natalie Olson
Photographer: Laura DeBruin LD Photography @ld_photography_gallery
Determine Your Seating Chart
As you get RSVPs back from guests who will be attending your wedding, you’ll need to figure out where to seat everyone for your ceremony and reception. Depending on your seating and the number of guests attending your wedding, you can have open seating throughout your ceremony and reception, or can opt to create a set seating chart. Particularly for your reception when food will be served, having a designated seating chart can be helpful for vendors and your wedding coordinator.
Seating Chart: Designs by Sarah Meyer
Photographer: Jo Julia Photography
Finalize Your Details With Vendors
With about a month to go before your wedding day, get in touch with all of your vendors to ensure that they have final details on things like guest list, finalized seating charts, theme details, and a timeline for the wedding ceremony and reception.
Enjoy Your Big Day!
All of your planning is for a purpose — a beautiful, meaningful wedding celebration that you and your soon-to-be-spouse will remember for the rest of your lives. As your plans become a reality, don’t forget to take the time to enjoy all your hard work! And if you’re looking for some help managing the long to-do list of planning a wedding, get in touch. I’m a pro at helping couples plan the Colorado wedding of their dreams.
Colorado Wedding Vendors featured in this post:
Simply Love Photography @simplyloveco
Fairytale Floral @fairytalefloral
Laura DeBruin LD Photography @ld_photography_gallery