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How to Use This Wedding Planning Checklist
This checklist is built around an 18-month engagement. Click any task to mark it done — it ticks immediately and your progress bar updates. Filter by planning stage to focus on what is relevant right now. Collapse sections you have already completed.
Tasks marked Urgent are bookings that genuinely close — venues, photographers, and bands in popular windows fill up 12 to 18 months in advance. Tasks marked Legal have statutory deadlines you cannot miss, such as giving notice to the registrar.
When you sign up to Wedvisa, the checklist lives inside the planner with the rest of the wedding.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our free Wedding Planning Checklist.
The free Wedvisa Wedding Planning Checklist takes you from the early stages of planning through to the wedding and the tasks after it. It contains dozens of practical actions organised by planning stage, including budgeting, choosing a venue, booking suppliers, invitations, guest management, legal tasks, final confirmations and after-wedding administration.
You can tick tasks off and see overall progress as you go.
Ideally, start as soon as serious wedding planning begins. The Wedvisa checklist is structured from approximately 18 months before the wedding through to the week of the wedding and afterwards.
If the engagement is shorter, you do not need to complete every earlier stage in sequence. Use the time filters to focus on what is relevant now and prioritise urgent bookings first.
The first major bookings normally include the venue and other suppliers whose availability can determine the date, such as photographers, videographers, caterers or entertainment. A realistic budget and an approximate guest count also belong early, because they influence many later decisions.
The Wedvisa checklist labels particularly time-sensitive tasks so important bookings are easier to spot.
Yes. Although the checklist shows a long planning journey, a wedding that is six, nine or twelve months away can focus on tasks that should already have been handled and the tasks coming next.
For a date-specific view, the Wedvisa Wedding Planning Timeline calculates milestones from the wedding date.
These labels help you understand why a task matters. Urgent highlights items that may become difficult if delayed, Legal identifies tasks involving formal or statutory requirements, and Supplier highlights tasks connected with booking or managing wedding suppliers.
The labels make a long checklist easier to scan, so not every item looks equally time-sensitive.
Yes. The checklist includes UK-relevant planning items such as registering an intention to marry or dealing with registrar-related arrangements where applicable. Legal requirements can differ by location, ceremony type and personal circumstances, so confirm the current requirements with the relevant authority.
The checklist is a reminder that these tasks exist. It does not replace official legal guidance.
The public checklist can be explored so you can see how it works. To keep your own checklist in the planner, sign up to Wedvisa.
The Wedding Planning Checklist organises the work into stages such as 18 months, 12 months, six months and the week of the wedding. The Wedding Planning Timeline takes the wedding date and calculates specific deadlines and booking dates.
They answer related but different questions: the checklist tells you what needs doing, while the timeline helps tell you when it needs doing.
Signing in puts the checklist in the wider Wedvisa planner, so related planning lives in one workspace rather than on a separate list.
The full planner keeps the wedding in one workspace, so people are not each working from a separate copy of the plan.
If you are using only the public checklist, signing up is the next step when you want the plan to stay and to be shared.
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