4 Items To Deal With A Month Before You're Married

Your wedding will arrive before you even know it. After months, if not years, of planning, you'll suddenly be only one month away. This month is an important time, as there are dozens of little things you need to do to make sure everything goes according to plan. Here are some of the most important to take care of first.

Perhaps the most important thing you need to do is send out your wedding invitations. You should already have planned them, designed them, printed them, and have them sitting in addressed envelopes stuffed away safely in a box somewhere in your house. Once you hit the one month mark, it's time to send them out. It might be a good idea to do this a little earlier too, so that you aim to have the invitations ARRIVE at the on month mark. Make sure that all the addresses are up to date, and that anybody who requires a little more time to get theirs (such as people who live overseas) gets theirs mailed out earlier.

Once they are sent out, you're going to be spending the rest of the month following up with people and receiving their confirmations in the mail. Throughout this last stretch, make sure you block out some time every day to handle this matter. While you're checking people off the list, it's a good idea to arrange and rearrange all your seating charts as needed as people inform you of a plus one or not, and whether they are attending or not.

During these last few weeks you're going to have the final fittings for yourself and the wedding party. People's bodies change, and a lot of people work extra hard to lose weight prior to their wedding, so earlier measurements just won't be accurate. This is also a good time to finish up any arrangements or purchases that need to be made for your party and guests. Make sure you have your wedding party favors and wedding guest favors purchased and safely stored. Make sure you've worked out any accessories that everyone will be wearing, and that you have enough for everyone involved.

Finally, there are a lot of little official things to take care of at this stage. This is the time to make sure that all the newspapers have your announcement, and if they don't then this is the time to send it out. This is the time that you want to make sure you have your wedding license, and if you don't to put in your paperwork for it in time to get it by the wedding. You'll probably start receiving your gifts, so you want to track them and start putting together your thank you notes. You need to finalize your agenda and schedules for the days before and the day of. Finally, you want to confirm everyone and every location that's involved in the affair- from the rehearsal dinner space to the location of the ceremony.

Because there can be so many things to take care of and check on, it's a good idea to make a really detailed calendar with all these dates and things to check on them. If you're working with a wedding planner, then they should take care of this and have it available for you. Make sure you have a copy, and double check it at every chance you get to ensure that no little detail gets messed up that could derail everything.