Linda Poff Wedding Checklist
Bride
- Wedding ring for groom
- Wedding gift for groom
- Gifts for the bridal attendants
- Personal stationery
- Bridesmaids’ luncheon
- Accommodating out-of-town attendants
- Her physical examination and blood test
- Gift for parents
- Gown preservation
Bride’s Family
Entire cost of reception, including:
- Food
- Wedding cake
- Beverages
- Flowers
- Decorations
- Music
- A wedding gift for the newlyweds
- Bride’s wedding attire and trousseau
- The wedding invitations, thank-you notes, announcements and postage
- Engagement and wedding photographs
Ceremony:
- Rental of sanctuary
- Fees for organist
- Soloist/Choir
- Aisle carpets
- Canopy
- Pew bows
- Additional decoration costs
- Bridesmaids’ bouquets
- Transportation for bridal party to ceremony and reception
- Security and insurance for gifts
- Welcome party for out-of-town guests
- Wedding gift for the couple
Groom
- The bride’s ring
- Wedding gift for the bride
- The marriage license
- Gifts for best man, groomsmen and ushers
Flowers:
- Bride’s bouquet and going away corsage
- Corsages for mothers and boutonnieres for the men in the wedding party
Other:
- Accommodations for out-of-town ushers, groomsmen or best man
- His physical examination and blood test
- Gloves, ties or ascots for the men in the wedding party
- Fee for officiant
- The honeymoon
- Transportation to airport
- Gift for parents
- Groom’s Family
- Special wedding attire
- Their own traveling and hotel expenses
- Wedding gift for the newlyweds
- Rehearsal dinner
- Welcome party for out-of-town guests
- There are many other expenses they may wish to assume which are optional
- Attendants
- Wedding attire and formal wear explanations
- Travel and hotel expenses to the wedding for their convenience
- Bridal shower or Bachelor party communications