How do I Create a WOW factor for My Wedding?

I guess the best place to start is to figure out what a WOW factor is! When was the last time you experienced something and said WOW. That’s a WOW factor, and chances are it was something UNEXPECTED or something OUTSTANDING.

Every WOW factor is either UNEXPECTED or OUTSTANDING in some way. But when you put UNEXPECTED and OUTSTANDING together, that really creates an extreme WOW factor.

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Wedding Planning Timeline – Overview

Simplified Wedding Planning Schedule

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10 months before wedding
□  Pick wedding theme/style
□  Plan budget
□  Make tentative guest list
□  Set wedding date & time
□  Book ceremony & reception location
□  Select members of wedding party

9 months before wedding
□  Pick wedding colours
□  Book DJ/Band & ceremony musicians
□  Book wedding day transportation
□  Book photographer and videographer
□  Book florist
□  Meet with ceremony officiant

8 months before wedding
□  Select bridal gown
□  Select bridesmaids’ dresses

7 months before wedding
□  Save-the-date cards need to go out to out-of-town guests
□  Any guests coming from countries where Visas are required will need an invitation

6 months before wedding
□  Register gift choices
□  Finalize guest list
□  Order wedding invitations
□  Plan hotel and transportation for out-of-town guests
□  Order wedding cake

5 months before wedding
□  Wedding-night hotel suite for bride and groom
□  Plan honeymoon
□  Select and order wedding favours

4 months before wedding
□  Order groom’s attire
□  Select groomsmen’s attire
□  Send out-of-town guests invitations
□  Select wedding bands

3 months before wedding
□  Send out invitations to in-town guests
□  Finalize and book menu for rehearsal dinner
□  Finalize menu for reception

2 months before wedding
□  Purchase gifts for wedding party & parents
□  Plan reception seating
□  Plan itinerary for out-of-town guests
□  Finalize arrangements with DJ/Band, Ceremony Musicians, Florist, Cake Baker, Photographer and Videographer
□  Confirm times with ceremony and reception sites

3 wks before wedding
□  Call guests who have not responded
□  Get marriage license
□  Get name-change forms (if needed)
□  Confirm all hotel accommodations

1-2 wks before wedding
□  Have rehearsal & dinner
□  Have bridesmaid’s lunch
□  Have groomsmen’s’ day out
□  Confirm wedding day transportation
□  Confirm guest count with caterer
□  Confirm time and location with Officiant, Florist, Cake baker, Photographer, DJ/Band, and Videographer

20 Free Wedding Planning Video Series

Wedding Planning Made Easy

Today’s bride has access to hundreds of wedding websites with lots of different information but the challenge is to find what you are looking for—or to even know what you are looking for.  With an average wedding taking 250 hours to plan, today’s bride has the challenge to find the time to research all her wedding planning options.

At TheBridalCoach, we have gathered all the information in one place to make it easier for the modern bride to streamline the wedding planning process.  Through the use of short videos, task lists, and check lists, we have everything in one place to make it easy.  Specific questions about your wedding plans can be aired daily in our members only forum, or at our weekly coaching call with one of our certified wedding planners.

Planning a wedding is not a hard thing to do, but it does take lots of time to get all the details just right.  We start with defining the wedding vision which is often where a bride and groom get stuck—whose vision will you follow?  Through our Wedding Vision Action List, both the bride and groom are guided through their many choices, and shown how to decide on a shared vision.  Sharing the vision is the first of many unified steps you will make as a couple as you plan your wedding together.  Our unique Action Plans help the couple work together to achieve their wedding dreams.

The Bridal Coach membership site has short instructional videos which outline your many options at each step of the wedding planning process.  This is followed by action lists, and checklists that cut through all the information to just get the job done.  Our cost-cutting video series informs the couple with less expensive options at each step of the wedding planning process.  Whether you are looking for the correct wording for an engagement announcement or a wedding invitation, or whether you want a solution to the high cost of a sit-down dinner reception, we have all your options in one place.

Our team of wedding planners are all certified with the Wedding Planners Institute of Canada.  They are available in our members only forum to answer your questions, on our weekly coaching call, and for personal coaching if you choose that option.

Our goal is to make the wedding planning process fun, quick and easy—and our community of brides and wedding planners makes planning your wedding that much easier.  See you inside!

What will The Bridal Coach do for you?

This is what The Bridal Coach will do for you:

• Help you define the vision of your perfect wedding, and help you realize that vision
• Provide you with educational, fun, and entertaining videos which makes your wedding planning choices easy
• Easy SmartBride™ Action Plans which fit your specific needs and desires
• One-on-one coaching with your personal wedding consultant
• Live ‘coaching hour’ where you can ask your wedding planning questions
• Members forum where you can share with other brides and get your questions answered by a certified wedding planner
• Make you happy, proud and confident that you have realized your perfect wedding day.