Planning A Simple But Elegant Wedding - Where Do You Start?

When you're planning a simple but elegant wedding, good organization is critical. It takes time to set your budget, list your requirements and locate the various services and help you will need.

The first thing that needs to be considered when planning the ultimate wedding is how much time you will give yourself to plan. In essence, this means deciding what day you will set as the date of the wedding.

This may sound like simplicity itself, but it really is important because it will give you a time limit for making preparations.

Some weddings can take up to 3-4 months to prepare and plan. This is pretty typical, but your timescale will depend on how big your wedding will be and the complexity of your arrangements.

If you are not giving yourself more than a month, then planning is naturally different and you will need to select the planning strategies that best apply to your case.

One of the most important factors in planning a wedding is determining how you will delegate specific tasks. For example, if elegance in flower arranging is not your forte, who will you assign to do it for you?

It is always best to try to give various duties to others so that you will not be overwhelmed by them yourself. Let's take a look at some of the various duties that you might want someone else to handle:

• Catering: Who do you believe would be the best person to handle all of the arrangements for the food and drink at your wedding?
• Invitations and seating arrangements: this person will be addressing and mailing out invitations and making sure that people are seated in a way to ensure everyone's comfort and enjoyment
• Decorations for the wedding and reception, including centerpieces
• Rehearsals
• Music, DJ arrangements
• Bridesmaids' and groomsmen's gifts and favors
• Gowns and tuxedos
• Bridal showers / bachelor parties

All the above are usually considered essential parts of an elegant wedding - unless of course, you opt not to have bridesmaids or groomsmen. And remember that they can all be very difficult to try to manage on your own.

That is why it's a good idea to get in touch with people who are capable of taking over some of the menial jobs for you. They may seem simple tasks at first, but they can quickly add up to quite a bit of time (and money!) when they are combined.

After you have delegated some of the responsibilities, you need to set a specific time period to have all of the tasks completed. Creating a to-do list and time sheet is a great way to achieve this. That way, when all of the tasks are finished you can easily check them off.

You should set up specific times and days to discuss planning progress as well, just in case things are not going so well. In doing this you will be able to help make sure that everything is going ahead according to plan and schedule.

Read the next article in this series on wedding planning: Planning A Theme For A Wedding Reception .

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