6 months to plan a whole wedding!!

If you can find an all inclusive venue that would be helpful to save you time

Start with a budget and guest list. Know your current state’s restrictions regarding COVID and plan conservatively. I’d probably aim for something small; thinking immediate family. Not only will that help with costs, but it’ll also help in case restrictions are tightened again. Once you have a plan for what you want the day to look like, then find your vendors/venue to help make it as you envision. It definitely can be done in 6 months, you’ll just need to start moving.

I got engaged in January with my wedding in September and managed to get literally almost everything done before covid closed everything in late March. And then we had to change venues about a month ago along with a bunch of other stuff, so trust me IT CAN BE DONE.
Definitely assess how much money you guys now have to work with (whether you're paying for it or not) because a shortened timeline can change things. Get the venue ASAP, no matter what kind of venue they're gonna fill up cause of covid. So long as your wedding isn't on Valentine's day, February shouldn't be as full so that's good.
Venue is the bulk of stress honestly, but if the venue doesn't have in house catering take care of that next. The only other really big time stress is the dress and it doesn't have to be. I went to a privately owned boutique and ended up buying a discontinued sample so I walked out with it. That saved me MONTHS of waiting. Realistically I might not even have my dress yet had I needed to order it cause of covid. After the couple really important and time sensitive things are taken care of just prioritize based on what's important to you and your fiancé. Care more about getting a great photographer over flowers? Cool, get the photographer booked and put flowers on the back burner. You can always go to a craft store and buy some nice fake flowers a couple days beforehand. If you're feeling stressed and can afford it, find a planner to help you. Hope this helps.

We planned ours in about 4 months--we still have two to go but we're mostly planned; just need to continue to stock up on funds! What helped me was really buckling down and creating a list. I started with my dress, a photographer, and reception. Once I had those, I worked on notifying our Pastor to make sure we could get married on our date, notifying wedding party, finding cake options, and working on decor. If you can break it down into manageable chunks, it's SOOO much easier and less overwhelming.


I'd say keep your date options flexible; have 3 or 4 available ones just in case you can't find a photographer and venue that are available on the same date! I utilized the WeddingWire search to find about 10 photographers that I could contact and look at their pictures to find someone that had a style I liked!
Make a budget with your partner to make sure you guys are on the same page and definitely delegate some tasks to them as well; it's their day, too!! Deep breaths! You can do this! Good luck!

Definitely start with the venue ASAP because all the 2020 cancellations are taking up dates for 2021 , and then send save the dates to let family & friends know , best of luck ! & congratulations!

We planned ours in less than 8 months, it can be done.

First and foremost: guest list, budget. Use the WW/Knot to do list, very helpful. Prioritize. Figure out what you NEED, and go from there. Simple is your friend. Be decisive. Give yourself a deadline to choose each vendor, and stick to it.

The best part is that a lot of vendors are happy to fill in dates that haven't sold, yet.

We were engaged a total of 6 months and 1 day - granted it was pre-COVID. However, budget, venue, guest list need to come first. We kept things relatively simple (which is what we wanted). Set your priorities - photos were more important to us than a dance party, so we splurged on photography and did a playlist instead of having a DJ. Make sure that you tell your consultant that your turn around is short when you go for your attire.

Use a checklist, have a notebook that has all wedding notes in it, stay organized. This is completely doable.

Hop to it! Guest list and Budget are you going to a deciding factor so figure those out. Also go dress shopping ASAP! Dresses can take 6 months or more to come in if ordered.

Make a list of must haves (prioritize) and prioritize what’s most important to least important.

Plan a budget and don't go into debt on planning a wedding. You have plenty of time, the most time consuming part is going to be finding / ordering / receiving and altering your dress. You got this, 6 months is plenty of time.

I planned my wedding in 6 months, so it can definitely be done! And with coronavirus, it's going to make things tough... I would stay small and simple, too much going on could very well lead to more complications you don't need during rushed planning while in the midst of a pandemic. As others stated, guest list and budget is a good place to start.

Relax. Breathe. Plan. Tackle the big things first, guest list, venue, caterer, baker, photographer, DJ, attire, accessories, decorations. If you have reliable support, divide and conquer. Have them help by calling vendors for pricing, set appointments and go from there.

I would start with a budget and go from there, PP mentioned an all inclusive venue and that's a great time saver. Speak with your FH and see what is important for him to happen and what is important for you to happen in regards to dancing/bouquet toss and so on.