Hello, I’m Already behind

You can do it! A wedding doesn't have to have all these little details as you think, so if you have a venue and food and entertainment that's already a nice wedding.

No stress, and congrats!!!

Take care of all of your big details first! Finalize venue, catering and DJ. Details can wait until after you have the bigger things figured out. Dress shopping should also happen pretty soon, if you plan to order one you may already be too late for some of the production times. Look at all options but I'd do it soon!

Decor, invites, and other things can wait until closer to time!

So, I feel like a lot of the stuff on the planner is optional and can be struck off immediately. I used The Knot instead of Wedding Wire, but I imagine they are pretty similar. Like, it has "start venue search," "narrow venue search," and "schedule venue tours" all as three separate items, so it looks like there is more stuff than there is. Plus, you already have the venue and date so you've successfully completed steps 1-20 lol. Share your engagement with your families, figure out a total budget, come up with a guest list, and then go from there. I would also start looking for a dress pretty soon since some of them may take 4-6 months to come in. You can cross save the dates off your list since you're working with a short timeline as well. Just enjoy this time and try not to stress too much. As you look at these lists, you will see that you can probably cross off a ton of things right off the bat as done or just unnecessary.

You can do it! Pick what is important to you and don't pour over the details of things that are not important.

I planned my wedding in less than 6 months....you are goood!!

Just stay focused and don't stress over the little things.

You got this!

I think your story is so funny because that's exactly what my FH did (except he did it at 6am when I rolled over in bed, half asleep, with droll coming out of my mouth) Congrats on your engagement though! I think 6 months is enough time to plan a wedding, as I gave myself 12 months and after 4 months, I had already pretty much completed all of my tasks.

You can still pull it off. Mine was essentially planned in 6 months. Just be very systematic on what gets done. Start with anything that should have been done "yesterday." Most of my vendors were booked in 2 months by taking that approach.

Just be careful around holiday times. People tend to get busier and more difficult to plan things around.

You definitely don't need more than six months to put together a wedding. The biggest reason people take longer than six months is because wedding venues often book early--but you've already gotten that taken care of. We booked our venues and officiant a year out, but then didn't do much else until about four months out.

It can be done. My wedding is October 19th, and we just got the venue last week, just got my dress this week. We've decided on food, just talked to the minister we want, and i've started picking up stuff for decorations. It can be done, but it is a bit stressful!

Thank you everyone for your welcome and kind words. I’m making steps slowly but surely. It’s a little overwhelming but I’ll get it done! 😁