What did you do 1st when planning?

Budget should be the very first thing.

Budget, rough guest list, and venue should be first!

Booked our ceremony & reception venue!!!

Budget then venue

Budget and guest list. Those are the two key factors that will determine everything else for your wedding.

Definitely research and come up with a budget! And try to stick to it. We did our venue after that. It helped us cap the guest list without feeling guilty and also helped pick colors we liked that compliment the space.

We also got engaged in September... DW... so we first narrowed it down to a location...budget, then resort/venue.. guestlist.. bridal party or not..agent travel.. I had to comfirm my date in order to start anything else.. my wedding coordinator has now sent me stuff to choose and so the planning has started!!!

Budget how much your willing to spend, what day you guys wanna get married to look at venues and stuff you need to know the day, rough guest list is good so you can look at venues big enough for your guest list.

I planned my budget and I picked out my venue. Then, I’m going to take from there.

I didn’t have to do much since I really wanted to elope. My future spouse refused so we compromised on an intimate wedding with 10-15 guests. I recommend that the first thing you do is set a budget, then book the venue.

The first thing we did was pick a date! Then we made a rough guest list and budget. I changed colors a couple of time, but solidified my decision once we had a venue. My first purchase was my veil and dress

A very rough budget - basically what figure weren’t we willing to go over.
Then rough guest list and looked at prices for what we wanted to do to see what was reasonable

We did our budget, determined a max # of guests, and then selected a venue and other vendors

Guest list, budget. Colors, picked a date, and venue

Budget, venue and date and then you can plan other stuff You'll need to have a general idea of #s too so your venue accommodates that.

In the 1st month: Budget, pick a date, and figure out the guest list. 2nd month: We've also taken engagement pics, I've played with website options, and looked into a few registry items. Now we're narrowing down the venue search.

We did our guest list before we got engaged. First thing we did after getting engaged was book the venue.

Cost research (my FH and really did have a good understand of what things costed for where and what we wanted), budget, general date (season/year), guest list and venue !

How many is the max we want at the wedding was first.

Then budget

Then venue because it's free in our case. There are a lot of great free venues if you look for them.

Then rebalance budget.

Then dress

Then rebalance the budget again.

Then florist

And the balancing act of the budget continues.

There is a lot of budgeting in the wedding planning process or a lot of debt. Quite frankly, I am not well versed in the cost of begonias. My florist is and we talked and came up with a reasonable non laughable budget.

The first thing to do depending on the time of year you plan on getting married is to go venue shopping. Venues book up quickly and are extremely expensive, so once your tentative guest list looks good then you really need to start venue shopping. Also asking friends and family to be apart of your wedding day ideas, like other vendors for the wedding day and set-up/clean-up.