Your wedding planning checklist is essential to keeping your wedding day details organized. From wedding invitations to choosing your bridesmaid dresses and grooms attire and tuxedo rentals and all the details in between. Relax and make sure to have your wedding planning checklist close.

Let us begin. These critical details for brides and grooms to plan:

One Year to Wedding: Determine Your Budget and pad this amount by 5-7%. Prioritize your must haves from your desires. Write it down. Discuss with groom to be and your parents and get idea of how much each will help. Think about your location, theme and amount of wedding guests. Discuss how many bridesmaid and groomsmen you want. Decide if you want to hire a wedding planner or consultant. Choose your date - the larger the wedding and more popular the reception locale the more time you need to book your reception.

Nine-Ten Months: It’s time to pick out your wedding dress. Choose the photographer, band or dj, florist and whether you’d like it catered or buffet style. Contact your clergy or Rabbi or Justice of the Peace who will officiate at your wedding ceremony.

Six-Eight Months: Shop for bridesmaid attire and mother of the bride attire. Decide on the music you want played. Contact your travel agent and reserve your honeymoon. Get your passport and whatever documents you will need for your trip. Save the date cards should be sent to out of town guests.

Four-Five Months: Purchase your wedding invitations. Shop for the grooms attire and choose if you will rent tuxedos. Shop for the groomsmen and ushers attire. Pick out your wedding rings. Select the bakery for your wedding cake and reserve.

Three Months: Enlist the help of your friends and family with planning the rehearsal dinner arrangements. Make sure wedding invitations are accurate in every detail.

Two Months: Get your wedding invitations in the mail. Purchase wedding party gifts. Book yourself a salon day and choose your hair style and make up for your wedding day.

One Month Out: Call up all vendors to finalize contracts. Obtain your marriage license. Determine seating charts for wedding reception.

Two-Three Days prior: Treat yourself to a full day at the spa. Pack for your honeymoon.

One Day:Go to a favorite restaurant with friends and family. You are ready to have your perfect wedding.