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| Grooms Check List 6-9 Months Select your best man. Decide how many ushers you need (1 for every 50 guests), and select them. Start making out your guest list. Arrange visit with minister to discuss ceremony. Discuss wedding expenses with fiancée and all parents. Discuss honeymoon plans. If traveling abroad, make legal arrangements (passport, visas, inoculations, etc). Visit wedding gift registry with fiancée. 3-5 Months Complete guest list, give it to fiancée. Consult with fiancée and order wedding attire for self, for best man, ushers and fathers. Arrange transportation (limousines, etc.) for wedding party to ceremony and reception. Complete honeymoon plans: buy tickets. Order wedding rings and engraving. Arrange to pay for bride’s bouquet and going-away corsage; order boutonnieres for men, corsages for mothers. See your doctor for exams, blood test. 8-10 Weeks Plan rehearsal dinner with your parents. Consult with fiancée and arrange lodging for relatives and ushers from out of town. Select gifts for best man and ushers, to be given at the bachelor dinner or wedding rehearsal. Choose bride’s wedding present. Something personal, such as a watch or other piece of fine jewelry, is traditional. Make sure necessary documents – legal, insurance, financial, medical, andreligious – are in order. Give or attend bachelor party. Pick up wedding rings, check engraving. Help fiancée with thank-you notes. 3 Weeks Make a date with your fiancée to get the marriage license. Arrange with the best man for transportation from the reception to the airport or train. Double check honeymoon reservations and hotel for wedding night. 2 Weeks Explain any special seating arrangements to head usher. Put the clergy member’s or judge’s fee in a sealed envelope and give it to the best man, to be delivered after the ceremony. Purchase traveler’s checks. Get your going-away clothes ready so you can change after the reception. Pack for your honeymoon. Arrange to move belongings to new home. Remind best man and ushers of the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner details. Present gifts to attendants at rehearsal dinner. Arrange for rental returns. Be sure you and your bride sign the wedding certificate and see that it is safely put away before leaving on your honeymoon. Have best man send a thank-you telegram to your bride’s parents the next day saying how lovely both the wedding and reception were. |