Wedding planning checklist

A wedding planning checklist only earns its keep if it matches your actual timeline, not a generic one. This free wedding checklist breaks the whole engagement down into month-by-month stages, from the moment you get engaged to the weeks after your honeymoon, so you always know what matters right now and what can wait.

Enter your wedding date below and the tool works out where you sit on the timeline and highlights that stage for you. Tick things off as you go - your progress is saved on this device, so you can come back to the same wedding to-do list whenever you need it. Each stage lists the tasks that genuinely need doing then, from booking your venue a year out to confirming timings with suppliers the week before.

One task is worth flagging early: in England and Wales, you must give notice at your register office at least 29 days before the wedding, though you can do this up to twelve months ahead. It has a hard legal deadline, unlike almost everything else on this list, so we have marked it clearly in the timeline below.