Every Wedding/Marriage event has many steps:
(not all steps being necessary)
- Proposal >
- Engagement >
- Court-Marriage (if not having public wedding) >
- Pre-wedding gathering >
- Religious Marriage >
- Public Wedding >
- Post-wedding gathering >
- Initial Home/destination arrival >
- Register Marriage legally >
- Honeymoon >
- Final Home/destination arrival >
- Receive Legal Marriage certification >
- Living together >
- Have 1st kid (9+months after marriage) >
- Gap between 1st-2nd pregnancy (6+months) >
- Have 2nd kid (9+6+9months = 2yrs after marriage) >
For some of the above-stated steps;
the following sub-steps may be applicable:
- Initial Proposal exchanged between the couple
- Decision makers decided by the couple
- Decision-makers/couple decide meeting location/method
- Discussion among decision-makers
- Pre-discussion on no. of people to be invited to the event
- Pre-discussion on Financial responsibility split for expenses
- Date range finalization
- Negotiation among decision-makers on dates
- Date finalization
- Final decision on no. of people to be invited to the event
- Final decision on financial responsibility split for expenses
- Event Location appointment/booking
- Event location decoration style decision-making & booking
- Event DJ/Music appointment/booking
- Event music genre/playlist pre-selection
- Event Food/catering booking
- Event Invitation design/print
- Pre-event grooming artist/location pre-booking
- Pre-payment for expenses
- Event Invitation digital/physical copy sharing/mail
- Jewelry & Clothes shopping location/vendor decisions
- Actual Jewelry & Clothes shopping
- Clothing & Jewelry choice final decisions for main couple
- Grooming artist/location booking for main couple
- Post-grooming final payment for grooming
- Arrival travel arrangements for main couple
- Arrival travel arrangements for guests
- Re-confirm all appointments with all businesses and people involved
- Location visit for requalification before the event starts
- Pre-event Photography
- Food/catering quality check before the event starts
- Event start time
- During-event Photography
- Location quality/upkeep check during event
- Food/catering quantity & quality check during event
- Gifts exchange during event
- Event ends
- Send away treats for guests
- Exit travel arrangements for guests
- Exit travel arrangements for main couple
- Post-event final payment for expenses
Expenses Involved for each step:
- location
- decoration
- DJ/Music
- food-catering
- invitations
- clothes
- jewelry
- grooming
- gifts exchanged
- travel