What if our wedding is less than 12 months away?

Enter your real date — every task still gets a real deadline, and the ones already in the past group together as your catch-up list, in priority order. Plenty of great weddings are planned in six months; the compressed timeline just means booking the big three (venue, photographer, caterer) in quick succession.

What should we book first?

The venue — everything else keys off it. The date is not real until the venue is booked, save-the-dates cannot go out, and most other vendors need to know the location before quoting. That is why venue research is a month-12 task here and booking is month 10, ahead of every other vendor.

Is there a version for elopements?

Yes — switch to the elopement timeline and the list compresses to the tasks that actually matter for a small ceremony: location, marriage license requirements (check them early, they vary wildly by place), officiant, photographer, outfits, and vows. It starts six months out instead of twelve.

Can I print the checklist?

Yes — the print button gives you a clean month-by-month list with checkboxes and your real deadlines, ready for the fridge or the planning binder. And if paper is not your system, a free WedGenie account gets you a live version the Genie checks off with you as you book.

Wedding Checklist Generator

Enter your wedding date and get a month-by-month planning checklist with real deadlines — printable, free, with an elopement version too.

Free — no sign-upReal calendar deadlinesPrintable

Enter your wedding date and get the full planning timeline with real calendar deadlines — from setting the budget twelve months out to packing the emergency kit the week of. Traditional and elopement versions, printable, free, no account required.

Your wedding date

Timeline

Pick your date — every task gets a real calendar deadline.

How it works

Enter your wedding date

Or your target month if the exact date is still moving — you can regenerate any time.

Pick your timeline

The full traditional wedding arc, or the compressed elopement version for small ceremonies.

Get real deadlines

Every task lands on an actual month. Anything already past groups into a prioritized catch-up list.

Print it — or make it live

Print the fridge copy, or let the Genie keep the live version: checked off as you book, with nudges when something is due.

About the wedding checklist generator

Generic wedding checklists tell you to book a venue "10 months before". This one does the arithmetic: enter your actual wedding date and every task gets a real calendar deadline — book the venue by March, send save-the-dates by June, final fitting in the week of. The timeline covers the full arc of a traditional wedding from twelve months out (budget, guest count, venue research) through the week of (final payments, rehearsal, the emergency kit), in the order dependencies actually run — you cannot send save-the-dates before you have a date and venue, so the venue comes first. Planning something smaller? The elopement version compresses to the handful of tasks that genuinely matter, starting six months out. Print it, stick it on the fridge, and when you want the checklist to manage itself — checking off tasks as you book vendors, nudging you about what is due — the Genie keeps a live version on your Wedding Board.

✓Real dates, not "10 months before"
✓The full arc — 12 months to the week of
✓Ordered by real dependencies
✓Printable and free, no strings

Made for

Just-engaged couples starting from zeroShort-timeline weddings needing a catch-up planElopements and micro-weddingsKeeping two families synchronized on what is doneDelegating tasks to the wedding partyThe fridge-door master plan

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Task one on the checklist is the budget — split it here.

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A live checklist that updates itself as you plan.

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