What was the very first thing that you booked for your wedding?

[Deleted User] · January 2010

After setting the date, we booked the church, and then the reception. After I had the date and church, I spent a month of Saturday's looking at reception sites, all the ins/outs, prices, etc before we booked one. My fiance and I lived apart at the time, so I had to tell him everything over the phone for the ones that didn't have a web site or didn't have a great site that he could see the place. Next came the photograhpher, though. That was really important to me, too.

squinger · January 2010

I booked the Ceremony and Reception sit (which is at the same place) first. That way we knew we had a set location for when working with our other vendors. I did speak with the DJ to inquire about his availabity for the date, before we had booked the ceremony and reception location. The dj that I wanted only does certain events and books up fast, so I wanted to make sure that I would be able to get him.

CoriG1980 · January 2010

Our is in this order:

Venue (ceremony & reception at the same place)
Caterer
Photographer

next I'll probably do the Florist but it's not way high on my priority list

kindge_03 · January 2010

BOOK YOUR CEREMONY SITE FIRST!!!! If you don't have a place to get married, you won't have any reason to party at a reception later, or a photographer to take pictures of you, or, or, or... Just because you have a certain date in mind doesn't mean that your ceremony site will have an opening spot just because you want it to be. Then go with reception site, that way you can tell any other vendor your exact plans - date, ceremony site, reception site. Everything else can fall into place after that.

Happy planning!

MeaghanandMichael · January 2010

Welp, since we got decided to get married because we were having dinner at our venue and musing over it as the perfect place for a wedding, yeah I would say our venue was first. We booked it that night

Ring came later...

kmvalentine · January 2010

1. Reception site (included caterer)
2. Ceremony site
3. Photographer
4. DJ
5. Honeymoon
6. Ordered bridal gown
7. Rental items
8. Rehearsal dinner site
9. Rehearsal time with church
10. Ordered bridesmaids' dresses
11. Bridal prep--hair/makeup for engagement photos, rehearsal for wedding hair/makeup, day of makeup/hair/nails for birde and bridal party
12. Selected tuxes for groom, groomsemen, ring bearer, ushers, and fathers
13. Ceremony musicians
14. Cake

pawsha · January 2010

Photographer. Glad we did because her prices have have gone way up, would not be in my budget now...but I am sure this not not typical!

FutureMrsL.R.Allen · January 2010

I booked the reception/ceremony site (they are at the same place) first. You need to be locked into a date before you can really move forward with the rest of your planning. What if you think your date is going to be November 1 and you book vendors for that date, and then it turns out that the only day your dream venue is availalbe is the next weekend?

Jdomanus_9200429 · January 2010

1. Location Reception & Ceremony

2. Photographer

3. Caterer

4. Hotel Block

5. DJ

6. Rentals

-Tableware

-Shuttles

7. Officiant

8. Cake

harvs0206 · January 2010

Booked the venue first, now we're looking at photograhers

MeganBurchfield · January 2010

I called the church first to determine the date but didn't book it first because we had to go through the precana and everything. The first thing I formally booked was the reception site.

Lindze75 · January 2010

Ceremony site first since it's a historic mission and books up 18-24 months in advance...but then we changed the date. They were able to move our deposit to the first date. I think I had the invitations already by that point and the reception was booked shortly thereafter.

Future Mrs. Lindstrom · January 2010

My DJ, videographer and bag pipe player. They are all friends so it was a no brainer!

Followed by the ceremony/reception location in a very close second place.

catarntina · January 2010

I called the priest to make sure the church had the date available; however, they said I can't reserve the church until 6 months out. They did, however, tell me that I could have the wedding that day no problem -- so long as I remember to call them 6 months in advance and set up my appointment with the priest. After speaking with the church (literally, just a few hours after), I booked the reception site/caterer. My reception site and caterer go hand-in-hand, that's why they were booked together. I booked the photographer two weeks after booking the reception site.

tnywndy · January 2010

We booked the church...and ironically, we got our THIRD choice, despite the 11 month advance booking. I say book the big things first. The reception/church will be the most important anyway....the rest can fall into place!

amanda.richards3 · January 2010

Venue. It's important to make sure you know what style lighting you're working with at the venue so you can use that to help pick a photographer. That and most photographers will want to know an exact date and won't wait on you to figure it out. They can't always hold several dates for you.
Good luck with planning!

lawraji · January 2010

First thing we booked was our venue.. The our photographer!!!

kcmedstudent · January 2010

We booked the photographer first. She has a very different stuff, and we loved her work. I'm in medical school and Feb 20th is the start of my spring break. That was really the only day we could get married if we wanted to take a honeymoon right after. Only 1 month to go

splint00 · January 2010

We booked the Cathedral first, since for us, that was the most important. The reception we booked the next day. Once those were out of the way, the rest was fairly easy.

jnic0319 · January 2010

Venue first!!!

PDXMartha · January 2010

We booked the ceremony site first! Without a ceremony, nothing else can even occur. After all, it is the most important event of the day.

princess10_08 · January 2010

We booked the photographer first, before we were even engaged! She was the very best photographer we had ever seen. After inquiring about some couple photos, we found that she was booking 2 years in advance already. We didn't want to miss out on her amazing services. The venue came a few months later. Then, the engagement. LOL
We think it was one of the biggest decisions are are happy with our choice!

chandranewton · January 2010

The dress! Almost everything else has been loosely based on playing with the theme and textures of the dress. Sigh...can't wait to wear it!

meekeemouse · January 2010

We booked the venue first/ceremony location then the photographer and videographer

Ckirwin · January 2010

i think technically we booked florist first, but she's a close friend of mine so she was going to be available for whatever date we picked! then it was church, reception site, caterer, then photographer. i didn't know that you could tentatively book a photog so we wanted to make sure we had the date set in stone before we started calling other vendors. we're on to DJs next, wish us luck!!

rachNkev · January 2010

Reception, then photographer

Scrappindani253 · January 2010

We booked the ceremony site first. I wish we would have looked around more though. We booked the very first site we viewed! But, we do love it and are very excited to marry there!

SheImp · January 2010

Picked the date, picked the reception hall. We had lots of time we picked a date over two years away at that time.

Then my dress (not expected) everything else has fallen into place nicely (so far) 236 days left until the day.

Good Luck to everyone!

taylorcsonka · January 2010

We booked the reception/ceremony site first. Once we knew we had the place we wanted and the for sure date then we started to book everything else.

hwhit26 · January 2010

I booked the ceremony and then the reception first - these two things drive your date if you have two places that you really care about. It also drives the formality and timing of your wedding. If you book a garden at 2pm, it is very different from a church & country club at 7pm. I found this drove everything -- flowers, colors, dress selection, etc. Photographers do need to be booked early but getting a date and two locations you are happy with is the first preference.

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