thanks dolly for your advise

Get a notebook and pen.
Determine your budget.
Start attending more weddings to get ideas and feel of what you want.
Get numbers of your friend, sisters friends or anyone who recently got married to be by you, they are usually excited to help and will be good pointers.
Get a list of 3-4 caterers and get quotations (if possible attend functions where they are catering to sample their food)
Start scouting for venue and book asap.
Music will it be live band or DJ, again get list and sample.
Decide if you are sowing your gown, if buying from abroad start sourcing and order asap.
Find a good haristylist practice to find style that suits your face e.g top, flat, afro u get my drift.
Get a good makeup artist if not practice to find colour shade that suits you and practice or get a groovy friend who is fashionable and is a true friend you don't want anyone making you up as a clown (I am serious o) I have seen some brides and believe me,
Choose the colour theme for the day.
Get a list of 3-4 decorators and try to go to functions they decorating to see their work.
Decide who your best lady will be and get them to do the runnings with you.
Start looking at cake designs, e.t.c
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Eat healthily (fruits, veg e.t.c)
Drink plenty of water it will help your skin.
Pray

Kricks
That ur advice is awful. That practice have been left in the 19th.
@Topic
All the best in ur wedding. Though am unaware of what it takes to get married. But i know my good wishes will
help alot.

May God grant you the inspiration and wisdom you need, I wish you success.

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@poster
congrats my dear and i wish you the best of luck in your marriage

about how to plan your wedding
u need to get a wedding planner
and also pray hard for God to see you through your wedding without you having any problem cause not every body that plans a wedding sees it dream come to pass

Get an excel sheet and start with a budget. The funds at ur disposal will determine what u can achieve. But note that though we all crave fairy tale wedding but the pocket is d real determinant here. It will not be fun if at the end of d wedding; both of u are in debts. It kills d marriage. So, determine how much u want to spend now that will not put u in trouble n start looking for vendors from now. For ur gown - u might want to check www.bridalonlinestore.com - the store is in d US n they have some cheap nice gowns. U can also identify d video n photo men from now plus other vendors. In your excel sheet - have a list of the months from now till December and infront of each - identify milestones u want to achieve. E.g July - Identify vendors. Sept - Pay part of Video man's money. If u do these things well - u have just become a wedding planner urself n on the way to a decent n memorable day.
After all of that - let me just tell u that my prayer is more for ur marriage and not only for d wedding party - that God will give u unlimited happiness.
Cheers!

Dollyp1 has said it all

with all that she has listed out, have ur friend close to you and get it running
wedding planner hell no their charges is half or even more than the overall cost of some wedding.
Also get ur party like friends and atten more wedding.

To cap it all it depend on the kind of wedding u're looking at.

Best of luck and plans

Congrate girl?

Thanks for asking for ideas and sugestion from fellow nairalanders.

It is only those who have passed thru the road, b4 that could tell how the road looks like. dont mind those SSB that were saying rubbish.


Sugestion from dolly, is the most accurate in these regard.

I got married in 2004 and 4 of my friends that got married after me actually use my list and summary note.

take a notebook, carryable, and a pen and jot down efrything that comes to yr mind

Take each page for each item, yr bridesmaid, her dress, the total cost. Yr bridal train, each of them in each page. the cost and whatever each of them has paid to you, whether in part or in whole.

Aso ebi page etc.

You dont need a wedding planner. As nobody goes to school to learn how to plan a wedding. It's inborn, you have it. Dont deny yrsef what you already have. You can do it too.

Pls invite us when the bell finally clocks!

I wish you a successful wedding

Check these out as you are planning your wedding. It will helpm you!

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/why-marriages-don-t-work-the-change-f.html

It is the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

@Poster

GET A DAMN WEDDING PLANNER!!!!!

Firssssst Question!!!

What kind of wedding are you looking at?

wher is the wedding holding?

is it a high society wedding? then just go arrange cash kia kia

1.5mill plus wedding planner, they are many in nigeria

@ paparazi

You gave a good load down of what is needed. Though you left out some things like MC, Photographer and Video Coverage, Invitation cards & Programme.

My wedding is next year but I have compiled a list of people that specialise in providing these items from wedding gown to IV, Venue& Decorations, Cake, Caterers, Florists, MCs, Make up artists etc and their address so that when I need it its easier for me to make my choice.

write down all you needed and tag with an amount to follow your plan

Hey Poster,
I'm sure at this point of time, you must be having stress just thinking where to start planning on your wedding. Hey check out this website.

http://www.rapidinfo.co.za/lnd_weddings.php?gclid=CK-A5uzDl5QCFRQbewodi1m8wQ

I have another website which I use to organize my clients weddings once before (but malaysian weddings) but I left it in the office. I will send it to you once I get to the office. I think maybe it will work out for you.

I am actually not sure what type of wedding you are intending to make.

pls, my sister's wedding is in december and im looking for a place where i can get good lace for her trad. Pls post any address u may have of a good shop. Thanks.

dollyp1cute has given you all you need.


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Ok this is one website which I have been using to plan weddings. I find it very helpful so you could check it out.

http://tools.weddingsmalaysia.com/ad-login-login-login

Its a malaysian website but its still usable to anyone and the checklist is very good.

1) Click on Join now

2) Register

3)Login

4)And Voila! You have your wedding tools!

Hope it helps

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@ Cutie 23

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Ruby Red 29, Ajose Street Mende maryland
Mofik 12, Obokun close off Awolowo way
Natives 63B Opebi by salvation bus-stop Ikeja

Please do anyone know where I can rent a wedding gown in ABJ and at good price

It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to plan a wedding with a budget in mind with the cost of everything going higher every year, but if you try it is still feasible to plan that special day on a shoestring. Here are a few tips to help you pinch those pennies and make the dollar stretch as far as possible.

If you have already started thinking about getting married and have looked into prices at all then you already know that the rental of a church or other indoor facility will definitely cost you money. This was a surprise to me when I got married; I thought the church would supply their building for free! It was $200 for us to use it from 9am to 11:30.

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u realy dont need any wedding planner. determine wat kind and class of weding u want and save towards it. engage friends and family into it. be organised and ur weding will be cute. am doing mine in august and i tell itll be slendid. dont throw away money by engaging a wedding planner. it doesnt worth it

I still say follow this and you will be your own wedding planner!

Ok this is one website which I have been using to plan weddings. I find it very helpful so you could check it out.

http://tools.weddingsmalaysia.com/ad-login-login-login

Its a malaysian website but its still usable to anyone and the checklist is very good.

1) Click on Join now

2) Register

3)Login

4)And Voila! You have your wedding tools!


THE WEBSITE IS FOR FREE TO JOIN AND IT DOES NOT COST ANYTHING

@ Poster:

Why stress yourself before the big day. Why not relax and let mum and dad take care of things.

Hey, you want to have a very cool wedding? Are you having your wedding around the Niger Delta Region? Then talk to us at eventshop: 08056811103. we plan all kind of events including weddings.

Get ready to recieve the certificate b4 starting.
Marriage is the only institution that does it real good.

If you don't know how to plan, do the stuff without planning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

congrats,girl, enjoy the moments,take to the budget advise cos even the wedding planner cnt do it all to ur satisfactn,pls make sure that ur weddin brings out the real you

u need to start planning get in touch with a wedding planner. If you cannot afford one then get urself the following people.
1. photographer(Digital) preferably - Michael - 08060095799 checkout www.michaelimomoh.com. He covered my wedding and he is really a young talented photographer.
2. small chops - Vera - 08084958989
3. Caterer - Lost the contact
4. Decoration - vera
5. Cinematographer - sura - 08035141955
And a whole lot more. All this and more really spices up ur wedding the earlier you start planning the better cos we started our own a year b4 and we had a very colorful and memorable event. please feel free to ask any questions

Hi Nairalanders!let us collectively congratulate our sister in the house,may God make it come into realityand bless the nuptial with virtous fruits of womb.If you cannot afford to get a wedding planner,just try to get those that have done it involved,so that they can put you through.Also, try to be prayerful.

@Poster

Get a Wedding magazine and start paying deposits for everything.

Congrat; all u need to do is to get a wedding planner,if u want a decent wedding . best of luck