Tell us where planning stands.
Send the date, guest count, priorities, and anything you already know so we can guide the first conversation.
Simply Classic Events guide
Wedding Planning Checklist + Welcome Book
A warm first step for sharing your date, priorities, style, and questions before planning begins.
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Simply Classic EventsWedding guide + planning checklist
A calmer way to begin planning.
Share what you know so far, see the planning rhythm ahead, and give us the details we need to guide your next steps with care.
A photo-backed welcome book to orient the planning process
A month-by-month wedding planning checklist
Helpful prompts for priorities, style, guest count, and next steps
An easy way to begin before your private planning space is ready
How it works
A clear first step, not another form.
The guide gives us enough context to be helpful from the first reply, then carries forward if we open a private planning space.
See the planning rhythm ahead.
Preview the welcome book pages, planning milestones, and prompts before the deeper project work begins.
Move into the right next step.
If you are ready for a private planning space, your answers give us a clear starting point.
Preview pages
A peek inside your planning guide.
These pages show the tone, photos, and planning prompts that help us begin with the right context.
Your welcome bookWelcome book introduction
Where we beginLet's start planning
Here's the planReady to create magic?
A guiding overviewPlanning checklist
Now it's your turnPlanning background questionnaire
Design directionYour event vision
All setNow let's get started
Checklist preview
Planning milestones from the guide.
12+ months
Determine your budget, choose your date, pick your color palette and aesthetic, start the guest list, and choose your ceremony and reception venues.
9-12 months
Choose your bridal party, start a registry, book photo and video, confirm your officiant, begin dress shopping, secure beauty, reserve hotel blocks, and send save-the-dates.
6-8 months
Choose attire, build your wedding website, order stationery, finalize menu and cake, and secure entertainment, floral, and design vendors.
4-5 months
Finalize wedding-party attire, shop for rings, and shape the ceremony details before final vows and readings.
2-3 months
Purchase wedding-day accessories and finalize pre-wedding events like showers, welcome parties, and bachelor or bachelorette plans.
Final month
Make final vendor payments, share the timeline, schedule final fittings, finish seating, send invitations, walk the venue, and finalize music.
A thoughtful first step.
Start with a clear overview instead of a blank page, then move into the deeper planning details when the timing is right.
Useful before or after booking.
Whether you're exploring ideas or already getting started, the guide gives us a simple shared place to begin.
Photo-forward and personal.
Shelby's imagery sets the mood while the prompts keep the next planning steps clear and practical.