Determine Your budget
Make a Guest List
Hire a Wedding Planner
Decide Formality and Overall Theme
Select the Venue
Select the Caterer

Choose a Color Theme and Start Thinking of Overall Design
Hire Vendors Who Book Up Quickly, Including Your Photographer, Band, DJ, and Videographer

Start Shopping for Your Wedding Dress
Book Hotel-Room Blocks for Guests
Create Your Wedding Website
Take Engagement Photos
Start Looking at Invitations

Buy Your Wedding Dress
Send Save the Dates

Register for Gifts
Select the Bridesmaids' Dresses and Schedule Fittings Within the Month
Meet With Potential Florists

Book the Rehearsal-Dinner Venue
Hire the Ceremony Musicians
Order Rental Items, Such as Specialty Chairs, Linens, Draping, Lounge Furniture, White Dance Floor, Etc.
Hire an Officiant

Hire a Lighting Technician

Book Transportation for Guests, If Needed
Book the Newlyweds' Transportation (Limo, Specialty Car, etc.)
Book the Honeymoon
Buy or Rent the Groom’s Tuxedo
Begin Premarital Counseling

Have Your Final Tasting With the Caterer
Choose Your Cake
Buy Wedding Bands
Select the Groomsmen's Attire and Schedule Fittings Within the Month
Hair and Makeup Trial

Order the Invitations and Hire a Calligrapher
Create or Plan Your Menu
Brainstorm Guest Favours and Gift Bags
Book a Photo-Booth Rental
Write Your Vows
Select Readings
Meet With the Officiant and Invite Him or Her to the Rehearsal Dinner
Start Crafting Any DIY Items If You Haven’t Already

Send the Wedding Invitations (With RSVPs Due One Month Before the Wedding)
Send Out Rehearsal-Dinner Invitations (These Can Be Included With the Wedding Invitations If You Like)
First Dress Fitting
Pick Up Your Marriage License
Buy Wedding-Party Gifts
Do a Floral Mock-Up With Your Florist
Give the Song Selections to Your Band or DJ
Give the Song Selections to Your Ceremony Musicians
Buy All Small Items

Pay Your Vendors in Full
Create a Seating Chart
Order or Make Your Escort Cards and Place Cards
Have a Final Venue Walk-Through
Put Cash in Tip Envelopes for Your Planner/Delegate to Distribute
Break in Your Wedding Shoes

Congratulations! You've made it all the way to the final week of your wedding planning. Deep breaths now, most of the hard work is over at this point. Now all that is really left is the nitty-gritty details. Take care of things like:
Refreshing your hair color
Getting your eyebrows done
Manicure/pedicure
Getting a massage (why not make it a couple's massage?)
Final dress fitting (a friend or bridesmaid should come with you so she can learn how to bustle if your dress requires it)
Pack your bags for the honeymoon (don’t forget your passport if you’re leaving the country), and confirm your travel arrangements
Any edible crafting
Clean your ring (head to your jeweler to get your engagement ring professionally cleaned so it’s extra sparkly on your wedding day)
Chase any RSVP stragglers and deliver the final head count
Clear your work to-do list so you can only focus on wedding festivities and take it all in
Practice your vows out loud
Write your partner a note

Stay off your feet as much as possible
Eat breakfast
Drink even more water
Take your dress and veil out of the bag early on and have someone steam them if needed
Lay out all the items (rings, invitations, etc.) that you want your photographer to capture
Exchange notes with your partner
Say thank you to everyone around you

Create, order and send Thank you cards