Wedding lists!

I love making lists. They help me think. They are also immensely satisfying when it comes time to cross things off. So I've been making lots of wedding-related lists (all on my iPhone, which is my everything organizer!) and I thought I'd share some of them here...

Wedding To Do (everything major that I can think of that I still need to do for the wedding)

Make invitations (currently in progress)

Make reply cards (in progress)

Make directions cards

Make California reception cards to include in the invitation? (invitations are going out in April, the reception happens in May - may not be enough time! Send separately?)

Address all envelopes (I'll be caligraphying them myself...)

Send invitations

Decide on ceremony music

Decide on ceremony readings

Decide who we want to ask to do the readings, then ask them

Design ceremony programs

Make ceremony programs

Tell Auletto's about final food choices (did we ever tell them what kind of cake we wanted? Or the two sauces to go with the filet mignon?)

Make menu cards

Get guys measured for tuxes

Make escort cards

Make table cards

Make program baskets

Make baskets for sparklers/rice/bird seed/whatever we decide to use for that part of the wedding) (I'm hoping for sparklers at the end of the night, but we have to ask Jim Auletto)

Ask Jim Auletto about using sparklers!

Buy items for bathroom baskets

Assemble bathroom baskets

Buy items for welcome bags

Assemble welcome bags for out of town guests

Just Married t-shirts

Bride and Groom t-shirts

Guest book - if a picture with a sign-able matte, decide which picture to use and get it printed

Make guest book pens

Pick a first dance song

Dance lessons?

Hair trial

Discuss cake flowers with florist

Send song list to band leader

Make decorations for jelly jars (our favors will be homemade Jersey peach jelly)

Make escort card presentation

Ideas for what to put in the welcome bags:

Tastykakes (a Philadelphia-area delicacy!)

Salt water taffy from the Jersey shore? (not sure when I'd get a chance to drive down and pick it up, but it'd be a nice touch!)

Tourist info on Philly and NYC

Bottled water

Hershey chocolate (Hershey, PA! it's Pennsylvania/NJ related...) (hugs and kisses would be wedding-appropriate!)

Crayons? (the Crayola factory is in the town where I went to college) (this would probably be a bit too random, unless they have kids) (and then we'd need to include a coloring book, too...)

Postcards? (from NYC or Phila, in case they don't get to visit?)

Personal favorites like Reese's Pieces (me) and sour gummy worms (him) and salt and vinegar potato chips (both of us)? (is this getting to be too much food?? maybe just the chips?)

Possibly some sort of paper to explain the significance of these things

Ideas for what to include in the bathroom baskets:

Lotion

Tampons/Pads (girl's room only, obvy)

Hairspray

Hair gel

Nice smelling spray of some kind (body splash, etc)

Advil

Tylenol

Mouthwash? (with Dixie cups?)

Floss

Mints

Bandaids

Ideas/suggestions? :D