Description
Once guests travel, one day is never enough. The wedding weekend is now standard for destination and out-of-town weddings — and it is three separate events, with three guest lists, three set-ups and three pack-downs, usually spread across more than one venue. The danger is not that any single part fails. It is that staff, suppliers, budget and the couple’s energy all run out somewhere around Saturday evening.
The Wedding Weekend Timeline gives you the full three-day structure, already built.
What is inside
- Why a weekend is not simply a longer wedding, and how to plan it as one piece
- The six decisions to lock before you build any timeline — guest lists per event, accommodation, transport, curfew, duty roster and wet weather
- A weekend-at-a-glance worksheet you fill in and hand to every supplier
- Friday: a full welcome party run sheet from supplier access to pack-down, plus rehearsal timings
- Saturday: a 25-line wedding day run sheet from breakfast delivery to the final transport
- Sunday: a recovery brunch run sheet, including reusing Saturday’s florals and handling gift handover
- A who-owns-what table with mobile numbers and back-ups for every block of the weekend
- A guest communication checklist and a welcome bag contents list
- What goes wrong across three days, and the budget lines planners forget
Who it is for
Wedding planners and coordinators running destination or multi-day weddings, venue teams hosting a full weekend, and couples building a weekend themselves who want a professional structure to work from.
After you use it, every hour of the weekend has a time, an owner and a back-up. Suppliers get one clear document, guests get answers without asking the couple, and you finish Sunday with the venues swept and the hire counted instead of chasing it on Monday.
What’s inside
- Six decisions to lock before timing anything
- Weekend at a glance worksheet
- Friday welcome party run sheet
- Full Saturday wedding day run sheet
- Sunday recovery brunch run sheet
- Who-owns-what duty roster
- Guest communication checklist
- Welcome bag contents list
