Updated: 4 November 2026

Wedding planning timeline

This prompt creates a planning timeline for a wedding of your size and date, given your budget, city and traditions, as a month-by-month checklist.

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Create a wedding planning timeline for a [SIZE]-guest wedding on [DATE].

Budget: [BUDGET]
Location: [CITY]
Traditions or style: [STYLE]

Give a month-by-month checklist from 12 months before to the week after, a budget split by category and a list of the ten most commonly forgotten tasks.

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Book venue and photographer first; they fill up the fastest.

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What you will get

A month-by-month checklist from 12 months before to the week after, a budget split by category and the ten tasks people forget most, fitted to your guest count, date, city and style.

Common mistake

The timeline is a generic Western one and misses your ceremonies.

Fix: List every event in the style box, for example “haldi, mehendi, sangeet and pheras over three days, a muhurat date”. The checklist then includes each event.

Also watch for

It assumes a full year, but you have only five months. Give today’s date and add “compress the plan into the months I really have and tell me what to book first”.
Budget amounts do not match prices in your city. Ask for percentages only, then fill in rupee or dollar amounts from two real quotes for each big item.

Try a variation: shared tracker

Ask for “a table with the columns Task, Owner, Due date, Cost estimate and Status that I can paste into a shared spreadsheet”. Family members can then tick off their own tasks.

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Compress this into the five months I have from today, list each ceremony as its own task group and give the budget as percentages only.