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Krishna Bharathi

THE BEST WAYS TO PLAN A WEDDING RECEPTION: Free Checklist

Updated: Dec 16, 2022


Weddings in India and the other parts of the world are happening everyday without any halt. For every minute born we can expect a new couple from any part of the world. As an immortal stage of life and the prime key of ensuring continuity, wedding ceremony is an important moment that happens to every living individual on this cosmic ball of land. Though it is evident that weddings, are essential, making a wedding ceremony isn’t much easier. A wedding ceremony in general has several stages and the most important stage where the entire ceremony is rated is the wedding reception. Many of them plan to conduct a wedding reception, but fail to satisfy the wedding guests out of several managerial complications. To begin one must know what the wedding reception is about and what it is really made for.


A reception, in general is made prior before or after the wedding ceremony to receive all the guests of the society through an event or a party that is organized by the bride and groom. This is to ensure that the bride and groom announces themselves as a couple towards the other fellow members of the society they live in. The family members, relatives, school mates, college mates, office mates, colleagues and neighbors are invited to the reception as the couple receive them and acknowledge for their arrival. The wedding guests in return present memorable and essential presents to the married couple of which would be remembered in the names of them forever. In India, most of the wedding receptions are planned prior to pre-wedding ceremony and the modern-day wedding ceremonies host wedding parties as receptions prior to post weddings. While a wide range of wedding receptions that happen every day, some are mesmerizing while some fail to satisfy the wedding guests as a result of managerial problems. So here is the basic checklist that you need to ensure that they are present before the reception, and you can kindly access the file provided below to get the soft copy of the minimized checklist for a great wedding reception.

  • THE TYPE: The foremost and the most basic step of planning the wedding reception is to decide the type of reception that is going to happen. Kindly take a list of all the expectations, that you and your family along with your partners family have on your wedding reception. Discuss and eliminate the irrelevant points and try to draft the actual agenda of reception that is going to happen. Keep all the events tentative, and have a little number of alternative events for an emergency. Consider whether you will arrive right royal after the entry of other guests. Choose whether there is anyone to announce your arrival at your wedding reception. Finalize about the dance performances about the event. Choose to whom you are going to provide the responsibility of taking photos. Finalize about the final wedding food plan that everyone is going to have. Write down all of the them in a sheet of paper and draft it into a agenda.

  • THE DATE: The very first step is to ensure the tentative date when the wedding reception is going to happen. It is necessary to plan the date tentative, as you may get multiple suggestions when you discuss with others. Also, you must know that the wedding guests you are going to invite are ready to attend the wedding reception on the fixed date. Make sure that you didn’t wait for everyone for respond as it will make sure that the date moves longer. Just a proportion more than the entire list is enough to attend.

  • THE VENUE: The next important thing that has to be taken in concern after the date is the venue. Choose whether the reception is going to happen in indoor or outdoor setup. If outdoor, check with the weather reports of the outdoor area on the day of reception as you would avoid the venue if there are chances of rain. Make sure that all the guests you invite are available to come along the distance of the venue. If not, then get ready to make arrangements for their arrival. Get the geotag location, reviews and stock images of the location before the reception. Kindly visit the place in eye once before the reception.

  • THE BUDGET: The next thing you have to plan immediately is the budget for the entire event as it includes each and every purchase that is going to happen including to the smallest pin to the largest stage that is going to be set up. Make multiple drafts with the budget before making the actual purchase as you spend a lot of money if you don’t. Try discussing with elders and your event managers. Try to share the expenses on both the sides of the family, as the bond will become impeccable if this happens. Cut out the unnecessary expenses that are to be taken. Ask ideas from everyone but make sure that the final decision is yours.

  • THE FINAL PLAN: Make sure that the type, the date, the venue and the budget coincide with each other. The final plan shouldn’t be tentative as it should include all the respective checklist and the people who are responsible to that. We have provided a checklist through which you can ensure the maximum chances of getting your wedding reception the greatest among others.

The points that were discussed above provides a general outline of all the basic things that are necessary for planning the best wedding receptions. But in order to make your wedding reception as greatest of all times, you need to know your requirements and the resources that you have with yourself. Plan within limits and expect changes at the last moments too. Make the wedding reception happen successfully with utmost patience, tolerance and tones of love. The more love you have towards your wedding ceremony, the more it will become magnificent and successful.


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