q       Collect  photos of dresses you like from books or magazines

q       Schedule appointments at bridal shops

q       Invite parent, maid of honor, or other bridal attendant to go to bridal shop with you

q       Select your wedding dress

q       Select your wedding veil

q       Select your headpiece

q       Select your blusher veil

q       Select your shoes

q       Select undergarments suitable for your dress

q       Select your hosiery

q       Select your tossing garter

q       Select your earrings, necklace, and other jewelry

q       Select your hair accessories

q       Select your purse

q       Select your gloves 

q       Select your traveling outfit

q       Select your rehearsal dinner outfit

q       Make appointments for wedding dressing fitting

q       Inquire as to what you need to bring to the wedding dress fitting

q       Request fabric samples of wedding dress to give to florist and professional who will be dyeing your shoes.

q       Have parent, maid of honor or other bridal attendant accompany you to fitting in order to learn how to arrange/move the train

q       Obtain instructions from bridal shop on how to hang and care for wedding dress

q       Find out from bridal shop what to do if dress gets wrinkled before your wedding day

q       Obtain instruction from bridal shop regarding spot/stain removal

q       Determine time and place to move gown and remover or change headpiece after the wedding

q       Have shoes dyed to match wedding dress

q       Pick up shoes dyed to match gown

q       Pick up gown

q       Break in shoes and scuff shoe bottoms by wearing them around the house. IF the bottom is slippery, this ensures that you don’t slip in them.

q       Find a professional dry cleaner who specialized in bridal wedding dress care to clean and pack up dress and accessories after the wedding

q       Ask parent, attendant, or close friend to take gown to dry cleaner after wedding

q       Ask parent, attendant, or close friend to take bridal gown home for you after wedding.

q       If borrowing a wedding dress:

o       Take wedding dress out of storage

o       Try on wedding dress to determine what alterations, are necessary

o       Examine wedding dress for needed repairs/cleanings

o       Take wedding dress to a profession dry cleaners