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Select and secure a Wedding Photographer for both the white and traditional weddings.

Start thinking of wedding day aso-ebi ideas as well.

Visit fabric vendors to choose your Introduction outfit.

Search for bridal hairstyle and make-up inspiration.

It’s never too early as some custom gowns take up to 5-8 months to prepare, and alterations and multiple dress fittings eat up extra time.

Start researching wedding dress ideas.

Select your wedding theme and wedding colour schemes, including aso ebi colours and wedding reception colours.

Start hunting for the wedding reception venue and secure this as soon as possible.

Decide on whether you would like to hire a wedding planner and book one if necessary.

Choose the church/mosque ceremony location and confirm date and availability with the leaders.

Select bridal party members and inform them.

Doing so as soon as possible will prevent you from searching for inadequate venues, and giving vendors wrong quotes.

Draft a preliminary guest list to get an estimate of guest numbers.

Discuss a wedding budget and how expenses and duties will be shared between the two families.

Choose a date for your Introduction, where you are officially introduced to your new family for the first time. This is the first part of most traditional wedding ceremonies.

Start a wedding file or folder to keep records of all contracts, vendor quotes and wedding documents.

The traditional Nigerian wedding ceremony will be held anytime from the same day as the white wedding ceremony, to a few months before.

Share this wedding checklist with all friends and family members helping you plan the wedding.

Be sure to go out of your way to personally inform people who may be offended if they hear the news indirectly from other sources e.g fussy aunties and long lost best friends across the continent.

Congratulations on your engagement! The first step will be to announce this to all relevant parties.

Make sure you delegate appropriate tasks to the relevant friends and family members. This will make larger tasks on this wedding checklist more manageable. Don’t forget to create daily and weekly lists. There will surely be additional steps unique to your wedding. Keep in mind that this is meant only as a general guideline. Unlike any other wedding checklist that exists, this one includes Traditional Wedding tasks as well.

It breaks down the most essential tasks you will need to complete based on a 12 month engagement period. This Wedding checklist has been designed to ease the stress that comes with planning Nigerian Weddings.

The wedding party nigerian movie wedding dress