Massachusetts Wedding Planning Checklists

Your Gay Wedding Checklist: essential wedding tasks month by month!

Our good friend, Nina Callaway at About.com has once again provided a must have essential - The Month-By-Month Wedding Checklist.

This guide provides everyone, regardless of whether your straight or gay, a really easy to follow basis for keeping you wedding on track. We really couldn't find anything else that better suits your needs. So go ahead and check it out! Click here!

Also, you might want to use the following Suggested Resources to guide you!

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Wedding Reception Checklists - Planning Wedding On A Budget

By Jennifer Walter

It is highly important you create a wedding reception checklist. In this list you shall be noting the timings for certain events of your reception. The MC, wedding director or the wedding planner and the DJ all should be handed a copy of the checklist. By doing this you will under most circumstances have a smooth wedding reception.

From where can you arrange a wedding reception checklist? Well that should not be a problem at all.

The Ten Commandments of Hiring A Professional DJ!

Our friends at Community Dj's offer this advice when looking for a DJ for your gay or lesbian wedding, commitment ceremony, civil union, or domestic partnership celebrations:

I. Thou shalt not hire someone with CHEAP EQUIPMENT.
There is a difference between home audio equipment and a professional disc jockey's. A professional should promise that their equipment will not cause electrical fires, crackling sounds or high-pitched tones.

II. Thou shalt hire someone LICENSED and INSURED.
Professional mobile disc jockeys are entrepreneurs who are masters of their craft on a full-time basis. They are lots of other things too. But, for the most part, they are a pretty clean bunch of musical militia. They take their business seriously.

III. Thou shalt come with a BOOKING AGREEMENT.
All conditions and terms of employment for your event should be set into a legally binding agreement. With a written contract, everything is spelled out, including choice of music, duration of event and compensation. Everything is spelled out in black and white.