Preparations' Calendar

A year before

  • Choose the wedding church or the registry office.
  • Get in contact with the parish priest or the civil officer for the introductory agreements.
  • Visit the San Biagio Hotel and get information about the different kinds of reception.

Six months before

  • Book a Hotel San Biagio banqueting hall.
  • Confirm the church or the registry office.
  • Deal with the required documents, remembering that some are valid only for six months.
  • The bride will have to think about the choice of the wedding dress.

Five months before

  • Prepare a first list of guests and people you wish to send the wedding announcements to and talk with the band.

Three months before

  • Come to an agreement with the San Biagio Hotel over the bride’s bouquet, the floral decorations for the ceremony and the reception.
  • Choose definitively the bride’s dress.
  • Contact a photographer’s studio and decide on the photographic and audio-video service.
  • Order the wedding announcements, the invitations and the thanks cards.
  • Book the wedding trip.

Two months before

  • Contact the San Biagio Hoteltor decide on the menu and the wines for the wedding reception and the wedding cake.
  • Choose the witnesses and ask for their permission.
  • Choose the bridegroom’s suit.
  • Decide on the presence of pages and damsels and ask for their parents' permission.
  • Choose the shop and leave the wedding list.
  • Send the wedding announcements.
  • Choose and order the bonbonnières.

One month before

  • Choose the wedding rings.
  • The bride will choose the hairdresser and decide the hairstyle.
  • Decide with our staff on the musical entertainment and choose the floral decorations.

Three weeks before

  • Make with the photographer an on-the-spot inspection of the church or registry office of the San Biagio Hotel.

Two weeks before

  • Organise a lunch or a dinner at Al Serro Restaurant for tasting the chosen menu.
  • Verify the number of guests at the wedding party.
  • Final fitting of the wedding dress.

One week before

  • Contact the suppliers by phone to check that everything is on time.
  • Communicate our staff the number of the guests, trying to be as precise as possible.
  • Go to the hairdresser's for a retouch.
  • Meet the friends for the goodbye to the unmarried state.

Two days before

  • Collect the bride’s dress and bridegroom’s suit, and verify them in detail.

The day before

  • Check the arrangement and the setting of the tables, the floral decorations, the positioning of the place cards.
  • Confirm the appointment with the hairdresser and the make-up man, the photographer and the chauffeur for the following day.