SD–EVNT–02 · United States · planning document · no regulator
22-page ledger · 8 sections + 3 appendices · plus fill-in checklist and sources · 40 pages across 3 files
Your vendors are chosen and somebody else is running the wedding, but nobody can tell you what is still owed, which fortnight it all lands in, or what nobody has booked at all.
The money half of a wedding, on its own. One line per vendor across all 37 roles a wedding hires, carrying the contract total, what you have paid, what is left and the date it falls due, with the arithmetic written out so you can check it. Then a payment calendar that puts every due date in order, and the gap check: nine stated rules that read the events you are actually having against the lines you have written, and name what is not there: a ceremony with no marriage licence line, a line paid more than its contract total, a balance whose date has already passed. It ends with a worked example run through the same rules, printing what they caught on one real filled-in ledger. It is a planning document, not legal advice. The one legally required step in a wedding is the licence, and the office that issues it in the place you marry is the only place its fee, its waiting period and its expiry are set. See the exclusions below.
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Businesses like yours usually start with these. It is where a trade starts, not a complete legal inventory of everything it could ever be asked for — no list on any website is that. Every line below says where it came from.
Showing what a wedding — the couple planning it is asked to carry. It is the only trade on our list that needs this document.
Wedding — the couple planning itFive items on the list, one of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell the other four.
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Your state can add to this. We have written down two places where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
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01The ledger itself, 8 sections and 4 appendices with 428 fill-in fields, as a fill-in PDF you can type into
02A 37-line vendor ledger covering every role a wedding hires, with the arithmetic stated: what is owed on a line, what is owed in total, and what is already past its due date
03A table of which roles each of the twelve events actually needs, so an event you cross out takes its roles off the list with it
04A payment calendar, plus the page that names your heaviest month while there is still time to ask a line to move
05The gap check, with all nine of its rules written out, and a worked example run against a real filled-in ledger that catches a missing licence line, an overpaid bakery and an overdue florist
06A fill-in checklist listing every one of the 428 blanks by section, generated from the document itself so it cannot fall out of step with it
07A gap-check worksheet with room for sixteen dated runs, because the gaps that matter are the ones that open after the last booking
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These are the real rules this plan is built on. Every citation was read against the published text on the date shown above, and each link goes to the official source, not to a summary.
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