Free planning resource
Dhol Wedding Planning Checklist
Use this checklist on screen or print it. It is available without an email signup and does not submit or store any information.
How to use the checklist
Complete what you know, mark provisional decisions, and share the relevant details with your venue, planner, DJ and dhol players. Not every item applies to every wedding.
Event information
- Event date and type
- Full venue name, address and postcode
- Main organiser and event-day contact
- Whether details are confirmed or provisional
Timing
- Performer arrival and access time
- Planned performance time
- Fixed ceremony, speech or catering times
- Buffer for delays
- Expected finish and departure
Performance plan
- Preferred number of performers
- Entrance, performance set or both
- People entering or taking part
- Start point, route and finish
- Approximate route distance
- Indoor or outdoor setting
Venue
- Live dhol permission confirmed
- Sound restrictions and approved areas
- Parking or loading instructions
- Steps, lifts, gates and narrow access
- Waiting and changing requirements
- Wet-weather alternative
Coordination
- DJ name and contact
- Exact track and handover cue
- Wedding planner or toastmaster contact
- Venue manager contact
- Photographer aware of the route
- One person authorised to give the final cue
Final confirmation
- Clothing request discussed
- Insurance or venue documents supplied
- Final schedule shared
- Addresses and contact numbers rechecked
- Booking confirmation steps completed
- Last-minute change process understood
Get a Dhol Quote
Send the completed event details and identify anything that still needs to be decided.
