Bachelorette party itinerary template you can print

A bachelorette party itinerary template needs six columns: day, start and end time, plan, place, who books and who pays. The card below is editable. Load a one-night, two-day or hometown version, type over it, and watch the group split and the gap check update as you go. Then print the sheet, print a blank one, or send the link so the group chat opens the same plan.

Still choosing how the weekend feels? Start with the bachelorette party planner and come back with a theme.

Itinerary table: a two-day weekend, filled in

Load it into the card with Two-day weekend, or copy the structure by hand. It covers Friday night to Sunday brunch for eight people in a rented house, and it is our example, not a rule.

Table: example two-day itinerary with end times, who books and who pays (our estimate, assumptions below)

For scale, a September 2024 survey of 1,500 couples cited by Joy reports $375 to $750 per person on a bachelorette, and each extra day adds roughly $250 to $350. That survey presumably counts things our example leaves out, such as travel and outfits. Our example, which is only the house, food and one class, comes to $368 per paying guest, so the two figures are not a like-for-like comparison. Use the cost split page to decide who covers the bride.

Three shapes of itinerary

Most groups do not need a full weekend. Each shape below loads into the card with one button, and the numbers use the same made-up placeholders as the table above, so the totals are comparable.

Table: our three itinerary shapes for 8 guests with the bride covered (placeholder prices, our estimate)

The one-night version keeps the house at $700, because a one-night rental is not automatically half of a two-night one, so get a real quote. Compared with the two-day weekend, its group costs are $1,260 against $2,400, which is about 53 percent, so cutting a night saves a little under half in this example. These are our estimates from placeholder prices.

One night, Saturday to Sunday

Table: example one-night itinerary (placeholder prices, our estimate)

Hometown Saturday, no travel

Table: example hometown Saturday itinerary (placeholder prices, our estimate)

For a low-key group, or one with older guests or children along, start from the hometown shape and move everything earlier. Our suggestions: start the first booked item by 2:00 PM, keep every booked item seated, and make the free block longer than the activity next to it. Change the times in the card and the gap check tells you if two bookings crowd each other.

Fill it in the right order

The card works best if you fill it in the same order every time. Skip ahead and you get a pretty plan that nobody has paid for.

1. Write the dates and the headcount first. Everything else depends on them.
2. Add the two or three booked items that cannot move, such as the dinner reservation.
3. Place one free block on each day before you add anything else.
4. Fill in the Who books column. One name per line, never a group.
5. Fill in the Who pays column and the costs, then read the total under the table.
6. Send the link to the group chat and ask for objections within two days.

What the Who books column prevents

A shared line like “everyone books dinner” turns into no dinner. Put one name on it, with a date for when it needs to be booked. The whole group sees this column, so a name next to a line is a promise made in public, which is the point of it.

Our rule of thumb: book anything for eight or more people first, since big tables are the first to run out. The card warns you when a line with a cost has no name on it.

Also our rule of thumb: give each person about two lines. Eight guests with two lines each cover a whole weekend, and no one carries it alone. It also gives quiet guests a job that is easy to say yes to, such as picking the Sunday brunch spot.

Three mistakes that break an itinerary

Back-to-back bookings. A cooking class that ends at 5:00 PM and a dinner at 5:30 PM leaves no time to change. We suggest at least 60 minutes between booked items, plus travel time on top. That is why the table has an End column: the card compares each booked item’s end with the next one’s start on the same day and lists any gap under 60 minutes.

Hidden costs. Guests will say yes to a plan and then quietly skip it when the price shows up. Put every cost in the card so the group sees the price before they agree, and mark a per-person cost as Each pays own so it stays out of the group split.

No backup. A rooftop dinner or a winery tour needs a second plan in the same row. Write the backup in the Plan column, such as “Rooftop, or the indoor bar if it rains”. Then nobody is guessing at 6:45 PM.

Printing, and the bride’s copy

Print uses a landscape sheet that holds only the table, in black on white, so the page around it never prints. Pick US Letter or A4 and set the scale to 100 percent. A long plan continues onto a second page. Print a blank sheet when you would rather fill it in with a pen at the kitchen table.

Print one with every column for the maid of honor. For the bride’s copy, press the Bride’s copy button to hide Who pays and Cost, then print again, so she sees only times, plans and places. The same toggles apply to the share card image.

Make it fit your group

A hotel weekend swaps the rental for rooms, which usually means a different cost for each guest, so use Each pays own on the room line instead of Group. A trip with travel adds a Fri arrival row for each person, with a meeting point in the Place column.

Keep the games light on the first night, while people are still meeting each other. Our games with a spice rating page lists options for the group, so the Friday welcome slot gets a mild one. If your group wants a theme to anchor the weekend, see these theme options before booking anything.

Not sure what to do with the open slots? This list of activities has activities sorted by effort, and the maid of honor can pick one per day. If speeches or toasts are on the plan, the maid of honor speech page has a short outline you can read at the dinner.

Send it to the group

The Send this plan buttons above fill in a message for each person and put the link under it. Edit them so they sound like you. These are the same lines in plain text.

• To the whole group: “Here is the weekend plan with times and who is booking what. Reply within two days if anything does not work for you.”
• To the maid of honor: “I put your name next to three lines. Does that work, or should I move one?”
• To the bride: “Here is the draft weekend. Is there anything on it you would hate?”
• To a co-planner: “Can you check my times and costs before I send this to everyone?”

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Updated November 5, 2026 by bigdaydesk editorial