Out of state wedding?

First tip would be that you'll want to research the laws for marriage in Wyoming as some states do have special requirements that allow you to get married. Depending on how often you're able to visit and how soon your wedding is, you may want to plan to see multiple vendors in one go as you don't want to agree to anything without seeing it like the venue or tasting it like the food. You'll also want to be familiar with the tax rate there to know how much you should expect to pay on any goods and services provided for your wedding.

Unless you are able to travel back and fourth several times during the planning process, I’d suggest hiring a wedding planner local to your wedding location.

Do you visit him often? We got married out of state, but we made numerous trips to where we were having our wedding. We made sure to plan multiple meetings with different vendors when we knew we'd be in town. A lot of our communication took place via email or phone. I also relied a lot on reviews.

Where are you planning to marry? My fiancé and I are long distance (he’s in Texas and I’m in Florida) and we are having a destination wedding in a beach town in Florida (about 6 hours away from me). Like PPs have said, use the time you travel to the location wisely - do your research and schedule vendor meetings and site visits during your trips there. My fiancé and I also had regular Zoom calls with each other so we could discuss things and I could share a screen in case I had info I needed to share with him. We also a Gmail account solely for our wedding so we had an email address we both had access to and saved wedding docs in a central location that we both could create, edit or add documents. And once you decide on a location or venue, a wedding planner is soooo helpful - mine has been a lifesaver. We also hold regular calls with her. It’s definitely doable!

You may want to hire a wedding planner in that area or have someone you trust in that area do a lot of the go sees while you're on video chat

We are planning a halfway across the country wedding, but we have the advantage of our friends and family living near where the wedding will be. I made a point to look at venues that would help take stress off me by having more inclusive packages, so I don't have to coordinate with a lot of vendors. And one that has a Day of Coordinator as well. In our case, we didn't have the budget for fully all inclusive, but if you do that would be a huge help. My goal is for us to come a few days earlier to get the marriage license and any other last minute stuff and our DIY materials, and have all the other big stuff taken care of for us. We are fortunate to have the day before the wedding to decorate our venue as well, which gives me time to do any decor set up with my bridesmaids ahead of time, too!
Next time you go up there to visit, see about scheduling tours with as many venues that fit your needs as you can, so you can book it if checks your boxes. Other than that, I would say Facetime or Zoom calls would be your next best bet for filling in the gaps.

We got married in California, but we live in Wyoming. We visited the venue once before we got married and had a wedding coordinator help us along the way which was a great help. I didn't think it was that stressful to plan our wedding out of state. I picked vendors that the venue had worked with before and that a huge relief as they knew what to do and where to set up. We had a year to plan and everything went great! Got married in August. Best of luck!

I’m in a similar situation. I live in Dallas,TX but will be getting married in Atlanta, and most guests will be traveling. I hired a wedding planner & it had absolutely been worth it! Planning from afar is just too hard when you don’t know the lay of the land. My planner has given me great recommendations & personal experiences to draw from, and then I ultimately say yes or no. I also recommend doing consults with vendors before hiring instead of just booking based on reviews or recommendations.

We are getting married near Jackson Hole! We currently live in North Dakota. Thankfully our work schedules allow us to travel often, but we still had to plan a lot without ever meeting with our vendors in person; we booked our venue without seeing it beforehand! I also won’t be doing a hair and makeup trial because we just don’t have to time to plan another trip just for that. When we did plan a trip there, we planned to do A LOT of wedding stuff at once such as, engagement pictures, venue tour, cake tasting, food tasting, etc. I suggest looking for venues that have more inclusive packages that include things like catering, bar, lodging, etc. All of our vendors have been booked over the phone/email. Make a separate email just for wedding planning, that way you have all your conversations with vendors in one place. Make appointments to FaceTime certain vendors before booking or to discuss specifics. I felt comfortable planning the wedding myself, but most people hire a planner. We do have a day-of coordinator at the venue and she has been extremely helpful. Good luck!