Afternoon all, how's it going?

I'm NoOneSaidItWasEasy, and I've been tangled up in guitar leads for more than twenty damn years.

I finally convinced Mrs. NoOneSaidItWasEasy to let me up the collection so I decided to give building my own a crack.

Currently working on a my first build, a standard strat, as I wanted something which was the polar opposite of my current guitars (a well loved '96 wine red Les Paul and a well loved '90something Gibson blueshawk). I'm currently nearing the end of finishing the body and neck but have one burning question -

What do you fit first - the bridge or the neck? Everything i have seen assumes either one or the other is already attached! I'm thinking it should be the neck first as that really needs a solid connection to the pocket, and the bridge has a bit of movement available left and right for string alignment, and then there are the adjustable saddles to fine tune intonation.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me!!!

Thank you one and all!