Weddingbee Blog

I’ve been planning stuff since I was a kid. I used to plan bake sales and carnivals and clubs. I always had folders with ideas organized perfectly, even if what I was planning never happened.

Naturally, I try to stay organized with the wedding planning. I started with a binder, where I stored brochures from local vendors, ideas of things printed out from online, and list upon list of things to do. I have since moved to a smaller binder now that all our vendors are booked. It is mainly used as storage for receipts and contracts.

Each section has its own tab, to make it easy to find what I’m looking for. I use the pockets to store stuff like a sample of our invitations.

In the front is my to-do list that I have displayed two ways. The first is a calendar view. Here I can write appointments on the calendar and see what goals I had for that month. The second is a simple listing of all the to-do items by category.

I have several items that I’ve torn out of magazines for ideas, including gowns that I liked. None of these are mine, but I keep them in there to throw off Mr. Fondue in case he is flipping through the binder.

We created a questionnaire for many of the vendors we interviewed. This was compiled from various questions I found on lists online and in magazines. We also had pages to list what came in the vendor’s packages to do easy cost comparisons. Each questionnaire started with the vendor’s contact information, including the name, phone number, and email address of the actual person we need to be in contact with.

Some sections also have various items I have photocopied out of magazines, such as this reception seating planner from Martha Stewart Weddings.

We also keep organized through Google Documents. I have several documents stored there, such as our budget, timeline, and ceremony wording, which I can share with Mr. Fondue, so he can edit them as well. We will eventually share the timeline document with our vendors and wedding party before the wedding.

How do you keep your wedding organized?