Weddingbee Blog

When we registered at Bed Bath and Beyond, they told us about their online tools. They host wedding websites, provide a budget, guest list manager, seating chart application, and a lot of other things.

Well, I’m one of those people who loves spreadsheets, but I love them so much that I have too many of them. I probably had three spreadsheets for our guest list alone in Google Docs until it was time to send our save the dates and get them organized. I actually ended up erasing them all and starting again. Figures.

Mr. B joking said to me, “You’re so organized, you’re unorganized!” Well, thanks. That’s no new news here. He’s right though, I am pretty unorganized, and as much as I appreciate all the tools out there that are supposed to help me get everything done, all that stuff is more harmful than helpful for a person like me.

When I got an email from our planner introducing us to the awesome wedding window organizer, I was so excited. This is it, I thought! I’ll finally get organized, ditch all my other spreadsheets and checklists, and just use this one. But, um, it didn’t quite go down like that. Now I have two of everything again.

Anyway, my point is that I have to be careful not to re-start a spreadsheet every time I find one. I’m down to about two right now, and that’s impressive for a person who usually has 10 (of which, 6 usually wouldn’t be getting any use).

I’m using Mrs. Meerkat’s Uber To Do List—thank you for that, Meerkat. That was VERY helpful, and I’m using a spreadsheet one of Mr. B’s cousins sent to us that has our guest list, budget, those sorts of things. The other thing I’m doing to keep my impulsive need to create another spreadsheet at bay is the dropbox. I learned about it from Miss Sloth and it’s so awesome! I’ve honestly never been my organized in my life.

Good thing, since this is such an important time in my life! It’s such an important time to be organized, too!

Do you use a lot of wedding-help tools and spreadsheets?

Do you have duplicates? Do you find them helpful?