Organization

I am normally a very well organized person... I don't know if its the excitement of planning the wedding, but I seem to be all over the place. What are you ladies doing in order to keep organized and know what you have done, still need to do, left deposits for, balances left and the dates due, etc. Any help would be appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!



Thanks Ladies

i got a binder from target and bought a lot of dividers and folders and even clear dividers with pockets in them...i am putting everything wedding related inside....even clippings from magazines of things that i like....

i heard that if you buy a folder that is like a fan (which expands out) and put all of your receipts and paperwork that also helps too!

I'm a super organized person too, but like you said with all of the excitement things started to get very out of order with all of our plans. I had a bit of an anxiety attack about it a few weeks ago so FI and I i came up with a little system. First of all we have a mini wedding meeting every weekend. I know this sounds silly but i learned that trying to have a conversation about anything wedding related while we are both at the office doesn't work. You don't REALLY pay attention to what your talking about, and it sometimes made us argue. So we have our little meeting where we sit together and shut off the TV and stuff and just focus. I make a little list of what we need to go over so we have a plan for each meeting.
We also made a time line. I learned that trying to find a dj, photographer, limos and florist all at once becomes very confusing. so we have a timeline for what we vendors we need and when we should try to book each vendor by. That has taken off a ton of stress. It also helps with saving and our budget.
For the budget we came up with a final number and created a list of how much we want to spend for each thing. Then we also have a budget sheet where we show how much money we saved each month, and how much we spent. to really make sure we know whats going on with our money. I'm not so great with budgeting but FI is. So he is our wedding accountant. This worked out good too because now he has a big job to do with the planning.

I hope that helps. I found this has been working really well!

I created an excel sheet listing the names of all the vendors & when each payment is due.

I also did this for the guest list & have columns for addresses, numbers in party, rsvp & total number of yes responses).

I got an organizer from my friend for our eparty but i neverrr use it! I find it is easier to just use an excel spreadsheet to keep track of vendors/whats due/who is invited/etc. good luck and happy planning!

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Posted by Bride in 2012

I created an excel sheet listing the names of all the vendors & when each payment is due.

I also did this for the guest list & have columns for addresses, numbers in party, rsvp & total number of yes responses).

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This is what I did too

I have a binder with dividers for the different areas. I have paper in each area so that I can put my notes and put all my contracts in the right divider.

I have the information for all the different vendors I saw in the divider. Once I decide on a particular vendor I take out the stuff from the other places.

I also have an excell spreadsheet with different pages: budget, vendors info, payments due, guest list

Right now I have a huge plastic tub filled with about 100lbs of vendor papers and magazines from the bridal shows and mail I get... I am in over my head!

I keep telling myself I will start organizing everything at the 1 year mark... ok...let's see how that goes.

This probably wasn't any help, but I hope it makes you feel better that you are more organized than I am! Although I do have an excel sheet with our budget! (I work in finance so I couldn't escape that)

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Posted by jenclifwed


I'm a super organized person too, but like you said with all of the excitement things started to get very out of order with all of our plans. I had a bit of an anxiety attack about it a few weeks ago so FI and I i came up with a little system. First of all we have a mini wedding meeting every weekend. I know this sounds silly but i learned that trying to have a conversation about anything wedding related while we are both at the office doesn't work. You don't REALLY pay attention to what your talking about, and it sometimes made us argue. So we have our little meeting where we sit together and shut off the TV and stuff and just focus. I make a little list of what we need to go over so we have a plan for each meeting.
We also made a time line. I learned that trying to find a dj, photographer, limos and florist all at once becomes very confusing. so we have a timeline for what we vendors we need and when we should try to book each vendor by. That has taken off a ton of stress. It also helps with saving and our budget.
For the budget we came up with a final number and created a list of how much we want to spend for each thing. Then we also have a budget sheet where we show how much money we saved each month, and how much we spent. to really make sure we know whats going on with our money. I'm not so great with budgeting but FI is. So he is our wedding accountant. This worked out good too because now he has a big job to do with the planning.

I hope that helps. I found this has been working really well!

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I love the weekly meeting idea - stealing it

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Posted by bella_bride

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Posted by jenclifwed


I'm a super organized person too, but like you said with all of the excitement things started to get very out of order with all of our plans. I had a bit of an anxiety attack about it a few weeks ago so FI and I i came up with a little system. First of all we have a mini wedding meeting every weekend. I know this sounds silly but i learned that trying to have a conversation about anything wedding related while we are both at the office doesn't work. You don't REALLY pay attention to what your talking about, and it sometimes made us argue. So we have our little meeting where we sit together and shut off the TV and stuff and just focus. I make a little list of what we need to go over so we have a plan for each meeting.
We also made a time line. I learned that trying to find a dj, photographer, limos and florist all at once becomes very confusing. so we have a timeline for what we vendors we need and when we should try to book each vendor by. That has taken off a ton of stress. It also helps with saving and our budget.
For the budget we came up with a final number and created a list of how much we want to spend for each thing. Then we also have a budget sheet where we show how much money we saved each month, and how much we spent. to really make sure we know whats going on with our money. I'm not so great with budgeting but FI is. So he is our wedding accountant. This worked out good too because now he has a big job to do with the planning.

I hope that helps. I found this has been working really well!

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I love the weekly meeting idea - stealing it

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me too! Fh and I only have an hour to talk everyday so I get frustrated when we get nothing accomplished on the wedding.. he says we have soooooooo much time! I think Sunday nights will be wedding night ! Thanks!