How to Make a Wedding Planning Binder
Planning your own wedding is stressful enough; keeping it all organized can increase that stress tremendously. Creating a binder to keep everything in order will help you keep your sanity, as well as keep everything at your fingertips. It only takes a few supplies and an hour or two of planning.
Creating a wedding planning binder will help you keep everything together in one place.
Supplies
- Binder
- Dividers
- Sheet protectors
Directions
- Write down each section you need to have.
- Label each divider and put it in the binder.
- Behind each divider add sheet protectors. These will allow you to easily keep menus, list, pricing information or business cards.
- Add information behind each tab as you acquire it. You can also keep sheets of paper to make notes.
Examples of sections
- Caterer
- Florist
- Photographers
- Church
- Minister
- Bridal dress
- Bridesmaid’s dresses
- Tuxedo shops
- Limo services
- Reception halls
- Wedding planners
- Invitation printers
- Gift registry
- Guest list
- And any other you may need
You might keep spreadsheets on your computer and print them as needed to add to your binder. If you have Microsoft one note you can create your binder on your computer and scan in information from vendors.
An actual binder is help to tote around especially when you shopping around for the best prices. This way, you can easily pull out another services quote to negotiate a better price. The most important thing is it keeps everything organized so that if you need help you can hand over the binder and everything is together.