Planning a Wedding to Remember: The Complete Wedding Planner [Hardcover-spiral]

I bought the book on Amazon because they had the best price available. I used the book to plan our wedding and it was truly a life saver. Our wedding was simply lovely and we enjoyed every moment. We even bought the Beverly Clark wedding accessories at www.bridalsalon.com.

Congradulations and good luck on your wedding plans!!!!!

Heidi

1. Worksheets, Information Sheets, and Checklists
There are worksheets covering everything from writing your engagement announcement to changing your name and address. There are information sheets to keep every aspect of your wedding organized, for example, catering, flowers, music. Most importantly, there are checklists to make sure you don't forget anything.

2. Spiral Bound and Easy to Carry
This planner is spiral bound like a notebook. I knew I would have it with me quite a bit so I wanted something easy to carry and fairly durable.

3. The Content
Each section covers, step by step, what needs to be done and how to do it.

Here are some of the different sections.

Your Engagement
This section covers telling your family, engagement announcements and parties, engagement and wedding rings (how to choose diamonds, style, etc.), and even etiquette on breaking the engagement.

Date and Planning Calendar
There is an undated nine month calendar that you can fill in to count down and keep track of appointments. There is a bride's and a groom's checklist as well as information on hiring a bridal consultant.

Wedding Ceremony
There are creative ideas on how to personalize your ceremony, a worksheet for writing your own vows, and a couple sample ceremonies.

Wedding Budget
A very important section for us. It tells you how to determine your budget, has money saving tips such as borrowing items or doing your own flowers, and a wedding expense record to keep track of how much you really spend.

Invitations and Stationery
The all important guest list. There are 650 spaces, so you won't run out of room! There are ideas for many different styles of invitations and stationery as well as examples on wording and addressing.

Planning the Reception
Tips for the location and type of reception. Special touches and money saving tips. Questions to ask the caterer and bakery. Again, plenty of room for the seating chart with 260 seats.

Beyond this there are some of the more self explanatory sections such as The Wedding Party, Bridal Gown and Accessories, Flowers, Music, Photography and Videography, Pre-Wedding Parties, Gifts, and The Honeymoon.

The only problems I see with this planner are that the calendar is only nine months. Where I live planning needs to start at least a year in advance. There's also not much room to write daily appointments especially if you have more than one in a day. I also would have found it helpful to have tabs for each section as well as pockets for business cards and receipts. There is a pocket in the back but it's kind of flimsy. The book comes with a Beverly Clark accessory catalog in the back pocket. Mine was glued in, so it ripped the pocket just a bit. There were several of the sections that I didn't need to use since we had friends helping out with things like music and flowers.

Overall, this planner helped keep me on track with my planning. It gave me quite a few ideas and in the end I had a beautiful, low stress wedding.