6 Useful Tips to Stay Organized When Planning Your Wedding

Planning a wedding can be chaotic and if you aren’t careful it will overwhelm you. With so many things to do and keep track of, you need to stay organized – but that’s easier said than done.

If you want to make sure your wedding planning doesn’t turn into a giant mess, here are a few very useful tips that will definitely help:

Start by creating a new email address that will be specifically used for your wedding. It doesn’t have to be complicated just a combination of your name and your partners name along with the word wedding will suffice. 

By creating an exclusive email for all your wedding-related emails it will ensure they’re in one place and make it far more convenient and easier to organize. As an added bonus, once your wedding is done you can delete the email account so you don’t have to worry about being bombarded by promotional emails from various vendors.

Before you start planning, you should come up with a firm budget. First determine exactly how much you can afford to spend on your wedding, then do some research and break it down into specifics – i.e., how much you are willing to spend on each area of your wedding such as the venue, catering, photography, and so on.

Once you’ve come up with your budget, start to track each and every single payment that you make and expect to make. This can help ensure you don’t end up blowing your budget – especially if you’re careful to account for hidden costs.

Try to gather any and all wedding-related information and store it in a single location. That includes vendor details, venue information, contracts, schedules, the guest list, ceremony timeline, and pretty much everything else.

Conventionally the best way to handle this would be by create a wedding binder, journal, or folder of sorts – but if you prefer you can go digital and use Google Docs or Google Sheets. The main advantage of going digital is it is easier to share and collaborate with your fiancé, bridal party, parents, and friends.

Set up a calendar (either digital or physical) and use it to track every single appointment or due date. This calendar can help ensure that you don’t end up mixing up meetings, missing payments to vendors, or not meeting deadlines.

If possible try to include details regarding each item you add to the calendar. If there isn’t enough space, reference to where further details can be found on a more comprehensive master checklist that you should also create.

By choosing your venue early and book it, you will essentially ‘lock in’ your wedding date. Naturally this will make the rest of your planning smoother as you’ll have a firm date that you can use to book vendors, and set up a timeline for your wedding planning.

To help make your search easier you can look for a venue on Breezit or other wedding venue platforms.

One way to make wedding planning much easier is by delegating certain tasks to friends and family, and sharing some of your workload. Unfortunately this can quickly turn into an organizational nightmare if you aren’t careful.

To delegate tasks more effectively - track what tasks were delegated, who they were delegated to, and set a deadline for their completion. Be sure to follow up on tasks that you’ve delegated, and add it to your calendar and master checklist so you don’t forget.

Following these tips should help you to stay organized – no matter how chaotic your wedding planning gets. And as long as you can stay organized, you’ll find that planning a wedding doesn’t need to be half as difficult as it appears on the surface.

Remember to get your partner on board so both of you are on the same page and can work together to organize and plan the wedding of your dreams.