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Organization is Key

The key to staying sane while planning your wedding is getting and staying organized!

Wedding books are a great resource...
Many wedding planning books include wonderful information on everything from wedding etiquette to tips and tricks for hiring wedding professionals, decorating, and more.  Some books also contain planning sections with worksheets to help track all of your wedding plans. 

The only drawbacks to these planning sections are that they typically do not include a place to keep the very important brochures, paperwork and contracts from your wedding professionals and venues.  In addition, there may be many sections that either may not apply to your wedding or are not big enough to hold all of your information.  

Make your own wedding organizer!
I suggest that you buy one or two good wedding books and use them as a guide to make your own, personal wedding organizer. This is something I did while planning my own wedding and it worked amazingly well.  This may seem like a lot of extra work, but it will actually save you plenty of time and frustration in the long run.

All you need is a 3-ring binder, dividers, a few 3-ring zip lock sections, some paper and a three-hole punch.  By adding pictures and decorations to your binder and pages, and your organizer will be a wonderful keepsake for years to come! The best part is that you will have everything in one place in your new highly practical, completely personalized, and easy to edit wedding organizer.