Wedding Planning Worksheets
From tracking your budget to starting a guest list, these worksheets will help make your day as easy and enjoyable as possible.
Wedding-Budget Worksheet
It’s easy to lose track of what you’re spending when the cash is flowing out fast and furiously. But this worksheet can make
money matters much easier to manage. It’s got every detail covered, complete with columns to list your budgeted amount, your
vendor’s estimate, and what you actually spent.
This list also provides suggested percentages to help you allot your money wisely. (For example, your reception expenditures
should total about 50% of your overall budget; music and photographs, about 10% each.)
Open the Wedding Budget Worksheet.
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There’s nothing wrong with setting out a traditional guest book at the reception for friends and family to sign, but you’ll probably slide it onto the bookshelf and never look at it again. Here, a few innovative options:
- Place a variety of note cards and paper on a table so guests can write short letters. Seal them, then open them on your first anniversary.
- Provide a stack of construction-paper strips―like the kind used in grade school to make paper chains―and ask each guest to write a message on one link that he or she then attaches to the chain. Beginning the day after your honeymoon, remove a link and read it together to relive your big day.
- Buy a coffee table cook. If you’re looking for something a bit more personal than a standard guest book but you just don’t have the time (or the skills) to make something yourself, buy a coffee-table book that has beautiful imagery of something of significance to you or your wedding. You could find a photography book of your wedding location (the mountains of Colorado), where you plan to honeymoon (Italian countryside), or a favorite children’s book (Good Night Moon). Set it on a table with Sharpie markers for guests to customize.
