How to Make Your Own Wedding Planner Book

A wedding planner book is a notebook in which bride and groom draw the plan for their wedding day, take notes and add suggestion, for a start. Initiating one of these notebooks should happen after the day the couple has set the date for their wedding ceremony. Prior to purchasing this notebook, which, by the way,  is available in party stores, wedding boutiques and stationery stores, it is safer (!) to have a contract signed between bride and groom. It would be also very nice if on signing the contract, the groom hands out one of these notebooks to the bride.

These wedding planner books start with the things-to-do within a period of 9 to 24 months before the wedding, 6 to 9 months, 3 to 6 months, 3 to 4 weeks, and 1 to 4 weeks. So, how to make your own wedding planner book? Anyway as your own personal consultant you will need to start a book, to record every detail of the tasks to be performed, and at the same time to help you keep track on every step you take or every move you make in accomplishing the required tasks.

If you plan to establish the details in the period between 9 to 24 months before your  wedding date, it is better to decide first on the existing budget for the wedding, because according to this, you have to begin drawing the proper plan. Next will follow the choices for the ceremony's theme and reception's location. These details are of a great importance as they set forth the following elements required in the planning process.

The wedding theme is the one that determines the location for the ceremony, whether it is religious or only official, the option for the wedding rings, creation of the invitations, the choice of dressing, both for bride and groom, the music style, floral decorations, catering. While going through these steps, you have to consider the vast range of vendors in each department; that is the most demanding part, since it requires through selection and awareness of the fact that there mustn't be any detail left aside or omitted.

It is important that somewhere in the wedding planner book to save some blank pages for annotations, such as suggestions coming from the third parties, random thoughts that later might need consideration, ideas that one may get through a sudden touch of inspiration, and so on. Appointments are also to be written down and followed strictly in order not to fail an important meeting with one of your chosen vendors, or caterers, or jewelers, or couturiere.

The "to-do" lists are very useful, as they help you draw the plan in detailed, dated parts, according to the priorities, and also to schedule booking the hotels (if the case of a location set outside your country and not only), wedding rehearsal and dinner rehearsal, etc.

The last week of your planning, only few steps away from the wedding day and you reach the apex of your excitement and stress, as well. But here is a tip: it is better to start the wedding planning earlier, much earlier than the planned wedding day, since this long distance of time attenuates the impact of the upcoming day, both on your nerves and excitement. So, do not forget: the sooner you start your wedding planner book the better for your mental and physical health!