Wedding Planning Help: Better Homes and Garden

BHG.com, the online companion to Better Homes and Gardens magazine has launched it's latest 12 week e-newsletter course "Wedding Planning Made Easy."

Each week's e-newsletter will offer brides-to-be a variety of do-it-yourself projects, inspirational flowers, cakes and product slideshows to find exactly what they are looking for. Also featured in the e-newsletter, BHG.com's "Real Weddings" series, which includes budget saving ideas, easy ways to get the look from featured weddings and tips from actual BHG.com readers. Check out Real Weddings @ BHG.

The Tao of Wedding Planning: Part 4: Agenda Books/Planners/Calendars

I love agenda books. I have the hardest time choosing one. Some are so cute. So have so much functionality. Right now, I have settled for a plain black one that I got from Staples. But I love it. It holds everything.

A good agenda book/planner will help keep you organized. This is the last part of the series. Check out these places to buy a nice planner.

See Jane Work (www.seejanework.com)





Paper Source (www.paper-source.com)





Kate Spake (www.katespade.com)



Kate's Paperie (www.katespaperie.com)




Coach (www.coach.com)




Russell+Hazel (www.russellandhazel.com) - The Fabulous Audrey Tote

Tao of Wedding Planning: Part 3 - A Few More Wedding Websites

Here are the last of my finds.

Wedshare (www.wedshare.com)


Wedding Tracker (www.weddingtracker.com)


Wedding Window (www.weddingwindow.com)

Tao of Wedding Planning: Part 3 - More Wedding Websites

More web sites to help keep you organized.

The Knot (www.theknot.com)


Wedding Channel (www.weddingchannel.com)


MyWedding (www.mywedding.com)


WedAlert (www.wedalert.com)


Wedding Solutions (www.weddingsolutions.com)

Tao of Wedding Planning: Part 3 - Wedding Websites

Here are some excellent choices for wedding web sites. These sites help you organize just about everything from guest lists to budgets to RSVPs. Most allow you to create your own design by choosing from pre-existing templates. Go for it!

WedShare (www.wedshare.com)


Wedding Window (www.wedddingwindow.com)


Kaboodle (www.kaboodle.com)


Brides (www.brides.com)


Best Wedding Sites (www.bestweddingsites.com)


eWedding (www.ewedding.com)

Tao of Wedding Planning: Part 2 - The Best Planners

The key to wedding planning to is to have some great tools to keep you organized. The thing that kept me organized was an excel spreadsheet that I created. But if you don't have that kind of patience, there are some wonderful planners to help you stay on track. Here are some of my picks:

Town & Country Wedding Planner


Viva el Amor: The Latino Wedding Planner, a Practical Guide for Arranging a Traditional Ceremony and a Fabulous Fiesta
by Edna R. Bautista



Jumping the Broom, Second Edition: The African-American Wedding Planner
by Harriette Cole


Sara Miller, Peter Pauper Press (absolutely fabulous organizer and keepsake)
I have this one!


Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
by Ariel Stallings


The Anti-Bride Wedding Planner: Hip Tips and Tools for Getting Hitched
by Carolyn Gerin, Kathleen Hughes, Amy Glynn Hornick, Kathleen Hughes, Amy Glynn Hornick


Martha Stewart's Keepsake Wedding Planner (Ring-bound)



Check List for a Perfect Wedding: The Indispensable Guide for Every Wedding
by Barbara Lee Lee Follett, Loulie Hyde Sutro, Loulie Hyde Sutro


The Knot! Enough said.


Busy Bride's Essential Wedding Checklists
by Sharon Naylor


Peggy Post's 4th Edition of her wonderful planner



Lovely Regional Planning books

Minneapolis/St. Paul


Seattle


Dallas


Boston


Houston


New York


San Francisco


Chicago



Los Angeles