The Bride's Essential Wedding Planner: Deluxe Edition Diary – Engagement Calendar, November 19, 2013

If you are planning a wedding this is legit LIFEEEEEE. I’ve planned a wedding from 3000 miles away using ONLY this book for reference. This book has so many amazing questions and points that I would have NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF. I’ve had vendors tell me I’ve asked great questions and have had them revise contracts to allow for some of the suggestions in this book. This book also gives ways to save money. I’ve given this as a gift to all my friends that are getting married as a gift.

Got this as an engagement gift for a friend and she loved it!!! Keeps everything super organized/in one place, multiple lines available for quotes, business card sheets, can add pages if you need to, any organizers dream. Nothing gets lost! Told my aunt about it and I think she bought one for each of her daughters for when they get engaged. Has great cheat sheets for other roles in the wedding too if anyone's looking for tips or ideas.

The Positives: This wedding planner is extremely valuable for the beginning of your wedding planning, where you are selecting the location, all your vendors, the dresses, the officiant, etc. It is the only planner I found that contains detailed lists of all the questions you should ask the businesses you are considering working with, and a list of what your contracts must contain to protect you.The Negatives: What this does not contain is a month-by-month checklist of what should be done, when. Nor does it contain samples of the "Day Of" Schedules that you will want to create to make sure everyone knows what should happen when. The huge size of this binder means you may want to remove the pages from the applicable section and place them in a folder to take to your meetings with those potential vendors.The Bottom Line: I used this in the first half of wedding planning until the location, vendors and the dress had been selected. And then I switched to using The Wedding Book by Mindy Weiss, primarily for that book's detailed Planning Time Lines (Checklists) and Wedding Schedule examples.

Bought this as a starting point for my wedding planning. Covers many areas and ideas that I never even thought of, and offers ideas as to how to accomplish goals! It will be very helpful in the upcoming year whilst planning my wedding. Although it offers places to write down critical information, I plan to use the book for information and as a keepsake. I bought a standard 2" binder to use to hold other information, and to be carried around. That way the book will not get damaged.

I just got engaged 💍and have no idea how to plan a wedding. I've looked at Pinterest and Google, but finally! This book has every part of planning I need to know. 10/ 10 recommended.

I purchased this many years ago when I got married and found it not only to be an excellent resource, but also a great keepsake.Now as my girlfriend is getting married, I purchased this for her as an engagement present. She too, has agreed that this is an invaluable resource, has an excellent layout and overall will be something to cherish for years to come, as she scribbles in her plans for her wedding.

I am actually disappointed with this book. After reading the reviews I was excited to get it, but once I opened it there was too much blank space for me. I need more of a checklist of things to do. This book is more of a fill in book. Most of the pages are what questions you can ask the vendors and there are spaces for up to 5 vendor answers. I wish it had been more clear before I bought the book what was inside of it.I think this book is great for someone that likes to ask a lot of questions and go over answers before making a decision. This book would be great for that kind of person. I am too decisive for this book. I ripped out most of the book because I did not need it before I decided to actually go to the store and get a new one that is more my style.

OMG.... This has to be by far the best to-do list book ever. This book has really kept me on track with what needs to happen next in order to have the wedding I desire.