How to Get and Stay Organized While Wedding Planning

Getting Organized

Now that you are engaged, it’s time to get organized and start wedding planning. Here are the steps that you can take to create a wedding timeline:

Step 1: Once you have an idea of when you want your big day to be, begin looking through different timelines on Pinterest or Google.

Step 2: Compare this timelines to what time you have to get things done. Take these timeline suggested dates lightly. Your timeline will be unique to you.

Step 3: Create an excel document to combine the different timelines to create a personalized timeline for your wedding date.

Staying Organized

Make sure and keep looking back at this timeline you created. A great way to track is to keep adding notes of where you are at on each action item. You can also color code your action that needs to be taken on this item. For example, use red to indicate done, orange to indicate in progress, and yellow to indicate needs to be done.

My Story:

Once my fiancé and I got engaged we sat down together and started outlining all the tasks we needed to get done week by week all the way up to the wedding day. We started by looking on Pinterest at all of the suggested timelines for getting ready for the day of. With this as our start we then compared that to when we had the most time since we are both still in college we wanted to make the most out of our holiday breaks. My fiancé is way into creating excel sheets so that is what we used to create our timeline. We compared all the different suggestions and created our unique timeline. We then tracked our progress through color coding our action and keeping notes on the right side. Below is what our original excel document looked like.