Category Archives: Planning Guides

Wedding Sign Templates: Ceremony & Reception Downloads

Why Wedding Sign Templates Are Actually Worth It Look, I used to hand-letter everything for my clients until about spring 2023 when I realized I was spending like 6 hours on a welcome sign that the venue staff propped against a tree where nobody could even see it. That’s when I fully converted to the […]

Wedding Shower Invitation Template: Free Party Downloads

So You Need Wedding Shower Invitations Without Spending a Fortune Okay so free wedding shower invitation templates are honestly one of those things that can either save your life or make you want to throw your laptop out the window. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2023 when I had THREE bridal […]

Free Wedding Planning Checklist Excel: Task List Template

Okay So Excel Wedding Checklists Are Actually Your Best Friend Look I’m gonna be real with you – I used to hate Excel. Like genuinely avoided it for the first three years of my wedding planning career because I thought fancy apps were the answer. Then in spring 2023 I had this bride who accidentally […]

Wedding Invite List Template: Guest Tracking Spreadsheet

Okay so you need a guest list spreadsheet The first thing you gotta know is that a wedding invite list is basically gonna save your sanity or destroy it depending on how you set it up. I learned this the hard way back in summer 2021 when I had three weddings in the same month […]

Wedding Invitation Email Template: Digital Message Format

Digital Wedding Invitations Are Actually Totally Fine Now Okay so email wedding invitations used to be this whole thing where people thought they were tacky or whatever, but honestly after 2020 everything changed and now like half my clients are doing digital-first invitations or at least sending email save-the-dates. I had this couple in spring […]

Wedding Seating Chart Template Excel: Guest Arrangement

Getting Started with Your Excel Seating Chart So you’re doing this in Excel which honestly is kinda brilliant because everyone has it and you don’t need to learn some fancy software. I had this bride in spring 2023 who insisted on using this expensive seating chart app and it crashed two days before the wedding […]

Online Wedding Invitation Templates: Digital Design Tools

Getting Started With Digital Wedding Invitation Tools Okay so digital wedding invitation templates are basically everywhere now and honestly it’s kind of overwhelming when you first start looking. I had this bride back in spring 2023 who came to me absolutely panicked because she’d spent like four hours on Canva and hadn’t saved anything properly […]

Wedding Organizer Template: Planning Binder Downloads

Getting Your Wedding Binder Template Downloads Sorted Out So the first thing you gotta know about wedding planning binder downloads is that they’re literally everywhere and most of them are… not great? Like I had this bride in spring 2023 who showed up with seven different downloaded templates all printed out and none of them […]

Wedding Day Itinerary Template: Hour-by-Hour Schedule

Getting Your Timeline Actually Written Down Okay so the biggest mistake I see couples make is thinking they can just wing the timeline on the day of and honestly that’s how you end up with your photographer standing around for forty minutes while someone runs to CVS for bobby pins. I learned this the hard […]

Online Invites with RSVP Free: No-Cost Digital Tracking

Online Invites with RSVP Free: No-Cost Digital Tracking Okay so you wanna send wedding invites without spending a fortune and actually know who’s coming without chasing people down via text at 11pm. I get it. Last spring I had this couple who literally texted me screenshots of their notes app where they were tracking RSVPs […]