Why You Need a Wedding Guest List Spreadsheet Right Now Okay so you’re engaged and everyone keeps asking if you’ve started the guest list and you’re like “umm not yet” but actually you should probably start that like yesterday. A proper Excel template is gonna save your sanity, I promise. I learned this the hard […]
Category Archives: Planning Guides
What Actually Needs to Be in Your Wedding Coordinator Contract Okay so the service agreement is literally the thing that’s gonna save your butt when things get weird with clients and trust me they will get weird. I learned this the hard way in spring 2023 when a bride tried to claim I never told […]
Why You Actually Need a Wedding Program Template Okay so wedding programs are one of those things couples either obsess over or completely forget about until like two weeks before the wedding. I had this bride in spring 2023 who literally texted me at 9pm on a Thursday asking if programs were “still a thing” […]
Getting Your Wedding To-Do List Sorted Out Okay so wedding to-do list templates are literally one of those things I tell every single couple to download the second they get engaged and honestly most people ignore me until like month 8 when they’re panicking about forgetting the marriage license. Which reminds me I need to […]
The Stuff You Actually Need in a Photography Contract Okay so you’re booking a wedding photographer and you need to know what should be in that contract because honestly this is where I’ve seen SO many brides get screwed over. Like back in spring 2023 I had this bride who showed up to my office […]
Why You Actually Need a Wedding Checklist Template So I had this couple back in spring 2023 who swore they didn’t need a checklist because the bride’s sister had just gotten married and they “knew how it worked” and honestly I wanted to shake them because three months before the wedding they realized they hadn’t […]
Okay so venue contracts are literally the most important piece of paper in your entire wedding planning process I cannot stress this enough and honestly it drives me crazy when couples just skim through and sign without reading because back in spring 2023 I had a bride call me sobbing—literally sobbing—because her venue double-booked her […]
Wedding Planning Templates You Actually Need Look, I’ve been doing this for over fifteen years and the number of brides who show up to our first meeting with random notes on their phone and Pinterest boards but zero actual organization is… honestly it’s most of them. And that’s fine! That’s literally why you hire someone […]
Okay so here’s the thing about guest list spreadsheets You absolutely need one and it needs to be way more detailed than you think. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2023 when I had a bride who swore she could keep everything in her head because her wedding was “only” 120 people. […]
Okay so vendor contracts are literally the thing that will save your sanity I cannot stress this enough – you need everything in writing. Like, everything. I had this couple back in spring 2023 who didn’t get a proper contract with their florist because she was a “friend of the family” and guess what happened? […]










