Here’s where my guest list got really handy, even long after the wedding. Bob was bringing a date, she could know to ask her groom’s parents, since she had already marked down that Mr. So, for example, if she needed to find out whether Mr. She broke her ‘Belongs To’ further into ‘bride, groom, bride’s family, groom’s parents…’ Bob is, and you need to know who in your posse will have the info for Mr. A few months after you put together the guest list, you might actually forget who Mr. If you it will affect your meal plans, it’s good to have a tally of adults and a separate tally of kids…įor Suki, the ‘Belongs To’ category was especially helpful when she needed to go to someone to ask a question about an invitee/guest. And then you need to have the further information of who has accepted - that is, the smaller list of guests who are actually coming. You need not only names, but numbers – how many people. Now, of course you have a list of the people you invited. (The following images are close-ups of the above spreadsheet, moving from left to right along the columns): And if you are tracking something down, you ought to record it. You might already know your own family and friends’ full names and contact info, but when you get into recording such details of friends of your groom (not to mention your groom’s friends’ significant others), you might need to do some tracking down. Handy to have their email addresses on record, in case you need to be in touch for whatever reason. Of course you have to have a list of who is invited, what their names are, and their postal addresses. Below you can see the general layout, and I’ve broken it down further as your read on (names and addresses have been removed for fairly self-evident reasons). The Master Guest List was my comprehensive spot for recording information about my guests. However, there is one document that I am going to strongly suggest you adopt, at least in some form: Whether a similar system would work for you depends on your situation, and perhaps you have your own system that’s far superior to what mine was. I was also planning my MA wedding from DC, and needed to keep several people (like my mom and my groom and various other key planning players) in the loop, so the option to share documents with them was huge. Thinking about where folks will sit at the rehearsal dinner? make a spreadsheet. I am a very visual person, so I like to see things laid out in front of me (researching photographer options? make a spreadsheet. Now, I don’t think you necessarily need get into all the iterations of all the documents and spreadsheets that I did. Here’s a glimpse at my Google Drive Folder: “Deirdre & John Wedding” - just to give you a sense (click to enlarge): Google Docs/Google Drive was so insanely helpful for me that it would seem withholding not to share a bit about how I made use of it. This post is for those of you who are interested in some of the nitty-gritty of wedding planning organization.
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